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Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore radical, participative-democratic alternatives to leadership through an empirical study of four Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) and conclude that just because an organization is leaderless, it does not necessarily mean that it is also leadershipless.
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University as vocational education: working‐class students’ expectations for university
TL;DR: This article analyzed qualitative interviews with first-generation, working-class students at a Canadian university to analyze the ways in which these students discuss their reasons to attend and their expectations for university, and the implications of their attitudes for their future success at university.
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The post-subcultural turn: some reflections 10 years on
TL;DR: The authors investigates and evaluates the key tenets of the post-subcultural turn as this has informed discussion and debate among youth culture researchers during the last 10 years, and concludes that despite the claims of postsubcultural theory regarding the emergence of new, individualised and reflexive youth identities, one does not need to look very far to see evidence of the on-going role played by structural inequalities in shaping the life chances, an...
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The Door
TL;DR: This work focuses on a door because it links one place to another, and the linking of different places and sharing of places is one of the substantial qualities of network technology.
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Social Capital and Networks in Film and TV: Jobs for the Boys?
TL;DR: In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages of social capital in the UK film and TV industry were investigated. But they focused on women, members of ethnic minorities or working class professionals who were less likely to secure jobs and were often restricted in the type of jobs they held.
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Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems: the Career of a Concept
TL;DR: The concept of community of practice was not born in the systems theory tradition as discussed by the authors, but it has its roots in attempts to develop accounts of the social nature of human learning inspired by anthropology and social theory.
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
TL;DR: In this article, the Flatlands of Oakland and the Youth Control Complex are discussed. But the focus is on the role of black youth in the criminal justice system and community institutions.
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Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The authors examines the transition to adulthood among 1.5-generation undocumented Latino young adults and finds that for them, the transition from K to adulthood involves exiting the legally protected status of K to...
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New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice
Michael A. Lawson,Hal A. Lawson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, student engagement research, policy, and practice must become more nuanced and less formulaic, and the ensuing review is structured accordingly, guided in part by social-ecological analysis and social-cultural theory.
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The Significance of Relationships: Academic Engagement and Achievement Among Newcomer Immigrant Youth
TL;DR: The Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study (LISA) as discussed by the authors used a mixed-methods approach, combining longitudinal, interdisciplinary, qualitative, and quantitative approaches to document adaptation patterns of 407 recently arrived immigrant youth from Central America, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico over the course of five years.