Positive psychology and the new discourse on happiness that it brings represents an influential development in the field of psychology which has, in the short duration of its …
Risk has become a crucial part of organizing, affecting a wide range of organizations in all sectors. We identify, review, and integrate diverse literatures relevant to organizing risk …
S Binkley - History of the human sciences, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This article theorizes the contemporary government of psychological life as neo-liberal enterprise. By drawing on Foucauldian critical social theory, it argues that the constellations …
M Dawson - Acta Sociologica, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This is a review article of the substantial sociological literature on individualization. It is especially concerned with empirical research that questions the largely theoretical claims of …
Focusing on female idols' proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in …
D Marron - Consumption Markets & Culture, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The focus of this paper is the concept of financial capability that has developed within Britain over the last 10 years as a means of problematizing personal finance consumption. It …
J Portschy - Time & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
While Michel Foucault is commonly considered as a thinker with a primary interest in space and spatiality, his use of temporal categories, tropes and metaphors has until recently been …
Influenced most notably by Émile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and …
V May - The British Journal of Sociology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Our sense of belonging rarely stands still, yet the research literature has hitherto paid little attention to the temporal nature of belonging. Based on an analysis of 62 Mass Observation …