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The Dynamics‐of‐Value‐in‐Consumption of Recycled Textile Materials

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate how the perceived value of recycled textile materials evolves across the consumption cycle, a key issue for recycling‐based strategies seeking to close the loop in the fashion industry. We employ a qualitative design combining an exploratory study and a longitudinal study with three interview waves, in which participants ...
Edith de Lamballerie, Valérie Guillard
wiley   +1 more source

Future Directions Toward Sustainable and Equitable STEM Faculty Pathways

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article synthesizes the major themes explored throughout the special issue, highlighting the transformative power of regional collaborations, place‐based innovation, systemic change through collective tools, and reciprocal partnerships in advancing equitable and sustainable STEM faculty pathways.
Lorenzo Baber, Karla Velasco, Jeongsan Hwang, Gianina Baker   +3 more
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Governance Drivers of Fossil Fuel Divestment: Evidence From Global Banks

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses increasing transition risks for the banking sector, as financial institutions remain exposed to fossil fuel activities despite growing sustainability commitments. This study examines whether corporate governance influences banks' decisions to adopt fossil fuel divestment policies.
Rosella Carè, Massimiliano Cerciello, Nathalie Lévy, Simone Taddeo   +3 more
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The new Federal State Educational Standard and sociological imagination: A few words about poor sociological (and not demoscopic) education

RUDN journal of Sociology
The 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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Marine Tourism and Social Responsibility of Destinations: An Analysis for the Formulation of Public Policies

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the commitment of marine tourism companies to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the factors that affect it (economics, pressures from interest groups, barriers, innovative capacity, relationships of the company with its environment and characteristics of the businesses).
Olga González‐Morales, Agustín Santana‐Talavera, Francisco J. Calero García   +2 more
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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”.
openaire   +3 more sources

Metaphors in the analysis of the Polish socio-economic transformation in the 1990s: problems of sociological imagination and creativity

Creativity Studies
A 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, Tomasz Słupik   +1 more
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Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: A collaborative response

Big Data & Society, 2014
In this paper, we reflect on the disciplinary contours of contemporary sociology, and social science more generally, in the age of ‘big and broad’ social data.
William Housley, Rob Procter, Adam Edwards, Peter Burnap, Matthew Williams, Luke Sloan, Omer Rana, Jeffrey Morgan, Alex Voss, Anita Greenhill   +9 more
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally, Carmel O. Sullivan, Karin Bacon   +2 more
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
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