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Factors Affecting the Ideals of Childbearing among Young People within Iranian Ethnic Groups [PDF]

جامعه شناسی کاربردی
Introduction Ethnicity significantly influences childbearing behavior and is a key focus in fertility studies within multiethnic societies. Given Iran's diverse ethnic composition, it is crucial to explore the relationship between ethnicity and fertility.
Zahra Ghorbani, Mohamad Aghasi
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The Natural History of Poland [PDF]

, 2015
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Wiluś, Robert
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Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform [PDF]

, 2015
The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966 ...
Hobson-West, Pru, Timmons, Stephen
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Polish Folklore [PDF]

, 2015
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Violetta
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Modernization Processes and the Tendency toward Non-Marital Relationships among Citizens of Gilan Province [PDF]

مسائل اجتماعی ایران
The decline in marriage rates is one of the significant transformations in Iranian society in recent years. This research aims to examine the tendency toward non-marital relationships among citizens of Gilan Province based on modernization processes. For
Mohammad Amin Kanani, Mehdi Hamidifar
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Using \u27The Autobiography of Malcolm X\u27 to Teach Introductory Sociology

, 2008
In this chapter, we make the case for using The Autobiography of Malcolm X to teach introductory sociology classes. While The Autobiography of Malcolm X is an autobiography and not a novel, we summarize the literature on using novels in sociology and ...
Hallett, Tim, Harger, Brent D.
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Architecture of Poland as the Heritage of the Past in the Present. Castles, palaces and mansions, historic cities [PDF]

, 2015
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Kaczmarek, Sylwia
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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