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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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Historical and Comparative Sociology in a Globalizing World
Historická sociologie, 2017 Historical and comparative sociology or the so-called New Historical Sociology – resuming the older classical tradition of pre-WWII historical sociology – represents a specific theoretical and analytical perspective within sociology in cooperation with ...
Wilfried Spohn
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Scientific Discovery in Deep Social Space: Sociology without Borders
, 2008 Globalization affords an excellent opportunity to develop a genuinely universal, scientific sociology. In recent decades, the politicization of the discipline has undermined the central mission of sociology: scientific discovery and explanation.
Michalski, Joseph
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ADS605 : Urban sociology / Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies [PDF]
, 2023 This course examines contemporary theories of urban sociology and issues of urban societies in advanced and developing nations. Students should understand issues and problems of metropolitan in Malaysia.
UiTM, Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies
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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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The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2021 Modern sciences were introduced to Japan from Western countries during the Meiji period. In other words, this was the process of translating Western academic languages into Japanese academic languages.
Yoshiyuki Yama
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Nature, 1979 Science and the Sociology of Knowledge. Controversies of Sociology. Vol 8. By M. Mulkay. Pp. 132. (George Allen & Unwin: London, 1979.) £7.50; paperback £3.50.
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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Is Fashion Universal? Towards a Sociology of Proto-Fashion [PDF]
, 2021 There is today a widely held view that prior attempts to define fashion, to locate its historical origins, and to discern its presence in different societies around the world, have been marred by limited Eurocentric visions.
Ho, Hang Kei +2 more
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