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As current action remains insufficient to meet the goals of the Paris agreement let alone to stabilize the climate, there is increasing hope that solutions related to demand, services and social aspects of climate change mitigation can close the gap. However, given these topics are not investigated by a single epistemic community, the literature base underpinning the associated research continues to be undefined. Here, we aim to delineate a plausible body of literature capturing a comprehensive spectrum of demand, services and social aspects of climate change mitigation. As method we use a novel double-stacked expert—machine learning research architecture and expert evaluation to develop a typology and map key messages relevant for climate change mitigation within this body of literature. First, relying on the official key words provided to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by governments (across 17 queries), and on specific investigations of domain experts (27 queries), we identify 121 165 non-unique and 99 065 unique academic publications covering issues relevant for demand-side mitigation. Second, we identify a literature typology with four key clusters: policy, housing, mobility, and food/consumption. Third, we systematically extract key content-based insights finding that the housing literature emphasizes social and collective action, whereas the food/consumption literatures highlight behavioral change, but insights also demonstrate the dynamic relationship between behavioral change and social norms. All clusters point to the possibility of improved public health as a result of demand-side solutions. The centrality of the policy cluster suggests that political actions are what bring the different specific approaches together. Fourth, by mapping the underlying epistemic communities we find that researchers are already highly interconnected, glued together by common interests in sustainability and energy demand. We conclude by outlining avenues for interdisciplinary collaboration, synthetic analysis, community building, and by suggesting next steps for evaluating this body of literature.

Many aspects of religion are puzzling these days. This 2003 book looks at ways of improving our understanding of religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion. It clarifies the social processes involved in constructing religion and non-religion in public and private life. Taking illustrations of the importance of these boundaries from studies of secularisation, religious diversity, globalisation, religious movements and self-identity, Beckford reviews social scientific knowledge about religion and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of theoretical attempts to account for religious change and continuity. The discussion goes in two directions. The first is towards identifying ways in which studies of religion would benefit from taking better account of themes in recent social theory. The second is towards identifying reasons for social theorists to pay more attention to the findings of empirical investigations of religion

Estudios de economía social / León Walras -- Charles Gide / Mirta Vuotto -- Teoría económica y sistema cooperativo / Julio H. G. Olivera -- Orígenes, contextos y funciones de un tercer gran sector / Jacques Defourny -- La economía social como enfoque metodológico, como objeto de estudio y como disciplina científica / Rafael Chaves -- La economía social / José Luis Monzón -- La larga marcha del concepto de economía social / Jacques Defourny -- La economía social en Québec / Benoit Lévesque y Margueritte Mendell -- La cooperación y la economía social / Marie-Claire Malo -- Las empresas de economía social / Benoit Lévesque

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Orientations and Techniques -- The Intensive Study of Small Sample Communities -- On Quantification in Social Anthropology -- The Frequency of Divorce -- Genealogies -- The Extended-case Method and Situational Analysis -- PART TWO: Selected Problems: Data and Methods -- The Data of Economics in Anthropological Analysis -- Aspects of Saora Ritual and Shamanism: An Approach to the Data of Ritual -- The Case Method in the Field of Law -- The Study of Witchcraft -- PART THREE -- Appendix: The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute Census Card -- References of Works Cited -- Further Select Fieldwork Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

AbstractAlthough it is widely acknowledged that many aspects of social life are gendered, only relatively recently have feminist researchers begun to address the 'gender blindness' of the social movement theory. Integrating findings from multiple studies, the article considers how gender affects social movement dynamics. It is argued that gender exerts pervasive influence on every aspect of social movement activities. The patterns of mobilisation, political and cultural opportunities, framing process and intra‐movement dynamics are all gendered. It is argued that although ample evidence demonstrates that protest is gendered, we do not yet know whether there is any general pattern of influence of gender on social movements, a pattern that enables a systematic explanation of the effects of gender on social movement dynamics. In conclusion, I will examine the reasons for this and suggest avenues for research.

'Es werden die Ergebnisse einer Studie vorgestellt, bei der es um die kognitiven Konstruktionsprinzipien geht, die die an einer Delphi-Befragung beteiligten Personen für die Erstellung ihrer Antworten benutzen. Im einzelnen wird gezeigt: 1. worin sich die Expertenschätzungen von den Schätzungen der Nichtexperten unterscheiden; 2. welche Rolle die Rückmeldungen der Ergebnisse aus der vorangegangenen Welle spielen; 3. ob die Schätzungen in der zweiten Runde höherwertig als die Schätzungen in der ersten Runde sind; 4. inwieweit es möglich ist, diese Fragen im Rahmen einer speziellen kognitiven Zusatzstudie, bei der gezielte Nachfragen eingesetzt werden, zu beantworten.' (Autorenreferat)

Psychological interest in religion, in terms of both theory and empirical research, has been constant since the beginning of psychology. However, since the beginning of the 21st Century, partially due to important social and political events and developments, interest in religion within personality and social psychology has increased.This volume reviews the accumulated research and theory on the major aspects of personality and social psychology as applied to religion. It provides a high quality integrative, systematic, and rigorous review of that work, with a focus on top

The forecasting of social futures has to contend with emergent novelty, as one phase in development is replaced by another & as social processes of diverse nature first come to interact. To this problem of emergent novelty the social forecaster must add the difficulties which arise because: (1) the social systems are much more complex than the aspects studied by the separate social sciences, & (2) the sharing of parts between different subsystems is so great that their subordination to newly emerging processes can be very difficult to detect. At least 3 strategies have evolved to cope with the difficulties: (A) symbol analysis, (B) value analysis, & (C) analysis of linguistic usage. 2 have proven of limited value. All fall short of the kind of methodology which can be identified as necessary. 5 Figures. Modified HA.