In this paper we use linked census data to assess whether an academically selective schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over period of two decades, the share pupils in schools declined sharply and differentially by area. Using sample records matched administrative on within local areas, exploit temporal geographic variation estimate effects absolute relativ...

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is one of the oldest, largest, and most emblematic research infrastructures. Its history, as expressed through narratives its own organizational identity, does not only reflect development technoscientific activities but also strongly references a multiplicity performances Europe. By analysing these identity over nearly seven decades, it pos...

Kyoto is a miniature of Japan; through centuries of experience and persistence, it has maintained the symbols of the country’s civil and cultural identity. The city has demonstrated a collection of Japan’s noble identity and characteristics through its material and spiritual heritage. Kyoto’s rich history and its position have gathered a collection of religion-based works, artistic innovations,...

Present society of Iran, with its young population structure specially after forming and developing modernism and its conflict with tradition as well as the voluminous, various, rapid dominance of mass media has been affected by value conflict whether in micro level of personality or macro level of internalization and turned to a society full of conformance, adaptation, alienation, identity con...

background: each group or profession has its own discourse. discourses create identity, support institutions and reproduce power relationships. professional identity of iranian nurses, which has recently had the opportunity to represent itself in social arena, needs investigation. this study aimed to make internal aspect of this identity clear. materials and methods: this study was conducted by...

McCarthy scholarship has predominantly tended to stress the writer’s revisionism with regard to his rendering of the myth of the American West in Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy’s novel has beenmainlyhailed as a critique of the violence of manifest destiny. This study aims to delineate aspects of McCarthy’s narrative which resist the predominant view of him as a revisionist. In this re...