24 Result(s)
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Work in Lives: The Interplay of Project and Biography
My professional career in sociology began at the University of California-Berkeley during the early 1960s, a tumultuous time of social change and orientation to research problems in the study of lives. With a ...
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Beyond Lock-Step Career Paths
My approach to occupational socialization and structuration, like that of Walter Heinz is grounded in a life course approach (e.g., Elder 1998; Giele/Elder 1998; Moen et al 1 995) in that I investigate the occupa...
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The Evolution of Public Opinion Research and its Significance for the German-American Dialogue
In his monumental work, Walter Lippmann (1922) examined the problems inherent in understanding how citizens in a democratic society make their decisions on public issues. Writing in 1921, in the wake of the Fi...
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Narratives of Agency: The hero’s journey as a construct for personal development through outdoor adventure
I will start with a story. It is an account of a two-day personal development course for a group of work colleagues that took place on the Pembrokeshire coast several years ago. I was one of the facilitators a...
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Visions of the City. Introduction
Imagine the ‘ideal’ city. What is it like in order for everyone to live well? What does it look like? These were the questions discussed during the International Women’s University at the University of Kassel ...
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Oscar Wilde and the Argument of the Ear
Looking back on his life in De Profundis, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) saw himself as the symbol of his age,1 a figure in which its diverse intellectual, cultural, and artistic tendencies had been finally embodied. Wi...
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Urban Geography and Women in the Periphery’s Metropolis: The Example of Istanbul, Turkey
Today, it has become a truism that identities in general and female identities in particular are unbounded, contradictory and heterogeneous, and are constituted politically in hegemonic and counter-hegemonic c...
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Urban Sustainability, Quality of Life and Gender
This article is based on the theoretical lectures held by the author at the Internationale Frauenuniversität (ifu-2000), cluster “City and Gender: Urban Sustainability”. Dealing with the same national context,...
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Ways to Sustainable Transport: Gender and Mobility
As one of the few women in the male-dominated field of transportation planning and research, I am often invited to speak on develo** the “social aspect” of transportation systems. This is a topic that I whol...
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Constituting Everyday Life: The Prism of the Public
The problem upon which the present essay is focused “the prism of the public” strangely enough turns out to be essentially ignored by, while manifesting a salient presence within, what we usually call social p...
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Border Crossings and Intersecting Lives
My first encounter with Walter Heinz took place in 1987 in the early stages of the British Economic and Social Research Council’s ‘16–19 Initiative’. As a set of ‘area studies’ involving the tracking of the exper...
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Some Conceptual Issues in Institutionalist Theories of Politics
In the fifty-odd years since its inception, rational choice theory has managed to occupy a major role in the study of politics. Quantitative analysis and formal modeling have begun to dominate the most prestig...
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A Remedy for Fiscal Externalities in a Monetary Union
Conflict over the appropriate degree of policy centralization on the supranational level has been a major theme throughout the history of European integration, from the early beginnings in the 1950s to the pre...
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Understanding Vocational Education in B.C.: A comparative and cautionary tale
Walter Heinz has been a great advocate of comparative research that is structural,well contextualized and conceptually sophisticated, in order to understand the links between the labour market and th...
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Travelling with Basho to the High North
I often sit in trains. I dream, I write, and I read. In the past few weeks, I had a small book in my hands, wonderful in its simplicity, like a razor cutting through time. Matsuo Basho wrote it in seventeenth ...
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From the Local Level to the Global Level and Back Again. How Feminism Has Spread
When we look as far back into history as the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, we find two major waves of feminism in many countries of the world.
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Public Spaces as a Contribution to Egalitarian Cities
Public spaces find definition within a framework of legal terms; they are also always determined by their social use and political dimension. Yet their urban role differs considerably, depending upon whether c...
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Gender Reading of the Urban Space
Challenging the modernist architectural conception of the city, post-modern urban design discourse1 centers on the problematic effect of negative urban space, the outcome of the ideologies of the twentieth-centur...
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What’s Wrong with a Female Head?
The worldwide process of urbanization, at least if combined with those processes commonly summarized as “globalization”2, results in serious problems in urban areas. One of the most serious, according to the “Ber...
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Towards a Sustainable City
The 21st century city must be sustainable. It needs to be compact, contain mixed-uses, mixed-incomes, fewer automobiles, and be more “walkable” and green. The city must accommodate its land-use patterns to the li...
