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The contribution of the social sciences

Omega, 1977
Abstract The contribution which Social Science has made and may make to policy formulation in modern Europe is described and evaluated. The rapid economic growth of the post war period was accompanied by the growing impact of government economic policy but the contribution made by Social Science in most countries was limited.
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Social Security Contributions

2003
Abstract All available evidence suggests that the great majority of individuals avoid taking unnecessary risks. This is apparent from the fact that most individuals are willing to pay insurance premiums the amount of which exceeds the expected pay-out: the amount of potential damage times the chance that such damage will happen ...
Ken Messere, Flip de Kam, Christopher Heady   +2 more
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The contributions of nursing science to social support

International Journal of Nursing Studies, 1995
Nurse scientists have contributed to the theoretical development of social support through concept refinement, creation of measures, and intervention research. Nevertheless, deficiencies persist pertaining to the conceptualization of the construct and the design of intervention studies.
M J, Stewart, V P, Tilden
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The contributions of the social agencies and the social worker

1978
Concern for the rights of children based on humanitarian principles is chiefly a twentieth century development. It is true that in the past, children have been cherished and esteemed by their parents, yet they have also in other circumstances been exploited and misused to serve the need and greed of the adult world, whether it might be child marriages ...
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Family and Social Capital: European Contributions

International Review of Sociology, 2007
The essays presented in this special section of the Review concern the subject of the family as a social relation being able to generate different forms of social capital (SC): primary SC (linking ...
PRANDINI, RICCARDO, DONATI, PIERPAOLO
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Linking socially contributed media with events

Multimedia Systems, 2014
Recent years have witnessed the blooming of Web 2.0 content such as Flickr and YouTube, etc. How we can benefit from such rich media resources is still an open and challenging question. In this paper, we present a method combining semantic inferencing and visual analysis for automatically finding media (photos and videos) illustrating events. We report
Xueliang Liu, Benoit Huet
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Contributions to Social Ontology

2013
1. Introduction - Ontology, Philosophy and the Social Science Part 1 Ontology and Social Theory 2. The Ontological Status of Subjectivity 3. Technology, Technological Determinism and the Transformational Model of Technical Activity 4. Ontological Theorising and the Assumptions Issue in Economics 5.
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Laurence Gronlund: Contributions to American Socialism

The Western Political Quarterly, 1962
century,1 Gronlund is virtually unknown today. In order to indicate the reasons for his importance, this article sketches in broad outline Gronlund's three principal contributions to American socialism. Gronlund, a post-Civil War Danish immigrant, was associated at one time or another with Icarianism, Bellamyite Nationalism, the Socialist Labor party ...
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Social relations and health assessments among older people: do the effects of integration and social contributions vary cross-culturally?

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 1997
Y. P. Su, K. Ferraro
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A Social Contribution

The Journal of Higher Education, 1938
Herbert A. Miller, Everett V. Stonequist
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