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Participation and social participation: are they distinct concepts?

Clinical Rehabilitation, 2013
Introduction: The concept of participation has been extensively used in health and social care literature since the World Health Organization introduced its description in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in 2001.
Piskur, B., Daniëls, B., Jongmans, M.J., Ketelaar, M., Smeets, R.J.E.M., Norton, M., Beurskens, A.J.H.M.   +6 more
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Social Participation and Happiness

American Journal of Sociology, 1967
The effects of social participation on self-reports of happiness are examined, and attention is focused on the mechanisms through which the relationship is established. Analysis of the data reveals that, as hypothesized, the greater theextent of participation, the greater the degree of happiness reported.
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The law of social participation.

American Journal of Sociology, 1921
Human nature is known through behavior, but the reaction must be studied in social relations not merely physiological reactions. The reality of the group has been too long neglected. Levy-Bruhl has a law of participation which assumes a difference between primitive man, whose mind is pre-logical, and modern man, a distinction which closer analysis ...
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Socializing to Participate

Urban Education, 1980
Political awareness and political action depend upon political participation.
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Social Participation and Social Status

American Sociological Review, 1968
Cohen, Bernard. 1963 Conflict and Conformity: A Probability Model and Its Application. The M.I.T. Press. De Cani, John S. 1961 "On the construction of stochastic models of population growth and migration." Journal of Regional Science 3:1-13. Feller, William. 1957 Probability Theory and Its Applications. Second edition. New York: Wiley.
Robert W. Hodge, Donald J. Treiman
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Social Psychology and Political Participation

2022
Abstract This chapter presents a social-psychological account of political participation. The framework connects the micro-, meso-, and macro-level and separates demand, supply, and mobilization as factors influencing the dynamics of protest participation.
Klandermans, Bert, van Stekelenburg, J
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Prejudice and Urban Social Participation

American Journal of Sociology, 1967
Three aspects of social participation were related to prejudice: amount of contact (measured by club membership; presence of club friends; and frequency of contact with relatives, friends, neighbors, and work associates), range of contacts (the number of different groups in which the respondent participates), and barriers in communication (measured by ...
R F, Curtis, D M, Timbers, E F, Jackson
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Differentiated Participation in Social Videogaming

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction, 2015
Social videogaming provides opportunities for individuals not only to engage directly in active gameplay but also to interact indirectly from the sidelines. We present a study of the differentiated nature of participation in gaming based on field observations of six families playing physical videogames in their homes.
John Downs, Frank Vetere, Wally Smith
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Social participation and social support

2017
Townsend argued that poverty is a key barrier to social participation as it limits people’s ability to participate in social activities and to maintain social relationships or networks. The results in this chapter support this argument finding that poverty acts as a barrier to social contact, particularly with friends; that it constrains participation ...
Lisa Wilson, Eldin Fahmy, Nick Bailey
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Social Structure and Social Participation

American Sociological Review, 1955
T HIS paper reports the initial findings of a study of participation in the policy formation process at the community level carried out in Valley City I and Valley City II.' The design of the study involved the development of a scale for measuring community participation and the administering of a basic schedule to a random sample of the adult ...
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