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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Introduction - Bodies on Trial: Performances and Politics in Medicine and Biology [PDF]
, 2004 This special issue, devoted to the question of the body in medicine and biology, brings together a group of authors whose roots lie within the field of science and technology studies (STS), and at the intersections of STS with medical sociology and ...
Akrich, Madeleine, Berg, Marc
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy +3 more
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Death Under Control: The Portrayal of Death in Mass Print English Language Magazines in Canada [PDF]
, 2005 The purpose of this article is to discuss the portrayal of death in modern North American society in the highest circulating English language magazines available in Canada and published either in the United States or in Canada, in 1991, 1996, and 2001 ...
Clarke, Juanne Nancarrow
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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MedEdPublish, 2016 Based on a review of the literature, this article provides an introduction to the history of sociology teaching in UK undergraduate medical education.
Tracey Collett +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Against the backdrop of rising statutory retirement age in Germany, we analyzed time trends in self-rated health (SRH) among the elderly population between 50 and 70 years of age and explored the mediating role of leisure time physical ...
Stefanie Sperlich +4 more
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From waste product to blood, brains and narratives : developing a pluralist sociology of contributions to health research [PDF]
, 2018 Funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research CentrePeer reviewedPublisher ...
Boylan, Anne-Marie +2 more
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims +2 more
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