Risk factors for suicide among rural men: Are farmers more socially isolated?
AbstractPurpose - International evidence demonstrates elevated suicide rates among farming occupations, relative to other occupations. A psychosocial factor commonly argued to contribute to farmer...
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AbstractPurpose - The key purpose of the paper is to consider the challenges facing local authorities in supporting sustainable rural settlements in their efforts to be enterprising and sustainable in...
View Article‘New Capitalism’, Colonisation and the Neo-Philanthropic Turn in Social...
AbstractPurpose - Drawing on the functional structural systems theory of Niklas Luhmann and the theory of colonisation of the social lifeworld advanced by Jurgen Habermas, it is argued that the Big...
View ArticleGovernment versus Private Primary Schools in India: An Assessment of Physical...
AbstractPurpose - Purpose –This paper is an effort to identify the difference between government and private primary schools in terms of physical infrastructure, schooling costs and student’s...
View ArticleUndocumented Childhood Immigrants, The Dream Act and Deferred Action for...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this article is to critically examine two possible solutions to the lack of citizenship rights of children who lack documentation. Many industrialized countries must...
View ArticleLabour Migration and Informalisation: East meets West
AbstractPurpose - Against a theoretical discussion of informalisation the purpose of this paper is to trace wider commonalities and migratory interconnections that are leading to informalised or...
View ArticleFinancial Inclusion And Social Financialisation: Britain In A European Context
AbstractPurpose - The article discusses findings from a knowledge exchange review of financial inclusion in Britain and compares these to key features of financial exclusion evident from European...
View ArticleAre More Equal Societies the Most Cohesive?
AbstractPurpose - In recent decades, research across the social sciences has linked higher income inequality to poorer health and social outcomes in advanced market democracies. According to general...
View ArticleRisk factors for suicide among rural men: are farmers more socially isolated?
AbstractPurpose– International evidence demonstrates elevated suicide rates among farming occupations, relative to other occupations. A psychosocial factor commonly argued to contribute to farmer...
View ArticleAnimating “bottom-up” sustainable strategies in village settings
AbstractPurpose– The key purpose of the paper is to consider the challenges facing local authorities in supporting sustainable rural settlements in their efforts to be enterprising and sustainable in...
View Article“New capitalism”, colonisation and the neo-philanthropic turn in social...
AbstractPurpose– Drawing on the functional structural systems theory of Niklas Luhmann and the theory of colonisation of the social lifeworld advanced by Jurgen Habermas, it is argued that the Big...
View ArticleGovernment versus private primary schools in India: An assessment of physical...
AbstractPurpose– This paper is an effort to identify the difference between government and private primary schools in terms of physical infrastructure, schooling costs and student's performance....
View ArticleUndocumented childhood immigrants, the Dream Act and Deferred Action for...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this article is to critically examine two possible solutions to the lack of citizenship rights of children who lack documentation. Many industrialized countries must...
View ArticleLabour migration and informalisation: East meets West
AbstractPurpose– Against a theoretical discussion of informalisation, the purpose of this paper is to trace wider commonalities and migratory interconnections that are leading to informalised or...
View ArticleFinancial inclusion and social financialisation: Britain in a European context
AbstractPurpose– The article aims to discuss findings from a knowledge exchange review of financial inclusion in Britain and compare these to key features of financial exclusion evident from European...
View ArticleAre more equal societies the most cohesive?
AbstractPurpose– In recent decades, research across the social sciences has linked higher income inequality to poorer health and social outcomes in advanced market democracies. According to general...
View ArticleReliability and validity of the masculine subordination stress scale in a...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the masculine subordination stress (MSS) scale in a rural Bangladesh population. Design/methodology/approach–...
View ArticleDoes food subsidy affect household nutrition?: Some evidence from the Indian...
AbstractPurpose– Indian households having the below poverty line (BPL) ration card receive rice, wheat, sugar and kerosene from the Indian Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) at subsidized...
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