Effect of a conspecific`s presence on deprived rats` performance
... presence and (b) a physiologically based appetitive drive (thirst). Since Zajonc’s (1965) theory of social facilitation is based on the assumption that others’ presence is a source of general drive (D), it would be Procedure Ss which had acquired the barpress response on a continuous useful, within ...
... presence and (b) a physiologically based appetitive drive (thirst). Since Zajonc’s (1965) theory of social facilitation is based on the assumption that others’ presence is a source of general drive (D), it would be Procedure Ss which had acquired the barpress response on a continuous useful, within ...
Neighborhood Effects: Accomplishments and Looking Beyond Them
... This approach must deal, in practice, with dependence across decisions of individuals belonging to the same group, which is implied by non-random sorting in terms of unobservables. Specifically, if educated people prefer to have other educated people as neighbors, the effect of one person’s educatio ...
... This approach must deal, in practice, with dependence across decisions of individuals belonging to the same group, which is implied by non-random sorting in terms of unobservables. Specifically, if educated people prefer to have other educated people as neighbors, the effect of one person’s educatio ...
Visible materials, visualised theory and images of social research
... and immutably separated. That ideal still holds extraordinary sway, but a more sensible and realistic approach might be to examine specific areas of their interdependence while at the same time trying to tease these three dimensions of scientific practice apart. In just this regard, thinking through ...
... and immutably separated. That ideal still holds extraordinary sway, but a more sensible and realistic approach might be to examine specific areas of their interdependence while at the same time trying to tease these three dimensions of scientific practice apart. In just this regard, thinking through ...
The Servile STaTe - The Centre for Independent Studies
... liberty, like the moral life itself, can never generate a perfect society. The free often do foolish things, and those who have the option to choose their course of action will not infrequently do bad things. A free society is therefore inescapably imperfect. In Andersonian terms, we may choose to g ...
... liberty, like the moral life itself, can never generate a perfect society. The free often do foolish things, and those who have the option to choose their course of action will not infrequently do bad things. A free society is therefore inescapably imperfect. In Andersonian terms, we may choose to g ...
DOC - Europa.eu
... the elderly, young people, workers with fixed-term contracts and people with disabilities. With regard to the long term, ministers called for a continuation of structural reforms. More specifically, many ministers pleaded for a reform of the social security systems in order to cope with the populati ...
... the elderly, young people, workers with fixed-term contracts and people with disabilities. With regard to the long term, ministers called for a continuation of structural reforms. More specifically, many ministers pleaded for a reform of the social security systems in order to cope with the populati ...
Manifesto of computational social science | SpringerLink
... theorists since long [33]. This research direction had the merit to point out the role of extortion and tribute as mechanisms of political coalition formation. However, no much attention was given to the opposite direction of influence, i.e., downward causation or second order emergence [34, 35]. Fur ...
... theorists since long [33]. This research direction had the merit to point out the role of extortion and tribute as mechanisms of political coalition formation. However, no much attention was given to the opposite direction of influence, i.e., downward causation or second order emergence [34, 35]. Fur ...
Social Science and Social Struggle: Understanding the Necessary
... It was Sgt. Friday, the expert detective, who would supply the interpretation, and then test it against the accumulated weight of evidence. So strong is the faith in the epistemological importance of ‘objectivity’ that most participants in the debate over science and scientific knowledge during the ...
... It was Sgt. Friday, the expert detective, who would supply the interpretation, and then test it against the accumulated weight of evidence. So strong is the faith in the epistemological importance of ‘objectivity’ that most participants in the debate over science and scientific knowledge during the ...
Measuring Social Capital in the United Kingdom
... perceptions of ability to influence them. It is considered to be a source of social capital. Social networks and social support. This is defined as contact with, and support from, family and friends. These are seen as important sources of social capital. The number and types of exchanges between peo ...
... perceptions of ability to influence them. It is considered to be a source of social capital. Social networks and social support. This is defined as contact with, and support from, family and friends. These are seen as important sources of social capital. The number and types of exchanges between peo ...
Social Functioning: A Sociological Common Base for Social Work
... the psychiatric condition in a way that observers see more normative social role behaviors that are less disruptive to social intercourse. The Social Role Theory approach with clients who are long-term chronically ill and stabilized at a lower level of social functioning is sometimes not as successf ...
... the psychiatric condition in a way that observers see more normative social role behaviors that are less disruptive to social intercourse. The Social Role Theory approach with clients who are long-term chronically ill and stabilized at a lower level of social functioning is sometimes not as successf ...
Chapter 4 Sociology
... or as wholly in the hands of rational, self-interested individuals. As Barry Barnes (1995, p. 53) remarks, ‘a solution to the problem represented by Parsons’ voluntarism would be of as much interest today as it was in the lifetime of Parsons himself’. By the 1970s, the Parsonian project had been rej ...
... or as wholly in the hands of rational, self-interested individuals. As Barry Barnes (1995, p. 53) remarks, ‘a solution to the problem represented by Parsons’ voluntarism would be of as much interest today as it was in the lifetime of Parsons himself’. By the 1970s, the Parsonian project had been rej ...
Social Darwinism - Research
... Darwin himself gave serious consideration to Galton's work, but considered the ideas of "hereditary improvement" impractical. Aware of weaknesses in his own family, Darwin was sure that families would naturally refuse such selection and wreck the scheme. He thought that even if compulsory registrati ...
... Darwin himself gave serious consideration to Galton's work, but considered the ideas of "hereditary improvement" impractical. Aware of weaknesses in his own family, Darwin was sure that families would naturally refuse such selection and wreck the scheme. He thought that even if compulsory registrati ...
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... research programme; and illustrates how this research programme can be put to work to enable better research and ethico-political practices. Developing a critical realist methodology for international relations, peace research and global political economy, this book resolves many of the theoretical ...
... research programme; and illustrates how this research programme can be put to work to enable better research and ethico-political practices. Developing a critical realist methodology for international relations, peace research and global political economy, this book resolves many of the theoretical ...
End of Life Care
... recent decades are reactions to the emphasis on cures, providing more caring and compassion to those in pain or at the end of life. It is in this area of caring for the whole person and nurturing him or her not only through the direct medical interventions, but also the psychosocial-spiritual conseq ...
... recent decades are reactions to the emphasis on cures, providing more caring and compassion to those in pain or at the end of life. It is in this area of caring for the whole person and nurturing him or her not only through the direct medical interventions, but also the psychosocial-spiritual conseq ...
Defences and defensiveness in social work
... recognizes their experience as fundamental to understanding and action. (Coulshed, 1991, p. 2) It is this understanding that helps us to come alongside other people and, when appropriate, to take a person’s side. Taking sides in this way can constitute a catalyst for change for people who have never ...
... recognizes their experience as fundamental to understanding and action. (Coulshed, 1991, p. 2) It is this understanding that helps us to come alongside other people and, when appropriate, to take a person’s side. Taking sides in this way can constitute a catalyst for change for people who have never ...
The Construction of Music as a Social Phenomenon
... Perhaps more than before, music is the object of a wide range of theories which sometimes complement but, more often, contradict each other. It is surely tempting to impute at least part of those discrepancies to the variety of disciplines involved. However, this would constitute far too reductionis ...
... Perhaps more than before, music is the object of a wide range of theories which sometimes complement but, more often, contradict each other. It is surely tempting to impute at least part of those discrepancies to the variety of disciplines involved. However, this would constitute far too reductionis ...
The Sense of the Past and the Origins of Sociology Philip Abrams
... example. And secondly, logically ordered contrasts between structural types have been treated, quite naively for the most part, as though they effectively indicated chronologically ordered transitions. On this basis a sociological past has been worked up, a past which is linked to the present not by ...
... example. And secondly, logically ordered contrasts between structural types have been treated, quite naively for the most part, as though they effectively indicated chronologically ordered transitions. On this basis a sociological past has been worked up, a past which is linked to the present not by ...
IMPORTANCE OF TRIVARG (DHARMA, ARTH AND KAAM) IN
... human needs and his work are fulfilled and completed only by wealth. It has been said by ancient intellectuals while elaborating the importance of wealth in their social life, they gave thrust to accumulate more and more wealth.7 Because all other people are helpful to those who are economically sou ...
... human needs and his work are fulfilled and completed only by wealth. It has been said by ancient intellectuals while elaborating the importance of wealth in their social life, they gave thrust to accumulate more and more wealth.7 Because all other people are helpful to those who are economically sou ...
The Social - Duke Sociology
... conception of Social Class and Status and Simmel’s work on how individuals fit into modern society. The review sheet focuses mainly on topics within each section, but it is very likely that you will be required to compare across these sections on the exam. (i.e., compare one author to another, or th ...
... conception of Social Class and Status and Simmel’s work on how individuals fit into modern society. The review sheet focuses mainly on topics within each section, but it is very likely that you will be required to compare across these sections on the exam. (i.e., compare one author to another, or th ...
Social classes and values in Europe
... particular from the same extensive questionnaire surveys used in the IC-IV base analyses, though the surveys are processed to produce structural characterizations of the social and cultural contexts (in operational terms, relevant indicators of attributes characterizing societal clusters). Moreover, ...
... particular from the same extensive questionnaire surveys used in the IC-IV base analyses, though the surveys are processed to produce structural characterizations of the social and cultural contexts (in operational terms, relevant indicators of attributes characterizing societal clusters). Moreover, ...
The economics of liberation theology
... personal evil can be simultaneously strengthened and disguised by social relationships. A particular economic structure (a historical system of relations between people) can easily create a series of situations which make necessary – and thus apparently reasonable – that conduct which favours one’s ...
... personal evil can be simultaneously strengthened and disguised by social relationships. A particular economic structure (a historical system of relations between people) can easily create a series of situations which make necessary – and thus apparently reasonable – that conduct which favours one’s ...
IfS DP 02_2013 Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of
... As ideas about an economy and society in concreto are increasingly accepted, so the relative autonomy of culture and its specification in different historical variations is also increasingly accepted. A plea for the academic existence of sociology must be the ultimate consequence. In particular, his ...
... As ideas about an economy and society in concreto are increasingly accepted, so the relative autonomy of culture and its specification in different historical variations is also increasingly accepted. A plea for the academic existence of sociology must be the ultimate consequence. In particular, his ...
Theories and methods in comparative social policy
... Notwithstanding its attention to detail, Heclo's study draws out theoretical implications and illuminates patterns of development in public policy-making. Historical case studies often also aim for commonalities in their explanations, while acknowledging idiosyncratic features. For example, Baldwin ...
... Notwithstanding its attention to detail, Heclo's study draws out theoretical implications and illuminates patterns of development in public policy-making. Historical case studies often also aim for commonalities in their explanations, while acknowledging idiosyncratic features. For example, Baldwin ...
Chapter_14 - HCC Learning Web
... stratification based on social prestige. This prestige can be linked to different things—occupation, lifestyle, membership in certain organizations—but sociologists have most often studied occupational status. ...
... stratification based on social prestige. This prestige can be linked to different things—occupation, lifestyle, membership in certain organizations—but sociologists have most often studied occupational status. ...
The Metabolism of Twenty-First Century Socialism
... isms. It captures the complex biochemical process of exchall~t" , through which an organism (or a given cell) draws upon materials alld energy from its environment and converts these by various metaboli .. reactions into the building blocks of growth. The metabolism concel)1 allowed scientists to do ...
... isms. It captures the complex biochemical process of exchall~t" , through which an organism (or a given cell) draws upon materials alld energy from its environment and converts these by various metaboli .. reactions into the building blocks of growth. The metabolism concel)1 allowed scientists to do ...
Collective Power, Generalized Belief, and Hegemonic Spaces
... inconceivable in previous time periods for a variety of reasons, whether because those fighting for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered rights had other grievances to focus on (such as legalization of specific sex acts or the right to dance with each other in cabarets) or because the identitie ...
... inconceivable in previous time periods for a variety of reasons, whether because those fighting for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered rights had other grievances to focus on (such as legalization of specific sex acts or the right to dance with each other in cabarets) or because the identitie ...