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Do Iranian and Canadian Females Make Different Personal Decisions?

Mahin Tavakoli

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21016  4,028 Downloads  7,628 Views   Citations

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Newcomers in Educational System: The Case of French-Speaking Part of Belgium

Altay A. Manco, Patricia Alen

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21015  5,049 Downloads  8,130 Views   Citations

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Breast Implants for Graduation: A Sociological Examination of Daughter and Mother Narratives

Lori Ann Fowler, Ami R. Moore

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21014  5,881 Downloads  10,612 Views   Citations

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African Americans in the US Women’s National Basketball Association, 2006: From the NCAA to the WNBA

Amadu Jacky Kaba

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21013  3,735 Downloads  7,220 Views   Citations

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Trust, Social and Personal Attitudes after Wildfires in a Rural Region of Greece

Vicky Papanikolaou, Dimitrios Adamis, Robert C. Mellon, Gerasimos Prodromitis, John Kyriopoulos

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21012  3,739 Downloads  6,965 Views   Citations

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Deconstructing the Glass Ceiling

Carol A. Isaac, Anna Kaatz, Molly Carnes

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21011  7,558 Downloads  16,304 Views   Citations

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How “Commonsense” Notions of Race, Class and Gender Infiltrate Families Formed across the Color Line

Eileen T. Walsh

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21010  4,835 Downloads  8,881 Views   Citations

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Newspapers Coverage of Spain and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Antonio V. Menéndez Alarcón

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21009  5,562 Downloads  9,419 Views   Citations

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The Relation between Assertiveness Levels, Locus of Control and Academic Success of Turkish Language Teacher Candidates

Sibel Dinçyürek, Ahmet Güneyli, Mehmet Çağlar

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21008  4,975 Downloads  10,012 Views   Citations

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Digital Media in Archaeological Areas, Virtual Reality, Authenticity and Hyper-Tourist Gaze

Niccolò Costa, Marxiano Melotti

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21007  5,455 Downloads  10,394 Views   Citations

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The Dialectical Relationship between Religion and the Ideology of Science

Steven Gerardi

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21006  5,624 Downloads  9,612 Views   Citations

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Caregiver Identity as a Useful Concept for Understanding the Linkage between Formal and Informal Care Systems: A Case Study

Normand Carpentier

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21005  3,392 Downloads  6,793 Views   Citations

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Social Order in Sociology: Its Reality and Elusiveness

Sabo Suleiman Kurawa

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21004  5,411 Downloads  14,657 Views   Citations

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Beyond the Shadow of White Privilege?: The Socioeconomic Attainments of Second Generation South Asian Americans

Hyeyoung Woo, Arthur Sakamoto, Isao Takei

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21003  5,350 Downloads  9,413 Views   Citations

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Wives’ Work Hours and Marital Dissolution: Differential Effects across Marital Duration

Deniz Yucel

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21002  4,321 Downloads  8,460 Views   Citations

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Questioning the Weber Thesis: Capitalist Ethics and the Hebrew Bible?

Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21001  5,247 Downloads  9,776 Views   Citations

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