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“Does EMI Improve Students' English?” and Other Unanswerable Questions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Questions about EMI often begin from an apparently straightforward premise—does EMI improve students' English? This article argues that the question itself is the source of the main analytic problem. Using EMI as an exemplar of a wider problem in applied linguistics, we show why binary claims about language gain travel poorly across contexts ...
Timothy Hampson +2 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 Eusocial termites have a complex caste system, which leads to the division of labor. Previous studies offered some insight into the caste differentiation in lower termites; however, few studies were focusing on the molecular mechanisms of higher termites
Pengdong Sun +9 more
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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy [PDF]
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs.
Siddique, Zahra
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Social interactions affecting caste development through physiological actions in termites
Frontiers in Physiology, 2014 A colony of social insects is not only an aggregation of individuals but also a functional unit. To achieve adaptive social behavior in fluctuating environmental conditions, in addition to coordination of physiological status in each individual, the ...
Dai eWatanabe +5 more
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Exigency for caste census in India [PDF]
, 2023 In the history and social structure of India, a cosmopolitan and varied nation, caste has played a crucial role. Understanding the present distribution and status of distinct castes is essential for properly resolving caste-based discrimination, which ...
Singh, Saphal Harpreet
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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Origins of termite eusociality: developmental foundations
Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionHemimetaboly and an extraordinarily flexible caste system are two features that that make termites, the eusocial cockroaches, distinct from the Hymenoptera. The origins of their singular phenotypic plasticity, however, are obscure.
Christine A. Nalepa
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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The Waning Caste System of The Gambia
Turkish Academic Research ReviewThis study examines how caste shapes social relations in The Gambia through the lens of Blalock’s (1967) Group Threat Hypothesis and assesses the extent to which Western education can be credited with addressing caste-related concerns.
Akpojevbe Omasanjuwa
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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