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Social Support and Personal Agency in At-Risk Mothers [PDF]
Psychosocial Intervention, 2011 This study investigated: a) mothers´ use and satisfaction with informal and formal supports in at-risk psychosocial contexts, and b) the relationships between satisfaction with help and the mothers´ perception of their role (personal agency). Self-report
María José Rodrigo, Sonia Byrne
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Revista Metropolitana de Ciencias AplicadasEn esta investigación se analiza el control social informal como estrategia para la promoción de la seguridad ciudadana y la prevención de los delitos en el Ecuador, en atención a los distintitos tipos de control social informal y sus diferencias con el
Carlos Eduardo Durán-Chávez +1 more
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Family-to-family child migration network of informal adoption in China
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020 Historically, informal adoption has been a prevalent Chinese social phenomenon that has altered typical family structures and the lives of children. Due to ambiguous definitions and the scarcity of data on informal adoption, the patterns and processes of
Xueyao Ma +9 more
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Exploring Community Based Responses and the Natural History of a Drug Market
Social Work and Society, 2015 Previous studies portray open drug market neighborhoods as uniformly poor, urban, socially disorganized, with weak informal social control. Further, open drug market neighborhoods appear sui genesis. Based on field data collected over a multiyear study
Wes Abercrombie, Mitchell Mackinem
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The Impact of Cancel Culture on Politics and International Relations
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2023 The article aims to reveal particularities of cancel culture in politics and international relations using methods of sociology and conflict theory. Deriving from previous research of cancel culture, authors define cancel culture as non-institutionalized
L. V. Deriglazova, A. M. Pogorelskaya
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Controlled information fusion with risk-averse CVaR social sensors [PDF]
2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2017 IEEE CDC ...
Bhatt, Sujay, Krishnamurthy, Vikram
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BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background Caring for people with dementia at home requires a significant amount of time, organization, and commitment. Therefore, informal caregivers, mainly relatives, of people with dementia often feel a high burden.
Martin Berwig +6 more
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Data Quality Control in Social Surveys Using Genetic Information [PDF]
Biodemography and Social Biology, 2014 This article introduces a novel way of taking advantage of genetic data in social surveys for the purposes of data quality control. Genetic information could detect and repair data issues such as missing data, reporting errors, differences in measures of the same variable, and flawed data.
Yi, Li, Guang, Guo
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Comunităţi umane. Tradiţii sociologice
Sociologie Românească, 2010 Human communities. Sociological traditions. The article discusses the evolution of the "human community" concept, from a substantial understanding to a functionalist understanding.
Maria Larionescu
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Ambidextrous learning of engineering project team: Relying on control or BIM AI VR AR MR?
International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 2020 Through formal control and social control, technology platforms can acquire the information knowledge needed for ambidextrous learning of engineering project team, but whether technology platforms influence ambidextrous learning of engineering project ...
Suying Yang, Guiyun Cui, Shaokai Lu
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