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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Comparative Migration StudiesThis study focuses on the impact of three attributes of migrants – their reasons for migration, religion, and level of religiosity – on public support for allowing migrants to come and live in Israel. We rely on a factorial survey that was conducted in a
Rebeca Raijman +3 more
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Treated as ‘niggers’ in our own country: lived experiences of Rastafarians in the Democratic Malawi [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 The focus of this paper is on the lived experiences of Rastafarians in post-1994 Malawi. The one significant change brought about by the elections of 1994 was the amendment of the constitution which had long ignored issues pertaining to human rights ...
Steward Maganga, Luvuyo Ntombana
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aboriginal staff play a vital part in improving culturally safe and effective services and supports for Aboriginal people. Research on the Aboriginal workforce helps advance a culturally safe environment for workers and Aboriginal people accessing health and community services. This study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to workforce
F. Talbot +10 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Sustainable consumption of household cooking practices: the mediating role of social trust
The Journal of Chinese SociologyHousehold energy consumption is gradually accounting for a significant proportion of overall energy consumption; thus, promoting households’ implementation of sustainable energy consumption behaviors at the household level becomes increasingly important.
Yujiao Zhou, Lu Li, Xinyue Chen
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Some Remarks on the Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (Volume II)
Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2010 DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v3i0.2788 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.3 2009 197 ...
Ram B Chhetri
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“A lot of it is about feel”: The promise of sensory ethnography for anatomical education research
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Ethnographers have constructed rich accounts of cultural settings since the early nineteenth century. A new approach, sensory ethnography, holds great promise for Health Professions Education scholars in its incorporation of the senses, particularly regarding anatomical teaching and learning. In this article, we describe sensory ethnography as
Paula Cameron, Olga Kits, Anna MacLeod
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Political Sociology and Anthropology in Education
New Proposals, 2008 Political Sociology is the study of power in a social setting. Political sociology explores the everyday experiences of people and the shaping of their economic position in a particular society, and the world economy that molds most political issues ...
Michael Joseph Francisconi
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million +3 more
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