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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders, Mike Quayle, Paul Maher, Ana‐Maria Bliuc, Pádraig MacCarron   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Happens When a Black Swan Meets a Gray Rhino? Reflections on the Evaluation Market in Transformative Times

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter examines recent disruptions in the U.S. evaluation market through the combined lens of the Evaluation Marketplace Framework and the Black Swan/Gray Rhino typology. We argue that the Trump Administration's abrupt reduction in federal evaluation commissioning constitutes a Black Swan shock, whereas the long‐anticipated technological
Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Sebastian Lemire
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: The cost of war: sociological approaches to the societal and individual wounds of Combat. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Grimell J, Atuel H, Sinai C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Can Evaluation Policies Survive Democratic Erosion? Safeguarding Independence in International Organizations

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International organizations' (IOs) evaluation policies face unprecedented threats from post‐truth dynamics—delegitimization of expertise, nationalist framing against multilateralism, authoritarian overconfidence, and anti‐scientific sentiment. Despite institutional convergence on independence safeguards, methodological standards, and normative
Mita Marra
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of causes of death data in Minnesota from 2011 to 2021 - A descriptive analysis of the usage and correlates of garbage codes. [PDF]

Public Health Pract (Oxf)
Karnik H, Levin Z, Lasway J, Leider JP, Wrigley-Field E.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Critical Perspective on 50 Years of Evaluation Policy: Imagining a Framework for Better, Cheaper, Faster, Usable Evaluation

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT National evaluation policy in the United States has substantially improved over the past half century, yet honest assessment requires acknowledging where fundamental challenges persist. This article provides a policy perspective on structural failures in evaluation policy design, drawing on the author's experience helping lead the U.S ...
Nicholas R. Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom, conflict, and the eclipse of emancipation: a positional sociology perspective. [PDF]

Front Sociol
de Nardis F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Baumanian Perspective on Translation Sociology: A Non-Essentialist Reading of Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind as the Representation of the Other

Dudu Özbek
openalex   +2 more sources

All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Controversy? The Promotion and Early Critical Reception of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Fifty Years Later. [PDF]

J Hist Biol
Stuhrmann C.
europepmc   +1 more source