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Dhaka Sitting on a Plastic Bomb: Issues and Concerns around Waste Governance, Water Quality, and Public Health

open access: yesEarth, 2022
Plastic, an offer of modernity, has become one of the essential parts of our everyday life. However, it is presenting a massive threat in altered forms, to our health and environment. Plastic does not only pollute the surface environment, freshwater, and
Md Nadiruzzaman   +2 more
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Social Learning Strategies and Cooperative Behaviour: Evidence of Payoff Bias, but Not Prestige or Conformity, in a Social Dilemma Game

open access: yesGames, 2021
Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents an evolutionary puzzle. One potential explanation is that cooperative behaviour may be transmitted between individuals via social ...
Robin Watson   +4 more
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Trade Unions, Migrant Workers, and Racial Discrimination in Italy in Times of Economic Crisis

open access: yesDve Domovini, 2020
Trade unions have a crucial role in the social integration processes of migrants. Nevertheless, some aspects of this relationship are still relatively unexplored, particularly that of the relationship between trade unions and racism and that of the trade
Francesco Della Puppa
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Dreaming is not enough. Audiovisual methodologies, social inclusion, and new forms of youth biopolitical resistance

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2022
The eleventh Sustainable Development Goal, “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable,” can only be truly answered when there are no individuals in our societies who feel forgotten by the various social institutions ...
Paula Guerra, Sofia Sousa
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Migrant families and intergenerational relationships: cultural challenges, renegotiation practices and social change

open access: yesEducazione Interculturale, 2022
International studies have confirmed the central role played by families in defining migration routes and strategies. Adopting a family perspective to view the migration phenomenon means observing the different relationships between the various ...
Marta Scocco
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New contributions to the entrepreneurial theory of social and cultural change

open access: yesMises, 2020
This paper combines the theoretical framework developed by Coyne and Boettke (2009) about an entrepreneurial theory of social and cultural change, with the contributions of Huerta de Soto (2010) about the impossibility of economic calculation in ...
Vicente Moreno Casas
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Researching Social Change in Bali Indigenous Marriage Private

open access: yesSociological Jurisprudence Journal, 2021
This article wants to understand and analyze the phenomenon of Balinese customary life arrangements related to changes in marital procedures. To be able to produce accurate findings, social phenomena are examined in detail and in-depth through ...
I Nyoman Budiana   +1 more
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Karaoke for social and cultural change [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 2006
This account demonstrates the key challenges faced in producing engaging educational content for information and communication technologies (ICT) deployed in rural India. The ‘Stills in Sync’ (SIS) project aims to enhance literacy through the revival and proliferation of popular regional folksongs with social awareness themes in rural India.
openaire   +1 more source

The emergence and adaptive use of prestige in an online social learning task

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Prestige-biased social learning occurs when individuals preferentially learn from others who are highly respected, admired, copied, or attended to in their group.
C. O. Brand   +3 more
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Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian case

open access: yesSocial Change Review, 2023
This paper analyzes Romania’s dynamic migratory process with a focus on the return migration from Norway and the sociocultural changes that it might involve for Romanian migrants and their home societies.
Baru Florina
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