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Examining Sentiment in Complex Texts. A Comparison of Different Computational Approaches
Can we rely on computational methods to accurately analyze complex texts? To answer this question, we compared different dictionary and scaling methods used in predicting the sentiment of German literature reviews to the “gold standard” of human-coded ...
Stefan Munnes +7 more
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Does Sociology Need Open Science?
Reliability, transparency, and ethical crises pushed many social science disciplines toward dramatic changes, in particular psychology and more recently political science. This paper discusses why sociology should also change.
Nate Breznau
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Background Migration is a phenomenon worldwide, with older migrants, particularly those with fewer socioeconomic resources, having an increased risk of developing adverse cognitive and health outcomes and social isolation.
Ana C. Teixeira-Santos +7 more
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Background Elderly in need of long-term care tend to have worse health and have higher need of medical care than elderly without need for long-term care.
Maike Schulz +10 more
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The dilemma of “sustainable welfare” and the problem of the future in capacitating social policy
This article discusses a dilemma of welfare states in the ecological transition. While the principle of “sustainability” is increasingly accepted, there are very different concrete declinations of it.
Francesco Laruffa
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The trap of freedom An analysis of the concept of social inequality [PDF]
openThis paper aims to analyze the concept of social inequality in modern Western societies. Starting with a definition of the concept and questioning the social justice implications of it,the essay will attempt to show that extreme inequality is ...
DI NICOLA, AGNESE
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The Noborder Movement: Interpersonal Struggle with Political Ideals
Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of ...
Leslie Gauditz
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Social Justice and the Justification of Social Inequalities
In this chapter, we introduce key research on social justice from an interdisciplinary social scientific perspective, focusing on questions of what (distributive justice), how (procedural justice) and who (recognition and scope). After discussing seminal theories on distributive justice (i.e., equity theory and relative deprivation), we introduce the ...
Bal, M., Van den Bos, K.
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Network structure and economic prosperity in municipalities: A large-scale test of social capital theory using social media data [PDF]
In this study, we analyze the relationship between network structure and economic prosperity in 438 Dutch municipalities. We focus on the structural aspects of social capital theory and test how three forms of social capital – network density ...
Norbutas, L. +3 more
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The inequality trap. A comparative analysis of social spending between 1880 and 1933 [WP] [PDF]
[spa] Utilizando dos indicadores alternativos de redistribución –las transferencias sociales y el gasto social- durante el periodo de tiempo comprendido entre 1880 y 1933, y utilizando dos indicadores alternativos de desigualdad –el porcentaje de ...
Espuelas Barroso, Sergio
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