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Sensemaking in Investor Networks: The Interactions between Financial Market Participants and the European Central Bank
Central banks have taken centre stage in financial market discourses over the past decade amid unconventional monetary policy and financial crises. They are increasingly active in financial markets and thereby rely on ... -
Leaving Spain: A Biographical Study on the Experiences of an Economic Crisis, Migration and New Beginnings
Since the beginning of the economic crisis of 2008, Spain has witnessed a mass departure of (especially young) people looking for opportunities abroad. Although there have been notable social-scientific efforts to study ... -
Work Orientations and Labour Market Conditions: Subjective segmentation in local labour markets
Research on the formation of work orientations has generally focused on the role of organisational socialisation and ascriptive characteristics. Relatively little is known about the influence of external labour market ... -
Anne McLaren and the Human Embryo Research Debates in Britain, 1982–1990: Sociological Biography in the Analysis of Public Debate
I describe the role of the scientist Dr Anne McLaren in the public and parliamentary debates on human fertilisation and embryology (HF&E) in Britain between 1982 and the resulting Act in 1990. A focus on McLaren’s contributions ...
