knowledge induces collaborative learning and research, since the tags that describe marked resources are shared between users. Consequently, they become meaningful learning resources that provide a social dimension to both learning and online research processes. ...

The Effect of Tryptophan on Social Interaction in Everyday Life: A Placebo-Controlled Study D. S. Moskowitz, Ph.D., Gilbert Pinard, M.D., David C. Zuroff, Ph.D., Lawrence Annable, B.Sc., Dip. Stat., and Simon N. Young, Ph.D. In monkeys ...

Economics, Social Science and Development* By Ravi Kanbur Cornell University sk145@cornell.edu http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sk145 September, 2001 Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Introduction The Core of Mainstream Economics ...

The British Journal of Sociology 2006 Volume 57 Issue 1 The cosmopolitan imagination: critical cosmopolitanism and social theory Gerard Delanty Abstract Critical cosmopolitanism is an emerging direction in social theory and reflects both an object of study and a distinctive methodological approach to the social world. It ...

Community Development INVESTMENT REVIEW 43 What Would Google Do? Designing Appropriate Social Impact Measurement Systems Lester M. Salamon Johns Hopkins University N o one as concerned as I have been with efforts to bring measurement and analysis to the social sector and civil society could fail ...

experts who analyse the various channels through which globalization a ects jobs and wages. Together, the nine chapters in this volume summarize state-of-the art knowledge on themes related to the social dimension of globalization. The volume, therefore, represents a step in the direction of a better understanding of the mechanisms through which globalization a ects workers and of the measures that governments ...

Friendship and Mobility: User Movement In Location-Based Social Networks Eunjoon Cho ? Seth A.Myers ? Jure Leskovec Stanford University Stanford University Stanford University ejcho@stanford.edu samyers@stanford.edu jure@cs.stanford.edu ABSTRACT Even though human ...

are not even able to buy the commodity they themselves are producing. Thorstein Veblen took the argument way further by liberating the idea of consumption from the world of economy and giving it a social dimension. In The Theory of Leisure Class (1899) he develops the idea of "social emulation" which connotes that each social class imitates its immediate higher class in its consumption patterns to show its affluence ...

In this article, the author argues that we need to conceptualize gender as a social structure, and by doing so, we can better analyze the ways in which gender is embedded in the individual, interactional, and institutional dimensions of our society. To conceptualize gender as a structure ...

the strategy. 2. Poverty Poverty can be defined in different ways, but it is important that poverty is not only defined in terms of economic needs (such as income or food). Poverty also has a social dimension (poor quality of housing and the living environment, i.e. lack of access to basic services like clean water, health care, education etc.). However, even a definition in economic and social terms does ...