Structural Injustice and the Tyranny of the Scales

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Kirun Sankaran
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social World ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Structural Injustice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract What features of structural injustice distinguish it from mere collections of injustices committed by individuals? I argue that the standard model of moral judgment that centers agents and actions fails to adequately articulate what’s gone wrong in cases of structural injustice. It fails because features of the social world that arise only at large scale are normatively salient, but unaccounted for by the standard model. I illustrate these features with historical examples of normatively-different outcomes driven by institutional structure rather, holding fixed characteristics of agents’ motivations. I then defend the view from reductionist objections.

scholarly journals Relativistic Cosmology with an Introduction to Inflation

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zahid Mughal ◽  
Iftikhar Ahmad ◽  
Juan Luis García Guirao
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Relativistic Cosmology ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Big Bang Model ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
The Universe

In this review article, the study of the development of relativistic cosmology and the introduction of inflation in it as an exponentially expanding early phase of the universe is carried out. We study the properties of the standard cosmological model developed in the framework of relativistic cosmology and the geometric structure of spacetime connected coherently with it. The geometric properties of space and spacetime ingrained into the standard model of cosmology are investigated in addition. The big bang model of the beginning of the universe is based on the standard model which succumbed to failure in explaining the flatness and the large-scale homogeneity of the universe as demonstrated by observational evidence. These cosmological problems were resolved by introducing a brief acceleratedly expanding phase in the very early universe known as inflation. The cosmic inflation by setting the initial conditions of the standard big bang model resolves these problems of the theory. We discuss how the inflationary paradigm solves these problems by proposing the fast expansion period in the early universe. Further inflation and dark energy in fR modified gravity are also reviewed.

Cognitive Science and Social Theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-168
Author(s):  
David Eck ◽  
Stephen Turner
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Extended Mind ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Integrated Approaches ◽  
Large Groups

Approaches to cognitive science can be divided into two large groups: the standard model of the computational mind, usually associated with the idea of modularization, and extended to include a theory of mind, and rival and not-so-well-integrated approaches that replace its explanations with other mechanisms, the 4Es of cognition: the embedded, embodied, extended, and enactive movements, to which can be added the ecological approach based on Gibsonian affordances and Mark Bickhard’s interactivism. These approaches fit with very different social theories: the standard model with the social as understood by Durkheim, Parsons, and the early Bourdieu. The alternative, especially the idea of the extended mind, fits with a conception of society that replaces “the social” with a conception in which substitutable parts—routines and technology, take over its explanatory burdens.

scholarly journals Investigating BSM Models with Large Scale Separation

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 08007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Hasenfratz ◽  
Claudio Rebbi ◽  
Oliver Witzel
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gauge Coupling ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Heavy Flavor ◽  
Scale Separation ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Effective Description

Mass-split systems based on a conformal infrared fixed point provide a lowenergy effective description of beyond the standard model systems with large scale separation. We report results of exploratory investigations with four light and eight heavy flavors using staggered fermions, and up to five different values for the light flavor mass, five different heavy flavor masses, and two values of the bare gauge coupling.

Equilibria Under Negligence Liability

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Allan Feldman ◽  
Ram Singh
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Welfare Function ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Formal Proof ◽  
Activity Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Liability Rules ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract In many accident contexts, the expected accident harm depends on observable as well as unobservable dimensions of the precaution exercised by the parties involved. The observable dimensions are commonly referred to as the ‘care’ levels and the unobservable aspects as the ‘activity’ levels. In a seminal contribution, Shavell, S (1980). Strict liability versus negligence. J. Leg. Stud. 9: 1–25 extended the scope of the economic analysis of liability rules by providing a model that allows for the care as well as activity level choices. Subsequent works have used and extended Shavell’s model to predict outcomes under various liability rules, and also to compare their efficiency properties. These works make several claims about the existence and efficiency of equilibria under different liability rules, without providing any formal proof. In this paper, we re-examine the prevalent claims in the literature using the standard model itself. Contrary to these prevalent claims, we show that the standard negligence liability rules do not induce equilibrium for all of the accident contexts admissible under the model. Under the standard model, even the ‘no-fault’ rules can fail to induce a Nash equilibrium. In the absence of an equilibrium, it is not plausible to make a claim about the efficiency of a rule per-se or vis-a-vis other rules. We show that even with commonly used utility functions that meet all of the requirements of the standard model, the social welfare function may not have a maximum. In many other situations fully compatible with the standard model, a maximum of the social welfare function is not discoverable by the first order conditions. Under the standard model, even individually optimum choices might not exist. We analyze the underlying problems with the standard model and offer some insights for future research on this subject.

Simulations of Large Scale Structure Formation: The Connection to Smaller Scales

2005 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Matthias Steinmetz
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Structure Formation ◽  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Dynamical Simulations ◽  
Large Scale Structure Formation

Maps of the cosmos, in particular maps of the cosmic microwave background and of the large scale distribution of galaxies have been crucial ingredients in the development of the standard model of structure formation, sometimes also labeled “concordance model”. This model has proven to be remarkably successful in explaining an impressive array of observations on scales of hundreds of kpc to thousands of Mpc. In this contribution I will attempt to extend those studies to smaller, (sub)galactic scales and will confront detailed gas-dynamical simulations of the formation of individual galaxies with observational data on these scales, reporting some successes and failures of this endeavor. Ongoing surveys that are mapping the distribution of stars in the Milky Way should be able to clearly identify the imprints of the hierarchical galaxy formation process providing an independent check of the validity of the structure formation paradigm.

scholarly journals Massless and Massive Multi-Gravity in a Multi-fold Universe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephane Maes
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Massive Gravity ◽  
Gravity Models ◽  
Accelerated Expansion ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Virtual Particles ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Open Issues

In a multi-fold universe, gravity emerges from Entanglement through the multi-fold mechanisms. As a result, gravity-like effects appear in between entangled particles that they be real or virtual. Long range, massless gravity results from entanglement of massless virtual particles. Entanglement of massive virtual particles leads to massive gravity contributions at very smalls scales. Multi-folds mechanisms also result into a spacetime that is discrete, with a random walk fractal structure and non-commutative geometry that is Lorentz invariant and where spacetime nodes and particles can be modeled with microscopic black holes. All these recover General relativity at large scales and semi-classical model remain valid till smaller scale than usually expected. Gravity can therefore be added to the Standard Model. This can contribute to resolving several open issues with the Standard Model. In this paper, we discuss some of the properties and implications of the massive gravity contributions. In particular we will discuss it similarities and differences with what is usually meant by massive gravity in conventional physics and derived modern bigravity theories.. Instead of being a large-scale theory, where massive gravity can support a limited range or even a repulsive behavior, multi-fold massive gravity is here a mostly small-scale effect with almost no larger scale impact other than through entangled virtual neutrino pairs. Multi-fold universe accelerated expansion come from other effects of multi-fold mechanisms. In multi-fold theory, massive gravity is also multiple (one per available virtual carrier). The resulting gravity model is different from all the massive gravity and bigravity current proposed in the literature. In particular we discuss the known issues with conventional classical massive gravity.We conclude with a suggestion to attempt, with or independently of a multi-fold models, bi (or multi) gravity models, massive only at very small scale with massless gravity at any larger scale. We already know that such model helps address many Standard Model and Standard Cosmology Model open issues: there is value in SMG: the standard Model with non-negligible gravity at its scales.

Religion of Monarchs

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Patricia Sauthoff
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Royal Patronage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Widespread Agreement

Chapter 6 examines the socio-historical practicalities of a monarch participating in the Tantric sphere. The twelfth-century chronicle Rājataraṅgiṇī offers a useful guide. Its narratives demonstrate how practitioners who have shed caste identity through initiation still retain it in the social world. It focuses largely on monarchs, disapproving of their participation in Tantric rites. The chapter discusses literary evidence that demonstrates the widespread agreement on what qualifies as prohibited and the penalties for transgressions. It discusses evidence of royal patronage before turning to specific rites related to the king. These rites include marking the body and food of the king with preventative ritual objects and mantras and large-scale rituals that protect everything under the king’s purview. The chapter contrasts these public or semi-public rituals with the private rituals to maintain the monarch’s health.

scholarly journals The social psychological processes of ‘procedural justice’: Concepts, critiques and opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Radburn ◽  
Clifford Stott
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social World ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Scale Survey

Contemporary research on policing and procedural justice theory (PJT) emphasizes large-scale survey data to link a series of interlocking concepts, namely perceptions of procedural fairness, police legitimacy and normative compliance. In this article we contend that as such, contemporary research is in danger of conveying a misreading of PJT by portraying a reified social world divorced from the social psychological dynamics of encounters between the police and policed. In this article we set out a rationale for addressing this potential misreading and explore how and why PJT researchers would benefit both theoretically and methodologically through drawing upon advances in theoretical accounts of social identity, developed most notably in attempts to understand crowd action. Specifically, we advance an articulation of a ‘process-based’ model of PJT’s underlying social and subjective dynamics and stress the value of ethnographic approaches for studying police–‘citizen’ encounters.

scholarly journals Physical implications of electroweak monopole

2019 ◽  
Vol 377 (2161) ◽  
pp. 20190038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. M. Cho
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Dirac Monopole ◽  
Magnetic Current ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Large Scale Structures ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
History Of ◽  
Characteristic Features

The electroweak monopole in the standard model, the existence, characteristic features, cosmological production and physical implications are discussed. The discovery of the Higgs particle has been thought to be the ‘final’ test of the standard model. If the standard model is correct, however, it must have the electroweak monopole as the electroweak generalization of the Dirac monopole. This means that the detection of this monopole should become the final and topological test of the standard model. If detected, it becomes the first magnetically charged and stable topological elementary particle in the history of physics. Moreover, it has deep implications in physics. In cosmology, it could generate the primordial magnetic black holes which could explain the dark matter, become the seed of the large-scale structures of the universe, and be the source of the intergalactic magnetic field. Just as importantly, it could generate the hitherto unknown magnetic current which could have huge practical applications. Furthermore, the existence of the monopole requires us to reformulate the perturbative expansion in quantum field theory. This makes the detection of the electroweak monopole a most urgent issue. We discuss useful tips for the MoEDAL detector at LHC and similar experiments on how to detect the monopole successfully. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Topological avatars of new physics’.

scholarly journals Parenting cognitions → parenting practices → child adjustment? The standard model

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc H. Bornstein ◽  
Diane L. Putnick ◽  
Joan T. D. Suwalsky
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Supportive Parenting ◽  
Parenting Cognitions ◽  
Child Externalizing Behavior ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Child Externalizing

AbstractIn a large-scale (N = 317) prospective 8-year longitudinal multiage, multidomain, multivariate, multisource study, we tested a conservative three-term model linking parenting cognitions in toddlerhood to parenting practices in preschool to classroom externalizing behavior in middle childhood, controlling for earlier parenting practices and child externalizing behavior. Mothers who were more knowledgeable, satisfied, and attributed successes in their parenting to themselves when their toddlers were 20 months of age engaged in increased supportive parenting during joint activity tasks 2 years later when their children were 4 years of age, and 6 years after that their 10-year-olds were rated by teachers as having fewer classroom externalizing behavior problems. This developmental cascade of a “standard model” of parenting applied equally to families with girls and boys, and the cascade from parenting attributions to supportive parenting to child externalizing behavior obtained independent of 12 child, parent, and family covariates. Conceptualizing socialization in terms of cascades helps to identify points of effective intervention.

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