Despite its long history as an important concept in sociological theory, there have been few
studies of children's peer culture. By peer culture, we mean a stable set of activities or …

Everyday life sociology comprises a broad spectrum of micro perspectives: symbolic
interactionism, dramaturgy, phenomenology, ethnomethodology, and existential sociology …

The Sixth Edition of William A. Corsaro and Judson G. Everitt′ s groundbreaking text
discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective—providing in-depth …

Focusing on urban youth culture and language crossing, this foundational volume by Ben
Rampton has played a pivotal role in the shaping of language and ethnic identity as a …

NE INCIDENT DURING my years as a PhD student changed my views on Oacademic
research considerably: I was drafting a joint paper with my supervisor, Lesley Milroy, and in …

Symbolic interactionism occupies a unique and important position in family studies. The
principal theoretical orientation of the 1920s and 1930s (when family studies was …

In this book, David Silverman offers a fully researched and analytically sensitive account of
how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of …

Feminists have re-visioned women as active subjects in knowledge by granting them
agency and diversity and by challenging divisions like public versus private. But both …

This paper begins in Section 1 by noting two processes that have been generally
overlooked in sociolinguistics. Firstly, the prevailing approaches to ethnicity have tended to …

Miethe et al.(1987) have suggested that there are strong interaction effects between
demographic characteristics of victims and certain routine activities that occur at night and …