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The role of alcohol in constructing gender & class identities among young women in the age of social media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Research suggests young women view drinking as a pleasurable aspect of their social lives but that they face challenges in engaging in a traditionally ‘masculine’ behaviour whilst maintaining a desirable ‘femininity’.
Antonia Lyons   +69 more
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
wiley   +1 more source

Imperialism, dependency, and social class [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 45INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this essay is to examine what has become known in the language of post-World War II social science as "dependency theory." Although all variants of this dependency theory are more or
Hansen, William, Schulz, Brigitte
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The Expert Witness in Criminal Cases in France, Germany, and Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1935
This paper addresses the impact of social capital on the status attainment process of young people at the start of their careers and examines how social class, gender and ethnicity affect the accumulation of social capital and thereby labour market ...
Ploscowe, Morris
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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trump Voters and the White Working Class

open access: yesSociological Science, 2018
To evaluate the claim that white working-class voters were a crucial block of support for Trump in the 2016 presidential election, this article offers two sets of results.
Stephen L. Morgan, Jiwon Lee
doaj   +1 more source

A Tale of Two Professions in Elections: Party Choice Among Diaconal and Social Workers

open access: yesDiaconia, 2020
Diaconal and social workers spend their days implementing social policy and exercising discretional power while being regularly exposed to social inequalities.
Johanna Kallio   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
According to Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction, children from middle class families are advantaged in gaining educational credentials due to their possession of cultural capital.
Sullivan, Alice
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Social Classes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The notions of class (varṇa) and caste (jāti) run through the Dharmaśāstra literature on all levels. They regulate marriage, economic transactions, work, punishment, penance, entitlement to rituals, identity markers like the sacred thread, and social interaction in general. Although this social structure was ideal in nature and not equally confirmed in
openaire   +2 more sources

occumb: An R package for site occupancy modeling of eDNA metabarcoding data

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
This study introduces a new R package, occumb, for the convenient application of site occupancy modeling using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding data. We outline a data analysis workflow, including data setup, model fitting, model assessment, and comparison of potential study settings based on model predictions, all of which can be performed using
Keiichi Fukaya, Yuta Hasebe
wiley   +1 more source

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