Alair Maclean
Biographic Data
| ID | 164172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alair Maclean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alair |
| FAMILY NAME | Maclean |
| SIGNATURE | MACLEAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University Vancouver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9650-2376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Delivering social and public health programmes through community arms of professional football clubs
Community arms of professional football clubs have become key third-sector players in mitigating health and social inequalities. This paper examines the factors affecting their capacity for delivering social and public health programmes in the community setting. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 community staff members from the community arms of 22 professional football clubs and one non-professional club. This provided the basis …
The Importance of Community Context for the Rural Disadvantage and Suburban Advantage in Higher Education
Trust in Transition: Exploring Changing Trust in Vaccination in the Context of Long Covid in the United Kingdom
BACKGROUND: New drugs and vaccines usually come with the promise and hope of benefit. We explore stories about the variable and sometimes disappointing effects of Covid-19 vaccines in the context of post-Covid-19 syndrome ('long Covid'), aiming to understand how people with long Covid made sense of unexpected vaccine responses and how these experiences impacted their trust in vaccination. METHODS: We carried out 33 interviews with people who desc…
Rethinking ‘Recovery’: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of Experiences of Intensive Care With Covid and Long Covid in the United Kingdom
INTRODUCTION: Interpretations of 'recovery' from illness are complex and influenced by many factors, not least patient expectations and experiences. This paper examines meanings of 'recovery', and how it is strived towards, drawing on the example of COVID-19 infection. METHODS: Drawing on qualitative interviews (n = 93) conducted in the UK between February 2021 and July 2022, we compare adults' accounts of being admitted to an Intensive Care Unit…
The Growing Conservatism of White Veterans Since the 1970s
In this article, we assess how the political attitudes of veterans compared to those of nonveterans have changed historically. We draw hypotheses from research and theory suggesting that veterans are relatively conservative due to either selection or socialization. We use General Social Survey data from 1974-1985 and 2010s, which include questions about service length, conservative identity, party affiliation, and beliefs about government spendin…
Episodic disability and adjustments for work: The ‘rehabilitative work’ of returning to employment with Long Covid
Long Covid is an activity-limiting condition that causes significant long-term impairment that can last up to one year or longer and impacts labour participation. ‘Episodic disability’ is an apt conceptual framework to comprehend the fluctuating impairments of those with Long Covid and the barriers they encounter when returning to employment. Drawing on 65 narrative interviews, conducted between 2021-2022, from three UK studies involving adults w…
The double invisibility of Long Covid in children
The Covid-19 pandemic has been dominated by discussions of mild and short-lasting cases or acutely serious or lethal forms of the disease; less attention has been paid to long-term Covid-19 symptoms ('Long Covid'), particularly in children. This analysis of the experiences of children and adolescents with Long Covid, and those of their parents/caregivers, argues that children with Long Covid encounter a 'double invisibility' due to the condition'…
Young adults' experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long Covid
During the early years (2020-2021) of the COVID-19 pandemic, relatively little attention focused on experiences of people with long-lasting symptoms, particularly young adults who were commonly understood to be invulnerable to serious effects of the virus. Drawing on narrative interviews with 15 adults in their twenties and living in the UK when they became ill with long COVID, we explore contextual factors which made their long COVID illness exp…
Negotiation of collective and individual candidacy for long Covid healthcare in the early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic: Validated, diverted and rejected candidacy
This analysis of people's accounts of establishing their need and experiences of healthcare for long Covid (LC) symptoms draws on interview data from five countries (UK, US, Netherlands, Canada, Australia) during the first ∼18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic when LC was an emerging, sometimes contested, condition with scant scientific or lay knowledge to guide patients and professionals in their sense-making of often bewildering constellations of…
Military Service, Education, and Mortality Across Cohorts from World War II to the Post-Vietnam Era
Migration Across Metro-Nonmetro Boundaries and Hourly Wages☆
Previous scholars have demonstrated that nonmetro residents who move to metro areas earn higher wages. It remains an open question whether this metro wage advantage persists in the contemporary era, and how migrating influences young adults from metro areas. Migrants may earn higher wages due to higher education. Alternatively, they may earn lower wages because they lack social capital. They may experience different associations of migration and …
Fit for Life: The development and optimization of an intervention delivered through prison gymnasia to support incarcerated men in making positive lifestyle changes
Fit for LIFE is a 10-week, group-based healthy lifestyle programme tailored for delivery to incarcerated men in prison gymnasia. Weekly 90-min sessions include informative and interactive 'classroom' activities followed by a practical physical activity training session, often with group activities. Fit for LIFE aims to help incarcerated men to: increase physical activity; reduce sedentary time; eat more healthily; and start and maintain using pri…
The Challenges of Military Veterans in Their Transition to the Workplace: A Call for Integrating Basic and Applied Psychological Science
Long-standing structural features of the military have created a culture and society that is dramatically different and disconnected from civilian society. Thus, veterans transitioning to civilian society face a number of challenges related to fulfilling basic psychological needs (e.g., need for structure and order, belonging) and civilians’ reliance on stereotypes to understand military veterans. In an attempt to enrich the understanding of thes…
Generations of Veterans: Socioeconomic Attainment from World War II to the Contemporary Era
Scholars have long examined how generations or, more technically, cohorts produce social change. According to theory, people’s lives are shaped by the years in which they were born because they experience, along with their peers, particular historical events at the same points in the life course. Despite the importance of history, however, many scholars have evaluated cohorts not defined by clear start and end dates, but rather by arbitrary cut p…
How men receive and utilise partner support when trying to change their diet and physical activity within a men’s weight management programme
These results highlight how interactions between men's resoluteness/reliance on cohabiting female partners and the partners' involvement impact the extent to which female partners influence men's changes to dietary practices and physical activity following a weight loss intervention. Understanding this interaction could increase the impact of health interventions aimed at one individual's behaviour by considering other family members' roles in fa…
Military service and the socioeconomic attainment of French men, 1940–1980
Can professional football clubs deliver a weight management programme for women: A feasibility study
In this evaluation, FFIT for Women was feasible, acceptable and demonstrated potential as a weight loss programme. Our findings suggest the programme has the potential to produce outcomes that are on a par with existing commercial and state-funded offerings
A Few Good Men and Women: Gender, Race, and Status in the Wartime Volunteer Military
Who Supports U.S. Veterans and Who Exaggerates Their Support
Support for U.S. military personnel appears high, but does it extend to veterans after service ends? This study evaluates public support for social engagement with veterans and spending on recent military veterans’ health care and estimates the extent of socially desirable reporting on these forms of support. It uses a list experiment to identify the extent of socially desirable reporting on topics. Findings demonstrate that the public offers ove…
Grateful Nation: Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus
Over the past decade, colleges have seen increasing numbers of students who are veterans, many of whom have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have responded by developing services to help these students adjust to academic life. It is the nexus of these students and services that provides the subject of Ellen Moore’s insightful new book, Grateful Nation: Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus. In Grateful Nati…
Does gender matter? An analysis of men's and women's accounts of responding to symptoms of lung cancer
Skills Mismatch? Military Service, Combat Occupations, and Civilian Earnings
Research has evaluated the impact of military service on socioeconomic outcomes, but little research has assessed the association between such outcomes and military occupations. The following article examines this relationship by analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979. It evaluates whether military occupations produce associations that are consistent with hypotheses based on theories of skills mismatch, selection, or turning poin…
Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience
Previous researchers have evaluated how the dramatic rise in income inequality has affected the members of various groups of workers, such as those defined by gender, union status, and educational attainment. Yet apparently no researchers have yet explored how this increase may have affected people grouped by previous military service. This chapter addresses this gap by assessing trends in wage inequality between male veterans and nonveterans, an…
The Social Fallout of a High-Inequality Regime
T spectacular takeoff in income inequality in the united States commenced long ago and has now become a fixed and seemingly stable foundation of our contemporary social life. Although there has been much research on the sources and causes of the takeoff, we know less about how people have come to forge new ways of living in the context of our high-inequality regime. How has rising income inequality changed the rules by which people come to partic…
Coz football is what we all have: Masculinities, Practice, Performance and Effervescence in a Gender-Sensitised Weight-Loss and Healthy Living Programme for Men
In this paper we use a social practice approach to explore men's experience of Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a group-based weight management programme for men that harnesses men's symbolic attachment to professional football clubs to engage them in lifestyle change. FFIT is delivered by community coaches in clubs' stadia and is gender-sensitised in relation to context, content and style of delivery. Using a 'toolkit' of concepts from the work…
Military Service in the Life Course
We review research published in the past 15 years that explores the relationship between military service and the life course, focusing on criminal careers, marital status, lifelong health, and socioeconomic attainment. Throughout the review, we note the extent to which studies find that veterans experienced different outcomes in different historical periods, ranging from World War II to the more recent voluntary armed forces. The effects of mili…
Oh, what a tangled web we weave: Experiences of doing ‘multiple perspectives’ research in families
It is not uncommon to explore the views of parents and children in qualitative research with families. Yet the implications and challenges of a multiple perspective approach often remain at a relatively taken‐for‐granted level. In this article we draw on our experience across a range of qualitative interview‐based projects, focusing in particular on two case studies, to illustrate the practical working out of the challenges posed by multiple pers…
The Things They Carry: Combat, Disability, and Unemployment among U.S. Men
Sociologists have long recognized that historical events, such as wars, depressions, and natural disasters, influence trajectories of people's lives and reproduce or alter social structures. This article extends that line of research. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I test three accounts regarding how combat exposure in war affects men's ability to work. The direct cumulative disadvantage account posits that war negatively aff…
The Social Fallout of a High-Inequality Regime
T spectacular takeoff in income inequality in the united States commenced long ago and has now become a fixed and seemingly stable foundation of our contemporary social life. Although there has been much research on the sources and causes of the takeoff, we know less about how people have come to forge new ways of living in the context of our high-inequality regime. How has rising income inequality changed the rules by which people come to partic…
Rules' for boys, 'guidelines' for girls: Gender differences in symptom reporting during childhood and adolescence
Home and away: Constructing family and childhood in the context of working parenthood
Little is known about children's views and experiences of their parents’ work−life reconciliation and how these are negotiated in everyday family practices. This article examines families' experiences of work−life reconciliation from both children's and parents' perspectives, drawing on a qualitative longitudinal study with 14 families in Scotland. Such experiences have implications for the spatial and temporal construction of family and childhoo…
Lessons from the Cold War: Military Service and College Education
Since World War II, the federal government has provided funds to pay for the education of veterans through the GI bill. Yet, these funds were unavailable from 1955 to 1965. This article considers four potentially overlapping hypotheses to describe the effect of military service on veterans' educational attainment in the absence of government funding. Military service may have (1) reproduced civilian status defined by social background, (2) reflec…
Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq
Journal Article Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq Get access Alair MacLean, Alair MacLean Direct correspondence to: Alair MacLean, Washington State University, Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver, WA 98686. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Meredith Kleykamp Meredith Kleykamp Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The Pervasive Role of Rank in the Health of U.S. Veterans
The following article tests the hypothesis that veterans have better health if they were officers when they were in the U.S. military than if they served in the enlisted ranks. It examines this hypothesis by presenting results from logistic regressions that are based on four surveys: the National Survey of Veterans, the Survey of Retired Military, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. In all four of these surve…
Coz football is what we all have: Masculinities, Practice, Performance and Effervescence in a Gender-Sensitised Weight-Loss and Healthy Living Programme for Men
In this paper we use a social practice approach to explore men's experience of Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a group-based weight management programme for men that harnesses men's symbolic attachment to professional football clubs to engage them in lifestyle change. FFIT is delivered by community coaches in clubs' stadia and is gender-sensitised in relation to context, content and style of delivery. Using a 'toolkit' of concepts from the work…
Who Supports U.S. Veterans and Who Exaggerates Their Support
Support for U.S. military personnel appears high, but does it extend to veterans after service ends? This study evaluates public support for social engagement with veterans and spending on recent military veterans’ health care and estimates the extent of socially desirable reporting on these forms of support. It uses a list experiment to identify the extent of socially desirable reporting on topics. Findings demonstrate that the public offers ove…
Unequal Risk: Combat Occupations in the Volunteer Military
This study evaluates the characteristics of the men who served in the volunteer military in combat occupations. It examines whether these characteristics stem from supply-side or demand-side decisions, or reflect class bias. The findings suggest that, on the supply side, men who had greater academic abilities were more likely to go to college, thereby avoiding military service and the possibility of serving in a combat occupation. On the demand s…
The Privileges of Rank: The Peacetime Draft and Later-life Attainment
This article examines the effects of peacetime cold war military service on the life course according to four potentially overlapping theories that state that military service (1) was a disruption, (2) was a positive turning point, (3) allowed veterans to accumulate advantage, and (4) was an agent of social reproduction. The article argues that the extent to which the effect of military service on veterans' lives corresponds with one or another o…
Does gender matter? An analysis of men's and women's accounts of responding to symptoms of lung cancer
The stratification of military service and combat exposure, 1934-1994
Generations of Veterans: Socioeconomic Attainment from World War II to the Contemporary Era
Scholars have long examined how generations or, more technically, cohorts produce social change. According to theory, people’s lives are shaped by the years in which they were born because they experience, along with their peers, particular historical events at the same points in the life course. Despite the importance of history, however, many scholars have evaluated cohorts not defined by clear start and end dates, but rather by arbitrary cut p…
The ‘family–work project’: Children’s and parents’ experiences of working parenthood
In the United Kingdom, 83% of families have at least one parent engaged in some form of paid employment. However, the ambiguity within the moral expectations of working parenthood is experienced by some parents as a tension between competing demands for their time. Despite children being considered to be active family members, their views are often absent from research findings. This article draws on data from a qualitative, longitudinal study wi…
A Few Good Men and Women: Gender, Race, and Status in the Wartime Volunteer Military
Skills Mismatch? Military Service, Combat Occupations, and Civilian Earnings
Research has evaluated the impact of military service on socioeconomic outcomes, but little research has assessed the association between such outcomes and military occupations. The following article examines this relationship by analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979. It evaluates whether military occupations produce associations that are consistent with hypotheses based on theories of skills mismatch, selection, or turning poin…
Hopes for the Future: Parents' and Children's Narratives of Children's Future Employment Orientations
What do you want to be when you grow up?' is a question often asked of children yet little is known about how children and their parents think about their future in terms of employment. This paper, based on qualitative longitudinal research with 14 families, explores children's and parents' narratives about children's employment futures, illuminating the values, social relations and structures through which such narratives are formed. The paper r…
Episodic disability and adjustments for work: The ‘rehabilitative work’ of returning to employment with Long Covid
Long Covid is an activity-limiting condition that causes significant long-term impairment that can last up to one year or longer and impacts labour participation. ‘Episodic disability’ is an apt conceptual framework to comprehend the fluctuating impairments of those with Long Covid and the barriers they encounter when returning to employment. Drawing on 65 narrative interviews, conducted between 2021-2022, from three UK studies involving adults w…
The double invisibility of Long Covid in children
The Covid-19 pandemic has been dominated by discussions of mild and short-lasting cases or acutely serious or lethal forms of the disease; less attention has been paid to long-term Covid-19 symptoms ('Long Covid'), particularly in children. This analysis of the experiences of children and adolescents with Long Covid, and those of their parents/caregivers, argues that children with Long Covid encounter a 'double invisibility' due to the condition'…
Young adults' experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long Covid
During the early years (2020-2021) of the COVID-19 pandemic, relatively little attention focused on experiences of people with long-lasting symptoms, particularly young adults who were commonly understood to be invulnerable to serious effects of the virus. Drawing on narrative interviews with 15 adults in their twenties and living in the UK when they became ill with long COVID, we explore contextual factors which made their long COVID illness exp…
Military Service, Education, and Mortality Across Cohorts from World War II to the Post-Vietnam Era
Migration Across Metro-Nonmetro Boundaries and Hourly Wages☆
Previous scholars have demonstrated that nonmetro residents who move to metro areas earn higher wages. It remains an open question whether this metro wage advantage persists in the contemporary era, and how migrating influences young adults from metro areas. Migrants may earn higher wages due to higher education. Alternatively, they may earn lower wages because they lack social capital. They may experience different associations of migration and …
Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century
Introduction: Understanding the Past to Interpret the Present 2. Home-Based Work and the Informal Economy: The Case of the Unemployed Housewife 3. Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Determining Women's Employment 4. Occupational Concentration: The Links Between Occupational Sex and Race Segregation 5. Ethnic Enclaves and Ethnic Queues: Women and Domestic Work 6. Female-Headed Households and the Hidden Headship of Single Mothers: Strategies for a…
Lessons from the Cold War: Military Service and College Education
Since World War II, the federal government has provided funds to pay for the education of veterans through the GI bill. Yet, these funds were unavailable from 1955 to 1965. This article considers four potentially overlapping hypotheses to describe the effect of military service on veterans' educational attainment in the absence of government funding. Military service may have (1) reproduced civilian status defined by social background, (2) reflec…
Age stratification at work: Trends in occupational age segregation in the United States, 1950–2000
Military Service in the Life Course
We review research published in the past 15 years that explores the relationship between military service and the life course, focusing on criminal careers, marital status, lifelong health, and socioeconomic attainment. Throughout the review, we note the extent to which studies find that veterans experienced different outcomes in different historical periods, ranging from World War II to the more recent voluntary armed forces. The effects of mili…
Observations from behind the bar: Changing patrons' behaviours in response to smoke-free legislation in Scotland
Smoke-free legislation is changing the social context of smoking in Scotland. Further research to assess the impact the legislation is having on older male smokers and on the incidence of drink spiking would be useful. More specifically, bar workers would benefit from guidance on how to manage issues arising from patrons moving outside to smoke
The Privileges of Rank: The Peacetime Draft and Later-life Attainment
This article examines the effects of peacetime cold war military service on the life course according to four potentially overlapping theories that state that military service (1) was a disruption, (2) was a positive turning point, (3) allowed veterans to accumulate advantage, and (4) was an agent of social reproduction. The article argues that the extent to which the effect of military service on veterans' lives corresponds with one or another o…
The Pervasive Role of Rank in the Health of U.S. Veterans
The following article tests the hypothesis that veterans have better health if they were officers when they were in the U.S. military than if they served in the enlisted ranks. It examines this hypothesis by presenting results from logistic regressions that are based on four surveys: the National Survey of Veterans, the Survey of Retired Military, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. In all four of these surve…
Oh, what a tangled web we weave: Experiences of doing ‘multiple perspectives’ research in families
It is not uncommon to explore the views of parents and children in qualitative research with families. Yet the implications and challenges of a multiple perspective approach often remain at a relatively taken‐for‐granted level. In this article we draw on our experience across a range of qualitative interview‐based projects, focusing in particular on two case studies, to illustrate the practical working out of the challenges posed by multiple pers…
The Things They Carry: Combat, Disability, and Unemployment among U.S. Men
Sociologists have long recognized that historical events, such as wars, depressions, and natural disasters, influence trajectories of people's lives and reproduce or alter social structures. This article extends that line of research. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I test three accounts regarding how combat exposure in war affects men's ability to work. The direct cumulative disadvantage account posits that war negatively aff…
Rules' for boys, 'guidelines' for girls: Gender differences in symptom reporting during childhood and adolescence
Unequal Risk: Combat Occupations in the Volunteer Military
This study evaluates the characteristics of the men who served in the volunteer military in combat occupations. It examines whether these characteristics stem from supply-side or demand-side decisions, or reflect class bias. The findings suggest that, on the supply side, men who had greater academic abilities were more likely to go to college, thereby avoiding military service and the possibility of serving in a combat occupation. On the demand s…
How robust is the evidence of an emerging or increasing female excess in physical morbidity rates between childhood and adolescence? Results of a systematic literature review
Background It is widely acknowledged that higher rates of psychological morbidity found among males in childhood are replaced by an emergence of higher rates in females during the transition to adolescence. Although this pattern has also been reported for asthma prevalence, the extent to which there is evidence of an emerging/increasing female excess in relation to other forms of physical morbidity is yet to be established. Identifying and apprai…
The stratification of military service and combat exposure, 1934-1994
The ‘family–work project’: Children’s and parents’ experiences of working parenthood
In the United Kingdom, 83% of families have at least one parent engaged in some form of paid employment. However, the ambiguity within the moral expectations of working parenthood is experienced by some parents as a tension between competing demands for their time. Despite children being considered to be active family members, their views are often absent from research findings. This article draws on data from a qualitative, longitudinal study wi…
Hopes for the Future: Parents' and Children's Narratives of Children's Future Employment Orientations
What do you want to be when you grow up?' is a question often asked of children yet little is known about how children and their parents think about their future in terms of employment. This paper, based on qualitative longitudinal research with 14 families, explores children's and parents' narratives about children's employment futures, illuminating the values, social relations and structures through which such narratives are formed. The paper r…
Symptoms of Mental Health Problems: Children’s and Adolescents’ Understandings and Implications for Gender Differences in Help Seeking
Amidst concerns that young people’s mental health is deteriorating, it is important to explore their understandings of symptoms of mental health problems and beliefs around help seeking. Drawing on focus group data from Scottish school pupils, we demonstrate how they understood symptoms of mental health problems and how their characterisations of these symptoms as ‘rare’ and ‘weird’ informed participants’ perceptions that peers, teachers and pare…
How robust is the evidence of an emerging or increasing female excess in physical morbidity between childhood and adolescence? Results of a systematic literature review and meta-analyses
Home and away: Constructing family and childhood in the context of working parenthood
Little is known about children's views and experiences of their parents’ work−life reconciliation and how these are negotiated in everyday family practices. This article examines families' experiences of work−life reconciliation from both children's and parents' perspectives, drawing on a qualitative longitudinal study with 14 families in Scotland. Such experiences have implications for the spatial and temporal construction of family and childhoo…
Do weight management programmes delivered at professional football clubs attract and engage high risk men? A mixed-methods study
The delivery of a weight management intervention via professional football clubs attracted men at high risk of ill-health. The setting enabled men to join a weight management programme in circumstances that felt 'right' rather than threatening to themselves as men. FFIT is an example of how to facilitate health promotion activities in a way that is consistent with, rather than challenging to, common ideals of masculinity
Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq
Journal Article Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq Get access Alair MacLean, Alair MacLean Direct correspondence to: Alair MacLean, Washington State University, Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver, WA 98686. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Meredith Kleykamp Meredith Kleykamp Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience
Previous researchers have evaluated how the dramatic rise in income inequality has affected the members of various groups of workers, such as those defined by gender, union status, and educational attainment. Yet apparently no researchers have yet explored how this increase may have affected people grouped by previous military service. This chapter addresses this gap by assessing trends in wage inequality between male veterans and nonveterans, an…
The Social Fallout of a High-Inequality Regime
T spectacular takeoff in income inequality in the united States commenced long ago and has now become a fixed and seemingly stable foundation of our contemporary social life. Although there has been much research on the sources and causes of the takeoff, we know less about how people have come to forge new ways of living in the context of our high-inequality regime. How has rising income inequality changed the rules by which people come to partic…
Coz football is what we all have: Masculinities, Practice, Performance and Effervescence in a Gender-Sensitised Weight-Loss and Healthy Living Programme for Men
In this paper we use a social practice approach to explore men's experience of Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a group-based weight management programme for men that harnesses men's symbolic attachment to professional football clubs to engage them in lifestyle change. FFIT is delivered by community coaches in clubs' stadia and is gender-sensitised in relation to context, content and style of delivery. Using a 'toolkit' of concepts from the work…
Does gender matter? An analysis of men's and women's accounts of responding to symptoms of lung cancer
Skills Mismatch? Military Service, Combat Occupations, and Civilian Earnings
Research has evaluated the impact of military service on socioeconomic outcomes, but little research has assessed the association between such outcomes and military occupations. The following article examines this relationship by analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979. It evaluates whether military occupations produce associations that are consistent with hypotheses based on theories of skills mismatch, selection, or turning poin…
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