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“A Kind of Magic”: Pre-military Preparatory Schools (Mechinot) in Israel as Models for Informal Education
The pre-army preparatory programs established in Israel constitute a unique and popular model of education. Using the qualitative method and...
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Scientificity before Scientism: The Invention of Cultural Research in German Studies of Antiquity 1800–1850
This paper examines how scholars of Greek and Roman antiquity in the German-speaking territories in the first half of the nineteenth century define...
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Hard Paternalism and Confucian Familism
In this paper, I criticize Joel Feinberg’s argument of soft paternalism, which stands against hard paternalism, as being untenable. As assessing...
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Agency as conversion process
Its importance for understanding social dynamics notwithstanding, the concept of agency is one of sociology’s more controversial ideas. The debate...
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Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes
Community water associations perform a pivotal role in the delivery of water services in the rural Ecuadorian Andes. The water that they deliver to...
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“I wanted to have a Christian family”: Affinities Between Religiosity and Family Styles Among Catholics and Evangelicals in a Low-Income Neighborhood in Santiago
This article explores the relationship between religiosity—as experiential and practical religious involvement—and family styles—as effective kinship...
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Couple’s Decision-Making Power, Women’s Labour Market Outcomes, and Asset Ownership
This paper explores the causal link between couple’s household decision-making power and women’s labour market and economic outcomes. Autonomy refers...
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What Constitutes Well-being? Five Views Among Adult People from the Netherlands on what is Important for a Good Life
Well-being has gained interest as object of study in the social sciences and as an outcome measure for policy evaluation. However, little agreement...
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The Impact of Social Enterprises on Individual Wellbeing in South Korea: The Moderating Roles of Social Capital in Multilevel Analysis
Various studies have proposed social enterprise as a potential policy intervention and a policy alternative to deal with the complex problem of...
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Migrants “at Stake”: Agency and Autonomy in Ventimiglia
By adopting a border studies perspective, the chapter aims at bringing out the tensions between the violence inherent in the EU migration system and...
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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nonprofit Cataract Surgery Services: A Social Return on Investment Approach at the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology
Cataract is the primary cause of treatable blindness in low- and middle-income countries. Due to limited resources, the public sector often fails to...
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The well-living paradigm: reimagining quality of life in our turbulent world
This article introduces the concept of ‘well-living’ as a transformative framework for reimagining quality of life in the face of current global...
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How Communication Technology Fosters Individual and Social Wellbeing During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Support For a Digital Interaction Model
The aim of the present study was to test an explanatory model for individual and social wellbeing which incorporates the advantages of using digital...
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Sociological Perspectives Across Individual Experiences, Social Structures, and Representations
This chapter is a literature review which aims to highlight the most critical aspects discussed in the surrogacy scholarship, whose...
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Epilogue: ‘Claiming Time’ Special Issue
This paper offers an epilogue to a special edition of articles employing a temporal lens to examine the politics of European asylum and reception...
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Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Well-Being Across Age: A Cross-Sectional General Population Study among 1709 Dutch Speaking Adults
According to self-determination theory, individual well-being is universally dependent upon the satisfaction of three basic psychological needs:...
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The News Organisation
This chapter begins by considering how the macro level context of a news organisation such as media systems, market structures, and ownership models...
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My Wealth, (Y)Our Life Satisfaction? Sole and Joint Wealth Ownership and Life Satisfaction in Marriage
This study examines the money-subjective well-being nexus by studying the link between changes in jointly and solely (i.e. respondents’ own and their...
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The Gender Wage Gap and Parenthood: Occupational Characteristics Across European Countries
Different strands of research analyse gender occupational differences and how they relate to differential earnings, especially among parents juggling...
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Social reproduction and the family: contradictions of childcare and eldercare in Germany
At the heart of capitalism is a contradiction between capital’s need for value-producing labor, including the commodification of care work and care...