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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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Costurile tranzacționale: incidențe în economie, sociologie și științele politice

Sociologie Românească, 2002
The article is meant to reveal the distinctive features of transaction costs theory and some of its applications, particularly in sociology and political science. As known, the theory has been developed in organisational economics by R.H.
Mihai Păunescu
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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Self-control of states: bridging social psychology to international relations discourses

Frontiers in Sociology
Why do states respond non-coercively in the face of crisis? Existing scholarship within international relations has stagnated in its conclusions regarding understanding this occurrence.
Bama Andika Putra, Bama Andika Putra
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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MANAGEMENT AS PROCESSES AND PERSONAL FACTORS [PDF]

Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2019
Personality is at the center of sociology, psychology, pedagogy and modern ethics. The interest in personality is caused by several objectives, the main one being production.
CORNELIA TOMESCU-DUMITRESCU
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Racial gaps without racism: How English universities frame inequality in access and participation plans

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
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ERICH FROMM AND THE CRITIQUE OF PUNISHMENT: INTERTWINING BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CRIMINOLOGY FROM THE SOCIETY CRITICAL THEORY

Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM, 2019
The essay aims to explore the criminological work of Erich Fromm, in particular to establish conceptual parameters for the analysis and critique of the traditional theories of the legitimation of the punishment, adopting a dialectical and ...
Salo de Carvalho
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