scholarly journals The relationship between structural factors and interaction quality in Norwegian ECEC for toddlers

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Midteide Løkken ◽  
Elisabeth Bjørnestad ◽  
Martine L. Broekhuizen ◽  
Thomas Moser
Keyword(s):  
Structural Factors ◽  
Interaction Quality ◽  
The Relationship

The American Ghetto, Gangster, and Respect on the Streets of Copenhagen: Media(tion)s between Structure and Street Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162110569
Author(s):  
Hakan Kalkan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Street Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

“Street culture” is often considered a response to structural factors. However, the relationship between culture and structure has rarely been empirically analyzed. This article analyzes the role of three media representations of American street culture and gangsters—two films and the music of a rap artist—in the street culture of a disadvantaged part of Copenhagen. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article demonstrates that these media representations are highly valuable to and influential among young men because of their perceived similarity between their intersectional structural positions and those represented in the media. Thus, the article illuminates the interaction between structural and cultural factors in street culture. It further offers a local explanation of the scarcely studied phenomenon of the influence of mass media on street culture, and a novel, media-based, local explanation of global similarities in different street cultures.

scholarly journals The role of cultural and structural factors in the explanation of marginal social position in the USA: Scopes and dilemmas

Sociologija ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-416
Author(s):  
Stefan Jankovic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
Cultural Grounding ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Relationship

The paper gives a historical account of the genesis of marginal social position explanations in the USA, with special emphasis on the characteristics, related to the generating of cultural factors in explanation. In this light, the two fundamental and interrelated concepts are being indentified - the culture of poverty and the underclass, whose conceptual genesis, in a causal manner, varies between structural and cultural grounding. Due the translation of perceived minority behavioural patterns into the dimensions used for defining the marginal social position, conceptual validity of the underclass has been heavily disputed. At the same time, dilemmas created by the implementation of cultural factors constructed in that way open up broader issues of the relationship between culture and structure, lines of determination and the possibility of a consistent explanation of marginal social position.

Investigating Determinants and Interaction Quality Effects on Tourists' Intention to Use Mobile Tourism Guide

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Numtip Trakulmaykee ◽  
Parichard Benrit
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Diffusion Theory ◽  
Relative Advantage ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Interaction Quality ◽  
Innovation Diffusion Theory ◽  
Innovation Characteristics ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigates model of tourist intention in the context of mobile tourism guide (MTG). We extend the innovation diffusion theory with the interaction quality construct. Partial least squares is used for data analysis. The results show four innovation characteristics such as relative advantage, compatibility, complexity and trialability significantly related to international tourists' intention to use MTG. Furthermore, the interaction quality has an impact on the relationship between lack of complexity and tourists' intention to use MTG. We propose theoretical model for mobile research and provides an important guideline for development and implementation.

Firm Size, Innovation, and Market Share Instability: the Role of Negative Feedback and Idiosyncratic Events

2000 ◽  
Vol 03 (01n04) ◽  
pp. 417-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Mazzucato
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Returns To Scale ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Technological Opportunity ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
The Relationship

An evolutionary model is built which uses structural and random factors to account for the emergence of market share instability and industry concentration. The structural factors are studied through the relationship between firm size and innovation (dynamic returns to scale) while the random factors are studied through the effect of shocks on this feedback relationship. We find that market share instability is the highest under the negative feedback regime, when the industry specific level of technological opportunity is intermediate, and when shocks are neither very large nor very small.

Political Devolution and Resistance to Foreign Rule: A Natural Experiment

2014 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEREMY FERWERDA ◽  
NICHOLAS L. MILLER
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Central Question ◽  
World War ◽  
Foreign Occupation ◽  
The Relationship

Do foreign occupiers face less resistance when they increase the level of native governing authority? Although this is a central question within the literature on foreign occupation and insurgency, it is difficult to answer because the relationship between resistance and political devolution is typically endogenous. To address this issue, we identify a natural experiment based on the locally arbitrary assignment of French municipalities into German or Vichy-governed zones during World War II. Using a regression discontinuity design, we conclude that devolving governing authority significantly lowered levels of resistance. We argue that this effect is driven by a process of political cooptation: domestic groups that were granted governing authority were less likely to engage in resistance activity, while violent resistance was heightened in regions dominated by groups excluded from the governing regime. This finding stands in contrast to work that primarily emphasizes structural factors or nationalist motivations for resistance.

Carers and Services: Factors Mediating Service Provision

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Twigg ◽  
Karl Atkin
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Age Class ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe article explores factors mediating the relationship between carers and service provision, exploring the judgements and expectations that lie behind the complex and sometimes seemingly inconsistent pattern of provision for carers. The article which is based on an empirical study teases out a series of factors that structure responses in this area covering: the attitude adopted by the carer to his or her caring role; the views of the cared-for person and other kin; the impact of different relationships, of what we term ‘moral status’, and of the existence or otherwise of a separate future for the cared-for person, as well as more social structural factors such as gender, age, class and race. The significance of these is explored through their impact on the assumptions of both service providers and carers.

scholarly journals Estimating Local Inequality from Nighttime Lights

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 4624
Author(s):  
Nils B. Weidmann ◽  
Gerlinde Theunissen
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Demographic And Health Surveys ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Nighttime Lights ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
Nighttime Light ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
The Relationship

Economic inequality at the local level has been shown to be an important predictor of people’s political perceptions and preferences. However, research on these questions is hampered by the fact that local inequality is difficult to measure and systematic data collections are rare, in particular in countries of the Global South. We propose a new measure of local inequality derived from nighttime light (NTL) emissions data. Our measure corresponds to the local inequality in per capita nighttime light emissions, using VIIRS-derived nighttime light emissions data and spatial population data from WorldPop. We validate our estimates using local inequality estimates from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for a sample of African countries. Our results show that nightlight-based inequality estimates correspond well to those derived from survey data, and that the relationship is not due to structural factors such as differences between urban and rural regions. We also present predictive results, where we approximate the (survey-based) level of local inequality with our nighttime light indicator. This illustrates how our approach can be used for new cases where no other data are available.

scholarly journals Money Supply, Deficit, and Inflation in Pakistan

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (4III) ◽  
pp. 945-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Aslam Chaudhary ◽  
Naved Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Money Supply ◽  
Price Index ◽  
Consumer Price Index ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Distribution Of Income ◽  
Double Digit

Inflation is a burning issue in Pakistan. It is generally felt that for several years Pakistan has had a double-digit inflation. The public sector has used a mix of policies to control inflation, and it is also held responsible for its creation. The consumer price index (CPI) increased over 11 percent in 1981-82, and over 12 percent in 1990-91. Similarly, sensitive price index (SPI) increased over 15 percent in 1981-82, and over 12 percent in 1990-91. The GDP deflator was also double-digit for several years. Inflation not only affects sectoral allocation and distribution of income but also generates poverty. A prescription might not be appropriate until the roots of the disease are carefully investigated, which is the very reason for carrying out this study. Studies by Hossain (1990) several others concluded that inflation is a monetary phenomenon in Pakistan, while Bilquees (1988) showed that structural factors explained the inflationary process in Pakistan. It is widely disagreed whether money supply is exogenous or endogenous. Vogel (1974), criticising the monetarist approach, argued that further research is needed on the determination of money supply. Given this background, this study is intended to identify the variables leading to inflation; the nature of money supply, endogenous or exogenous, is also analysed. Section 2 of the study provides a brief review of the literature. A model is developed to study the relationship among fiscal deficit, money supply, and inflation. Section 3 contains a description of the empirical results. Section 4 provides the conclusion and policy implications.

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