Search Results - subject:"IDENTITY"

Preferences, Identity, and Competition: Predicting Tie Strength from Demographic Data

Reagans, Ray - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 9, pp. 1374-1383

This research examines the combined influence of three causal mechanisms shaping interpersonal dynamics. Sharing a demographic characteristic has been shown to strengthen a relationship between people. The initial explanation for this positive effect emphasized the importance of individual...

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The Neofunctionalists Were (almost) Right: Politicization and European Integration

Hooghe, Lisbet; Marks, Gary - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2005

This paper examines the politicization of European integration. We begin by asking how neofunctionalism and its precursor, functionalism, conceive the politics of regional integration. Then we turn to the evidence of the past two decades and ask how politicization has, in fact, shaped the level,...

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Communication Networks, Hegemony, and Communicative Action

Tully, James - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2005

Communicative action now commonly takes place in electronically mediated global networks and the networks are a powerful form of social ordering. This article analyzes the different forms of power that operate in communicative networks and how these alter communicative action. It suggests that...

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Monetary Incentives in Support of Academic Achievement

Spencer, Margaret Beale; Noll, Elizabeth; Cassidy, Elaine - In: Evaluation Review 29 (2005) 3, pp. 199-222

different reasons depending on studentsâ€™ perception of the meaning of the incentive in relation to their emergent identity. …

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Nationality and the Preferences of the European Public toward EU Policy-Making

Vössing, Konstantin - In: European Union Politics 6 (2005) 4, pp. 445-467

Analyses of covariance for Eurobarometer data from 1990 to 1994 demonstrate a significant effect of individuals' nationalities on their preferences toward the scope and content of European Union policy-making, while controlling for sociodemographic characteristics. The observed national...

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European Integration, Public Opinion and Immigration Policy

Luedtke, Adam - In: European Union Politics 6 (2005) 1, pp. 83-112

This article empirically investigates the effect of national identity on public opinion towards European Union (EU … reluctance. I propose a hypothesis of national identity to explain public opinion, positing that those who identify with their …

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â€˜He earns the bread and butter and I earn the creamâ€™

Charles, Nickie; James, Emma - In: Work, Employment & Society 19 (2005) 3, pp. 481-502

This article explores the relation between job insecurity, male breadwinner ideology and family forms drawing on qualitative, in-depth interviews with women and men working in three organizations in a specific travel-to-work area in South Wales. We argue that a modified form of male breadwinner...

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Constructing an artistic identity

Bain, Alison - In: Work, Employment & Society 19 (2005) 1, pp. 25-46

This article investigates occupational identity construction among contemporary Canadian professional visual artists … to explore how individuals consciously articulate and act upon an occupational identity that they have carefully and … drawing on a repertoire of shared myths and stereotypes to help create an artistic identity and project it to others. …

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Organizing migrant workers

Holgate, Jane - In: Work, Employment & Society 19 (2005) 3, pp. 463-480

The structural position of black and minority ethnic workers (BME) and migrant workers in the UK labour market is relatively well known. Many workers in these groups find themselves in low-paid, low-skilled jobs primarily because of their ethnicity and regardless of their skills. This...

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Promoting Image and Identity in â€˜Cultural Quartersâ€™: the Case of Dundee

Mccarthy, John - In: Local Economy 20 (2005) 3, pp. 280-293

outcomes. Such strategies have been followed particularly by cities with perceived problems in relation to image and identity … policy is embedded within local identity, history and culture. This implies that such quarters may promote homogeneity rather …

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