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Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Dependence: Definitions and Facts -- 1 Interactions of LTC Morbidity and Mortality -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Basic Concepts -- 1.3 Compression of Mortality -- 1.4 Compression of Morbidity -- 1.5 Interactions of LTC Morbidity and Mortality -- 1.6 Mechanisms Underlying Morbidity Compression -- 1.7 ADL Versus CI Morbidity -- 1.8 ADL Versus CI Mortality -- 1.9 Discussion -- 1.10 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Long Term Care in the United States -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Legal Environment -- 2.1.2 Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act -- 2.2 Social Environment -- 2.2.1 Economic Dependency -- 2.2.2 Age and Gender -- 2.2.3 Income -- 2.2.4 Assets -- 2.2.5 Affordability of Long-Term Services and Supports -- 2.3 Measurement Tools -- 2.3.1 The Sullivan Index -- 2.3.2 1985 National Nursing Home Survey -- 2.3.3 Long Term Care Intercompany Experience Studies -- 2.4 Diagnosis -- 2.5 Evolution of the Insurance Market -- 2.6 Salient Differences Between the United States and France -- 2.6.1 Jurisdictions -- 2.6.2 Actuarial Memorandum -- 2.6.3 Gender -- 2.6.4 Social Insurance -- 2.6.5 Cost-of-Living Adjustments -- 2.6.6 Premium Persistency -- 2.6.7 Cash Versus Reimbursement -- 2.6.8 Reserves -- 2.6.9 Facultative Versus Mandatory -- 2.6.10 Mutuals and Mutuelles -- 2.6.11 Loss Ratios -- 2.6.12 Marketing Distribution -- 2.7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Long Term Care in France -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Social Stakes -- 3.2.1 Demography: Aging of the Population -- 3.2.2 Nature of the Risks -- 3.2.3 Sizable Out-of-Pocket Costs -- 3.3 Definitions -- 3.3.1 The Iso-Resource Groups Grid -- 3.3.2 Activities of Daily Living -- 3.3.3 Cognitive Tests -- 3.4 Public Sector -- 3.4.1 Social Insurance -- 3.4.2 Allowance for Personal Autonomy -- 3.5 The Insurance Market -- 3.5.1 By the Numbers -- 3.5.2 Individual Insurance.

Increasingly, people are shifting to vegetarian, plant-based, and vegan diets. This shift is having profound effects on our social interactions, and that is the focus of To Eat or Not to Eat Meat. Becoming a vegetarian or vegan involves more than just changing your diet. It can change how you socially and emotionally connect with family, friends, and the broader community; shape your outlook on life; and open up new worlds and contacts. It can also lead to uncomfortable situations if your dietary choices involving a rejection of meat are read by others as ethical and moral judgements on mainstream dietary choices. This book adopts an innovative narrative approach and draws on stories from across the globe to consider how the food choices we make in our everyday lives can lead to complex--and sometimes life-change--social consequences. The narratives cove a range of topics, including the moral reasons behind some individuals' decisions to change their diets, the religious or ecological considerations, and the potential health and social ramifications

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- Networks, Communities, and Crowds -- On Joint Modeling of Topical Communities and Personal Interest in Microblogs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 2.1 Topic Analysis -- 2.2 Community Analysis -- 3 Topical Community and Personal Interest Model -- 3.1 Assumptions -- 3.2 Generative Process -- 3.3 Model Learning -- 3.4 Sparsity Regularization -- 4 Experimental Evaluation -- 4.1 Datasets -- 4.2 Evaluation Metrics -- 4.3 Performance Comparison -- 4.4 Background Topics and Topical Communities Analysis -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Bridging Social Network Analysis and Judgment Aggregation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Judgment Aggregation -- 3.1 Basic Definitions -- 3.2 The Average Voter Rule -- 4 Social Network Analysis -- 5 TowardsaSocialNetwork -- 5.1 Matrix Translation -- 5.2 Relational Graphs -- 6 Theoretical Analysis -- 7 Empirical Analysis -- 7.1 Varying the Tuning Parameter -- 7.2 Experimental Setup -- 7.3 Results and Analysis -- 8 Simplifying the Social Network -- 9 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- A Appendix: Proofs -- Friend Grouping Algorithms for Online Social Networks: Preference, Bias, and Implications -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Clustering Algorithms -- 4 Method -- 4.1 The Pre-interview -- 4.2 Facebook Grouping Application Use -- 4.3 The Post Interview -- 5 Evaluation -- 5.1 Evaluating Groups and Algorithms -- 5.2 Automation Bias -- 5.3 Exploring Group Dynamics without Ground Truth -- 6 Discussion -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Post-interview Questions -- The Influence of Indirect Ties on Social Network Dynamics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Datasets -- 4 Predicting Link Formation -- 4.1 Methodology -- 4.2 Experimental Results -- 5 Timing of Link Formation -- 5.1 Methodology -- 5.2 Experimental Results.

"How does cultural hierarchy relate to social hierarchy? Do the more advantaged consume 'high' culture, while the less advantaged consume popular culture? Or has cultural consumption in contemporary societies become individualised to such a degree that there is no longer any social basis for cultural consumption? Leading scholars from the UK, the USA, Chile, France, Hungary and the Netherlands systematically examine the social stratification of arts and culture. They evaluate the 'class--culture homology argument' of Pierre Bourdieu and Herbert Gans; the 'individualisation arguments' of Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman; and the 'omnivore--univore argument' of Richard Peterson. They also demonstrate that, consistent with Max Weber's class--status distinction, cultural consumption, as a key element of lifestyle, is stratified primarily on the basis of social status rather than by social class."--Provided by publisher

The article highlights the role of international standards in criminal justice. The authors states that international standards are the social tool for correction of penitentiary policy of the state, ease of mechanism of state enforcement (namely in separate detention of some criminals). The implementation of recognized international standards, methods and work conditions of penitentiary organizations plays a great role of the development of this sphere.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Problem -- The Case Study -- Sample & -- Access -- Ethics -- Conceptual Framework -- Habitus and Dispositions -- Science Capital -- Social Mobility -- Gender -- Chapter Overview -- References -- Chapter 2: The Contemporary Social Mobility and Equality Policy Context: Framing the Problem -- Introduction -- Science & -- Education -- A Scientific Revolution -- Widening Participation -- Social Mobility -- Flaws in Mobility Research -- Persisting Disadvantage -- Flawed Policies -- STEM Initiatives -- International Policy Convergence -- Shortages -- Widening Participation and Unequal Opportunities -- Women, Science & -- Work -- Explaining Aspirations -- Habitus & -- Dispositions -- Gendered Aspirations -- Equalities -- Equal Rights -- Equality Act, 2010 -- Athena Swan -- Propositions -- References -- Chapter 3: Making Chemists -- Introduction -- Family Background -- Class Origins & -- Mobility -- Occupational Influences -- Other Family Influences -- Motivation & -- Aspirations -- School Education -- Choosing University -- University Experience -- Future Plans -- Academic & -- Vocational -- Family -- The Genealogical Perspective -- References -- Chapter 4: Equality Policies and Initiatives at Marsden -- Introduction -- Equality at Marsden -- Policy Changes and New Initiatives Developed Through the ASC -- Shared Parental Leave Policy -- Maternity Leave Policy for Doctoral Students -- Flexible Working Initiative -- Staff Appointment Practices -- Focusing on Representation -- Fixing the 'Leaky' Pipeline? -- Widening Participation Policies -- Social Class Representation in the Department -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: The Limits of Equality Policy -- Promotion Processes -- Academic Culture of Overworking.

This book provides a novel approach to the social scientific study of violence. It deals extensively with the problem of the definition of violence, drawing on sources ranging from Heidegger to Bourdieu. Arguing that a definition of violence is of a highly political character it makes the case that a critical social scientific study cannot but make use of an 'extended' definition of violence if it is to avoid subscribing to commonsensical or state propagated definitions of violence. The book pays specific attention to 'autotelic violence' (violence for the sake of itself), as well as to terrorism. In accordance with what Pierre Bourdieu called the 'law of the conservation of violence', it sketches the contour of the trias violenatiae, thus always brining structural violence and state violence to bear on private violence.