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ABSTRACT:Analysing the urban renewal of Boston's West End during the 1950s, we examine how psychiatrists, social scientists and urban planners understood the relationship between the urban environment and mental health. For psychiatrist Erich Lindemann, the West End offered a unique opportunity to study how acute stress and loss affected populations, thus contributing to social psychiatry, which sought to prevent mental illness by addressing factors in the social and physical environment. While Lindemann's project provided a sophisticated response to the often simplistic arguments about the cities and mental health, it also highlighted the challenges of applying social psychiatric theory in practice.

Since becoming Director of the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University, the UK's first ever research centre devoted to the study of all things Brexit, I have found it challenging to keep my academic hat of "objective aloofness" on. After all, Brexit strikes to the heart of the future trajectory of the UK's economic and social relationship to Europe and the rest of the world.

"Knowledge can create peaceful realities in addition to serving as an intellectual tool for peace-making. This is why pragmatist assessment of social science should avoid looking exclusively at the instrumental value of different paradigms. This book investigates the realities that positivism, anti-determinism, symbolic interactionism, social constructivism and critical theory create, and the tools they offer for a peace researcher and a peace practitioner. In essence, Paradigms of Peace looks at what social science can give to the humanity's search for peace and then offers an agenda for peace research. Using constructivist pragmatist metatheory to guide the assessment of the merits of different social science approaches to peace, this book suggests completely new ways of looking at the theory of peace and war. Difficult theoretical and philosophical constructs are presented but always supplemented with real-life examples, making it practical and relevant to both a research and policy-making level. Perfect for students and professionals of international relations, political science, peace and reconciliation studies, conflict and war studies and history."--Provided by publisher

Intro -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Social Impression of Faces: From Prediction to Modification -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Predicting Social Attributes of Faces -- 3 Creating a Large-Scale Facial Impression Dataset -- 4 Validating the Algorithm-Augmented Dataset -- 5 ModifAE: A Modification Model of Social Impressions -- 5.1 Architecture -- 5.2 ModifAE Training Procedure -- 5.3 How ModifAE Works -- 5.4 Qualitative Evaluation -- 5.5 Quantitative Evaluation -- 5.6 Qualitative Interpretations -- 6 Discussion -- References -- Corruption and the Effects of Influence Within Social Networks: An Agent-Based Model of the ``Lava Jato'' Scandal -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 The Model -- 3.1 Generation of Networks -- 3.2 Agents -- 3.3 Initialization of the Model and Agent Interactions -- 4 Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Resistance of Communities Against Disinformation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Opinion Dynamics -- 3 Model of Conspirators -- 4 Results -- 5 Discussion -- References -- Assessing the Potential of Crowd-Shipping for Food Rescue Logistics Using Agent-Based Modeling -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Models of Crowd-Shipping Systems -- 3 Agent-Based Model -- 3.1 Model Overview -- 3.2 Sub-Model 1: Restaurant Agent Decision-Making -- 3.3 Sub-Model 2: Shelter Assignment -- 3.4 Sub-Model 3: Crowd-Shipper Agent Decision-Making -- 3.5 Initialization -- 4 Experimentation and Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Exogenous Shocks Lead to Increased Responsiveness and Shifts in Sentimental Resilience in Online Discussions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Conversation Dynamics -- 3.3 Sentiment Transfer -- 3.4 Transfer Entropy -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Conversation Dynamics -- 4.2 Sentiment Transfer -- 4.3 Total Transfer Entropy -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- The Cat and Mouse of Getting Around the Law.

AbstractThis article reviews research at the intersection of genetics and sociology and provides an introduction to the current data, methods, and theories used in sociogenomic research. To accomplish this, I review behavioral genetics models, candidate gene analysis, genome‐wide complex trait analysis, and the use of polygenic scores (sometimes referred to as polygenic risk scores) in the study of complex human behaviors and traits. The information provided is meant to equip readers with the necessary tools to (a) understand the methodology employed by each type of analysis, (b) intelligently interpret findings from sociogenomic research, and (c) understand the importance of sociologists in the ever‐growing field of sociogenomics. To unify these three tasks, I rely on various examples from recent sociogenomic analyses of educational attainment focusing on social stratification and inequality.

AbstractThe experimental revolution in the social sciences is one of the most significant methodological shifts undergone by the field since the 'quantitative revolution' in the nineteenth century. One of the often valued features of social science experimentation is precisely the fact that there are (alleged) clear methodological rules regarding hypothesis testing that come from the methods of the natural sciences and from the methodology of RCTs in the biomedical sciences, and that allow for the adjudication among contentious causal claims. We examine critically this claim and argue that some current understandings of the practices that surround social science experimentation overestimate the degree to which experiments can actually fulfil this role as "objective" adjudicators, by neglecting the importance of shared background knowledge or assumptions and of consensus regarding the validity of the constructs involved in an experiment. We take issue with the way the distinction between internal and external validity is often used to comment on the inferential import of experiments, used both among practitioners and among philosophers of science. We describe the ways in which the more common (dichotomous) use of the internal/external distinction differs from Cook and Campbell's original methodological project, in which construct validity and the four-fold validity typology were all important in assessing the inferential import of experiments. We argue that the current uses of the labels internal and external, as applied to experimental validity, help to encroach a simplistic view on the inferential import of experiments that, in turn, misrepresents their capacity to provide objective knowledge about the causal relations between variables.