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A Cognitive and Social Psychological Perspective on the Demand for Fashion [PDF]
, 2014 The fashion industry is an important global industry. In 2012, in Britain it generated more than £48 billion annually and employs more than 600,000 people. Whether or not we consider ourselves fashionable or interested in fashion, we all clothe ourselves
Mair, Carolyn
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The 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
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Key pedagogic thinkers: Anton Makarenko [PDF]
, 2014 This article gives an introduction to the life and work of the Ukrainian social pedagogue and educational theorist Anton Makarenko. In the early part of the 1920s, he formulated a theory that he further developed while helping orphans under the most ...
Halvorsen, Terje
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva +2 more
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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Making AI Work: A Critical Theory of AI Production
Constellations, EarlyView.
Rosalie Waelen, Jean‐Philippe Deranty
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On the need and contents of a specific addiction recovery research agenda
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background For decades knowledge about the etiology, epidemiology, neurobiology, typology, and treatment of addiction in various populations has been well documented and widely disseminated. In more recent years, there has been a growing interest in investigating the prevalence, multiple pathways, and mechanisms that facilitate sustained ...
William L. White, John F. Kelly
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Preventing lower‐level gambling harms: Shifting from individual‐ to system‐frame approaches
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Gambling‐related harm is not concentrated solely among individuals meeting criteria for problematic or disordered gambling. Tackling harm at a population level is essential to reducing the total burden of harm and preventing escalation to more severe harms.
Robert M. Heirene
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Images of resistance: A photonarrative enquiry into the meanings of personal artwork for people living with cancer [PDF]
, 2008 This study explored the meanings, inspirations and subjective significance of personal artwork created as a leisure activity by women living with cancer.
Lim, KH, Prior, S, Reynolds, F
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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