... Education Sociology Social policy Mental health Despite the broad and consistent findings of the benefits of increased teacher compensation, teacher pay has been decreasing relative to other occupations since the Second World War. These low salaries drive teachers out of the profession. Research...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Agricultural economies Sociology Capitalism Food High-end coffee roasteries, craft breweries and boutique wine makers are proliferating in pockets within and beyond the USA. But, while wine, coffee and craft breweries are thriving, retail...

... the commodification of life”. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Distribution of wealth Economic performance Government policy Society Trade unions Sociology United States of America Economic policy As the global economy lurches along the vagaries of concomitant economic crises...

... Individual psychology National economy Social policy Welfare Sociology Since Happock's seminal work on the topic in 1935, job satisfaction has continued to generate interest across disciplines, from psychology (Argyle, 1989) and sociology (Kalleberg and Loscocco, 1983 ; Hodson, 2002...

... of the American Economic Association. Schumpeter's works cover a broad range of topics, namely the dynamics of economic and social evolution (e.g. Theory of Economic Development, 1912, and Business Cycles, 1939), the integration of economic, sociological and political perspectives with regard...

... in the interorganizational context. Design/methodology/approach An overview of the literature is conducted examining the power from sociological, psychological and managerial perspectives specifying views on power, its sources and consequences of its use offered by selected theories. Findings This paper presents...

... teaching philosophy on distributive justice. Social justice Sociology The present paper utilizes the debate between Rawls (1971) and Nozick (1974) as a focus to shed light upon the views of the Catholic social teaching philosophy on distributive justice. Studying current Catholic social...

... kingdom. Guido Giacomo Preparata can be contacted at ggprep@u.washington.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Philosophy Sociology Social sciences Social theories Indeed, it shall not be bootless to remind the West that its greatest social scientist is without any doubt...

... Idea generation Sociology Economics Religion Sciences The influence of ideas on people, societies, and cultures is a central but puzzling problem in the social sciences. Parsons (1935) insisted that ideas play a crucial role in social continuity as well as in social change, and common...

.... (2001) argue that this shift back toward local and dedicated products presents new opportunities for producers still embedded in traditional production methods or seeking to re‐embed themselves in such methods. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Sociology Ecology Niche marketing Organic food...

.... This paper has two immediate aims. The first is to argue that there is knowledge of values. The second is to look at some issues in the social sciences and to show this conclusion bears on the possibilities for the reunification of knowledge. Issues in economics, sociology, and anthropology are examined kin...

...Christine Cheyne The book is edited by two UK academics based at the University of Nottingham, Nick Manning and Ian Shaw, whose own disciplinary links are with Social Policy, Sociology and Health Policy. I mention this because their disciplinary location is central to the themes and frameworks...

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... impact on consumer confidence in both countries are identified. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Australia Consumer attitudes Economics Food Japan Safety Sociology Responses from Australian and Japanese consumers for each meat type are outlined in Table II . Consumers were not asked...

... policy. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Culture Economics Social economics Sociology There have been many attempts to relate and integrate the social into the economic and vice versa. The conception and theory of cultural lag is well suited to a blending of the social...

... or activist? © MCB UP Limited 1994 History Marxian economics Philosophy Social economics Sociology In Hegel′s statist solution, the best aspects of liberalism would be preserved (constitutional guarantees of individual rights and liberties,private economic initiatives, scope...