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Abstract: Human interpersonal relations, especially marriage, are used as metaphors to better understand the union between a public sector organization and creativity. The paper uses several life stages, e.g. courtship, marriage, divorce, and child rearing to better understand the stages organizations go through as they grapple with becoming more creative and innovative.

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Abstract: This paper will explore tensions and contradictions within feminist socio-legal theorizing in relation to ('private') family law and ('public') welfare law as illuminated by the feminist engagement with the discourses of privatization and neo-liberalism. I am interested in critically engaging with feminist discourses of privatization and private ordering with respect to Canadian welfare law reforms historically and in the current context. I argue that the Canadian feminist privatization critique misses the more precise sites and expressions of neo-liberalism in welfare law and that the feminist discourse of privatization runs the risk of neglecting the gendered nature of welfare law and social policy, and the patriarchal relational nature of family, gender, generation.

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Abstract: This paper will explore potential sources of military and defense policy renewal within the wider context of foreign policy that will emphasize, of necessity, engagement, soft power and multilateralism. For military and defense policy, renewal will derive

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Abstract: This paper explores theoretical approaches to understanding play and playing and their connection to culture. Though the work of classical theorist focused on primarily on work, most often its oppressive character, early thinkers such as Marx, Durkheim, and Simmel wrote about, if only obliquely, the importance of play as an interactional form. This paper briefly reviews classical theory on work and play and then turns to the evolving theories of play developed by contemporary thinkers.. which have been generated by thinkers outside of sociology and anthropology. Play is a force in creating culture, specifically community linkages as suggested by Robert Putnam (2000). My interest in play is based on an extended study of a play community, and is based o n the realization that ito explain the kind of community, it was crucial to look at play as an experience rather than to focus only on its functional outcomes. The paper includes discussion of this research and suggests why play merits further attention from sociologists who study community and culture. .

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Abstract: News content, as both a manifestation and source of culture, has important implications for social change. Four press—the Austin American-Statesman (mainstream), the Austin Chronicle (alternative) and leading ethnic press, including HispanicBusiness.com (Latino) and the Los Angeles Wave (Afro American) — are comparatively analyzed. Framing theory blends with a news narrative approach to quantify and qualify immigration election period news coverage similarities and differences. Broader political, social and cultural forces inform a media sociological approach to news, resulting in 5 umbrella findings. Information Connection, Escapist Tactic, Dichotomies, Uncomfortables and History, Revisited, are chronicles and stories these 4 press tell regarding immigration. Areas of additional research include deeper analyses of reporter and source gender and ethnicity, along with themes of race and class as well as political actor roles. Questions of identity and action burn blue-flame social fires.