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Forest owners and power: A Foucauldian study on Finnish forest policy

Vainio, Annukka; Paloniemi, Riikka - In: Forest Policy and Economics 21 (2012) C, pp. 118-125

This study applies a Foucauldian discourse analysis in a study of forest owners' descriptions of power relations in ….” Three discursive strategies were found: (1) “submitting to others' power,” (2) “questioning others' power” and (3) “taking … power.” As discursive resources for these strategies, forest owners used two identities, “forestry identity” and …

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Laut Umfrage : bedenklicher Wertewandel

Riedel, Jürgen - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 02 (1995) 01, pp. 24-26

Das ifo Institut befragte 702 Unternehmen, davon 539 in West- und 163 in Ostdeutschland, ob bei Mitarbeitern und Geschäftspartnern Werthaltungen wie Fleiß, Gemeinsinn und Gesetzestreue in der Vergangenheit eher zugenommen, abgenommen oder gleichgeblieben sind. So haben sich nach Einschätzung...

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Health Inequalities, Social Cohesion and Social Capital: An Exploration

Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2006

This paper claims that the roots and remedies of health inequalities reflected in the major academic debates that culminated with full force towards the turn of the last century, have done little to usher in a radical change in public health discourse. There has been a hesitation to understand...

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Discourse, power and governmentality: Social movement research with and beyond Foucault

Baumgarten, Britta; Ullrich, Peter - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012

(post-)Foucaultian thinking. We argue that Foucault and his very concepts of discourse and power provide a perspective on … argumentieren, dass Foucault, insbesondere seine Konzepte von Diskurs und Macht, eine Perspektive auf soziale Bewegungen und Protest …

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Politische Sozialisation im Wandel? Zusammenhang von Familienstruktur und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement

Rainer, Helmut; Hener, Timo; Siedler, Thomas; Fichtl, Anita - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 17, pp. 30-38

Sozialkapital aufgebaut wird? Die Frage wurde anhand von Daten aus 26 Wellen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels aus den Jahren 1984 …

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Interdependence Between Social Values and National Performance Indicators: The Case of the Enlarged European Union

Bavec, Cene - In: Managing Global Transitions 5 (2007) 3, pp. 213-228

Based on the desk research, the paper provides an empirical insight into correlations between some social values and five selected economic performance indicators for 20 European Union countries. We concentrated on Composite Trust. This is a one-dimensional representation of citizens’ trust on...

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ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ В ПЕРИФЕРИЙНЫХ РЕГИОНАХ: РОЛЬ ГРАЖДАНСКИХ ИНСТИТУТОВ

ВОЛЬЧИК В.В.; КОТ В.В. - In: TERRA ECONOMICUS 11 (2013) 3, pp. 12-35

Радикальные социально-экономические реформы в постсоветской России дают богатый фактический материал для исследований институциональных изменений....

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Social values and economic dynamics

Kim, Yong Jin; Lee, Chul-In - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 53 (2015) C, pp. 69-84

Social values/belief systems can be viewed as a stock of non-productive ideas that are collectively shared in a non-rivalrous way and evolve through experience/participation at the aggregate social level. While they are separate from the stock of scientific ideas that are essential to...

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Social Divergence and Productivity: Making a Connection

Grafton, R. Quentin; Knowles, Stephen; Owen, P. Dorian - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Quentin Grafton, Stephen Knowles and Dorian Owen examine the implications for productivity arising from the level of social diversity along a variety of dimensions, including ethnic, linguistic and religious differences and inequalities between rich and poor. Their basic...

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Does the Internet make people happier?

Thierry, PENARD; Nicolas, POUSSING; Raphaël, SUIRE - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011

As people are spending more time online, it is important to evaluate the impact of Internet use on individual well-being. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns (e.g. better job, higher productivity) that may increase life sa-tisfaction. But the Internet might also have...

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