Social Capital and Civil Society - Exploring a Complex Relationship
... is it a public good strictu sensu, but rather something which may have outcomes that are in turn a public good: the fact that an individual may be able to call on the support of friends and neighbours when ill is not in itself of any benefit to society as a whole, it only is so if it can reduce pres ...
... is it a public good strictu sensu, but rather something which may have outcomes that are in turn a public good: the fact that an individual may be able to call on the support of friends and neighbours when ill is not in itself of any benefit to society as a whole, it only is so if it can reduce pres ...
social capital and the equilibrium number of
... when the higher skilled individuals direct the work of others. In Lucas’ (1978) model of occupational choices, individuals differ in entrepreneurial ability and each chooses between being an employee, earning a market-determined salary, or being an entrepreneur who will hire and manage a group of pe ...
... when the higher skilled individuals direct the work of others. In Lucas’ (1978) model of occupational choices, individuals differ in entrepreneurial ability and each chooses between being an employee, earning a market-determined salary, or being an entrepreneur who will hire and manage a group of pe ...
Pioneers of social theory 22 The classic period of sociology
... behaviour of rational, calculating individuals who sought only to increase their own happiness and satisfaction. They were aware that individuals lived in societies, but they saw societies only as collections of individuals. They had not grasped what most people now take for granted: that individual ...
... behaviour of rational, calculating individuals who sought only to increase their own happiness and satisfaction. They were aware that individuals lived in societies, but they saw societies only as collections of individuals. They had not grasped what most people now take for granted: that individual ...
Strengths Perspective in Mental Health
... what works, and what will facilitate the continuation of desired behaviours and situations. Primary focus of assessment is on what the client is doing "right" in relation to goals and vision (Early & GlenMaye, 2000). A strengths assessment asks the question, what kind of life does the client want? I ...
... what works, and what will facilitate the continuation of desired behaviours and situations. Primary focus of assessment is on what the client is doing "right" in relation to goals and vision (Early & GlenMaye, 2000). A strengths assessment asks the question, what kind of life does the client want? I ...
4.1 Up the Creek Without a Paddle? Exploring the Terrain for
... 'grow up' on adults' terms rather than on their own terms. In formal political practice, the weakly-bounded field of youth affairs frequently offers a vulnerable space for in-fighting that has little to do with young people's needs and interests. At Union level, the lack of an explicit and specific ...
... 'grow up' on adults' terms rather than on their own terms. In formal political practice, the weakly-bounded field of youth affairs frequently offers a vulnerable space for in-fighting that has little to do with young people's needs and interests. At Union level, the lack of an explicit and specific ...
- NSUWorks
... move away from the mainstream and toward the margins of the field, they begin to look toward the margins of other fields that may overlap and fill in those gaps. This interaction outside of disciplinary boundaries provides the grounds for intellectual cross-fertilization, and it is often the site at ...
... move away from the mainstream and toward the margins of the field, they begin to look toward the margins of other fields that may overlap and fill in those gaps. This interaction outside of disciplinary boundaries provides the grounds for intellectual cross-fertilization, and it is often the site at ...
SOCial NEurOSCiENCE: ThE fOOTPriNTS Of PhiNEaS gagE
... view to the understanding of the mechanisms of the human mind” (Gazzaniga, Ivry, & Mangun, 1998, p. xiii)—implying a new relationship between the study of mental life and the study of its underlying neural mechanisms. To illustrate the difference between the older physiological psychology and the ne ...
... view to the understanding of the mechanisms of the human mind” (Gazzaniga, Ivry, & Mangun, 1998, p. xiii)—implying a new relationship between the study of mental life and the study of its underlying neural mechanisms. To illustrate the difference between the older physiological psychology and the ne ...
THE SOCIAL CONSTITUTION OF EMOTION
... they cite many studies that appear to demonstrate that subjects regularly err in making judgments about the stimulus determinants of their behavior. Subjects explain some behaviors in terms of stimuli that are causally inert, and fail to identify stimuli that are causally efficacious.* However, once ...
... they cite many studies that appear to demonstrate that subjects regularly err in making judgments about the stimulus determinants of their behavior. Subjects explain some behaviors in terms of stimuli that are causally inert, and fail to identify stimuli that are causally efficacious.* However, once ...
Causal Mechanisms and Process Patterns
... They can be understood as recurrent sequences of human interaction that are observed prior to the specification of social domains over which empirical generalizations may be postulated. The analytical advantage of process patterns is that they can be used heuristically to examine recurrent sequences ...
... They can be understood as recurrent sequences of human interaction that are observed prior to the specification of social domains over which empirical generalizations may be postulated. The analytical advantage of process patterns is that they can be used heuristically to examine recurrent sequences ...
From Knowledge to Wisdom - Society for Research into Higher
... seem like a monster out of control, with human beings having to adapt their lives to its demands, rather than gaining support from it. There is the phenomenon of the trivialization of culture, as a result, perhaps, of technological innovation such as TV and the internet. Once, people created and par ...
... seem like a monster out of control, with human beings having to adapt their lives to its demands, rather than gaining support from it. There is the phenomenon of the trivialization of culture, as a result, perhaps, of technological innovation such as TV and the internet. Once, people created and par ...
Can the Subaltern Speak?
... elements included in this category represent the demographic difference between the total Indian population and all those whom we have described as the ‘elite.’ ...
... elements included in this category represent the demographic difference between the total Indian population and all those whom we have described as the ‘elite.’ ...
Nicholas Maxwell
... seem like a monster out of control, with human beings having to adapt their lives to its demands, rather than gaining support from it. There is the phenomenon of the trivialization of culture, as a result, perhaps, of technological innovation such as TV and the internet. Once, people created and par ...
... seem like a monster out of control, with human beings having to adapt their lives to its demands, rather than gaining support from it. There is the phenomenon of the trivialization of culture, as a result, perhaps, of technological innovation such as TV and the internet. Once, people created and par ...
estratégia - Universidade FUMEC
... strategic information through the organization. This level also prominently includes consultants from large consultancy firms and other actors are often involved such as investment bank agents, corporate lawyers and management schools gurus (WHITTINGTON, 2006, p. 619). After identifying the practiti ...
... strategic information through the organization. This level also prominently includes consultants from large consultancy firms and other actors are often involved such as investment bank agents, corporate lawyers and management schools gurus (WHITTINGTON, 2006, p. 619). After identifying the practiti ...
Developing and sustaining mixed tenure housing developments
... (CLG, 2006a) and there are a growing number of developments which have adopted this approach. It is argued here, and in our evaluation of good practice (Bailey, et al., 2006), that there is no single formula which works in all situations, but that local stakeholders should assess local market condit ...
... (CLG, 2006a) and there are a growing number of developments which have adopted this approach. It is argued here, and in our evaluation of good practice (Bailey, et al., 2006), that there is no single formula which works in all situations, but that local stakeholders should assess local market condit ...
1 Structuration Theory and Self-Organization Christian Fuchs1
... similar causes have similar effects, different causes have different effects; and it assumes that small changes of causes necessarily have small effects and large changes of causes necessarily have large effects. Emergentism which can be considered as the philosophical level of the new sciences of c ...
... similar causes have similar effects, different causes have different effects; and it assumes that small changes of causes necessarily have small effects and large changes of causes necessarily have large effects. Emergentism which can be considered as the philosophical level of the new sciences of c ...
Conversation Map: An Interface for Very-Large-Scale Conversations WARREN SACK
... short, proposed as answers to outstanding scientific questions. For instance, in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence, semantic networks have been understood to be an answer to the question, “What constitutes a reasonable view of how semantic information is organized within ...
... short, proposed as answers to outstanding scientific questions. For instance, in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence, semantic networks have been understood to be an answer to the question, “What constitutes a reasonable view of how semantic information is organized within ...
The Nature of Social Science Research
... As social scientists, we compare ourselves directly with other scientists, often using many of the same methods and techniques. Yet researching the social world is often more complicated than researching the physical world. Social science research is research on, and with, real people in the real wo ...
... As social scientists, we compare ourselves directly with other scientists, often using many of the same methods and techniques. Yet researching the social world is often more complicated than researching the physical world. Social science research is research on, and with, real people in the real wo ...
Personality and Social Psychology Review
... concern to social psychology, an agent is a simplified, abstract version of a human being. However, other levels of agents are also possible; an agent could represent a neuron in a simulated neural network or a large-scale economic actor such as a corporation. We briefly discuss these possibilities ...
... concern to social psychology, an agent is a simplified, abstract version of a human being. However, other levels of agents are also possible; an agent could represent a neuron in a simulated neural network or a large-scale economic actor such as a corporation. We briefly discuss these possibilities ...
How social representations of attitudes have informed attitude theories
... individuals, but are also evident ‘in the world’ (Moscovici, 1988, p. 214), in social practices (Bradbury, 1999), health campaigns (Joffe, 2002), health behaviours (Gervais and Jovchelovitch, 2000), images (Joffe and Haarhoff, 2000), the media (Krause, 2002), institutional cultures (Howarth, 2004), ...
... individuals, but are also evident ‘in the world’ (Moscovici, 1988, p. 214), in social practices (Bradbury, 1999), health campaigns (Joffe, 2002), health behaviours (Gervais and Jovchelovitch, 2000), images (Joffe and Haarhoff, 2000), the media (Krause, 2002), institutional cultures (Howarth, 2004), ...
Social Network Structure and The Trade
... holes” and network bridges – convey relatively less information about the reputation of other people in the network and are less efficient in imposing social control, and hence members of such networks need more social trust to behave cooperatively. However, social ties within such a network are mor ...
... holes” and network bridges – convey relatively less information about the reputation of other people in the network and are less efficient in imposing social control, and hence members of such networks need more social trust to behave cooperatively. However, social ties within such a network are mor ...
Social security and insurance - European Commission
... The national social pension scheme is administered by the Social Insurance Administration (Tryggingastofnun ríkisins) under the supervision of the Ministry of Welfare (Velferðarráðuneytið). The employment pension scheme, which is a fully funded scheme, is administered by individual occupational pens ...
... The national social pension scheme is administered by the Social Insurance Administration (Tryggingastofnun ríkisins) under the supervision of the Ministry of Welfare (Velferðarráðuneytið). The employment pension scheme, which is a fully funded scheme, is administered by individual occupational pens ...
John Dewey and American Social Science
... America provided the nearly perfect conditions for the modern idea of the social sciences.7 There was, first of all, "the social problem" produced during the Gilded Age by rapid industrialization, urbanization and massive immigration. Second, America had a "weak state" in the sense that it lacked bo ...
... America provided the nearly perfect conditions for the modern idea of the social sciences.7 There was, first of all, "the social problem" produced during the Gilded Age by rapid industrialization, urbanization and massive immigration. Second, America had a "weak state" in the sense that it lacked bo ...
Testing Searle`s Argument against Laws in the Social Sciences
... forth by philosophers refuting claims similar to Searle's and ultimately look into actual research to find out if those accounts or Searle's theory are more compatible with the way science works. ...
... forth by philosophers refuting claims similar to Searle's and ultimately look into actual research to find out if those accounts or Searle's theory are more compatible with the way science works. ...
Competing Explanations of Global Evils: Theodicy, Social Sciences
... Whereas social science may include motives of agents as only one variable of an explanatory equation, conspiracy theories will exalt those motives deterministically as central to their explanations. In doing so they will appeal to a rational secular frame and claim that social science explanations o ...
... Whereas social science may include motives of agents as only one variable of an explanatory equation, conspiracy theories will exalt those motives deterministically as central to their explanations. In doing so they will appeal to a rational secular frame and claim that social science explanations o ...
Reinterpreting the Historicity of the Nordic Model
... the family. Social security was based on “the individual-state social contract” (Trägårdh 1997, p. 270). As a part of this contract, women were made doubly dependent on the welfare state, both on public sector jobs and on the services that facilitated combining motherhood and employment outside the ...
... the family. Social security was based on “the individual-state social contract” (Trägårdh 1997, p. 270). As a part of this contract, women were made doubly dependent on the welfare state, both on public sector jobs and on the services that facilitated combining motherhood and employment outside the ...