Population Aging as the Social Body in Representation and Real Life [PDF]
, 2013 This article uses three levels of body analysis as presented by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock to compare old age as a construct in population aging discourse with research on lived experience of people aging in the United States and Ghana.
Crampton, Alexandra
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Internal representation and factional faultlines as antecedents for board performance in social enterprises [PDF]
, 2015 There is an increasing scholarly interest in how social enterprises manage their hybrid nature. As hybrid organizational forms, social enterprises combine mission-driven social goals and revenue generating activities in a variety of organizational ...
BATTILANA +70 more
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What does the ‘Fourth Wave’ mean for teaching feminism in 21st century social work? [PDF]
, 2014 There is no straightforward definition of feminism today. In spite of this, scholars and researchers who describe themselves as ‘feminist’ continue to produce work that both interrogates the specific and general conditions of women’s lives and explores ...
Cree, Viviene, Phillips, Ruth
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Visual Representation Construction for Collective Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms
Education Sciences, 2021 There has been a recent increase in research interest in the ways that visual representation is used to facilitate students’ understanding in science classrooms.
Hye-Gyoung Yoon, Mijung Kim, Eun Ah Lee
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Please look at me? Connecting self esteem and online self-presentation among teenagers on social media instagram [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe evolving landscape of social media in the present day contributes to the revitalization of social relationship. The use of social media platforms continues to integrate into adolescents of life and essential for identity development.
Arnani Ni Putu Rizky, Nindhita Vidya
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Digital Visuality and Social Representation. Research Notes on the Visual Construction of meaning
KOME, 2017 Images are tools in the social construction of reality. The meaning of images is not a feature of the image itself but the outcome of a communicative process that involves a negotiation between social actors with a stake, interest and resources to participate in the process.
Stocchetti Matteo, Stocchetti Matteo
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Cultural Identity in Bicultural Young Adults in Ireland: A Social Representation Theory Approach
Social Sciences, 2022 This research investigates the nature by which first- and second-generation Irish young adults of (1) African descent, (2) Asian descent, and (3) Eastern European descent explore their cultural identity(ies) through communicating and interpreting social ...
Mamobo Ogoro +2 more
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Athens Journal of Social Sciences, 2023 The shaming process represents the process of marginalization, de-humanization and derision against a person or a group of people for their anthropometric, psychological, social and cultural characteristics (Pacilli 2014). This contribution aims to study the male shaming process, trying to outline psychological, social and cultural characteristics ...
Giuseppe Masullo +2 more
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Coalition structure generation in cooperative games with compact representations [PDF]
, 2018 This paper presents a new way of formalizing the coalition structure generation problem (CSG) so that we can apply constraint optimization techniques to it. Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems.
Atsushi Iwasaki +5 more
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Collective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspective [PDF]
, 2020 This conceptual paper applies a mobilization model to Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in the energy sector. The goal is to synthesize aspects of sustainable transition theories with social movement theory to gain insights into how CAIs mobilize to ...
Arrobbio, Osman +13 more
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