Sociological Research Online

Sociological Research Online: focuses on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates.

Sociological Research Online

Current Issue
Volume 10, Issue 1, published on 31/5/2005, includes:

The Memory-History-Popular Culture Nexus: Pearl Harbor As a Case Study in Consumer-Driven Collective Memory
Patricia Leavy

The Geographical Mobility, Preferences and Pleasures of Prolific Punters: a Demonstration Study of the Activities of Prostitutes' Clients
Keith Soothill and Teela Sanders

The Diversity of State Benefit Dependent Lone Mothers: the Use of Type Categories As an Analytical Tool
Martina Klett-Davies

Toys for Boys? Women's Marginalization and Participation As Digital Gamers
Garry Crawford and Victoria Gosling

The Digital Revolution in Qualitative Research: Working with Digital Audio Data Through Atlas.Ti
Will Gibson, Peter Callery, Malcolm Campbell, Andy Hall and Dave Richards


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Future Trends
Current Issues and Future Trends in Sociology: Extending the Debate in Sociological Research Online
Gayle Letherby

Sociology and Its Others: Reflections on Disciplinary Specialisation and Fragmentation
John Scott


Special Issue: Working Visually
Editors: Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles

More Than Words: Some Reflections on Working Visually
Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles

Kalighat, the Home of Goddess Kali: the Place Where Calcutta is Imagined Twice: a Visual Investigation into the Dark Metropolis
Erica Barbiani

Social Life Under the Microscope?
Monika Büscher

The Fabric of Society: Using Visual Methods to Investigate the Experience of Wearing Denim Clothing
Fiona Candy

The Photograph in Theory
Elizabeth Chaplin

Photography: Making and Breaking Racialised Boundaries: an Essay in Reflexive, Radical, Visual Sociology.
Max Farrar


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Book Reviews
Cyberstalking: Harrassment in the Internet Age
Bocij, Paul
Reviewed by Jody Mellor

The Survey Methods Workbook
Buckingham, Alan and Peter Saunders
Reviewed by Iain Lang

Accomodating Diversity: National Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conflict
Deutscher, Irwin
Reviewed by Timothy J. White

Media, Politics and the Network Society
Hassan, Robert
Reviewed by Javier Alcalde

Race and Social Analysis
Knowles, Caroline
Reviewed by Samantha Holland

Social Theory: the Multicultural and Classic Readings 3rd Edition
Lemert, Charles (Editor)
Reviewed by Melissa Dearey

Looking West: Cultural Globalization and Russian Youth Cultures
Pilkington, Hilary; Elena Omel'chenko; Moya Flynn; Ul'iana Bliudina; Elena Starkova
Reviewed by Harry Blatterer

Focus Group Practice
Puchta, Claudia and Jonathan Potter
Reviewed by Rose Barbour

Race, Ethnicity and Difference
Ratcliffe, Peter
Reviewed by Bertha Yakubu

Internet in Everyday Life
Wellman, Barry and Haythornthwaite, Caroline
Reviewed by Kris Cohen

Documentary Box

Documentary Box is a journal devoted to covering recent trends in making and thinking about documentaries. Four issues are published every two years in both hard copy and internet versions in conjunction with the biennial YIDFF. Documentary Box is indexed in Film Literature Index

YIDFF: DocBox: Contents

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

Life on the Streets and Commons

Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present
Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts
Saturday, June 18, 2005

'Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present' is a one-day
conference on street life and places of public assembly in New England. The
conference opens Saturday morning with papers on street professions as they
were practiced in the colonial and early national period, given by
specialists in popular broadsides, religious proselytizing, law enforcement,
and outdoor or tavern medicine. It continues Saturday afternoon with the
social and religious conflict that occurred on the road and in town commons.
It concludes with an assessment of meeting halls and displays of Egyptian
artifacts.

The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, collectors, dealers,
authors, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially
invited to attend. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program
speakers will be available for purchase at the conference.

Selected and edited transcripts of conference papers will appear as the 2005
Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, which
will be issued about one year after the conference.


LECTURE PROGRAM

Opening Remarks

Street Professions

Purveyor to the Peddlers: Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., Printer of Songs for the
Streets of Boston
Kate Van Winkle Keller, Society for American Music

Street Religion in Central and Eastern Massachusetts before 1830
Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar

"I Never Used to Go Out with a Weapon": Law Enforcement on the Streets of
Pre-Revolutionary Boston
J. L. Bell, Friends of the Longfellow House

Doctors in the Streets: Medicine as Public Performance in Nineteenth-Century
New England
Anú King Dudley, University of Maine

Roads and Commons

Shakers and the Public Roads: Burdens and Blessings, 1780-1875
Glendyne Wergland, Dalton, Massachusetts

Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill
W. Michael Ryan, Northampton District Court:

"Fair New England": Displaying the Region at The Eastern State Exposition
Anthony J. Antonucci, Maine Historical Society

Halls and Taverns

>From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterfly Ballroom: The Assimilation of South
Norwood's Lithuanian Hall
Patricia J. Fanning, Bridgewater State College

Admission 25 cent, Children Half-Price: Exhibiting Egyptian Mummies in Early
Nineteenth Century New England
S. J. Wolfe, American Antiquarian Society, and Robert Singerman, University
of Florida


ADVANCE REGISTRATION
Reservations are limited and will be accepted in the order received and must
arrive on or before June 10, 2005. Advance registrations
are refundable, less $5 handling, if returned before June 10, 2005.

Mail to:
Peter Benes
Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston MA 02215

Phone: 978/369-7382
Fax: 978/369-5962
E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu

Society for Humanistic Anthropology

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Ghost Town Webring homepage

Looking for something to do this summer? Interested in the mobility of capital?
Visit these fascinating ghost towns...
Ghost Town Webring homepage

Glass House Refractions

Buffalo Artist exhibit at botanical gardens.


Glass House Refractions

Michael Denning: at UC Davis

> CHSC Colloquium Series: Critical Knowledges after Neoliberalism- Spring 2005 presents:
>
> Michael Denning
> American Studies Program, Yale University
>
> THE RHETORIC OF CLASS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
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> Tuesday May 24, at 4 pm in the Andrews Conference Room
> 2203 Soc. Sci/Hum Bldg.
>
> Michael Denning is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His most recent book Culture in the Age of Three Worlds is a trenchant and far-reaching analysis of "the cultural turn" in the humanities and social sciences that was forged in New Left social movements. Recasting the legacies of British cultural studies and the radical traditions of the American studies movement in a global context, Denning reassesses the legacy of the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture and charts the lineaments of the global cultures that emerged as three worlds gave way to one.
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> He has taught graduate courses on cultural theory, social movements, and twentieth-century cultural history, and is currently leading a working group on globalization and culture. He is also the author of the author of Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997).

EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory: "

Wecome to the EServer Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Collection.

Cultural studies and critical theory combine sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, race, social class, and/or gender.

Cultural studies concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life. Cultural practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as watching television, or eating out) in a given culture. Particular meanings attach to the ways people in particular cultures do things."

EServer.org: Accessible Writing

About the EServer


The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.

In today's world of corporate publishing, value is placed on works that sell to broad markets. Quick turnover, high-visibility marketing campaigns for bestsellers, and corporate "superstore" bookstores have all made it difficult for unique and older texts to be published. (Further, the costs this marketing adds to all books discourage people from leisure reading as a common practice.) And publishers tend to encourage authors to write books with strong appeal to the current, undermining (if unknowingly) writings with longer-term implications.

The EServer (founded fifteen years ago, in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server), attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, we offer 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. In addition to short and longer written works, we publish hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings. Our collections grow as increased membership has new works to publish with us, and as we teach new members how to publish works to the Web and to the more than million readers who visit our site per month.

EServer.org: Accessible Writing

a "Cross-Cultural Poetics " Radio

A radio show hosted by Leonard Schwartz on KAOS 89.3FM Olympia Community -- some MP3's available as well as typescripts.


KAOS 89.3FM Olympia Community Radio

Workshop in Buffalo this Summer

UB Department of Media Study to Offer Summer Workshop on "The Poetics of Movement"

Release date: Friday, April 29, 2005
Contact: David Wedekindt, drw6@acsu.buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-6775
Fax: 716-645-6929
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study will offer a hands-on, two-week intensive workshop to teach filmmaking and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement. Although the workshop will focus on the intersection of dance, theatre and the visual arts, this class is intended for everyone interested in learning to film the moving image and these workshops are often taken by sports photographers and others concerned with recording movement. No previous media making experience is necessary.

Elliot Caplan, Director of the Center for the Moving Image in the UB Department of Media Study will instruct the workshops. An Emmy Award-winning producer, Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos. Together, their work has aired nationally on PBS, Bravo, A&E and internationally in 35 countries. He also served as co-director with chorographer Michael Kidd of the Dance/Film/Video Workshop at the Sundance Institute.

The workshop will meet daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 30 to June 12 in the Center for the Arts. Students will learn the basics of camera operation, lighting, sound and editing as well as Caplan's own innovative approach to capturing movement on film. Students will be individually guided throughout the process and their work will be critiqued daily. The cost of the workshop is $600 and advanced registration is required.

For more information please call Kate Anderson at 645-6902 ext. 1494 or email andersoc@buffalo.edu. The UB Media Study Web site is http://www.mediastudy.buffalo.edu.
UB News Services

Call For Papers on Garbage

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
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Seeking contributions for the 5th issue (Fall 2005) issue, to be sent by September 1st, 2005 (max length 5000 words).

This issue of the Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence seeks papers that explore the dynamic relationship between garbage and culture. In what ways have different cultures responded to the accumulation of garbage? In what ways do cultures manage, recycle, reuse, or store it? What, indeed, constitutes garbage? Papers may address such topics as:

Perceptions of garbage
Rituals of waste disposal
Politics of producing/consuming/storing garbage
Aesthetics of garbage and/or its management
Ideologies of recycling
Waste management policies
Production/consumption of green products
Literary representations of waste
Appropriations of waste spaces
Garbage and the sublime

Please visit their homepage for details
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence

squeaky wheel

squeaky wheel

Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Resources is a grassroots, artist-run, non-profit media arts center founded in 1985 to promote and support film, video, computer, digital, and audio art by media artists and community members. We provide low-cost access to video and film equipment rental, editing suites, workshops, and screenings of independent and avant-garde film and video. We are supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Fast Track Program, Buffalo and Erie County Workforce Investment Board, New York State Council on the Arts, and Erie County Cultural. Also, the American Association of University Women, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, New York Foundation for the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Righteous Babe Records, CAST Grant Program of the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture National Peer Technical Assistance Program, local businesses, and our members.

Hours: Tue-Thurs 1-7 pm, Fri-Sat 1-5 pm
Contact

175 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14201
tel: 716.884.7172
fax: 716.886.1619
office@squeaky.org
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Membership

As a not-for-profit organization Squeaky Wheel relies on its members to keep itself alive. Benefits of membership include reduced rates on workshops, exhibitions and equipment rentals, access to fundraising and exhibition opportunities for media makers, and subscription to our newsletter and media journal, The Squealer. For more information about membership, please e-mail us at: office@squeaky.org.

Xcp editor Mark Nowak to read in Oakland

Thursday, May 12
POETRY & STRUGGLE with Mark Nowak
AT THE AK PRESS WAREHOUSE

674-A 23rd Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice (510) 208-1700

Poet and labor activist Mark Nowak will read from his new book of poetry Shut Up Shut Down and will discuss the relationship between his writing and his labor organizing. Mark will be joined by several Bay Area poet-activists (including David Buuck and Dennis Somera), who will also read, and then participate in a roundtable discussion of poetry's role in class, race, gender, and other struggles.

ON THE BOOK:
Shut Up Shut Down is a riveting collection of poetic plays and photo-documentary poems that exposes the human cost of corporate greed and gives voice to the growing crisis faced in communities across America. Here's what the critics say...

Amiri Baraka: "We get a sharp eye, a literary and philosophical broadening of what used to be labeled 'working class poetry'...deepened with a hard but contemporary lyric and narrative....A much needed parade."

Adrienne Rich: "Nowak is a highly gifted and conscious artist, carrying, like the oldest bards, a group narrative which must be told if his listeners are to understand who they are and on what their lives depend.--and this, in our time, means all of us."

Dave Roediger: "Elegant and inventive...Songs and statistics mix promiscuously in verses deeply informed by a knowledge of labor history and an ear for working class speech. This is a work as powerful in its hope as in its indictment of misery."

ON THE AUTHOR:
Mark Nowak is author of the critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Revenants, editor of XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, and co-editor of Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is active in the labor movement.

Visit AK Press

Center For Documentary Studies: Exhibitions

View the current exhibition at the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke.

Now On View at CDS

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. CDS values documentary work that balances community goals with individual artistic expression. CDS promotes documentary work that cultivates progressive change by amplifying voices, advancing human dignity, engendering respect among individuals, breaking down barriers to understanding, and illuminating social injustices.