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Understanding online communities through multiple methodologies combined under a postmodern research endeavour.
(2001)Traditionally triangulation has been used for integrating multiple epistemologies. However such procedures have been criticised for failing to deal with the divergent realities encompassing alternative methodologies. An ... -
The cross-Pacific chicken: Tourism, migration and chicken consumption in the Cook Islands.
(Routledge, 2005)Discusses the impact of tourism (an incoming flow) and migration (an outgoing flow), as two manifestations of globalization, on the culinary culture of a small Pacific island state, the Cook Islands. -
Contesting the curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(Thomson/Dunmore Press, 2005)Discusses the definitions of curriculum, the notion of curriculum politics, some historical influences on curriculum-making, and the sorts of functions curriculum is supposed to perform. Some contemporary curriculum areas ... -
Inequality and social stratification in society
(Thomson/Dunmore Press, 2005)This chapter discusses the nature of society as it is today. It covers two critical and inseparable aspects of society : inequality and social stratification.