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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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The ghost of Patrick Geddes:civics as applied sociology [PDF]
, 2005 In 1904 and 1905 Patrick Geddes (1905, 1906) read his famed, but today little-read, two-part paper, 'Civics: as Applied Sociology', to the first meetings of the British Sociological Society. Geddes is often thought of as a 'pioneer of sociology' (Mairet,
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong +2 more
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UA68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 6 – Adolescence [PDF]
, 1971 Table of Contents: Cogswell, Betty E. Communication with Adolescents: A Study of Sex Information Sessions Dickinson, George E. Sex Information Sources of Black & White Adolescents in a Southern Community Huth, Mary Jo. Drug Abuse & American Youth Levin,
WKU Sociology
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Southernizing and decolonizing the Sociology of Language: African scholarship matters [PDF]
, 2021 Stephanie Rudwick, Sinfree Makoni
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The British Journal of Sociology, 2015 AbstractIn this article I consider the impact of social epistemologies for understanding the object of the syringe. My aim is to examine the process through which the syringe transforms from an injecting device to a tool of social and political inquiry.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study reports on a qualitative thematic analysis of secondary data from group session recordings collected as part of the Community Wise Optimization Trial. Community Wise is a multilevel behavioral intervention designed to increase critical consciousness and reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men living in predominantly ...
Richmond E. Hayes +4 more
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Linking the religious and social environment to sexual minority mental health
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In the United States, mental health disparities persist between sexual minorities – people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or other nonheterosexual identifications – and heterosexuals. Although research shows that structural stigma in one's environment may contribute to such disparities, little research has examined religious ...
Nathan R. Todd +4 more
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Energy Transition and its Societal Challenges. Themes, Gaps and Possible Developments in Sociology
Fuori Luogo, 2021 The issue of the energy transition, that can be defined as the transition from the use of fossil fuels (in particular coal) to low-carbon energy resources (such as wind, solar and natural gas), is assuming an increasingly central importance in the ...
Salvatore Monaco
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