influencing behaviour through public policy
... areas, it has much greater potential to help us. To realise that potential, we have to build our capacity and ensure that we have a sophisticated understanding of what does influence behaviour. This report is an important step in that direction because it shows how behavioural theory could help achi ...
... areas, it has much greater potential to help us. To realise that potential, we have to build our capacity and ensure that we have a sophisticated understanding of what does influence behaviour. This report is an important step in that direction because it shows how behavioural theory could help achi ...
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... environmental and social impact, while ensuring economic growth through innovative products and the preservation of traditional sectors, such as food production. The economic outputs also may create social benefits. It is also important to consider the interrelationship between various sectors parti ...
... environmental and social impact, while ensuring economic growth through innovative products and the preservation of traditional sectors, such as food production. The economic outputs also may create social benefits. It is also important to consider the interrelationship between various sectors parti ...
the sociology of knowledge in american
... given to the study of the production of ideas, but more of a concern with the social-psychological processes involved in the acquisition or rejection of ideas. A final important development in this country is that several of the ideas that were central to earlier theoretical formulations of the soci ...
... given to the study of the production of ideas, but more of a concern with the social-psychological processes involved in the acquisition or rejection of ideas. A final important development in this country is that several of the ideas that were central to earlier theoretical formulations of the soci ...
Regression Analysis and the Philosophy of Social Sciences --
... problematic and questionable. This view appears in textbooks as the only possible interpretation of the procedure. Thus, the practitioner of regression analysis who follows the textbook might unnecessarily subscribe herself to the problems of empiricism: the demand of operational definitions, the as ...
... problematic and questionable. This view appears in textbooks as the only possible interpretation of the procedure. Thus, the practitioner of regression analysis who follows the textbook might unnecessarily subscribe herself to the problems of empiricism: the demand of operational definitions, the as ...
Dominant Corporate Agents and the Power Elite
... the 100 largest French and British companies and their directors between 1998 and 2003. We employ an innovative methodology to measure power, defined as command over resources, through the computation of a single proxy variable based on capital employed, turnover, profitability and number of employe ...
... the 100 largest French and British companies and their directors between 1998 and 2003. We employ an innovative methodology to measure power, defined as command over resources, through the computation of a single proxy variable based on capital employed, turnover, profitability and number of employe ...
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PRACTICE
... no such thing as ‘pure’ induction and or ‘pure’ deduction. For example, when socalled inductive researchers generate and interpret their data, they cannot approach this with a blank mind. Even if they are not testing a hypothesis, the kind of data they have generated, the questions they have asked a ...
... no such thing as ‘pure’ induction and or ‘pure’ deduction. For example, when socalled inductive researchers generate and interpret their data, they cannot approach this with a blank mind. Even if they are not testing a hypothesis, the kind of data they have generated, the questions they have asked a ...
Politics and Social Movements in an Hegemonic World
... “dominant thinking” that would redeem our societies from all their problems. The persuasive efficacy of this position, one of the most outstanding features of the victory of neoliberalism, rested less on its weak structure as regards arguments and much more on the enormous influence that was derived ...
... “dominant thinking” that would redeem our societies from all their problems. The persuasive efficacy of this position, one of the most outstanding features of the victory of neoliberalism, rested less on its weak structure as regards arguments and much more on the enormous influence that was derived ...
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... he short life of Global Dialogue 1 coincides with the resurgence of social movements – the Arab uprisings, new labor and land struggles, indignados, the student movement and the occupy movement. These all have their national and regional specificity but they are also closely connected and act as a m ...
... he short life of Global Dialogue 1 coincides with the resurgence of social movements – the Arab uprisings, new labor and land struggles, indignados, the student movement and the occupy movement. These all have their national and regional specificity but they are also closely connected and act as a m ...
Amartya Sen`s Concept of Human Rights: Agency`s Vital Role
... play an “active part” in some form of collective action. Sen’s generic concept of agency allows an individual, or group other than the person or group, whose aims are realized, to control the “levers” of change.9 An agent is empowered not only by his own efforts, but also when something he values ta ...
... play an “active part” in some form of collective action. Sen’s generic concept of agency allows an individual, or group other than the person or group, whose aims are realized, to control the “levers” of change.9 An agent is empowered not only by his own efforts, but also when something he values ta ...
Research in the Sociology of Sport
... Hargreaves (1992) also claims that the neglect of gender in figurational accounts of sport and leisure is tied up with a “quest for detachment” which, in her view, embodies the idea that figurational sociologists can “exceptionally, impartially separate themselves from their own histories and consc ...
... Hargreaves (1992) also claims that the neglect of gender in figurational accounts of sport and leisure is tied up with a “quest for detachment” which, in her view, embodies the idea that figurational sociologists can “exceptionally, impartially separate themselves from their own histories and consc ...
AnneMarie - Duke University`s Fuqua School of Business
... Sociology of science emerged in the early twentieth century as an outgrowth of studies of the history of invention and technology (Ogburn, 1922; Usher, 1929; Gilfillan, 1933; Merton 1938). Sociology was ripe for a theory of science around the turn of the century, as technology formed a major force t ...
... Sociology of science emerged in the early twentieth century as an outgrowth of studies of the history of invention and technology (Ogburn, 1922; Usher, 1929; Gilfillan, 1933; Merton 1938). Sociology was ripe for a theory of science around the turn of the century, as technology formed a major force t ...
The Sociologies of Law of Marx, Weber and Durkheim
... fundamental product of contemporary society. The assumed democratic nature of the modern Western world implies that legal discourse – necessarily defined by and connected to democracy – may be understood as ...
... fundamental product of contemporary society. The assumed democratic nature of the modern Western world implies that legal discourse – necessarily defined by and connected to democracy – may be understood as ...
... context of the Arab revolutions particularly in Egypt and Yemen from two different perspectives. The first one is a global perspective in which I intend to situate this new social phenomenon called “cyberactivism” in its spatial-temporal context in order to explore the following questions: What are ...
The killing fields of inequality - Análise Social
... (Brazilian edition 2014) that modernity would be better seen as a specific, singular time culture, to which there have been several historical pathways in the world, which may be entangled, and which have enduring effects on modern societies. In other words, I am trying to develop a global explanato ...
... (Brazilian edition 2014) that modernity would be better seen as a specific, singular time culture, to which there have been several historical pathways in the world, which may be entangled, and which have enduring effects on modern societies. In other words, I am trying to develop a global explanato ...
