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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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RUDN journal of SociologyToday professional identity of the sociologist develops under digital transformation of the higher education, which increases demands on interdisciplinary competencies, and in the changing professional environment.
N. V. Prokazina
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The Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases for Shift Workers in the Prospective Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Shift work can disrupt circadian rhythms and is postulated to play a role in cardiovascular diseases (CVD). In the German prospective population‐based Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study, we analyzed longitudinal associations between shift work and night‐shift work with CVD.
Katharina Wichert +7 more
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Professional holiday as an occasion for reflection
Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2013 The article presents the main stages of Russian sociology development in the second half of the XIXth — the XXth centuries. The author discusses the key problems faced by Russian sociological science today, and analyses the prospects of its future ...
Mikhail K. Gorshkov
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Sociological education as a field for developing divergent thinking
RUDN journal of SociologyThe article considers the relationship between divergent thinking as a socially significant competency and the specifics of sociological education which serves as an institutional environment for developing such thinking.
A. K. Mamedov
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Sociology of public relations in the context of sociological education
RUDN journal of SociologySociological research in public relations has become an increasingly important priority. In recent years, several studies were conducted in Russia on the use of sociological methods by public relations professionals.
F. I. Sharkov +2 more
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