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Anxiety as Social Practice [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2010 This paper advances a theory of anxiety as social practice. Distinguishing between individual anxieties and anxiety as a social condition, the paper suggests that anxiety has not been subject to the same level of theoretical scrutiny as related concepts such as risk, trust, or fear.
Peter Jackson, Jonathan Everts
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Envisioning Digital Practices in the Metaverse: A Methodological Perspective
Future Internet, 2023 Researchers are exploring methods that exploit digital twins as all-purpose abstractions for sophisticated modelling and simulation, bringing elements of the real world into the virtual realm.
Luca Sabatucci +3 more
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Social Practices of Resource Provision in the Non-Profit Sector of the Resource Region
Регионология, 2022 Introduction. The relevance of studying social practices in the non-profit sector is due to the need to identify the potential of non-profit organizations in the development of the social sphere of the resource region.
Olga A. Urban, Natalia V. Demchuk
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The practice of socialization and the socialization of practice
Society and Business Review, 2010 PurposeAt the core of how societies operate, lies social interaction. Organizations as significant social bodies rely on social interaction both to get things done in order to remain sustainable and to also impart a contribution to the wider society. Understanding the dynamics of social interactions in the way social agents and social action take place
Antonacopoulou, Elena, Pesqueux, Yvon
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Hastings Center Report, 2017 AbstractIn one way or another, several pieces in the November‐December 2017 of the Hastings Center Report reflect an insistence on turning away from abstractions to learn how a whole community understands a problem at issue—how a community understands what's at stake in individuals’ autonomous choices, how a community understands the results of a ...
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background Mental health problems (MHP) are the leading cause of disability worldwide. The inverse association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and MHP has been well documented.
Caroline S. Duchaine +9 more
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Public Relations Professional Practice And The Institutionalisation of CSR [PDF]
, 2007 Purpose This paper presents the findings of a longitudinal case study into the professionalisation of public relations practices and the institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility as a legitimate social and business arrangement. In doing so,
Bartlett, Jennifer +2 more
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Generating Social Practices [PDF]
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2014 Changing consumer behaviour is key to reducing the environmental effects of industrialised societies. Social practice theories provide an integrated approach to understanding consumer behaviour. The mechanisms underlying the emergence and diffusion of social practices are however until now poorly understood.
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La nuit entre histoire et littérature
Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2020 What role might literary works have played in the negative perception of the night and its criminalisation in modern times? Even if sources of this kind present the historian with methodological problems, the use of this documentation cannot be neglected
Alain Cabantous
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Social innovation practices: focus on success factors for crowdfunding [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores what are the success factor for interaction with platforms of crowdfunding in Italy. Through a Principal Component Analysis we outline three variables and through a multiple regression analysis we demonstrate that the interaction on
Cucari, Nicola +2 more
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