A sociological exploration of social mixing: young people's friendships in urban schools by Hollingworth, Sumi

“…I argue that social mixing is a form of social capital/resource accumulation, a process in which some classed, raced and gendered bodies have more exchange value than others. To begin, I show how different demographics of schools constrain and enable the discursive production of the school as space for social mixing, and moreover how this is intimately connected to academic inclusivity or exclusivity. …”
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Do Instagram profiles accurately portray personality? by Harris, Elspeth, Bardey, Aurore

“…Quantitative results (Study 1) showed a difference between how the observers perceived the Instagram account holders’ personality and the Instagram account holders’ personality self-reports. …”
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Sex difference in the effect of Internet gaming disorder on the brain functions: evidence from resting-state fMRI by Wang, Min, Hu, Yanbo, Wang, Ziliang, Du, Xiaoxia, Dong, Guangheng

“…Moreover, male IGDs showed increased ReHo, but female ones showed decreased ReHo, in both lMOG and rMTG, when comparing with same-sex RGUs. …”
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Developing a coherent theoretical framework for Forest School in the UK by Knight, Sara Ann

“…These ensure the quality of FS delivery and thus the achievement of the identified outcomes. Lastly, I show the importance of Forest School as an intervention for a modern multicultural society, post-Covid and in a climate emergency.…”
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At home in the metropole : gender and domesticity in contemporary migration fiction by Newns, Lucinda

“…Through my analysis of individual texts, I show how writers draw on the colonial and postcolonial politics of home and domesticity as discursive resources in their narratives of cross-cultural encounter, challenging the devaluation of the private sphere as a static, unproductive and uncreative space. …”
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Choosing more mathematics: an exploration of participation and learner identities in the further mathematics network by Smith, Catherine Anne

“…Further mathematics accelerates and/or distorts this progress. I show the students' precarious positioning as self-entrepreneurs who choose risk and face consequences, and also as children whose self-promotion may be illusory. …”
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Experiences of Older Undergraduate Students in Higher Education: Constructions of Age and Gender by Massey, Anne

“…The study reveals how older students’ claimed space in the university. I show that neoliberal imperatives, such as are contained in discourses of ‘Lifelong Learning’ and 'Active Ageing', become the standards by which individuals are measured and measure themselves. …”
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Is free riding affecting market discipline in the Euro sovereign bond market? by Cooke, Christopher

“…However, rather than look for a benchmark issuer, I use the model to explore the common regional drivers and investigate the systemic effects that resemble a tacit "bail-out" condition. I show that the regional effect dominates the individual or country specific risk within the bond market. …”
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