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More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the current Danish reform of master's programmes as a case of contested marketization in higher education. While the reform aims to produce “labour‐market‐relevant” graduates by shortening degrees, introducing corporate programmes, and reducing enrolment, it reveals a fundamental tension between two competing economic ...
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup +1 more
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Pravo, 2013 This study analyzes both general and specific purpose of sentences as well as the types of sentences and the procedure of their imposition. The penalty system, defined by criminal legislation acts, is based on a relevant knowledge of criminal law ...
Miloš Marković, Rade Bogojević
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The role of open data in digital society: The analysis of scientific trending topics through a bibliometric approach. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Catone MC.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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The new penology in New Zealand : the Crimes Amendment Act 1910
, 1975 This thesis is an examination of an Act - the Crimes Amendment Act 1910 - hitherto relatively unexplored by commentators on the New Zealand penal system. The Act was an embodiment in statutory form of the principles of the 'new penology' - a contemporary
Hall, Geoffrey Graham
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The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to reconsider their critique to structural‐functionalist theory of stratification, and its neo‐classical economic allies, that emphasise efficient ...
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
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Criminology, penology and police science abstracts.
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Criminologica foundation Leiden
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The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy of Corrections and Its Implications [PDF]
, 2019 The new penology argues that an important new language of penology is emerging. This new language, which has its counterparts in other areas of the law as well, shifts focus away from the traditional concerns of the criminal law and criminology, which ...
Feeley, Malcolm M., Simon, Jonathan
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