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Many studies have established that there is a degree of audience learning from the mass media, especially of new issues entering the news, but recent studies show an agenda-setting effect at deeper levels beyond broad news categories. Audiences also absorb the attributes of news -- the frames & slants in the way news is presented -- & this suggests that, while the mass media do not tell us what to think, they do tell us how to think about topics, with implications for social policy. Beyond these two levels of agenda setting, however, is something more significant -- agenda melding, which argues that individuals join groups, in a sense, by joining agendas. There is a powerful impulse to affiliate with others in groups as one leaves the original family setting, & one joins these groups via media of connections, mostly other people, but also other media. A model of agenda melding is suggested here that accounts for the role of media (mass or interpersonal) in helping individuals move toward or away from groups. This attempts to build toward general social theory by suggesting the role of media in how individuals function with others in a coherent social system. 2 Tables, 4 Figures, 46 References. Adapted from the source document.

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives (social responsibility, economic responsibility and environmental responsibility) on Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (JPM) industry's business performance.Design/methodology/approachThis study follows a quantitative descriptive design. The data were collected from 116 managers working at seven JPM organizations by questionnaire. After confirming validity and reliability of the tool, the statistical analysis means, standard deviations andt-values were used to test implementation and finally multiple regressions were used to test the hypothesis.FindingsResults show that there are relationships between CSR variables, and all the three variables are strongly related to business performance. The results also indicate that the three sub-variables together affect JPM industry's business performance. The environmental responsibility has the highest effect on JPM industry's business performance, followed by the economic responsibility, and then the social responsibility.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was directed toward pharmaceutical industry in Jordan. Generalizing the results to other industries and countries is questionable. Therefore, further research on other industries and countries will help mitigate the issue of generalizing conclusions.Practical implicationsCSR should be formulated clearly within JPM corporate strategy. The elements of CSR need to be integrated with the present performance management criteria, leadership development programs and organizational development programs, and a champion for CSR needs to be assigned.Social implicationsThe CSR initiatives should be derived from local culture and match with international initiatives because CSR is the responsibility of every person.Originality/valueStill the topic of CSR is not well implemented and does not have priority by Jordanian companies; therefore, this study may be considered as one of the few studies dedicated to study this topic and create awareness about it in Jordan.

In processes oriented towards social change and transformation, the specification of different concepts and levels of participation is an important intellectual and epistemic challenge. Critical questioning of participation in social intervention and research is fundamental for structuring a common understanding and a grammar for intervention, which supports, in theory, the construction of a type of architecture of participation, that is, a conceptual network that sets the parameters for the evaluation of participation. The concept of participation, used so frequently in a populist way, can adapt as easily to objectives of regulation, as to social transformation, and can be subordinate to such divergent paradigms of social intervention such as task-centered interventions, the building of opportunities for development and the processes which aim to improve personal and social decision-making. One of the major goals of participation is to increase the power of individuals and collective decision-making. Beyond this individual and micro-level dimension, it reveals processes of co-construction of social alternatives and structures of opportunity on the meso level (the community) and the macro level (the political instance). Thus, participation in the present day constitutes a strategic axis for social intervention and research. It is necessary to reflect about it. How to operationalize participation? How important is the way it tackles and develops participation in research and transformative social intervention? ...

En las ciencias sociales, en general, y en la psicología social, en particular, existe especial interés por comprender cómo los grupos humanos asumen los riesgos de desastres. En este artículo se analizan las interacciones entre familia, comunidad y sociedad en el proceso de construcción social de la percepción del riesgo de desastre a partir de las relaciones intergeneracionales. El propósito es aportar fundamentos teórico-conceptuales y estratégicos al tema. Se sugiere la necesidad de aprovechar las relaciones intergeneracionales para la gestión de los riesgos y de colocarlas en un ámbito político y en lasociedad en general.

How do individual differences in personality and sexuality relate to social attitudes? We contend that personality traits and sexual orientation are descriptions of underlying biases (e.g., perceptual) that exert top-down influences into all of life's domains including social attitudes. The present study (N=200 women) examined individual differences in sex-based and race-based social attitudes as a function of the Big Five traits, the Dark Triad traits, and sexual orientation. We found that affiliative-based motivations in the form of agreeableness, openness, and narcissism predicted the desire and tendency to affiliate with other women. We also found fear-based (i.e., neuroticism) and entitlement-based (i.e., narcissism) traits were associated with efforts towards political action for gender equality. We found a "go-along" disposition (i.e., agreeableness and openness) was associated with greater endorsement of traditional gender roles. We replicated associations between the Big Five traits (i.e., openness and agreeableness) and race-based social attitudes. Uniquely, Machiavellianism was associated with more race-based social attitudes but with diminished endorsement of traditional gender roles. And last, we suggest that experienced discrimination among bisexual women may lead them to be less likely to hold both undesirable race-based and sex-based social attitudes. ; ¿Qué tienen que ver diferencias individuales en la personalidad y la sexualidad con las actitudes sociales? Hemos afirmado que los rasgos de personalidad y la orientación sexual son tipos de sesgos subyacentes (p. ej. perceptivos) que ejercen influencias de arriba hacia abajo sobre todos los ámbitos de la vida, incluidas las actitudes sociales. Este estudio (N=200 mujeres) ha examinado diferencias individuales en las actitudes sociales basadas en el género y la raza en función de los cinco grandes rasgos de personalidad, la tríada oscura y la orientación sexual. Hemos descubierto que las motivaciones basadas en la afiliación en forma de amabilidad, apertura a nuevas experiencias y narcisismo predicen el deseo y la tendencia a relacionarse con otra mujer. También hemos encontrado que los rasgos basados en el miedo (neuroticismo) y en derechos (narcisismo) se asocian con la participación política en cuanto a la igualdad de género. Además, hemos afirmado que la disposición a la cooperación (amabilidad y apertura a nuevas experiencias) se asocian con mayor protección de roles tradicionales de género. Hemos confirmado la relación entre los cinco grandes rasgos de personalidad (apertura a nuevas experiencias y amabilidad) y las actitudes sociales basadas en la raza. Sólo maquiavelismo se asocia con más actitudes sociales basadas en la raza, pero con reducida protección de roles tradicionales de género. Al final, sugerimos que la discriminación experimentada por las bisexuales podría causar actitudes sociales no deseadas basadas tanto en la raza como en el género.

No es fácil comentar un libro escrito por varios autores y que aborda temáticas diferentes desde disciplinas diversas. No lo es, sobre todo, porque cada artículo y cada temática podrían tratarse de modo independiente y merecerían una reflexión propia. Por eso, en este comentario me limitaré a subrayar los debates que plantean el conjunto de artículos del libro en las tres temáticas que aborda: Estado, etnicidad y movimientos sociales. Si bien el título del libro se refiere a América Latina, casi todas las contribuciones, con excepción de una, se concentran principalmente en la crisis del Ecuador.

In this book, leading Christian political thinkers and practitioners critique the Rawlsian concepts of "justice as fairness" and "public reason" from the perspective of Christian political theory and practice. It provides a new level of analysis from Christian perspectives, including implications for such hot topics as the culture war.

It is estimated that more than 50 million Latinos live in the United States. This is projected to more than double by 2050. In Health Issues in Latino Males experts from public health, medicine, and sociology examine the issues affecting Latino men's health and recommend policies to overcome inequities and better serve this population. It includes an extensive appendix charting epidemiological data on Latino health.