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The Sociology of the Life Course and Life Span Psychology: Integrated Paradigm or Complementing Pathways? [PDF]
The psychology of the life span and the sociology of the life course share the same object of scientific inquiry - the lives of women and men from birth to death.
Martin Diewald, Karl Ulrich Mayer
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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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An institutional sociology perspective of the adaptation of activity based costing by spanish health [PDF]
Per institutional sociology hospitals will respond to external environmental pressures and adopt Activity-Based-Costing (ABC). This theory overemphasizes conformity and failures to consider the advantages of organizational non-conformance.
IGNACIO URRUTIA
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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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09-04 "Sociology, Economics, and Gender: Can Knowledge of the Past Contribute to a Better Future?" [PDF]
This essay explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology which took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for the relatively new field of economic sociology ...
Julie A. Nelson
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APPLICATION OF SOCIAL CONTROL THEORY ON BAGCILAR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: HIRSCHI'S MODEL [PDF]
, 2013 The delinquency and drug problems have wide range of damaging consequences not only for the individuals involved in delinquency and illegal drug use, but also for their families and the overall community.
AKCIGER, UMIT
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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, 2011 The Theory of Social Control (TSC) is grounded in satisfaction and happiness research. The study investigated the reasons behind relatively low levels of civil and personal satisfaction, subjective social well-being and experienced happiness in the post ...
Orsolya Selymes, PhD Candidate
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Harrison White : des réseaux sociaux à une théorie structurale de l'action
Sociologies, 2007 Harrison White is a major figure of North American sociology and an important theorist of social network analysis. His book Identity and Control, first published in 1992 and currently being revised for a second edition, proposes a structural theory of ...
Michel Grossetti, Frédéric Godart
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Thinking Complexity with Harrison White: Towards Social Emergence via Indexical Language
SociologicaHarrison C. White, a founding giant of the relational turn in Sociology, has left us a monumental model of social emergence based on the interplay of three primitives (identity, control, switching) and two principles (self-similarity, dispersion) of ...
Jorge Fontdevila
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