South Africa after 30 years of democracy: Land claims and transitional justice in the spotlight by Pulane Adelaide Molomo, Bekithemba Dube

“…The short duration of the transitional process and the lesser priority placed on social justice have impacted rural poverty, unresolved land reforms, ideological differences, and inequalities. This literature review explores the disadvantages of transitional justice and government policies regarding land reforms. …”
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alchimia dall’inferno al paradiso nella divina commedia. l’influsso su dante dell’opera alchemica aurora consurgens, parzialmente attribuita a san tommaso d’aquino by Marino Alberto Balducci

“…We are in the presence of a true ideological and technical-scientific perversion: a false alchemy which, instead of offering help to our world, only produces deception and diseases of the body and spirit. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Discourse-Oriented Contexts of Prophet Noah In two Surahs of Hood and Noah Based on Van Leeuwen's Framework by Ebrahim Fallah, Sajjad Shafipoor

“…Also, the way social agents are represented by the narrative of Noah and his people has been analyzed with respect to sociological-semantic components in order to produce and convey specific ideologies in the lower layers of the text in the condition of revelation era in the two surahs of Hood and Noah. …”
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Embodied aesthetics and populist appeal of communist portraits in contemporary Kerala by Anagha Anil

“…Popularly known as the ‘Party’, an important aspect of CPI(M) has been its populist streak even though its official discourse is one that strongly adheres to rule-based reasoning by prioritizing ideological principles in its policies and decisions. …”
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Historiography of Neo-Roman Thought: Critical Review of Skinner’s Liberty before Liberalism by Reza Najafzadeh

“…Skinner puts the theory of civic liberty against the liberalism believing that the ideological triumph of liberalism in nineteenth degraded the republican cause of liberty. …”
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Corporate Nietzsche: Assessing Prospects of Success for Managers with Master and Slave Moralities by A. Faisal, A. R. Aleemi

“…Each type of person is characterized to have certain qualities, traits, ideologies, and methods of dealing with everyday situations. …”
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Zwischen dem Gedenken und der Ideologisierung der Kämpfe der Legionen in den Ostkarpaten in der polnischen Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit by Jagoda Wierzejska

“…The article sheds light on both the commemorative and ideologizing aspects of the literature devoted to the battles in the Eastern Carpathians and their legionary and Hutsul protagonists.…”
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Understanding the Dynamics of Transition of the Women’s Movement in Armenia: Challenges for Democratic Representation and Increasing Political Influence by Olga Azatyan

“…The article draws attention to the fact that women's movements in Armenia are distinguished by the fact that they are future-oriented, ideologically driven and more inclusive than other civic initiatives. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…For Reynolds and Rymer, therefore, the hoax did not constitute a departure or escapist fantasy, but a potentially more persuasive affirmation of the ideological commitments that they shared. Reading it today throws into bold relief those shared perspectives, which critics are only beginning to recover and re-appraise.…”
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EVOLUTION OF STATE FAMILY POLICY IN RUSSIA FROM SOVIET TIMES TO THE PRESENT by A. V. Noskova

“…We define here the family state policy widely enough as the various state activity (ideological, legislative, economic, social) concerning institute of family. …”
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Assessing the Role of Soft Power in India-Russia Relations by Rashmi Doraiswamy

“…Despite their rich cultural resources and institutionalization of the dissemination of soft power, both countries do not fare well in soft power rankings.The article argues that changes in the international order since the 1990s, shifts in political ideologies, and the reorientation of the foreign policies of both countries have led them to seek new allies. …”
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DarkOnto: An Ontology Construction Approach for Dark Web Community Discussions Through Topic Modeling and Ontology Learning by Randa Basheer, Bassel Alkhatib

“…It also encompasses a diversity of ideologies, interests, and thought patterns associated with illicit activities and businesses on the dark web. …”
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Parasites and plantations: Disease, environment and society in efforts to induce extinction of hookworm in Jamaica, 1919–1936 by Jonathan D. Roberts, Lorna L. Waddington, Rupert J. Quinnell, Graham Huggan, Alison M. Dunn

“…We show that the attempt to induce the extinction of hookworms was driven by its perceived effects on labour productivity and consequent status as an ideological and economic threat. We use spatial epidemiology to describe the relationships between parasites, environments and the working conditions of plantation labourers. …”
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The Evaluative Process Model of Objectification: how men's evaluations of patriarchal security and women's fit with conventional beauty and sexuality norms interact to predict perp... by Gemma Sáez, Abigail R. Riemer, Olivier Klein, Sarah J. Gervais

“…Among men who endorse patriarchal ideologies, perceived patriarchy threat or security is theorized to interact with evaluations of female targets to predict whether objectifying perceptions of female targets result in benevolent, derogative, or dismissive objectifying behaviors. …”
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A new monograph by Konstantin Frumkin [Review: Frumkin K.G. Admiring the Academic Class: Reflection of the Social History of Soviet Science in Literature, Art, and Public Rhetoric.... by D.E. Martynov, Yu.A. Martynova

“…He argues that the cult of science, as an institutionalized professional activity inseparable from the public interest in the work of scientists, is a specific feature of the 20th century. The ideological confrontation of the 1920s and 1930s touched little upon literature. …”
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Regional Press and Local Authority Structures: History of Its Establishment and Relations (1930–2000). On the example of the Omsk Region by S. V. Novikov

“…In the USSR, the establishment of district newspapers took place on the during the period of the socialist reorganization of the countryside. Adhering to the ideological line of the party leadership, they described in the newspapers the approaches of the party leaders to the solution of not only regional but also national issues. …”
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Evaluating the relationship between news source sharing and political beliefs by Sofía M. del Pozo, Sebastián Pinto, Matteo Serafino, Federico Moss, Tomás Cicchini, Hernán A. Makse, Pablo Balenzuela

“…This study explores this hypothesis by examining the news sharing behavior of politically active social media users, whose political ideologies were identified in a previous study. Using correspondence analysis, we estimate the Media Sharing Index (MSI), a measure that captures bias in media outlets and user preferences within a hidden space. …”
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Effect of COVID-19 on the cultural identity of the Amazonian indigenous Waorani by Aldrin Espín-León, María Luisa Pertegal-Felices, Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla, Juan Guzmán-Montalvo

“…The results show that the cultural identity of the Waorani indigenous people has remained largely unchanged from the first measurement in 2017 to the second measurement after the pandemic in 2022 across most variables (economic, production, property, and land cultivation; family, reproduction, education, childcare, and medicine; organization, community politics, and justice; social, music, art, food, clothing, and housing). However, in the ideological, religious, beliefs, and spirituality domains, there was a significant decline in scores after COVID-19.…”
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Interrelationship of the volunteerism and solidarity concepts in sociology by O. P. Noskova

“…The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical research into interrelationship of the volunteerism and solidarity concepts in sociology, and the former has been considered as a form of assistance and support for those in need, and the latter as an ideological justification of this assistance, a link that allows citizens to rally around a common good goal. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty” by Hamid Reza Maghsoodi, Mohammad Javad Masoominia

“…The authors claim to have derived their theory with a historical approach and an inductive method, but in fact, by choosing oriented analytical and comparative methods and of course philosophical ones, they have presented an ideological reading of the history of countries and the quality of their development. …”
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