Fully funded doctoral student positions in Finland (1 comments)“Randomization in such studies is arguably a negative, in practice, in that it gives apparently ironclad causal identification (not really, given the ultimate goal of generalization), which just gives researchers and outsiders a greater ...
In the real space of her birthplace, she can locate her original identity by embracing her idle memories. It is in Japan that her aspiration of becoming an English teacher is fulfilled and her obsessive dream of reconnecting with her biological family, who “had completely cut [her] off” (...
The paradox of replication studies: A good analyst has special data analysis and interpretation skills. But it’s considered a bad or surprising thing that if you give the same data to different analysts, they come to different conclusions. (11 comments) Hey, here’s some free money for you!
As earlier noted, very few studies have examined apprentices’ well-being by considering different personal and contextual variables, including the important construct of decent work, as antecedents of job and life satisfaction. The concept of decent work has been considered in work and organizational...
No matter what social unit the sociologist studies, the unit cannot be understood without considering the interaction of that unit with its unique environment. Perfect relationships or complete harmony between the social units is unusual. Social units are often motivated by self- interests and self-...
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In contemporary China, sexual minorities (SMs) are still a marginalized community. Prior studies have accorded SMs a great deal of attention, but little research has been conducted on the representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people in Chinese English-language news media. This artic...
I was trained in Comparative Literature during they heyday of Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction as it was being applied to pretty much everything: cultural studies, gender hierarchies, race relations, post-colonialism and the kitchen sink. Although looking at life in general in terms of “...
Training-wise, 54.46% (61) of those surveyed had accessed the Master in Teacher Training after completing the Degree in History, while 21.43% (24) had done so after completing their studies in the Degree in History of Art. 9.82% had joined after completing the Degree in Geography and, fina...
Still, it is worth mentioning at this point that despite the presence of several books and articles on monsters in children’s works from the lens of monsters studies and theory, studies on using humor in dramatizing benevolent monsters from the lens of humor studies are very few. Like ...