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Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...social and employment laws, giving member states control over migration and restoring the UK’s right to veto EU legislation. Business for New Europe, meanwhile, makes a case for the UK to stay in the EU. Their campaign is somewhat more comprehensive in the sense that beyond the economic and the trade components, their rationale extends into broader, and longer-term...
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Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...college experience’, Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 18, 3 pages 142 – 150. Meddings, S., McGregor, J., Roeg, W. and Shepherd, G. (2015) ’Recovery colleges: quality and outcomes", Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 19, 4, pages 212 – 221. Southern Health NHS http://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/health-and-wellbeing/recovery/college/frequently-asked-questions/...
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Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...social into a previously a-social urban space). Similarly in London: the protest did not simply represent a political position but, for its duration, it materialized a host of agentive, political objects into Parliament Square (a space already saturated with political monuments and iconographic architectures that turned out to be intolerant of their improvised rivals) and...
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...social outcomes of home education. In particular, employment is an area of society that we know very little about when it comes to the home education community. Members of this community might be familiar with questions received by those who don’t home educate, regarding whether this mode of education adequately prepares young people for participating in society, with...
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Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment

...social theorist Max Weber - has been to trap us in the ‘iron cage of modernity’; stripped of magic and superstition we are prevented from contemplating what might lie beyond this lacklustre façade. For the rational minded, just as for Uncle Vernon, the world experienced by Harry, Hermione and Ron is kept firmly at arm's length, presented as completely unachievable...
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What pressures are young men feeling?
Education & Development

What pressures are young men feeling?

...social media, social services and the law, the girl’s always right when it comes to the child,” said another. Most of the young men in our focus groups claimed to be tolerant towards homosexuality – “you wouldn’t discriminate against a gay person” – while recognising that prejudice still exists in wider society. However, sexuality was clearly a topic that...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste

...social role? A significant, but often forgotten, element of art is promotion. The ability to not only create something new and inspiring but also share it with the world. Great artists of the past such as Dali and Warhol were renowned self-promoters. This speaks to the affinities between art and marketing. Namely, the skills needed to properly and effectively market your...
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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...social tool and language proficiency is jointly constructed in interaction. To be able to form grammatically correct sentences does not necessarily translate into “the power to impose reception”, as sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has pointed out. A wealth of sociolinguistic evidence demonstrates that non-standard speech, such as the English of multilinguals that shows...
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