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Social Networks and the Environment
Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2013This review discusses empirical research on social networks and the environment; it summarizes findings from representative studies and the conceptual frameworks social scientists use to examine the role of social networks. The article presents basic concepts in social network analysis, summarizes common challenges of empirical research on social ...
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The Social Ontology of Virtual Environments
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2003ABSTRACT .This paper analyzes the ontological structure of institutional and other social entities in virtual environments. The emphasis is on institutional reality, which consists of entities (objects, events, etc.) like money, contracts, and chess pieces, which are constituted in part through collective agreements.
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2005
Written in an engaging and accessible manner by one of the leading scholars in his field, Environment and Social Theory, completed revised and updated with two new chapters, is an indispensable guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another.
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Written in an engaging and accessible manner by one of the leading scholars in his field, Environment and Social Theory, completed revised and updated with two new chapters, is an indispensable guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another.
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Social Epidemiology and the Work Environment
International Journal of Health Services, 1988A major theme in virtually all of Bertil Gardell's work is that the social and work environment affects health and well-being. This concern with the social environment has been a major influence in the development of a new area of research referred to as social epidemiology.
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Social contraptions as breaching environments
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 2012A major challenge for developers of tangible, embedded and embodied interfaces is the understanding of dynamic social contexts. To address this challenge, the concept of "social contraptions" is proposed. Social contraptions are interactive installations and performative interventions employed as designerly explorations of social relations.
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Management and the social environment
Long Range Planning, 1975Abstract Most social change in the past 50 years in the U.K. has been associated with the relatively slow maturing of a highly industrialized society. There are now clear signs that Britain is entering an ‘age of discontinuity’ and that, increasingly, social change will reflect transition from an industrialized to a post-industrial stage of ...
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Socialization and Social Dilemmas and the Environment
1997Item does not contain ...
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Social Citizenship and the Environment
Environmental Politics, 2005Social citizenship, an idea and practice that is currently undergoing substantial reconsideration, is often regarded as requiring high economic growth and the spread of the market economy and formal work. But this may have consequences for sustainability.
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Capitalism, Socialism, and the Environment
Nature and Culture, 2013Foster, John B., Brett Clark, and Richard York. 2010. The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. New York: Monthly Review Press.Williams, Chris. 2010. Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.
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The Social Environment and Psychopathology
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1988The present paper describes a research program designed to investigate features of the social environment that may influence the development or maintenance of psychopathology. The guiding philosophy has been to understand the processes through which general social constructs, such as social support and life stress, may modulate vulnerability to ...
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