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This paper draws on Japanese, British and other material for a comparative analysis of name-calling. Naming the other is a means of identification, helping to establish definitions of self. Definitional power is socially distributed: the power of the mainstream is orchestrated by expert...
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disability (visual disability in this case). The names and the characters are fictitious though the overall inspiration of the … affecting the treatment of individuals with disability in the organization. These factors can be broadly divided into two … issues like due diligent efforts that need to be made to accommodate the individuals with disability, the acceptance of the …
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theoretical consideration of organisational transformation and power and their relationship to the identity of social workers. …
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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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that now comprise Pakistan has very distinctive identity, folklore, history and political interests. However, Pakistanâ … system couldn’t address the issue of ethnic diversity. Baluchistan is now a hub of interests for regional and major powers. …
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The paper studies retirement behavior of wage-earners in Belgium—for the first time using a rich survey dataset to analyze retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (Econom Econ Soc 58(5):1151–1180, <CitationRef CitationID="CR11">1990</CitationRef>)....</citationref>
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This study examined disability trends by marital status among older adults aged 60 and above from 1997 to 2010 in the U ….S. We addressed two questions: (1) Has the relationship between marital status and disability changed over the study period … reporting either ADL or IADL disability than the unmarried groups over the entire study period across all gender and racial …
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disability, especially among foreign-born Hispanics, since their advantaged mortality seemingly should be paired with health …. We calculate multistate life tables of life expectancy with disability to assess whether racial/ethnic and nativity … differences in the length of disability-free life parallel differences in overall life expectancy. Our results document a Hispanic …
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H53; J08; I3 </AbstractSection> Copyright Coe et al.; licensee Springer. 2014
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