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Two Shades of Green? Gender Differences in Environmental Concern and Activism

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines gender differences in environmental concern and activism using data from the World Values Survey. The results indicate that women are more likely than men to be concerned about the environment, but are less likely to engage in environmental activism.
Hava Orkut, Caroline Perrin
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Modern society and culture in Brazil. Sociology formation in Sao Paulo

Revista de Estudios Brasileños, 2014
The experience of the constitution of modern sociology in Brazil has to be with the intense modernization of the country, which worsened during the crisis of traditional social relations, and more significantly after World War II.
Maria Arminda DO NASCIMENTO ARRUDA
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Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do emerging donors integrate into the existing international aid architecture? While the existing literature focuses largely on emerging donors from the Global South, such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, there are many emerging donors from the Global North that have joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)—the premier ...
Nicolas Bau, Simone Dietrich, Katharina Fleiner, Alice Iannantuoni   +3 more
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Desenvolvimento e Urbanização: Senso e Contrassenso do Desenvolvimentismo

Desenvolvimento em Questão, 2011
This paper proposes a rapprochement between the sociology of development and urban sociology. The towns are the core of development as they are in them, which appear the characteristic culture of the development of the modern capitalist state - "urban ...
Sarah Pereira Soares, Francisco Chagas Evangelista Rabêlo   +1 more
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Écologisation de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation en France et au Brésil : renouvellement et perspectives pour la sociologie de l’environnement

VertigO
This special issue is composed of contributions from a seminar on the greening of agriculture and food and offers a collective assessment of the construction of this subject by environmental sociology.
Marie Jacqué, Claire Lamine
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Ambientalistas acidentais: a adesão dos partidos políticos brasileiros ao liberalismo verde

Colombia Internacional, 2018
This article analyses the adherence of Brazilian political parties to the liberal environmentalist discourse, understood as the one that seeks to reconcile capitalism with ecological sustainability.
Antonio Teixeira de Barros
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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Space and Brazilian thought: The american Russia in the writings of Euclides da Cunha and Vicente Licínio Cardoso

Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2008
The aim of this paper is to discuss the issue of space in the Brazilian social imagination. My working hypothesis is that the spatial images contained in some of the reflections by "interpreters of Brazil", like the Amazonian writings of Euclides da ...
João Marcelo Ehlert Maia
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Les rapports de classe dans les approches ethnographiques de la sociologie brésilienne

Brésil(s), 2015
This text discusses the contribution of recent studies about class relations in Brazil. In it, the author makes the point that ethnographic studies on this topic are rare, in spite of their obvious interest in terms of data and analytical perspectives ...
Nicolas Fayette
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Small Community Businesses in Slums: A Perspective on Kenyan Slum Networks

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on networks, the relational dimensions and structures cocreated by small community businesses and cooperative societies through everyday entrepreneurship in slum neighborhoods remain undertheorized. Drawing upon 1166 small community businesses, we conceptualize the relational dimensions and structures underlying ...
Amon Simba, Yun He, Preethi Misha, Yan Wang   +3 more
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