Democratic Thwarting of Majority Rule in Opinion Dynamics: 1. Unavowed Prejudices Versus Contrarians [PDF]
I study the conditions under which the democratic dynamics of a public debate drives a minority-to-majority transition. A landscape of the opinion dynamics is thus built using the Galam Majority Model (GMM) in a 3-dimensional parameter space for three ...
Serge Galam
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CONSTRUCTING OTHERNESS: SOCIALLY EMBEDDED MECHANISMS OF CREATING AND SUSTAINING STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICES IN THE MEDIA. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS [PDF]
PURPOSE: Negative stereotypes and prejudices towards stigmatised social Others have always existed in macrosocial discourses, created and proliferated by popular narratives, macrosocial institutions and scientific discourses.
N. Georgieva-Stankova
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Conditions for Overcoming Discriminatory Affirmations in Modern Society [PDF]
The relevance of the study is conditioned by the necessity for formation of theoretical and practical knowledge and technologies that allow to analyze the conditions for overcoming discriminatory affirmations in modern society.
Milena A. Klenova
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Socio-Economic Predictors of Prejudice: Psychological Perspective
Objective. To analyze and summarize the results obtained in various social sciences regarding the emergence and spread of prejudice. Background. Prejudice is a complex issue, which is represented in different spheres of social science.
Prusova I.S., Agadullina E.R.
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Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily was a place of multiple cultural contaminations and commercial exchanges throughout the early modern era.
Valeria Viola
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TRANSFORMACJE POSTAW WOBEC ARABÓW W SPOŁECZEŃSTWIE POLSKIM Z PERSPEKTYWY CZŁONKÓW SPOŁECZNOŚCI ARABSKIEJ I MUZUŁMAŃSKIEJ [PDF]
In spite of numerous studies exploring the attitudes of Polish society towards followers of Islam including Arabs or studies showing how Polish media shapes the image of Muslims and Islam, there are hardly any analyses assessing how these attitudes and
Konrad Pędziwiatr
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I critically discuss some aspects of Mark Sainsbury’s Reference without Referents, from an otherwise sympathetic viewpoint. My objections focus on the adequacy of the truth-conditional framework that Sainsbury presupposes.
Manuel García-Carpintero
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The invisible heartbeat. The beauty and soul of mathematics [PDF]
These notes contain a summarised version of the contents of the lectures “The invisible heartbeat. The beauty and soul of mathematics” and “The borders of our prejudices”, given at the Casa de Cultura in Girona in October 2015 and September 2018 ...
Mañosa Fernández, Víctor
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Les migrants libyens en Tunisie : un enjeu majeur des dynamiques migratoires dans l’espace maghrébin
South-South migrations play a major part in the globalization of immigration. The migration of Libyans to Tunisia is of interest to study how they have been welcomed in a somewhat ambiguous way by Tunisian society since the fall of the Ben Ali regime in ...
Emmanuel Alcaraz
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Individual Values and Ideological Attitudes as Predictors of Prejudice against Others
The growth of social competition and modern trends of economic and social integration in the world encourage the study of the discriminatory attitudes of individuals and groups as a significant barrier in the implementation of these processes. Despite the
Rail M Shamionov
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