Walmart and Values: Painting the Town Red?

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Art Carden ◽  
Charles Courtemanche ◽  
Jeremy Meiners
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Social Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town

This essay explores the relationship between commerce and culture in the context of the recent debate over the social effect of Wal-Mart. In spite of much public debate, little is known about how Wal-Mart affects values. Using data collected from multiple sources, we show there is little evidence that Wal-Mart makes communities more conservative or more progressive.

Social comparison orientation and mental health: The mediating role of psychological capital

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoliang Yang ◽  
Zhihua Wang ◽  
Weijiong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Comparison Orientation ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Little is known about the relationship between social comparison orientation and mental health, especially in the psychological capital context. We proposed a theoretical model to examine the impact of ability- and opinion-based social comparison orientation on mental health using data from 304 undergraduates. We also examined the mediating effect of the four psychological capital components of hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism in the relationship between social comparison orientation and mental health. Results show that an ability (vs. opinion) social comparison orientation was negatively (vs. positively) related to the psychological capital components. Further, the resilience and optimism components of psychological capital fully mediated the social comparison orientation–mental health relationship. Our findings indicate that psychological capital should be considered in the promotion of mental health, and that the two social comparison orientation types have opposite effects on psychological capital.

scholarly journals The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062097802
Author(s):  
Todd K. Hartman ◽  
Thomas V. A. Stocks ◽  
Ryan McKay ◽  
Jilly Gibson-Miller ◽  
Liat Levita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Research has demonstrated that situational factors such as perceived threats to the social order activate latent authoritarianism. The deadly COVID-19 pandemic presents a rare opportunity to test whether existential threat stemming from an indiscriminate virus moderates the relationship between authoritarianism and political attitudes toward the nation and out-groups. Using data from two large nationally representative samples of adults in the United Kingdom ( N = 2,025) and Republic of Ireland ( N = 1,041) collected during the initial phases of strict lockdown measures in both countries, we find that the associations between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and (1) nationalism and (2) anti-immigrant attitudes are conditional on levels of perceived threat. As anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic increases, so too does the effect of RWA on those political outcomes. Thus, it appears that existential threats to humanity from the COVID-19 pandemic moderate expressions of authoritarianism in society.

Fostering Workplace Learning: Looking through the Lens of Apprenticeship

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Fuller ◽  
Lorna Unwin
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pedagogical Relationships ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Learning Logs ◽  
Employee Learning ◽  
The Relationship

This article argues that researching the lived reality of apprenticeship in contemporary workplaces provides a useful lens through which workplace learning more generally can be examined. Drawing on data from a 3-year study of the social and pedagogical relationships between apprentices and older workers in the English steel industry, the article proposes that, building on Engeström's work, an ‘expansive’ as opposed to a ‘restrictive’ approach to apprenticeship will not only deliver the broader goals being set for apprenticeship programmes around the world, but will also foster workplace learning. The article offers a critique of Lave and Wenger's novice to expert conceptualisation of apprenticeship and, using data from employee learning logs, argues that pedagogical relationships between apprentices and older workers need to be better understood. A conceptual framework for analysing the relationship between organisational culture and history, work organisation, and workplace learning is provided.

Cadres’ Voices

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-148
Author(s):  
John James Kennedy ◽  
Yaojiang Shi
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Village Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Local Leaders

While village cadres, along with town and county officials, are often portrayed as the strong arm of the state, enforcing the birth policy regardless of the social and personal costs, the relationship between villagers, cadres, and officials is, in fact, more fluid and complex. In-depth interviews with local cadres, including village leaders, midwives, and family planning cadres, as well as town and county officials, show a more dynamic and at times reciprocal relationship between local leaders and villagers. Many of the village cadres and officials interviewed admitted that it was not uncommon for births to go unregistered for years and that official birth counts and population reports compiled at the village level and sent up to the town governments were, at times, incomplete. The interviews reveal mutual noncompliance and selective policy implementation at the grassroots and even town and county levels.

The opportunity model of organizational commitment

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Cicekli ◽  
Hayat Kabasakal
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Exchange Theory ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationships between promotion, development, and recognition opportunities at work and organizational commitment, and whether these relationships are moderated by the job opportunities employees have in other organizations. Design/methodology/approach An opportunity model of organizational commitment is developed based on social exchange theory and several streams of opportunity research. Factor analyses and hierarchical multiple regression analyses are carried out to test the hypotheses using data from 550 white-collar employees. Findings The results of the analyses show that opportunities for development and recognition are predictors of organizational commitment, that job opportunities employees have in other organizations negatively moderate the relationship between recognition opportunity at work and organizational commitment, and that promotion opportunity does not predict organizational commitment. Research limitations/implications Future researchers could study the issue in the context of other cultures using data from multiple sources. Practical implications Employers who seek to increase their employees’ organizational commitment are advised to divert their energies from struggling to create promotion opportunities for their employees to creating opportunities for development and recognition. Originality/value The study explores the under-researched concept of opportunity at work and connects several streams of opportunity research by drawing on social exchange theory as a theoretical framework. The model is the first to address the effects of opportunity and alternative opportunities on organizational commitment.

On Usage Context of Hybrid Electric Vehicles in Choice Studies

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin He ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Guenter Conzelmann
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Electric Vehicle ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Choice Modeling ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Hybrid Electric ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Household Travel ◽  
Usage Context ◽  
The Relationship

Considering usage context attributes in choice modeling has been shown to be important when product performance highly depends on the usage context. To build a reliable choice model, it is critical to first understand the relationship between usage context attributes and customer profile attributes, then to identify the market segmentation characterized by both sets of attributes, and finally to construct a choice model by integrating data from multiple sources. This is a complex procedure especially when a large number of customer attributes are potentially influential to the product choice. Using the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) as an example, this paper presents a systematic procedure and the associated data analysis techniques for implementing each of the above steps. Usage context and customer profile attributes extracted from both National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) and Vehicle Quality Survey (VQS) data are first analyzed to understand the relationship between usage context attributes and customer profile attributes. Next the principal component analysis is utilized to identify the key characteristics of hybrid vehicle drivers, and to determine the market segmentations of HEV and the critical attributes to include in choice models. Before the two sets of data are combined for choice modeling, statistical analysis is used to test the compatibility of the two datasets. A pooled choice model created by incorporating usage context attributes illustrates the benefits of context-based choice modeling using data from multiple sources. Even though NHTS and VQS have been used in the literature to study transportation patterns and vehicle quality ratings, respectively, this work is the first to explore how they may be used together to benefit the study of customer preference for HEVs.

scholarly journals The Problem of Face recognition in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Aminat Vislova
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Face Recognition ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scope Of Application ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

The article deals with the problem of face recognition in artificial intelligence (AI) and in psychology. The possibility of using data from the psychology of perception in the interpretation of artificial face recognition systems is analyzed. The emphasis is made on the psychophysiological mechanisms of face recognition / recognition. The available methods for solving the problem in the field of AI, trends in improving face recognition technologies in the context of the digitalization of the social and economic life of society are described. Considering the vast scope of application of face recognition technologies and the insufficient development of the problem of the relationship between AI and psychology in solving this problem, the need for a more detailed study of this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary perspective is stated.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MONOTOWNS AND CITY-FORMING ENTERPRISES THROUGH THE PRISM OF GAME THEORY

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1671-1678
Author(s):  
O.V. Karpets ◽  
◽  
N.V. Gontar’ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Single Industry ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town

The paper analyzes the relationship between a city-forming enterprise and local authorities in creating social infrastructure facilities and their functioning in a single-industry town. City-forming enterprises significantly determine the effectiveness of particular territories - single-industry towns, while exerting a comprehensive impact on their socio-economic situation and territorial development. Due to the peculiarities of their location and functioning, city-forming enterprises often assume obligations to create and maintain social infrastructure facilities. In this paper, we will consider the players’ interest in social infrastructure facilities functioning, and will also determine the impact of its development level on the activities of a city-forming enterprise and a single-industry town. In the article, through the application of game theory, the interests and strategies of behavior of the two main players on the issue of creating new or financing old objects of the social infrastructure of a monotown are considered. In the model proposed by the authors, two players are considered. Player A is the town-forming enterprise, and Player B is the local government. Each of the players has two strategies of behavior, the first strategy is to provide financial assistance to social infrastructure facilities, and the second is not to provide financial assistance. Having created a matrix of results, we will determine the payoffs of the players, which will further help us find the Nash equilibrium and determine the Pareto efficiency. Additionally, the work will consider the duality of the results, which will demonstrate the inconsistency of the functioning of the model when using only the rules of game theory and taking into account only market factors without taking into account real social conditions.

scholarly journals Assessing the Relationship between Social Vulnerability, Social Capital, and Housing Resilience

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7718
Author(s):  
Sebastian Rowan ◽  
Kyle Kwiatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Social Vulnerability Index ◽  
The Social ◽  
Housing Recovery ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Social vulnerability and social capital have been shown to influence how severely communities are impacted by natural hazards and how quickly they recover. Indices exist to quantify these factors using publicly available data; however, more empirical research is needed to validate these indices and support their use in pre-disaster planning and decision making. Using data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and data gathered through imagery analysis in Google Earth, this study evaluates the effectiveness of two indices of social vulnerability and social capital to predict housing impacts and rates of recovery in Florida and Puerto Rico following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. We found the social vulnerability index to be statistically significant in explaining the variation of housing impacts in both case studies, with varying results for the sub-indices of social vulnerability. Results for the social capital index were mixed between the case studies, and we found no statistically significant relationship between any of the indices and rates of housing recovery. Our results show that indices such as these can be useful, with an awareness of limitations, for researchers and emergency practitioners, and additional empirical analysis is needed to more fully support their efficacy for resilience assessment.

scholarly journals Attitudes towards science among Spanish citizens: The case of critical engagers

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 690-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montaña Cámara ◽  
Ana Muñoz van den Eynde ◽  
José A. López Cerezo
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Value ◽  
The Relationship

Using data obtained from Spanish surveys on the public perception of science, this article presents a critical review of current practices of population profile segmentation, including the one-dimensional representation of perceived risks and benefits and of the systematic underestimation of critical attitudes to the social impact of science and technology. We use discriminant analysis to detect a somewhat hidden cluster in the Spanish population which we call ‘critical engagers’. These individuals are critically and socially responsible and are not reticent about expressing concern regarding scientific-technological change. While they hold an overall positive attitude towards change of this kind, they are at the same time well aware of the risks posed by particular fields of application. We highlight the academic interest and political value of these individuals, attributing to this population a mature and intelligent stance which may well be employed in enhancing the relationship between science and society.

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