Class and Status
01 Jan 2007-pp 196-222
TL;DR: The authors examined whether the influential analyses of the changing patterns of social class and perceptions of class identity among employees, symbolized by the ‘death of the working class' thesis, are verified in two leading new economy sectors, namely, software and call centres.
Abstract: This chapter examines whether the influential analyses of the changing patterns of social class and perceptions of class identity amongst employees, symbolized by the ‘death of the working class’ thesis, are verified in our two leading new economy sectors, namely, software and call centres. These analyses concern the assumed disintegration of Marxist-inspired class analysis, the fragmentation of class structure and their replacement by other organizing criteria of social groups, such as voluntarily chosen identities. The claimed emergence of the information or network society has added a further dimension to the extant sociological debates concerning the existence and basis of class.
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TL;DR: Lindvall and Rueda as discussed by the authors proposed the Insider-Outsider Dilemma, which is the classic insider-observant dilemma in political science, and used it in their paper "The Insider and Outsider dilemma in the British Journal of Political Science".
Abstract: Johannes Lindvall and David Rueda British Journal of Political Science / FirstView Article / March 2013, pp 1 16 DOI: 10.1017/S0007123412000804, Published online: Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0007123412000804 How to cite this article: Johannes Lindvall and David Rueda The Insider–Outsider Dilemma. British Journal of Political Science, Available on CJO doi:10.1017/S0007123412000804 Request Permissions : Click here
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TL;DR: Multivariate regression results suggest that Egyptian respondents were more likely to use health services than their Lebanese counterparts, holding all else constant, and that this effect was particularly evident for outpatient care, with these effects more pronounced in Lebanon.
Abstract: In middle-income Arab countries such as Egypt and Lebanon, income-associated equity in health care remains an elusive policy objective in part due to a relatively high reliance on out-of-pocket payments in financing care. This article examines the effect of income on the use of outpatient and inpatient health care services in Egypt and Lebanon using econometric analysis of cross-sectional data from the World Health Organization. In light of noticeable differences in income and public financing arrangements, these two countries serve as interesting case studies. Multivariate regression results suggest that Egyptian respondents were more likely to use health services than their Lebanese counterparts, holding all else constant, and that this effect was particularly evident for outpatient care. A higher income and insurance increased the likelihood of outpatient use more so than inpatient use, with these effects more pronounced in Lebanon. Overall, lower-income groups tended to report having worse health levels and paying more out-of-pocket on health care as a share of income than did higher-income groups. At the same time, these socioeconomic disparities in health appeared to be greater in Lebanon than in Egypt. Economic barriers to the use of health services are discussed within the context of health financing policy reforms aimed at improving equity in access to care in countries such as Egypt and Lebanon.
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...The notion that class structure is a determinant of social welfare (Weber, 1978; Cockerham, 2001; Marmot, 2005) underlies the approach adopted in this study to examine the effect of income and insurance on using health services....
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...Theoretical framework The notion that class structure is a determinant of social welfare (Weber, 1978; Cockerham, 2001; Marmot, 2005) underlies the approach adopted in this study to examine the effect of income and insurance on using health services....
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The authors argue that the Australian national identity and national character is often defined, in Australian cultural, social and political life, by association with a set of discourses I label the representative regime, a discursive regime that uses as reference points notions associated with: Australian values (mateship, a fair go, egalitarianism), gender (with masculinity occupying most of this space), ethnicity (including notions of race, whiteness or indigeniety), the landscape (including the anxieties of belonging to this place) and class ( including notions of 'the battler' and 'the O
Abstract: In the Australian nation's experiences of modernity and late modernity, Australian made films have become a popular conduit for the promulgation of national narratives. Employing a cultural studies paradigm, this study identifies, maps and describes some instances of the Australian national identity and nation building project's attempts at meaning-making, through an identification of various discourses associated with the national identity and the national character, as they have been represented in Australian made films, throughout the second half of the twentieth century.
This study argues that the Australian national identity and national character is often defined, in Australian cultural, social and political life, by association with a set of discourses I label the representative regime, a discursive regime that uses as reference points notions associated with: Australian values (mateship, a fair go, egalitarianism), gender (with masculinity occupying most of this space), ethnicity (including notions of race, whiteness or indigeniety), the landscape (including the anxieties of belonging to this place) and class (including notions of 'the battler' and 'the Ocker'). The representative regime, while discernible in fields and spheres as diverse as political rhetoric, advertising and business practices are best described by reference to cultural products and practices. The instances of meaning-making that employ the referential regime remained constant over the period studied; however, the ways in which the reference points are employed change with the times.
This study examines some examples of the films produced between 1945 and 2007 in the context of the times in which they were produced and viewed and from within social/cultural and political/economic/industry contexts. The discussion uses some film examples, chosen from various periods, to illuminate, illustrate and explain ideas around my contention that the main area of national identity meaning-making in Australian made film is to be found in the changing relationships between the mainstream of Australian society and some discourses (what I call the referential regime), associated with constructing, defining and bounding the national identity and national character. These are often deployed in an Australian made film, in an attempt to provide a shock of recognition. The result of these attempts at meaning-making, in the chosen film examples, is discussed.
20 citations
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The authors studied the differences in politeness expressed by Vietnamese speakers living in Vietnam and Australia and found that Vietnamese speakers expressed politeness at the sociopragmatic level at different levels of politeness.
Abstract: Over the past three decades, the Vietnamese language has undergone substantial changes, both in Vietnam, and in diasporic contexts such as Australia. Yet the nature of the variation resulting from those changes at the sociopragmatic level in expressing politeness is little researched.
The question of whether there are differences in the politeness expressed by Vietnamese speakers living in Vietnam and Australia is the focus of this research.
18 citations
Book•
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: This article used naturalistic speech data recorded in everyday public contexts, including shops and markets, where the Vietnamese vernacular was used to compare politeness in Vietnamese spoken in Vietnam and Australia, hence the "transnational context".
Abstract: This work is a revised PhD dissertation comparing politeness in Vietnamese spoken in Vietnam and Australia, hence the “transnational context”. The study uses naturalistic speech data recorded in everyday public contexts, including shops and markets, where the Vietnamese vernacular. The data corpus for each national context are more than 1000 turns at talk, and was transcribed and analysed in relation to four independent variables: national context, gender, role and generation.
14 citations
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TL;DR: Lindvall and Rueda as discussed by the authors proposed the Insider-Outsider Dilemma, which is the classic insider-observant dilemma in political science, and used it in their paper "The Insider and Outsider dilemma in the British Journal of Political Science".
Abstract: Johannes Lindvall and David Rueda British Journal of Political Science / FirstView Article / March 2013, pp 1 16 DOI: 10.1017/S0007123412000804, Published online: Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0007123412000804 How to cite this article: Johannes Lindvall and David Rueda The Insider–Outsider Dilemma. British Journal of Political Science, Available on CJO doi:10.1017/S0007123412000804 Request Permissions : Click here
100 citations
TL;DR: Multivariate regression results suggest that Egyptian respondents were more likely to use health services than their Lebanese counterparts, holding all else constant, and that this effect was particularly evident for outpatient care, with these effects more pronounced in Lebanon.
Abstract: In middle-income Arab countries such as Egypt and Lebanon, income-associated equity in health care remains an elusive policy objective in part due to a relatively high reliance on out-of-pocket payments in financing care. This article examines the effect of income on the use of outpatient and inpatient health care services in Egypt and Lebanon using econometric analysis of cross-sectional data from the World Health Organization. In light of noticeable differences in income and public financing arrangements, these two countries serve as interesting case studies. Multivariate regression results suggest that Egyptian respondents were more likely to use health services than their Lebanese counterparts, holding all else constant, and that this effect was particularly evident for outpatient care. A higher income and insurance increased the likelihood of outpatient use more so than inpatient use, with these effects more pronounced in Lebanon. Overall, lower-income groups tended to report having worse health levels and paying more out-of-pocket on health care as a share of income than did higher-income groups. At the same time, these socioeconomic disparities in health appeared to be greater in Lebanon than in Egypt. Economic barriers to the use of health services are discussed within the context of health financing policy reforms aimed at improving equity in access to care in countries such as Egypt and Lebanon.
23 citations
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The authors argue that the Australian national identity and national character is often defined, in Australian cultural, social and political life, by association with a set of discourses I label the representative regime, a discursive regime that uses as reference points notions associated with: Australian values (mateship, a fair go, egalitarianism), gender (with masculinity occupying most of this space), ethnicity (including notions of race, whiteness or indigeniety), the landscape (including the anxieties of belonging to this place) and class ( including notions of 'the battler' and 'the O
Abstract: In the Australian nation's experiences of modernity and late modernity, Australian made films have become a popular conduit for the promulgation of national narratives. Employing a cultural studies paradigm, this study identifies, maps and describes some instances of the Australian national identity and nation building project's attempts at meaning-making, through an identification of various discourses associated with the national identity and the national character, as they have been represented in Australian made films, throughout the second half of the twentieth century.
This study argues that the Australian national identity and national character is often defined, in Australian cultural, social and political life, by association with a set of discourses I label the representative regime, a discursive regime that uses as reference points notions associated with: Australian values (mateship, a fair go, egalitarianism), gender (with masculinity occupying most of this space), ethnicity (including notions of race, whiteness or indigeniety), the landscape (including the anxieties of belonging to this place) and class (including notions of 'the battler' and 'the Ocker'). The representative regime, while discernible in fields and spheres as diverse as political rhetoric, advertising and business practices are best described by reference to cultural products and practices. The instances of meaning-making that employ the referential regime remained constant over the period studied; however, the ways in which the reference points are employed change with the times.
This study examines some examples of the films produced between 1945 and 2007 in the context of the times in which they were produced and viewed and from within social/cultural and political/economic/industry contexts. The discussion uses some film examples, chosen from various periods, to illuminate, illustrate and explain ideas around my contention that the main area of national identity meaning-making in Australian made film is to be found in the changing relationships between the mainstream of Australian society and some discourses (what I call the referential regime), associated with constructing, defining and bounding the national identity and national character. These are often deployed in an Australian made film, in an attempt to provide a shock of recognition. The result of these attempts at meaning-making, in the chosen film examples, is discussed.
20 citations
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The authors studied the differences in politeness expressed by Vietnamese speakers living in Vietnam and Australia and found that Vietnamese speakers expressed politeness at the sociopragmatic level at different levels of politeness.
Abstract: Over the past three decades, the Vietnamese language has undergone substantial changes, both in Vietnam, and in diasporic contexts such as Australia. Yet the nature of the variation resulting from those changes at the sociopragmatic level in expressing politeness is little researched.
The question of whether there are differences in the politeness expressed by Vietnamese speakers living in Vietnam and Australia is the focus of this research.
18 citations
Book•
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: This article used naturalistic speech data recorded in everyday public contexts, including shops and markets, where the Vietnamese vernacular was used to compare politeness in Vietnamese spoken in Vietnam and Australia, hence the "transnational context".
Abstract: This work is a revised PhD dissertation comparing politeness in Vietnamese spoken in Vietnam and Australia, hence the “transnational context”. The study uses naturalistic speech data recorded in everyday public contexts, including shops and markets, where the Vietnamese vernacular. The data corpus for each national context are more than 1000 turns at talk, and was transcribed and analysed in relation to four independent variables: national context, gender, role and generation.
14 citations