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The Role of Social Networks in Determining Earnings: A Comparison Analysis of Four Racial and Ethnic Groups
Social Networks Earnings MCSUI Race and Ethnicity International Migration
2013/9/5
Previous literature shows that social networks built on weak ties provide greater advantages to individual earnings in the labor market. In this research, we evaluate the effect of social networks on ...
Seed and Information Exchange through Social Networks: The Case of Rice Farmers of Indonesia and Lao PDR
Gender Participatory Varietal Selection Social Network Analysis
2013/9/5
The study investigates the structure of information exchange among men and women farmers who were involved in participatory varietal selection (PVS) on submergence-tolerant varieties in pilot communit...
The Subtleties of Social Exclusion: Race, Social Class, and the Exclusion of Blacks in a Racially Mixed Neighborhood
Social Inclusion Neighborhoods Race Social Class Gentrification
2013/9/5
We use interviews, content analysis, and surveys to describe how a neighborhood association in a racially mixed neighborhood in Portland, Oregon (USA) subtly excludes many blacks from being full membe...
Trust, Social and Personal Attitudes after Wildfires in a Rural Region of Greece
Disasters Wildfires Greece Trust Social Capital Social Cohesion
2013/9/5
We investigated the trust in institutions, social values and personal attitudes of individuals in a part of Greece, after a wildfire disaster. The design of the study was a cross sectional, case-contr...
Social Order in Sociology: Its Reality and Elusiveness
Social Order ntegration Conflict Reality Elusiveness Sociology
2013/9/5
In the past, as well as in the present, depending on certain circumstances, sociologists tend to espouse one or the other of the contradictory answers proposed by political philosophers: social order ...
Social Mobility of Migrant Peasant Workers in China
Migration Occupation Mobility Peasant Workers Social Mobility Status Attainment
2013/2/19
sing data from four cities in China (Shenzhen, Suzhou, Beijing, and Chengdu), this article examines the occupational and social mobility among migrant peasant workers in urban areas. Through qualitati...
The Politics of Data:Uncovering Whiteness in Conventional Social Policy and Social Work Research
Communities of Color Measurement Policy Advocacy Policy Research Racial Disparities Whiteness.
2013/2/19
The implementation of a robust community based participatory research (CBPR) study in Multnomah County, Oregon, has detailed broad and deep racial disparities across 27 institutions and systems. The p...
Altruism, Selfishness and Social Cohesion
Altruism Selfishness Group Selection Economic Development
2013/2/19
Recently has been shown that, given certain conditions, altruism can prevail in a population even without the help of mechanisms as kin selection, reciprocal altruism and group selection. At the light...
Do institutions and social cohesion enhance the effectiveness of aid? New Evidence from Africa
aid effectiveness institutions social cohesion Africa
2014/6/24
Using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel GMM estimator, this paper explores the effects of aid, institutions, and social cohesion on per-capita income growth in 34 African countries, focusing in particul...
Social Meanings of Mortality: The Language of Death and Disease in 19th Century Massachusetts
death disease epidemiological transition Massachusetts normativity pragmatism
2014/11/4
This dissertation investigates the emergence and development of cause-of-death registration in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. I examine the historical, demographic, sociopolitical, and theoretical ...
Environmental Circumscription and the Emergence of Social Complexity
Environmental circumscription social complexity agent-based modeling
2014/8/8
Carneiro proposes a theory for the emergence of social complexity that draws from ecological and biological inspiration. Key to this theory is the notion of “environmental circumscription”, which posi...
Herding Concepts: The Contextual Validation of Social Agent Models
Herding Concepts Contextual Validation Social Agent Models
2014/8/8
If social models are to be used to informpolicies, their validation is a vital topic.However, the validation techniquesof the natural sciences are not sufficient to validate social models. The present...
Interest Dynamics with Social Constraints and Exogenous Drivers
Interest Dynamics Emergent Behavior Agent-Based Modeling
2014/8/8
An important dynamic among interacting knowledge workers is the transition from cognitive convergence (a positive group phenomenon) to collapse (which can lead to overlooking critical information). Th...
Computational Social Science and High Performance Computing: A Case Study of a Simple Model at Large Scales
Agent-Based Modeling High-Performance Computing Social Science Simulation Visualization Scalability Triangles Simulation
2014/8/8
Advances in High-Performance Computing (HPC) offer Computational Social Science the opportunity to create simulations at scales vastly larger than in previous times. Here an example is presented showi...
Herd Privacy: Modeling the Spillover Effects of Privacy Settings on Social Networking Sites
Herd Privacy Modeling the Spillover Privacy Settings Social Networking Sites
2014/8/8
Concerns over privacy on social networking sites generally focus on the options available to individual users for protecting personal information on their own pages. However, similar information is of...