Disability, Heroism and Australian National Identity

Meditation, disability, and identity.

Since we are all Crips in one way or another, it is well worth learning the truth of what must befall us some day, even if it hasn't already started (it has). After all, when all identities are finally included, there will be no identity. Lennard Davis, Bending Over Backwards [C]lassifications should be recognized as the significant site of political and ethical work that they are. They should ...

Australian National Identity: Adolescents’ Conceptions of What it Means to be Australian

Just as membership of a social group, such as a sporting club, can foster a sense of belonging and identity for individuals, membership of a national group, too, can foster a sense of belonging and identity, and influence certain aspects of an individual's behaviour. This paper reports the results of a study of Australian national identity among a group of 1242 school students. and Outdoor Life...

Body Management and Youth National Identity (Case Study: Sari Youth)

Identity in recent decades, especially in social and national dimension, as one of the most key components of humanities and social sciences, considered very deeply by experts and scientists. This article attempts to examine national identity in the sphere of culture globalization and worldwide consumption culture. Because this culture includes different dimension, the article has done by the p...

Disability Sport Socialization and Identity Construction

The subject of this paper is the sport socialization of athletes with disabilities; the object is to contribute to research and praxis through a review of the relevant sociological literature on the subject. The majority of the research, which uses structural-functionalism, is seen as a set of pioneering attempts to generate reliable information. However, the resulting information is too simpli...

Heroism, Suffering, and Change