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Residential segregation and cultural dissemination: An Axelrod-Schelling model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination, we consider mobility of cultural agents through the introduction of a density of empty sites and the possibility that agents in a dissimilar neighborhood can move to them if their mean cultural similarity
C. Gracia-Lázaro   +7 more
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“More Than a Game”: The Impact of Sport-Based Youth Mentoring Schemes on Developing Resilience toward Violent Extremism

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2014
This paper draws upon the findings of an evaluation of “More than a Game”, a sport-focused youth mentoring program in Melbourne, Australia that aimed to develop a community-based resilience model using team-based sports to address issues of identity ...
Amelia Johns   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multi-cultural Switzerland – multicultural public service media? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this article a special attention is paid to the to the role of public service broadcaster in cultural diversity societies. The main aims of the author was answering the following questions: how cultural pluralism is implemented by the public service ...
Ratajczak, Magdalena
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Application of Shia Islamic Law in Contemporary Legal Systems

open access: yesLaws
Despite the growing interest among comparative legal scholars in Islamic law, the application of Shia Islamic law remains an overlooked area within the field of comparative law. This article addresses this gap by offering a classification of contemporary
Akif Tahiiev
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Attitudes of undergraduate nursing students to cultural diversity: (Portuguese-Spanish) in a transboundary context. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Our main goal was to identify the attitudes of nursing students to cultural diversity in a healthcare setting, and find the potential relationship between this and the students' national background and their knowledge of cultural diversity. A descriptive
Belmonte   +17 more
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Changes in Self-Rated Health Right After Immigration: A Panel Study of Economic, Social, Cultural, and Emotional Explanations of Self-Rated Health Among Immigrants in the Netherlands

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2019
Immigrants are often found to rate their health better than the native population does. It is, however, suggested that this healthy immigrant effect declines with an enduring length of stay.
Marcel Lubbers   +4 more
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Cultural diversity versus multiculturalism

open access: yesChrześcijaństwo-Świat-Polityka, 2020
The text analyzes the differences between cultural diversity (a state meaning coexistence in one area of different cultures) and multiculturalism (ideology).
Piotr Mazurkiewicz
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Cultural diversity and information and communication technology impacts on global virtual teams: An exploratory study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Modern organizations face many significant challenges because of turbulent environments and a competitive global economy. Among these challenges are the use of information and communication technology (ICT), a multicultural workforce, and organizational ...
Shachaf, Pnina
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Shakespeare’s Cultural Diversity

open access: yesLinguaculture, 2017
400 hundred years of Shakespeare's presence in world-wide theatres, schools, literature, film, and even languages must give us pause. It is worth reflecting on what there is in the texts that have come down to us that answers this great and obviously ...
Gibińska Marta
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Challenges of developing pedagogy through diversity and equity within the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A commitment to diversity and equity principles through social justice lies at the heart of many Early Years' practitioners working practices. However, the term social justice is complex, and this complexity manifests itself through its multiple meanings,
Mistry, Malini Tina, Sood, Krishan
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