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Inequality is rising where social network segregation interacts with urban topology [PDF]
Nature Communications, 12, 1143 (2021), 2019 Social networks amplify inequalities due to fundamental mechanisms of social tie formation such as homophily and triadic closure. These forces sharpen social segregation reflected in network fragmentation. Yet, little is known about what structural factors facilitate fragmentation.
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Digital nursing technologies (DNT) comprise an expanding, highly diverse field of research, explored using a wide variety of methods and tools.
Tobias Krick +4 more
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Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2020 This paper investigates trends in Swiss women’s and men’s gender attitudes in the period 2000–2017 using the Swiss Household Panel data. Based on pooled OLS and fixed-effects models, we establish the following for women and men: (1) over this time period,
Bornatici Christina +2 more
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Background: The reactivation of international travel in 2021 has created a new scenario in which the profile of the traveler to medium-high health risk areas may well have changed.
Nidia M. García-Marín +3 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background While a large body of research has documented socioeconomic and migrant inequities in the effective use of healthcare services, the reasons underlying such inequities are yet to be fully understood.
Ivana Paccoud +2 more
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Referral Hiring and Social Network Structure [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 It is well known that differences in the average number of friends among social groups can cause inequality in the average wage and/or unemployment rate. However, the impact of social network structure on inequality is not evident. In this paper, we show that not only the average number of friends but also the heterogeneity of degree distribution can ...
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SSM: Population Health, 2022 Social media have increasingly been used by political bodies and experts to disseminate health information to the public. However, we still know little about how the communication of these actors on social media is received by other users and how it ...
Maud Reveilhac
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Pre-Construction of Opinion Dynamics Considering Structural Inequality: Interdisciplinary Analysis of Complex Social Stratification, Media Influence, and Functionalism [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This study analyzes the role of meritocracy, media influence, and scheduled theory from multiple perspectives as mechanisms that maintain inequality in social classes. Social inequality exists in complex forms in the educational, media, and political spheres. The study focuses on how inequality in society is structured and reproduced and how the theory
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Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources
Media and Communication, 2021 The investigation of long-term trends in contentious politics relies heavily on protest event analysis based on newspaper reports. This tends to be problematic in restricted media environments.
Jan Matti Dollbaum
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Flexible societies excelled in saving lives in the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 BackgroundPrevious studies have shown that national cultural traits, such as collectivism–individualism and tightness–looseness, are associated with COVID-19 infection and mortality rates.
Jianghong Li +9 more
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