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Creating Low-carbon Communities: Evaluating the Role of Individual Agency and Systemic Inequality in San Jose, CA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Following a scholarly need to test compelling community level sociodemographic representations of environmental behaviors and outcomes, a sequential mixed method approach was used to evaluate the connections of human agency and systemic inequalities with
Ronald, Erin Jessica
core   +2 more sources

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decomposing the causes of socioeconomic-related health inequality among urban and rural populations in China: a new decomposition approach

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2017
Background In recent decades, China has experienced tremendous economic growth and also witnessed growing socioeconomic-related health inequality. The study aims to explore the potential causes of socioeconomic-related health inequality in urban and ...
Jiaoli Cai   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effects of Working for Pay during the School Year on Academic Achievement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Are college students who hold paying jobs systematically disadvantaged in terms of academic achievement? This study draws on a sample of 340 undergraduate students at a large public university to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status and ...
Keene, Mackenzie
core   +1 more source

From socialist equality to capitalist startification: how people see it [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The transition from socialism to capitalism has led to diverging socioeconomic outcomes for the Post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Haller, Max, Riedl, Felix
core   +1 more source

Socioeconomic inequalities in survival in neonates

open access: yesBMJ, 2009
Access to good intensive care blunts the effects of deprivation In the linked prospective cohort study (doi:10.1136/bmj.b4702), Smith and colleagues assessed socioeconomic inequalities in survival and neonatal care provision among very preterm infants.1 A cohort of 7449 infants born during a 10 year period (1998-2007) at between 22+0 and 32+6 weeks ...
Gray, R, McCormick, M
openaire   +1 more source

Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

The role of zooarchaeology in the interpretation of socioeconomic status: a discussion with reference to Medieval Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Social inequality is ubiquitous in human society, and the concept of social standing has been of fundamental importance throughout time (Price and Feinman 1995).
Ashby, S.P.
core  

Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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