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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Social Mechanisms"”.
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Social fMRI : measuring and designing social mechanisms using mobile phones
A key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-dimensional datasets. A second challenge relates to the design and execution of social experiments in the real world that are as reliable as those within a controlled laboratory, yet yield more practical results. …
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Modeling collective dynamics of social systems: Incorporating various social mechanisms into agent-based models
… (ABM) focusing on evolutionary and cognitive mechanisms. The first report demonstrates the coupled emergence of cooperation and selfish punishment behavior in groups of individuals playing an iterated public goods game. The second report demonstrates the effects of mental modeling within …
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Worlds Apart: Social Mechanisms of Contrasting Fertility in European American and Native American Populations on the Northern Plains
… explore the relationship between fertility and social acceptance of communal household economic strategies. Census data and birth records described differences in fertility and household economy between European American and Native American populations in six Plains Indian reservation counties; …
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Worlds Apart: Social Mechanisms of Contrasting Fertility in European American and Native American Populations on the Northern Plains
… explore the relationship between fertility and social acceptance of communal household economic strategies. Census data and birth records described differences in fertility and household economy between European American and Native American populations in six Plains Indian reservation counties; …
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Successful Infrastructure Construction Project Execution
… success factor research by focusing on the social mechanisms used by project managers and project teams to achieve success. Through analysis of previous literature five criteria for success are determined and the critical success factor themes of personnel and communication emerge. Study One …
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SOCIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF TAX EVASION: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE ITALIAN CASE
… considerations, such as cultural, institutional, social, and normative influences. This doctoral thesis aimed to investigate the sociological drivers of individual tax evasion in Italy with a specific focus on the North-South divide. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach, I developed a …
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An exploration of mechanical engineering students' perceptions of the influence of their work placement experiences on their employability
… that contribute to this influence. Moreover, the social mechanisms through which this outcome is realised have not been well understood. To address these shortcomings, this study explores how mechanical engineering students' work placement experiences facilitate or hinder the growth of their …
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Racism, Oligarchy and Contentious Politics in Bermuda
… politics in contemporary Bermuda, challenging social norms that had been in existence for 350 years. While the trajectory and outcomes of ‘black’ Bermudians’ transgressive social protests could not have been predicted, this analysis uses racism, oligarchy and contentious politics as conceptual …
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Renegotiating Democracy in Public Space
… Amendment protects dissent, historical legal and social mechanisms have regulated protest and its relationship with public space. In the latter half of the twentieth century, a rigorous legal framework has emerged to both protect and regulate protest. Yet free speech rights are highly contested. …
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An analysis of the mechanisms within Cape Town businesses shaping recruitment methods : and its effect on the spatial mismatch in Cape Town
… businesses in Cape Town are shaped by intricate mechanisms within business spaces. The walk-in recruitment method used by the two restaurants interviewed, is influenced by two distinct social mechanisms. The use of this recruitment method proves to be a geographically limited and it therefore …
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Social dominance in relation to other putative basic emotions in humans
… which appears to suggest the existence of a ‘social dominance instinct’. One such finding is that across mammalian species, groups of cohabiting animals reliably organise themselves into dominance hierarchies characterised by differential allocation of social and resource holding power, and …
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She stays and she pays: Rural Women’s Labour and Empowerment in Atakora, Northern Benin
… in the shea butter value chain. Government social protection officials were also interviewed in each commune. The first major finding is that women report playing both productive and reproductive gendered roles of both men and women. This prompts a reconsideration of the sexual division of …
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A Mechanism Approach to the Sociology of Teachers’ and Students’ Actions: Teaching Practice, Student Disengagement and Instructional Materials
… order to approach these issues, I will focus on social mechanisms (processes) that can explain teachers’ and students’ actions in the classroom. I argue that such mechanisms and actions in schools have been sparsely studied in previous research. Study I deals with the research question, Why does …
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Examining the Complex Interplay of Stress, Social Support, and Drinking Motives on Alcohol Use Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model Among College Students
… public health concern, yet the psychological and social mechanisms that contribute to high-risk drinking patterns are not fully understood. Guided by the motivational model of alcohol use and stress-buffering theory, this study tested a moderated mediation model to examine how perceived stress, …
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Sustainable shelters for post disaster reconstruction : an integrated approach for reconstruction after the South Asia earthquake
… been provided along with an understanding of the social mechanisms necessary to address local needs and priorities. There are three main components that have been included to provide the primary context and discuss the role and design for sustainable shelters in the earthquake affected areas of …
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‘A river under the earth’: the silencing of conflict-related sexual violence survivors in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo
This research investigates the social mechanisms which contribute to the silencing of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) survivors in the post-conflict, post-Yugoslav region with a focus on the case studies of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia and Kosovo. This involves an assessment of what …
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Problemen förgår, lösningarna består : Organisering av kommunala insatser för unga arbetslösa med försörjningsproblem
… and the proportion of young adults receiving social assistance rose dra-matically. In response, municipalities initiated local intervention programs aimed at reducing the number of young social assistance recipients. In 2005, this population had decreased. However, the organization of local …
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Political creativity
… employ a catalog of analytical tools from the social, psychological and cognitive sciences, organized in three sets. One covers social dynamics, the social mechanisms behind stability and change, either sudden or incremental; the second captures ordinary differences among group members in how …
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Toward an Integrative Study of Human-AI Interaction
… experiments. Chapter 2 investigates how social information---both direct conversation and peer behavior indicators---affects individual reliance on algorithmic decision support. The study reveals that while social information modulates the effects of performance feedback and model …
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Influence of Institutional Environment on Social Entrepreneurial Intention: a study in Maldives using Social Cognitive Career Theory
Social entrepreneurship creates social mechanisms for sustainable, rights-based development by addressing chronic social issues that public and private initiatives do not solve. Despite extensive study on social initiatives, little is known about how institutional environments influence social …
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