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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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Frédéric Cuvier, a pioneer of comparative psychology in the golden age of French zoology. [PDF]
Burkhardt RW.
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Erving Goffman cuts a divisive figure in disability studies. Some criticize his conception of “stigma” as deviance‐focused and as ignoring structural forces that shape personal encounters. Others praise his recognition of stigma as an interactional phenomenon.
Gareth M. Thomas
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Beyond the symptoms: Helping without Medicalizing. [PDF]
Gidlöf S.
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Abstract This qualitative study explores how secondary content‐area teachers of emergent bilingual (EB) students navigate tensions between linguistically responsive professional development (PD) and the implementation of state‐mandated College and Career Readiness (CCR) curricula in south Texas.
Caryn Calisi +8 more
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Hold it to be "safe": Anticoagulant and antiplatelet management before lumbar radiofrequency neurotomy. [PDF]
Hao D, Karri J.
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Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
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'From lab to lifesaving': the evolution of a public health campaign to reduce drownings. [PDF]
Tipton M +5 more
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