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"This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the same time, address long-standing, classic questions in the literature concerning the forms, determinants and consequences of social capital. Social capital can be understood in terms of social norms and networks. It manifests itself in patterns of trust, reciprocity, and cooperation. The authors argue that the degree to which and the different ways in which people exhibit these distinctively social behaviours depend on how norms and networks elicit their values, reflect power relationships, and draw on their social identities. This volume accordingly adopts a variety of different concepts and measures that incorporate the variety of contextually-specific factors that operate on social capital formation. In addition, it adopts an interdisciplinary outlook that combines a wide range of social science disciplines and methods of social research. Our objective is to challenge standard rationality theory explanations of norms and networks which overlook the role of values, power and identity. This volume appeals to researchers and students in multiple social sciences, including economics, sociology, political science, social psychology, history, public policy, and international relations that employ social capital concepts and methods in their research; be seen as a set of new extensions of social capital theory in connection with its themes of social values, power, and identity that would advance the scholarly literature on social norms and networks"--

This paper analyzes a model of social learning in a social network. Agents decide whether or not to adopt a new technology with unknown payoffs based on their prior beliefs and the experiences of their neighbors in the network. Using a mean-field approximation, we prove that the diffusion process always has at least one stable equilibrium, and we examine the dependence of the set of equilibria on the model parameters and the structure of the network. In particular, we show how first and second order stochastic dominance shifts in the degree distribution of the network impact diffusion. We find that the relationship between equilibrium diffusion levels and network structure depends on the distribution of payoffs to adoption and the distribution of agents' prior beliefs regarding those payoffs, and we derive the precise conditions characterizing those relationships. For example, in contrast to contagion models of diffusion, we find that a first order stochastic dominance shift in the degree distribution can either increase or decrease equilibrium diffusion levels depending on the relationship between agents' prior beliefs and the payoffs to adoption. Surprisingly, adding more links can decrease diffusion even when payoffs from the new technology exceed those of the status quo in expectation.

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This essay addresses the moral nature of corporate social media platforms through the lenses of Axel Honneth's concept of justice, according to which relations of mutual recognition must be institutionalized into spheres of social freedom to claim a just society. This perspective allows us to observe how platforms configure a symmetrically inverted form of ethical sphere, in which users are led to formulate non-autonomous desires that can only be realized socially. We characterize this as social unfreedom. A just platform ought to be the one in which rights and self-legislation capabilities enable users to have a stake in governing how these digital spaces can be designed to foster the practical realization of users' autonomous aims, the essay argues.

Algunes opinions consideren que tot el teatre és social; i això és així perquè sense el grup no existeix, és un acte de comunicació entre persones: actors i públic. En alguns formats de teatre social, la divisió entre públic i actors es trenca expressament per a generar rerlexió i canvi. El teatre és un recurs que ens permet articular propostes d'expressió amb llenguatges ben diversos com la dansa, la plàstica, la música, l 'expressió corporal, oral i escrita, vinculades en un projecte comú en que els participants poden trobar el millor espai per a desenvolupar-se. Es presenten algunes experiències en les que es podrien emmarcar dins el que anomenem teatre social. ; Algunas opiniones consideran que todo el teatro es social; y esto es así porque sin el grupo no existe, es un acto de comunicación entre personas: actores y público. En algunos formatos de teatro social, la división entre público y actores se rompe expresamente para generar reflexión y cambio. El teatro es un recurso que nos permite articular propuestas de expresión con lenguajes muy diversos como la danza, la plástica, la música, la expresión corporal, oral y escrita, vinculadas en un proyecto común en que los participantes pueden encontrar el mejor espacio para desarrollarse. Se presentan algun as experiencias en las que se podrían enmarcar dentro de lo que llamamos teatro social. ; Some consider that all theatre is social. Without a group theatre, an act of communication between people-actors and public- does not exist. In some social theatre formats, the division between public and actors is expressly broken down to generate reflection and change. Theatre is a resource that lets us desingn different forms of expression in very diverse languages. Dance, the plastic arts, music and corporal, oral anda written expression, forged into a single project where participants can find the best space to develop. Some experiences are presented that could be classified within what is termed social theatre.

Social measurements are differentiated from social indicators by their ultimate objectives, even though both are interdependent in social evaluation & explanation. While social measurement tries to obtain reliable quantitative data on social phenomena for a variety of interests & purposes, social indicators present evidence more closely related to problems of human well-being. Three problem areas in developing social indicators are identified: (1) technical problems related to social measurement; (2) sociopolitical problems, eg, ideological biases in problem definition, data presentation, & interpretation; & (3) communication problems that impede the effective presentation of information to policymakers & the general public. Modified HA.

Ce texte a été proposé dans le cadre du séminaire « Cohésion sociale : théories, méthodes et politiques », organisé par l'équipe de recherche "Greco" (CNRS, Centre Maurice Halbwachs), le 17 janvier 2011. L'auteure y est intervenue dans le cadre d'un débat avec Pierre-Yves Cusset (Centre d'analyse stratégique) sur la question : « Faut-il parler de lien social ou de cohésion sociale ? ». ; Notre hypothèse est que le lien social est un des éléments constitutifs fondamentaux de la cohésion sociale, celui-ci ne s'y réduisant pas. Il constitue une donnée nécessaire mais non suffisante de la cohésion. Ainsi la cohésion sociale mobilise des facteurs qui ne sont pas pertinents, lorsque se trouve apprécié l'état du lien social, tels que l'homogénéité culturelle ou socioéconomique, l'équité ou la non discrimination et, de façon centrale, les institutions de l'État social (Guibet Lafaye et Kieffer, 2011). Nous montrerons l'irréductibilité de ces deux notions en procédant à une analyse des différentes interprétations qui, historiquement, ont été proposées de la notion de cohésion sociale.