Rationality and complexity in the work of Elinor Ostrom by Arturo Lara

“…She proposes that this theory can be used i) to study not only competitive situations involving the exchange of private goods, but also social dilemmas; ii) to construct a syntax and grammar of institutions; iii) to develop a broader concept of rationality; and iv) to integrate this theory into a realistic concept of individuals and social structures.…”
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Swiss in-company trainers: multiple ways to train and socialize apprentices by Roberta Besozzi

“…Qualitative and typological analyses point out the different practices and contents of young apprentices’ socialization, structured around four ideal-typical profiles of trainers called “entrepreneurs”, “artisans”, “converted” and “resigned”. …”
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Rebel Gardens. From the Right to the City, to the Green Revolution by Javier Orlando Mora Pedraza

“…Contrary to traditional belief, social structures can be built from the bottom up, and one way of doing this is through collective initiatives of various kinds. …”
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Social behaviors as welfare indicators in teleost fish by Luciano Cavallino, Luciano Cavallino, Laura Rincón, Laura Rincón, María Florencia Scaia, María Florencia Scaia

“…This article will consider evidence in teleost fish, including cichlids, characids and cyprinids with different reproductive strategies and social structures (e.g., territorial social hierarchies or shoaling behavior). …”
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Relationships of structure and agency in the view of Allameh Mohammad Taghi Ja'fari by Ali Rabbani, Faeze Fahami

“…The type of individual life and how to deal with these influential sources determine the supremacy of the action or the supremacy of social structures.…”
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Factors Affecting Social Constructivism-Based Learning Culture in Bushehr City Schools: A Qualitative Study by Kh Rafeinejad, A.A Ajam, H Momenimamouei, M Zirak

“…Background and Aim: One of the most important and newest viewpoints related to learning and how knowledge is formed is social structuralism. Co-construction is the main mechanism of knowledge construction in social structuralism approaches. …”
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The iceberg of dementia risk: empirical and conceptual arguments in favor of structural interventions for brain health by Timothy Daly

“…Below the tip of this “iceberg of dementia risk,” there are living conditions and social structures that represent deeper contributions to risk in the population. …”
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No Need for Infinite Iteration by Sivertsen Sveinung Sundfør

“…What matters is whether or when there are grounds for belief, and while extant groups and social structures may be relevant to some forms of collective action, this does not show that all forms of collective action depends on such such pre-established collectivity.…”
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No Need for Infinite Iteration by Sveinung Sundfør Sivertsen

“…What matters is whether or when there are grounds for belief, and while extant groups and social structures may be relevant to some forms of collective action, this does not show that all forms of collective action depends on such such pre-established collectivity. …”
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Patterns of Choice: The Prix Ars Electronica Jury Sessions by Offenhuber, Dietmar

“…This article investigates the social structures reflected in the annual jury sessions of the Prix Ars Electronica, a major media art competition—the composition, the temporal evolution and ultimately the decisions of these juries. …”
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“It Means Possibility”: Manifestations of Isolation in New Queer Cinema by Nathan Burns

“…Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho (1991) highlights isolation from heteronormative social structures, particularly the nuclear family unit. …”
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'Changing times': war and social transformation in Mid-Western Nepal by Zharkevich, I

“…Furthermore, while adopting hitherto unimaginable practices and making them into habitual action, people transformed the rigid social structures, without necessarily intending to do so. …”

Biological sex estimation using ancient DNA in Classic Maya contexts: some findings from Naachtun (Guatemala) by Hemmamuthé Goudiaby, Xavier Roca-Rada, Kalina Kassdjikova, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Bastien Llamas

“…Recent advances in paleogenomics have opened up new prospects for the study of ancient burial customs and social structures. In this note, we report on the first results of a program now under way in a small residential compound in Naachtun, Guatemala (numbered 5N6). …”
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Unity or Duality of Agency and Structure in Exegeses of the Quran by Tahereh Qaderi, Saeid Zare

“…Research findings indicate that the Holy Qur'an considers man under the influence of social structures. However, many verses of the Holy Quran reveal that act is the maker of man's character and identity. …”
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Situations of socio-cultural and educational conflict of the immigrant adolescents of ecuadorian origin in Murcia by Miguel Ángel Ramón-Pineda, Jorge Armando Zambrano-Campoverde, Francisco Saúl Sánchez-Flores

“…These realities studied from the social and educational perspective identified the factors that contribute to the formation of thought that distance adolescents because of the legitimization of hierarchies, the scripts of action generated by these social structures imposed requiring changes in teaching practice and attention to history and social geography teaching resource that enriches human values Murcianos future, and the interpretation of the symbolic means concentrated in a new explanatory model build arguments beginning of the European-American relationship: mobility interactive.…”
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Working in the Sphere of Food Trade and Service in Armenia: Patterns of Precariousness by Srbuhi Michikyan

“…The study of patterns of precariousness provides an in-depth look at sectoral uncertainty and risk in relation to broader social structures. The purpose of this article is to study the patterns of precariousness expressed in the field through secondary analysis, which will provide opportunities for deeper analysis in the future, emphasizing the expressions of social injustice and inequality. …”
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A FUTURE APPROACHES, SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND THEIR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE INFORMATIONAL SOCIETY – KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY by NICULAE DAVIDESCU, DELIA BABEANU

“…The paper is the result of scientific study under doctoral thesis “Information Society and its Economic Effects” and contains seven sections: -section 1: “Globalization, Development and Information Society”; -section 2: “The Impact of the “Digital Divide” and “Digital Inequality” Phenomena” ; -section 3: “Information Society –Knowledge Society, Definition, Objectives and Strategies” ; -section 4: “Social Structures and New Life Patterns in Information Society” ; -section 5: “Virtual Organizations, Activities and Businesses” ; -section 6: “Strategies, Programmes and Courses of the Information Society Approach” ; -section 7: “The Economic Effects Foreseeable through the Implementation of Information Society–Knowledge Society”.…”
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La Sicile romaine, de la disparition du royaume de Hiéron II à la réorganisation augustéenne des provinces by Julien Dubouloz, Sylvie Pittia

“…It can be explained by the absence of permanent military occupation and Roman colonies, but also by the self-governing and dynamic communities of Greek origin in the island and lastly by the fact that Rome largely relied on the economic and social structures existing prior to her domination.…”
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Risco, catástrofes e a questão das vítimas by José Manuel Mendes, Pedro Araújo

“…A sociology with disasters is proposed that, beyond a mere sociology of disasters, interrogates and analyses disasters as extreme events that reveal existing social structures, the State, public policies, the dynamics of affected communities and of the dispositives that produce victims and/or citizens. …”
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Unity or Duality of Agency and Structure in Exegeses of the Quran by Mohammad Bagher Akhondi

“…Research findings indicate that the Holy Qur'an considers man under the influence of social structures. However, many verses of the Holy Quran reveal that act is the maker of man's character and identity. …”
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