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, young members of the elite were allowed to express their preferences regarding enrolment in specific schools or branches of … towards schooling. While wealthier nobles tended to opt for state schools, especially the Noble Cadet Corps, the poorest … apply for state schools, preferring instead to enlist directly into regiments as privates. Despite numerous attempts, the …
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.com Analyzing the results of a survey among students in regular public schools, the study seeks to check for existence of a … socioeconomic status of families and differing from stratification patterns in foreign schools. The study compares how pro …, close friendship groups).As a result of two-stage stratified sampling, the schools involved in the study have been divided …
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-level regression approach on a sample of 7300 students from 104 public schools from St.Petersburg. Our findings show that: 1.) Socio …-economic differentiation of Russian schools does not lead to a polarization of pro-school/anti-school attitudes in different types of schools …
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The digitalization of public services is a critical driver of Germany's competitiveness and future readiness. The "Einer-für-Alle" (EfA) approach, where software is developed by one federal state and implemented by others, exemplifies efforts to streamline public sector digital transformation....
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This paper shares the approach of social constructivism, and maintains that diversity should be examined not 'par excellence', as an entity in itself, but as reflected in people's minds and expressed in their attitudes and perceptions. On the basis of an empirical Bulgarian-Finnish intercultural...
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Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the 'Culture of Honor' hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact that...
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People's lawyers constitute an organized segment of the Brazilian bar that provides legal assistance to social movements and, as it is said in the very way this population designates itself, advocates for the causes of the people. This article discusses whether the Brazilian justice system is...
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In contrast to Germany South Korea has for years been continuously preparing for national reunification. As a result, alongside the Ministry of Unification a number of think tanks, research institutes, and other organizations have also been established in South Korea. After years of the...
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Using unit data from the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), 2004-05, this paper estimates and decompose the multidimensional poverty dynamics in 84 natural regions of India. Multidimensional poverty is measured in the dimensions of health, knowledge, income, employment and household...
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