When individuals engage in social interaction, regardless of the relationship they have with each other and the context within which it occurs, power and dominance are fundamental dimensions that both shape and are shaped by communication. Studies of how people think about and judge their social relationships have consistently demonstrated the importance of a dominance
This article covers a number of measurement issues which arise in Health Economics. The first of these arises when economists wish to make comparisons between populations on the basis of some measure of health, h, where hi refers to the value of the health measure for individual i. Such comparisons may be between different populations
Social Dominance Orientation Definition Social dominance orientation (SDO) is a measure of an individual’s support for group-based hierarchies. It reflects a person’s attitudes toward hierarchies in general, as well as beliefs about whether one’s own group should dominate other groups. People with high SDO believe that society should be structured in terms of inequality, with