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Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...social, reciprocal and interactive, then the cost and labour involved in showcasing the school’s commitment to reading surely has to be questioned. How reading spaces are used, who owns them, who made them and who has access to them, (when and how frequently), are all questions worth asking and monitoring over time. The kinds of opportunities these spaces afford for...
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Are movies really getting longer?
History & The Arts

Are movies really getting longer?

...social theory is rationalization—the idea that people use institutions, routines, and other formal systems to make social interaction more efficient, but also less flexible and spontaneous. Max Weber famously wrote about bureaucracy, especially how even the most charismatic or creative individuals would eventually come to rely on stable routines. More recent works...
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The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...social accountability frame work which is one of the 3 pillars which support the CSR process i.e. economic, environmental and social accountability. So what does ethical trading mean in practice? It means that retailers help to reduce poverty by improving labour practices for workers in their supply chains through the implementation of an adopted code of conduct or...
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OpenMinds-Talk: What does Brexit tell us about Britain?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds-Talk: What does Brexit tell us about Britain?

...Social Psychology, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences , is a social and political psychologist who works on migration-mobility, non-mobility, belonging, integration and citizenship - including public narratives of European citizenship. Kesi's research programme aims to contribute towards and understanding of he dialogue between citizens and governments on vexed political...
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Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...work on social structure and crime, Peter Kropotkin’s ‘Law and authority’, published in 1898, attacked the criminal law and those who held the power to create it. He argued that processes of criminalisation were heavily skewed in favour of lawmakers and property owners. For him, law served three purposes – the ‘protection of property, protection of government,...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...social care A nurse had been working with a patient who had a chronic venous leg ulcer for several years. All options of treatment that the medical staff were aware of had been tried and the ulcer was not improving. They discussed this with the patient and explained that there might be other dressings or treatments available, suggesting that a photograph be taken and...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...social, the psychological and the structural environments. It is a concept that is more complex and says something about personal meaning and identity, about family and friends, our life history. It varies depending on our age, gender, culture and generation. Given this complexity there is a vast multi-disciplinary literature on the concept of home from many disciplines....
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Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style
History & The Arts

Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style

...socialism proved a successful mix at the ballot box. So successful, in fact, that it managed to cost the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, his seat in Parliament. The Northern Echo of July 16th, 1895, reports: [Geoffrey Drage, MP] Geoffrey Drage in the year he entered parliament The loss of Sir William Harcourt at Derby will not be an unmixed...
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