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Ensinar e Aprender na Évora Medieval
Published 2019-03-01“…Preserved by their ecclesiastical sanctuaries, the erudite culture, the writing and reading and school education expand during the Late Middle Ages, with an augmenting supply adapted to its recipients and their motivations. The social mobility that a good education could bring, the needs of an increasingly demanding ecclesiastical hierarchy, the specialization within the central and local administrations, the specificities of the religious minorities, as well as the prestige associated with high culture, are some of the factors responsible for the creation of these new schools. …”
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The bequest of Pedro Domingues, 1335: the foundation of a chapel in honour of Dona Branca, princess of Portugal, in the church of Santa Justa of Coimbra
Published 2016-12-01“…More than the analysis of the behaviour of medieval society towards the dead, we want to question the function of this chapel in the social mobility of one family from the urban oligarchy. …”
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“Ganpati Bappa Morya!” Lo spazio del sacro migrante nella festa di Ganesh a Palermo
Published 2022-06-01“…The Ganpati celebrates the Mauritian devotees’ spatial and social mobility, connecting them to their affective transnational networks through social media. …”
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Hypergamy reconsidered: Marriage in England, 1837-2021.
Published 2025-01-01“…It is widely believed that women value social status in marital partners more than men, leading to female marital hypergamy ("marrying up"), and more female intergenerational social mobility. Using evidence from more than 33 million marriages and 67 million births in England 1837-2021 we show that within this era there was never significant hypergamous marriage by women. …”
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Social elevators in education: problems and solutions
Published 2018-07-01“…The article analyzes the role of social mobility in modern society, discusses the function of social elevators in education. …”
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Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo)
Published 2022-12-01“…Migrant subjects incorporate Catholic ritual gestures and symbols in their votive dialogue with Santa Rosalia, establishing an emotional and spiritual connection with the city of Palermo through the sacred space of Monte Pellegrino, while demanding miracles from her deity to facilitate processes such as learning the Italian language and aspiring for greater social mobility. The intimate relationship with Santa Rosalia provides her devotees with a creative space for the construction of new forms of transnational belonging and a privileged interface with the new city and its inhabitants.…”
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Producing the Popular: John Monk Foster and the ‘Industrial Romance’
Published 2022-03-01“…The article concludes by analysing the tensions between the novel’s ‘social mobility’ and ‘marriage/happiness’ plots and argues that Monk Foster has to decouple these plots in order to arrive at an ideologically satisfactory happy ending.…”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database
Published 2016-03-01“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database
Published 2016-03-01“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database
Published 2016-03-01“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database
Published 2016-03-01“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. …”
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Cross Roads, Wrong Tracks, or New Goals in Globalized Europe?
Published 2015-10-01“…In consumer societies interpersonal relationships transform lifestyle, as well as people’s opinion concerning social mobility. Thus original social roots are being torn off, traditional relationships are fading and this is how a phenomenon called chameleon migration is established. …”
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Historical Life Courses and Family Reconstitutions. The Scientific Impact of the Antwerp COR*-Database
Published 2022-10-01“…As such the database allows the reconstruction of historical life courses and families, and the analysis of key demographic characteristics and developments regarding marriage, fertility, migration, social mobility, health, mortality and longevity, as well as their interplay within and across households, families and generations. …”
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Entre a posição e as práticas: classes médias nas perspectivas de Erik Olin Wright e Pierre Bourdieu
Published 2020-01-01“…However, Pierre Bourdieu's theory ofsocial space emphasising the symbolic dimension of class relations highlights some features that would be particular to middle classes, such as the moral rigidity the asceticism, valorisation of education and culture and the focus on individual merit as a form of upward social mobility. These characteristics could be construed by middle class as differentiating criteria and as a specific type ofcapital, which has contributed to separate middle class from the popular class. …”
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Funding, inequalities, and access: An amalgam of challenges in South African higher education
Published 2024-12-01“…The nature of these challenges found in various public institutions of higher education across South Africa include limited social mobility, underrepresentation of certain groups in higher education, and financial insolvency of poor South Africans. …”
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“Social Elevator”: Research of Affirmative Action Program
Published 2024-11-01“…Further research on the topic is required to separate the secondary effects of inequality, as well as to assess the actual social mobility of students participating in the program. …”
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Historical Population Database of Transylvania. Sources, Particularities, Challenges, and Early Findings
Published 2022-06-01“…The database has already been employed in a wide-ranging series of analyses conducted on datasets extracted from HPDT, which include infant and adult mortality, nuptiality and age at first marriage, social mobility, and the medicalization of childbirth. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database
Published 2016-03-01“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. …”
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Sociological analysis of remote work as a new format of current population employment in Russia
Published 2022-09-01“…However, it should be noted that changes in the structure of employment can also affect other social institutions, processes and relationships: the institution of the family, domestic relations, social and professional communications, social mobility, and the very relationship of a person to work. …”
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A Study of Social Class Conflict in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Published 2024“…This research employs Marxist literary criticism, feminist theory, and sociological theories of social stratification to analyze how Austen’s depiction of class influences characters' choices, marriage prospects, and social mobility. Austen’s narrative, centered around the Bennet family’s struggles with economic pressures and societal expectations, reveals the complexities of class dynamics and gender roles. …”
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