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Adulthood: the Contemporary Redefinition of a Social Category

Blatterer, Harry - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 4, pp. 3-3

Social trends such as delayed or forfeited family formation, postponed home leaving and allegedly infantilising leisure practices are often marshalled in support of a long standing social scientific as well as popular assumption: successive generations take longer to reach adulthood. This...

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Gautam Chattopadhyay (1924-2006): Street-fighting Historian

Chattopadhyay, Kunal - eSocialSciences - 2006

In tribute: Gautam Chattopadhyay's life and times.

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Being Poor, Feeling Poorer: Combining objective and subjective measures of welfare in Albania

Carletto, Gero; Zezza, Alberto - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

As shown empirically for many transition economies, even small changes in assumptions on economies of size and adult equivalence scales are likely to produce significant changes in the analysis of poverty and its distribution across households and individuals. Since such exercises are then used...

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Internal Mobility and International Migration in Albania

Carletto, Gero; Davis, Benjamin; Stampini, Marco; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

Using evidence from two recent data sources – the 2002 Albania Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) and the 2001 Population Census of Albania – the paper documents the phenomena of internal and external migration in Albania, a country that in the past decade has experienced dramatic...

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Social Capital and Poverty: Lessons from case studies in Mexico and Central America

Flores, Margarita; Rello, Fernando - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

The aim of this article is to study the relations between social capital (SC) and the result of the efforts made by poor groups to reduce their poverty and social exclusion. To this end, SC is defined as the ability to obtain benefits from networks of social relations. This definition is then...

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Afghanistan : the current employment and socio-economic situation and prospects

Pain, Adam; Goodhand, Jonathan - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002

Provides an historically based analysis of Afghanistan's current socio-economic situation and the implications of this for reconstruction and employment creation.

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Problems, Crises, Events and Social Change: Theory and Illustrations

Nathanson, Constance A. - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 5, pp. 11-11

examples from the history and politics of public health. Based in large part on the work of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins … (see in particular his Islands of History published in 1985) William Sewell Jr. has proposed an 'eventful sociology.' In … sociologists and, second, by examining the contingent character of social change. Drawing on my own research on the history of …

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Rebuilding for the Community in New Orleans

Bingler, Steven - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010

The City of New Orleans is implementing an unprecedented plan for the systemic renovation and rebuilding of its schools and infrastructure. One of the cornerstones of the project was public involvement: more than 10 000 citizens were engaged in developing the plan. Its new schools will be but...

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The Plight of African American Women: Employed and Unemployed

Loubert, Linda - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 39 (2012) 4, pp. 373-380

Understanding employment for African American women through the lens of neoclassical economics may not be best to help understand their plight. Their pay and the available employment has not been equal to that of men and even more so, African American women have lower paying jobs compared to...

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Introduction

Simms, Margaret - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 40 (2013) 1, pp. 11-12

This brief article introduces the special issue on the Invisible Woman. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2013

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