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Cogent Social SciencesCitizen participation is vital for enhancing trust in local government by ensuring citizens’ voices are heard in decision-making processes. However, most studies focus on central government trust, with limited research in the African context.
Ahmed-Nor Mohamed Abdi +1 more
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The Spread of Social Distancing
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 We find that social distancing is affected by the policies set in neighboring counties, even after controlling for confirmed COVID cases and weather. A stay-at-home order in a neighboring county reduces social distancing by more than half as much as implementing an order in that county.
Cook, Jonathan +2 more
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Social Work and Society, 2016 In the sphere of the European Union, especially in countries of southern Europe, the economic crisis and the redefining of welfare state benefits have led to a scenario in which many young people encounter major difficulties in attaining and/or ...
Antonio López-Peláez
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Italy is one of the first European epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic. In attempts to hinder the spread of the novel coronavirus disease, Italian government hardened protective measures, from quarantine to lockdown, impacting millions of lives ...
Andrea Chirico +9 more
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Information Flow in Social Groups
, 2003 We present a study of information flow that takes into account the observation that an item relevant to one person is more likely to be of interest to individuals in the same social circle than those outside of it.
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Reclaiming the social from ‘social distancing’ [PDF]
Social Anthropology, 2020 It is hard to reconcile a discipline that is founded on the slow, measured reasoning of ethnographic fieldwork with reactive commentary on current affairs But all the while the neoliberal university has made many of the social sciences increasingly introspective, one consequence of the COVID‐19 pandemic is that we are in a historical moment which ...
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Social Distance and Reciprocity [PDF]
Contrary to the predictions of non-cooperative game theory, trust and reciprocity are commonly reported in simple games. We conduct a one-shot investment game to examine how social distance affects behavior in two-person exchanges.
Bryan K. Church +2 more
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Learning in virtual worlds : Using communities of practice to explain how people learn from play [PDF]
, 2009 Although there is interest in the educational potential of online multiplayer games and virtual worlds, there is still little evidence to explain specifically what and how people learn from these environments. This paper addresses this issue by exploring
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Journal of Social Issues, 2018 The number of asylum seekers and refugees across the world is rapidly increasing. Negative attitudes towards these groups are globally prevalent and typically hostile because most receiving country citizens perceive them to be a security threat and an ...
Y. Koç, Joel R. Anderson
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Towards an online design studio: a study of social networking in design distance learning [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we examine the role of social networking and online community building in distance design learning. We analysed interactions of Facebook, a popular social network site, using qualitative content analysis and social network analysis.
Schadewitz, Nicole +1 more
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