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We analyzed the nature of sociological social psychology as reflected in the pages of Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ), 1975-2005. We examined 1,037 papers published in SPQ during the 31-year time period. We analyzed trends in format, authorship, and research methods. We used cited reference searching to determine SPQ's top authors, top institutions, and most influential papers, as well as the top journals citing SPQ. We conclude that sociological social psychology has strength in diversity, but may face some challenges ahead. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores communication effects on foreign policy opinions. Specifically, it is argued that isolationist attitudes lead to selective avoidance of international news, which leads to effects on foreign policy opinions above and beyond the effect of isolationism alone. Furthermore, the effects of framing the intervention in cooperative versus militant terms are explored. Secondary analysis of the Pew Center for the People and the Press' December 2006 News Interest Index Survey demonstrated that in the context of evaluations of the Iraq war and willingness to engage in Darfur, isolationist attitudes affected opinions through avoidance of news media. Additionally, framing of the intervention influenced the process by which individuals evaluated an intervention. Furthermore, it was found that the framing effects were moderated by party identification. Implications for research and practice are discussed. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Companion bots have the potential to alleviate loneliness and provide companionship. To accomplish this, the bot must generate appropriate conversations that are contextually relevant and interesting to the human companion. This research synthesizes 48 papers pertinent to companion bots. To understand and develop critical companion bot elements of the conversations, this paper explores prior literature to understand the human-interaction theories that have been leveraged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section presents abstracts of several papers on conflict management. Some of the papers include "Knowing Your Place: Self-Perceptions of Status in Social Groups," which focuses on the impact of social categorization and disagreement on individuals' affective and cognitive reactions in decision-making settings; "The Impact of Social Similarity on Affective and Cognitive Reactions to Opinion Conflict," about how workers interact and resolve conflicts in businesses; and "Are Prime Movers More Powerful? Evidence from Experiments on Competitive Choice and Interaction," which examines the effect of outside options on trust and trustworthiness.

This article presents abstracts of various symposiums including "Skilled and Contingent: Paradoxes and Prospects for Professional Independent Contractors," "Complicating the Conservation: Building Relationships and Networks Across Dimensions of Diversity" and "Unpacking and Reconceptualizing Career Success" among others.

This qualitative exploration takes an in-depth look at computer-mediated communication (CMC) within social networking websites. In order to examine needs, and motivations concerning such sites, a uses and gratifications framework is implemented. The purpose of this study is to understand how and why people make use of CMC via online networking sites. Twenty-five social networking website users were interviewed in order to examine participants' needs, and motications. Motivations include entertainment, information, and social utility. Needs are broken down into categories including cognitive, affective, personal, social, and escapist. These needs and motivations are revealed through user behavior, which concentrated on messaging, comments, pictures, friend networks, personal profiles, and others profiles. Part of the appeal of social networking sites is the ability of the software to meet multiple needs on multiple levels. This ability brings back users for repeat participation and explains the stickiness of the software. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online dating profiles are a popular new tool for initiating romantic relationships, although recent research suggests that they may also be a fertile ground for deception. The present study examines deception in online dating profiles using a novel cross-validation technique for establishing ground truth for online self-presentation. An analysis of 80 participants' profiles suggests that the deviations between participants' online self-presentations and the truth tended to be small but frequent. This pattern of deception is consistent with the Hyperpersonal model's assertion that online communicators engage in strategic and selective self-presentation. The results also suggest that, when deciding what to lie about, users take into consideration both the technical affordances of online dating portals, such as the editability of profiles, as well as the more social aspects of online dating, such as warranting and relational goals. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts on management science topics including the impact of unrealistic optimism on managerial perceptions of performance; variables in subordinates' perceptions of abuse; and the relationship between identity resources and positive organizational outcomes.

Travel experiences offer a diverse view into an individual's interactions with different cultures, societies, and places. In this paper, we present a 2.5-year autoethnographic travel account of a hard of hearing individual-Jain. Through retrospective journals and field notes, we reveal the tensions and nuances in his travel, including the magnified difficulty of social conversations, issues with navigating unfamiliar environments and cultural contexts, and changes in the relationship to personal assistive technologies. By exploring the longitudinal travel experiences of a single individual, we uncover evocative and personal insights rarely available through participant-based research methods. Based on these lived experiences and post hoc reflections, we present two design explorations of personalized technology the autoethnographer created for aiding his travel. Finally, we offer reflections for customized travel technologies for deaf and hard of hearing users, and methodological guidelines for performing first-person research in the context of disability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to respond to one of the difficulties founded by a tutor in a situation of monitoring a group activity at a distance activity (remote mode), namely the perception of the individual activity of the students in the group activity. Based on a literature study on remote collective activity scenarios and group dynamics, the authors propose ways to facilitate the tutor's perception of individual activity. These means are based on a perception of the individual and group productions of the students, collective discussions, social behaviors as well as the sociometric analysis of the group. The authors confront these proposals for the real needs of the tutors of the group activities through interviews conducted with eight experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the problem of Islamic boarding schools failing to foster and create a healthy environment in the physical environment of the boarding school. Some Islamic boarding schools are still vulnerable to providing clean water and have environmental sanitation problems. This paper aims to explain why these problems can occur in the Islamic boarding school environment, how the efforts of Islamic boarding schools to overcome these problems are experienced by Islamic boarding schools, and what obstacles are experienced by Islamic boarding schools in realizing a sanitary environment. This study was conducted on a small scale, namely at the Darut Taqwa Ngalah Islamic Boarding School in Pasuruan Regency, East Java. This study uses a case study approach in the data collection process, with observation and interview techniques. The results showed that the problem of environmental sanitation in Islamic boarding schools is a complex problem because it is triggered by various factors, namely the physical, social and cultural environment. These factors are interrelated and cannot be separated from each other in shaping the behavior of students who are less clean and healthy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates consistency of ISO/IEC-standards on quality and safety of telehealth services and mobile medical apps. Since mobile medical apps are 'software as a medical device', requirements for these apps are in software standards, in particular health software standards, as well as in medical device standards. These requirements were analyzed within an analysis model that has three domains: quality and safety management, core healthcare processes and resources. Telehealth services are healthcare processes and mobile medical apps are resources. There is good alignment of the standards that pertain to quality and safety management, the healthcare processes and medical devices. However, there is a lack of alignment, consistency and transparency of the ISO/IEC-standards on quality and safety of telehealth services and mobile medical apps. An international effort to address these issues is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the relation between the human development index and the poverty rate in origin and expansion regions in eastern Indonesia. This study uses a quantitative research approach with Quantile Regression (QR) analysis as the analysis tool. The results showed that the human development index influences the Poverty rate in the origin and expansion region of eastern Indonesia. Human development has a negative effect towards the poverty rate. This research is limited to the number of samples and the scope, which are limited in the region of Indonesia. The results of this research can add empirical evidence related to human development and poverty, especially in Indonesia. This research is expected to be a reference on human development and poverty in Indonesia to be studied more deeply to investigate the causes of poverty in Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses on the adaptive systems in the near future from the viewpoint of nourishing relationship. Based on the assumption that the social system is so-called "system of systems," managing adaptive systems within the social system puts emphasis rather on relationship among systems than on each element of systems with the help of ecological approach to systems science. Inspired by natural biological systems, the relationship between adaptive systems and users are formalized as a mutual nurturing, then this paper discusses on principle of designing such relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online social networks (OSN’s) have shaped collective action into a new form of organizing and engagement known as connective action. Protests, demonstrations, and social movements have largely relied on social media as their primary organizational process for resource mobilization. These platforms also provide a method to coordinate and influence behavior. Most social science research on connective action has taken a qualitative approach. There are some quantitative studies, but most focus on statistical validation of the qualitative approach (e.g., survey’s) or focus on only one aspect of connective action. Computational analysis as a complement to existing survey methods offer in-depth insights about the role of identity and provide insights into the underlying behaviors we see as catalysts for these online movements. This paper presents an interdisciplinary computational approach to analyze connective action by exploring the key features of collective identity, network organization, and mobilization in connective action movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, lacks of conversation among elderly people are becoming a serious problem accompanying an increase in elderly living alone. For this trend, dialogue systems for solving the lack of conversation by elderly people have received attention. As elderly people are thought to like to talk, current dialogue systems for elderly people are specialized in listening to the story. However, it will be difficult for elderly people to speak positively to the dialogue systems from the beginning. In this paper, we propose a dialogue system that considers psychological factors such as communication process and user's character. In the proposed method, communication between elderly people and the dialogue system is divided into two stages. In the initial dialogue, an agent talks positively to make elderly people easy to talk. In the late dialogue, we propose two kinds of agents that adopt different dialogue methods according to the character of the user. Finally, we conducted experiments on the formation of impressions in the initial dialogue and verified the effectiveness of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conflict is the most unpleasant way to resolve disputes which inevitably arise in the process of social interaction. It implies the opposition of those participating in the interaction and is usually accompanied by negative emotions that go beyond the conventional norms and rules. A conflict situation is a component of any conflict. Many scientists believe that conflict situations usually appear as a result of miscommunication. The ability to build constructive relationships with others and effectively mediate contentious issues is an important indicator of personal development. The patterns of behavior in conflict situations, unique to every person, are formed at the earliest stages of personality development. The analysis of literature and the results of our research show that, unfortunately, the development of conflict resolution skills in modern adolescents is not on the list of educational goals at comprehensive schools. Despite the fact that its importance is not denied, teachers do not take active measure to help students develop the ability to resolve conflict situations. The aim of this paper is to study and identify the development of conflict resolution skills in modern adolescents as well as to provide rationale for the organization of purposeful psychological and pedagogical work to improve conflict resolution skill in students. On the basis of the results obtained, recommendations are given for the organization of special psychological and pedagogical work on the development of conflict resolution skills in adolescents. The empirical part of the study took place in a comprehensive school (the city of Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan) and involved 74 pupils aged 13-15. The preliminary diagnostic assessment was carried out by means of the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), adapted by Grishina; Q Methodology (Q-sort) developed by William Stephenson (adapted by Bekhterev); the methodology "Assessment of Conflict Resistance Level" developed by Raygorodsky. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a temporal dynamic model of anxiety states and traits for an individual. Anxiety is a natural part of life, and most of us experience it from time to time. But for some people, anxiety can be extreme. Based on several personal characteristics, traits, and a representation of events (i.e. psychological and physiological stressors), the formal model can represent whether a human that experience certain scenarios will fall into an anxiety states condition. A number of well-known relations between events and the course of anxiety are summarized from the literature and it is shown that the model exhibits those patterns. In addition, the formal model has been mathematically analyzed to find out which stable situations exist. Finally, it is pointed out how this model can be used in therapy, supported by a software agent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Industries linked to and built on creativity and design have been described as backbones of a modern economy by the likes of Florida (2002; 2005). This paper reviews the ways early-stage entrepreneurs of creative industries conceptualise knowledge and depict their development trajectory and practices in issues concerning knowledge. These entrepreneurs operate in the context of a knowledge economy that underlines the key role of knowledge as a source of advantage. As Moore (2000) claims, knowledge intensity creates entrepreneurial opportunities and results to offer an advantage. The current view of knowledge management (KM) stretches the realm of KM beyond the ability to create. Action on knowledge contains sub-processes of knowledge creation, maintenance, renewal, organisation, and transference, for example (Wiig, 1997). This multiple case study explores the way entrepreneurs express the nature of knowledge in the enterprise and in relation to their personal entfloridarepreneur role. Light is shed on the principles and practices of KM in entrepreneurial firms. The research is an exploratory and interpretative case study, revealing patterns of thoughts and behaviour in the companies studied. A sample of seven companies whose business activity is based on design and creativity were interviewed in-depth. The collected qualitative case data is thematically content-analysed to constitute a model of companies’ development trajectory in relation to knowledge. The study contributes to academic knowledge both in the areas of entrepreneurial studies as well as in KM. The practical contributions serve creativity-connected industries and early-stage entrepreneurs who can use the results to plan and foresee their KM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gaining a greater comprehension of the complexities of social behaviour relies on uncovering the relationships among the different aspects of that behaviour. A vast amount of behavioural research, however, starts from loosely defined concepts and then uses elaborate statistical techniques to analyse observations whose underlying definitional basis is weak. Facet theory is presented as a recipe for social research that offers a set of principles to guide research design. Drawing on an empirical analysis of the nature of trust at work the facet approach demonstrates how a definitional framework may be generated to provide the theoretical basis for the analysis of the structural characteristics of a specific domain of interest. The paper argues that Facet Theory offers a solution to the arguments in the management research literature that focus on the problems that an uncritical adoption of such deterministic positivistic methodological designs raises for management research (Gill & Johnson, 2010); a concern which is increasingly making these designs seen untenable. A key aim of this paper is to suggest that there is still a place for use of such research designs with respect to theory development and the need for alternative methodological choices, such as Facet Theory, which articulate different philosophical commitments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ICT can have unintended impacts on the social behavior of children, but knowledge about the mechanisms by which they unfold is limited. To fill this gap, this paper examines the social behavioral impacts of ICT on young children (under seven-year-olds) who are in a critical developmental period for learning their basics of social behavior. This paper focuses on the ways in which ICT encourage them to modify their turn taking, the fundamental mechanism for conducting social behavior. Analyzing qualitative video data from real life child-computer interactions and parental interviews, these modifications are summarized as the hidden curriculum of ICT. Two dynamics unique to ICT interaction, the reprehension-free breaching of social expectations and the unlimited repetition of interactions, facilitate young children internalizing these modifications, with dual impacts on their social behavior. The negative impacts stem from the hidden curriculum of ICT desensitizing young children to the situational expectations of their social surroundings. The positives emerge from it promoting resilience sustaining social behavior in general. These results implicate that harnessing the hidden curriculum of ICT is important, especially when designing ICT for young children, because the conducts of social behavior internalized before the age of seven can persist for life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stalking is becoming a substantial social pathology in contemporary times. Nowadays, stalking adopted a form of cyberstalking, which means harassment or intimidation using contemporary communication channels, such as sending a large number of e-mails to the person who does not want it. There have been numerous publications in the scientific literature that described stalking, emphasizing its sociological, psychological and legal effects. These studies have revealed e.g. the causes of stalking or characterized stalker profiles. It can be adopted that similar to studies on other crimes, the papers on stalking have paid little attention to victims although victimology is an important part of criminology. Presentation of the victimological aspects of stalking means the emphasis on destruction resulting from being a victim of such pathological behaviours. Victims of stalking feel anxiety, fear, uncertainty and changes in interpersonal relations, changes in workplaces and places of residence notwithstanding. It is worth analysing the texts concerning stalking in order to reveal its victimological aspects. For example, one can refer to unique Polish psychological investigations conducted by I. Jabłońska in 2011-2012 in a group of female victims of stalking and relating to emotional intelligence and personality traits as approached by the Big Five model. As results from these examinations, female stalking victims were characterized by higher intensification of depression compared to women who were not the victims of this destructive phenomenon while the results should be considered worrying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An objective of this research is to conceptualize service value as a value dimension, empirically test a new construct tailored for a market of research, development and innovation (RDI) products and services, and explore its influence on purchase intentions of customers/buyers of RDI products and services. The challenge addressed in this paper is the fact that the service value is created in the distribution system and is not embedded in the product or service, whereas on RDI markets, performance and price values are expected to dominantly influence purchase intentions. Based on the literature research, service value is in this paper theoretically conceptualized as a four attributes value dimension, consisting of providing the service, education of employees and product display, providing after-sales support, maintenance and repairs, and interpersonal relationship. The conceptualization is empirically tested of the sample of 135 buyers of RDI products and services. Exploratory factor analysis extracted three factors. Components education of employees and product display and providing aftersales support, maintenance and repairs converged into a single factor which now reflects both prepurchase and postpurchase related interactions. The first item of service providing converged to factor interpersonal relationship. The service value is now a two-factor higher order construct. The factor purchase intentions remained unchanged. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted by means of PLS-SEM. It confirmed internal reliability, convergent and discriminant validity of the three factors on both first-order and second-order level of the model. Based on these results, hypotheses were developed to test the influence of the higher order construct service value and its components on purchase intentions. The support has been found for direct positive influence of service value on purchase intentions, while the direct positive influence of prepurchase and postpurchase interactions and interpersonal relationship on purchase intentions is not statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at planning a piece of land with an area of 5,000 square meters located in the city of Taif, specifically in Al-Shifa. It was divided into three levels, each level 3.5 square meters away from the other. The project was divided into three main buildings: the first was a villa, the second was workers' housing, and the third was a stable and a track. For horses, among the secondary things that the project contains are, firstly, the swimming pool, secondly, a small sports club, and thirdly, a tennis court. The second project is about four apartments in an area of 700 square meters. The apartments contain an outdoor garden and parking lots. Each apartment has a parking space. The land has two different designs, each has a unique idea. It is an architectural design for a private residential building for two parents and two sons with their families. It is located in the city of Taif, in the Al-Shifa region, on an area of 5000 square meters The land was divided into a two-story villa, three apartments for workers, and a garden consisting of a tennis court and horse stables. The project will face obstacles, including the diversity of land levels, the preservation of local cultures, their social behaviors, and the modern character of the original architecture in designing their home with sustainable and smart home principles. The Summer House project was inspired by 4 projects, so we came up with a good idea, so that I took from each project the distinctive thing in it that suits the environment of the project that I am currently working on, and which makes the project present better, more beautiful, and more comfortably, and also protects privacy. we made the summer House project allow the residents of the house to experience... Best for vacation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of occupational subculture and the stressors involved in a pronounced occupational subculture. Policing is also known for its physical and mental stressors that are, arguably, more numerous than in other professions. The importance of the protective function of subculture needs to be taken into account when attempting to deal with police stress. This study describes the prevention and treatment programs that have unfortunately not been sufficiently utilized because of the police culture. The paper reviews the potential risks caused by the exclusion of police culture. It hypothesizes that those police officers who perceive themselves as 'out-group' (i.e. that they are not part of the subculture), would experience more occupational stress in comparison to those who perceive themselves as a part of the group (i.e. 'in-group'). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore the concept of expertise and its role within contemporary cultural work. Specifically, I look at how artists signal expertise on social media, and the role of the act of signalling in cultural labour. Expertise is a crucial issue given the rise of the 'knowledge society' and 'information economy' (Fleck, 1998). The internet and social media platforms are distinct spaces where "knowledge, information and expertise are the major factors of production" (Fleck, 1998:144) and yet how expertise can be presented on these platforms is underscrutinised. In this paper I discuss three implications of signalling expertise for cultural labour: the pressure to keep their online presence up to date; the display of recognition; and signalling as expertise. Signalling expertise is integral to the cultural labour of artists and present certain dilemmas which must be considered in relation to the pressures of contemporary cultural work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital Cluster organisations encompass physical agglomerations of individuals, companies, government and academic organisations situated within a geographical location. Member companies can be micro-entities, SME's and large corporations all expecting to gain advantage by their cluster membership. The collective gathering of technologies and intellectual property may incubate and accelerate innovation of services and products via networks (social and dynamic networks and ties to other networks and organisations). They could be described as something almost organic, in that they tend to come together through their own dynamics as much as they do through central direction. But how can we evaluate the performance of these collective entities such that they make a positive contribution towards delivering and creating value. The notion of clusters is very well established across disciplines that examine economic activity, ranging from business to geography. This research studies the potential and actual benefits of a cluster organisation, to understand the dynamics of the cluster in a tech-oriented environment. What are the interpersonal relationships that drive the cluster productivity as one of the three dimensions of cluster success suggested by Porter? The paper further suggests using an ethnographic approach to developing a management model for the performance management of clusters, through an extended period of close observation of these Digital organisations in action, specifically the senior management and the companies who active within the cluster. Clusters and other forms of agglomeration have been a subject of academic interest for decades, but they present some enduring challenges for researchers. Therefore, this research project should provide a unique contribution in both conceptual and methodological terms. Going further, in the future it could allow for comparative data to be created between different offshore island clusters, thus offering an understanding of which ones are the most effective, and why. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivating and stimulating students to learn material in required core engineering courses is difficult and yet essential in assuring student success. Traditional methods of teaching and learning need to be reconsidered and modified to meet student expectations and their continuously evolving ways of interaction with technology and social networks. Numerous faculty have been experimenting with various approaches which are taking advantages of both technology and student interaction with technology, with various degrees of success. In this paper authors present another comprehensive method applied in teaching/learning of core engineering mechanics course. It has been observed over a long period of time that Dynamics is one of the more difficult courses in the Mechanical Engineering and Technology programs where students are experiencing certain difficulty in mastering the material. Authors integrated technology into learning experiences in order to stimulate and motivate students to master the material, which proved to be very successful. It has been observed that new approach improved the final scores in the course as well as student satisfaction with this approach of presenting material as well as testing their understanding of the required material. The paper presents results from two years of teaching the course with the current approach, along with lessons learned from this experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the first translation of the IAS-R psychological test (Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scale by J. S. Wiggins) and its application during the pilot study at the Faculty of Education at the University of South Bohemia. The Interpersonal Adjective Scales provides an efficient and structurally precise measure of major dimensions that underlie interpersonal transactions: Dominance (DOM) and Nurturance (LOV). Furthermore, eight octants are defined within the 64 scaled items that describe specific personal and interpersonal characteristics. This is done within the framework of the circumplex-based interpersonal theory, used e.g. in the Interpersonal Check List test by T. Leary. The original English language version of IAS-R is not only widely used for diagnostic purposes but has also been utilised in a number of research studies facilitating its standardisation and application. That is why it was deemed desirable to prepare a Czech version of the test and apply it in a pilot study. The paper introduces both the theoretical basis of the IAS-R test and the process of the creation of its Czech version. Furthermore, it presents psychometric data gained from 98 subjects. The results are commented on and are complemented by a discussion on the possible application of the test in the context of contemporary psychodiagnostics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compassion is a topical issue in nursing, in relation to clinical practice, nurse education and policy. By reviewing the literature focusing on this aspect of nurse education, it was apparent that the experiences of student nurses themselves regarding compassionate care had received little attention. This paper describes a study which aimed to address this gap in the literature. The underpinning methodology used within the study is that of an exploratory-descriptive qualitative (EDQ) design. Following ethical approval, data was collected via individual, semi-structured interviews with fifteen student nurses across four different geographical locations in the West of Scotland. Findings identified that student nurses described compassionate care as 'doing the little things', small acts of kindness which have an impact on the patient or relative. In addition, compassion relies on communication and the building of relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Loneliness is a global public health issue, but the dynamics of loneliness are not understood. Through a global loneliness map, we plan to understand the dynamics of loneliness better by analyzing social media data on loneliness through social intelligence analysis. In this paper, we present the first proof of concept of the global loneliness map. Data on loneliness using keywords associated with loneliness was collected from the USA and analyzed to find meaningful associations of themes with loneliness. The NLP tool used for sentiment analysis of the tweets is a valence aware dictionary for sentiment reasoning (VADER). The tweets with negative sentiment were further analyzed for psychosocial linguistic features to find meaningful correlation between loneliness and socioeconomic and emotional themes and factors. Loneliness is subjective, hence social intelligence analysis through social media and machine learning tools can help us better understand loneliness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relevance of this study is due to significant changes in the field of modern education. In new aspects, the concepts of "equality" and "social justice" appeared on the background of the educational space. Modern society needs to build a qualitatively new system of training of a teacher, capable to solve fundamentally new tasks that meet the needs of the time. The psychological and pedagogical conditions of vocational training are based on a system of pedagogical actions that activate the creative, individual and personal abilities of students, ensuring the social and moral formation of the future generation. These actions are aimed at creating a cultural and educational space that forms the students' personal readiness to master a profession in the changing world of educational realities. The purpose of research is to work out a paradigm for the development of competence of pedagogical support of students in the course of multifunctional activity with its subsequent testing. Methods: theoretical (theoretical analysis of pedagogical, psychological, scientific methodological literature on the research topic), empirical (analysis, comparison, generalization, content choice, observation, questionnaire), pedagogical experiment (stating, forming and control stages of the experiment), method of expert assessments, statistical processing of quantitative research results. Results: students of different levels of intellectual, knowledge and professionally oriented development were studied in the first-year academic groups. As a result of the experiment (academic year 2019-2020), we worked out a paradigm for the development of the competence of pedagogical support in the process of a multifunctional activity of a teacher in the interests of equality and social justice. The following methods were used: a thoughtful attitude to all types of activity, individualization, personal orientation, personification. Practical relevance: a paradigm for the development of competence of pedagogical support was developed. It aims to educate future teachers with a careful and thoughtful attitude to all components of scientific and pedagogical educational resources, with capability to creatively find new aspects of situational conditioning and expediency in them, to independently use them in multifunctional pedagogical activities in the interests of equality and social justice with optimal results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

. Governments work hard to make their district a better place to live, sometimes when society does not recognize what has been done and it indicates the real issue - information asymmetry. To improve information flow between government and society as well as active social change it is possible to use macro-social marketing. In a few cases, it is already happening but there are many more where it could be used by the government. Problem statement - there is information asymmetry between government and society, that reflects on the social development of the country on a macro-level. Aim - to investigate macro-social marketing and its ability to improve the communication flow between government and society while making a positive impact on society. Main research methods used - scientific publications and previous conducted research analysis, for empirical part a quantitative non-parametric method for statistical. The authors study macro-social marketing and its implementation of good practice, CSDD, in Latvia. First, it is important to get a common understanding of what macro-social marketing is and how it differs from microsocial or social marketing. Second, macro-social marketing is already in use but not always governments are aware that they are using it, so authors will stimulate awareness by mentioning successful cases where macro-social marketing has been used in addition by doing one in-depth case study of a Latvian government organization called CSDD that is responsible for road traffic security in Latvia. In the end, there will be available main conclusions, proposals, and recommendations for the Latvian government that can be used to positively influence society as well as other stakeholders. Main results and findings of the paper - the article provides new information about macro-social marketing and its ability to make a positive impact on society if used right by the Latvian government and public institutions. Analyze macro-social marketing Latvia CSDD case; make conclusions about macro-social marketing and assemble recommendations for Latvian government. Overall, the article answers do macro-social marketing is a way for the government to make a positive influence on society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication is a process of exchanging thoughts, ideas and information between sender and receiver of information. Effective communication is crucial for achieving goals both; private as well as in business life. Managers in an organization are responsible for fulfilment of different tasks and functions simultaneously, and in order to deliver the results they depend on activating all human resources' available in the organization. Even thought, it seems so obvious, managers rarely pay appropriate attention to the quality of their internal communication. At the same time, in ICT sector, internal and external communication are gaining on importance, because of their contribution to the effective and efficient fulfilment of customers' needs and raising of customers' satisfaction. Roots of customer satisfaction is now more than ever connected to employees' satisfaction. In order to improve effectiveness of managerial communication employees' perception should be taken into account. The paper presents the results of the quantitative research conducted in 2018. In the survey, 101 respondents from the selected ICT company participated. The results showed that effective managerial communication influence overall employees' satisfaction, build interpersonal relationship and contribute to the creation of effective working environment. It also downsizes frustrations and information overload and enables managers to become more focused on organizational priorities; people development and fulfilment of organizational objectives. Therefore, investment in building managerial skills, especially effective communication can create significant benefits for the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we ask whether social structure can help explain why some employees are better able than others to add value to their peers, as rated by their peers. Our theoretical contribution concerns the distinct influences of two orders of social capital: first-order and second-order. First-order social capital is conceptualized as the social structure of the focal actor. Second-order social is conceptualized as the social structure of the actor's boss, a central figure in the life of most managers. Using network sparseness to capture social capital, we find that not only first-order but also second-order social capital has significant effects on peer-to-peer value-added. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The need for high-performance multinational teams is now a reality for many organisations dealing with the complexities of global business. It is a reality that organisations often struggle to achieve, and so an understanding of how to successfully design, form and manage multinational groups is imperative. Research into the nature of multinational teams is growing, but still in its infancy especially with respect to differences between multinational and nationally homogeneous teams. One strand of this nascent literature centers on collective team identity. I argue in this theoretical paper that a key element of the broad social integration processes that lead to a collective team identity is the presentation of status cues (e.g., nationality, race, gender, professional qualifications, speech behaviour) and their subsequent interpretation in the form of a status hierarchy. I draw on Berger and colleagues' work on status cues (1986) to propose that in developing a collective team identity highly heterogeneous multinational groups will make more use of task indicative cues and less use of task expressive cues and highly homogeneous nationally homogeneous groups will make more use of task expressive cues and less use of task indicative cues. In highly heterogeneous multinational groups the collective identity will be task-focused and develop over a longer period, whereas in highly homogeneous nationally homogeneous groups it will be relationship-focused and develop over a shorter period. As a result, highly heterogeneous multinational teams will outperform highly homogeneous nationally homogeneous teams in terms of approach to task and time to task completion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this theoretical paper, we posit that entrepreneurs differ in the repertoire of networking behaviors they use to build and maintain new ties. We develop arguments elaborating how entrepreneurs¿ repertoires of networking behaviors drive rates of tie formation and dissolution and thus shape the social network structure in which they are embedded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is the relationship between associational development, public sphere development and hegemony? How does this relationship affect the management of territories and populations in divided societies along national lines? Theoretically, this paper builds on the concepts of hegemony, civil society, and public sphere to argue that hegemony requires both a thick civil society (in Gramsci's terms) and a de-politicized public sphere (in Schmitt's terms). Further, the de-politicization of the public sphere has to be established before the development of civil society. By contrast, when associational development takes place within a politicized public sphere, it leads to the bifurcation of civil society. Empirically, this paper investigates the Israeli-Palestinian negotiation process (Oslo, 1993-2000). On the one hand, Oslo set off a process of associational construction among "Palestinian Israelis," which, by occurring within the politicized Israeli public sphere, led to the political counter-mobilization among the Jewish Israeli public. On the other hand, it also set in motion a process of associational development in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. By taking place within a public sphere, which, like the Israeli one, is highly politicized, it increased the pressure on Oslo's political and territorial concessions. Through the Israeli-Palestinian case, this paper suggests that the timing of the de-politicization of the public sphere and of associational development is a key analytical axis for the study of democracy, nationalism, and conflict management in divided societies along national lines. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While much has been written on ways poverty, politics, and power have fueled the AIDS epidemic in Africa, far less attention has been focused on how an epidemic of this magnitude is transforming African societies. This paper explores the social impact of AIDS in Africa, examining how gender relations are shifting in the context of the epidemic. Specifically, this paper asks: how are conceptions of masculinity changing in urban Uganda in the age of AIDS? Uganda is the focus of this paper because it is viewed as the continent's great success story in reducing HIV infection rates. Focusing on life in one poor community in the capital city, this paper presents data on how gender and sexuality are connected to changing ideas about being a man.Eschewing any simplistic causal link between AIDS and masculinity, this paper suggests AIDS is a significant factor shaping sexual intimacy in urban Uganda. Nearly a quarter century after AIDS was first discovered in Uganda, the disease has been subsumed into the fabric of everyday life. It underlies decisions both mundane and consequential, and is now inextricably bound to conceptions of masculinity and what it means to be a man in a place like Uganda. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The data used for this paper was from the Toledo Adolescent Relationship Survey (TARS). The main purpose of this paper was to examine the relationship between levels of jealousy and communication awkwardness and whether these levels increase the odds of verbal and physical aggression in the teenage intimate relationship. Currently, there exists a large body of research on teen dating violence yet a notable absence remains when considering jealousy-communication awkwardness linkages. This paper attempts to provide some insight into this relationship. The main hypothesis of the paper suggests that individuals with high levels of jealousy and communication awkwardness will have the greatest odds of physical and verbal aggression. The results indicate that highly jealous and highly awkward individuals have increased odds of verbal conflict. Irregardless of communication awkwardness level, high levels of jealousy are most predictive of physical aggression. The results seem to suggest that high levels of jealousy are the strongest predictive variable for aggression, especially physical. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Individuals that make activism an integral part of their identity and daily life use the support of an activist friendship network to motivate and sustain their involvement. While the activist network may seem more likely to be supportive, family, non-activist friends, and co-workers may make an activist identity difficult to maintain. In this paper, I focus on the role of different communities on the sustainability of an activist identity. In particular, by using semi-structured life history interviewing of nine People's Coalition activists, this study concentrates on how family, friends, significant others, religion/spirituality, work, and school can be supportive for the activist. A community can be supportive by showing respect, granting time allowances, sharing a political ideology, donating money and labor, and being a source of justification, motivation, and rejuvenation for the activist. I develop the term "valued communities" to represent the people and organizations that are valued (loved, needed, dependent, etc.) by the activist. However, in contrast to what the larger literature suggests, this study found that communities are not uniformly supportive, with some ties even working against continued activism. People or organizations within the "valued community" can hinder and/or support activist involvement. This paper will focus on the intersection of biography and past/present interpersonal relationships that influence time constraints and the ability to sustain an activist identity. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines cognitions and behaviors of organizational boundary spanners' individuals who work on the periphery of an organization and provide a bridge between external constituencies (e.g., customers and suppliers) and internal members (e.g., managers and support personnel). The specific focus of this study is on salespeople in B2B contexts. Direct and interactive effects of two inter-related mechanisms--trust and control- on salespersons' boundary linking function--building relationships with customers' are examined. In so doing, we attend to the dynamics of boundary spanners' role relationships with internal managers and external customers and examine how these dynamics ultimately 'trickle down' to influence sales outcomes in terms of sales performance, relationship quality and customer loyalty. To test this model, we use dyadic survey data from 210 salespeople in an industrial distribution company and their customers. Our results indicate that (1) trust and control mechanisms have significant direct and interactive effects in shaping salespersons' cognitions and behaviors,(2) while customer trust and process controls independently have positive simple effects, their interactive effect has a significant negative influence, implying that process controls may be substituted by customer trust, and (3) trust gaps resulting from differences between salespeople's self report and customers' perceptions of their trustworthy behaviors have a significant influence on customer loyalty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the theoretical foundation of arguments regarding the ways vision/sight affects social relations between visually impaired/blind people and sighted people during face-to-face social communication. The outcomes of this theoretical union focus on pervasive features of the lived experience with visual impairment/blindness. Narrative data was used to explore how an inability to adequately attend to visible non-vocal gestures and behaviors, normatively displayed during face-to-face social encounters with sighted people, leads to communicative troubles for visually impaired/blind people. Ordinary conventions used by sighted people in face-to-face social interaction require that people use their sight to fulfill participatory responsibilities. Such conventions impose communicative demands on visually impaired/blind people that are difficult to honor. Failure to respond as expected leads to interruptions in ongoing communication and negative social consequences. The theoretical orientation of this paper combines Ethnomethodology, Dramaturgy, and Conversation Analysis. The objective of this paper is to further explore the ways these theoretical orientations contribute to an understanding of the communicative problems associated with the lived experience with visual impairment/blindness. The purpose is to discuss the nature of communicative troubles disclosed in stories regarding basic face-to-face social exchanges they have had with sighted people. This paper advances research on visual impairment/blindness and disability studies by locating disabling barriers in ordinary everyday communicative conventions, as opposed to individual characteristics or societal patterns. Two data sources were used to investigate these issues: semi-structured and focus group interviews. Narrative data from five focus groups and twenty interviews were used to inform this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Divorce is one of the most studied aspects of American family life. Despite advances in our ability to conduct research, a fundamental measurement problem remains: the underreporting of divorce in surveys. This paper examines individual factors that lead to misreporting divorce. This study explores two types of misreports: not reporting a divorce and inaccurately reporting the divorce date. Currently survey researchers discount male divorce reports without fully understanding the factors leading to the lower accuracy of male reports. This paper tests other possible factors in addition to sex for misreporting divorce. This study employs a quasi-experimental research design to compare information derived from 1989 and 1993 divorce decree certificates with corresponding follow-up survey data on marital histories. The sample includes one randomly selected spouse from 2,148 couples who lived in four Wisconsin counties at the time of the divorce. In 1995, subjects were surveyed by one of three survey modes: mail questionnaire, computer assisted telephone interview (CATI) and computer assisted personal interview (CAPI). Basic logistic regression models are used to test relationships. Factors found to increase the likelihood of reporting a divorce date are interviewer presence during the surveys, longer marriage duration, not married or cohabiting, and lower church attendance. Factors that lead to reporting a divorce date accurately are longer marriage duration, high church attendance, and being younger. This research suggests that male surveys may not be as inaccurate as previously thought and responses to question about divorce on mail questionnaires may result in more errors compared to either CATI or CAPI surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a notion of ontological fields by transforming Foucault’s early concept of the episteme. The paper discusses the terms of this transformation and defines two fundamental aspects of this field: the texture of social relations (following Elias) and the topography of a social space (following Geertz). It concludes with a brief discussion of how to translate the concept into an empirical project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper applies a decoupling research lens, emergent from within the neo-institutional approach, to reexamine and problematize the link between individualization in late-modern societies and the cross-national adoption of organizational models. Based on a content analysis of journal items dealing with one individualistic organizational model, that of Human Relations (HR), in an as yet un-individualized society, that of Israel in the 1950s-1960s, the paper highlights the decoupling of meaning from practice. It shows that, as against most accounts of the neo-institutional approach, individualization of society does not constitute a precondition for the cross-national diffusion of organizational models. In its travel from the liberal-individualistic US to collectivistic Israel, the individualistic meaning and interpretation ascribed to the model in its context of origin, has been decoupled and replaced by an interpretation highlighting the contribution of the model to the collective good. Focusing on the decoupling of meaning from practice and on the interpretation ascribed to similar practices in different institutional settings allows for the problematization of the assumption of diffusion and global homogenization characterizing most institutional studies of cross-national diffusion of organizational models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines recent literature on ?successful aging,? developed primarily by Rowe and Kahn (1997). Successful aging literature suggests that older adults have agency and autonomy over disease and disability; when remaining free from disability, older adults consequently will maintain a high level of physical and cognitive functioning, continue interpersonal relationships, and contribute productively to society. Much of the research on successful aging has been quantitative, defining ?aging? as well as ?success? in aging very narrowly; thus, this paper serves not only to examine but also to critique this literature. The authors of this paper ultimately call for an increase in qualitative research and a broader conceptualization of what it means to age ?successfully,? so as to promote a greater understanding of how diverse populations conceptualize and engage in aging processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]