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Toward a Psychology of Social Change: A Typology of Social Change [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Millions of people worldwide are affected by dramatic social change (DSC). While sociological theory aims to understand its precipitants, the psychological consequences remain poorly understood.
Roxane de la Sablonnière
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Journal of Political Power, 2021 This paper proposes a meta-theoretical framework for studying power in processes of change and innovation. Power is one of the most contested concepts in social and political theory.
Flor Avelino
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BMC Proceedings, 2023 Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, social listening programs across digital channels have become an integral part of health preparedness and response planning, allowing to capture and address questions, information needs, and misinformation shared ...
Silvia Sommariva +6 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century, especially in sexual mores.
Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih
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Decentralization and Regionalization of Surgical Care: A Review of Evidence for the Optimal Distribution of Surgical Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019 Background While recommendations for the optimal distribution of surgical services in high-income countries (HICs) exist, it is unclear how these translate to resource-limited settings.
Katherine R. Iverson +8 more
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BMC Proceedings, 2023 Background In 2021, twenty out of twenty-one countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region introduced COVID-19 vaccines. With variable willingness to uptake vaccines across countries, the aim of the present study was to better understand ...
Helena Ballester Bon +6 more
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A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
Nature Human Behaviour, 2020 Guided by the early findings of social scientists, practitioners have long advocated for greater contact between groups to reduce prejudice and increase social cohesion.
T. Hässler +42 more
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Roles for computing in social change [PDF]
FAT*, 2019 A recent normative turn in computer science has brought concerns about fairness, bias, and accountability to the core of the field. Yet recent scholarship has warned that much of this technical work treats problematic features of the status quo as fixed,
Rediet Abebe +5 more
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Intergroup contact and social change: An integrated Contact‐Collective Action Model
Journal of Social Issues, 2020 Previous research has shown that positive intergroup contact among disadvantaged groupmembers may predict a so-called ‘sedative’ effect according to which positive contact isassociated with reduced support for social change.
T. Hässler +3 more
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Reproductive Health, 2022 Plain language summary This article highlights the status of ANC services during the nationwide lockdown imposed in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Data was collected through 12
Shweta Bankar, Deepika Ghosh
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