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Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmopolitan expertise : music, media and cultural identities in Italy [PDF]

open access: yes
My thesis explores the extent to which people's nationality informs their engagement with popular culture and strategies of social distinction (Bourdieu 1984). I address this question by studying the emergence of popular music criticism as a new cultural
Varriale, Simone
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From Margins to Privilege: Revisiting the Sociology of Youth Subcultures Through Omnivorousness

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advantaged young people may engage in transgressive or non‐conformist subcultural practices usually associated with disadvantaged youth. When undertaken from privileged positions, however, these practices can carry markedly different meanings, costs and rewards.
Chi‐Chung Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising Indo‐Caribbean Identities Beyond the Homeland/Hostland Binary: Indo‐Guadeloupeans’ ‘Archipelagic Brown Consciousness’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
wiley   +1 more source

Expressing emotions through music. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Putkinen V, Rassouli M, Nummenmaa L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Play Hard, Work (Too) Hard: The Impact of Gamification on Work Addiction, Burnout, and Turnover Intention

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gamification is being increasingly implemented within human resource management by organizations to incentivize employees to remain engaged with their work. However, despite nascent empirical evidence on the potential drawbacks of gamification for employees, our understanding of these consequences remains limited. Our study aims to explore the
Francis Maisonneuve   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Beats apart': a comparative history of youth culture and popular music in Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1956 - 1965 [PDF]

open access: yes
This study explores the themes of continuity and change in twentieth-century British cultural history, particularities of place and regional identity in the North of England, and the cultural transfer of North American popular music in Britain between ...
Watson, Jonathan Paul
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