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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
wiley   +1 more source

Newsworthiness and the Public’s Response in Russian Social Media: A Comparison of State and Private News Organizations

Media and Communication, 2019
Social media have become one of the most important news delivery channels due to their interactivity and large audiences. The content published by news organizations on social networking sites is of particular value to sociologists, because it allows ...
Darja Judina, Konstantin Platonov
doaj   +1 more source

Mutual benefit, added value? Doing research in the National Health Service [PDF]

, 2011
The National Health Service (NHS) has recently been the focus of government efforts to retain pharmaceutical research in the UK. Efforts to foster new partnerships between health care providers and industry have been framed with suggestions that clinical
Will, Catherine M
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Imagining sufficiency through collective changes as satisfiers

Buildings & Cities
How can people imagine ways of achieving desirable energy futures in cities, oriented towards sufficiency? Building on the notion of sufficiency understood as avoiding demand while meeting human needs, this paper discusses the results of seven ...
Orlane Moynat, Marlyne Sahakian
doaj   +1 more source

Critique [of Implications for Survival: Coping Strategies of the Women in Alice Walker\u27s Novels by Robbie Jean Walker] [PDF]

, 1987
Intersecting the tools of psychological and sociological research which attempt to explain real human behavior with the tools of the novelist which attempt to portray a fictional accounting of human behavior, Walker presents an analytical model for ...
Scott, Otis L.
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Understanding Ordinary Women: Advertising, Consumer Research and Mass Consumption in Britain, 1948-67 [PDF]

, 2009
This paper reflects on the ways market research in Britain helped produce understandings of and information about the ?mass housewife? in the 1950s and 60s.
Nixon, S
core   +1 more source

Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
wiley   +1 more source

Departments and treatment groups at penitentiary facilities in Serbia and evaluation of prison life quality [PDF]

Pravni Zapisi
The paper addresses the issues pertinent to the relationship between the prison social climate and departments as well as treatment groups at penitentiary facilities (MQPL survey). The focal objective of this paper is to investigate potential differences
Ilijić Ljeposava, Stevanović Ivana, Vujičić Nikola   +2 more
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Exploring Trends and Challenges in Sociological Research

, 2012
This is the first e-special issue for the journal Sociology and its chosen focus is the article ‘The coming crisis of empirical sociology’ by Savage and Burrows (2007).
L. McKie, L. Ryan
semanticscholar   +1 more source