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Social Change: Conflict and Competition
, 2022 Conflict and competition arise when involved parties’ preferences and goals collide. This chapter highlights theoretical and empirical perspectives on the emergence and manifestations of conflicts. We outline how conflicts can occur from three perspectives: considering conflicts between individual actors, considering conflicts between individuals in ...
van Beest, I., Rahal, R.
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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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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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Fostering Dialogic Engagement: Toward an Architecture of Social Media for Social Change
Social Media + Society, 2021 Dialogic theory and engagement hold great potential as frameworks for thinking about how social media can facilitate public discussions about social issues.
Michael L. Kent, Maureen Taylor
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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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Changing social relationships [PDF]
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2006 In his review of our paper on pro-anorexia internet communities,1 Dr Smith introduced one inaccuracy into an otherwise concise summary. He mistakenly attributed a quotation from a participant in the internet forum to our researcher. Angela (a pseudonym) …
N J, Fox, K, Ward, A, O'Rourke
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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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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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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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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.
Tabea Hässler +42 more
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