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Social environment and social support
Cancer, 1991Research on the relevance of social support to cancer has been plentiful since the first American Cancer Society workshop on methodological issues in behavioral and psychosocial science. Nonetheless, critical shortcomings continue to characterize the attempt empirically to establish such things as the extent to which social support predicts adjustment ...
Shirley B. Lansky +10 more
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Physiological Effects of Social Environments
Psychosomatic Medicine, 1974The social environment has important effects on physiological processes. One can distinguish different dimensions of social environmental stimuli. These dimensions can have distinctive influences on physiological processes. The effects may differ from one individual to another.
Rudolf H. Moos, Stewart Kiritz
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Operations Research, 1959
AN ANALYSIS of the social environment is difficult indeed; it is not something that affects other people in other places only: it is operating right here at this moment. Those factors that affect its operation are in operation here too. Thus, for example, when I tell you that belief in the virtue of logic is itself a nonlogical belief rather unique to ...
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AN ANALYSIS of the social environment is difficult indeed; it is not something that affects other people in other places only: it is operating right here at this moment. Those factors that affect its operation are in operation here too. Thus, for example, when I tell you that belief in the virtue of logic is itself a nonlogical belief rather unique to ...
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2017
Chinese market gardeners maintained complex social networks with their kin in China, within their overseas Chinese communities and with the wider community. This chapter examines the responses of Chinese market gardeners to institutional racism and changing social attitudes and the relationships they forged across social boundaries.
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Chinese market gardeners maintained complex social networks with their kin in China, within their overseas Chinese communities and with the wider community. This chapter examines the responses of Chinese market gardeners to institutional racism and changing social attitudes and the relationships they forged across social boundaries.
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1993
The social environment exerts its influence at different levels of social aggregation. At the simplest level we have the lone individual, who may influence the way another individual, or even a group of individuals, behaves in the process of taking decisions about such matters as how (and indeed whether) to spend his, or her, money.
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The social environment exerts its influence at different levels of social aggregation. At the simplest level we have the lone individual, who may influence the way another individual, or even a group of individuals, behaves in the process of taking decisions about such matters as how (and indeed whether) to spend his, or her, money.
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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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Social Capital and the Environment
World Development, 2001Abstract For as long as people have managed natural resources, they have engaged in collective action. But development assistance has paid too little attention to how social and human capital affects environmental outcomes. Social capital comprises relations of trust, reciprocity, common rules, norms and sanctions, and connectedness in institutions ...
Hugh Ward, Jules Pretty
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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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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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