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All Social Comparisons are Local? Inequality, Coethnicity and Subjective Economic Position

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent studies have found that the self‐perceived, rather than the objective, economic position affects individual political behavior. But how do individuals self‐assess their own position? In this paper, we study how local conditions – local inequality and coethnicity – affect this self‐assessment.
Gerlinde Theunissen, Nils B. Weidmann
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A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
wiley   +1 more source

Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
wiley   +1 more source

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