International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 26 Issue 3/4

Regulation and freedom in global business education

Stefano Harney, Cliff Oswick

This paper seeks to confront the orthodoxy of global business education with some insights from postcolonial theory in order to develop a new critical pedagogy adequate for a…

“Trust”, professional power and social theory: Lessons from a post‐Foucauldian framework

Tim Owen, Jason L. Powell

This paper sets out to examine the relationship between trust and professional power in the context of post‐Foucauldian social theory. Understood in its micro‐political terms and…

Confronting the “corporate citizen”: Shaping the discourse of corporate social responsibility

Jon Burchell, Joanne Cook

To demonstrate, through the application of Fairclough's critical discourse analysis framework, that the discourse surrounding corporate social responsibility (CSR) has broader…

Central city socio‐economic characteristics and public participation strategies: A comparative analysis of the Niagara Falls region's municipalities in the USA and Canada

Robert Mark Silverman

This article aims to examine the mechanisms used by municipalities to stimulate public participation and, in part, to argue that contrasts between the socio‐economic make‐up of…

Transnational influences in the social production of adoptable children: The case of Brazil

Claudia Fonseca

To consider transnational aspects linked to the social production of adoptable children in a Brazilian setting.

The United Arab Emirates youths (UAEU) between modernity and traditionalism

Fayez A. Simadi

The purpose of this study is to assess the values held by United Arab Emirates University students and to assess the influence of socio‐demographic factors, such as gender…