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Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy +2 more
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La notion de bourgeoisie dans l’historiographie de la Turquie contemporaine
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2008 This article presents a case for historiographic discontinuity between the Ottoman and Turkish Republican eras as the principal cause for the failure to develop a sociology of the Turkish bourgeoisie.
David Behar
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Beyond the market-institutions dichotomy: The institutionalism of Douglass C. North in response to Karl Polanyi's challenge [PDF]
On the basis of the "challenge" North [1997 (1977)] identified in the works of Polanyi, we propose to outline the originality of North's institutionalism, especially in comparison with "new institutionalism" in economics as well as in sociology. Far from
Caroline Vincensini, Claude Didry
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Towards a social ontology of market systems [PDF]
, 2009 Academic analyses of market systems are deeply divided. While economists tend to neglect the personal and sociological factors that shape the behaviour of market actors, sociologists tend to discount the possibility of a systematic analysis of the ...
Elder-Vass, Dave
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Fear of failure is damaging in a host of ways yet is rife in many schools. Drawing on self‐worth theory, we explore whether fear of academic failure is higher in education systems with features that increase students' experiences of competition. To do this, we compare two very different education systems: England, where, for instance, national
Carolyn Jackson, Mieke Van Houtte
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Elements of a Pragmatic Theory of Capitalism
Социология властиThis paper offers a review of the recent literature on capitalism in historyand sociology inspired by the Pragmatist perspective. In historical sociology and economic sociology, capitalism has largely been discussed interms of its institutional ...
Dmitrii М. Zhikharevich
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CAPITALISM, FAMILY AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
Redes, 2012 The aim of this paper is to review some approaches to family agriculture and the process of commercialization, as well as seek contemporary theoretical contributions to understand that form of social production with markets. It is a theoretical essay and
Clério Plein, Eduardo Ernesto Filippi
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Economies through transparency [PDF]
The notion of transparency is widely used as an analytical tool and as a guideline to propose and enforce new configurations of economic life. Focusing on several transparency-making devices, this paper tries to explore both the pervasiveness of this ...
Emiliano Grossman +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The latest reform of initial teacher education (ITE) in France, introduced in 2021, aims to make teacher training less theoretical and therefore more ‘practical’. New elements, such as the replacement of the Écoles Supérieures pour le Professorat et l'Éducation (ÉSPÉs) by the Instituts Nationaux Supérieurs du Professorat et de l'Education ...
Eric Maleyrot, Thérèse Perez‐Roux
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Current methodological questions of studying social-political relations of global society [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2010 Identification and critical study of social-political aspects of contemporary society within conditions of globalization must start from the characteristics (essence) of globalization as a process of human kind consolidation.
Marković Danilo Ž.
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