http://hdl.handle.net/10142/12275 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:50:26 GMT 2013-06-20T05:50:26Z http://hdl.handle.net/10142/264432 Title: Competing perspectives on graduate employability: possession, position or process? Authors: Holmes, Leonard Abstract: Employability has become, and is likely to continue to be, a major issue for a variety of stakeholders in higher education. The article examines three competing perspectives on employability, termed here as the ‘possessive’, ‘positioning’ and ‘processual’ approaches. The first of these, based on notions of skills and attributes, dominates the policy and practice discourse but, it is argued, is deeply flawed in theoretical terms. The second perspective, based on social positioning theory, is shown to be more in accord with the evidence of employment outcomes, but tends, arguably, to lead to a ‘counsel of despair’. The processual perspective is then presented, particularly focusing on the concept of graduate identity. The article argues that this is theoretically robust, is supported by empirical evidence, and provides a sound basis for curriculum and other forms of intervention to enhance graduate employability. Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10142/264432 2013-01-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10142/119526 Title: Loyalty and Human Rights: Liminality and Social Action in a Divided Society Authors: Lamb, Michele Abstract: With the signing of the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement in 1998, human rights moved to the centre of political, legal and social activism and policy development. This contribution draws on sociological understandings of agency and social action in order to examine the role of loyalty in shaping the way community activists understand, negotiate and incorporate the language, principles and practices of human rights into their lives and activities. The research was undertaken in Belfast between 2005 and 2009. As an explicitly theorised category of experience, loyalty has often been neglected in empirical sociological work, in understanding ethno-nationalist conflict and in research on human rights. This contribution seeks to fill this significant gap in theoretical and empirical understanding. Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10142/119526 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10142/119525 Title: Sociology and human rights: confrontations, evasions and new engagements Authors: Hynes, Patricia; Lamb, Michele; Short, Damien; Waites, Matthew Abstract: Sociologists have struggled to negotiate their relationship to human rights, yet human rights are now increasingly the focus of innovative sociological analysis. This opening contribution to ‘Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements’ analyses how the relationship between sociology and human rights could be better conceptualised and taken forward in the future. The historical development of the sociology of human rights is first examined, with emphasis on the uneasy distancing of sociology from universal rights claims from its inception, and on radical repudiations influenced by Marx. We discuss how in the post-war period T.H. Marshall’s work generated analysis of citizenship rights, but only in the past two decades has the sociology of human rights been developed by figures such as Bryan Turner, Lydia Morris and Anthony Woodiwiss. We then introduce the individual contributions to the volume, and explain how they are grouped. We suggest the need to deepen existing analyses of what sociology can offer to the broad field of human rights scholarship, but also, more unusually, that sociologists need to focus more on what human rights related research can bring to sociology, to renew it as a discipline. Subsequent sections take this forward by examining a series of themes including: the relationship between the individual and the social; the need to address inequality; the challenge of social engagement and activism; and the development of interdisciplinarity. We note how authors in the volume contribute to each of these. Finallywe conclude by summarising our proposals for future directions in research. Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10142/119525 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10142/118309 Title: Violence against women in the name of ‘honour’ in Kurdish communities Authors: Gill, A. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10142/118309 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z