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Why Online Consumption Communities Brutalize

Journal of Consumer Research
Consumers who socialize in online consumption communities sometimes become alarmingly hostile, toxic, and otherwise verbally violent toward one another—a phenomenon known in sociology as brutalization.
Olivier Sibai, M. Luedicke, Kristine de Valck   +2 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

Diasporic and Local Mainstream Media as a Tool for Intercultural Integration? The Case of Latin American Communities in Italy [PDF]

, 2017
In Italy, communication research on the impact of media on immigrants’ integration dynamics has up until now privileged the sphere of national mainstream media.
LOPES FERREIRA CASCAO, Suzana
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Food banks in schools in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker, George Leckie, Cathryn Knight   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A theoretical analysis of food meaning in anthropology and sociology

, 2020
The purpose of this study is to present a theoretical analysis that seeks an answer on the question of what the meanings of food are in anthropology and sociology.
Semra Aktaş-Polat, Serkan Polat
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Omnivorousness in sport: The importance of social capital and networks [PDF]

, 2014
There has been for some time a significant and growing body of research around the relationship between sport and social capital. Similarly, within sociology there has been a corpus of work that has acknowledged the emergence of the omnivore–univore ...
Asparouhov T, Auld C, Borgatti SP, Bourdieu P, Bourdieu P, Bourdieu P, Bourdieu P, Cha V, Coleman JS, Crossley N, David Cutts, Delaney L, Grant Jarvie, Jarvie G, Jarvie G, Jowell T, Lin N, Nicholson M, Paul Widdop, Peterson RA, Putnam R, Putnam R, Ranard R, Van der Gaag MPJ   +23 more
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System failure? Exploring the interplay of fear of failure, competition, cooperation and sense of belonging in education in England and Flanders

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Fear of failure is damaging in a host of ways yet is rife in many schools. Drawing on self‐worth theory, we explore whether fear of academic failure is higher in education systems with features that increase students' experiences of competition. To do this, we compare two very different education systems: England, where, for instance, national
Carolyn Jackson, Mieke Van Houtte
wiley   +1 more source

Employability Programmes in higher education: Supporting students through tangible, transitional and transformational approaches

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia.
Michael Maher, Ecem Karlidag‐Dennis, Richard Hazenberg, David Conway   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Value to Values, from Field to Discipline: Understanding Journalistic Culture in the 21st Century

Sociologica, 2020
The Introduction to this Symposium, "Value and Values in the Organizational Production of News," outlines its primary themes. It begins with an elaboration of the argument that the past few years have seen a major shift in the analytical concerns of ...
C. W. Anderson
doaj   +1 more source