This text undertakes a systematic sociological analysis of contemporary educational policy and practice. In doing so it charts the substantial and significant changes that education systems have undergone over recent...
For this purpose, a so-called System of Economic and Social Accounting Matrices and Extensions (SESAME) is designed and applied in this book, following its announcement in the 1993 System of National Accounts, the guidelines of the United ...
This work strengthened some of our ideas about the value of even minimal possibilities around personal narrative, as Bhabha's (2010) formulation of the 'right to narrate' suggests.
Harold Nicholson observed in his diary on August 8 , 1936 , that the conflict emphasized " the division of Europe between left and right ” ( Nicholson 1966 : 270 ) . From his study of British opinion toward the Spanish Civil War , K. W. ...
What accounts for the gender gap in earnings? A major reason is sex segregationsex segregationIn the workplace, the concentration of women into a relatively few lowpaying clerical and service jobs. in the workplace, which accounts for ...
Taken together , the forces would be treated as a set of factors or variables that would be adequate in appropriate combinations to account for given social changes under industrialization . Thus , to imagine a single illustration ...
Stories matter greatly for social life because of three distinctive characteristics. First, they rework and simplify social processes so that the processes become available for the telling; X did Y to Z conveys a memorable image of what ...
On the account I am offering here, such a state of inner confusion cannot be judged adaptive or liberating. ... Finally, these reflections have important implications for how we think about the impact of social and cultural change.
By showing how these stories are a powerful vehicle for producing, regulating, and diffusing shared meaning, the contributors explore movement stories, their functions, and the conditions under which they are created and performed.
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