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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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, 2010 This compact 2010 volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting short ...
Jennifer Platt (463550)
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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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Litteratursociologin och samhället
Tidskrift för LitteraturvetenskapThe present study explores the relationships between sociology of literature and society through a meta-perspective influenced by the idiom of co-production hailing from the field Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Julia Pennlert, Erik Joelsson
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Against and beyond - for sociology : a study on the self-understanding of sociologists in England [PDF]
This thesis is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the self-understanding of thirty sociologists in England and their relationship with the discipline.
Simbuerger, Elisabeth
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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 ...
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Uncertainty, Conventional Behavior, and Economic Sociology [PDF]
This paper addresses the problem of the conceptualization of social structure and its relationship to human agency in economic sociology. The background is provided by John Maynard Keynes's observations on the effects of uncertainty and conventional ...
Paul Lewis, Jörg Bibow, Jochen Runde
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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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The Gift of Life : The Sociology of Religion in Talcott Parsons’ Late Work
, 2001 In the last decade of his life, Talcott Parsons devoted a large part of his scholarly attention to the sociology of religion and to the history and symbolism of Christianity.
Joas, Hans,
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