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A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users
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Yuanmo He; Milena Tsvetkova – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
The rise of social media has opened countless opportunities to explore social science questions with new data and methods. However, research on socioeconomic inequality remains constrained by limited individual-level socioeconomic status (SES) measures in digital trace data. Following Bourdieu, we argue that the commercial and entertainment…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Web Sites, Social Media, Reputation
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Liberal Education as a Public Ideal of Higher Education
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Kazuya Yanagida – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
Higher education has often been accused of its anti-social character, represented by the metaphor of the 'ivory tower'. However, the idea of the pursuit of knowledge per se, which is associated with the ivory tower, has not been widely recognized as a public ideal of higher education. In this study, by drawing on the 20th-century British…
Descriptors: General Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning
Understanding the Drivers of Sustainable Food Consumption of Chinese University Students: A Moderated Mediation Model
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Ali Nawaz Khan; Hammad S. Saleh Alotaibi; Zain Ali Raza – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess how Sustainable food consumption (SFC) can improve the quality of life for consumers and encourage green food production. Sustainable consumption is an important factor in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations. However, achieving SFC requires government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Students, Sustainability
Hands-On Sustainability: Designing an Engaging Undergraduate Sustainable Business Course
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Yasmin Abdou; Nesma Ammar – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This paper outlines the active learning methods used to develop and deliver a sustainable business course to undergraduate students. Moreover, the paper aims to investigate the effect of the sustainable business course on the students' engagement in sustainable consumption. Design/methodology/approach: From a pedagogical perspective, the…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Business Administration Education
Toward a Non-Economistic Understanding of Higher Education as a Public "and" Private Good for "the" Public Good
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John E. Petrovic – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
This article defines a public good, arguing that higher education should be considered a public good. This requires moving away from an orthodox economistic understanding of public goods. It also requires understanding the relationship between higher education as both a private good and a public good to the extent that it promotes individual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prosocial Behavior, Altruism, Sharing Behavior
Effect of Institute and LMS Service Quality on HEI Brand Equity: An Empirical Investigation
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Rashmi Mishra; Abhishek Mishra; Veenus Tiwari; Rajendra Kumar Jain – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the education service quality factors, for online education context, that drive the brand equity of a higher education institute. In the times of emerging online education programmes by otherwise traditional institutes, assessing the service quality of educational institutions and its effect on the…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Colleges, Reputation, Visual Aids