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Local Festivals - the Visible and Invisible Benefits for Local Communities: an Empirical View

open access: yesПроблеми на постмодерността, 2022
The article presents the results of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions held in Sadovo, Elin Pelin, Gabrovo, Bolyartsi, Novi Han and Pozharevo within a project “Local festivals: A resource of local communities for coping with crises”, funded
Kamelia Petkova
doaj  

The Social Stratification of Environmental and Genetic Influences on Education: New Evidence Using a Register-Based Twin Sample

open access: yesSociological Science, 2019
The relative importance of genes and shared environmental influences on stratification outcomes has recently received much attention in the literature. We focus on education and the gene-environmental interplay.
T. Baier, V. Lang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The social stratification of time use patterns.

open access: yesBritish Journal of Sociology, 2020
Time use is both a cause of social inequality and a consequence of social inequality. However, how social class stratifies time use patterns is seldom studied.
G. Vagni
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Les mobilités nocturnes et leurs évolutions (1981-2018) : des pratiques qui restent rares et socialement situées

open access: yesTemporalités, 2023
Since the 1980s, mobility, especially at night, has undergone major social changes, which, according to various observers, are tending towards a “colonization” of the night. The analysis of daily nocturnal mobility presented here allows us to discuss the
Yoann Demoli
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Welfare states and social inequality: Key issues in contemporary cross-national research on social stratification and mobility. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Research on welfare states and research on social stratification and mobility share a common concern for social inequality. Research on welfare states is usually comparatively designed, looking for similarities and variation across countries in a number ...
Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth
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Economic opportunity: A determinant of health? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The economic circumstances into which an individual is born have been repeatedly shown to fundamentally shape health throughout their life. By contrast, surprisingly little research has been done into the inequality in an individual's opportunity to move
Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal
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The Impact of Population Ageing and Social Stratification: The Case of Latvia

open access: yesInternational journal of economics and business administration, 2019
Population ageing and social stratification is widely assumed to have detrimental effects on the economy yet there is little empirical evidence about the magnitude of its effects.
Ramona Rupeika-Apoga   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Estates, Occupation, and HISCO: A New Study of Odesa in 1897

open access: yesEast/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2022
Odesa was one of the largest and most important cities in the Russian Empire. Numerous studies have addressed the economic development and social structure of Odesa, but there are some gaps in the knowledge of the social stratification during the ...
Tymofii Brik
doaj   +1 more source

Sect and House in Syria: History, Architecture, and Bayt Amongst the Druze in Jaramana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper explores the connections between the architecture and materiality of houses and the social idiom of bayt (house, family). The ethnographic exploration is located in the Druze village of Jaramana, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
A. Maria A. Kastrinou   +41 more
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Stratification Economics and Identity Economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Stratification economics represents an important new approach devoted to explaining economic inequality in terms of how social groups are separated or stratified along economic lines.
Davis, John B.
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