Grassland ecology : an analysis of Wolf Totem from an ecological perspective. by Qiao Meng, Omar, Noritah

“…One problem yet to be solved, however, is the regression of the traditional ecosophy engendered by the challenges from different social forces such as politics and economy. Thus, how to preserve the traditional positive ecosophy needs efforts from all parties apart from the ecologists.…”
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Effect of individual factors on knowledge sharing by Eugene, Okyere-Kwakye, Md Nor, Khalil, Ziaei, Seyyedali, Huan, Hon Tat

“…As the behaviour people show in different situations depends highly on their personal character traits as well as the social forces, the degree of the reluctance or willingness towards sharing their knowledge might also fit in the same case.This paper suggests a relationship between knowledge sharing and four of the individual factors namely altruism, self efficacy, mutual reciprocity and trust.…”
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CHILD / by Martorell, Gabriella, author

“…Written from a developmental framework and borrowing from multiple traditions and theoretical perspectives, Child also addresses the major periods of development and focuses on the important biological, psychological, and social forces driving change, highlighting theoretical distinctions, research findings, and new directions in the field. …”

Fissures in the commercial cinematic space: Screening Taiwanese documentary blockbusters by Hong-Chi Shiau

“…This study explores the trajectory of how a new wave of documentary making has incorporated or resisted dominant social forces to create fissures in the commercial cinematic spaces. …”
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Putting Social Media in Its Place: A Curatorial Theory for Media’s Noisy Social Worlds by Mary L. Gray

“…Let us attend to the more elusive, noisy cultural and social forces that bring some aspects of media sharply into focus while obscuring others. …”
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Interveillance: A New Culture of Recognition and Mediatization by André Jansson

“…It also introduces a critical perspective on how the industrial logics of dominant social media, through which interveillance practices are normalized, resonate with social forces already at play in individualized societies. …”
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Borders to Borderless by Dané Smith

“…Exploring the relative contributions of state rhetoric, the public sphere and corporate elite interests thusly, indicates that different threat matrixes emerge from the social forces that propel the 2010 NSS into being. The research, in accordance with its approach, finds that the focus of securing the threat of risk to national interests and assets within international uncertainty, results in the form of US securitisation strategy not fully realising its function of securitisation. …”
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Painful love: a Lacanian discourse analysis of women with experiences of intimate partner violence by Senia Almayah, Ask Elklit

“…The study analyses the reasons women choose to stay or leave abusive relationships using Lacan’s discourse analysis using five Arab and three Danish women who tell and reflect upon their gender roles, their attitudes and beliefs, their concrete experiences, their backgrounds, their religion, the family relations, and social forces. A deeper understanding of what is at stake for these women will hopefully help professionals to listen to the women and to explore the many profound dilemmas that many of these minority women suffer.…”
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Modelling in the Case of a Heterodox Economist: Success and Failure of Michał Kalecki by ALEKSANDER SULEJEWICZ

“…Kalecki seems to have been a paradigmatic case of a successful academic heterodox economist, author of significant innovations in the analyses of capitalism, socialism, and the intermediate regimes, all of which were ultimately rejected by the dominant social forces of the day, signalling ‘modelling failure’ in all academic and policy-institutional contexts. …”
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Combined and Uneven Feminism: Intersectional and Post-Constructivist Tendencies by Ana-Maria Deliu, Laura T. Ilea

“…It seeks freedom from (intersected) oppressive social forces. The other tendency is an emerging postconstructivist, alternative materialist feminism that focuses on the freedom to act and know authentically as women (Grosz). …”
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Hegemonik Düzen Tartışmaları ve Eleştirel Görüşler (Debates on Hegemonic Order and Critical Perspectives) by Nilüfer KARACASULU

“…As a conclusion, when the notion of hegemonic order in international realm is considered as a relation between social forces-state structures-world order, which is different than traditional approaches, it brings a new aspect to the contemporary discussions on globalization in IPE.…”
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Walking Pilgrimage as Ritual for Ending Partnerships by Kathleen E. Jenkins

“…Recent scholarship in pilgrimage studies has called for a more dynamic and inclusive approach that highlights the multiple and varied social forces at work in travel to and around sacred spaces. …”
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“La mia signora mi dice che io sono brava donna…”. Storia di una migrante bulgara, tra relazioni di assistenza e pratiche di cura by Eugenio Zito

“…I chose to do it by means of an anthropological approach based on experience as field of mediation between personal dimensions and historical and social processes and therefore centered on the body conceived as historical product, the influence of political and social forces on shaping human lives, and finally interested in the specific link between bodies and work. …”
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HEALTH ASPECTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION by A.Ghiami

“…As a result their new life in the city and at home is disrupted. The traditional Social Forces and moral values which formerly exercised a stabilizing influence in the peasant culture are weakened. …”
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University information policy as a tool for supporting civic engagement of student youth by Mukhamadullin Salavat, Andreeva Yulia, Ratner Faina, Raskhodova Ilmira

“…The article presents the author's approach to the study of the information field of a modern university as a unique virtual and real space of interaction, communication and consolidation of social forces, initiation of activity of student audiences. …”
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Gendered Resource Access and Utilisation in Swedish Family Farming by Elias Andersson, Gun Lidestav

“…Access to resources, typically land, together with social forces and embodied experiences constitute the basis of strategic focus and agency. …”
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Dependent Capitalism and Autocratic Culture: Contributions to understanding contemporary Brazil by Morena Gomes Marques

“…We understand autocratic culture to be the political expression of dependence, characterized by the permanent recycling of the democratic process, which remains focused on annulling the impetus of the social forces from below and preserving both the current standard of capital accumulation, as well as the self-privilege of the dominant class. …”
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Intersections of Personal Assistance Services for Rural Disabled People and Home Care Workers' Rights by Rayna Sage, Krys Standley, Genna M. Mashinchi

“…In this brief review, we explore the intersections of historical and social forces that shaped federal-level policies for both disability rights and the rights of personal care workers, as well as the current state of the policies. …”
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The Formation of Civil Society and Party-Political system: the Experience of India by A. G. VOLODIN

“…Among origins of comparative  advancement of India’s party system are such  historical constituents as: lasting existence of “centre- periphery” relations, ambivalent role of “pragmatic” British imperial  rule in country’s development, availability of proactive social forces susceptible to absorb overseas industrial culture as well as  political democracy. …”
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Political Parties in Contemporary Zambia: A View from within by Radim Tobolka

“…The inter-subjective encounters focused on the parties’ dayto-day functioning and were used to construe a model of party members’ lifeworld and its connections to macro-social forces studied by positive science. The study describes the Zambian political party scene as a ‘one party multipartism’ that is characterized by a lack of organizational cohesion and party switching of both individuals and structures. …”
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