• The social contexts of Social Facilitation, School Defiance, and Stress Control were the best discriminators of problem versus non-problem drinkers of both genders (although the order of importance varied by gender and specific problem behavior). (rti.org)
  • I think a big mistake that people often make when it comes to enterprise social is that the behavior is natural and that people will just know what to do because many users are familiar with social tools on the internet. (computerworld.com)
  • Familiarity with internet social tools does not necessarily drive behavior inside the enterprise. (computerworld.com)
  • Shalley has also studied group behavior and found that having a lot of personal ties and a diverse social network makes individuals more creative when they are working with others, increasing the teams overall creativity. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • This emphasis avoided or minimized the use of sanctions for the offense of drunken driving, which was seen not as a serious criminal problem but almost as a behavior to be expected from those with a drinking problem. (druglibrary.net)
  • Further, social norms reflected a tolerance of drinking, and drunken behavior was a source of amusement rather than a matter of serious concern. (druglibrary.net)
  • I am coming to suspect that I have not taken seriously enough the felt limitations of social media as venues for display behavior . (thenewatlantis.com)
  • However, such a procedure limits the scope of research questions in terms of social and motor behavior, limits self-paced engagement of the animal in the behavioral task, and may give rise to animal welfare concerns due to movement constraints during the sessions in the setup. (springer.com)
  • Health status, emotional well-being, and social cohesion are influenced by the physical, social, and cultural dimensions of the individual's or community's environment and personal attributes (e.g., behavior patterns, psychology, genetics). (cdc.gov)
  • The second level, relationship, includes a person's closest social circle, such as friends, partners, and family members, all of whom influence a person's behavior and contribute to his or her experiences. (cdc.gov)
  • School context and the problem behavior and social skills of students with emotional disturbance. (bvsalud.org)
  • Socially inappropriate behavior and failure to understand social cues may be reported. (medscape.com)
  • An adult may lose employment because his or her impaired comprehension of social norms leads to poor judgment in worksite behavior (eg, speaking inappropriately to colleagues, bosses, or administrators). (medscape.com)
  • This study of more than 1,300 high school students examined gender differences in the social context of drinking associated with four alcohol problem behaviors (high intensity drinking, binge drinking, driving while intoxicated, and riding with an alcohol impaired driver). (rti.org)
  • A series of analyses treated five social contexts of drinking (Social Facilitation, School Defiance, Stress Control, Peer Acceptance, and Parental Approval) as dependent variables and revealed significant multivariate interaction effects between gender and all four alcohol problem behaviors. (rti.org)
  • For social collaboration to be successful, leaders have to not only explain the "why," but they also have to demonstrate the behaviors. (computerworld.com)
  • While almost everyone experiences obsessive feelings and compulsive behaviors occasionally or in particular contexts, in OCD they take up more than an hour a day and cause problems with work, school, or social life. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This approach focuses on integrating approaches to change the physical and social environments rather than modifying only individual health behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • and more generally, the broader contexts of education. (sfu.ca)
  • Language acquisition has traditionally been considered a social, interactive process, however new research reveals that toddlers are able to acquire the meanings of words even in "socially impoverished contexts" where social or visual information is absent. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Moreover, scholars and firms are using the term " creating shared value ", an extension of corporate social responsibility, to explain ways of doing business in a socially responsible way while making profits (see the detailed review article of Menghwar and Daood, 2021). (wikipedia.org)
  • Numbers are not social constructs, but their manipulation can be socially constructed. (splicetoday.com)
  • The students were asked to solve computer science problems on a social media platform. (ntnu.edu.tw)
  • We engage to solve problems - to get something done! (computerworld.com)
  • When you process on the left side, you use information piece by piece to solve a math problem or work out a science experiment. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • It's not the first time a major sporting event failed to solve a host country's problems, an expert says. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Because there are three parts to the problem, people from different backgrounds (economists, engineers, ecologists, sociologists, health workers) and different stakeholders (government, communities, non-governmental organisations) need to co-operate to analyse and solve environmental problems. (nzdl.org)
  • ABSTRACT An action research project was carried out by a team from the National Public Health Management Centre in Tabriz, Iran to test the following hypothesis: Health Volunteers are more able to support health improvements by focusing on community participation and empowerment through facilitating communities to define and solve their own problems than by only providing information on health problems. (who.int)
  • It doesn't matter if you know how to solve a problem if that solution doesn't work in the field. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. A.P. Senthil Kumar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, under the College of Social Sciences & Humanities of the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. (google.com)
  • Breadth-Social Sciences. (sfu.ca)
  • Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences. (sfu.ca)
  • Likewise, studies in unusual fields like Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar's [ 3 ] in laboratory helped to put under perspective the production of scientific facts as topics of investigation in the social sciences. (intechopen.com)
  • International interventions in conflict-affected contexts have increased since 1945. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • These interventions seeking to build peace depend on establishing a shared understanding between "local" and "international" actors about why the conflict happened, what the post-conflict problems are, and the social, cultural and political problems that need to be resolved. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • International interventions in post-conflict contexts have only increased since 1945. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • All of these interventions that seek to build peace depend upon the establishment of a shared understanding between local and international actors about why the conflict happened, what the post-conflict problems are, and the social, political and cultural problems that need to be resolved. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Research must however to be able to abstract from context to be able to generalise. (feem.it)
  • There are personal and environmental "leverage points," such as the physical environment, available resources, and social norms, that exert vital influences on health and well-being. (cdc.gov)
  • As for people who usually engage in volunteering work, such restrictions have prevented such work at a time when social support of all kinds is critically needed to address diverse issues created by the pandemic. (unv.org)
  • Such a strategy is necessary today to develop and implement social support programs that are needed today to meet diverse needs of individuals and communities adversely affected by the pandemic and the resultant social and economic dislocation. (unv.org)
  • One such context, little explored by social choice theorists, is metaethical. (philpapers.org)
  • Criticism is formulated both towards social theorists who ignore the study of religious movements, and those engaging in social studies of Islamic activism without regarding Sufism a potential subject matter. (lu.se)
  • Assessing key environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics can help identify potential pressure points. (alliancebernstein.com)
  • There is growing and urgent criticism of the lack of diversity in decision-making and discriminatory practice in areas such as impact investing, social entrepreneurship and charity governance. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Do drinking motives and drinking contexts mediate the relationship between social avoidance and alcohol problems? (cruxpsychology.ca)
  • Research suggests drinking motives and drinking context mediate the relation between social anxiety and alcohol problems. (cruxpsychology.ca)
  • Taken together, these results suggest that CDM and CSAM independently mediate the relationship between social avoidance and alcohol problems and might serve as useful intervention targets. (cruxpsychology.ca)
  • Mental health problems were observed to partially mediate the influence of social discrimination on work performance. (cdc.gov)
  • Psychological stressors within the family, such as parental health and well-being (12-15), and psychological stressors in the social context, such as neighborhood disadvantage and lack of perceived safety, affect sleep (9,10,16,17). (cdc.gov)
  • Independent long working hours, heavy workload, stress, main coping strategies and reac- sample t -tests and ANOVA tests exam- poor work environment, lack of social tions to stressors through 4 open-ended ined associations between demographic support, problems of relocation, and questions. (who.int)
  • Short sleep duration among children is associated with mental, behavioral, and developmental disorders, is influenced by demographic, neighborhood, and family contexts, and poses risks for long-term health and development. (cdc.gov)
  • Further, this study tried to explore the relationship between various socio-demographic variables with the psychosocial problems and academic achievements. (google.com)
  • COVID-19 has increased inequality and aggravated social problems across emerging market economies, fueling populist pressures-but several emerging countries share features that make them particularly vulnerable. (alliancebernstein.com)
  • Discrimination and gender inequality are a global problem. (giz.de)
  • It led to a reduction in social inequality, but the problem is that it was based on an increase in consumption. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Study 2 included drinking contexts and motives as mediators in a single model and included an additional coping with social anxiety drinking motive (CSAM) mediator in a self-report cross-sectional study of 189 undergraduate drinkers. (cruxpsychology.ca)
  • however, drinking motives, rather than risky contexts, largely mediated the relation of social avoidance to alcohol problems (indirect effects = 0.08-0.14). (cruxpsychology.ca)
  • Thus the task of the newly elected democratic government in South Africa was to focus on the agenda of reconstruction and development within the context of real constraints, but also great social need and political pressure. (thepresidency.gov.za)
  • Perhaps we should have further debate on the social context for constraints and persuasion to contain the spread of infectious agents. (cdc.gov)
  • Many people who are normally very active and engage in all sorts of activities such as sports, cultural and social activities, professional work, community engagements, volunteer activities and travelling today remain confined to their domestic sphere. (unv.org)
  • He has 9 years of experience in the field level and 13 years of experience in teaching social work in a number of reputed colleges and Universities in India and abroad. (google.com)
  • The work of the 100x Impact Accelerator raises a set of research questions about the process of scaling social change and social purpose organisations. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The social psychologist renowned for his research on human judgment and on conflict resolution discusses the impact of his work. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Today's social tools and communities that can work against us, can also work with us, when proactively managed and embraced with an open mind, sincere intent, and genuine participation. (briansolis.com)
  • Work in a team to develop solutions to problems, and to critically reflect on the process by which these problems were addressed. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • And much of this performative work today is done through social media: what music or literature or television or movies I talk about and link to, what political causes I support. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • So read Yuval Levin's book, friends, and face the simple but daunting fact that if we don't work hard to repair the mediating institutions that give people a sense of security and belonging, people will turn instead to social media to do work that those technologies just aren't equipped to do. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Using multiple regression analysis, we tested the direct and mediation effects of mental health problems on work performance loss, controlling for relevant covariates (e.g., gender, education, citizenship, insurance, health). (cdc.gov)
  • Dec. 7, 2022 Although people are generally predisposed to perceive interactions to be social even in unlikely contexts, they don't always agree on exactly which information is social, according to a new study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Feb. 7, 2022 Researchers from 13 countries investigated the impact of COVID-19 related social isolation measures on 2,200 young infants and toddlers between 8 and 36 months of age. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Now they have ventured upon what may be the most ambitious of all of their publishing projects by way of an edited book titled " Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy " (Oxford University Press, 2022). (thefire.org)
  • Participaron 520 jóvenes: 246 estudiantes de bachillerato y universidad en el año 2020, durante el confinamiento y 274, search, writing, revision and en 2022. (bvsalud.org)
  • CDM mediated the relation between social avoidance and alcohol problems (indirect effect = 0.07). (cruxpsychology.ca)
  • Los motivos de consumo también aumentaron, excepto las asociadas al consumo de alcohol en universitarios. (bvsalud.org)
  • Likewise, social studies of contemporary Sufism need to be conscious of the risks of categorising stable entities like Islam and Sufism, and instead focus patterns of action, identity-shaping and legitimisation. (lu.se)
  • Females were no more likely to drink in the context of Stress Control than males, a finding inconsistent with some previous research. (rti.org)
  • This study builds upon previous research from Arunachalam demonstrating that by age two, toddlers can extract information about a new verb from its syntactic context, even before viewing a relevant event. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The objective of this research theme is to support the practice of the 100x Impact Accelerator, to develop theory and practice more widely about the scaling and growth of social purpose organisations, and to disseminate such learning to philanthropic foundations and other social investors. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Shalleys research focuses on how a variety of social and contextual factors affect individuals and teams creativity. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • We seek a colleague whose teaching and research interests include critical approaches to the study of crime, law and justice systems, and who center social and racial justice. (sssp1.org)
  • Research, based primarily on bivariate associations, suggests that discrimination creates social contexts that increase risk for both mental health and worker performance problems. (cdc.gov)
  • How funny to think that we once regarded the humble email device as addictive - the CrackBerry, we called it - when, in fact, those machines exerted a tiny pull next to the iron grip of social media on a smartphone. (gulfnews.com)
  • She was, instead, scrolling through social media updates, thumbing her way through observations about the news - including factoids about France's World Cup victory that afternoon. (gulfnews.com)
  • The real problem is that "addiction makes people crazy", to quote internet pioneer Jaron Lanier, author of a polemic published this summer: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. (gulfnews.com)
  • Of course human beings have always been capable of fighting, but something strange happens on social media. (gulfnews.com)
  • Social Media is pervasive. (briansolis.com)
  • As the adoption of Social Tools and applications progresses from the left to the right of the bell curve, Social Media will simply coalesce back to "the Web. (briansolis.com)
  • Consider, in comparison, how thin and weak the interpersonal bandwidth of social media is. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Lee Bollinger (left) and Geoffrey Stone (right) make for an impressive duo in their new book, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy. (thefire.org)
  • One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence on the internet, and in particular speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. (thefire.org)
  • Featuring a variety of perspectives from some of America's leading experts on this hotly contested issue, this volume offers new insights for the future of free speech in the social media era. (thefire.org)
  • Let Social Media Today's free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative Office in the Philippines had no social media presence to share timely, relevant public health information. (who.int)
  • As social media sites, such as Facebook, are popular in the Philippines, these were adopted for risk communication during the response to Haiyan. (who.int)
  • During the response to Haiyan, creating a social media presence, raising a follower base and developing meaningful messages and content was possible. (who.int)
  • This event underscored the importance of building a social media strategy in non-emergency times and supported the value of developing public health messages and content that both educates and interests the general public. (who.int)
  • As part of this ERC plan, social media was suggested as a way to enhance traditional ERC to the affected population. (who.int)
  • Usually a social media strategy starts during non-emergency times. (who.int)
  • However, before Typhoon Haiyan, the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative Office in the Philippines had no social media presence for sharing timely, relevant public health information. (who.int)
  • This paper therefore describes how social media was used to enhance traditional ERC and how a social media presence allowed for the broad and rapid dissemination of public health information in the response to Haiyan. (who.int)
  • In recent times, social media has played an important role in public health message dissemination, particularly as a tool in emergency preparedness and response.5 Pro-active communication provides important health information and advice for the public to adopt protective behaviours that augment disease surveillance post-disaster, reduce public confusion and allow for better resource allocation. (who.int)
  • 6 Social media users were estimated to be spending on average four hours and 12 minutes on social media each day. (who.int)
  • Context and nuance are becoming irrelevant to critics, who are simply hungry for anything to be angry about. (rt.com)
  • Individuals often exhibit practical speech problems, including inability to use language in social contexts, insensitivity about interrupting others, and irrelevant commentary. (medscape.com)
  • Findings indicate that toddlers can learn at least some aspects of word meaning from contexts in which they are not directly attending to the conversation around them, without observational or social information for cues. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 13 In contrast, unresponsive parenting may jeopardize children's development, particularly those at higher risk for developmental problems. (child-encyclopedia.com)
  • At the same time, history is assuming a more prominent role in quantitative social science, especially among researchers interested in economic growth and development over the long run. (nowpublishers.com)
  • Children's development of the cognitive and social skills needed for later success in school may be best supported by a parenting style known as responsive parenting. (child-encyclopedia.com)
  • 10 Responsive support for the child to become actively engaged in solving problems is often referred to as parental scaffolding, and is also thought to be key for facilitating children's development of self-regulation and executive function skills, behaviours that allow the child to ultimately assume responsibility for their well-being. (child-encyclopedia.com)
  • Girls and women cannot participate equally in social life, even in the partner countries of German development cooperation. (giz.de)
  • The project supports BMZ in positioning itself on gender equality in German development cooperation and in the international context. (giz.de)
  • Contemporary channels for this include learning and innovation laboratories on topics for the future, the newly designed web page gender-in-german-development.net, and social networks. (giz.de)
  • He urged ministers of health to strengthen their leadership in addressing health in the context of macroeconomic reforms in countries and to take advantage of the mechanisms of regional economic integration and the increasingly positive trends in official development assistance. (who.int)
  • Both the community engagement approach and the social ecological model recognize the complex role played by context in the development of health problems as well as in the success or failure of attempts to address these problems. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, the same expressions may be expected and appropriate in one cultural context but less appropriate in another. (videolectures.net)
  • social, political, economic and cultural influences on the institutions and practices of education. (sfu.ca)
  • The authors explore social and cultural backgrounds, the meaning of sexual problems in specific cultural contexts, and the way in which culture presents challenges to traditional psychotherapy. (soton.ac.uk)
  • 2012) The cultural context of sexual pleasure and problems: psychotherapy with diverse clients , New York, US. (soton.ac.uk)
  • In this view, it is important to recognize that medicine is a cultural system as subject to anthropological analysis as any other context [ 1 , 2 ]. (intechopen.com)
  • In human interactions context is often implicitly described by the normative expectations that people have with regard to an event and the likely reactions of the protagonists. (videolectures.net)
  • I've never done Facebook, but I confess to a Twitter problem: I still like the speed, range of stories and expertise I'd otherwise miss. (gulfnews.com)
  • The crux of the problem is that the boundaries we use for aggregation are arbitrary and may not represent the actual neighborhood of the individuals within them. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the psychological distress associated with the COVID-19 health crisis and the contingency measures (e.g., social isolation) can be severe and long-lasting and should not be disregarded at this moment (Brooks et al. (bvsalud.org)
  • Lower-skilled workers have been most affected, and poverty has increased substantially in low-income countries with weak social safety nets. (alliancebernstein.com)
  • International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology: Uncertain Geographic Context Problem. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social Care, as defined by the Scottish Government, comprises "all forms of personal and practical support for children, young people and adults who need extra support. (strath.ac.uk)
  • Many people have lost their income sources leading to serious social and economic problems for their families. (unv.org)
  • This is really a dilemma that has to be dealt with, as the absence of volunteer engagement has deprived many people who need the support of volunteer action to cope with diverse problems they face today. (unv.org)
  • Networking is a way of bringing together people who share a set of common interests and aspirations for the purpose of working together to mobilize human and material resources to address a problem or need they identify together. (unv.org)
  • While enterprise communities can help drive change, getting people to transition to using enterprise social networks (ESNs) requires an investment in change management. (computerworld.com)
  • I rarely see people talk about this when it comes to ESNs, but my experience with organizational change in the context of the knowledge management programs I've been involved with for the past 20 years has made me very sensitive to making people go someplace new to do something that they already have a comfortable place to do. (computerworld.com)
  • There is a growing problem among people who let trending social issues and always-changing "woke" standards take up too much real estate in their heads, and that is a deep misunderstanding about the way art works. (rt.com)
  • The third level, community, explores the settings in which people have social relationships, such as schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods, and seeks to identify the characteristics of these settings that affect health. (cdc.gov)
  • A child may not understand why people become upset when he or she breaks social rules. (medscape.com)
  • This study aimed to investigate the effects of gender pairings on collaborative problem-solving performance, processes, and attitudes in a social learning context. (ntnu.edu.tw)
  • Instead of saying, "Let's do social," I think we should be asking: What business processes would benefit from social capabilities? (computerworld.com)
  • There will be two case-study workshops where students will tackle real-life peacebuilding problems to critically reflect on the processes and effects of knowledge production in international peacebuilding. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Male problem drinkers were more likely to drink in all social contexts than female problem drinkers or non-problem drinkers of both genders. (rti.org)
  • A look at its mission, training, programs and accomplishments could help those who are interested in applying citizen activism to other social problems. (druglibrary.net)
  • The present study intends to look into the psychosocial problems and academic achievement of the children with specific learning disability. (google.com)
  • A 2000 study compared existing econometric studies of the relationship between social and financial performance, concluding that the contradictory results of previous studies reporting positive, negative, and neutral financial impact, were due to flawed empirical analysis and claimed when the study is properly specified, CSR has a neutral impact on financial outcomes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) provides a free career center for members and non-members to browse current job opportunities related to sociology. (sssp1.org)
  • Analytical cross-sectional study with non-probabilistic cannabis en el contexto sampling at two points in time. (bvsalud.org)
  • This article describes some of the links between household energy use in less developed countries and potential environmental problems. (nzdl.org)
  • Many adults, who would themselves shrink at the thought of one night in the open," Morse wrote in 1947, "rashly suggest camp as the automatic remedy for the physical and mental health problems of children. (historycooperative.org)
  • is problem focused, context specific and future oriented. (who.int)
  • In this context, there is a constant conflict between doctors and social movement activists in favor of the humanization of childbirth. (intechopen.com)
  • Can hybrid organisations and hybrid mechanisms create additional and sustainable social impact and remedy some of the failures of conventional sectoral approaches? (lse.ac.uk)
  • Dominant approaches to and models of social change - impact investing, social entrepreneurship, charity - are accused of reflecting elite understandings rather than the cultures of communities on the ground. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The article echoed the themes of my recent presentations about overcoming the barriers to success with enterprise social . (computerworld.com)
  • Barriers to getting value from social software are minimized when the organizational culture is aligned to support collaboration. (computerworld.com)
  • In what ways can private action contribute to social justice and to the redistribution of power? (lse.ac.uk)
  • The tools and platforms available today are sophisticated, evolved, and designed for social distribution and redistribution. (briansolis.com)
  • The problem is highly related to the ecological fallacy, edge effect, and Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) in that, it relates to aggregate units as they apply to individuals. (wikipedia.org)
  • The social ecological model conceptualizes health broadly and focuses on multiple factors that might affect health. (cdc.gov)
  • The social ecological model understands health to be affected by the interaction between the individual, the group/community, and the physical, social, and political environments (Israel et al. (cdc.gov)
  • To inform its health promotion programs, CDC (2007) created a four-level model of the factors affecting health that is grounded in social ecological theory, as illustrated in Figure 1.2. (cdc.gov)
  • Historians and social scientists inhabit increasingly separate academic worlds. (nowpublishers.com)
  • And, despite the fact that the average age of Facebook users is rapidly getting older, not everyone in your organization uses social tools on the internet. (computerworld.com)
  • Treatment of a child or adolescent who is depressed should occur within a biopsychosocial context. (medscape.com)
  • Our goal was to determine whether 2-year-olds, on hearing new verbs in informative sentences, could use their syntactic content alone to map the novel verbs to meaning, even though no social or visual information was available. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A Child-centred Design Analysis Framework is developed in an interdisciplinary manner, comprising four dimensions including Child, Content, Context and Format. (researchgate.net)
  • Thirty days after these social medial channels were established, a gradual increase in followers was observed. (who.int)
  • The amount of speech may vary widely and may reflect the individual's current emotional state more than the communication requirements of the social setting. (medscape.com)
  • Outside the realm of immediate family members, an affected child may exhibit inappropriate attempts to initiate social interaction and to make friends. (medscape.com)
  • He highlighted the inauguration by the Director-General of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. (who.int)
  • In addition, this year the WHO Regional Office for Africa hosted a regional consultation on social determinants of health in Brazzaville. (who.int)
  • This broad approach to thinking of health, advanced in the 1947 Constitution of the World Health Organization, includes physical, mental, and social well-being (World Health Organization, 1947). (cdc.gov)
  • The CDC model enables community-engaged partnerships to identify a comprehensive list of factors that contribute to poor health and develop a broad approach to health problems that involves actions at many levels to produce and reinforce change. (cdc.gov)
  • Personal remarks inappropriate to most social environments may be uttered routinely. (medscape.com)
  • Tracy Dennison (2021), "Context is Everything: The Problem of History in Quantitative Social Science", Journal of Historical Political Economy: Vol. 1: No. 1, pp 105-126. (nowpublishers.com)
  • These arguments reflect the current political context in Brazil marked by intolerance and the advance of neoconservatism. (intechopen.com)
  • Carlos Braga, professor of international political economy at the IMD management school in Lausanne - and the only Brazilian among the 60 prominent professors at the school - explains to swissinfo.ch the context of the protests and the possible impact of the football tournament. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Cannabis has been employed as a medicine and as a psychoactive drug for social and religious purposes. (druglibrary.org)
  • More positively, there is recognition of the significance and power of grass-roots movements for social change. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The present thesis analyses one local branch of that order in Eastern London within a theoretical framework of New Social Movements, as formulated by the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci. (lu.se)
  • 2.1.1 Some theoretical positions on New Social Movements. (lu.se)
  • 2.1.2 What's new about New Social Movements? (lu.se)
  • Examples from the social science and history literatures are adduced to reinforce this point. (nowpublishers.com)