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Social Integration Through Conflict: Mechanisms and Challenges in Pluralist Democracies
Conflicts are not usually associated with social integration, but rather with threats to it. They appear as a cause of social distance, alienation...
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Social Network Mechanisms
The influence and significance of social networks in health research are becoming widely discussed. Sociological network research meets the demand...
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Social network mechanisms of price formation in an artisanal fishing community in Chile
Local fish markets play a crucial role in meeting local and regional demand for seafood. However, the underlying social and local processes...
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Problems Associated with Lack of Formal Living Arrangements, Care and Support Services for the Older Adults and Retirees in Nigeria: Need to Revamp Social Protection Mechanisms
Though most people wish to live long and see old age, ageing is associated with psychological, emotional, physical, social, health, and economic...
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Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis
Achieving impact through research for development programmes (R4D) requires engagement with diverse stakeholders across the research, development and...
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Social Meritocracy and Unjust Social Hierarchies: Three Proposals to Limit Meritocracy’s Erosion of Social Cooperation
A well-functioned society depends on its ability to nurture, attract, and deploy talents in critical sectors. However, the implementation of some...
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What We Have Learned About Social Integration: Conclusion
This chapter concludes the special issue on social integration and makes three additional contributions. First, we discuss how the featured articles...
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Social Milieus and Social Integration. From Theoretical Considerations to an Empirical Model
Current debates on threats to social integration in times of multiple crises call for a better understanding of the relationship between...
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Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes
Building on social exchange theory and self-determination theory, this paper studies how commitment to social responsibility in nonprofit...
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Effects and Mechanisms of Rural‒Urban Migration on Health in China
Rural‒urban migration is accompanied by urbanization in China, and its effect on individual well-being has received much scholarly attention....
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Social justice: a comparative cross-cultural perspective
Using print and electronic sources, this paper explored the pervasiveness of issues of implicit bias and social justice with supporting examples from...
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Unemployment and Social Integration: Analysing the Impact of Financial Strain, Social Roles, and Identity
Relations to family and friends are a key dimension of an individual’s social integration and, by extension, are crucial for the social cohesion of...
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How the Social Gets Under the Skin: From the Social as Signal to Society as a Metabolic Milieu
Inflammation has risen to the forefront of biomedical research into many chronic diseases prevalent in industrialized countries, including mental,...
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How Employment Generates Social Integration: Trends Towards Disintegration and Over-Integration in the Hyper-Work Society
Using an analytical framework that further develops Jahoda’s ideas and distinguishes between two manifest and five latent mechanisms for the...
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Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies
This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy,...
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Exploring the relationships between learners’ social and cognitive presence patterns and peer support in digital social reading
This study explored how undergraduate students demonstrated cognitive and social presence in their written comments during asynchronous social...
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Crafting Social Integration? Welfare State and Volunteering Across Social Groups and Policy Areas in 23 European Countries
The beneficial role of voluntary work for social integration makes it an important aspect of social cohesion. Thus, there is broad interest in...
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Older adults’ social participation and social relationship and association with partner’s cognition: a latent profile analysis
Older adults’ social participation and social relationship may be affected by their partners’ cognitive function. In 3,722 cognitively intact...
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Active Inference and Social Actors: Towards a Neuro-Bio-Social Theory of Brains and Bodies in Their Worlds
Although research including biological concepts and variables has gained more prominence in sociology, progress assimilating the organ of experience,...
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The Emergence of Social Folds: How the Environment Contributes to the Creation of Ambivalent Social Actors
The concept of “environment” is ambiguous in social theory. Sometimes it is wielded like a “tyrant” which moulds subjects as if they were a simple...