New Approaches in Sociology

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1. Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran

   State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization

   By Majid Mohammadi

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church

   By Amanda Udis-Kessler

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines)...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. Contextualizing Homelessness

   Critical Theory, Homelessness, and Federal Policy Addressing the Homeless

   By Kenneth Kyle

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   This project employs three different disciplinary approaches--social constructionism, policy analysis, and rhetorical analysis--as a first step toward a critical theory of homelessness....

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Between Worlds

   Deaf Women, Work and Intersections of Gender and Ability

   By Cheryl G. Najarian

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   The purpose of this book is to illustrate the struggles of Deaf women as they negotiate their family, educational, and work lives. This study demonstrates how these women resist and overcome the various obstacles that are put before them as well as how they work to negotiate their identities as...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Praxis and Politics

   Knowledge Production in Social Movements

   By Janet M. Conway

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Praxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their work in coalition building,...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. Linking Activism

   Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change

   By Morgan Gardner

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   This book, a unique examination of the activist striving to work for more holistic social change, creates a conceptual framework to give visibility to the complexity of activist practice that spans environmental and social justice concerns....

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. If I Only Had a Brain

   Deconstructing Brain Injury

   By Mark Sherry

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queer theory,...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. Talking Back to Psychiatry

   The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement

   By Linda J. Morrison

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Linda Morrison brings the voices and issues of a little-known, complex social movement to the attention of sociologists, mental health professionals, and the general public. The members of this social movement work to gain voice for their own experience, to raise consciousness of injustice and...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights

   Facing off in Cincinnati

   By Kimberly B. Dugan

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Domestic Democracy

    At Home in South Africa

    By Jennifer Fish

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge