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Women Fighting Gender Stereotypes in a Gender Egalitarian Culture
Despite the increased importance of technology, at current rates it will still take hundreds of years to achieve gender equality in technology across...
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Reducing Questionable Research Practices
Questionable research practices (QRPs) occupy a grey zone in that they are not outright academic fraud or legitimate research. This chapter begins...
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The Double Bind of Parenting Culture: Helicopter Parents and Cotton Wool Kids
This chapter considers the apparent reaction, in recent years, to the excesses of risk-averse, intensive parenting culture. This reaction highlights...
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Interview(s) with the Vampire: Research Opportunism During a Global Catastrophe
The global Covid-19 pandemic blocked, at least for a fleeting moment, the juggernaut of qualitative research on sport and physical culture. During...
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Improving Scaling Performance in Research for Development: Learning from a Realist Evaluation of the Scaling Readiness Approach
Complexity-sensitive decision support approaches (CSDSA) have gained prominence in the research for development (R4D) sector. However, limited...
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Auto/biographical research on old Mexican women: a methodological and reflexive account
When it comes to presenting qualitative research in a language other than the participants’ native language the decision-making processes involved...
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Material Culture and Structural Violence: Reframing Evidence of the Social Gradient in Industrial Contexts
Coal mining is an industry that historically has exposed laborers to a variety of environmental and occupational health hazards that have resulted in...
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Higher education for refugees: relevance, challenges, and open research questions
Reflecting the increased public, political, and professional interest in higher education for refugees, research activity in this area has increased...
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Research Methods for Environmental Education
Research methods are theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) sum of knowledgeKnowledge, plans, strategies,...
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Cam** Culture
This chapter draws on observations from a diverse range of Scout and Guide camps, competitions and celebrations marked in the open air with outdoor...
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Culture and COVID-19-related mortality: a cross-sectional study of 50 countries
Using a cross-sectional sample of 50 countries we investigate the influence of Hofstede’s six-dimensions of culture on COVID-19 related mortality. A...
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Regional Culture and Social Change A Study of Miao-Inhabited Areas of Southwest China
This book explores Shimenkan—a Miao-inhabited area in Weining County, China—and its rural society from a comprehensive and long-term perspective,...
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Research on Homosexuality in Barbados: A Systematic Literature Review
Research on the LGBTQ + community in the Caribbean is limited, a issue made all the more concerning because the people in that community do not have...
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An analytical study on the lower enrolment of female physicists in research and development in India
Multiple social and cultural factors influence female representation in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education fields....
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Impacts of Confucianism on Vietnamese culture
Confucianism is a doctrine that has got a strong influence on Vietnamese culture for 1900 years, particularly in two periods of Later Lê Dynasty...
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Research-Practice-Collaborations Addressing One Health and Urban Transformation. A Case Study
One Health is an integrative approach at the interface of humans, animals and the environment, which can be implemented as...
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Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018
This book is an in depth, extensive study of Romanian queer cultural products. It brings an essential contribution to the literature on Central and...
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Research Design
This dissertation is dedicated to a political sociology of the legal profession in the white-collar crime field. My focus is on the expert group of...
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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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Petrification as a Research Approach: Its Terminological Potential for Material Culture Studies
This contribution highlights several figures of thought underlying the term “petrification”, aiming at develo** it into a research approach. For...