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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Male Teachers in Islamic-Ethics Based Sociability Skills Promotion among Learners in Government Primary Schools of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

الإيضاح, 2015
For the citizen of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Islam is the Ideology of Pakistan. Allah Almighty’s orders are supreme for us, who has created human being as the best creature, our ideal is the Holy Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him whose ethico-moral ...
Dr. Mamoon Khan Khattak, Azad Ulla
doaj  

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Post-Weaning Social Isolation and Oxytocin on Adult Anxiety and Sociability in Female Rats

, 2018
Positive social interactions during childhood and adolescence are essential for human neurobehavioral development. All social animals show persistent physiological and behavioral deficits after extended periods of social isolation.
Hassan H. López, Flip Phillips, Ryan Toma, Morgan Lavoie   +3 more
core  

The complexity of neighborhood effects: A developmental and ecological framework for violent victimization

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extensive research has established a link between low self‐control and child victimization. However, the specific neighborhood conditions under which low self‐control most strongly influences victimization have been little examined, and, more importantly, no previous studies have investigated the complex ways in which neighborhood context ...
Myunghee You, Brian J. Stults
wiley   +1 more source

Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
wiley   +1 more source

Oxytocin receptor neurons in the paraventricular thalamus as a nexus for social behaviour and fear. [PDF]

Brain
Yamamuro K, Ikehara M, Noriyama Y, Okuda M, Okumura K, Matsuoka K, Kashida N, Ishida R, Takeda T, Toritsuka M, Ochi T, Miyasaka T, Tai Y, Tatsumi K, Hattori T, Tanaka T, Saito Y, Iwata N, Makinodan M.   +18 more
europepmc   +1 more source

De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source