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Partner’s and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption? [PDF]
, 2003 This study analyses the importance of partner status and partner’s education, adjusted for own education, on selfassessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
Monden, C.W.S. +17 more
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A Conceptual Framework of Influences on Fantasy Sports Consumption
Marketing Management Journal, 2007 The explosion of fantasy sports and the dearth of research about it create a need for investigation in this relatively new form of sport spectatorship ([@R5]).
DONALD P. ROY, BENJAMIN D. GOSS
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Taste, Sensation, and Skill in the Sociology of Consumption [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter re-examines foundational philosophical controversies about the meaning of taste and reflects on how tastes have been understood by sociologists. It argues these insights, while revealing the social patterning of tastes, have also obscured the extent to which tastes are bound up both with sensory experience and with the process of learning ...
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton +4 more
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Sociological Futures and the Sociology of Work [PDF]
This essay is a response to the call for a discussion about future trends in sociology by focusing broadly on the sub-discipline of work and employment. In doing so the piece directly engages with earlier interventions made by John Scott (2005) and Gayle
Tim Strangleman
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, 2004 The sociology of consumption pays relatively little detailed and systematic theoretical attention to children, while the sociology of childhood tends to view children's consumption through what can be called the 'production of consumption' approach. This
Martens, Lydia +5 more
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On “The Design of Everyday Life”
Tecnoscienza, 2015 The article highlights the intersection between design, STS and consumption outlining practices as the central unit of analysis. The paper illustrates this perspective with reference to a variety of examples, including home improvements and do-it ...
Elizabeth Shove
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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Introduction (PSS100 Introduction to Sociology)
, 2012 A series of videos which accompany the unit PSS100 Introduction to Sociology. This unit introduces students to key concepts and debates in sociology and explores contemporary issues in Australian society. Themes explored include social identities, social
Craig McIntosh
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Prevalence of Drug Use Among the Working Population as a Form of Disadaptation Process. Part I
Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2019 The article is devoted to the study of the spread of drug use among the working population. On the basis of materials of quantitative and qualitative research of the deviant behavior sector of sociology from the Institute of Sociology of the Federal ...
Margarita E. Pozdnyakova +1 more
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