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Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...social media, with assistance from data driven communication by social media companies. These target Facebook users based on psychological profiling from Facebook. Data driven communication ensures that political messages are targeted to the people most likely to be influenced by them. It is through this process that social media not only gave a voice to the frustrations...
Why is Netball and other team sports so important for female sports participation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Netball and other team sports so important for female sports participation?

...social relationships as an important constant factor. This craving for social interaction also impacts activity choice, for example, team membership has been identified as one of the most important reasons why women engage in netball. ‘I was running and I joined a gym but to me it’s not the same as kind of running round on a netball court and you don’t get that...
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...worked from a social harm perspective: Paddy Hillyard Christina Pantazis Simon Pemberton Larry Tifft Steve Tombs. Source: adapted from McLaughlin, E. and Muncie, J. (eds) (2001)...Criminology beyond crime: Supranational criminology - The concept of harm has added much to the branch of the discipline often referred to as supranational criminology. The pertinence of this...
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The Belfast linen industry
History & The Arts

The Belfast linen industry

...social and economic development of Belfast. The manufacture of linen was the catalyst that allowed it to grow from a town into the region's pre-eminent city. It grew most rapidly during the 1860s – by the end of the 19th century Belfast was the linen capital of the world. [Spinning wheel, spinning linen.] During the 18th and early 19th centuries, linen production in...
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...socially. Their work and practice remains an influence in contemporary nursery education. [This is a black-and-white photograph of Susan Isaacs sitting with a group of children.] Figure 2 Susan Isaacs with children at The Malting House School 1936: Jean Piaget, a psychologist, developed his theory of children’s cognitive development, which clearly demonstrated that...
How did United Airlines get their PR response so wrong?
Money & Business

How did United Airlines get their PR response so wrong?

...work. An argument ensued, and airline staff sent for security guards. A video clip posted by a fellow passenger on social media appears to show Dao being dragged out of the plane, his face streaked with blood. Oscar Munoz, chief executive of United Airlines, issued a brief apology. He said: “This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United, I apologise for having...
'Hate the poor!': the new politics of loathing in vitriolic Britain
Society, Politics & Law

'Hate the poor!': the new politics of loathing in vitriolic Britain

...Social Attitudes Survey, Mark J Smith examines why problems in the UK are being blamed on the most vulnerable ...[Poster advertising benefit fraud] A poster warning about the risks of benefit claimants getting money to which they are not entitled There is a cruel streak in contemporary politics, a meanness that has not often been so explicit. Since the youth riots of...
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...work out what he thinks about socialism. But he came to say, and we know that the remarks that he vouchsafed to people in the week before he went to Spain, there were not in the least ideological. He was saying to people, terrible isn't about the Spaniards, something has to be done, poor chaps, we have to get over there and help – without really knowing how he was going...