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Extending Fundamental Cause Theory to Holistic Health. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Nousak S.
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Evaluating the determinants of deforestation and approaches to reforestation by cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cocoa‐driven deforestation threatens tropical forests, particularly in Côte d'Ivoire, the world's largest cocoa producer. This study examines the motivations behind cocoa cultivation in classified forests, the selection of retained tree species on farms, and the economic drivers of wooded lands conservation among farmers.
Alain René Atangana, Juvenal Zahoui Gnangoh, Christophe Kouame, Peter Minang, Damase Khasa   +4 more
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The impact of public lighting improvement on crimes and incivilities reduction in Chile. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Cadena-Urzúa P, Guardiola J, Montes F.
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Medical mesocosms and cohort differences in victim decisions in spousal violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Elung'ata P.
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Religious faith, gratitude, conflict resolution styles, and romantic love. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Marici M, Furdui Florea A, Runcan P.
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Frameworks, models and theories for prevention of child maltreatment: protocol for a scoping review from a population health perspective. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Rasch L, Alayli A, Ballmeyer C, Franco JVA, De Bock F.   +4 more
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Different attitudes towards estimating indirect costs of disease: The example of cancer. [PDF]

J Public Health Res
Miszczyńska K, Krzeczewski B, Stawska J.   +2 more
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From speech acts to communicative acts: social network debates about sexual consent. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Torras-Gómez E, Krauchenberg A, Petuya V, Marcos R, Serradell O, Soler-Gallart M.   +5 more
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Control Theories in Sociology

Annual Review of Sociology, 2007
Sociologists use negative feedback loop systems to explain identity processes, interpersonal behavior, crowd behavior, organizational behavior, social relationships, and the behavior of political systems. Control system models help us to understand how actors enact social roles with enough stability to preserve institutional arrangements, while still ...
Dawn T. Robinson
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Sociological Theory and Social Control

American Journal of Sociology, 1975
In the origins of sociology, "social control" served as a central concept both for relating sociology to social philosophy and for analyzing total societies. In its classical sense, it referred to the capacity of a social group to regulate itself. The concept supplied a basis for integration of theory and research until the 1930s. While the traditional
Morris Janowitz
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