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This is the first English-language translation of an important book that contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy. Renault provides a systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be conceptualised.

Intro -- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter One: The intergroup perspective on cross-group friendship -- 1. Intergroup interactions as the substance of cross-group friendship and intergroup contact -- 2. Intergroup contact -- 2.1. The linear model of intergroup contact -- 2.2. The asymptotic model of intergroup contact -- 2.2.1. Intergroup contact can worsen prejudice -- 2.2.2. Implications of the asymptotic model -- 2.3. How do the processes of intergroup contact change with the environment? -- 2.4. Intergroup contact can only take us so far -- 3. Cross-group friendship -- 3.1. Cross-group friendships are emergent processes of repeated intergroup interactions -- 3.1.1. Where do cross-group friendships and intergroup interactions reside psychologically? -- 3.1.2. Dyadic and group friendships -- 3.2. Implications of emergence -- 3.3. Cross-group friendships show sensitivity to initial conditions -- 3.4. Cross-group friendships are self-organizing -- 3.4.1. Initial interactions: Physiological processes related to affiliation -- 3.4.1.1. Stress and social interactions -- 3.4.1.2. Physiological synchrony -- 3.4.2. Intermediate interactions: Threats to stability -- 3.4.3. Established friendship interactions: Maintenance processes -- 4. Why study cross-group friendship from the perspective of intergroup relations? -- References -- Chapter Two: Construal of power as opportunity or responsibility -- 1. What does it mean to construe power as opportunity or responsibility? -- 2. Construing power differently alters powerholders behavior -- 2.1. A selective view on standard approaches to power: Power fosters goal striving -- 2.2. How construal of (high) power may affect the outcomes of power -- 2.3. Decision-making: Construal alters powerholders risk-taking.

Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information. When the two are connected through a third individual as entrepreneur, the gap is filled, creating important advantages for the entrepreneur. Competitive advantage is a matter of access to structural holes in relation to market transactions.

© 2001 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Anthropology is a modern study of human existence in which the anthropos becomes an object of knowledge and also a technique of modern power. The field readily acknowledges that it is both a product, and an interrogator, of modernity. This relationship has given anthropology its existential doubling, as an extension, and as an undoing, of the taken for granted aspects of Western modernity. For much of the twentieth century, anthropologists have used ethnographic findings to question the assumed aspects of the historical framing of modernity and its others. Another feature of anthropology"s approach to modernity is through the notion of plural modernisms, which seeks to capture the particularistic experiences of others in encounters with modern Western forms. The most promising approach has been to treat modernity as a specific ethnographic project, one that tracks the spread of political and social rationalities, and their production of new techniques, social forms, and subjects in a variety of ethnographic settings. Anthropology as a field and an ethnographer"s craft is especially well suited to identify the ever shifting webs of rationalities that constitute our plural worlds, and to pose the question of modernity itself as a paradox about humanity.

Anthropology is a modern study of human existence in which the anthropos becomes an object of knowledge and also a technique of modern power. The field readily acknowledges that it is both a product, and an interrogator, of modernity. This relationship has given anthropology its existential doubling, as an extension, and as an undoing, of the taken for granted aspects of Western modernity. For much of the twentieth century, anthropologists have used ethnographic findings to question the assumed aspects of the historical framing of modernity and its others. Another feature of anthropology"s approach to modernity is through the notion of plural modernisms, which seeks to capture the particularistic experiences of others in encounters with modern Western forms. The most promising approach has been to treat modernity as a specific ethnographic project, one that tracks the spread of political and social rationalities, and their production of new techniques, social forms, and subjects in a variety of ethnographic settings. Anthropology as a field and an ethnographer"s craft is especially well suited to identify the ever shifting webs of rationalities that constitute our plural worlds, and to pose the question of modernity itself as a paradox about humanity.

Aware of the challenges faced by the social sciences in publishing a massive volume of research papers, it is worth looking at a novel but no longer so new ways of machine learning for the purposes of literature review. To this end, I explore a probabilistic topic model called Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) in the context of the epistemological challenge of analysing texts on social welfare. This paper aims to describe how the LDA algorithm works for large corpora of data, along with its advantages and disadvantages. This preliminary characterisation of an inductive method for automated text analysis is intended to give a brief overview of how LDA can be used in the social sciences.

The article determines respective issues of regulation of regional policy in Ukraine and abroad, describes methodical approaches as to determination of depressive regions in EC countries and USA, illustrates the experience of some countries as to levelling of social-economic development, classifies the regions of Ukraine according to levels of social-economic development, submits propositions on their interregional levelling.

Introduction : The impact of innovations in biotechnology on social cohesion / Michael D. Mehta -- The impact of agricultural biotechnology on social cohesion / Michael D. Mehta -- Agricultural biotechnology and developing countries : issues of poverty alleviation, food security, and sustainable development / Jacqueline E.W. Broerse and Joske F.G. Bunders -- Legitimation crisis : food safety and genetically modified organisms / Christopher K. Vanderpool, Toby A. Ten Eyck, and Craig K. Harris -- Genetically modified foods in Norway : a consumer perspective / Margareta Wandel -- Commercializing Iceland : biotechnology, culture, and the information society / Kyle Eischen -- Biotechnology and social control : the Canadian DNA data bank / Neil Gerlach -- Biotechnology as modern museums of civilization / Annette Burfoot and Jennifer Poudrier -- The production, diffusion, and use of knowledge in biotechnology : the discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes / Robert Dalpé, Louise Bouchard, and Daniel Ducharme