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Purpose – The paper aims to show that economic theory has become “desocialised” and separated from social theory through the adoption of individualistic methods and neglect of social relations and structures. It also seeks to assess the upshot of these trends, as well as the prospects for...
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problem of coordination, and a logic of stratification that provides researchers with differential means to engage in … promotion of ‘research excellence’ results in new forms of network stratification at multiple spatial scales. We provide an …
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The surface layers of the Bay of Bengal along the east coast of India exhibit intricate stratification owing to the … the thermal inversions in the light of the variable stratification and the monsoon imposed reversing coastal current. To … temperature/salinity conforming to winter/specified stratification. The surface forcing comprises wind stress and diurnal pattern …
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, which in turn, has had substantial stratification effects on employment and income opportunities of different occupations …
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The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility. This paper provides a discussion on ethnography as a method and approach to writing and description, and reviews some ways in which themes related to social mobility in the developing world have been...
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Mozambican university students prior to their transition to the labour market. The measurements of segmentation, stratification …
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This chapter considers the role of economic and political institutions in the formation of local public policies. The chapter has three objectives. First, to synthesize the dominant models of local policy formation with mobile households, with particular emphasis on the objectives that are...
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This paper surveys the modern economics literature on the role of neighborhoods in influencing socioeconomic outcomes. Neighborhood effects have been analyzed in a range of theoretical and applied contexts and have proven to be of interest in understanding questions ranging from the asymptotic...
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