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Environmental Sociology as Method
Japanese Sociological Review, 1995 Environmental Sociology is an emerging field to deal with the environmental issues and the relation between environment and society in general. But essentially society exists in the midst of environment, and human beings live in the midst of environment. This fact is clearly formulated as B=f (E·P).Modern sociology, especially its voluntaristic version,
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Positive ageing, neoliberalism and Australian sociology
, 2009 NoAustralian sociology has wrestled with most of the big issues facing this society; however, when it comes to one of the most significant changes to face Australia in the next 30 years, it has suddenly lost its capacity to engage with the nexus ...
Asquith, Nicole +1 more
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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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Hollow Ecology: Ecological Modernization Theory and the Death of Nature
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2017 The last few decades have seen the rise of ‘ecological modernization theory’ (EMT) as a “green capitalist” tradition extending modernization theory into environmental sociology.
Jeffrey A. Ewing
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Bourdieu's sociological concept of social capital highlights its significance in enabling individuals to access other forms of capital for personal advantage. In the literature on university students' employability, particularly that concerning international and non‐local students, social capital is widely recognised as a key asset, alongside ...
Fang Gao, Thanh Pham
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Making sense of the social: human-nonhuman constellations and the wicked road to sustainability
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2012 Social questions become especially tangible in the context of human-nonhuman interrelations. This article focuses on coexistential practices in the context of management, protection, and production and it clarifies how the social in particular empirical ...
Juha Hiedanpää +2 more
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Multi-criteria evaluation in paradigmatic perspectives of agricultural environmental management
Heliyon, 2019 Agriculture is one of the primary activities that affects the environment due to natural resources consumption. Therefore, systematic environmental management for the agricultural sector is required.
Mahsa Fatemi, Kurosh Rezaei-Moghaddam
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette +5 more
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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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Rethinking Burawoy: Reflections from Canadian Feminist Sociology
, 2009 As president of the American Sociological Association in 2004, Michael Burawoy initiated a lively discussion about the sociological terrain in the United States and appealed to his colleagues to engage in more ‘public sociology’ (Burawoy, 2004, 2005a ...
McLaren, Arlene Tigar +2 more
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