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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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Ontological imagination: transcending methodological solipsism and the promise of interdisciplinary studies [PDF]
, 2013 This text is a presentation of the notion of ontological imagination. It constitutes an attempt to merge two traditions: critical sociology and science and technology studies - STS.
Nowak, Andrzej W.
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Integrated Reporting in the Public Sector: Theoretical Foundations and Determinants of Quality
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Integrated reporting (IR) has gained attention as the IFRS Foundation promotes its use through the International Integrated Reporting Council framework (IIRF). Public sector (PS) organizations, as key drivers of economic, social and environmental sustainability, are increasingly adopting IR to enhance transparency and accountability.
Ana Zorio‐Grima, Andreea Hancu‐Budui
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Green Talk, Costly Walk: The Financial Cost of Greenwashing
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined.
S. Taddeo, A. Regoli, O. Weber, R. Carè
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RUDN journal of SociologyThe article presents some thoughts about the reasons for the current extreme concern of the Russian professional sociological community about the model of training proposed by the Federal State Educational Standard of the fourth generation.
I. V Trotsuk
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Adam Smith. Skeptical Newtonianism, Disenchanted Republicanism, and the Birth of Social Science [PDF]
, 1987 Both Adam Smith's epistemology and his politics head to a stalemate. The former is under the opposing pulls of an essentialist ideal of knowledge and of a pragmatist approach to the history of science. The latter still tries to provide a foundation for a
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Sociological Imagination for the Aged Society
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1969 The aim of this article is to explore how the sociological imagination may generate new insights regarding the dangers and possibilities that arise when an old order disintegrates and a new one has to be created. The new order is theorized as the “aged society”.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The socio‐emotional wealth (SEW) perspective suggests that the specific priorities of a family business may make it more or less inclined to engage in sustainable practices. This paper examines how family business heterogeneity regarding family ownership, financial performance, and family board members affects the sustainability commitment of ...
Sonia Sánchez‐Andújar +2 more
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Creativity StudiesA primary assumption made for reflections presented in this article is the possibility of describing social reality using metaphors and their crucial role in creative thinking.
Sławomira Kamińska-Berezowska +1 more
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