Current Issues in Sociology: Work and Minorities

[Pages:16]Current Issues in Sociology: Work and Minorities

Edited by Gregory A. Katsas

Athens Institute for Education and Research 2012

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Current Issues in Sociology: Work and Minorities

Edited by Gregory A. Katsas

Athens Institute for Education and Research 2012

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Current Issues in Sociology: Work and Minorities

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First Published in Athens, Greece by the Athens Institute for Education and Research.

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Table of Contents

1. Current Issues in Sociology: Work and Minorities:

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An Introduction

Gregory A. Katsas

Part I: Work

2. Work Environment and Satisfaction at a Mid-Sized Northeast 9

US University

Lisa L. Harlow, Karen E. Stamm, Marimer Santiago-Rivas,

Barbara Silver, Helen Mederer, G.Faye Boudreaux-Bartels,

Joan Peckham, Karen Wishner, Judith Swift and Janice M. Prochaska

3. Does Making You Happy Make Me Happy?

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Examining Facets of Emotional Labour and Job Satisfaction in

Front-line Workers

Dewi Amat Sapuan and Noorseha Ayob

4. The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction, Perceived

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Organizational Support and Positive Personality

Characteristics

Loreta Gustainien, Giedr Teresevicien and Aist Pranckevicien

5. Equal Opportunity as a Quality Index for Human Resources 45

Management in Spain Following the March 22, 2007 Law of

Equality

Pilar N??ez-Cort?s Contreras and Rosa Melero Bola?os

6. Business and Society: McDonaldisation in Indian Context

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Anindya J. Mishra and Sujata Kar

7. What is the Role of Education in the Recruitment Process:

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The Employers' and Graduates' Perceptions?

Ellu Saar, Marge Unt and Kaja Oras

8. Artists as Vulnerable Workers

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Idalina Conde

9. When the Meaning of Work Frames the Meaning of Life:

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The Significance of Work to Danish Cancer Patients working

while in a Treatment Programme

Bettina Hauge

10. Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Romania:

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Facts and Challenges

Aniela Matei, Bertha Snduleasa and Mihaela Ghena

11. War, Population Exchange, and State-building: Industrial

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Activity and Labor Force Construction in the Early Turkish

Republic

Caroline E. Arnold

Part II: Minorities & Migration

12. Issues of Insiderness and Outsiderness in Two Qualitative

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Research Projects with Older African Caribbean Women in

the UK

Sharon Wray and Michelle Bartholomew

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13. From Racial Strangers to Ethnic Minorities:

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On the Socio-Political Impact of UNESCO, 1945-60

Poul Duedahl

14. The Social Class and Gender Compositions of Aboriginal

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Groups in Canada, 1995-2000

Nikolaos I. Liodakis

15. A Focus on Greek Christian Community in Turkey:

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A Frightened Society and Deep-rooted Institution under

Crucifixion

Eduard Alan Bulut

16. Measuring Implicit Ethnic Attitudes Using a Standard

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Procedure of Unconscious Emotional Masked Priming

Irina Plotka, Nina Blumenau and Marija Bambulyakaa

17. A New Heritage Perception toward a Sustainable Heritage

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Appreciation

Tiziana Destino

18. The Contradictions of Integrating Migrants in Ireland

213

Steven Loyal

19. Student Immigration in Iran and the Problem of Adaptation 225

Abol Hassan Riazi and Morteza Bahrani

20. Language Proficiency, Immigrants and Civic Participation

241

Monica Boyd

21. The Skilled Romanian Immigrants in Barcelona:

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Configuration of the Migratory Project and the Professional

Pathways

Alisa Petroff

22. Does International Migration help to Break the Poverty Cycle? 275

A Comparison of Egypt and Morocco

Yehudith Kahn, Audrey Dumas, and Yovav Eshet

23. The Sociology of Exclusion for Muslim Jobseekers in Australia 289

Pam Nilan

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