This model approximated traditional risk factor theories of gun violence. The second model combined the social contagion and demographics models in a weighted average (with weights found by optimizing over all possible linear combinations) to account for both potential explanations of gun violence. For...
The exponential random graph (ERGM) model is a commonly used statistical framework for studying the determinants of tie formations from social network data. To test scientific theories under ERGMs, statistical inferential techniques are generally used based on traditional significance testing using -values...
The separability of data generation and data analysis presents a particular risk. Available information on a social phenomenon may be measured at a level distinct from the level at which relevant theories operate. The researcher may wish to theorize about the forces determining whether individuals comm...
The exponential random graph (ERGM) model is a commonly used statistical framework for studying the determinants of tie formations from social network data. To test scientific theories under ERGMs, statistical inferential techniques are...
Cross-national social attitude data from the World Values Surveys (1981-1983, 1990) were analysed to explore whether values can 'explain' crime. Mirroring patterns of offending and in contrast to other values, tolerance for a sub-group of materially self-interested attitudes were found to be ...
to offer their services. Instead, skills are “unbundled” from occupations, and platforms provide alternative ways to signal competencies, for example, via their rating and review systems. To shed light on the applicability of existing theories to explain the skill profiles of gig workers, we ...
‘I find its completely not me being myself once I’m as I’d say working, its hard to explain but it’s a bit like acting, u just know you have to talk act different, its what they expect, I’m just a normal average mother they wouldn’t give me time of day being my usual...
The existing scholarship has developed six main explanations to account for the success of the Chinese Revolution, which has been anomalous for major parad
Regarding this subject, various theories nourishing from the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology have been proposed. None of these theories played a dominant role in the disciplinary academics studying on irony alone [307]. Irony is defined as a negation that does not contain any ...
more recent theories, such as the use-diffusion model of ICT (Shih et al.,2017), demonstrates that ICTs do not offer the same outcomes to all; instead, the consequences are dependent on the variety and rate/frequency of use (i.e., limited usevs.intensive use). The outcomes of such re...