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Digital competencies and capabilities. Pre-adolescents inside and outside school [PDF]
, 2016 The investment on key-competences in last years was one crucial European strategy to face the new challenges of the knowledge society and of the digital convergence and to guarantee the active citizenship and social inclusion.
CORTONI, IDA
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Consumption in action. Mapping consumerism in international academic literature [PDF]
, 2016 The consumer-citizen and more generally, the emergence of active forms of citizenship mediated by consumption point to a change in the relations of production, consumption and distribution.
Pattaro, Chiara, Setiffi, Francesca
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Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Macro-institutional structures and consumerist culture force and urge people to reproduce unsustainable levels of consumption. A crucial role for sociology, the article argues, is to address theoretically and empirically the intersection between social ...
M. Boström
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Transcending History’s Heavy Hand: The Future in Economic Action
, 2020 This paper discusses sociological analyses of the formation and role of expectations in the economy. Recognition of the social constitution of expectations advances the understanding of economic action under conditions of uncertainty and helps to explain
Beckert, J., Ergen, T.
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"Ordinary, the same as anywhere else": notes on the management of spoiled identity in 'marginal' middle class neighbourhoods [PDF]
, 2007 Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Particular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of ‘distinction’ and ...
Bauman, Z. +37 more
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Essai: From iron cages to liquid modernity in organization analysis [PDF]
, 2010 Historically, the metaphor of the iron cage, as a key component of Weber's sociological imagination, has played a central role in organization studies.
Baumeler, C, Clegg, S
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Quantifying the land‐use change due to soybean‐based biodiesel in the United States
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We quantify the impact of soybean oil‐based biodiesel production on US cropland, using a method that accounts for the intermediate effect of soybean crushing facilities. Based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data for biodiesel production and proprietary data for soybean crushing facilities over 2011–2020, we find that the elasticities ...
Ruiqing Miao +5 more
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Getting beyond the surface : using geometric data analysis in cultural sociology [PDF]
, 2016 Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) refers to a group of statistical techniques that disclose underlying patterns in categorized data. GDA represents categories of variables and individuals as points in a multi-dimensional Euclidean space.
Roose, Henk
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Consumer credit in comparative perspective [PDF]
, 2018 We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion.
Aalbers MB +48 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract The exponential expansion of the global cider market positions it as a viable alternative to traditional choices such as wine and beer. Nevertheless, there exists a paucity of research examining the various factors influencing consumer interest in cider.
Eva Parga Dans +3 more
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