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Food banks in schools in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The End of the Century, Apocalypse, Pessimism and Uncertainty: Thoughts on the Discipline and Profession of Sociology

open access: yesIztapalapa, 1999
The great transformations of society and the crumbling of theoretical hegemonies are forcing different disciplines to review their structure, their meaning as a discipline, the goals of their studies, the different paradigms converging in each of them ...
Miriam Calvillo
doaj  

The Impact of Network Flows on Community Formation in Models of Opinion Dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We study dynamics of opinion formation in a network of coupled agents. As the network evolves to a steady state, opinions of agents within the same community converge faster than those of other agents.
Ghosh, Rumi, Lerman, Kristina
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Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

Sociologia do direito made in Portugal: o contributo do CES no panorama nacional

open access: yese-cadernos ces, 2018
At the beginning of the 21st century, we can observe the consolidation of the institutionalization and the beginning of the internationalization of the Portuguese sociology of law, in which the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra
Patrícia Branco   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source

On Taboos of Thematizing and the Impossibility of Doing a Sociology of Sociology

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2003
The paper deals with the question whether it is possible or not to analyze sociology as a social system with its own instruments, that is, the instruments of sociological analysis.
Günter Burkart
doaj  

Peut-on parler d’une sociologie implicite du roman ?

open access: yesRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2015
Since the 1990s in France, the idea of an “implicit sociology” of the novel has become progressively apparent in the social sciences which can consider this literary form as a tool for reflection.
David Ledent
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnicity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
As developed in the fields of anthropology and sociology, the concept of ethnicity offers one possible approach to analyzing diversity in the population of ancient Egypt.
Baines, John, Riggs, Christina
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The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The study used descriptive and multivariate statistics analytical methods to explore relationships between the highest level of education expected by 15‐year‐old Romanian students and factors associated with student background (personal and academic), school characteristics and selected beliefs and social–emotional skills.
Camelia Truța   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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