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CAPITALISM, FAMILY AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS

open access: yesRedes, 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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Towards a social ontology of market systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

Elements of a Pragmatic Theory of Capitalism

open access: yesСоциология власти
This 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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Economía institucional, corriente principal y heterodoxia [PDF]

open access: yes
This article explores different analytical approaches to institutions in economic theory and history. The first part shows how mainstream economics embraced this theme and the influence this new analytical approach had on the New Economic History.
Óscar Rodríguez Salazar
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The Origin And Development Of Social Geography In Poland, With Special Emphasis On The Centre Of Geographical Studies In Łódź [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Published in: Society and Space in Contemporary Poland in Łódź University Geographical Research, edited by T.MarszałThe formation of social geography in Poland should be considered with reference to internal and external determinants of its development ...
Suliborski, Andrzej, Wójcik, Marcin
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School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

Current methodological questions of studying social-political relations of global society [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik 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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Economies through transparency [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
wiley   +1 more source

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