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Over the last ten years in Australia the social component of Australian Environmental Impact statements has gradually increased in size as the importance of Social Impact Analysis has been recognised. This commendable trend has not been without mishap, however, and there remain many areas largely ignored in Social Impact Assessment. This paper seeks to identify these areas, identifying value questions that need to be addressed in the preparation of the social impact component.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 An Overview of Economic Sociology -- Chapter 2 Applying a Sociological Approach to Economic Exchange -- Chapter 3 Economic Exchange and Socially Formed Motivations -- Chapter 4 The Political Structuration of Economic Exchange -- Chapter 5 The Cultural Constitution of Economic Exchange -- Chapter 6 The Institutional Organization of Labor Markets (Income Distribution) -- Chapter 7 The Social Construction of Exchange (Business) Cycles -- Chapter 8 Economic Exchange in Comparative Social Systems -- Chapter 9 Exchange, Economic Development, and Social Variables -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

This article analyses the Protocol on Social Policy and its Agreement and the social chapter of the Amsterdam Treaty not only in a legal, but mainly in an empirical perspective. The first part consists of a short summary of the basics of the new procedural rules (qualified majority voting versus unanimity, consultation and negotiations of the social partners) and the status of the corporate actors (ETUC, UNICE). In the second part, the first attempts at using the provisions of the Protocol are examined (European Works Councils, parental leave, burden of proof of sex discrimination, part-time work, information and consultation). Different problems emerging in the implementation processes of the results of legal enactment and voluntary agreements are the focus of the following analysis (interpretation and application of differing legal provisions, representativity of the signatory parties, problems of package deals, democratic legitimization). In the concluding section, the main findings are summarized (scope of ambivalent results), and a more or less pessimistic outlook on future perspectives is given.

The rise of portrait in the 19th century helped to give some portraitists renowned for their talent a reputation, an unprecedented glove, of artists who were calling for people to see their face transfigured by their brush. I will focus on some of these famous painters whose profiles and activities show not only social and political transformations throughout this century, but also the place in society acquired by the portrait register: François Gérard (1770-1837), Ingres (1780-1867), Léon Bonnat (1833-1922), Carolus-Duran (1837-1917) and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). ; L'essor du portrait au XIXe siècle a contribué à conférer à certains portraitistes réputés pour leur talent une notoriété, une gloire sans précédent, des artistes chez qui se pressaient les personnes désireuses de voir leur visage transfiguré par leur pinceau. Je vais m'attarder sur quelques-uns de ces peintres célèbres dont les profils et l'activité sont révélatrices non seulement des transformations sociales et politiques à l'oeuvre tout au long de ce siècle, mais également de la place acquise dans la société par le registre du portrait : François Gérard (1770-1837), Ingres (1780-1867), Léon Bonnat (1833-1922), Carolus-Duran (1837-1917) et John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).

Throughout much of the developing world, politicians rely on political brokers to buy votes prior to elections. We investigate how social networks help facilitate vote-buying exchanges by combining village network data of brokers and voters with broker reports of vote buying. We show that networks diffuse politically-relevant information about voters to brokers who leverage it to target voters. In particular, we find that brokers target reciprocal voters who are not registered to their party and about whom they can hear more information through their social network. These results highlight the importance of information diffusion through social networks for vote buying and ultimately for political outcomes.

This article examines the use of an STS approach to a forensic science lab course for nonscience majors at a university college in British Columbia, Canada. The transdisciplinary nature of forensic science provides opportunities to emphasize the relationships between natural sciences, associated technologies, and societal issues. A number of lab experiments are described to illustrate pedagogically important features relating to the STS emphasis of this course. Benefits and drawbacks that have been encountered in this class are discussed.

L'hypothèse de la psychologisation nourrit la réflexion critique sur l'intervention sociale depuis maintenant quelques décennies, suscitant des mises en garde de toutes sortes à l'égard de l'appauvrissement du social et notamment de l'action collective. Si la mauvaise réputation de la psychologisation n'est plus à démontrer, il semble pertinent et nécessaire en revanche 1) d'élargir la réflexion sur le spectre des possibles qui émergent des dynamiques historiques et sociales contemporaines auxquelles la psychologisation est associée; 2) de replacer le phénomène de la prolifération des pratiques d'accompagnement qui semblent s'appuyer sur une psychologisation croissante des interventions sociales dans un contexte de transformations sociales plus larges et 3) d' illustrer les liens entre accompagnement et psychologisation à l'aide d'une recherche empirique récente centrée sur l'étude des pratiques d'accompagnement dans deux contextes « d'expérience-limite ».

von Th. G. Masaryk ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Pol.g. 626 h