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Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care ...
Steven Roberts   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Skilled for Whom? Immigration Policy, Racial Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speech Intelligibility in Hearing Aid users with and without Auditory Training

open access: yesJournal Riphah College of Rehabilitation Sciences, 2014
Background: Intelligibility of speech refers to the accuracy with which a normal listener can understand a spoken word or phrase. Speech is often disrupted in congenital hearing loss but with assistive devices and therapeutic approaches some hearing ...
Nuzhat Sultana   +2 more
doaj  

Revisiting Ontology to Reshape Transgenerational Justice

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a philosophical framework for understanding transgenerationality as a foundational concept for intergenerational justice. Drawing on social ontology and the philosophy of action, it introduces the notion of transgenerational civitas—a temporally extended community composed of past, present and future generations.
Tiziana Andina
wiley   +1 more source

Speech Intelligibility in Speakers With Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Speech Lang Hear Res
Duque T   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sustainability Controls as Technologies of Actorhood: Constructing the Responsible Supplier in Global Supply Chains Le contrôle de la durabilité comme technologie d'actorialité : façonner le fournisseur responsable dans les chaînes d'approvisionnement mondiales

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how accounting and control practices constitute and distribute agency and responsibility for sustainability in global supply chains. Drawing on a field study in the fashion industry, we describe the sustainability control practices used by a major buyer firm vis‐à‐vis its suppliers and trace their evolution from a ...
Martin Messner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a Speech Intelligibility Test for Children in Swiss German Dialects. [PDF]

open access: yesAudiol Res
Schmid C   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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