Contrasting irreligious orientation: atheism and secularity in the USA and Scandinavia by Phil Zuckerman

“…Rather, atheism and secularity are contoured, malleable, and deeply shaped by cultural and social forces. A clear example of the degree to which atheism and secularity can be lived and expressed quite differently in different socio-cultural locations is revealed by comparing and contrasting the ways in which they are manifested in the United States and Scandinavia.…”
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A Lack of Security or of Cultural Capital? Acculturative Conservatism in the Naming Choices of Early 20th-Century US Jews by Zhang, Jiayin, Obukhova, Elena, Zuckerman Sivan, Ezra W

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Urbanism, urbanisation, health and human biology: an introduction by Schell, L, Ulijaszek, S

“…Current estimates indicate that one half of the world's population will be living in urban centers by the year 2005, largely the result of two centuries of rapid urbanisation, and there are no apparent social forces that strongly oppose it...</p>…”

LUTAS SOCIAIS, DIREITOS E POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS by Lúcio Flávio Rodrigues de Almeida

“…Facing this challenge is an urgent task for the anti-systemic social forces.…”
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Reflections on Marriage and Family Beyond the Culture Wars by Daniel Liechty

“…Although much attention has focused on same-sex marriage as an ominous destroyer of the traditional marriage and family structure, a more historical perspective suggests that the radical changes taking place in marriage and family structure in our culture are better understood as adaptations to social forces generated by a shifting economic base. …”
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The University, Neoliberalism, and the Humanities: A History by David R. Shumway

“…Many of the cultural currents and social forces that have led to the reduction in public spending on higher education and to lower enrollments in the humanities long antedate neoliberalism.…”
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Labour institutions and the regulation approach:The Malaysian case. by Wangel, Arne

“…Malaysia's rapid economic growth, industrial development and state policies is subject for numerous studies emphasising, among other. things, the expansion of certain industries, structural barriers on the labour market, accumulation of local (manufacturing) capital, establishment of resource-based industries, state-participation in manufacturing activities and the ethnic configuration of social forces. …”
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Fragile States and Impacts on Healthcare by Frank Hutchins

“…This lethal combination of natural and social forces directly jeopardizes physical and mental health, leaving countries such as Somalia with some of the worst health indicators on the planet, including a life expectancy (56 years) nearly three decades short of Japan.  …”
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Social Construction of the Sacrament of Orders by Anthony J. Pogorelc

“…Drawing on the perspectives of sociologists, theologians and social constructionists, it will focus on churches of the West with more highly developed liturgical traditions, examining the history of how this sacrament, and the clergy roles and lifestyle it initiates, has been constructed and reconstructed in response to the social forces that have influenced the church from its origins to the current day.…”
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État et généalogie de la guerre : l’hypothèse de la « machine de guerre » de Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc

“…Based on this concept, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari intend : to analyse the way state machines « capture » social forces in order to produce and reproduce their own strength of administration, control and repression in the immanent social praxis ; to connect this « heterogenesis » of State power with a genealogy of war ; to reform marxist concepts of State power, State apparatus, primitive accumulation and State capitalism in the light of the leading role of the economy of war in the development of capitalism.…”
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A Return of Mainstream Politics? by Ioannis Kampourakis

“…These elections made clear that there is currently no articulated, alternative vision of social ordering that could inspire and successfully challenge the current constellation of social forces.</p> …”
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Policymaking and the politics of change in higher education: The new 1960s universities in the UK, then and now by Ourania Filippakou, Ted Tapper

“…The argument is that although change is driven by economic and social forces, it is the political interpretation of these forces that steers the change process and, therefore, determines the shape of new institutional structures and how they are supposed to perform their tasks. …”
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Grand Prince Konstantin Nikolayevich about Address of MoscowNobility in 1865: the Question of Nobility Opposition to «Great Reforms» by V E Voronin

“…Discussion around address of Moscow nobility promoted to political separation of different social forces and making new projects of people's representation.…”
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THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF SAINT ANTÔNIO DO RECIFE. by Virgínia Maria Almoêdo de Assis

“…The Portuguese absolutist state, as a state of equilibrium of social forces, accurately sized the strength of these groups and sought to incorporate them into their overseas policy, where they began to play the role of legitimating an ideology of domination. …”
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In the Shadow of Crisis: Economic Orthodoxy and the Response of Global Labour by Stephen McBride, Scott Smith

“…The on-going crisis and the responses to it provide an occasion to revisit accounts of policy change and to reflect on the social forces stimulating change and those representing consolidation.…”
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REFORMA AGRARIA: MOMENTUM KEADILAN DAN KESEJAHTERAAN by Tri Chandra Aprianto

“…The opportunity should be gained in order to implement the agrarian reform by the authoritative actor assisted by an institution various social sheltering social forces. Key words: agrarian reform, political momentum, agrarian justice …”
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From February to October. Revolution Events on Pages of theNnewspaper “Russkaya Volya” by Lidia Ivanovna Shishkina

“…A chronicle of the events of the revolution is celebrate from the jubilation of February days to the establishment of chaos and disintegration, confrontation of various social forces that ended in the October coup in the perception of the publicists of this publication.…”
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¿Descentralización administrativa o ciudadanía popular? by Tomás RODRÍGUEZ VILLASANTE

“…<p>RESUMEN: El autor pasa revista a los diferentes aspectos y posiciones de la polémica sobre el tema de la descentralización y los contrasta con las diversas experiencias llevadas a cabo por distintas fuerzas políticas y sociales con distintos métodos y objetivos en los últimos años en América Latina</p><p>ABSTRACT: The author revises the different aspects and positions of the debate about the issue of decentralization and its contrast with different experiences that are being implemented nowadays by different political and social forces with different methods and objectives, in the last years in Latin America.…”
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Le nuove generazioni nella crisi italiana: alcuni contributi sociologici by Paolo Capuzzo

“…While generation represents a useful point of view from which to look at the social change within a wide context pervaded by multiple social forces, it becomes a rather narrow and misleading concept when considered as an isolated source of social identity…”
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Assessment and Contributing Factors of the Spatial Misallocation of Construction Land: A Case Study of Shandong, China by Shaoxing Li, Shaoxing Li, Huixi Cao, Jinyan Wang, Jinyan Wang, Xinxin Wang

“…Generally, in the low-level development stage and underdeveloped areas, the effect of local government intervention is stronger, the market forces’ importance is lower, and the social forces and support systems remain insufficiently robust.…”
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