scholarly journals Analysis of Social Relationships for Transferring Farmland Rights in a Large-Scale Upland Farming Area, Hokkaido

2009 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 402-421
Author(s):  
KUNIMITSU YOSHIDA
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zong Chen Fan ◽  
Wei Duan ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Xiao Gang Qiu

The method of artificial society has provided a powerful way to study and explain how individual behaviors at micro level give rise to the emergence of global social phenomenon. It also creates the need for an appropriate representation of social structure which usually has a significant influence on human behaviors. It has been widely acknowledged that social networks are the main paradigm to describe social structure and reflect social relationships within a population. To generate social networks for a population of interest, considering physical distance and social distance among people, we propose a generation model of social networks for a large-scale artificial society based on human choice behavior theory under the principle of random utility maximization. As a premise, we first build an artificial society through constructing a synthetic population with a series of attributes in line with the statistical (census) data for Beijing. Then the generation model is applied to assign social relationships to each individual in the synthetic population. Compared with previous empirical findings, the results show that our model can reproduce the general characteristics of social networks, such as high clustering coefficient, significant community structure and small-world property. Our model can also be extended to a larger social micro-simulation as an input initial. It will facilitate to research and predict some social phenomenon or issues, for example, epidemic transition and rumor spreading.


2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 2688-2702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kechen Zheng ◽  
Jinbei Zhang ◽  
Xiaoying Liu ◽  
Luoyi Fu ◽  
Xinbing Wang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liran Samuni ◽  
Catherine Crockford ◽  
Roman M. Wittig

AbstractHumans maintain extensive social ties of varying preferences, providing a range of opportunities for beneficial cooperative exchange that may promote collective action and our unique capacity for large-scale cooperation. Similarly, non-human animals maintain differentiated social relationships that promote dyadic cooperative exchange, but their link to cooperative collective action is little known. Here, we investigate the influence of social relationship properties on male and female chimpanzee participations in a costly form of group action, intergroup encounters. We find that intergroup encounter participation increases with a greater number of other participants as well as when participants are maternal kin or social bond partners, and that these effects are independent from one another and from the likelihood to associate with certain partners. Together, strong social relationships between kin and non-kin facilitate group-level cooperation in one of our closest living relatives, suggesting that social bonds may be integral to the evolution of cooperation in our own species.


Author(s):  
Mark LeBar

Concerns about justice of one sort or another are ever-present in the news and in our social relationships. Sometimes these are large-scale concerns (ethnic cleansing, war crimes, sexual harassment), while other times they are small-scale (slights, broken promises, tokens of disrespect). This volume is focused not on just institutions but instead on just individuals. This chapter surveys the contributions of the volume to thinking about what being just persons involves and how we become just.


2020 ◽  
pp. 001041402091228
Author(s):  
Wendy Pearlman

Core social movement research argues that large-scale challenges to authority build upon preexisting organization and civil society resources. How do dissenters mobilize masses in repressive settings where, given curtailment of civil society, autonomous associations scarcely exist and norms discourage trust more than encourage it? Testimonials from the Syrian uprising illustrate how protest can become widespread under such conditions, yet occurs through processes different from what dominant theory expects. Activists get demonstrations off the ground by planning around awareness of their organizational deficits. Once in motion, contention propels both organization and increasing organizational sophistication. To be effective, mobilization sometimes evades or obscures established social relationships, even as it produces new forms of sociability. Bridging literatures on mass and clandestine mobilization, this research reconsiders the assumed sequential logic of movement development from organization to protest, rather than vice versa. It also shifts attention from movement antecedents toward the resourcefulness and strategy that enable mobilizing both from scratch and at grave risk.


2020 ◽  
pp. 194855062097920
Author(s):  
Richard E. Lucas ◽  
William J. Chopik

Social support has been proposed to be a protective factor that buffers the losses that result from the experience of negative life events. The present study uses data from a large-scale Australian panel study (the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey) to examine how life satisfaction changes following the onset of a disabling condition and then to test whether preevent or postevent social support moderates reactions to this event. Results show that the onset of a disabling condition is associated with a large decline in life satisfaction, but these changes are not moderated by preevent social support. Postevent social support does moderate change in response to the onset of a disability, but ambiguities in the interpretation of this association must be considered.


2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOUGLAS E. HAYNES

AbstractAnalyses of capital-labour relations in Indian industry during the colonial period have generally been confined to studies of large-scale units. This essay turns to an examination of the organization of the workplace among handloom producers in the Bombay Presidency during the period between 1880 and 1940. While recognizing the importance of contradictions between weaving families and various kinds of capitalists, the essay eschews any straightforward model of “proletarianization” to characterize this relationship. Weavers possessed methods of resistance, particularly “everyday” actions, which thwarted efforts to impose tight regimes of labour discipline within the workshop. Seeking to contain these resistances, shahukars (putting-out merchants) and karkhandars (owners of establishments using wage labour) developed complex social relationships with their workers based upon patronage, debt, and caste. Consequently, collective protest in the industry was limited, and when it did emerge in Sholapur during the later 1930s, it was highly conditioned and constrained by the multiple lines of affiliation weavers had with karkhandars.


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