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A Comparative study of Chinese and American address terms

open access: yes, 2008
In cross-cultural situations, choices of address terms often reflect cultural differences. Although a good number of studies have discussed address terms in mono-linguistic settings, literature directly related to cross-cultural address terms is scarce ...
Hao, Shiqi, Zhang, Shaoan, Zhu, Fan
core   +2 more sources

The social life of money for children

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Two-Stem Anthroponyms in Name List of Texts of 15th-17th Centuries

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2017
The relevance of the study is determined by the rare appeal of onomatologists to studying two-stems anthroponomical units, which in turn is due to their low quantitative representation in the texts of the mass census and act materials of the epochs ...
I. A. Kyurshunova
doaj   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Women In The Web of Secondary Copyright Liability and Internet Filtering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This Essay suggests possible explanations for why there is not very much legal scholarship devoted to gender issues on the Internet; and it asserts that there is a powerful need for Internet legal theorists and activists to pay substantially more ...
Bartow, Ann
core   +1 more source

Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
wiley   +1 more source

Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ЛИНГВОКОГНИТИВНЫЙ подход К ИЗУЧЕНИЮ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЙ ОНОМАСТИКИ

open access: yesStudia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018
The author analyses the part of Tambov Region onomasticon - that is personal nickname-like proper names. Onomasiological types of nicknames, reason for their emergence, their connection to specific social groups and gender have been presented in the ...
АНТОНИНА ЩЕРБАК
doaj  

A Cross-Platform Collection of Social Network Profiles

open access: yes, 2016
The proliferation of Internet-enabled devices and services has led to a shifting balance between digital and analogue aspects of our everyday lives. In the face of this development there is a growing demand for the study of privacy hazards, the potential
Eickhoff, Carsten, Veiga, Maria Han
core   +1 more source

From politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.
Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
wiley   +1 more source

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