AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition [PDF]
Development Economics, Atmospheric Protection / Air Quality Control / Air Pollution, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Group Theory and Generalizations, Data Mining and Knowledge ...
Close, Jean-Paul
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Reconsidering feminisms and the work of Norbert Elias for understanding gender, sport and sport-related activities [PDF]
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 North West Counties Physical Education Association and SAGE Publications.This paper reconsiders the relationships between feminist ...
Mansfield, L., Mansfield, L.
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Integrating Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Collective Efficacy [PDF]
Collective efficacy is rooted in both psychology, and sociology. Discussions of the differences between the sociological and psychological conceptualization and operationalization of collective efficacy is limited.
Gearhart, Michael
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Sociology emerged in response to the problem of social order in modern society in the wake of the American and French Revolutions and the rise of industrialism and market capitalism.
Bannister, Robert C.
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Controlling synchronization in large laser networks using number theory [PDF]
Synchronization in networks with delayed coupling are ubiquitous in nature and play a key role in almost all fields of science including physics, biology, ecology, climatology and sociology. In general, the published works on network synchronization are based on data analysis and simulations, with little experimental verification.
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Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence [PDF]
Sociological and criminological views of domestic and gender-based violencegenerally either dismiss it as not worthy of consideration, or focus on specificgroups of offenders and victims (male youth gangs, partner violence victims). Inthis paper, we take
Agnew Robert+70 more
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The imaginary constitution of financial crises [PDF]
This article proposes an alternative sociological framework for dealing with the imaginary constitution of financial crises. Theorisation of financial crises is often limited by dualistic juxtaposition of the rational and irrational, moral and immoral ...
Fotaki, Marianna+1 more
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The affective extension of ‘Family’ in the context of changing elite business networks [PDF]
Drawing on 49 oral-history interviews with Scottish family business owner-managers, six key-informant interviews, and secondary sources, this interdisciplinary study analyses the decline of kinship-based connections and the emergence of new kinds of ...
Bika, Zografia, Frazer, Michael
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Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology: (New) materialist insights
Though mainstream sociological theory has been founded within dualisms such as structure/agency, nature/culture, and mind/matter, a thread within sociology dating back to Spencer and Tarde favoured a monist ontology that cut across such dualistic ...
N. Fox, P. Alldred
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An Affect Theory of Social Exchange [PDF]
This article develops a theory that explains how and when emotions, produced by social exchange, generate stronger or weaker ties to relations, groups, or networks.
Lawler, Edward J
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