Transition scholars have adopted collective action frames emerged in social movements theory to highlight framing struggles enacted between dominant and emerging discourses, between political elites and peripheral interests, whose dialogue and contentions would actualize the public debate in relation to ...
I will also attempt to discuss the strain, culture conflict, and social disorganization theory all of which make up the social conflict theory. I also wish to discuss the video “Tent City, Arizona” and answer the following questions, “How does the video you selected support a social ...
For instance, the use of rough sets theory (Greco et al., 2001) or value function models such as UTADIS (Zopounidis & Doumpos, 1999), in combination with MCDA clustering algorithms (Meyer and Olteanu, 2013) -even accounting for stochastic preferences (Ishizaka et al., 2021)- could be ...
Human-human social touch improves mood and alleviates pain. No studies have so far tested the effect of human-robot emotional touch on experimentally induced pain ratings, on mood and on oxytocin levels in healthy young adults. Here, we assessed the effe
Salt Lake City, UT: DEF publishers; 2018. 58. Ardelt M, Landes S, Gerlach KR, Fox LP. Rediscovering internal strengths of the aged: the beneficial impact of wisdom, mastery, purpose in life, and spirituality on aging well. In: Sinnott J, editor. Positive Psychology: Advances in ...
While bonobos are often called matriarchal, in many communities there is an alpha male who is co-dominant to the highest-ranking females and will run the group alongside them. His role involves disciplining other males, defusing conflicts, and helping maintain order and cooperation in the group...
The existence of self-control failures is often used to legitimize public policy interventions. The argument is that reducing self-control failures can make people better off, as judged by themselves. However, there is only scarce evidence on the frequen
In this method, which we term "in vivo behavioral tracking," we track individuals' movements with a high def- inition video camera mounted atop a large field laboratory. We report results of an initial study that quantifies the composition, structure, and size of the ...
Social evolution theory for microorganisms. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 2006, 4, 597–607. [CrossRef] [PubMed] 2. Díaz-Muñoz, S.L.; Sanjuán, R.; West, S. Sociovirology: Conflict, cooperation, and communication among viruses. Cell Host Microbe 2017, 22, 437–441. [CrossRef] [PubMed]...
Building on social exchange theory and self-determination theory, this paper studies how commitment to social responsibility in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) affects their employees. Social responsibility concerns NPOs’ voluntary engagement into ethical behaviour extending beyond the narrow mandate of their...