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Perceptions Of Social Bonds, Social Engagement And Social Capital By Social Network Site Users
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL BONDS, SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL BY SOCIAL NETWORK SITE USERS</p> <p>by</p> <p>ALISHA M. BECKROW</p> <p>May 2015</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Matthew W. Seeger</p> <p>Major: Communications</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>In this study we …
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Essays in Social Space: Applications to Chilean Communities on Inter -Sector Social Linkages, Social Capital, and Social Justice
The findings have implications for scholars and public policy design in regional and community development, participatory networks, and urban studies.
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Linking animals, social justice and social work
Speciesism is a social justice issue that refers to a widespread set of discriminatory beliefs, practices and structures that harm nonhumans. This research aims to contribute to the elimination of speciesism by raising awareness of this issue among social workers and by beginning to reshape their …
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Social impact measurement in hybrid social enterprises
The ethereal nature of social impact measurement makes it a very challenging but also fascinating area of research. The lack of agreement and coherence around what can and should be measured, not to mention how it should be measured, presents both a theoretical and practical quandary to hybrid …
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Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in practice.
… that aim to change from a charity to a social enterprise. In addition to this, there are limited knowledge and understanding about what social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are and a lack of frameworks that will enable one to know a social enterprise and social entrepreneur when …
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A Social Identity Approach to Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and disabling condition, with prevalence rates increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic. SAD is defined as a fear of negative evaluation, causing psychological distress and impairment as well as significant economic costs. There are a number of evidence-based …
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International Students' Social Integration and Social Support
… students’ experiences by exploring their social networks. Drawing on data from 53 in-depth interviews with international students at a four-year public research university in the Southwest US and employing ego-centric social network analysis (SNA), this dissertation comprises three …
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A Social Identity Approach to Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and disabling condition, with prevalence rates increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic. SAD is defined as a fear of negative evaluation, causing psychological distress and impairment as well as significant economic costs. There are a number of evidence-based …
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Social Structure and Anger: Social Psychological Mediators
This study uses 1996 General Social Survey data to examine potential social psychological mediators, suggested by equity theory and research on distress, of the relationship between social structure and anger. A broader social structure and personality approach to anger is compared with the equity …
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Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones
The Computers are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm was proposed more than two decades ago to understand humans’ interaction with computer technologies. Today, as emerging media technologies including social robots and smartphones become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to …
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Developmental and Gender Patterns in Social Information Processing: Social Problem-Solving and Social Goals
… first- through fifth-grade children's (N = 514) social information processing, as well as the role emotion plays in these patterns. Developmental patterns and goal selection have been relatively understudied in past social information processing literature. Videotaped ambiguous provocations were …
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Social landscapes: social interaction fostering a healthier lifestyle
… parks is to engage in both overt and covert social interaction (Gehl, 2010). Many people desire the opportunity to interact with others as a means of fulfilling their social well-being, but it is often unattainable in a civic space due to the lack of activities that promote social …
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Software metrics for social capital in social media
… this research was creating metrics for measuring social connectedness in social media. This thesis made use of social capital theory in order to inform the construction of original metrics. The methodology used in this thesis involved conducting a literature review into the use of social capital …
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Social Studies: The Lost Art of Being Social
The content area of social studies has in recent years been replaced within the educational curriculum across the country. This paper discusses how the slow removal of studying the socialization of mankind from the education system is directly linked to the decline in societal values, citizenship …
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Social services and twentieth century social welfare policy
In 1962 Congress enacted legislation which made social services an important instrument of public welfare reform. The law represented the culmination of a half-century effort on the part of public welfare officials to secure recognition for public social services as a distinctive yet integral …
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Philosophical foundations, social power and social work practice
… The covert manner these influences effect social work practice is made more visible through the use of ethically oriented decision making patterns; Ways that authority and discretion are used and abused, and abusive decision-making, are described making them easier to recognize and …
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Determining influence in social networks using Social Capital
The proliferation of online social networks enables the influence of a person or an event to propagate to every corner of the globe in a very short duration of time. The problem of identifying such key sources of influence is important for a wide variety of applications from sales and marketing to …
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Social Structure and Anomie: Social Isolation as ''Retreatism''
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