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Choosing to Labour?
Young people about to leave high school argue that they are determining their own destinies. Scholarly debates also suggest that the influence of structural factors such as social class on an individual's life course is decreasing. Wolfgang Lehmann challenges this view and offers a detailed comparative analysis of the inter-relationships between social class, institutional structures, and individual educational and career choices. Through a qualitative study of academic-track high school students and participants in youth apprenticeships in Germany and Canada, Lehmann shows how the range of available school-work transition options are defined by both gender and social class. Highlighting the...
Wolfgang Lehmann
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Education and Society
Bringing together fourteen contemporary readings, Education and Society: Canadian Perspectives offers a snapshot of sociological research at the forefront of educational debates, developments, and reform trends in this country today. Informed by an overarching concern with issues of equityand equality, this collection examines the experiences and outcomes of various social groups in schooling in Canada, highlighting the barriers faced by some and advantages faced by others. It looks closely at how specific dimensions of inequality-such as class, race, and gender-inform schoolingexperiences while also investigating issues surrounding the possibilities and pitfalls of educational reform. Featuring quantitative and qualitative studies on topics ranging from achievement gaps to single-gendered schooling, this compelling volume introduces students to the diversity of topics studied by Canadian sociologists of education today and to the range of theoretical and methodological approachesthese scholars use to conduct their research.
Wolfgang Lehmann
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Class and Social Background Discrimination in the Modern Workplace
This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age. It considers instances where social media is used in recruitment to infiltrate private lives and hide job advertisements based on locality; where algorithms assess socio-economic data to filter candidates; where human interviewers are replaced by artificial intelligence with design that disadvantages users of classed language; and where already vulnerable groups become victims of digitalisation and remote work. The author examines whether these practices create risks of discrimination based on certain protected attributes, including ‘social origin’ in international labour law and laws in Australia and South Africa, ‘social condition’ and ‘family status’ in laws within Canada, and others. The book proposes essential law reform and improvements to workplace policy.
Assault from the Sky
“Action-packed . . . he brings the reader artfully through the fog of war with clarity” (20th Century Aviation Magazine). Vietnam has often been called our “first helicopter war,” and indeed, the US Marine Corps, as well as Army, had to feel its way forward during the initial combats. But by 1967, the combat was raging across South Vietnam, with confrontational battles against the NVA on a scale comparable to the great campaigns of WWII. In 1968, when the Communists launched their mammoth counteroffensive, the Marines were forced to fight on all sides, with the helicopter giving them the additional dimension that proved decisive in repelling the enemy. The author of this book, a Viet...
Regenerative Medicine and Plastic Surgery
This book discusses the current research concepts and the emerging technologies in the field of stem cells and tissue engineering. It is the first authoritative reference documenting all the ways that plastic surgical practice and regenerative medicine science overlap or provide a road map for the future of both specialties. The Editors have provided a valuable service by gathering in one place the leading voices in these two fields in clear and concise manner. Divided into five parts, the book opens with a description of the elements of regenerative medicine including definitions, basic principles of soft and bone tissue regeneration, biomaterials and scaffolds. Current research concepts ar...
