Mary Holmes, Lynn Jamieson and Alison Koslowski Jane Austen’s most famous novel begins with the sentence: ‘It is a truth universally [...]
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On the Front Line: The ‘Catalan Problem’
Juan Enrique Ordóñez Arnau The philosopher Ortega y Gasset was an MP of the Second Republic in 1932 when the first [...]
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Viewpoint: Neither about Britishness, nor about Citizenship – The Life in the UK Test
Ipek Demir Since its launch in 2005, those who need to apply for British citizenship or settlement in the UK [...]
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Policy and Politics: Should regulators engage consumers in decision-making? Lessons from UK water regulation
Eva Heims and Martin Lodge This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It [...]
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More than my mother: how many parents do you have?
Alison Koslowski A few years ago when looking into Growing up in Scotland data, I discovered that some children were reporting [...]
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Friendship in the context of migration
Harriet Westcott We often take our friends for granted, until we experience life shifts that remind us how important they are [...]
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South Asian women’s experience of family abuse: The role of the husband’s mother
Nughmana Mirza My doctoral research explored South Asian women’s experiences of abuse in families (Mirza 2015). I found that as well as [...]
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Being a ‘good’ refugee?: Reflections on a participatory media project in Kampala, Uganda
Amir Garmroudi Images of refugees are used often in ways which are beyond their personal control and so this project wanted [...]
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Miseducation
Diane Reay In Education and the Working Class, written in 1962, Jackson and Marsden argued that: The educational system we need [...]
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Prevent Polemics
Max Weedon In 1977 French philosopher Gilles Deleuze stated in conversation with Michel Foucault that in the future, ‘a wide range [...]
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