Browsing by Subject "H Social Sciences (General)"
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Age, life-satisfaction and relative income : insights from the UK and Germany
(University of St Andrews, 2011-10) - Working or discussion paperWe first confirm previous results with the German Socio-Economic Panel by Layard et al. (2010), and obtain strong negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different ... -
Alcohol and disadvantaged men : a feasibility trial of an intervention delivered by mobile phone
(2017-07-05) - Journal articleIntroduction and Aims: Disadvantaged men suffer substantial harm from heavy drinking. This feasibility study developed and evaluated the methods for a trial of a brief intervention delivered by text messages to disadvantaged ... -
Alcohol and fatal life trajectories in Russia : understanding narrative accounts of premature male death in the family
(2011-06-20) - Journal articleBackground: In the post-Soviet period, Russian working-age men have suffered unusually high mortality rates. Earlier quantitative work found that part of this is attributable to hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol ... -
Alcohol consumption and self‐reported (SF12) physical and mental health among working‐aged men in a typical Russian city : a cross‐sectional study
(2013-11) - Journal articleAim: To investigate the association between patterns of alcohol consumption and self-reported physical and mental health in a population with a high prevalence of hazardous drinking. Design: Cross-sectional study of an ... -
Anarchism and non-representational theory in the social sciences
(E-International Relations, 2015-08-07) - Journal articleMy hope in this article is to demonstrate some ways in which anarchism is relevant for social science, specifically in a post-representational environment. To do this, I explore some of the productive links between the ... -
Assessing the energy justice implications of bioenergy development in Nepal
(2017-03-27) - Journal articleBackground : The emerging concept of energy justice has focused on the justice implications of conventional energy systems (oil, gas, coal, etc.). Instead, we focus on the meaning of energy justice in the context of ... -
Avoiding philosophy as a trump-card in sociological writing. A study from the discourse of evidence-based healthcare
(2017-11) - Journal articleIn this article I explore a situation where health sociologists encounter pure-philosophical reasoning in the fabric of social life. Accounts of the relationship between philosophy and sociology tend to be framed in abstract ... -
Behavioural responses to neighbourhood reputations
(2007-06) - Journal articleMost research on the effect of neighbourhood reputations focuses on the influence on attitudes and behaviour of non-residents. Much less attention is paid to the possible effects of a poor neighbourhood reputation on ... -
Best practices for virtual participation in meetings : experiences from synthesis centers
(2017-01-03) - Journal article -
Beyond group engagement : multiple pathways from encounters with the police to cooperation and compliance in Northern Ireland
(2017-09-07) - Journal articleIn a sample of young people in Northern Ireland (N=819), we examine the relationships between the quality of experience with police officers and police legitimacy. We examine potential pathways through which experiences ... -
Body art as branded labour : at the intersection of employee selection and relationship marketing
(2017-09-01) - Journal articleUsing mixed methods, this paper examines the role of body art as a form of branded labour in customer-facing jobs. It brings together employee selection and relationship marketing into one framework, and uniquely conceptualizes ... -
“Boys should have the courage to ask a girl out” : gender norms in early adolescent romantic relationships
(2017-10) - Journal articlePurpose: The purpose of the study is to explore how gender norms emerge in romantic relationships among early adolescents (EAs) living in five poor urban areas. Methods: Data were collected as part of the Global Early ... -
Briefing 1: The Big Society and Welfare Reform
(University of St Andrews, 2014-07-08) - Report -
Briefing 2 : Localism and New Housing Futures
(University of St Andrews, 2014-08-11) - Report -
The capacities of anyone : accommodating the universal human subject as value and in space
(Berghahn, 2014-03) - Book item -
The changing role of the Dutch social rented sector
(2006-09-01) - Journal articleThe article traces the evolution of the research interests of Frans Dieleman, an academic who combined the development of analytical models with explorations of the policy implications of the changing structure of housing ... -
Comment: Beyond ‘evolutionary versus social’: moving the cycle shift debate forward
(2014-06-17) - Journal articleWood, Kressel, Joshi, and Louie (2014) thoroughly evaluate the evidence for menstrual cycle shifts in ratings of several male characteristics and conclude that their analyses fail to provide supportive evidence for consistent ... -
Community anchor housing associations : illuminating the contested nature of contemporary governing practices at the local scale
(2015) - Journal articleIn a period of fiscal austerity the mobilization of the voluntary and community sector has been pivotal to neoliberal public policy reforms. This is reflected in the emergence of a ‘new localism’, which seeks to encourage ... -
Confusion and collectivism in the ICT sector : is FLOSS the answer?
(2017-03-13) - Journal articleInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) workers rarely join trade unions. This is usually explained by the individualised nature of work. We examine broader forms of collectivism for these workers, drawing on survey ... -
Connecting entrepreneurship with homes and neighbourhoods
(Edward Elgar, 2015-12-18) - Book item