Sociological Research Online published the third issue of volume 8 on  
31st
August 2003

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In this issue Rosemary Deem and Rachel Johnson consider the ways in  
which
manager-academics within UK higher education are aware of and prepared  
for
the risk society. Their article draws upon an ESRC funded project that
explored the extent to which UK universities were engaging with new  
public
sector management ideologies and practices. Also in this issue, Gayle
Letherby and Gillian Reynolds present an exploratory sociological  
analysis
of train travel, and the ways in which this is used for work and  
leisure.
This article draws upon autobiographical and pilot study material, and
identifies some interesting areas for further research.

The article by Heather Paris makes good use of the electronic form of  
the
journal in her discussion of visual representations of childhood and  
death
in Victorian Society. By considering a range of visual images Paris  
explores
relationships between children and adults, and the social construction  
of
childhood.

This issue also contains a review essay on feminist sociology by Liz  
Stanley
and Sue Wise. In this essay they explore the current role and continued
relevance of feminism for the discipline, through a detailed  
consideration
of four recent texts. The futures of feminism in sociology (and perhaps
sociology in feminism) are explored in this piece. This essay should
stimulate considerable interest and debate.

There are two 'rapid response' calls in this issue. The first is a
continuation of the rapid response call on the Second Gulf War. We hope  
that
the inclusion of Barbara Misztal's article, which explores the concept  
of
'negative capability' in the context of global public responses to the
complexities encoded in the declaration of war against Iraq will promote
further debate. The journal would welcome further articles on the war  
and
its aftermath. The second rapid response call is on Sexuality and the
church. This is a response to the appointment of Gene Robinson as the  
first
openly gay Bishop of an Anglican/ Episcopalian congregation in the  
United
States, and to related debates occurring world-wide. This call invites  
short
sociological articles on the relationship between sexuality,  
sexualities and
sexual practices, and religious practices and the institutions of  
religion
in the contemporary world.

CONTENTS

Refereed Articles

Rapid Response: The Gulf War and its Aftermath

Barbara Misztal
Negative Capability or Dealing with the Complexity of the Iraqi War
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/misztal.html

General Articles

Rosemary Deem and Rachel Johnson
Risking the University? Learning to be a Manager-Academic in UK  
Universities
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/deem.html



Gayle Letherby and Gillian Reynolds
Making Connections: the Relationship between Train Travel and the  
Processes
of Work and Leisure
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/letherby.html



Heather Paris
'Lifting up the Little Form': Victorian Images of Childhood and Death
1870-1900
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/paris.html


Review Article and Debate

Sue Wise and Liz Stanley
Looking Back and Looking Forward: Some Recent Feminist Sociology  
Reviewed
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/wise.html



Book Reviews

Alcock, Pete; Angus Erskine; Margaret May: Blackwell Dictionary of  
Social
Policy
Reviewed by Edward Phelps
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/alcock.html

Couto, Richard with Stephanie C. Eken: To Give their Gifts: Health,
Community and Democracy
Reviewed by Gayle Letherby
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/couto.html


Delamont, Sara: Changing Women, Unchanged Men? Sociological  
Perspectives on
Gender in a Post-industrial Society
Reviewed by Suki Ali
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/delamont.html


Fee, Dwight: Pathology and the Postmodern: Mental Illness as Discourse  
and
Experience
Reviewed by Victoria Grace
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/fee.html


Frankfort-Nachmias, Chava and Anna Leon-Guerrero: Social Statistics for  
a
Diverse Society
Reviewed by Vida Cesnuityte
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/frankfort.html