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Browsing School of Social and Cultural Studies · Te Kura Mahinga Tangata by Subject "370101 Social Theory"

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Family Violence Risk Assessment: An Early Study of Police Officers' Experiences at the Frontline

Grant, Stephanie Christine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The key notion of a police organisational culture unique to frontline police officers explains why police services are resilient to reform, as past attempts by police management to change the traditions of the street-cop ...
Michel Foucault, Social Policy and 'Limit-Experience'

Culpitt, Ian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)

This thesis considers whether the discipline of social policy can validly use the patterns and intentions implicit in Foucault's critique of modernity to develop a new qualitative approach to social theory. He examined the ...
The Ordering of Medical Things: Medical Practices and Complexity

Gardner, John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This project is an investigation into medicine in action. The aim is to understand how medical interactions generate order via the diagnosis of disease; how the patient, the body, and illness are made intelligible, and how ...