The determinants of health: structure, context and agency
... sociology’s claims to disciplinary distinctiveness, but the historical emphasis on marking out the terrain of the social may also be seen to have deflected sociology from things to do with health. In developing her arguments about the intellectual and political history of medical sociology, for exam ...
... sociology’s claims to disciplinary distinctiveness, but the historical emphasis on marking out the terrain of the social may also be seen to have deflected sociology from things to do with health. In developing her arguments about the intellectual and political history of medical sociology, for exam ...
Seeking Social Capital in World Values Survey
... confidence in institutions, participation in associations, and civic-morality may be used as individual features that may be measured and aggregated in order to estimate macro level social capital levels. However, here one faces a challenge which has a dual nature: translating individual features in ...
... confidence in institutions, participation in associations, and civic-morality may be used as individual features that may be measured and aggregated in order to estimate macro level social capital levels. However, here one faces a challenge which has a dual nature: translating individual features in ...
Pedagogy – a holistic, personal approach to work with children services
... This is a time when the borders and relations between different types of services are changing, workforce issues are to the fore, and there is a desire to find new approaches. Not least, children are being seen as persons in their own right, rather than as ‘problems’ to be managed. With these changi ...
... This is a time when the borders and relations between different types of services are changing, workforce issues are to the fore, and there is a desire to find new approaches. Not least, children are being seen as persons in their own right, rather than as ‘problems’ to be managed. With these changi ...
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND IMMIGRANT RELIGION1
... is transportable, something an individual can take with her or him from one relationship to another. Whether social capital is viewed as a structural or an individual variable has consequences for how one sees the relationship between social capital and human capital (Smidt 2003: 9). When social cap ...
... is transportable, something an individual can take with her or him from one relationship to another. Whether social capital is viewed as a structural or an individual variable has consequences for how one sees the relationship between social capital and human capital (Smidt 2003: 9). When social cap ...
Using Complexity Theory Methods for Sociological Theory
... Linear methods are incapable of analyzing how interactions in such systems can lead to feedback processes and threshold effects, where large consequences can have small causes. One practical example of such a phenomenon is the transitions between different technologies in society, which has proven d ...
... Linear methods are incapable of analyzing how interactions in such systems can lead to feedback processes and threshold effects, where large consequences can have small causes. One practical example of such a phenomenon is the transitions between different technologies in society, which has proven d ...
Friends at Last?
... There is sometimes thought to be an opposition between cognitive and social theories of science. Perhaps the clearest instance of this opposition is Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar’s infamous “ten-year moratorium on cognitive explanations of science” (1986, p. 280). On one side of the divide, social ...
... There is sometimes thought to be an opposition between cognitive and social theories of science. Perhaps the clearest instance of this opposition is Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar’s infamous “ten-year moratorium on cognitive explanations of science” (1986, p. 280). On one side of the divide, social ...
Driving Privacy Controls with Social Context
... shared by applications with greater frequency, on a larger scale, and in more depth than is consistent with our privacy attitudes [12]. We believe that this indicates a shortcoming in the ability of such mechanisms to enable appropriate control over our personal information. Instead, these mechanism ...
... shared by applications with greater frequency, on a larger scale, and in more depth than is consistent with our privacy attitudes [12]. We believe that this indicates a shortcoming in the ability of such mechanisms to enable appropriate control over our personal information. Instead, these mechanism ...
Values Versus Interests in the Explanation of Social Conflict
... painfully shy. Aware that he was socially inept, he read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People"8 to learn ways to compensate.19 Apparently he collected bawdy jokes in a notebook and systematically committed them to memory, perhaps because he found it easier to fit in by being funny ...
... painfully shy. Aware that he was socially inept, he read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People"8 to learn ways to compensate.19 Apparently he collected bawdy jokes in a notebook and systematically committed them to memory, perhaps because he found it easier to fit in by being funny ...
Towards a Formal Model of Social Data
... Krackhardt [13] proposed cognitive social structures as a solution for social network related problems. Due to the advent of internet and the online social media in the last decade, the field of social computing attracted many researchers. It is not possible refer extensive list of research articles ...
... Krackhardt [13] proposed cognitive social structures as a solution for social network related problems. Due to the advent of internet and the online social media in the last decade, the field of social computing attracted many researchers. It is not possible refer extensive list of research articles ...
working paper 291
... The precise mechanisms through which such transfers can be affected so that social welfare is maximized and efficiency losses minimized are addressed in the enormous literature on welfare economics and social choice theory. An underlying tension in this body of work surrounds the notion of social we ...
... The precise mechanisms through which such transfers can be affected so that social welfare is maximized and efficiency losses minimized are addressed in the enormous literature on welfare economics and social choice theory. An underlying tension in this body of work surrounds the notion of social we ...
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... new social relationships (as in the case of any innovation process that takes place within an existing organization). Second, and most important, it does not clarify why social innovations should be addressed by specialized policies, as neither of the two requirements posed by this definition clearl ...
... new social relationships (as in the case of any innovation process that takes place within an existing organization). Second, and most important, it does not clarify why social innovations should be addressed by specialized policies, as neither of the two requirements posed by this definition clearl ...
introduction to sociology
... the world come out? Why are our conditions of life so different from those of our parents and grandparents? What directions will change take in the future? These questions are the prime concern of Sociology, a field of study that consequently has a fundamental role to play in modern intellectual lif ...
... the world come out? Why are our conditions of life so different from those of our parents and grandparents? What directions will change take in the future? These questions are the prime concern of Sociology, a field of study that consequently has a fundamental role to play in modern intellectual lif ...
Social Capital and Conflict - Households in Conflict Network
... and definitions have since emerged. Loury (1977) claimed that prohibiting racial discrimination in the work place could not completely eliminate racial inequalities, rather the legacy of a lack of connection of minorities to the job market and information about opportunities would remain. In short, ...
... and definitions have since emerged. Loury (1977) claimed that prohibiting racial discrimination in the work place could not completely eliminate racial inequalities, rather the legacy of a lack of connection of minorities to the job market and information about opportunities would remain. In short, ...
The Social Model of Disability - Scottish Accessible Information Forum
... that disabled people have historically been excluded from mainstream society and can continue to face discrimination and prejudice leading to disadvantage and exclusion ...
... that disabled people have historically been excluded from mainstream society and can continue to face discrimination and prejudice leading to disadvantage and exclusion ...
Social Inclusion Monitor 2014
... reinforce Government actions to meet the interim poverty target of 4 per cent by 2016. The national action plan uses a life-cycle approach which places the individual at the centre of policy development and delivery by assessing risks and supports available at key stages of the life-cycle. The updat ...
... reinforce Government actions to meet the interim poverty target of 4 per cent by 2016. The national action plan uses a life-cycle approach which places the individual at the centre of policy development and delivery by assessing risks and supports available at key stages of the life-cycle. The updat ...
Labour movements and labour unions
... instance, within the European Union, union density varies from around 80 percent in countries like Sweden, to less than 10 percent in countries like France. Research has detected the importance of workplace ‘cultures of solidarity’, mostly based on opposition to management (Fantasia, 1988), as well ...
... instance, within the European Union, union density varies from around 80 percent in countries like Sweden, to less than 10 percent in countries like France. Research has detected the importance of workplace ‘cultures of solidarity’, mostly based on opposition to management (Fantasia, 1988), as well ...
Legitimation crisis
... Without shared values, agents may not have any motivation for engaging in the relevant social practices at all, much less for doing so in the expected manner. The second imperative is to maintain social integration (I) in terms of a system of shared norms. Integration pins down the precise content o ...
... Without shared values, agents may not have any motivation for engaging in the relevant social practices at all, much less for doing so in the expected manner. The second imperative is to maintain social integration (I) in terms of a system of shared norms. Integration pins down the precise content o ...
`Factivism`: A New Configuration of Humanitarian Reason
... affect and interpersonal communication and relations helps to direct our attention to how power is socially deployed. The intersection of diverse forms of power is implicated in the different ways that people think, feel, interact socially, conceptualise and practise moral trusteeship, and posit the ...
... affect and interpersonal communication and relations helps to direct our attention to how power is socially deployed. The intersection of diverse forms of power is implicated in the different ways that people think, feel, interact socially, conceptualise and practise moral trusteeship, and posit the ...
Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action James S
... strongest intellectual links to social theory: common or constitutional law. One might even argue that law, as a set of rules having a high degree of internal consistency, as well as principles behind those rules, has as strong a claim to constitute social theory as does any alternative body of prin ...
... strongest intellectual links to social theory: common or constitutional law. One might even argue that law, as a set of rules having a high degree of internal consistency, as well as principles behind those rules, has as strong a claim to constitute social theory as does any alternative body of prin ...
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... Social Welfare Services and Public Assistance provided within the framework of the Public Assistance and Services Law of 2006: • Aims to ensure a socially acceptable minimum standard of living for persons (and families) legally residing in the Republic of Cyprus, subject to eligibility criteria. In ...
... Social Welfare Services and Public Assistance provided within the framework of the Public Assistance and Services Law of 2006: • Aims to ensure a socially acceptable minimum standard of living for persons (and families) legally residing in the Republic of Cyprus, subject to eligibility criteria. In ...
Sociological and Theological Imagination in a Post
... For C. W. Mills (2000) the former’s task was to help one to understand broader, social processes in which an individual biography is involved. His basic premise was that ordinary men ‘cannot cope with their personal troubles in such ways as to control the structural transformations that usually lie ...
... For C. W. Mills (2000) the former’s task was to help one to understand broader, social processes in which an individual biography is involved. His basic premise was that ordinary men ‘cannot cope with their personal troubles in such ways as to control the structural transformations that usually lie ...
The Quest for a Universal Social Work: Some Issues and Implications
... developing local models of social work education and practice (Cossom, 1990), some have suggested social development as an alternative, as the case of South Africa shows (Gray & Mazibuko, 2002; Midgley, 1995). Some draw attention to unifying values, such as empowerment, justice, human rights, and eq ...
... developing local models of social work education and practice (Cossom, 1990), some have suggested social development as an alternative, as the case of South Africa shows (Gray & Mazibuko, 2002; Midgley, 1995). Some draw attention to unifying values, such as empowerment, justice, human rights, and eq ...
From mirror self-recognition to the looking
... possesses a rudimentary ability to take itself as the object of its own cognition. While showing MSR does not provide convincing evidence that a species has attained human capacities at being reflective, the failure to show MSR provides compelling evidence that a species lacks the capacity for self- ...
... possesses a rudimentary ability to take itself as the object of its own cognition. While showing MSR does not provide convincing evidence that a species has attained human capacities at being reflective, the failure to show MSR provides compelling evidence that a species lacks the capacity for self- ...
Tough times, meaningful music, mature performers: popular
... unemployment, consumer price index, prime interest rate, bombings, crime, work stoppages, suicide, homicide, and divorce (McIntosh et al., 2000). They found that during times of societal threat, individuals chose to watch television shows that were both meaningful and confronted serious issues. Beca ...
... unemployment, consumer price index, prime interest rate, bombings, crime, work stoppages, suicide, homicide, and divorce (McIntosh et al., 2000). They found that during times of societal threat, individuals chose to watch television shows that were both meaningful and confronted serious issues. Beca ...
Social Functions — 1 Social functions of emotions at four levels of
... refer to, their preferred kinds of data, and the theoretical traditions within which they explain the origins and defining characteristics of emotions. Our aim will be to specify the differences and similarities in the accounts offered at each of the four levels, and to show how these levels can be ...
... refer to, their preferred kinds of data, and the theoretical traditions within which they explain the origins and defining characteristics of emotions. Our aim will be to specify the differences and similarities in the accounts offered at each of the four levels, and to show how these levels can be ...