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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Alfred Schutz’s main contributions to the field of economic reflection
SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2016 For several decades, contemporary social theory has held a considerable misunderstanding around phenomenologically oriented sociology, which has undermined its heuristic potential and, as a consequence, has pushed its conclusions to a marginal place in ...
Daniela Griselda López
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A Study of the Relationship between the Process of Academic Socialization and Commitment to Research Ethics (The Case of Postgraduate Students of Tabriz University) [PDF]
جامعه شناسی کاربردی, 2018 Introduction: Nowadays, with the transition from the first generation universities (education-based university) to the second generation universities (research-based university) and to the third generation universities (Entrepreneur-based university ...
Mohammad Abbaszadeh Abbaszadeh +3 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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The convention of independent sociological centres [PDF]
Социологический журнал, 2006 The convention of independent sociological ...
N. V. Demina
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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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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A Phenomenological Study of International Migration of Iranian Educated Girls (Case Study of Girls Referring to the Cooperative, Labor, and Social Welfare Department of Isfahan City) [PDF]
جامعه شناسی کاربردیIntroductionMigration defined as the geographical mobility of individuals and groups takes various forms for diverse purposes, such as education, employment, and forced displacement (e.g., asylum).
Arman Heidari, Rahmatollah Torkan
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Occurrence, development and renewal of economic sociology [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2016 This paper presents a brief history of the discipline of economic sociology. Three historical periods are extracted: pre-classical, classical, and modern.
Vidicki Vladan
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Sociological Knowledge and Transformation at ‘Diversity University’, UK [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter is based on a case study of one UK university sociology department and shows how sociology knowledge can transform the lives of ‘non-traditional’ students.
Abbas, A. +9 more
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