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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the morality of violence against robots. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Archer J, Wilks M, Sommer K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Being religious - A Question of Incentives? [PDF]

Studies of the relationship between religion and economics can be divided into three major lines of research: behavioural economics of religion (microeconomic approach), macroeconomic consequences of religion and religious explanations of economic ...
Anja Klaubert
core  

Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Social Support and Ostracism Among College Students: The Mediating Role of Social Connectedness and the Moderating Role of Flourishing. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Liu D, Wang Z, Wang Y, Yu W, Wang H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics [PDF]

Douglass North (1990) describes institutions as the rules of the game that set limits on human behavior, now a universally-accepted definition. North and others especially underline the crucial role of informal social norms.
Keefer, Philip, Knack, Stephen
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Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
wiley   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Feeling left out in the Lunchroom: Neural mechanisms of ostracism vary across adolescence. [PDF]

Dev Cogn Neurosci
Nelson CM, Revilla R, Friedman NR, Xia M, Hudac CM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source