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Social Invisibility and Discrimination of Roma People in Italy and Brazil
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2023 In everyday debates on topics such as cultural differences, it seems relevant to analyze not only institutional conversations or speeches, but also mass-media communications.
Giannino Melotti +3 more
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Prâksis, 2021 Nos anos de 1878 e 1879 foi publicada em forma de folhetim, na Revista Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro), a novela O Patuá, descrita por Walter Spalding como “notável ensaio de ficção sobre usos e costumes gauchescos”.
Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira
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The image of nursing in the media: A scoping review
International Nursing Review, Volume 70, Issue 3, Page 425-443, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim To systematically review the available evidence from research exploring the image of nurses in the media. Background Nurses have historically faced many challenges and have received media attention for such efforts. However, the image of nursing traditionally conveyed by media has failed to represent the real character and a positive image
Hildegart González +3 more
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Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Volume 2, Issue 2, Page 164-180, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Poor diet quality has been identified as a primary driver of malnutrition and increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Low fruit and vegetable consumption contributes to poor diet quality. We experimentally assess whether videos embedded messages about increasing fruit and vegetable consumption affect ...
Gashaw T. Abate +4 more
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Movies, stigma and choice: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry
Health Economics, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 1019-1039, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Do movies reduce stigma, increasing healthcare product choices offered by firms? We provide causal evidence on this question in the context of Indian pharmaceutical markets. For unpacking these effects, we use an exogenous shock to the market due to the release of a Bollywood blockbuster movie ‐ My Name is Khan (MNIK) where the protagonist ...
Mayank Aggarwal +2 more
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Fertility rates and social media usage in sub‐Saharan Africa
Population, Space and Place, Volume 29, Issue 4, May 2023., 2023 Abstract This study examines the connection between social media usage and fertility behaviour in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Whereas the link between traditional media and fertility behaviour has been firmly established, the link between social media and fertility is yet unclear, although social media has expanded enormously in recent years and provides
Jet Wildeman +2 more
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Using Stars for Moral Navigation: An Ethical Exploration into Celebrity
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 340-357, May 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT What role do celebrities play in our moral lives? Philosophers have explored the potential for celebrities to function as moral exemplars and role models. We argue that there are more ways in which celebrities play a role in helping us navigate our moral lives.
Alfred Archer, Maureen Sie
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Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 128-144, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Eugenic ideas in Mexico were popularised after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) as a way of ‘modernising’ and ‘civilising’ the nation. As a result, eugenic ideas were able to linger and be maintained through different departments, institutions, and individuals from all disciplines. After eugenics was considered a pseudoscience, its practices
R. Sanchez‐Rivera
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Gravity models for tourism demand modeling: Empirical review and outlook
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 36, Issue 5, Page 1358-1409, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Tourism demand and its determining factors have been extensively explored over the past decades. Traditionally, the study of tourism demand modeling had focused on the use of time series models and forecasting. Nonetheless, during the last years the literature has revived the approach of gravity models, centered on structural dimension as ...
Jaume Rosselló Nadal +1 more
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Tweakments: Non‐surgical beauty technologies and future directions for the sociology of the body
Sociology Compass, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Science, aesthetics, the body, and the concerns they attach to, such as gender, ‘race’, class, age and consumer culture, are key objects of sociological investigation. These discourses have been reignited in recent years by changes in the availability, accessibility and affordability of medicalised cosmetic procedures.
Anna Dowrick, Ruth Holliday
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