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university of essex> sociology > student journals > grad journal > graduate journal vol8

The Essex Graduate Journal 2008

No.8 February 2008

Editors’ Introduction

 

Lynne Pettinger and Emma West

 

Ambiguity of humour and dispreferred responses in Japanese conversation

 

Mihoko Fukushima

Fragmented Lives: Segmented Identities. An Exploratory Study of the Effect of Marriage on the Social Contacts and Identities of Filipinas in the United Kingdom.

Ramona Buhain Bacon

Self-identified Ethnic Students and Friendship Networks Among Post-Graduate Students at a British University

John Stevens

A Sociological Analysis of the Right to Education: Reflections from Turkey

Funda Karapehlivan Senel


‘Mass Communication, Information Technology and Social Exclusion in Contemporary Society: Reconciling Public Sphere and Network Society?’

Stefanie Plage


‘Voluntarism and Determinism in Giddens’s and Bourdieu’s Theories of Human Agency’

Francisco Perales Pérez


The Fittest Corpse on the Block: Mastery, Control and the Ageing Body
Bethany Morgan


Knowing Me, Knowing You:Some reflections on researching the personal

Emma Weddell


Notes from the Field

Robin West


My Journey: A sketch of the fieldwork experience.

Rosemarie Nyaranga Okeyo


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