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Is Health Politics Different? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The aging of the global population, combined with changes in technology and cultural understandings of disease and the body, have thrust discussion and contestation over health into the center of local, national, and global politics.
Carpenter, Daniel Paul
core   +1 more source

The History and Sociology of Computer Science and Technology II (part 3)

open access: yes, 2022
Primary sources (course materials), topics (Hong Kong, Shenzhen...)
openaire   +1 more source

To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Economic development, technological innovation, and policy change are especially prominent factors shaping energy transitions. Therefore explaining energy transitions requires combining insights from disciplines investigating these factors.
Brutschin, Elina   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Employability Programmes in higher education: Supporting students through tangible, transitional and transformational approaches

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia.
Michael Maher   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Determinants of Women in the IT Workforce: A Model of Girls’ Career Choices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Purpose – To develop a testable model for girls’ career choices in technology fields based on past research and hypotheses about the future of the information technology (IT) workforce.
Adya, Monica, Kaiser, Kate
core   +1 more source

The Formation Mechanism of Ethical Dilemmas of Privacy Protection in the Era of Big Data and Its Governance

open access: yesJournal of Sociology and Ethnology
: Human society has quietly entered the era of big data. While big data technology has brought positive changes to society in many aspects, its brutal growth and extensive use have also brought a series of ethical dilemmas to people's privacy protection.
Yineng Xiao
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Litteratursociologin och samhället

open access: yesTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap
The present study explores the relationships between sociology of literature and society through a meta-perspective influenced by the idiom of co-production hailing from the field Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Julia Pennlert, Erik Joelsson
doaj   +1 more source

Fourteen Reasons Privacy Matters: A Multidiscipinary Review of Scholarly Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Librarians have long recognized the importance of privacy to intellectual freedom. As digital technology and its applications advance, however, efforts to protect privacy may become increasingly difficult.
Magi, Trina J.
core   +1 more source

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