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“Insider” and/or “outsider: Anthropologists’ constant status negotiation”
“Insider” and/or “outsider: Anthropologists’ constant status negotiation” Feray J. Baskin - PhD Candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA “Insider” and/or “outsider: Anthropologists’ constant status negotiation” Anthropologists are constantly negotiating their social and professional status within a community in which they are working. They are sometimes labeled as insiders, at other times as outsiders. Who decides this and what is the significance of the labels and the concepts behind them? [...]
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In the Name of the Nation: the burqa ban, French values and Islam
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Solidarity and the Welfare State
Solidarity and the Welfare State Bernard Harris -- The relationship between solidarity and welfare provision has often been the subject of debate. A number of commentators, on both left and right, have accused the welfare state of undermining the voluntary solidarities which were associated with the growth of self-help and mutual-aid associations, such as trade unions and, especially, friendly societies. SOLIDARITY AND THE WELFARE STATE Bernard [...]
After Beveridge: Current Questions in Welfare Reform
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