Between Mobility and Inclusion: The Position of Mother Tongue Instruction in Sweden and Denmark by Broerse Inga

“…This study takes into account different social dynamics in order to research what the position of mother tongue instruction is in policy documents and media discourse in both Sweden and Denmark, to determine what the effects of mother tongue instruction are, and subsequently to figure out what is necessary to find the balance between mobility and inclusion – all these for creating further social cohesion and avoiding segregation.…”
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Virtuality and Solidarity: Exploring the New Frontiers of Social Love in the Sign of Collective Wellbeing by Luisa Nardi

“…Indeed, digital technologies can positively influence social dynamics by fostering the construction of community networks that act as catalysts for collective intelligence and knowledge sharing in the pursuit of collective wellbeing.…”
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Les communs fonciers à l’ère d’internet au Cambodge, une approche par les conflits by Marie Mellac, Jean-Christophe Diepart

“…Through the prism of land conflicts, this article examines how different mobilizations of the Web bring an informational dimension to the social dynamics of protecting land-based commons. The release of land-related data and information on the internet by civil society actors shakes up the central role of the State as data gatekeeper. …”
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La rencontre improbable de Mohammed Abed al-Jabiri et Mohammed Arkoun : analyse comparée de la production des livres de philosophie islamique contemporaine by Mohamed Amine Brahimi

“…By incorporating elements of historical contextualization, biographical trajectory as well as a study of contents, the comparison restores the conditions of production of these works and help to apprehend the common social dynamics which underlie them.…”
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Editorial: Reconstructing paleodiets: challenges and advances by Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo, Ferran Estebaranz-Sánchez, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Carlo Meloro, Larisa DeSantis, Larisa DeSantis

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The Eye of the Beholder: Violence as a Social Process by T K Beck

“…A triangular reconstruction of the social dynamics of violence offers a means to bridge the gap between research on the micro- and meso-level dynamics of violent interaction on the one hand, and theories of power and domination on the other. …”
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La métro-périurbanisation comme nouveau paradigme ? by Émeline Bailly, Hervé Duret

“…Stigmatized for a long time, the knowledge of the periurbanized spaces was essentially approached through a series of all-embracing, sometimes ideological presuppositions, ignoring the variety of the urban and social dynamics at work. Though, diversity of periurban spaces appears through a series of urban, functional and landscaped analyses on one hand, lifestyles on the other hand. …”
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Processes of Radicalization and Polarization in the Context of Transnational Islamist Terrorism by Arin H. Ayanian, Nils Böckler, Bertjan Doosje, Andreas Zick

“…The present special issue brings together papers that focus on relevant theoretical perspectives and empirical research concerning individual and collective processes of radicalization, and social dynamics and conflicts associated with them. It also examines strategies to prevent the initiation of such processes and thereby connects analyses and transfer. …”
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Social Networks and the Algerian society : the Advent of new practices and Behaviors by Nadira BESSOUH & Yamina GRARI

“…These social network platforms play a key role in the dissemination of information and the expression of opinions, which leads to radically changing the traditional social dynamics. Based on the above, it was deemed interesting to conduct a study with 363 Algerian Internet users for the purpose of highlighting the importance of adopting such digital tools, particularly in terms of daily interactions in daily life and content consumption. …”
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Aesthetics as a Habit: Between Constraints and Freedom, Nudges and Creativity by Mariagrazia Portera

“…Indeed, much attention has recently been given to habits across a wide range of fields of inquiry: philosophers turn to the concept to investigate its significance to the historical development of Western thought; neuroscientists look into the role that habits play in the functioning of the human mind and identify the neural and psychological underpinnings of habitual behavior; anthropologists, political scientists and sociologists tap into habits as a key notion to explain social dynamics and collective behavior. For all of these waves that the notion has made in other parts of the humanities and social sciences, there have been so far, however, only a few sustained discussions of habits in conjunction with aesthetics. …”
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Urbanization before Cities: Lessons for Social Theory from the Evolution of Cities by Alexander Thomas

“…It is argued that urbanization predatescities by thousands of years, and that the social dynamics arising from urbanization must be teased out of the data in order to understand cities better.…”
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A Multiscale Survival Process for Modeling Human Activity Patterns. by Tianyang Zhang, Peng Cui, Chaoming Song, Wenwu Zhu, Shiqiang Yang

“…Human activity plays a central role in understanding large-scale social dynamics. It is well documented that individual activity pattern follows bursty dynamics characterized by heavy-tailed interevent time distributions. …”
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From rammed earth to stone wall: Chronological insight into the settlement change of the Lower Xiajiadian culture. by Xiaojia Tang, Shui Shen, Xin Su

“…By means of correlation analysis with other related archaeological evidence, we suggest that the underlying social dynamics that contributed to LXJD settlement changes can be explored through multiple prospects.…”
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Il cimitero la Verbena: cinquant’anni di violenza politica e sociale a Città del Guatemala by Dottorando in antropologia all’Università di Verona (Scuola di Dottorato di Studi Umanistici). Sta attualmente compiendo le sue ricerche a Città del Guatemala. I suoi temi d’interesse sono: potere, contro-potere ed utilizzo del territorio urbano, violenza, banditismo giovanile transnazionale (maras e pandillas).

“…The analysis of these connections is fundamental to understand some of the contemporary social dynamics affecting not only that country.…”
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Post genetic revolution dynamics. How will modified and unmodified humans coexist? by Marcos Alonso

“…Then, I describe possible social dynamics that will appear in a post genetic revolution scenario, using the example of Ecuador, a multiethnic society that had an abrupt social and genetical transformation that could resemble in some ways what the genetic revolution might bring. …”
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De la méthodologie aux méthodes de recherche (et non l’inverse) by Nathalie Mondain, Jean-Marc Larouche, Stéphanie Gaudet

“…The debates focused on the social dynamics that guide the knowledge production process using social mediations as a core analytical concept. …”
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Ken S. Coates and Carin Holroyd (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) by Rachael Lorna Johnstone

“…These are: I Indigenous Peoples and Arctic Social Dynamics; II Economic Development; III Policies of Arctic Nations; IV The Arctic and International Relations; V Arctic Legal and Institutional Systems; Arctic Security; and VII Reflections on Future of the Arctic (emphasis in original).…”
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When patrons are patrons: A social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the Feast (Lk 14:16b–23) by Ernest van Eck

“…The cultural values embedded in meals, namely honour and shame, patronage, reciprocity and purity, receive attention. The social dynamics of invitations in the 1st-century Mediterranean world is used as a lens to understand the invitations as an honour challenge, and the social game of gossip is used to obtain an understanding of the excuses in the parable. …”
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Phenomenological Insights into Entrepreneurial Failure Cases in Türkiye by Konuralp Sezgili

“…This study provides insights into understanding entrepreneurial failure as an experience by emphasizing the importance of specific social dynamics and relationships in the failure process.…”
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ROMANIAN HIGHER EDUCATION - STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND UNBALANCING RESOURCES by Irina SIMIONESCU (BARBU), Delia Mioara POPESCU, George ENESCU

“…Higher education found at the intersection of external challenges and internal economic and social dynamics, was faced with structural changes, the activities undertaken, being dependent on the level and sources of funding.…”
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