Modern research methods for communication and social change reflect a tension between collecting data at the individual level while making inferences at macro-levels such as health-care systems, communities, and nations. This tension becomes more palpable when measuring the concerns of historically underserved, difficult-to-reach populations, those suffering the greatest inequalities in access to information, civic participation
The Concept Of Social Health Insurance Unlike private health insurance (PHI), ‘social’ health insurance (SHI) is characterized by three distinguishing features: Compulsory membership, at least for the great majority of the population. Community rating, i.e., premiums unrelated to individual risk. Open enrollment, i.e., even if the insurance market is competitively structured, an applicant cannot be
Social structure theories bring a sociological (rather than biological or psychological) approach to studies of crime and deviance. Instead of focusing solely or primarily on individuals, these theories seek to explain how individuals are situated within and experience larger-scale social institutions such as schools, government, the labor market, cultural industries, and the criminal justice system.
Social networking involves online groups of people who share some common interests. As part of their interactions, users create webpages in which they can post pictures, videos, information about themselves, articles, and much more. Users then invite people to be their friends, which grants them access to see the pages. MySpace, a social networking site
Social learning theories hold that criminal behaviors are learned in interaction with others, particularly (but not exclusively) those within close personal circles such as family, friends, and neighbors. According to this perspective, criminality is not inborn, biological, or genetic, nor is it limited to people of specific backgrounds, resources, or opportunities. Rather, all people are
Planned social change is the result of an intervention by a change agent (an individual or organization that seeks to induce change) in order to transform the nature of human communities, most often as a response to some perceived problem such as health risks, environmental crises, political instability, economic hardships, underdeveloped infrastructures, and recovery from
The concept of secular social change in health communication studies emanates from the findings of quasi-experimental community and group randomized trials of health promotion campaigns. Specifically, many longitudinally designed intervention studies have discovered that outcome variables of interest (e.g., knowledge, beliefs, behaviors) often show changes over time trending in the same direction both in the
The accounting scandals such as Enron, Parmalat, and WorldCom have concentrated attention on the accountability and governance of corporations. Social accounting has been described and critiqued from a variety of positions, ranging from right wing neoliberal critiques all the way through to Marxist and deep green critiques. The different positions taken on the desirability or
This article explores the multifaceted impact of social media on the criminal justice process in the United States. The introduction provides an overview of the pervasive role of social media in contemporary society and introduces the intersection with the criminal justice system. The first section delves into how social media contributes to crime reporting and
Price: $106.00 – $78.42 (as of Mar 02,2018 11:20:22 UTC – Details) This textbook serves as an introduction to the field of applied social psychology which focuses on understanding social and practical problems and on developing intervention strategies directed at the amelioration of such problems. A core feature of the book is attaining a balance