Browsing Department of Sociology Graduate Theses by Author "Pearce, Frank"
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Dying With Your Boots On: A Nietzschean Analysis of High-Risk Skiing
Tarzwell, Kirby (2009-10-30)The concept of ‘risk’ has become one of the main ontological, existential, and epistemological categories in the modern Western world. People are continually confronted with considerable amounts of information concerning ... -
Reconciling the Discursive and the Material Dimensions of Social Stability and Social Change: A Critical Retheorisation and Non-syncretic Synthesis of Bhaskar, Foucault, and Althusser
Hardy, Nicholas James (2012-09-27)Sociological explanations for human conduct usually place major ontological and epistemological emphasis upon either discursive or material relations without ever establishing or adequately specifying the validity of this ...