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...Social Sciences courses Background The Singer Manufacturing Company was one of the first multi-national companies. From their US base they expanded to Scotland in 1864, starting the assembly of sewing machines at a small factory just off John Street in Glasgow. Growing demand for their machines led them to transfer production to a new plant in Bridgeton before...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...