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Family Background, Private Tutoring, and Children's Educational Performance in Contemporary China. [PDF]

Chin Sociol Rev, 2016
Zhang Y, Xie Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Do students in UK Higher Education Institutions need personal tutors? [PDF]

, 2011
This paper critically analyses the role of Personal Tutoring (PT) as a mechanism for providing student support in Higher Education (HE) in the UK. The discussions presented will draw on the experiences of PT at City University, London (City), as well as ...
Lindsay, S.
core  

What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
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The Roles of Subjective Task Values, Private Tutoring, and Emotions in Predicting Primary School Students’ English Achievement

SAGE Open
Learners’ English proficiency can be shaped by social environments, motivational factors, and emotions. According to situated expectancy-value theory, students’ expectations of success and subjective task values (STVs) influence academic performance ...
Mu-Hsuan Chou
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
wiley   +1 more source

Sailing Through Setbacks—What Makes Personal Financial Resilience?

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate financial adaptation by young adults (18 to 40 years old) during a recent cost‐of‐living crisis in a developed economy. Interview, financial, demographic and psychographic data are brought together to shed new light on personal financial resilience, or the capacity to adapt to financial shocks.
Syed Shah, Elizabeth Sheedy, Robert E. Wood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The correlation between sanction adjustments and drunk‐driving violations and related outcomes in Taiwan: A nationwide interrupted time series analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Drunk‐driving accounts for a significant portion of traffic crashes in Taiwan. From 2008 to 2013, both the Taiwan Legislative Yuan and the federal administrative agencies collaborated to increase drunk‐driving penalties.
Ling‐Wei Kuo, Chien‐An Liao, Chi‐Tung Cheng, Chien‐Hung Liao, Chih‐Po Hsu, Chih‐Yuan Fu, Shih‐Ching Kang, Brett Olin, Chun‐Shiang Yang, Jen‐Fu Huang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan, Xu Xu, Yiqing Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source