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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Fuzzy-logic-controlled DVR for enhancing the fault resilience of wind energy conversion systems. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nori AM, Abdulabbas AK, Al Garni HZ, Mbasso WF, Alruwaili M, ELrashidi A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing the performance of grid-connected DFIG systems using prescribed convergence law. [PDF]

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Itouchene H, Amrane F, Boudries Z, Mekhilef S, Benbouhenni H, Bizon N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative optimization of PIDN and fractional order controllers for a quarter car active suspension system using recent metaheuristic algorithms. [PDF]

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Özbilgin F, Mengi OÖ, Wadood A, Güven AF, Park H.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic, François Schoenberger, Johanna Behr, Fabio Cescon, Lion Hubrich, Emma Ischinsky, Muneeb Salman, Juliana Mazzucotelli, Laura Mrčela, Alonso Pi Cholula, Céline Roy, Sophie Serrano, Helle Dyrendahl Staven, Tina Thakur   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prescribed-Time Leader-Follower Synchronization of Higher-Order Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems via Fuzzy Neural Adaptive Sliding Control. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Ullah S, Babar MZ, Alghamdi S, Alsafran AS, Kraiem H, Algethami AA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
wiley   +1 more source

Fixed-point topology meets fractal memory: a Kutumba-stabilized framework for nonlocal fractal-fractional dynamics. [PDF]

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Devi RA, Surendar R, Sweatha S, Saeed ST, Almehizia AA, Saleh MA, Merga FE.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source