The Erosion of the Middle Class – Threat to the Development of the Welfare State by E. A. Maryganova

“…The crucial role of this layer of society is to serve as a social stabilizer. The slowdown of the middle class, and even more, its size reduction can cause serious damage to the economic and social development of Russia.…”
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Image of Higher Educational Institutions: Features of Perception by Graduating Class Students by V. A. Sagaidak, A. L. Kuzevanova, O. Yu. Yabloskikh

“…The purpose of the study is to identify the features of perception of a higher education organizations image by pupils of graduating classes. The results of online survey of high school pupils from Volgograd and Volzhsky and the series of in-depth interviews with graduate pupils are presented. …”
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Multimorbidity clusters and their associations with health-related quality of life in two UK cohorts by Lewis Steell, Stefanie J. Krauth, Sayem Ahmed, Grace O. Dibben, Emma McIntosh, Peter Hanlon, Jim Lewsey, Barbara I. Nicholl, David A. McAllister, Susan M. Smith, Rachael Evans, Zahira Ahmed, Sarah Dean, Colin Greaves, Shaun Barber, Patrick Doherty, Nikki Gardiner, Tracy Ibbotson, Kate Jolly, Paula Ormandy, Sharon A. Simpson, Rod S. Taylor, Sally J. Singh, Frances S. Mair, Bhautesh D. Jani, the PERFORM research team

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Re-conceptualizing trafficking-in-persons victimization using latent class analysis: Results from a community study in Cape Town, South Africa by Annah K. Bender, Erica L. Koegler, Edna G. Rich, Nicolette V. Roman, Rumi Kato Price

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Political Interference and Social Service Delivery in Kanaba Sub-County Kisoro District. by Tumushime, Bosco

“…The study concluded that political interference in social service delivery could be solved by the intervening strategies in place to reduce the rate of interference with social service delivery by political leaders like Leader's commitment, Good governance, Intuitional arrangement, Distribution of costs and benefits, and Secularism in a multi-religious society. …”
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« Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics » Social Comedy, Nostalgia and a World of Fantasy (Wilde and Hofmannsthal) by Anne-Isabelle François

“…The article focuses on the social comedies where a reception is being held, these passages offering a key to understanding not only the lasting popularity of the productions, but also the symbolic value and general ambivalence of Wilde’s theatrical picture of the Victorian upper class. …”
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HABITUAL STRUCTURE OF THE KALININGRAD REGION’ POPULATION by Boris B. Podgorny

“…The approaches to the stratification of the country’s population used today by the scientific community do not make it possible to determine the integrated position of an individual in Russian society - an individual who occupies a high place in one of the stratifications may be at a low level in other stratifications. …”
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Liability for Damage Caused by Loadshedding: A Consideration of Whether Collective Action for Redress by Consumers in South Africa is Possible by Tshepiso Scott-Ngoepe

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Study on the Optimization Path of After-school Physical Education Services in Junior High Schools under the Policy of Increasing the Physical Education Score of the Secondary Schoo... by Jinjiang Qiao, Xue Wang

“…The results of the study are as follows Findings: After-school PE services in junior middle schools have problems such as the phenomenon of exam-oriented education, insufficient teachers, irrational time arrangement, too many students (≥100 students), high fees (average 80-100 RMB/class hour), low remuneration for teachers’ services (average 50-100 RMB/class hour), and low motivation of students. …”
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The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs by Wu Jieh-min, Mark Selden

“…Revolutionaries in the 1950s offered this prospect to the Chinese people: a highly egalitarian society, the product of land reform, collectivization and nationalization, with low but gradually rising income and welfare provisions for all, would chart a course toward mutual prosperity on foundations of socialist development. …”
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Historical origin and development of politically motivated criminal offences: Political delicts by Matić Goran D.

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Semantic-Based Classification of Long Texts on Higher Education in China by Chun Li, Yanying Fei

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Mondialisation et nouvelle mobilité des élites africaines by Michel Lesourd

“…Today, the social class of “leaders” in Africa (high public official, political elite, business managers, big traders) is the main benefiter of the wealth accumulation process that has been created by the globalization, the development of exchanges and communication, as well as the global economic deregulation. …”
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Évolution de l’urbanisme et exposition au risque cyclonique à Saint-Martin de 1954 à 2017 by Kelly Pasquon, Gwenaël Jouannic, Julien Gargani, Chloé Tran Duc Minh, Denis Crozier

“…On the one hand, there are private residences in affluent neighbourhoods, on the other hand working-class neighbourhoods with vulnerable dwellings. The effect of hurricanes on this society, which has been highly unequal since the 1960's up to the 1980's, is to reinforce inequalities. …”
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Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis in Determining Factors Associated with Socioeconomic Status of Household in Tepi Town, Southwest Ethiopia by Mesfin Esayas Lelisho, Abebe Argaw Wogi, Seid Ali Tareke

“…Socioeconomic status (SES) refers to an individual’s or group’s social position or class, which is often determined by a combination of education, income, and occupation. …”
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Zadie Smith’s NW or the art of line-crossing by Vanessa GUIGNERY

“…The purpose of this paper is to examine NW, Zadie Smith’s fourth novel, through the notion of crossings, which can be viewed as ethical connections between characters but also as geographical journeys across London, movements along the social scale, multicultural encounters, weavings of various literary traditions and lineages, as well as intertwining of high and popular culture. …”
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Analysing the Demography and Migration Related Challenges within the Internal Periphery of South-Heves by Tunde Bogardi

“…Experiences show that in case of regions with a more disadvantageous situation than average, generally classes of lower social statuses will become dominant, while as it is described by Győri-Nagy (2003), “the escape of competent classes of the population” can be observed. …”
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Le matin des sociologues. Entretien avec Alain Touraine by Michel-Antoine Burnier

“…He goes back over the student protest movements of May 1968 and the new emerging social problematisations, among which sexuality. He especially insists on the modalities by which the balances of power establish themselves in post-industrial societies and on the conditions of production in social action. …”
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Sounds like gambling: detection of gambling venue visitation from sounds in gamblers’ environments using a transformer by Kenji Yokotani, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hideyuki Takahashi, Masahiro Takamura, Nobuhito Abe

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A Mixed Project-and-Stock Portfolio Optimization Model with Mean-SemiVariance-SemiEntropy Approach by Amirhosein Khayyatian, Majid Shakhsi-Niaei

“…In summary, this study has taken a significant step towards improving social and economic well-being by introducing an innovative model for resolving investment challenges.Originality/value: The innovation and strength of this research lies in incorporating projects as a new asset class into the traditional portfolio model. …”
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