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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aboriginal staff play a vital part in improving culturally safe and effective services and supports for Aboriginal people. Research on the Aboriginal workforce helps advance a culturally safe environment for workers and Aboriginal people accessing health and community services. This study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to workforce
F. Talbot +10 more
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, 2019 In this article, we assess whether unionization of national workforces influences growth in national carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita. Political-economic theories in environmental sociology propose that labor unions have the potential to affect ...
Alvarez, Camila Huerta +2 more
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Public confidence in policing: a neo-Durkheimian perspective [PDF]
, 2007 Public confidence in policing has received much attention in recent years, but few studies outside of the United States have examined the sociological and social–psychological processes that underpin trust and support.
Jackson, Jonathan, Sunshine, Jason
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million +3 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Access control oriented quantified trust degree representation model for distributed systems
Tongxin xuebao, 2010 Based on the research fruit of social trust in sociology,the semantics,properties and elements of trust in the context of access control of distributed systems were defined.By combining fuzzy set theory with probability theory,a mathematical definition ...
LANG Bo
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Understanding informal institutions: Networks and communities in rural development [PDF]
, 2005 A major theme within the literature on rural development is that the particular mix of formal and informal institutions present in any situation is a key determinant of development outcomes.
High, Chris +2 more
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, 2015 In his late work on Christianity, Talcott Parsons obviously built upon the writings of both Durkheim and Weber. While he departed from the idea that increasing differentiation of the system of action did not have to threaten the unity of the system as a ...
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
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Taming the Volcano: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Masculinities in the Middle Ages
Masculinities and Social Change, 2019 Relying to Norbert Elias' process sociology and the Bourdieusian theory of practice, this article intends to outline the beginnings of the long-term transformation of Western masculine habituses.
Miklos Hadas
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