International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 5 Issue 3

Table of contents

INDIGENOUS CONCEPTIONS, WORK ATTITUDES AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Oladimeji I. Alo

Nigeria's national development may be assisted by utilising indigenous conceptions of work in three different ways. The development of a Nigerian work ethic, based on the positive…

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THE THEORY, PRACTICE AND POLITICS OF MANPOWER PLANNING: AN ANALYTICAL CRITIQUE WITH EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE N.H.S.

David Knights, John Moore

Since individual and/or sectional interests are embedded in organisational relations, the meaning and significance of manpower plans will depend very much on the political and…

305

THE FEELING OF LOW QUALITY OF LIFE AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS: ARE THEY LINKED?

Edgar Krau

The feeling of a low quality of life is not an inevitable aftermath of industrial progress, but the two phenomena may become linked in conditions of heavy competitive behaviour…

131

CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA: A NIGERIAN SOCIAL‐CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Dayo Ademisokun‐Turton

Social‐cultural factors can be used to advantage in the Nigerian social system (and most African States) to promote co‐operation between the rich/poor, the rulers/ruled; to…

286

NEIGHBOURS AND FRIENDS: SOCIABILITY, ISOLATION AND LONELI‐NESS AS FACTORS IN THE DIFFERENTIAL PROVISION OF NEIGHBOUR‐HOOD CARE

Martin Bulmer

Limits may be placed on sociability through a sense of social superiority (middle‐class people separating themselves from working‐class on a housing estate), through strength of…

209

RULES, ROLES AND COMMUNICATIVE PERFORMANCE IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH INTERVIEWS

Sarah Cunningham‐Burley

Denzin has noted that the interview is a ‘conversational production, anticipated in the investigator's mind and imagination, but realised only in the world of conversational…

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Cover of International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

ISSN:

0144-333X

e-ISSN:

1758-6720

ISSN-L:

0144-333X

Online date, start – end:

1981

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Colin Williams