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Human Rights–Based Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in a Legal Service Organization
The human rights of immigrants and asylum seekers are threatened by the erosion of asylum and a system of crimmigration that combines immigration and...
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The Self-Organization of Social Movements
The chapter opens with the case of ‘XR’ or Extinction Rebellion, a social movement with the symbol of an hourglass X within a globe O. It cohered out...
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Landscape, space, and time: navigating the cultural landscape through socio-spatial and socio-temporal organization in rural Pakistan
This paper deals with landscape to examine the ways people associate meanings to their environment through the cultural perceptions of space and...
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Social Media and Political Polarization: A Panel Study of 36 Countries from 2014 to 2020
The rise of social media has attracted scholarly attention to its role in sha** political polarization. However, most of existing studies focused...
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Social Bond and Social Self
Modern Clinical Social Research bridges the gap between the psychological and macro-medium sociological and economic approaches to contemporary...
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Applicant Reactions to Social Media Assessments: Effects of Social Media Type, Social Media Self-Efficacy, and Minority Status
Reviewing applicant social media content during employee selection has become a common practice, but little is known about applicant reactions in...
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The Sacred and the Profane: the Differential Organization of Social Spheres between Liberal Elites and Lower Class Mizrahim in Israel
This article addresses an Israeli sociological riddle: Working class Israeli Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin have good and empathetic...
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Working Poor Organization Behavior: Mediating Role of Mentorship and Supportive Supervisory Feedback
One-third of US workers fall in the low-wage category, concentrated in the service sector. Unfortunately, few employment interventions and training...
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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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Does rural women’s involvement with one more microcredit organization change any psychosocial and economic conditions in their lives? A study on northern Bangladesh
The purpose of this study was to assess the psychosocial and economic aspects of rural women engaged with one more microcredit organization of...
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Self-organization of social hierarchies studied with Monte-Carlo simulations; self-destroying join-believe-fight system as an inevitable outcome
Monte-Carlo simulations were used to describe the interactions between cellular automata, socio-economic ‘agents’, in society. In a first simulation...
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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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A New Framework for Evaluating Social Transparency Factors and Personal Brands in Social Networks
A personal brand is represented as promoting skills, experience, and career goals to other professionals. The business process of the internet as the...
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Observing Civic Engagement: Using Systematic Social Observation to Study Civil Society Organization Convenings
What happens at convenings held by community-based civil society organizations and how do they influence organizational outcomes? Although...
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Erving Goffman: Social Embarrassment and Social Organization
Erving Goffman ist mittlerweile zweifellos ein soziologischer ›Klassiker der zweiten Generation‹. Berühmt geworden durch seine feinfühligen Studien...
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Social Entrepreneurial Orientation in Nonprofits: The Development and Testing of a Multidimensional Scale
Social entrepreneurship within the nonprofit sector has gained popularity as a concept informing the management of high functioning human service...
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Low Pay for Social Workers is a Human Rights Violation, and Social Work Professors Must Help to Change It
Despite an unending commitment to social justice and equality, social work remains among the lowest paid professions in the United States (U.S.)....
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Model for Promoting Corporate Social Performance Measurement and Social Change: Elaboration from Causal Analysis Between the Both
The objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of corporate social performance measurement on social change with regard to their typologies, in...
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Does ‘social infrastructure’ curb drug addiction? The role of local institutional norms
Research suggests that reducing rates of drug addiction requires a range of physical spaces where drug users and counselors can meet, build...
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Evaluating the power of social media influencing mainstream media social representations of migrants in South African townships
The relationship between mainstream media and social media for news reporting is a complex one. Mainstream media news is relied on as a source of...