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Frerichs, Sabine. "Transnational Law and Economic Sociology." Oxford University Press, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5719/1/Frerichs_2018_Transnational%2DLaw%2Dand%2DEconomic%2DSociology_submitted%2Dversion.pdf.

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Bernal, Fernando. "Sociology of economic life : eastern Cundinamarca." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321633.

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Kim, Hyejun. "Essays on economic sociology of innovation and entrepreneurship." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123583.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2019
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This dissertation considers how innovation and entrepreneurship are developed, encouraged, and evaluated with the theoretical lens of economic sociology. The first chapter investigates who becomes an entrepreneur among the pool of general consumers. The process by which individuals become entrepreneurs is often described as a decisive moment of transition, yet it necessarily involves a series of smaller steps. By breaking down the transition stages of knitting hobbyists' transition to producers who sell their original design patterns, the study examines the distinctive characteristics that affect users' decision to (a) create new products and (b) commercialize them. The second chapter examines the role of social capital in revealing and encouraging entrepreneurship. To the question of how social capital benefits innovation and entrepreneurship, existing literature has provided one dominant answer: access to information and resources.
In this study, I suggest an alternative mechanism how social capital benefits an individual's entrepreneurial transition: social networks provide potential entrepreneurs self-confidence on the promise of their new ideas and encourages their entry into the market. Using a matched sample of potential innovators, I show that an individual's participation in a local group encourages her transition to an entrepreneur, especially for those who already have the necessary skills for the transition. The empirical analysis resonates with qualitative evidence that hobbyists make the transition to entrepreneurs when encouraged by their friends. The third chapter (co-authored with Pierre Azoulay and Ezra Zuckerman) considers commitment-based typecasting among knit designers. We show that "commitment-based typecasting" has two characteristic features: asymmetry in audience valuation and retrospective reevaluation.
When a novice performer experiences an "identity shock" that suggests that she is more committed to the audience for one category than another, "betrayed" audience tends to regard her as having always been less committed to the rival audience/category. We test this theory in the domain of knitting, where there is a divide between avant-garde knitters and traditional knitters, and we show that when a novice knit designer is first published in the publication associated with one category, this elicits a retrospective devaluation of her prior work by the audience of the opposing category.
by Hyejun Kim.
Chapter 1. Sharing or Selling: Multiple Stages of Entrepreneurial Transitions in the Hobbyist Community -- Chapter 2. Knitting Community: The Role of Social Capital in Revealing and Encouraging Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 3. Never Really One of Us: Commitment-based Typecasting among Knit Designers.
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Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
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Shawa, Mary. "Effect of economic improvement projects for women in Malawi on nutritional, economic and social status of household members." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251607.

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Acquah, Daniel. "Economic giants and economic dwarfs the Ghanaian factor /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Thomas, Marilyn. "Coalfield restructuring and the 'enterprise economy' : a sociology of re-industrialisation." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293043.

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Telzak, Samuel C. "Shifting economic perceptions in South Africa: the impact of migration." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20115.

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For much of South Africa's history, rural areas provided the labor necessary to fuel the furnaces of South Africa's manufacturing and mining sectors. In turn, wage labor in urban areas and mines provided opportunities for black Africans to access the hard currency increasingly necessary for survival. However, since South Africa's transition to democracy, the connection between rural and urban areas has changed dramatically. Through this thesis, I seek to contribute to the nascent literature on the changing relationship between rural and urban areas in South Africa by investigating how economic perceptions - which have been shown to influence voting behavior, resource allocation, mental health outcomes, and the degree of social and political cohesion in a society - differ in both. In particular, I explore how these perceptions are shaped by migration. Migration has framed how generations of black South Africans experienced the South African economic system, either directly, as migrants themselves, or indirectly, as beneficiaries of remittances. This study focuses on a particular migration pathway between "Alfred Nzo" - a district municipality in the rural northeast of the Eastern Cape centered on the town of Mount Frere - and Cape Town. Twenty-six individuals were interviewed, from three different, and socially and economically relevant, migration backgrounds: those who migrated to Cape Town and have remained there ("migrants"), those who migrated to Cape Town but have since returned to Alfred Nzo ("returnees"), and those who have never left Alfred Nzo ("non-migrants").
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Ameen, Ansari Zaid. "Energy intensity, economic growth and the environment : identifying structural linkages /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148786592945475.

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Al-Ghamdi, Mohammed Said. "Socio-economic change : family and fertility in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240953.

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Chu, Yiu Kong Vin. "Hong Kong triads : and economic analysis of organised crime." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337674.

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Serra, Renata. "An economic analysis of child fostering in West Africa." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272495.

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Mulberg, Jonathan David. "Social limits to economic theory." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/109304/.

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This dissertation effects a complete re-orientation of economic theory. It shows how the economic cannot be analysed separately from the political and the social, and lays the foundation for an integrated political economy. The work examines the philosophical difficulties faced by economists, and re-draws the history of economic thought as a response to methodological dilemmas. The traditional History of Economics textbooks re-write the history in terms of the contemporary paradigm. This dissertation, by contrast, shows how the philosophical debates have shaped the trajectory of economics, and how the orientations of the schools undergo major changes so as to attempt to deal with the fundamental dilemmas of a 'policy science’. It brings out the 'hidden history’ of economics, and shows both how laissez-faire can only be defended by dropping any notion of economic 'science', and how economic theory has an implied political theory. It then considers the debate over political economic theory and the consequences for economic organisation and for environmental disruption.
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Jonna, R. "Toward a Political-Economic Sociology of Unemployment: Renewing the Classical Reserve Army Perspective." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13340.

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The following study is concerned with the problems posed by contemporary unemployment--especially the U.S. but also globally to some extent. The most immediate problem is the dominance of neoclassical models, which routinely neglect the deeper issues raised by contemporary mass unemployment. To go beyond these inadequacies, the study also assesses the performance of sociological interpretations. One key finding is that sociological analyses also largely fail to provide a compelling theory of unemployment and, moreover, that most perspectives implicitly adopt problematic assumptions from neoclassical economics. This highlights the dual nature of the problems posed by unemployment: on one hand, it is an urgent social issue; and, on the other hand, it exemplifies significant weakness within most sociological paradigms. In order to address the challenges posed by unemployment, the narrative centers on the resolution of three key anomalies of unemployment: 1) persistent unemployment; 2) so-called "jobless recoveries;" and 3) the rise of worker precariousness. The anomalies are taken as evidence of paradigmatic contradictions within neoclassical economics and, to some extent, sociology. The main theoretical contribution of the study is a careful reconstruction of Marx's classical theory of the reserve army of labor (part of "The General Law of Accumulation"), which has inspired all critical sociological perspectives on labor markets to date. The investigation highlights distinctive characteristics of "political-economic sociology," a term that refers to economic sociologists who draw heavily on notions of class and power reminiscent of classical political economy and classical sociology, forming an important bridge with heterodox economic approaches. The theory of the reserve army is in need of "renewal," however, because even political-economic sociologist have failed to carry the analysis forward and build upon the firm foundation provided by Marx. The study's conclusion is that the reserve army framework has enormous potential to strengthen existing work within political-economic sociology.
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Goe, W. Richard. "Food production in the emerging information society : a political-economic analysis /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487596807820783.

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Boswell, Matthew James. "Economic change and violence in cross-national, regional, and local perspectives." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4947.

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This study examines the relationship between economic conditions and personal violence across three different contexts. It examines the relationship between the economy and both suicide and homicide in South Korea, in a data set of East Asian nations, and in a cross national sample. Regression analyses show that while there is a general inverse relationship between violence and economic conditions, this relationship is dependent on the form of violence and the specific context. In addition state policy efforts moderated some of the effects of the economy on violence.
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Schneider, Lesley Erin. "Economic Conditions and Punishment Severity in Minnesota." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543348790757449.

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Bloome, Deirdre R. "Essays on Economic Mobility and Inequality in the United States." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11645.

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How does economic mobility over the individual life course shape population-level trends in economic inequality, and, in turn, how does this inequality influence individuals' economic mobility prospects? Historically, allowing opportunities for economic mobility has been seen as an American alternative to equalizing incomes. However, after decades of rising inequality across the population and persistent disparity between racial groups, many academics and policymakers have come to question how neatly we can separate the two.
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Abdel-Rahman, Basiouni Ali. "The socio-economic changes in an Egyptian village, 1950-1980." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337083.

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Parra, Henrique Zoqui Martins. ""Liberdade e necessidade: empresas de trabalhadores autogeridas e a construção sócio-política da economia"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2002. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-02122003-211124/.

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No plano teórico, ao problematizar a rígida sepação entre meios e fins, liberdade e necessidade, esta dissertação interroga sobre as possibilidades e os entraves à criação democrática no interior de relações de produção, que estão submetidas aos imperativos da esfera da reprodução. No plano empírico, as empresas de trabalhadores autogeridas, que surgiram a partir das transformações no mundo do trabalho no Brasil da década de 90, introduzem de forma contraditória elementos da ordem moral no seio das relações de trabalho. O que emerge do conflito entre a lógica gestionária e a lógica política? Quais são os dilemas que estão postos por essas experiências? Essas questões são analisadas em três dimensões: as relações de produção, os trabalhadores e o contexto socioeconômico em que as empresas autogeridas estão inseridas. Partindo das contradições (internas e externas) vividas pelas empresas autogeridas a discussão evidencia a própria constituição sócio-política do campo econômico e das condições de eficiência. Na parte final, o texto questiona a emergência das empresas autogeridas e da Economia Solidária a partir das seguintes encruzilhadas: a relação entre a criação de espaços democráticos e o processo de desregulamentação das relações de trabalho; a relação entre teoria e instituição do real; entre técnica e política, e ainda, entre ação de sobrevivência e ação criativa. A dissertação conclui afirmando que é justamente o fato das empresas autogeridas introduzirem uma descontinuidade na ordem gestionária da vida (não-política e não-humana), que cria a possibilidade de constituição de um espaço potencialmente democrático que pode ou não se realizar.
From a theoretical perspective, throughout a reflection on the rigid separation between ends and means, freedom and necessity, the following thesis intends to investigate the possibilities and the limits for democratic creation inside productive relations that are under the rules of the reproduction sphere. From the empirical perspective, the worker´s self-management enterprises - that arose from the 90´s Brazilian labor´s world transformation context – introduce moral elements into the labor relation in a contradictory way. What does come out of conflict between the management and political logics? What are the dilemmas posed by those experiences? Those questions are analysed in three dimensions: production relations; workers, and the socioeconomic context that selfmanagment enterprises are embeded in. As the discussion departes from the contradictions (internal and external) lived by the self-management enterprises, it shows the economic field and the conditions of efficiency as a socio-political construction.The last part of the text interrogates self-management enterprises and Solidary Economy emergence from the following crossroads: the relation between the creation of democratic spaces and the labor relations de-regulation process; theory and reality construction; technique and politic, and between survival and creative actions. To conclude, the thesis proposes that is the very fact that self-management enterprises introduces a discontinuity into the lives´ management order (non-political, non-human) that creates the potential to constitute democratic spaces that might, or might not, be accomplished.
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Li, Yuhui. "Economic development and quality of life in urban communities of China (PRC) /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148768304937763.

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Fattore, Tobia. "Working the multiple economies: Children’s work and economic agency in a developed capitalist economy." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8795.

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This thesis examines children’s work on the formal, informal and family based labour markets in a developed capitalist economy. Using a unique dataset of approximately 11,000 young people aged between 12 and 16 years, this thesis argues that structural factors are determinative of specific experiences of work, which reflect the nature of social relations within each labour market. This argument is a response to two prevailing themes in the child work literature. First that age based development has been the overarching ‘structure’ that determines experiences of work. Second, that the effect of structural position and the institutions of ‘work’ hinder children’s agency and ‘free will’. It is shown that these structural factors not only delimit children’s capacity to assert their agency, but enable action by providing the social environment that make possible certain types of activities to be understood as work. In so doing the thesis contributes to understanding children’s economic agency through an analysis of children’s work, and consequently children as economic agents. The data set provides a robust statistical outline of the fields of children’s work (formal, informal and family based) and an assessment of the quality of work children perform, applying ILO measures of decent work standards to evaluate children’s work conditions. The analytical framework adopted involves a synthesis of child work literature with aspects of economic sociology and the sociology of work that emphasise the embeddedness of social action and institutions within systems of social relations. These analytic tools assist identify the specific ‘fields’ or labour markets of children’s work (i.e. the formal, informal and family based labour markets) and sensitise us to what the relevant structural transformations in each field are. In so doing the thesis draws upon work used in understanding the ‘adult world of work’ to aid our understanding of children’s labour markets. The thesis finds that skill utilisation on the formal labour market, the strength and particularity of labour relations on the informal labour market, and whether work is oriented towards use or exchange value on the family based labour market are in large part determinative of the distribution of material and social rewards for children who work. Furthermore economic agency is embedded and expressed through the structural and relational factors specific to each labour market.
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Kobayashi, Yukiko. "Demographic and socio economic characteristics of Irish migrants in contemporary Britain." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272593.

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Kim, Doo Sik. "A cross-national study on economic development, economic dependency, cultural dependency, and internal structural mechanisms : modernization or dependency /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487325740717624.

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Frennborn, Lena C. "Race and Birthweight: The Influence of Socio-Economic Status and Utilization of Prenatal Care." VCU Scholars Compass, 1997. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4546.

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The purpose of this research was to determine how much of the variance in birthweight can be explained by socio-economic status and utilization of prenatal care in Blacks and Whites. Rather than defining race in genetic terms, race was understood here as a social construction. The methodological approach was an analysis of the National Survey of Family Growth Cycle IV, 1988. The first, singleton, live birth for each interviewed woman was included, resulting in a sample of 911 women, of whom 313 were Black women and 598 White women. Consistent with previous research, Black mothers were twice as likely to have a low birthweight infant (11.8%) compared to White women (6%). In the total sample race, marital status, and income were correlated with birthweight. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine how much of the variance in birthweight is explained by socioeconomic factors and utilization of prenatal care. The model explained 5% of the variance in birthweight. Race and education were the only two factors that significantly explained variance in birthweight in this model. The findings failed to support the hypothesis that socioeconomic status and utilization of prenatal care would explain a significant amount of the variance in birthweight. The variables included in the model did not explain variance in birthweight for either Black women, or White women.
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Chakrabarti, Debjani. "Economic freedom and social capital determinants on economic growth of developed and developing nations." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2007. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-04232007-164855.

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Pearce, Geof. "Where is New Zealand going?" Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1024.

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Marxism is often criticised for its 'outdated economics' which wrongly downplays the state's role in modern social life. This study uses readily available official statistics to test the validity of this critique. Although simple accounting principles are used, factory production data for 1923-70 is rigorously and systematically re-aggregated to approximate constant (fixed and circulating) and variable capital, manufacturers' surplus-value, capital composition, and rates of accumulation, exploitation and profit. A separate volume details all statistical operations and tabulates results. Capital accumulation is used to fix the curve of capitalist development and the interrelations between valueratios are used to explain the curve's shape. Conventional theories are also called on to explain trends in national income and factory production input/output series. Main conclusions drawn are that (1) marxism is empirically well-corroborated and (2) no consistent correlation holds between state intervention and economic growth. Marxian hypotheses concerning proletarianisation, economic concentration, class struggle, etc. are also tested systematically against New Zealand data and confirmed. In this light, and as rival theories of superior verisimilitude are absent, the criticism mentioned is rejected as unwarranted. Most NZ marxian analyses focus on superstructures, lacking objective bases for problem-formulation and solution, this study offers such a basis.
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Himes, Jeffrey J. "Generational factors and resource availability a study of the key components of social capital formation /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2193.

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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2001.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 108 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-69).
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Levering, Dale W. "Solidarity utility considerations in agricultural land lease in the Republic of Moldova /." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2388.

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Gisselmann, Marit. "The first injustice : Socio-economic inequalities in birth outcome." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Sociology, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6803.

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Adverse birth outcomes like preterm birth and infant mortality are unevenly distributed across socio-economic groups. Risks are usually lowest in groups with high socio-economic status and increase with decreasing status.

The general aim of this thesis was to contribute to the understanding of the relation between socio-economic status and birth outcomes, focussing on maternal education and class, studying a range of birth outcomes. More specific aims were to investigate the relation between maternal education and infant health, to study the combined influence of maternal childhood and adult social class on inequalities in infant health and to explore the contribution of maternal working conditions to class inequalities in birth outcomes. The studies are population based, focussing on singletons births 1973-1990. During the period under study, educational differences in birth outcomes increased, especially between those with the lowest and highest education. The low birth weight paradox emerged, suggesting that the distribution of determinants for low birthweight infants differs for these groups.

Further, an independent association was found between maternal childhood social class and low birthweight and neonatal mortality, but not for postneonatal mortality. Since this was found for the two outcomes closest to birth, this indicates that the association is mediated through the maternal body.

Finally, there is a contribution of maternal working conditions to class inequalities in birth outcome. Lower job control, higher job hazards and higher physical demands were all to some degree related to increased risk of the following adverse birth outcomes: infant mortality, low birthweight, very low birthweight, foetal growth, preterm birth, very and extremely preterm birth. Working conditions demonstrated disparate associations with the birth outcomes, indicating a high complexity in these relationships.

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Nau, Michael D. "Whose Financial Crisis? How the Great Recession Reshaped Economic Instability and Inequality in the U.S." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1458297758.

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Moskowitz, Adam N. "Economic, social and racial attitudes among the American mass public : implications for maintaining mass democracy /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488205318508206.

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Byron, Margaret H. "The Caribbean-Britain migration cycle : migrant goals, social networks and socio-economic structure." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332907.

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Abdul-Rahman, Saaidah. "Poverty and social security in Malaysia : major themes in economic and social development." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/72aa56cb-90a2-43b6-b6e1-b683bb5641bd.

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Beraduce, Janet. "Crime and the Economy: Economic Effects on the Crime Rates of Youngstown, Ohio." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1290443483.

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Smith, Buster G. Bader Christopher David Tolbert Charles M. North Charles Mark. "The importance of economic surroundings on religious adherence." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4191.

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Davis, Paul William. "Economic structure and individuality : an essay on contradiction." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 1993. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/8731/.

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This Project builds upon Lucien Seve's time-based (biographical) approach to personality development. The personality is, he contends, composed of three core elements-need; activity; and capacity. In contemporary social conditions, needs are complex and subordinated to the structure of acts and the growth of capacities. The Hypotheses that flow from this prioritisation are critically appraised here, while the theory in toto is put to the ultimate test of historical inquiry and verification. This historical investigation seeks to explore the development of capacities and the structure of activity (use-time) in the Advanced Capitalist Countries since the mid-19th Century. Contra the deskilling perspective, the interpretation of that history proposed here is a contradictory one: a long term trend to reduced worktimes coupled with secular densification of tasks; a mechanical integration of the collective labourer combining with overt moves to deepen worker segregation; a concomitant polarisation of skills and continuing inequity in access to a growing biographical time fund. The ultimate indifference of the capitalist mode of production to the biographical interests of its supporting individuals prompts, finally, an evaluation of options for a human-centred path of social change for the future (an exploration of concrete Utopias), In this humanist reappropriation of history, the communist vision has been correctly typed as under-defined in crucial ways, including in the field of development of what Marx termed rich individuality. The overall assessment of the Marxian project remains, however, a positive one.
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Frommholz, Gotz Harald. "Local embeddedness matters! : a study of the meaning of locality for the production process in the kitchen furniture industry in East Westphalia and Lippe." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8266.

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New institutionalism in sociology addresses how institutional pressure influences organisational behaviour. Its particular impact on “new economic sociology” is to establish a counter perspective to neo-classical economics by criticising the rational actor model of behaviour and emphasising cultural and cognitive references for business actions. Recent developments in new institutionalism increasingly focus on researching national and international contexts, which demonstrate a keen interest in non-local environments. Micro sociological research accordingly receives limited attention and the meaning of locality for production strategy in relation to markets is largely neglected. This thesis presents evidence from the kitchen-furniture industry of East Westphalia and Lippe (EWL) in Germany that, in an increasingly globalised economic system, local institutional contexts continue to influence business behaviour significantly. The thesis demonstrates the importance of locality for production organisation and business strategy in this case. The research aims to contribute to new institutionalist theory by establishing the relevance of “localness” and to encourage research to re-engage in meso-analysis on the sub-national level. The analysis presents results from a qualitative case study, which encompasses in-depth interviews, as well as results derived from contextual analysis of the industry’s structure and performance and statistical indicators provided by local institutions. The study tries to understand why about 70% of German produced kitchens, and about every fourth kitchen in Europe, originates from EWL. The findings demonstrate that managers’ evaluations of local production networks, regional cultural norms and values, shape managerial cognitive frameworks, which influence business behaviour significantly and can create meaning for locality of production sites.
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Wu, Li. "Modern management in China, with a case study of lean production in state auto component companies." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/43634b47-8997-4bcf-ae7b-8ca379222ec3.

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Bendary, Azza T. "The Egyptian economic crisis, household adaptations and political-religious responses a study in two Egyptian villages /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487859313345856.

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Thomas, Melissa. "The Media and The Postmodern Athlete: A Political Economic Analysis of Mia Hamm and David Beckham." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/5533.

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Soener, Matthew C. "Why Do Firms Financialize? Meso-Level Evidence from the U.S. Apparel and Footwear Industry, 1991-2005." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397491808.

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Haj-Ismail, Hanan Ahmad. "The participation of urban women in political and economic activities in the Arab World." Thesis, Keele University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261485.

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Rouchdy, Malak Said. "Peasants and merchants in Batra : the process of economic diversification in an Egyptian village." Thesis, Durham University, 1989. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6552/.

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Thompson, Randal Joy. "Commoning| Creating a new socio-economic order? A grounded theory study." Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3668756.

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Interest in the commons, a concept that extends back to antiquity, has peaked in recent years as alarming resource depletion and intellectual property restrictions have caused international concern, while the Internet has increasingly linked people globally, creating a robust platform for common action. Generally conceived of as shared resources, communities that create, use, and/or manage them, social protocols that govern their usage, and a sense of mutuality, commons include natural resources and well as created resources such as knowledge and information. This study examined the commons by employing a grounded theory approach that sought to discover a theory regarding the processes underlying this phenomenon. Grounded theory initiates research by asking the question, "What is going on here?" Commoning emerged as the core variable and hence the grounded theory of the commons. Commoning is a complex social and psychological process that commoners engage in when they are establishing and managing commons. Commoning entails supplanting the market paradigm, based upon maximizing self-interest and assigning value based on price, with a paradigm that maximizes communal well-being. Through commoning, commoners gain a sense that they are the protagonists of their own lives. They gain this sense by forming a communal identity, seeing themselves as part of the ecological system, and taking control of resources that they feel the state and market have failed to effectively manage. In commoning, commoners are driven from their inner purpose and authentic self. Living this way resonates to society as a whole, creating a society that reflects more abundance, harmony, peace, social justice, respect for future generations, and sustainability.

Key words: commons, commoners, commoning, grounded theory, post-capitalism

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Moreira, Gustavo Herkenhoff. "Contribuição da nova sociologia econômica para a administração no Brasil." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17717.

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The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of the New Economic Sociology to the Brazilian Business Administration scientific production. Starting with the benefits of interdisciplinarity, the importance of Sociology to Administration is discussed through the contributions of the New Economic Sociology, a knowledge area that uses a sociological perspective to analyze markets. This study evaluated the scientific literature published in journals as well as in Anpad's events between 2006 and 2015 to measure and evaluate how the discipline is being used in the discussions related to management in Brazil. As a result, the general profile of the publications, authors and the thematic areas that are being complemented by discipline are presented, not to mention the study also provides a clearer view of the institutional environment of the research network. The research suggests the area is undergoing a rise in interest. There was a substantial increase in (adjusted) publication volumes, active researchers, number of journals, active academic institutions and in the average number of authors per work, demonstrating an improvement in the permeability of the concepts. However, few universities and researchers were active simultaneously in both five-year periods. The research network appeared to be sparse. Other elements also suggested the topic is poorly institutionalized. The typical profile of the researcher using the New Economic Sociology is dominated by administrators located in the same department. However, the contributions of social scientists were relevant in a number of ways. The analysis showed that New Economic Sociology has contributed to illuminate management issues, especially those related to organizational performance and market analysis. The most frequent disciplines overlapping it were Strategy and Organizational Theory, often making use of the concept of social networks to answer the research questions.
O objetivo deste trabalho é identificar a contribuição da Nova Sociologia Econômica para a produção científica brasileira da Administração. Partindo dos benefícios da interdisciplinaridade, discute-se a importância da Sociologia para a Administração por meio dos aportes da Nova Sociologia Econômica, um campo voltado para a análise sociológica dos mercados. Realiza-se um levantamento sistemático e uma avaliação da produção científica que recorre à Nova Sociologia Econômica, publicada em periódicos de referência na Administração de 2006 a 2015, assim como nos anais do Anpad, para mensurar e avaliar como a disciplina está permeando as discussões de gestão no Brasil. Como resultado, obtém-se um perfil das publicações, dos autores, das áreas temáticas da Administração que vêm sendo complementadas pela disciplina, além de uma visão mais clara do ambiente institucional e da rede de pesquisadores que se utilizam do tema. Foi observado um crescimento no interesse por seus conceitos. Houve substancial elevação no volume (ajustado) de publicações, de pesquisadores ativos no tema, no número de periódicos, de instituições de ensino superior abrigando pesquisadores ativos no tema e, na média de autores por trabalho, demonstrando uma melhora na permeabilidade destes conceitos no ambiente acadêmico de Administração. No entanto, poucas universidades e pesquisadores foram ativos simultaneamente nos dois quinquênios avaliados, a rede de pesquisadores se mostrou pouco densa, e foram observados elementos que sugerem que o tema está pouco institucionalizado. Outro aspecto observado é que o perfil típico do pesquisador que vem recorrendo à Nova Sociologia Econômica para pesquisas de gestão no Brasil é dominado por administradores, lotados no mesmo departamento. Destaca-se também que as contribuições de cientistas sociais foram relevantes em importantes aspectos. O conteúdo abordado mostra que a Nova Sociologia Econômica vem contribuindo para iluminar problemas de gestão, especialmente em temas relacionados a desempenho organizacional e a análise de mercado. Os trabalhos analisados possuem enquadramento mais frequente nas disciplinas de Estratégia e Teoria Organizacional, frequentemente lançando mão do conceito de redes sociais para responder as perguntas de pesquisa.
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Harris, David P. Forstater Mathew. "Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Peter Kropotkin, and Catholic Social Teaching on work, wages, and the role of technology." Diss., UMK access, 2008.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Economics and Social Science Consortium. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008.
"A dissertation in economics and the social science consortium." Advisor: Mathew Forstater. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 6, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-193). Online version of the print edition.
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Hockenberry, Jacklyn M. "Economic, Social, and Regional Barriers in Appalachian Migration." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1493770157096965.

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Girard, Magali. "Economic integration of immigrants to Canada and foreign credential recognition." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95095.

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The lack of foreign credential recognition by Canadian employers and professional associations is often cited as one of the explanations for the increasing earnings gap between Canadian workers and immigrant workers. The main objective of my dissertation is to look at different aspects of economic integration of immigrants to Canada, and more specifically at issues related to credential recognition. The objective of the first analysis is to examine the extent to which, after arrival, immigrants find jobs in the same occupations in which they were employed in their home countries. I also examine the effect on earnings of a match between the pre- and post-immigration occupations. Our results suggest that most recent immigrants move into a new occupation when they arrive in Canada and that those whose pre- and post-immigration occupations match tend to earn more. In the second analysis, I determine how many immigrants work in regulated and unregulated occupations and look at how education is associated with the likelihood of working in a regulated occupation. In aggregate, immigrants are slightly less likely to work in a regulated occupation. Immigrants educated in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean prove to be much less likely to secure access to a regulated occupation than either the native-born or other immigrants. The objective of the third analysis is to understand the transition between immigrants' premigration education and their educational trajectories once in Canada, and the return on investment in postmigration education in terms of employment status and earnings. A third of new immigrants with postsecondary training pursue their education during their early years in Canada. Those who enrol do not see an immediate benefit in terms of their earnings and employment status. In the last chapter, I examine foreign credential recognition processes in Canada and recent public investments to address this issue. Gaining foreign credential recognition from a
Le manque de reconnaissance des titres de compétences acquis à l'étranger est l'une des causes souvent citées pour expliquer l'augmentation de la disparité salariale entre immigrants et non-immigrants au Canada. Le principal objectif de ma thèse est d'examiner différents aspects de l'intégration économique des immigrants au Canada, et plus particulièrement ceux liés à la reconnaissance des titres de compétences étrangers. Le but de la première étude est d'analyser le lien entre le domaine de l'emploi principal occupé par les immigrants avant leur arrivée et les emplois qu'ils ont occupés en début d'établissement, ainsi que l'effet net d'une adéquation des emplois sur le revenu des immigrants récents. Les résultats suggèrent que la plupart de ces immigrants ne se trouvent pas un emploi dans leur domaine; par ailleurs, ceux qui y parviennent ont un salaire plus élevé. Dans la deuxième analyse, je détermine combien d'immigrants travaillent dans des professions réglementées et non réglementées. J'examine comment l'éducation est associée à la probabilité de travailler dans une profession réglementée et, dans l'ensemble, les immigrants sont un peu moins susceptibles de travailler dans de telles professions. Les immigrants formés en Asie, en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes ont beaucoup moins de chances d'occuper une profession réglementée que les autres immigrants et les non-immigrants. L'objectif de la troisième analyse est de comprendre la transition entre l'éducation pre-migratoire et les trajectoires d'éducation au Canada, et les effets de l'investissement en éducation post-migratoire sur l'employabilité et le revenu. Un tiers des nouveaux immigrants ayant une formation postsecondaire poursuivent leurs études pendant leurs premières années au Canada. Ceux qui s'inscrivent à un programme de formation ne voient pas un bénéfice immédiat sur leur revenu et les chances d'être en emploi. Dans le dernier chap
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Fosse, Ethan. "Cultural Continuity and the Rise of the Millennials: Generational Trends in Politics, Religion, and Economic Values." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463122.

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McKie, Ruth. "Rebranding the climate change counter movement through a criminological and political economic lens." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2018. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/33466/.

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The climate change counter movement (CCCM) has been the focus of social scientists and environmental activists for several years (e.g. Greenpeace). The movement is made up of an organised group of actors that have campaigned, distorted and minimised the impacts of climate change, and criticised domestic and international level policy to remedy climate change. The purpose of this study is to add to this area of investigation having located 465 CCCM organisations across the globe. To examine the CCCM I adopt a two-part theoretical framework synthesising a perspective from the political economic and sociology of crime and deviance literatures. First, I propose that the operation of CCCM organisations can be explained through a Gramscian lens of Hegemony. Second, I propose the messages adopted by CCCM organisation can be understood through a crime and deviance lens. Specifically, I propose these messages can be rebranded as CCCM neutralisation techniques. I conducted a content analysis of 805 documents taken from these organisations to see if CCCM organisations adopted messages that could be rebranded as techniques of neutralisation. I then conducted a cross-national analysis to (1) predict the number of organisations, and (2) predict the use of neutralisation techniques across countries. A series of negative binomial regression and ordinary least squared regression equations to test whether political, economic, and ecological factors can explain the number of CCCM organisations across countries and the messages they adopt. These results reveal strong support for the notion that CCCM organisations operate and use CCCM neutralisation techniques to protect fossil fuel hegemony against climate action. Several techniques of neutralisation are used to justify the continued use of fossil fuels and rationalise the ecological consequences to help sustain support for the hegemonic global capitalist economy. Moreover, CCCM organisations operate to challenge the rise of environmentalism.
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