Sociological Research Online

Volume 8, Issue 4


Refereed Articles


Rapid Response: The Gulf War and its Aftermath

Alison Anderson
Communication, Conflict and Risk in the 21st Century: Critical Issues for Sociology



Rapid Response: Sexuality and the Church

John Brewer
Sexuality in the Church: Toward a Sociology of the Bible

Alasdair Crockett and David Voas
A Divergence of Views: Attitude Change and the Religious Crisis over Homosexuality

Stephen Hicks
The Christian Right and Homophobic Discourse: a Response to 'Evidence' that Lesbian and Gay Parenting Damages Children

Stephen Hunt
Saints and Sinners: The Role of Conservative Christian Pressure Groups in the Christian Gay Debate in the UK



General Articles

Melanie Bryant
Persistence and Silence: A Narrative Analysis of Employee Responses to Organisational Change




Debate: Response to Stanley and Wise

Gayle Letherby
Reflections on where we are and where we want to be: Response to 'Looking Back and Looking Forward: Some Recent Feminist Sociology Reviewed'

Sara Delamont
Titans, Silverbacks and Dinosaurs




Special Issue: Rethinking Adulthood: Families, Transitions and Social Change

Papers from the British Sociological Association annual conference, Leicester 2002

Guest Editors: John Williams, Jane Pilcher and Christopher Pole
Introduction


Sue Innes and Gill Scott
'After I've Done the Mum Things' Women, Care and Transitions


Esther Dermott
The 'Intimate Father': Defining Paternal Involvement


Judith Burnett
Let Me Entertain You: Researching the 'Thirtysomething' Generation


Gaynor Bagnall, Brian Longhurst and Mike Savage
Children, Belonging and Social Capital: The PTA and Middle Class Narratives of Social Involvement in the North-West of England


Yaojun Li, Mike Savage and Andrew Pickles
Social Change, Friendship and Civic Participation


Brian Heaphy and Andrew K.T Yip
Uneven Possibilities: Understanding Non-Heterosexual Ageing and the Implications of Social Change


Sharon Wray
Connecting Ethnicity, Agency and Ageing


Thomas Scharf, Chris Phillipson and Allison Smith
Older People's Perceptions of the Neighbourhood: Evidence from Socially Deprived Urban Areas


Chris Phillipson
Globalisation and the Future of Ageing: Developing a Critical Gerontology


Book Reviews

Reviews by Paula Cerni, Elena Maslova, Philip Sutton, Klas Borell, Sue Grundy, Matthew David, Yves Laberge, Ann Vogel, Wing Hong Chui.

Books Received

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Volume 8, Issue 4, published 28th November, 2003