The social patterning of values and rationalities: mothers' choices in combining caring and employment [PDF]
, 2004 The assumption of individualised rationality runs through the two dominant theorisations of family behaviour – new household economics and individualisation.
Duncan, S., Irwin, S.
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The cost of domestic violence: Up-date 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 This report up-dates4the costs of domestic violence first published in The Cost of Domestic Violencein 2004 by the Women and Equality Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry.
Walby, S.
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Fat-tailed fluctuations in the size of organizations: the role of social influence
, 2014 Organizational growth processes have consistently been shown to exhibit a fatter-than-Gaussian growth-rate distribution in a variety of settings. Long periods of relatively small changes are interrupted by sudden changes in all size scales.
Holme, Petter +2 more
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‘At Least I Can Do Something’: The Work of Volunteering in a Community Beset by Worklessness [PDF]
, 2008 The voluntary sector has been mainstreamed into public policy with consequences that include more reliance upon the time, commitment and skills of volunteers.
Baines, Susan, Hardill, Irene
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Migration to the US among rural Puerto Ricans who inject drugs: influential factors, sources of support, and challenges for harm reduction interventions [PDF]
, 2019 Background: While PWID of Puerto Rican origin have been migrating to the US for decades, the range of factors influencing their migration to the US and the resources they draw on to do so are not well understood.
Abadie, Roberto +3 more
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Karo Kari : the murder of honour in Sindh Pakistan : an ethnographic study [PDF]
, 2013 This paper aims to discuss the wider context, in which honour murders occur, the social structures which contribute to the occurrence and perpetuation of the practice of honour murders. An ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in Jacobabad Sindh, Pakistan.
Bhanbhro, Sadiq +4 more
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Negotiating hegemonic masculinity: imaginary positions and psycho-discursive practices [PDF]
, 1999 In this paper we provide a critical analysis of the concept of hegemonic masculinity. We argue that although this concept embodies important theoretical insights, it is insufficiently developed as it stands to enable us to understand how men position ...
Edley, N, Wetherell, M
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Governance of the London 2012 Olympic Games legacy [PDF]
, 2011 © The Author(s) 2011. This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.This study addresses the governance of the London 2012 Olympics legacy.
Girginov, V
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Perceptions of time in relation to climate change [PDF]
, 2014 Time is at the heart of understanding climate change, from the perspective of both natural and social scientists. This article selectively reviews research on time perception and temporal aspects of decision making in sociology and psychology.
Boomsma, C +3 more
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Embracing the political in technology and transition studies: a response to Philip Vergragt and Bram Bos [PDF]
, 2013 This article is a short reaction to the comments of Vergragt (Found Sci, 2012) and Bos (Found Sci, 2012) on my article “Sustainability transition and the nature of technology” (Paredis in Found Sci 16(2–3):195–225, Paredis 2011).
Paredis, Erik
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