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The contribution presents a critical summary and evaluation of literature on social ...
Rossi, F, Rossi, F
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Social movements have become a constitutive part of contemporary societies, especially so in democratic contexts where the institutional conditions allow for movements to be formed and express themselves freely. They involve conflictual relations with clearly identified opponents, are linked by dense informal networks, share a distinct collective ...
Marco Giugni, Maria Grasso
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When and Where: Predicting Human Movements Based on Social Spatial-Temporal Events [PDF]
Predicting both the time and the location of human movements is valuable but challenging for a variety of applications. To address this problem, we propose an approach considering both the periodicity and the sociality of human movements. We first define a new concept, Social Spatial-Temporal Event (SSTE), to represent social interactions among people.
Kong, Xiangnan+3 more
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Political, General or Economic Strikes? New Types of Strikes and Workers' Contention
The article provides an overview of workers' collective actions occurred in Italy, characterizing a new wave of contention between 2008 and 2018. It focuses on the development of strike activities.
Margherita Sabrina Perra, Katia Pilati
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Since the critique of science movements emerged in the 1970s, knowledge-power relationships in the technosciences have changed significantly. The mobilizations both of scientists to produce science for the people and of lay producers of knowledge and ...
Sezin Topçu
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Introduction to the Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements”
This Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements” emerges from an attempt to map out the landscape of social movements happening on TikTok, drawing from the online symposium “TikTok and Social Movements” hosted in September 2021 by the TikTok Cultures ...
Jin Lee, C. Abidin
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Asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants are central concepts in news coverage of immigration. However, these three terms refer to distinct groups with different meanings and potentially different frames, which could be negative, victim-based, or positive.
Emmi Verleyen, Kathleen Beckers
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The main histopathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are the degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta and the loss of neuromelanin as a consequence of decreased dopamine synthesis.
Héctor Alberto González-Usigli+8 more
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Aims: Standard functional-movement screening tests can be one of the predictors of musculoskeletal injuries in military forces. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between functional-movement screening test scores and abnormalities and ...
Mohammad Reza Izadi+3 more
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Social change does not always equal social progress-there is a dark side of social movements. We discuss conspiracy theory beliefs - beliefs that a powerful group of people are secretly working towards a malicious goal - as one contributor to destructive
Anni Sternisko+2 more
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