Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies. by Hill, R, Bentley, R, Dunbar, R

“…However, circumstantial evidence from a range of other species suggests that scaling ratios close to 3 may apply widely, even in species where hierarchical social structures have not traditionally been identified. …”

Socialization of ethnic identity and its consequence in the form of polarization among youth in Malaysia. by Chin, Yee Mun, Lee, Yok Fee

“…Hubungan dialektik antara peranan struktur social (structural) dan tindakan individu (action) dalam pembentukan identiti etnik juga dihuraikan bagi menerangkan bagaimana perkaitan antara mereka boleh menghasilkan polarisasi etnik di kalangan belia universiti awam Malaysia.…”
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Review Of Theory And Practice Literature On Women Entrepreneurship In The Tanzanian Construction Industry: Establishing The Missing Link by Sospeter, Nyamagere Gladys, Rwelamila, Pantaleo David, Nchimbi, Mariam, Masoud, Muhsin

“…The under-representation of Women Entrepreneurs in the Construction Industry (WECI) in the construction industry is caused by various factors, such as cultural background, choice of business and level of confidence. Moreover, the social structures and cultural systems that reinforce the continued subordination and marginalisation of women have major implications in their motives and involvement in business. …”
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Impact of Socially Constructed Choices on Female School Heads’ Educational and Career Choices in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study by Ahsan-Ur- REHMAN, Muhammad Ilyas KHAN, Zarina WAHEED

“…Female school heads’ career choices have been termed socially constructed as it explores the influences of predominantly male-dominant social structures on women’s career choices. The study explores the contributors to and influence on female school heads' decisions to join the teaching profession within the context of the predominately traditional and conservative society in north-west, Pakistan. …”
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Radical Care: Seeking New and More Possible Meetings in the Shadows of Structural Violence by Kelly Gawel

“…To unambiguously valorize care in ethical and political life is to risk occluding the constitutive violence of existing social structures and norms, its impact on the intimacies of caring relations, and ultimately the ways that communities mobilize alternate economies and practices of care towards healing and social change. …”
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A Project for the Synopia of the Integrated City. MODEL I: Harbor-Center with Water-Sea-Earth Communication Routes by Ilaria Cattabriga

“…Both models show the same purposes and final similar morphological results, the first elaborated in the United States, the second one in Italy, as a consequence of Ricci’s research for a synthesis between architecture and sculpture and as a necessary melting between the physical and the social structures, thus the search for the most livable and useful spaces for the best development of modern life.…”
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The communicative role of Algerian civil society in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic: a reading in the dimensions and practices by Basma FENNOUR

“…Today, the institutions of civil society have become one of the most important social structures that contribute to the progress and advancement of society, involving the citizen in the search for solutions to his daily problems, and expressing his opinion on the crucial issues of the nation, which can develop citizen consciousness, and increase the sense of belonging, which constitutes a solid bulwark against the crises that society may face. …”
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Playing in the Continuum: Moral Relativism in The Last of Us by Shalini Harilal

“…This paper argues that the game’s insistence on making “questionable” choices on behalf of the player and its depiction of a selection of contrasting social structures are a narrative ruse to unsettle ethical complacencies of the generic player, who brings to the game such moral systems to analyze the game as are incompatible with its temporal and spatial specificity. …”
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Écritures de soi en souffrance: une lecture des régimes structurant l’imaginaire du texte social vivant by Orazio Maria Valastro

“…Nous allons solliciter et proposer une lecture sociologique et anthropologique de l’ensemble des études proposés au sein du numéro monographique, privilégiant une analyse de la matrice du discours social structurant la conscience individuelle et collective.…”
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Exploring Women’s Embodied Experiences of ‘The Gaze’ in a Mix-Gendered UK Gym by Amy Clark

“…Utilising a feminist phenomenological approach, I explore the social-structural position of women in a patriarchal system of gender relations, whilst simultaneously acknowledging and analysing the structural, cultural and historical forces and location, upon individual lived body experiences and gendered embodiment. …”
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TIF conference presentation in detail by Barrister Abid Waheed Shaikh

“…So the utilization of a health care system, public or private, formal or non-formal, may depend on socio-demographic factors, social structures, level of education, cultural beliefs and practices, gender discrimination, status of women, economic and political systems environmental conditions, and the disease pattern and health care system itself. …”
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A FEMINIST REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS OF GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN YOUTH POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA by Jane M. KELLUM

“…Through this analysis, I identify a number of challenges that can be understood as part of the larger social construction of gender inequality and conclude that gender mainstreaming processes embody the same gender inequality and patriarchy that we encounter in our larger social structures. This, in turn, acts as one of the greatest threats to gender mainstreaming as an effective strategy to achieve gender equality.…”
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Impact of Socially Constructed Choices on Female School Heads’ Educational and Career Choices in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study by Ahsan-Ur- REHMAN, Muhammad Ilyas KHAN, Zarina WAHEED

“…Female school heads’ career choices have been termed socially constructed as it explores the influences of predominantly male-dominant social structures on women’s career choices. The study explores the contributors to and influence on female school heads' decisions to join the teaching profession within the context of the predominately traditional and conservative society in north-west, Pakistan. …”
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Creating Cultures of Equity and High Expectations in a Low-Performing School by Jorunn Møller

“…A main argument is that promoting quality education for all begins with the question of purpose and requires understanding how principals’ and teachers’ work is embedded in broader social structures of power.…”
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‘The American Non-Dream’ by Elisa Sabbadin

“…His proposition is to liberate consciousness and to eschew the predatory nature of social structures and hierarchies. …”
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Marché foncier et espace social à Mascate, Oman by Belgacem Mokhtar

“…The traditional social structures of cities were completely changed. Consequently, a new configuration appeared, essentially determined by new economic criteria of localization.In Muscat, capital of the Sultanate of Oman, the emergence of new social relations led to a spatial mobility of the households in function of their purchasing power of building lands or houses.However, in a country where the land is publicly owned and which is sold officially at a unique and fixed price, the dynamism of a parallel land market lets foretell a segregationist division of the inhabited areas or in the currently urbanizing spaces. …”
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Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene by Jennie Gamlin

“…This is a global pattern, where historical power relationships defined the coloniality of being and from this, organised healthcare, governance, and education in relation to patriarchal and capitalist universals. These social structures underlie the Anthropocene geological epoch and planetary crisis. …”
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LGBTIQ+ Youth and Experiences with Violence in Education by Nina Perger

“…Such violence is often addressed by ‘bullying discourse’, which rarely takes into account hetero- and cisnormative social structures and their manifestations in education, and it predominantly addresses bullying as a form of individual pathology and not as practices of violence that derive their disciplinary power in terms of enforcing normative enactments of gender and sexuality. …”
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Attitudes linguistiques et identités locales à Ṣanʻâ’ by Julien Dufour

“…The question will rest on the attachment to traditional, geographically defined social structures. Those who can afford it may like to shake them off. …”
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Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans by Suvilehto, J, Glerean, E, Dunbar, R, Hari, R, Nummenmaa, L

“…Nonhuman primates use social touch for maintenance and reinforcement of social structures, yet the role of social touch in human bonding in different reproductive, affiliative, and kinshipbased relationships remains unresolved. …”