Children's rights: a liberal framework by Peto, T

“…It engages with empirical psychology, is attentive to the role of social structures in moulding children’s psychology and in creating adult-child power hierarchies, and provides a cost-benefit mechanism for deciding how to recognise moral rights in law. …”

Social reward and support effects on exercise experiences and performance: Evidence from parkrun by Davis, AJ, MacCarron, P, Cohen, E

“…No significant main effects of social factors on fatigue, performance or effort were detected. The role of social structural factors has long been recognized in public health approaches to physical activity. …”

A rebellion in the Korean medicine community: an ethnography of healthcare politics in contemporary South Korea by Na, S, Goodman, R, Potter, C

“…The analysis reveals that during the conflicts the actors referenced certain values and ideologies underpinning their everyday lives and, in doing so, were effectively engaged in the strengthening, rather than the weakening, of existing social structures.</p> <p>This thesis contributes to the study of Korean medicine by revealing the features of its integration into the country’s healthcare system and the effects of its bio-medicalization. …”

Society, Community and Power in Northern Spain: 700-1000 by Portass, R

“…In Chapter Three I show that fluid social structures allowed a family to rise to power from amongst the village inhabitants of the Liébana. …”

Civil war and the politics of difference: paramilitary violence against LGBT people in Colombia by Ritholtz, S

“…I theorize anti-LGBT violence as part of a broader phenomenon of violence against social difference that warrants attention from scholars because of how it challenges assumptions about the relationship between wartime logics and social structures of marginality.</p>…”

The incorporation of Dalits into India’s business economy & its implications for social and economic policies by Vidyarthee, KK

“…Dalits’ entry into the business is conditioned by the interactions of opportunities and resources and by the barriers created by subtle forms of exclusionary and discriminatory practices inherent in social structures, market institutions and the state. The study also found that the politics of patronage, of bureaucratic inefficiency, underinvestment and procrastination, and of domination of the business interests of higher castes are mutually reinforcing. …”

What should child poverty policy look like? Disjunctures between what young people, policymakers and academics think by Farthing, R

“…It allowed them to bridge their highly agentic biographies to their socially structured histories, as they saw them.</p>…”

The reform of the British civil service: life cycle, family, and class in the treasury, c.1847-1914 by Galan-Guerrero, L

“…However, few scholars have studied these processes from a social history perspective, exploring how reforms impacted the lives of civil servants, or how social structures shaped the new Civil Service profession. …”

Breaking gender code: visibility, power, and gender in creative coding cultures by Brooke, S

“…Overall, this feminist project conducts a social structural analysis to reveal that sexism is fundamental to technology culture.…”

Ethical issues in the bioprediction of brain-based disorder by Baum, M

“…I argue that ethical analysis of probabilities and risk information bioprediction provides is confounded by philosophical and social structures that have, until recently, functioned nominally well by assuming categorical (binary) concepts of disorder, especially regarding brain-disorder. …”

OER provision practices in context: a socio-technical study on OpenCourseWare initiatives in Spain by Villar Onrubia, D

“…More generally, it supports the idea that the implementation of ICTs must be always accompanied by social structures that are mindful and respectful of local specificities and institutional arrangements. …”

Social networks of the greater horseshoe bat during the hibernation season: a landscape-scale case study by Finch, D, Schofield, H, Firth, JA, Mathews, F

“…Bats are highly social animals, and the interactions between individuals are likely to be important to their ecology and conservation. Social structures are affected by the physical environment (spatial factors), as well as varying over time and seasons (temporal factors). …”

ROMANIAN RURAL TOURISM: A SURVEY OF ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES by Cornelia POP, Monica Maria COROS, Cristina BALINT

“…It is largely agreed that rural tourism can assist the rural areas’ restructuring path mainly if its introduction rather complement the existing activities and is incorporated in the local economies and social structures. Since 1995 rural tourism was identified by Romanian authorities also as a major growth area that can address social and cultural inequalities. …”
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Feeling like the enemy: the emotion management and alienation of hospital doctors by John-Paul Byrne, Jennifer Creese, Robert McMurray, Richard W. Costello, Anne Matthews, Niamh Humphries

“…The paper highlights the importance of understanding the social structures and disconnects that shape this deteriorating relationship and the broad futility of self-care interventions embedded in work contexts of unrealized professional ideals, organizational resource deficits and unhappy doctors, patients, and families.…”
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Social Preferences of Translocated Giraffes (Giraffa Camelopardalis Giraffa) in Senegal: Evidence for Friendship Among Females? by Malyjurkova Lenka, Hejzlarova Marketa, Vymyslicka Pavla Junkova, Brandlova Karolina

“…Giraffe social behaviour and relationships are currently in the period of scientific renaissance, changing the former ideas of nonexisting social bonds into understanding of complex social structures of giraffe herds. Different giraffe subspecies have been studied in the wild and only one was subject of detailed study in captivity. …”
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Robustness of the Link between Precipitation in North Africa and Standard Modes of Atmospheric Variability during the Last Millennium by Arab Djebbar, Hugues Goosse, François Klein

“…Drought is a recurring phenomenon in North Africa, and extended dry periods can have a serious impact on economic and social structures, as well as the natural environment. …”
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Indigenous Food Yam Cultivation and Livelihood Practices in Cross River State, Nigeria by Eti-Obong Simeon Ema, Jude Ejikeme Obidiegwu, Cynthia Adaku Chilaka, Emmanuel Matthew Akpabio

“…Different groups of actors organized into formal social structures like cooperatives will take advantage of bulk buying, selling, transportation, access fundings, information, education, and training from public and non-governmental institutions. …”
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Maternal disability and newborn discharge to child protection in Ontario, Canada by Claire Grant, Claire Grant, Astrid Guttmann, Simone N. Vigod, Isobel Sharpe, Kinwah Fung, Hilary Brown

“…These mothers can face additional social, structural, and health-related challenges, and negative health care provider assumptions about their parenting capacity. …”
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A Dynamic Network Model of Societal Complexity and Resilience Inspired by Tainter’s Theory of Collapse by Florian Schunck, Marc Wiedermann, Jobst Heitzig, Jonathan F. Donges

“…In recent years, several global events have severely disrupted economies and social structures, undermining confidence in the resilience of modern societies. …”
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Exploring the varied manifestations of structural violence in the lives of children on the autism spectrum and their families: a qualitative longitudinal study in Kurdistan, Iran by Ansar Khougar, Paria Baba Ahmadi, Hadi Ranjbar, Mahsa Ahadi, Parisa Ahadi

“…Abstract Background There are many dimensions regarding autism that are closely connected to social structures, policies, and power dynamics, silently impacting the well-being of individuals within the autism spectrum. …”
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