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Debate continues in many European countries about both equality of opportunity and the continuing wastage of talent, and the ways in which differing systems of secondary schooling contribute to these. Drawing on Turner’s concepts of sponsored and contest mobility and on Allmendinger’s classification along the dimensions of stratification and selection, we describe the amount of flexibility currently ...
In:
European Sociological Review
27 (2011), 5, 570-585
| Judith Glaesser, Barry Cooper
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Charles RAGIN's work, especially his development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), offers social scientists a way of bringing together the strengths of the qualitative and quantitative traditions. QCA takes a case-based rather than a variable-based analytic approach to cross-case analysis. One problem that arises in attempting to use QCA to explore causation in larger datasets, especially ...
In:
Forum: Qualitative Social Research
13 (2012), 2,
| Judith Glaesser, Barry Cooper
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Our aim is to investigate trends in the prevalence of grandparent households over time (that is households including a grandparent-grandchild dyad) in selected European countries and the United States. We also identify the socio-economic and demographic characteristics associated with variations in such households. Given changes in family behaviour (for example, rises in divorce and step-families) ...
London:
Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London,
2012,
| Karen Glaser, Rachel Stuchbury, Giorgio DiGessa, Eloi Ribe Montserrat, Anthea Tinker, Debora Price
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In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
7 (2012), 4, 453-457
| Wolfgang Glatzer
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In:
Politische Bildung
23 (1990), 2, 51-66
| Wolfgang Glatzer, Richard Hauser
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In:
UniReport
43 (2010), 1, 13
| Wolfgang Glatzer, Richard Hauser, P. Bernd Spahn
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In:
| Wolfgang Glatzer, Heinz-Herbert (Hrsg.) Noll
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Frankfurt/M.:
| Wolfgang Glatzer, Barbara Riedmüller
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This overview is a comprehensive reconstruction of the social indicators movement from the middle of the 1960s up to the actual quality of life and wellbeing-research 50 years later. The time span regarded here corresponds roughly with the professional life of the two authors and the article is dedicated to Alex Michalos, to whom our research network thanks a lot.
In:
Filomena Maggino ,
A Life Devoted to Quality of Life. Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos
Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer International Publishing
195-207
| Wolfgang Glatzer, Wolfgang Zapf
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(2001),
| Globus Kartendienst