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Nicholas Hookway
Researcher at University of Tasmania
Publications - 30
Citations - 835
Nicholas Hookway is an academic researcher from University of Tasmania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Morality & Self. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 24 publications receiving 735 citations.
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'Entering the blogosphere': some strategies for using blogs in social research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the significance of the blogosphere as a new addition to the qualitative researcher's toolkit and some of the practical, theoretical and methodological issues that arise from this.
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Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging:
Adrian Franklin,Barbara Barbosa Neves,Nicholas Hookway,Roger Patulny,Bruce Tranter,Katrina Jaworski +5 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that men are especially prone to protracted loneliness, while women are more likely to experience short-term loneliness than men, and that there are gender variations in the experience of loneliness in Australia.
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The moral self: Class, narcissism and the problem of do-it-yourself moralities:
TL;DR: A qualitative exploration of how contemporary morality is understood and constructed using Australian blog and interview data has been conducted by as discussed by the authors, who found that the bloggers articulate morality as an actively created and autonomous do-it-yourself project that prioritises the subjective authority and authenticity of the self.
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‘Losing my religion’: Managing identity in a post-Jehovah’s Witness world:
Nicholas Hookway,Daphne Habibis +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that disaffiliation was staged as a dynamic struggle for self as the ex-JWs swung between the secular attractions of freedom and hedonism, and the certainty and comfort of the religious community.
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Moral decline sociology: Critiquing the legacy of Durkheim
TL;DR: The authors argue that two dominant models of moral loss sociology, the cultural pessimist and the communitarians, are indebted to a set of Durkheimian assumptions that underwrite his original diagnosis of the moral crisis of modernity.