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Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Implementation and Challenges of Jail Services in District Jails in Western Visayas, Philippines

Philippine Social Science Journal
Utilizing a quantitative descriptive-comparative design with 153 Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) in Antique, Philippines, this study assessed the implementation of essential jail services during the 2023–2024 fiscal year.
Ermee Joy F. Painaga, Jasmin L. Parreño   +1 more
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Spartan Daily, March 7, 1950 [PDF]

, 1950
Volume 38, Issue 95https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/11361/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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How kin help with parental investments

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Aliya Hamid Rao
wiley   +1 more source

Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Allison J. Pugh
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Criminal punishment and early release programs [PDF]

Sociološki Pregled, 2018
The punishment of criminals is a long-debated topic in penology, criminology, and sociology of law. But it has an underdeveloped history in philosophy generally, and in philosophy of law in particular.
Corlett Angelo J.
doaj  

Assimilating Remote Sensing Phenological Information into the WOFOST Model for Rice Growth Simulation

Remote Sensing, 2019
Precise simulation of crop growth is crucial to yield estimation, agricultural field management, and climate change. Although assimilation of crop model and remote sensing data has been applied in crop growth simulation, few studies have considered ...
Gaoxiang Zhou, Xiangnan Liu, Ming Liu
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