Abstract This article argues that shared problematizations—shared political and public ways of thinking—legitimize policies their outcomes. To support this argument, it examines the legitimation gendered welfare reform in recent U.K. context. Drawing on focus groups with public, provides evidence public’s problematization welfare, specifically was necessary to “make work pay” “restore fairness”...

This study draw on the struggle of parents of children with mucopolysacchar idosis to access expensive drugs in the name of universal right to health. The work explores how, in Brazil, right-to-health litigation became an alternative pathway to access health care and shows that several public and private stakeholders dispute the judicialization of health. Biotechnology is, therefore, understood...

the present study aimed at investigating the specific discourse cycles of someintroductory textbooks across disciplines and languages to see to what extent theyacculturate students into the new subjects. to this end, 2 well-established and mostlyused english and persian introductory textbooks in sociology and 2 other wellestablishedenglish and persian introductory textbooks in linguistics were ...

This paper explores the relationship between companies Square-Enix and Disney as played out within the games of the Kingdom Hearts (キングダムハーツ) franchise. We contrast the relationship between these two transnational companies within the franchise's aesthetics and theoretical logics over the course of the various games. We are particularly interested in the games' own thematization and problematiz...

Sewage management is crucial to the functioning of cities, yet, in global North, seldom acknowledged public. Wastewater infrastructures are mainly hidden underground and human excrement considered a private matter. However, make sanitation stay invisible, its dysfunctionality (e.g., leaking pipes, aging wastewater plants) sometimes acute need being highlighted. Moreover, work essential keep mai...

The present study aimed at investigating the specific discourse cycles of someintroductory textbooks across disciplines and languages to see to what extent theyacculturate students into the new subjects. To this end, 2 well-established and mostlyused English and Persian introductory textbooks in sociology and 2 other wellestablishedEnglish and Persian introductory textbooks in linguistics were ...

The article is devoted to the problem of forming a conceptual-categorical apparatus in field social topography and reveals dynamics problematization category “social space” sociology. logic movement research focus spatial concepts created by G. Simmel, P. Sorokin Bourdieu are explicated. ratio material non-material sides space analyzed, question relationship between structure forms considered. ...

This article examines the British media's construction of forced marriage (FM) as an urgent social problem in a context where other forms of violence against women are not similarly problematized. A detailed analysis of four British newspapers over a 10-year period demonstrates that media reporting of FM constitutes a moral panic in that it is constructed as a cultural problem that threatens Br...