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Geography of Scientific Knowledge: A Proximity Approach [PDF]
The geography of scientific knowledge is defined as the replication process of locally produced knowledge claims. Proximity in social, cognitive, and physical dimensions promotes the sharing of tacit knowledge.
Koen Frenken
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
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Le consentement fatal : pouvoir et domination aujourd’hui
Sociologies, 2013 This paper is about actual social crisis. From its very beginning, sociology has two main topics. First, sociology is an effort to understand how society works, and to describe structures of power and domination. Second, sociology uses this understanding
Jan Spurk
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Music as Evil: Deviance and Metaculture in Classical Music
Music and Arts in Action, 2009 This paper aims to apply the sociology of deviance and the concept of metaculture to the sociology of high-art and music. Examples of classical music criticisms over time are presented and discussed.
Nathan Pino
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Ray Pahl's Sociological Career: Fifty Years of Impact [PDF]
The history of a discipline records the careers of its practitioners as well as providing an account their ideas. Studying these careers reveals much about the particular people and their work, and also provides insights into general questions such as ...
Graham Crow, Naoko Takeda
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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The Sociology Of Management: Issues of the Area Of Study Designation
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2009 The paper examines the issues of the area of study designation of the sociology of management which can be seen as a set of social relations. The factors which stimulated the emergence of the sociology of management, its major developmental trends as ...
M A Osipova
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