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Sustaining a Regime of Low Fertility
This paper offers a supplementary explanation that mass media facilitated the diffusion of contraceptive knowledge, leading to an ideological shift to value small families, and social networks especially reciprocal encouragement about contraception practice among network members has helped to sustain this shift.
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The Social Networks of Older Workers
Over the next 25 years, the UK’s workforce is projected to significantly age. However, Disney et al (1997) observed that half of men and one third of women of aged over-50 leave work before state pension age in the UK and the literature suggests that, even in relatively buoyant local labour markets, older workers are at a disadvantage due to factors such as qualifications, job search strategies and perceived age discrimination (McQuaid and Lindsay 2002, 2005).
Cohesive subgroups and drug user networks in Dhaka City, Bangladesh
The purpose of this paper was to explore group drug taking behaviour in a slum area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. We set out to examine the relationships between those who met, at least weekly, to take illegal drugs together, and how these relationships might shape their drug behaviour.
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Social networks, accessed and mobilised social capital and the employment status of older workers: A case study
Those older people who were unemployed and, returned to employment (reemployed) had a higher proportion of contacts with higher prestige jobs, their job searching methods were mainly interpersonal and the rate of finding their last job via their social networks was higher than those who remained unemployed. Both groups mobilised social capital (MSC), but those reemployed accessed higher “quality” social capital. “Strong ties”, rather than “weak ties”, were found to be important in accessing and mobilising social capital for the older workers who returned to employment.
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Social networks, age cohorts and employment
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association of social networks with being in work, contrasting those under age 50 with those over 50 years.
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Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh
This paper analyzed the association of social networks with contraceptive use using both structural and attitudinal properties of social networks.
