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#vivelafeminism: Feminism and the search of working class voices – @thefword
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / October 9, 2016(Anita Willcox solidarity poster)What does it mean to be working class today? I spoke to several young women who defined themselves as working class and feminist.Victoria felt it was more than a socio...
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YOUNG PEOPLE IN CARE AND OFFENDING: A BROKEN SYSTEM
By feimineach / in #sociology, #thinkyblog / June 26, 2015On the 23rd of June, 2015, the Prison Reform Trust launched a review to examine why children aged 10 to 17 who are in care are more likely to offend than children who are not in care. [1] The Trust ac...
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#research: Did the pro-life movement lead to more single mothers? (Problematic assumptions gratis.)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 26, 2013I’m generally interested in the discussion in this article (i.e. the potential sociological impact of the pro-life movement) but I’m a bit concerned with its implication that single motherhood is A Ba...
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#research: Where are the families with three generations who’ve been out of work?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 29, 2012The real problems of ‘in-work poverty’ and ‘underemployment’ are finally making some headlines, elbowing their way into the usual discourse about welfare to work and benefit dependency. But that isn’t...
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#research: Report rubbishes Tory myth that suggests unemployment is down to ‘culture of worklessness’ in some families
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 15, 2012Unemployed parents are desperate for their kids to get work – and help them try to find jobs, a report has found.The research rubbishes the Tory myth of families with generation after generation of un...
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#research: The Continuing Relevance of Class
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 1, 2012Politicians always seem to be talking about the middle class. They need some new focus groups. According to the Pew Research Center, over the past four years the percentage of adult Americans that s...
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