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(Re)centralizing Tendencies within Health Care Services. Implementation of a New Idea?
Decentralization has for many years been a widespread trend in health care sectors throughoutEurope, but some implications of ambitions for states to regain control can be seen. This paper examines wh
Homophily and segregation in adolescent friendships - A social network perspective
Per Block, Nuffield college, Oxford Homophily the tendency of individuals to be friends with other that are similar in some respect, is one of the most pervasive regularities in social networks. It is
The Frontiers of Sociology
2009. Brill. Table of Contents IntroductionPeter Hedström and Björn Wittrock: Frontiers of Sociology The legacy and frontiers of sociologyThe Emergence of Universalism: An Affirmative Genealogy Hans JoasTheThe Return to Values in Recent Sociological Theory Sociology and Political Science: Learning and Challenges Toward a New Comprehensive Social Science
Becoming a business student: Negotiating identity and social contacts during the first three months of an elite business education
Institute for Futures Studies, working paper 2022:13, 23 pages. We know that informal networks explain differences in career success. Historical differences in business careers of men and women have fr
Children and the right to vote
In: Gheaus, Anca, Calder, Gideon, and De Wispelaere, Jurgen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Milton: Routledge. Introduction The history of democracy is stronglySixty years ago, no European democracy allowed 18-year-olds to vote; today, no European nation denies people aged 18 the vote. The tendency is to lower the age of voting further. Voting from the age of 16 is now allowed in several countries, including Austria, Argentina and Brazil. The general question raised by these developments concerns what the final destination should be: what is the appropriate voting-rights age in a democracy?
Qué futuro tiene el futuro? El País reports on our AI research
"We live in an unpredictable time, the leading experts in artifical intelligence tell us. They have no answers and ordinary citizens are not even capable of asking the pertinent questions. We traveled
