The use of race terms in epigenetics research: considerations moving forward by Dillon E. King, Dillon E. King, Pooja D. Lalwani, Gilberto Padilla Mercado, Emma L. Dolan, Emma L. Dolan, Johnna M. Frierson, Joel N. Meyer, Susan K. Murphy, Susan K. Murphy

“…In this article, we i) propose that epigenetic researchers open a dialogue about how and why race is employed in study designs and think critically about how this might perpetuate harmful biases; ii) call for interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration between epigeneticists and social scientists to promote the collection of more detailed social metrics, particularly institutional and structural metrics such as levels of discrimination that could improve our understanding of individual health outcomes; iii) encourage the development of standards and practices that promote full transparency about data collection methods, particularly with regard to race; and iv) encourage the field of epigenetics to continue to investigate how social structures contribute to biological health disparities, with a particular focus on the influence that structural racism may have in driving these health disparities.…”
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The Pathology of Spectators’ Behavior in Sports Stadiums by Vahid Bakhshalipour, Siavash Khodaparst, Morteza Rezaei soofi

“…Sports has a potential to reinforce the elements in the cultural and social structures and creates them in a new form. The purpose of this study was to examine the spectators’ behavior pathology in sports stadiums of Guilan, Iran. …”
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Personal Readings and Public Texts Book Blogs and Online Writing about Literature by Ann Steiner

“…However, it is unclear how this potential agency among bloggers operates, and thus far most research has concerned politics, media systems and larger social structures. The present article is a study of the Swedish book blogs during the autumn of 2009 and an attempt to address a small, but significant, part of the Internet influence. …”
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The function of the problem: approaches between Vygotsky and Freire for Science Education by Simoni Tormöhlen Gehlen, Demetrio Delizoicov

“…These relationships constitute analytical parameters to be considered in the planning and development of classroom activities, as well as in the organization of school programs, in which the starting point are situations of the subjects' experiences, marked by social contradictions and/or demands social structures, and the conceptual structures subordinated to these situations.…”
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Military-Historical Anthropology: Vectors of Theoretical Polemic in Russian and English Historiography by F. V. Nikolae, L. V. Sofronova, A. V. Khazina

“…It is argued that within the framework of such a dialogue, the question of the relationship between normative social structures and local practices should not be reduced to a previously known answer. …”
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A Study on Self Efficacy of Social Workers in Ernakulam and Thrissur Districts by Luis P. Thomas

“…To fulfill this mission, social workers must possesses a broad range of knowledge about the functioning of people and social institutions, as well as have a variety of skills for facilitating change in how individuals, organizations, and other social structures operate. In this new century, it is clear that the nature of employment and careers will be dramatically affected by such factors as globalization of the labor market. …”
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What is really social about social insect cognition? by Laure-Anne Poissonnier, Catherine Tait, Mathieu Lihoreau

“…One difficulty involved in testing the social brain hypothesis in insects is that many of the model species used in cognition studies are highly social (eusocial), and comparatively little work has been done in insects that live in less integrated social structures or that are solitary. As more species are studied, it is becoming clear that insects share a rich cognitive repertoire and that these abilities are not directly related to their level of social complexity. …”
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Analysis of the Narratives with Characters That Make Ethnic Diversity Visible—Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir by Miriam E. Aguasanta-Regalado, Ángel San Martín Alonso, Isabel M. Gallardo-Fernández

“…Likewise, the TV programmes analysed present stories marked by models of cultural diversity that contribute to the maintenance of certain social structures and the normalisation of inequality. …”
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Language of Teaching by Margarita Kozhevnikova

“…Analysis of the problem helps us find out how highly bureaucratized (affected by the “managerism paradigm”) methodology, language, social structures and relationships that prevail in teaching build a field where profound ideas of education are promoted with great difficulty. …”
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Predicting the diversity of early epidemic spread on networks by Andrea J. Allen, Mariah C. Boudreau, Nicholas J. Roberts, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

“…The interplay of biological, social, structural, and random factors makes disease forecasting extraordinarily complex. …”
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Le CHU Dijon Bourgogne : une politique active de conservation des collections scientifiques et techniques by Adeline Rivière

“…Wit the increase in the number of medial appliances, the lack of space and of financing to keep these objects permanently, reasoned selection processes have to be undertaken both within the university hospital and in other hospital and medico-social structures. The CHU of Dijon-Bourgogne has set up a special committee for this task of selecting the pieces to be kept from the twentieth and twenty-first century objects.…”
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Representations of Post-Industrial Shanghai by Joaquin LOPEZ MUGICA, Thomas William WHYKE

“…The paper claims that Gauvrit’s documentary photography can be understood as a visual critical discourse of several representational perspectives of time that render visible anachronistic and new social structures that come into being: between utopias of the past and visions of the future in an alternative chronotopic ‘present’ cartography. …”
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Whiteness and Bodies Out of Place: A Critical Discussion of Early Childhood Educators’ Regulatory Language Practice in a Danish Context by Nadia Norling Tshili Klarsgaard

“…Taking on the notion of coloniality of power (Quijano, 2000), the article considers Denmark’s colonial complicity and its present implications in today’s social structures and, in particular, in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). …”
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Makna Simbolik Tradisi Pembacaan Yāsīn Faḍīlah: Studi Living Qur’an di Desa Jono Kecamatan Tawangharjo Kabupaten Grobogan by Ahtim Miladya Rohmah, Anwar Mujahidin

“…The preservation of this tradition is maintained because the forms of these traditions meet the needs of the people in accordance with Malinowski's theory, namely by fulfilling psycho-biological, social structural, and symbolic needs. While the symbolic meaning is created into four parts, including: 1) The symbol of the relationship with God. 2) Symbol of relationship with ancestors. 3) Symbol of relationship with others. 4) Symbol of relationship with oneself.…”
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CHANGING NOTIONS OF WELLBEING IN NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE by Paola Della Valle

“…The official recognition of specific indigenous views of health, development, social structures and wellbeing led to the establishment of formal institutions, strategic plans and frameworks to promote them. …”
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A Study on Self Efficacy of Social Workers in Ernakulam and Thrissur Districts by Luis P. Thomas

“…To fulfill this mission, social workers must possesses a broad range of knowledge about the functioning of people and social institutions, as well as have a variety of skills for facilitating change in how individuals, organizations, and other social structures operate. In this new century, it is clear that the nature of employment and careers will be dramatically affected by such factors as globalization of the labor market. …”
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The accuracy of the literacy theory claims in the context of the medieval Arab-Muslim culture. Development of qadiship as an implication of the dissemination of writing and literac... by Bożena Prochwicz-Studnicka

“…Judgeship is not a consequence of writing sensu stricto, but a consequence of the interaction of writing with the social structures and practices. The methodology of the present research takes two orders into consideration: the anthropological order (of the anthropology of cultural media) and the historical order. …”
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Semiotics of Gender Roles and Honour Killing in Pakistani Paintings by Mehvish Riaz

“…The study examines how gender is represented through visual signs in the paintings on honour killing, how social structures gain meaning on getting painted, how power dynamics work in the so-called traditional or patriarchal societies, and if and how these semiotic constructions represent, underrepresent, or misrepresent Pakistani context. …”
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Islamic relationship marketing practice, customer satisfaction, and retention: a mediation analysis by Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum

“…The results confirmed that customer satisfaction has significantly mediated the four measures of IRM which were Islamic ethical behaviour, social, structural, and financial bonds on future customer retention. …”
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A social network analysis of school advice-seeking patterns to support vulnerable learners: A critical methodological account by Thompson, I, Daniels, H, Ortega, L, Tawell, A

“…We are concerned with the ways in which the practices of a school community are structured by their institutional context and argue that social structures impact on the interactions between the participants and the skills, knowledge and understanding that reside in those institutions. …”