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Social capital across Europe - findings, trends and methodological shortcomings of cross-national surveys [PDF]

Two sets of issues are elaborated and reflected on. The first one concerns the distribution of stocks of social capital across European (EU) nations. Using the conventional proxies like trust and associational involvement on the basis of data of cross ...
Adam, Frane
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Globalisation and union opposition to technological change [PDF]

We find that trade unions have a rational incentive to oppose the adaption of labour-saving technology when labour demand is inelastic and unions care much for employment relative to wages.
Lommerud, Kjell Erik, Meland, Frode, Straume, Odd Rune   +2 more
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"If I'm not worried, I'm nervous, does that make sense?" The use of emotion concepts by athletes in accounts of performance [PDF]

Traditionally research into emotions in sport has focused on the impact of specific emotions upon performance, most notably anxiety. This paper approaches emotion from the perspective of discursive psychology, drawing on the methods of discourse analysis
Locke, Abigail
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National business systems and the international transfer of industrial models in multinational corporations: Some remarks on heterogeneity [PDF]

Using the case of German foreign direct investments (FDI) in Hungary, this paper is dealing with the international transfer of industrial models in multinational corporations (MNCs).
Dörrenbächer, Christoph
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Review: Jo Reichertz (2003). Die Abduktion in der qualitativen Sozialforschung [Abduction in Qualitative Social Research]

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2005
Jo REICHERTZ' study, "Abduction in Qualitative Social Research," delivers a detailed insight into the phenomenon of "abduction," by which he exceeds the introductory nature of this on-going series of publications.
Heiko Grunenberg
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»Alles, was ich jetzt noch kriege, ist ein Geschenk.« Die Hinwendung zum Leben durch die Konfrontation mit dem Tod

Hermeneutische Blätter, 2016
Sandra Adami
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Review: Heiko Holweg (2004). Methodologie der qualitativen Sozialforschung: Eine Kritik [Methodology of Qualitative Social Research: A Critique]

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2008
The author contributes to the debate on the value of qualitative and quantitative social research methods. Taking sides with the latter and arguing for a critical rationalist approach, he points out the existence of deductively derived laws and causal ...
Matthias Catón, Henrik Schober
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Labor market policy evaluation with an agent-based model [PDF]

I develop an agent-based computational economics (ACE) model with which I evaluate the aggregate impact of labor market policies. The findings are that governmentfinanced training measures increase the outflow rate from unemployment to employment ...
Neugart, Michael
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Qualitative Methodenlehre in Zeiten der Modularisierung. Einführung eines anwendungsorientierten Lehrkonzeptes für die Sozialwissenschaften

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2012
Welchen Einfluss hat der sich aktuell vollziehende Prozess der Vereinheitlichung akademischer Ausbildungsgänge im europäischen Raum ("Bologna-Prozess") auf die qualitative Methodenlehre in modularisierten Studiengängen?
Nicole Bögelein, Kathia Esperanza Serrano-Velarde   +1 more
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Uncharted territory - environment and population beyond six billion [PDF]

When historians in the far distant future look back upon the tumultuous twentieth century, they will likely judge the most outstanding feature to be the extraordinary increase in human numbers that has occurred during this relatively short time period ...
Benedick, Richard Elliot
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