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Bershad, Anya K., Melissa A. Miller, Matthew J. Baggott, and Harriet de Wit. "The effects of MDMA on socio-emotional processing: Does MDMA differ from other stimulants?" Journal of Psychopharmacology 30, no. 12 (September 26, 2016): 1248–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881116663120.
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±3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a popular recreational drug that enhances sociability and feelings of closeness with others. These “prosocial” effects appear to motivate the recreational use of MDMA and may also form the basis of its potential as an adjunct to psychotherapy. However, the extent to which MDMA differs from prototypic stimulant drugs, such as dextroamphetamine, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate, in either its behavioral effects or mechanisms of action, is not fully known. The purpose of this review is to evaluate human laboratory findings of the social effects of MDMA compared to other stimulants, ranging from simple subjective ratings of sociability to more complex elements of social processing and behavior. We also review the neurochemical mechanisms by which these drugs may impact sociability. Together, the findings reviewed here lay the groundwork for better understanding the socially enhancing effects of MDMA that distinguish it from other stimulant drugs, especially as these effects relate to the reinforcing and potentially therapeutic effects of the drug.
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Bourcheix-Laporte, Mariane, and Sasapin Siriwanij. "Re/visiting." TURBA 2, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/turba.2023.020202.
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In the summer of 2023, I received a surprising proposition from TURBA's managing editor, Dena Davida, inviting me to republish the chapter I contributed to the 2019 Curating Live Arts anthology (Davida et al. 2019) and reframe it in the context of the present issue. I accepted with enthusiasm, enticed by the opportunity to revisit an earlier piece of writing and understanding that such a privilege rarely presents itself to writers, let alone to early career writers! But as I gave the proposition more thought, I realized that it fittingly presented itself ten years after the inception of the curatorial project I discussed in my original text, Collective Walks / Spaces of Contestation. The exercise then provides an incentive to critically reflect on what has happened in the last decade, from both personal and socio-political perspectives. And indeed, there is much to take stock of. Re-reading my article, I am struck by the naiveté that transpires through the ideas I devised at the age of twenty- five, when I was taking my first leaps into the world of professional arts curation. Enamored with theory, unencumbered by convention, and moved by boundless energy, my younger self thought of artistic practice as a prism through which aesthetics can effectively mold the social. I wasn't so naïve as to believe that art can change the world, but I was convinced that the radical power of art lay in its capacity to disrupt, if only momentarily, the seemingly natural order of things. I thought of site-specific performance as a means to breach the surface of banal sociability. I conceived of aesthetic interventions into everyday life as tools for the creation of interstitial pockets of possibility.
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Teixeira, Vanessa Cerqueira. "A devoção mercedária e o associativismo leigo no setecentos mineiro / The "Nossa Senhora das Mercês" devotion and the lay associationism on the XVIII Century at Minas Gerais." Revista de História e Historiografia da Educação 3, no. 7 (May 15, 2019): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/rhhe.v3i7.66161.
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As irmandades foram agremiações católicas compostas por leigos que se uniam por interesses e devoções em comum a partir de um santo protetor, garantindo inserção social e proteção. Na Idade Moderna, em meio à Reforma Católica, disseminaram-se da Europa para os territórios recém-povoados com a expansão marítima, chegando à América portuguesa, onde tiveram papel preponderante, com destaque para a Capitania de Minas Gerais. Pertencer a uma irmandade significava a garantia de legitimidade para as práticas sociais e religiosas, pois elas administravam os rituais católicos em nível local, construíam igrejas, estimulavam a produção artística e prestavam auxílio mútuo entre seus membros durante a vida e após a morte, com importância ímpar entre os menos favorecidos. Em contexto escravista, para além de reforçarem demarcações hierárquicas, possibilitaram o desenvolvimento de uma sociabilidade urbana e uma maior participação dos “homens de cor”, bem como contribuíram para a constituição da configuração social e das identidades, para a interação e ascensão sociais. Dito isso, o presente trabalho tem como proposta a análise de uma devoção em particular, a dedicada a Nossa Senhora das Mercês. No Setecentos mineiro foram fundadas vinte associações leigas sob esta invocação, pelos denominados “pretos crioulos”. Sendo assim, a partir de uma perspectiva cultural, almejamos a compreensão da constituição do culto mercedário e das distintas apropriações e ressignificações produzidas ao longo do tempo, recorrendo às fontes confrariais, aos sermões e à iconografia.* * *The brotherhoods were catholic memberships that united themselves by interests and devotions in common about a protector saint, ensuring social insertion and protection. At the Modern Age, during the Catholic Reformation, it spread from Europe to the new-settlements territories arriving on the portuguese America, where it played a predominant role, mainly at the Capitania of Minas Gerais. To belong to a brotherhood meant to have guaranteed the legitimacy to the social and religious practices, because the Brotherhoods managed the local catholic rituals, built churches, stimulated artistic production and helped their members during their life and death, with distinct significance among the poor and needy. On the slavery context in addition to ensure hierarchical demarcations, allowed the development of a urban sociability and a greater participation of “colored men”, as well as contributed to the formation of the identities and the social settings, to the social interaction and ascension. This way, this present work’s proposal is to analyse a particular devotion, dedicated to the nossa Senhora das Mercês. On the XVIII century at Minas Gerais were founded twenty lay associations under this invocation, by the so called “black creoles”. Therefore, from a cultural perspective, we seek to comprehend the formation of the Nossa Senhora das Mercês cult and the distinct appropriations and redefinitions produced through time, appealing to the Brotherhoods sources, sermons and iconography.
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Frazer, Timothy C. "Slang and sociability: In-group language among college students By Connie Eble." Language 73, no. 4 (1997): 860–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.1997.0029.
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Brody, Jill. "Dinner Talk: Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse (review)." Language 78, no. 3 (2002): 598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2002.0143.
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Iurlaro, Francesca. "A Grotian Moment for Animal Sociability?" Grotiana 42, no. 2 (November 18, 2021): 354–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18760759-42020004.
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Abstract In this article, I will revert to the categories of ‘fitness’ and ‘sociability’ to ask whether a ‘Grotian moment for animal sociability’ can be conceptualized. Grotius claims that we share a core of fundamental laws with animals. Building upon a passage from Seneca’s De clementia, Grotius calls these laws ‘commune ius animantium’, i.e. the common law of living beings. These shared legal entitlements, based on a shared sense of innate fitness, show that a certain care of maintaining society (‘animal sociability’) is common to all living beings. However, as I will show, humans, as the only beings capable of speech and moral deliberation, remain the only translators and enforcers of this instinct into a language of rights. From this perspective, it can be argued that a ‘Grotian tradition’ of animal rights exists, as Grotius’s reliance on the ‘common law of living beings’ can be interpreted in a progressive manner. However, I will argue that animal sociability qualifies as a ‘non-Grotian moment’: sociability as owed to animals but only in a thin sense, as it requires human judgment to be enforced into strict right. Such a ‘non-Grotian moment’ reveals that the deeply anthropocentric structure of Grotius’ theory is incapable of triggering any paradigm shift, because animals lack the capacity for judgment that is so essential to be a legal person.
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Le Puloch, Marine. "Mémoire nostalgique d’une sociabilité harmonieuse : les Indiens Cri du Lac Lubicon." Cahiers Charles V 22, no. 1 (1997): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/cchav.1997.1177.
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Hasan, Muhammad Ismail, Asrul Mahjuddin Ressang Aminuddin, Hazrina Haja Bava Mohidin, and Sarly Adre Sarkum. "SOCIABILITY AS LOCALITY ASPECT IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT HOUSING: SPACES, ACTIVITIES, AND RULES." design 16, no. 2 (December 28, 2023): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.47836/ac.16.2.paper04.
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This study examines the sociability practices implemented by male and female students in the Islamic Student Housing (ISH) of an Indonesian private university. Being a key component of Indonesian culture, sociability is accepting and respecting the presence of others in one’s environment. This culture is viewed as a component of local values that must be incorporated as a lesson for ISH residents. Male and female senior students are asked to engage in Focus Group Discussions to discuss their experiences living in a shared bedroom. The data are being analysed qualitatively with Atlas.ti to highlight the intercorrelated codes on the establishment of sociability mechanisms among residents. During their time in ISH, students engage in everyday activities that foster local values in sociability and strengthen their social connections with their roommates and housemates. The investigation revealed that the practices of sociability towards social connectivity is shaped not only by the spaces but also by the involvement of activities and rules applied. This study contributes to our understanding of spatial in architecture, notably the locality aspect of Indonesian sociability as its essential value.
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Rompré, David. "La sociabilité masculine dans les groupes de loisir." Recherche 33, no. 3 (April 12, 2005): 445–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/056710ar.
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Les recherches de l'auteur gravitent autour de deux pôles, les loisirs et les associations. Constatant que l'un et l'autre phénomènes prennent une ampleur de plus en plus grande dans la société il fait l'hypothèse que leur étude devrait conduire à une meilleure compréhension des formes de sociabilité. Des entrevues auprès de membres de diverses associations de loisir au Saguenay-Lac St-Jean, lui ont permis d'une part de repérer les types de sociabilité masculine qui s'y rencontrent, et de mieux comprendre d'autre part comment, dans ces groupes communautaires ou ludico-sportifs, le travail s'associait pour ainsi dire à la détente dans une logique de participation et d'identification.
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Barros, Carla. "Juvenile Sociability, Cultural Classifications and ‘Tastes’: A Study on the Universe of Games and Social Networks in Lower Class LAN Houses." International Review of Social Research 2, no. 1 (February 1, 2012): 93–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/irsr-2012-0007.
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Abstract: The objective of this study is to investigate the appropriation of digital technologies in processes of identity elaboration and sociability in a group of poor urban workers living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The article presents an ethnographic study of LAN houses – the Brazilian cybercafés - focusing on technological uses and their connection with issues such as the role of games as a motor of local sociability and the appropriation of digital technologies as a way of elaborating identities and classifications, through social distinction and cultural tastes. The influence of Internet centers’ attendants was analyzed in connection with the consumption of cultural products such as games and musical styles. The results showed the use of these products in the process of elaboration of local youngsters’ social classifications. The study reveals in what ways game motivation and musical style choices are collectively molded, highlightening the importance of group distinctions and belonging.
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Hooper-Hamersley, Rosamond. "French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 (review)." Libraries & the Cultural Record 40, no. 4 (2005): 566–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lac.2005.0072.
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François, Axelle, Anne-Marie Nolet, and Carlo Morselli. "Sociabilité carcérale et réinsertion." Déviance et Société 42, no. 2 (2018): 389. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ds.422.0389.
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Nusrat, Shamima Nur, and Hasan Bin Rakib Kabirul. "A Case Report of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Complete Remission of Schizophrenia." Journal of Clinical Cases & Reports 2, no. 2 (April 30, 2019): 57–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.46619/joccr.2019.2-1039.
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A 21-year-old lady who is previously diagnosed as a case of Schizophrenia, 4 years back, with positive symptoms such as delusion, hallucination. She has prescribed with risperidone 4 mg and she is compliant to drug. Currently she is on full remission for 1 year. She is under treatment with Risperidon, 4 mg. This lady has some complaints of obsessions such as aggressive impulses and pathological doubt which is followed by some compulsions such as avoidance and checking rituals for last 3 years. She has complained of having some experiences such as doing something embarrassing and these experiences are truly intrusive, unwanted and senseless to her. This currently remitted Schizophrenic patient has good insight now. She has a marked improvement in her daily activities as well as sociability.
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Brooke, Christopher. "Grotius, Stoicism and 'Oikeiosis'." Grotiana 29, no. 1 (2008): 25–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187607508x384670.
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AbstractFor thirty years now there has been considerable debate concerning the foundations of modern natural law theory, with Richard Tuck emphasising the role self-preservation plays in anchoring Grotius's system and his critics pointing to the contribution of a principle of sociability. With reference to recent contributions in the literature on Stoicism from Julia Annas, A. A. Long and Tad Brennan, I argue that Grotius's use of the outline of Stoic ethics from Book III of Cicero's De finibus is crucial for understanding the nature of his argument. Drawing on Cicero's presentation of the Stoics' oikeiosis (Latin: appetitus societatis) helps Grotius to generate an argument which issues not in any demand for altruism, charity or mutual aid, but rather for organising justice around very strong protections for private property. The argument remains one about human sociability, however, and ought not to be mistaken for an account of self-interest, nor for a doctrine with substantially Epicurean roots.
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Cîrtiță-Buzoianu, Cristina, Katerina Tzafilkou, Liliana Mâță, and Brîndușa-Mariana Amălăncei. "Evaluation of Online and Offline Communication Skills in Higher Education." Sustainability 14, no. 24 (December 19, 2022): 17039. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142417039.
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This study explores the offline and online communication skills of students in higher education. A total of 402 bachelor’s and master’s students from different study programs participated in the survey, such as education sciences, philology, communication sciences, and public relations. The evaluation was based on the scale of online and offline communication skills, which included four components: sociability, emotion decoding, self-disclosure, and assertiveness. The Mann–Whitney nonparametric statistical method was applied to examine the potential differences between the online and offline communication skills of students for the assessed variables of sociability, emotion detection, self-disclosure, and assertiveness. The statistical data analysis led to the following results: significantly higher online sociability; significantly higher online assertiveness; significantly higher offline emotion detection; significantly higher offline self-disclosure; bachelor’s students had significantly higher online skills than master’s students; and there were many differences between the various fields of specialization.
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Saisanath, G., and G. Subbaiyan. "Influence of the Physical Attributes of Boundary Walls on the Perceived Sociability of the Adjoining Public Space." Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning 21, no. 2 (August 22, 2022): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.54028/nj202221211.
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As part of the proliferation of security concerns and privatization of space, the consideration of boundary walls in contributing to the publicness of public spaces is limited to their presence and level of visual accessibility. However, as one of the interstitial configurations of street edges, the enabling capacity of the physical attributes of boundary walls in influencing the perceived sociability of the adjoining space has hardly been investigated. The contribution of boundary walls towards the publicness of public spaces is dependent on the intensity of their physical attributes. Physical features, surface uses, physical access, and visual access conditions are the attributes of boundary walls that not only represent the intended levels of control, but also latently reveal the intrinsic association with the adjoining space. Premised on the interaction between objective and subjective measurements, in this study, these physical attributes of boundary walls are measured in terms of their contribution to the publicness of public spaces, while the perceived sociability of the adjoining space is measured through a questionnaire survey in positive and ambiguous space types. The physical boundaries of eleven positive spaces and twelve ambiguous space types in Tiruchirappalli city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India are identified, and the differences in the perceived sociability of the adjoining spaces are analyzed with respect to the physical attributes of boundary walls and the presence of sidewalk. This study has found that the physical features, surface uses, visual access, and the varying conditions of the abutting space of boundary walls influence the perceived sociability of the adjoining space.
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Saisanath, G., and G. Subbaiyan. "Influence of the Physical Attributes of Boundary Walls on the Perceived Sociability of the Adjoining Public Space." Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning 21, no. 2 (August 22, 2022): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.54028/nj2022212110.
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As part of the proliferation of security concerns and privatization of space, the consideration of boundary walls in contributing to the publicness of public spaces is limited to their presence and level of visual accessibility. However, as one of the interstitial configurations of street edges, the enabling capacity of the physical attributes of boundary walls in influencing the perceived sociability of the adjoining space has hardly been investigated. The contribution of boundary walls towards the publicness of public spaces is dependent on the intensity of their physical attributes. Physical features, surface uses, physical access, and visual access conditions are the attributes of boundary walls that not only represent the intended levels of control, but also latently reveal the intrinsic association with the adjoining space. Premised on the interaction between objective and subjective measurements, in this study, these physical attributes of boundary walls are measured in terms of their contribution to the publicness of public spaces, while the perceived sociability of the adjoining space is measured through a questionnaire survey in positive and ambiguous space types. The physical boundaries of eleven positive spaces and twelve ambiguous space types in Tiruchirappalli city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India are identified, and the differences in the perceived sociability of the adjoining spaces are analyzed with respect to the physical attributes of boundary walls and the presence of sidewalk. This study has found that the physical features, surface uses, visual access, and the varying conditions of the abutting space of boundary walls influence the perceived sociability of the adjoining space.
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Millán-Paredes, Tatiana. "Sociability and identity in virtu@ls universes. The digitalization of reality in the new XXIst century generations." Comunicar 13, no. 26 (March 1, 2006): 171–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c26-2006-26.
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The Internet allows us to build a side-world where we invent and re-invent ourselves, relate to the world and face reality through a screen. The new generations are being socialized in virtual surroundings. Which will the consequences be? The step forward from the atom to the bit has determined a new form to see the outside. It has extended the capacity of memory and storage of the human being, but mainly it allows people to relate in a way which will change the idiosyncracy of the man. New technologies are shaping the man. They have already made his body infinite and free, marked by virtual processes that we do not even know. Young people of XXIth century are the digital generation. Internet ha ido construyendo un mundo paralelo donde nos se crea y se recrea, donde nos relacionamos con el mundo y afrontamos la realidad a través de una pantalla. Las nuevas generaciones se están socializando en entornos virtuales, pero ¿cuáles serán las consecuencias? El paso del átomo al bit ha determinado una nueva forma de ver el exterior, ha ampliado la capacidad de memoria y almacenamiento del ser humano, pero sobre todo permite una forma de relacionarse que cambiará la idiosincrasia del hombre. Las nuevas tecnologías modelan al hombre, lo han hecho infinito, libre de su cuerpo, condicionado por procesos virtuales que aun no se conocen. Los jóvenes del siglo XXI son la generación digital.
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Hervieu-Léger, Danièle. "Mutations de la sociabilité catholique en France." Études Février, no. 2 (January 16, 2019): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/etu.4257.0067.
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Le déclin du modèle paroissial se fait au profit de groupes « affinitaires ». Mais cela fait perdre la dimension collective qui caractérisait la paroisse ouverte à tous, au risque d’un repli sectaire. Il faut donc imaginer de nouveaux lieux qui, à l’instar de la communauté de Taizé (Saône-et-Loire) ou de certains monastères, conjuguent une dimension communautaire inscrite localement avec une généreuse hospitalité qui va du plus proche au plus lointain.
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Straumann, Benjamin, and Benedict Kingsbury. "The State of Nature and Commercial Sociability in Early Modern International Legal Thought." Grotiana 31, no. 1 (2010): 22–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187607510x540204.
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AbstractAt the same time as the modern idea of the state was taking shape, Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and Samuel Pufendorf (1632-94) formulated three distinctive foundational approaches to international order and law beyond the state. They differed in their views of obligation in the state of nature (where ex hypothesi there was no state), in the extent to which they regarded these sovereign states as analogous to individuals in the state of nature, and in the effects they attributed to commerce as a driver of sociability and of norm-structured interactions not dependent on an overarching state. Each built on shared Roman and sixteenth-century foundations (section I). Section II argues: 1) that Grotius's natural law was not simply an anti-skeptical construction based on self-preservation (pace Richard Tuck), but continued a Roman legal tradition; 2) that Hobbes's account of natural law beyond the state was essentially prudential, not moral (pace Noel Malcolm); and 3) that commerce as a driver of social and moral order (Istvan Hont's interpretation of Pufendorf and Adam Smith) had a substantial and under-appreciated impact on international legal order. Each contributed to the thought of later writers (section III) such as Emer de Vattel (1714-67), David Hume (1711-76), and Adam Smith (1723-90), and eventually to the empirical legal methodologies of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and Georg Friedrich von Martens (1756-1821).
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Amiriparyan, Peyman, Zohreh Kiani, and Christa Reicher. "Analyzing the Sociability Potential of Golha Street, Kermanshah, Iran." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 15, no. 3 (May 1, 2020): 269–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ijsdp.150302.
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Linne, Joaquín Walter. "Contact orbits on Facebook. Intimacy, sociability and friendship in adolescents from popular sectors in Buenos Aires." Comunicación y Sociedad, no. 32 (May 1, 2018): 171–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/cys.v0i32.6924.
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Partanen, Juha. "Spectacles of Sociability and Drunkenness: On Alcohol and Drinking in Japan." Contemporary Drug Problems 33, no. 2 (June 2006): 177–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009145090603300202.
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Ribeiro, Raphael. "Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf on Last Wills and Testaments." Grotiana 40, no. 1 (December 12, 2019): 146–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18760759-04000006.
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Hugo Grotius believed that last wills belonged to the Law of Nature, whereas Samuel Pufendorf argued that testamentary succession was a mere creation of human laws. I argue that Pufendorf’s rejection of the Natural Law origins for wills lacks internal consistency in both his Natural Law system and his proprietary rights theory. Pufendorf even contradicts his own previous claim stating wills are recognised by the Law of Nature as useful to the promotion of social peace. Grotius’s analysis of testaments, on the other hand, brief though it may be, is entirely consistent with his previous arguments: that the Law of Nature can attach itself to human creation; and that a human creation such as testamentary succession belongs to Natural Law when derived from, or when it agrees with, human reason and sociability.
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Eppinger, Monica. "Cold-War Commons: Tragedy, Critique, and the Future of the Illiberal Problem Space." Theoretical Inquiries in Law 19, no. 2 (August 14, 2018): 457–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/til-2018-0024.
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Abstract Major twentieth-century social theories like socialism and liberalism depended on property as an explanatory principle, prefiguring a geopolitical rivalry grounded in differing property regimes. This article examines the Cold War as an under-analyzed context for the idea of “the tragedy of the commons.” In Soviet practice, collectivization was meant to provide the material basis for cultivating particular forms of sociability and an antidote to the ills of private property. Outsiders came to conceptualize it as tragic in both economic and political dimensions. Understanding the commons as a site of tragedy informed Western “answers” to the “problem” of Soviet collective ownership when the Cold War ended. Privatization became a mechanism for defusing old tragedies, central to a post-Cold War project of advancing “market democracy.” Meanwhile, the notion of an “illiberal commons” stands ready for redeployment in future situations conceived as tragically problematic.
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Vekovischeva, O. Yu, K. Peuhkuri, P. Bäckström, N. Sihvola, T. Pilvi, and R. Korpela. "The effects of native whey and α-lactalbumin on the social and individual behaviour of C57BL/6J mice." British Journal of Nutrition 110, no. 7 (March 18, 2013): 1336–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007114513000238.
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Milk proteins are the main components of everyday feeding and demonstrate a promising potential to change the mental condition. However, the effects of milk proteins after prolonged use remain poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of two whey proteins (α-lactalbumin (α-lac) and native whey) with casein on social and individual behaviour in mice. During a 30 d-long dietary intervention, male C57BL/6J mice had ad libitum access to an experimental diet containing 17 % (w/w) of one of three protein sources: α-lac, native whey or casein. Mice had voluntary access to a running wheel. Social behaviour (group and resident–intruder activity) was tested at baseline and at the end of the intervention. Half of each dietary group was then withdrawn from the diet and running wheel for 7 d, and social activity and individual behaviour tests (open field, elevated-plus maze, light–dark box and forced swimming) were performed, to evaluate anxiety and depression-like status. The study shows that the long-term ingestion of whey proteins may modulate behaviour when compared with casein. Diet enriched with α-lac exhibited anxiolytic and antidepressive activities while the whey diet improved sociability. The differences between the diet groups were pronounced under the running wheel and the withdrawal of the experimental diet, suggesting that the beneficial effects of the milk proteins are clearer in stressful situations. Diet-induced behavioural changes remained visible for a week after feeding, which suggests that the proteins of the milk whey fraction have prolonged efficacy on the mental state of mice.
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Leung, Louis, and Ran Wei. "The gratifications of pager use: sociability, information-seeking, entertainment, utility, and fashion and status." Telematics and Informatics 15, no. 4 (November 1998): 253–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0736-5853(98)00016-1.
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Ferron-Desautels, Marie. "Satire et sociabilité au coeur de la pratique caricaturale de Lady Dalhousie (1786-1839) : vers une histoire des femmes caricaturistes britanniques." RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne 46, no. 1 (2021): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1078069ar.
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Savuca, Alexandra, Ionut-Alexandru Chelaru, Ioana-Miruna Balmus, Alexandrina-Stefania Curpan, Mircea Nicusor Nicoara, and Alin Stelian Ciobica. "Toxicological Response of Zebrafish Exposed to Cocktails of Polymeric Materials and Valproic Acid." Sustainability 16, no. 5 (March 1, 2024): 2057. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16052057.
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Microplastic pollution represents an emerging problem of great interest in the public domain in the last decade; in addition, it overlaps with another delicate problem—pollution with pharmaceutical products that can have negative effects on the environment and people, even in small amounts. The main purpose of this study was to assess the biochemical and behavioral effects of exposure of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) to polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and valproic acid (VPA), respectively to their mixtures—possible situations in natural aquatic environments. In terms of behavioral responses, sociability appears to be more impaired in the PP group after 5 days of exposure. The mechanisms affected are more those of swimming performance than of sociability. Even more, VPA increases presence in the arm with conspecifics but decreases mobility and locomotion, indicating a possible anxiety mechanism. The mixtures decrease the aggressiveness, especially in the case of the PE+VPA group, where it reaches a super low level compared to the control, which could endanger the species in nature. Regarding the anxiogenic effect, PP and PE act differently: if PE has an anxiogenic effect, on the opposite side is the PP group, which shows a bolder and more agitated behavior. All four variants showed behavioral changes indicative of toxicity from the first dose.
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Roche, Sebastian. "Intervention publique et sociabilité. Essai sur le problème de l'insécurité en France." Déviance et société 14, no. 1 (1990): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ds.1990.1167.
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Bouchillon, Brandon C. "Patching the Melting Pot: Sociability in Facebook Groups for Engagement, Trust, and Perceptions of Difference." Social Science Computer Review 37, no. 5 (August 14, 2018): 611–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439318791241.
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The more racial or ethnic diversity a person lives around in America, the less likely they are to take part in civic life, or to profess feelings of trust for the average person. Differences have instead become reasons to pull back, prompting a mass erosion of social capital, by undermining social contact. The present study moves the conversation online, to the Facebook group setting in particular, as a means of highlighting shared interests while downplaying other differences at first. Results of a national web survey ( N = 1,005) indicate the use of Facebook groups for meeting new people relates to civic participation, along with added weak-tie discussions, which spill over to participation again indirectly. Sociability use of Facebook groups is also a source of bridging social capital, or having more active weak ties upon which to draw, and this contributes to trusting in people. Localized diversity becomes a reason to trust as well, but only for sociable Facebook group users. Less sociable users still mistrust at the sight of difference, but online social efforts appear to swing the direction of influence, for converting neighborhood-level racial and ethnic diversity into trust.
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van Zanten, Agnès. "Le quartier ou l'école ? Déviance et sociabilité adolescente dans un collège de banlieue." Déviance et société 24, no. 4 (2000): 377–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ds.2000.1737.
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Lupenko, E. A., O. A. Korolkova, and E. G. Khoze. "Perception of Individual Psychological Characteristics of a Person Based on Nonverbal Behavior." Experimental Psychology (Russia) 16, no. 4 (December 26, 2023): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2023160402.
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<p>Peculiarities of perception and assessment of individual psychological characteristics of unfamiliar people were studied using video images of their behavior. Participants were teachers with different professional experience (1—4 years; 5—29 years) and observers without teaching experience. We were interested in whether the personality assessment would change depending on the length of professional activity of the teacher. The stimulus material included video fragments of 7 students who described the personalities of strangers based on their picturesque portraits. Video clips lasted 1 minute and were shown without sound. The participants assessed the posers using the “Personal Differential” method and made a forecast of the success of their possible teaching activities. The ratings of participants with different teaching experience were compared with the posers’ self-ratings using Spearman’s correlation coefficient. The factorial structure of assessments in each of the groups of participants was analyzed (maximum likelihood method). The data were also analyzed using the method of semantic universals. The results showed that, depending on the presence and length of teaching experience of the observers, the set of semantic universals that characterize the perception of the posers’ personality varies, while maintaining the core of semantic categories. A similar factorial structure was obtained for assessments by teachers with little experience (up to 5 years) and participants without teaching experience. It includes factors “Energy”, “Fairness” and “Sociability”. The differences between these groups of participants and the group of teachers with extensive experience lie in the opposite sign of the loadings on the “Sociability” factor. For participants with extensive teaching experience (5 or more years), the assessment structure includes an additional fourth factor, “Emotional Stability”.</p>
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Le Bras, Hervé. "La voiture, les « gilets jaunes » et le Rassemblement national." Études Avril, no. 4 (March 20, 2019): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/etu.4259.0031.
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Qu’est-ce que l’émergence du mouvement des « gilets jaunes » et celui du Rassemblement national (RN) ont en commun ? Il se pourrait que ce soit la voiture ! En effet, le mouvement des « gilets jaunes », après l’apparition du RN, rappelle à notre bon souvenir ce rôle de la mobilité physique dans les changements de la sociabilité et dans ses crises. D’ailleurs, les « gilets jaunes » ne cessent de le signifier symboliquement en stationnant sur les ronds-points, en détruisant systématiquement les radars routiers et, plus simplement encore, en portant ce gilet jaune rendu obligatoire dans toute voiture.
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Jolivet, Anne. "Juré en cour d'assises : découverte d'un monde social et expérience de sociabilité au sein d'un groupe restreint." Droit et société 62, no. 1 (2006): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/drs.062.0203.
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Milthorpe, Naomi, and Eliza Murphy. "Reading the Party." Journal of Festive Studies 1, no. 1 (May 10, 2019): 36–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2019.1.1.20.
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This article outlines an approach to understanding festivity through the lens of literary texts. Studies of festivity in early twentieth-century literature center largely on the image of the party. Representations of parties in the literary texts of this period range widely, and the sheer number of parties found in this body of literature highlights the shared interest of writers of the time to explore the implications of festive sociability. Given these parameters a reader might expect the literature of the period to show parties positively: as utopian occasions for transformative jouissance leading to catharsis and (satisfying) narrative closure. Yet many texts of this time represent festivity not as pleasurable renewal but as unpleasurable waste. This is particularly the case in fiction by the English satirist Evelyn Waugh (1903–66). In Waugh’s texts, celebration tends toward destructive (rather than restorative) disorder. This paper will read Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies (1930) and short story “Cruise: Letters from a Young Lady of Leisure” (1933), using Roger Caillois’s theory of games, to explore the ways in which parties become sites of wasteful play. Moreover, as this article will demonstrate, literary texts are central documents for understanding the cultural history and subjective experience of parties. They evidence the felt and imagined experiences of social and moral transgression; bodily, mental and affective transformation; and class, race, gender, and sexual boundary-crossing occasioned by festivity. In that sense, the discipline of literary studies can contribute to a robust interdisciplinary approach to understanding festivity.
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Sayev, Timur, and Olga Levina. "The Law of Reason and Beyond." Philosophy Journal of the Higher School of Economics 7, no. 4 (December 31, 2023): 105–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2587-8719-2023-4-105-124.
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Lady Damaris Cudworth Masham, an English philosopher and theologian, holds a distinctive place in the intellectual discourse of late seventeenth century England. As the daughter of Ralph Cudworth, a prominent Cambridge Platonist, and a close friend and student of John Locke, Damaris Masham participated in a number of discussions at once, related in one way or another to the basic tenets of Christian theology and moral philosophy. The first of these is a dispute with the English Malebranchians, primarily John Norris and his intellectual companion Mary Astell, regarding the concept of the love of God. The second important debate concerned the defence of John Locke's rational Christianity against attacks from deists and enthusiasts. In addition to the defence of moderate conformist theology against radical non-conformism, Masham's writings also offer a special vision of Christian moral life, in which there is room for pleasures, the precepts of natural law and the commandments of Christian Revelation. Natural law occupies an important, but underexplored place in Masham's moral philosophy and theology. This paper is intended to fill said gap and is devoted to the reconstruction of Masham's approach to natural law and its connection with other crucial concepts of her moral theology: pleasures, sociability, reason, Revelation. In order to accomplish this goal, we interpret Masham's writings in light of relevant contexts and consider them as polemical arguments in which natural law plays an important, but limited role.
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Galič, Maša. "Smart Cities as “Big Brother Only to the Masses”: The Limits of Personal Privacy and Personal Surveillance." Surveillance & Society 20, no. 3 (September 5, 2022): 306–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i3.15759.
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Smart city projects in Europe and North America are employing a novel approach to data analysis that processes hardly any or no personal data at all. As such, these projects—at least, for the most part—escape the scope of (European) data protection law. The idea behind this new approach to smartness can be condensed in the statement: “smart cities are only Big Brother to the masses.” In other words, if the data collected within smart city projects do not identify any individuals, then there are no issues with privacy and data protection law. This problematic assumption relies on two reductive understandings of key notions in this context: that of “personal privacy” and “personal surveillance.” In this contribution, I focus on the latter and call for a broader understanding of surveillance as a set of diverse modes of social control by privacy law scholars. After all, in order to reveal the underlying dynamics of power and how these might lead to surveillance abuse—even, or especially, when surveillance is based on the processing of seemingly non-personal data—concrete surveillance practices and their logics need to be examined. For this purpose, I take the example of the Stratumseind Living Lab in the Netherlands and examine it through the lens of Foucault’s notion of security. This examination leads to two valuable insights for privacy and data protection law scholars. First of all, it strengthens the argument of contemporary group privacy scholars that a narrow focus on individual privacy and surveillance is inadequate and that the regulatory framework needs to be adapted. The second insight raises another broad issue: smart cities, which function according to the securitizing logic of surveillance, such as the Stratumseind Living Lab, are transforming public spaces into consumption spaces. Yet, the protection of privacy in public can and should serve to protect key aspects of public space—political participation and sociability—as well.
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Kümin, Beat. "Drinking and Public Space in Early Modern German Lands." Contemporary Drug Problems 32, no. 1 (March 2005): 9–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009145090503200103.
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This paper explores the relationship between drinking and public space in early modern Bavaria (Germany) and Bern (Swiss Confederation). Contemporaries drank alcohol mainly on sociable occasions and in public houses. Due both to mounting demand (greater spatial mobility) and to supply (potentially high income for publicans), the number of establishments increased between 1500 and 1800. Most emerged near markets and thoroughfares. Closer analysis reveals the spatial ambiguity of early modern inns, taverns and alehouses. While obliged to grant access to the “public,” they were simultaneously “private” households of their keepers. Furthermore, individual rooms were not invariably marked as “public” or “private” but were opened or closed depending on specific occasions. As social sites, public houses became contested spaces, reflecting the conflicting interests of authorities, patrons and publicans. The provision of victuals, sociability and public services helped to stabilize communities, while alcohol-related violence and unrest could challenge the existing order.
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Wacklin, Jussi. "Drinking and Public Space in Leningrad/St. Petersburg and Helsinki in the Interwar Period." Contemporary Drug Problems 32, no. 1 (March 2005): 57–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009145090503200106.
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Public drinking has aroused long-lasting debates in St. Petersburg/Leningrad and Helsinki. Taverns, pubs, restaurants but also streets and parks as well as workplaces in the city have been the main arenas of public drinking. My central concern is the impact of policy and police regimes on public drinking. The state was heavily involved in controlling public drinking in both cities; it simultaneously monopolized and regulated the alcohol trade and condemned drunkenness. The suppression of public drinking places was common for both cities. Still, the high number of arrests for public drunkenness in open spaces and the growth of total consumption indicate that drinkers moved to open urban spaces or to private places. Police control of the public spaces and the weakening role of the licensed drinking facilities as a place for neighborhood clientele affected the sociability of drinking and the uses of public space in general.
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Sahito, Noman, Haoying Han, Thuy Van Thi Nguyen, Insin Kim, Jinsoo Hwang, and Arif Jameel. "Examining the Quasi-Public Spaces in Commercial Complexes." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (February 29, 2020): 1830. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12051830.
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Commercial complexes are steadily expanding in size and function and plying roles as quasi-public spaces. This study investigated quasi-public spaces in contemporary commercial complexes by posting two questions: the physical features of quasi-public spaces in commercial complexes and how these characteristics promote sociability in commercial complexes? To answers these questions, a questionnaire survey was administered, and various observations were made in Intime City, Wanda Plaza and Western City Square, three prominent commercial complexes in Hangzhou City (Zhejiang Province, China), to enrich the analysis. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to examine the collected data. The results show that commercial complexes are also used as quasi-public spaces: they provide a more secure and well-maintained environment, playful conversations take place freely and democratically, promote socialization, and also increase consumption. In the existing literature, there is a dearth of theoretical and empirical studies on the emergence of quasi-public spaces.
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Gonçalves, Mauro Castilho, Michele Rezende Santos, and Vivian Ciapina. "City, history, and memory: from a destroyed environment to a constructed one. A case study of Natividade da Serra, state of São Paulo, Brazil." Ambiente e Agua - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science 15, no. 7 (November 30, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4136/ambi-agua.2548.
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Between 1973 and 1974, the city of Natividade da Serra, state of São Paulo, was relocated in order to provide space to construct a hydroelectric dam for power generation. Based on the idea that the relationship between society and physical space acts to shape and influence the culture of a society, we conducted this study with the principal objective of analyzing the social impacts on the local community by highlighting the cultural transformations provoked by the restructuring of a space that was constructed over the period of a century. By conducting a qualitative analysis of data from the document repository of the City Hall and Parish of Our Lady of the Nativity (Nossa Senhora da Natividade), and from oral sources (descriptions collected through oral history), we elaborated a representative image of daily life in the city as it existed before the restructuring. This reconstruction started with the process of destruction and then proceeded to describe the reorganization of the community in the new space, as well as detailing perceptions of the city as a place that has passed through multiple historical experiences. By relating the data obtained from the written and oral sources to the historical context, we attempted to reveal the political, cultural, and ideological dimensions involved in this process of manipulation of inhabited space. We conclude that the innumerous implications caused by the abrupt transformation of this space has altered the customs and forms of sociability of the population. The analysis of the reasons and motivations for the disappearance of the city suggests that, even if only implicitly, this cultural transformation was desired by those who were in power in Brazil at that moment in time.
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Edikhanov, Iskander Zhamilovich, Guzel Amirovna Nabiullina, Renat Islamgarayevich Latypov, and Akarturk Karahan. "Rules of Speech Behavior in Tatar and Turkish Proverbs." International Journal of Criminology and Sociology 9 (April 5, 2022): 2450–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2020.09.297.
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Today, despite the abundant supply and scientific papers concerning particular features of multi-method, communicative culture and comparative linguistic research on the ethnocultural stereotypes of Turkic peoples' communicative behavior, it is vital in modern linguistics. The issue statement is because the ethnocultural examination of the Turkic peoples' communicative behavior permits us to look at the ethnos' communicative culture in the modern context and distinguish typical and distinctive characteristics of the Tatar's communicative culture Turkish peoples. This survey investigates the ethnocultural stereotypes of the communicative behavior of the Tatar and Turkish linguistic cultures expressed in the paroemiological fund. The analysis is based on the Tatar and Turkish languages' phraseological and paroemiological units within this article's framework. The research adopted descriptive, stylistic, and comparative techniques. Moreover, The methodological framework is the linguoculturological, cognitive-linguistic aspects of the investigation of paroemiological units. The most substantial typical categories of the Tatars' communicative culture are the culture of communication, politeness, sociability, verbiage, silence, conflict communication, and effective communication. In paroemias, truth is proclaimed before lie, laconicalness before loquacity, silence before speaking, deed before the word, listening before speaking. The examination of stereotypes of communicative behavior reveals that the Tatars persist faithfully to the observance of folk traditions and particular speech cultures.
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Sunder, Madhavi. "Intellectual Property in Experience." Michigan Law Review, no. 117.2 (2018): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.36644/mlr.117.2.intellectual.
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In today’s economy, consumers demand experiences. From Star Wars to Harry Potter, fans do not just want to watch or read about their favorite characters— they want to be them. They don the robes of Gryffindor, flick their wands, and drink the butterbeer. The owners of fantasy properties understand this, expanding their offerings from light sabers to the Galaxy’s Edge®, the new Disney Star Wars immersive theme park opening in 2019.Since Star Wars, Congress and the courts have abetted what is now a $262 billion-a-year industry in merchandising, fashioning “merchandising rights” appurtenant to copyrights and trademarks that give fantasy owners exclusive rights to supply our fantasy worlds with everything from goods to a good time. But are there any limits? Do merchandising rights extend to fan activity, from fantasy-themed birthday parties and summer camps to real world Quidditch leagues? This Article challenges the conventional account, arguing that as the economic value of fantasy merchandising increases in the emergent “experience economy,” intellectual property owners may prove less keen on tolerating uncompensated uses of their creations. In fact, from Amazon’s Kindle Worlds granting licenses for fan fiction, to crackdowns on sales of fan art sold on internet sites like Etsy, to algorithms taking down fan videos from YouTube, the holders of intellectual property in popular fantasies are seeking to create a world requiring licenses to make, do, and play. This Article turns to social and cultural theories of art as experience, learning by doing, tacit knowledge, and performance to demonstrate that fan activity, from discussion sites to live-action role-playing fosters learning, creativity, and sociability. Law must be attentive to the profound effects these laws have on human imagination and knowledge creation. I apply the insights of these theories to limit merchandising rights in imaginative play through fair use, the force in the legal galaxy intended to bring balance to intellectual property law.
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Josiah Arnatt, Michael, and Michael M. Beyerlein. "An empirical examination of special operations team leaders’ and members’ leadership characteristics." Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management 37, no. 2 (May 13, 2014): 438–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-06-2013-0057.
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Purpose – Law enforcement special operations teams (e.g. Special Weapons and Tactics Teams, Swift, HRT, and Strategic Response Teams) are charged with resolving difficult situations that pose a threat to all involved. Recent tragedies strengthen the idea that law enforcement special operations teams play a critical role in the maintenance of public safety. Despite the importance of police special operations teams, there is virtually no empirical research specifically addressing leadership within these teams. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – A review of literature was first conducted, identifying authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, and self-efficacy to deal with potentially life threatening situations as being core concepts underlying effective leadership in law enforcement special operations teams. The Authentic Leadership Questionnaire, Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, and the Crisis Leader Efficacy in Assessing and Deciding Scale were then administered to US local, state, and federal special operations team members and leaders (n=99). Results were analyzed according to formal team roles. Findings – Findings reveal members and leaders differ in regards to scale scores representing relational transparency, moral and ethical, sociability, and disaster self-efficacy. Originality/value – Much research on special operations teams is highly theoretical and does not seek to understand team leadership in a testable manner. This is especially true of the relationships between the formal roles of leaders and members. This study is the first to use established leadership instruments to assess the differences between team members and leaders. It provides a starting point for future research and reinforces the idea that there are identifiable differences between special operations teams and members.
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Al-Ali, Anfal, Praveen Maghelal, and Khaled Alawadi. "Assessing Neighborhood Satisfaction and Social Capital in a Multi-Cultural Setting of an Abu Dhabi Neighborhood." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (April 15, 2020): 3200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083200.
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Behavioral research studies propose that urban open spaces contribute to enhance sociability in urban areas. The urban areas in the city of Abu Dhabi are less appealing to attract vibrant activity and social life. This study investigates the role of the built environment in the enhancement of neighborhood satisfaction and social capital in a residential neighborhood of Abu Dhabi. A total of 145 residents were surveyed for their perception, attitude, and behavior. Regression analyses to predict the role of the built environment of the open space, as well as the ethnicity of respondents, on measures of neighborhood satisfaction and social capital were performed. Spatial data and audit tools were used to assess the lack of suitable built-environment in the study area. Results indicate that improvements to the built environment can improve both the social capital and neighborhood satisfaction of the urban residents of Abu Dhabi. Implications of this study include recommendations to enhance the experience of urban spaces in arid regions like Abu Dhabi. Recommendations include adding landscape elements, providing a comfortable walking environment, adding attractive locations and destinations, and a clean and safe environment with attractive buildings or homes.
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Szpakowska-Loranc, Ernestyna. "Multi-Attribute Analysis of Contemporary Cultural Buildings in the Historic Urban Fabric as Sustainable Spaces—Krakow Case Study." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (May 28, 2021): 6126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13116126.
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This study concerns contemporary cultural buildings in the historic city centre of Krakow, Poland, and their assessment in terms of sustainability. The paper aims to bridge a research gap in previous studies on pluralistic values and the impact of cultural heritage on sustainability. The comparative case study conducted in Krakow aims to evaluate the functioning and potential of the space towards achieving the following five goals: accessibility, conservation, mix of functions, aesthetics, comfort and sociability. The perception of these buildings and the public space around them by the city residents, as well as their operation during unexpected circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, were also evaluated. The author combined an on-site analysis, behavioural mapping and a survey. The results correlate the liveability and aesthetics of public spaces along with the amount and quality of greenery found there with the comfort of users and the popularity of particular places. This paper highlights how important it is to create cultural spaces in a historic city to develop a range of their activities linked to the surrounding public spaces and green areas. Activating cultural spaces and connecting them to sustainability goals is especially important when faced with declining tourism.
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Quaglio, Caterina, Elena Todella, and Isabella M. Lami. "Adequate Housing and COVID-19: Assessing the Potential for Value Creation through the Project." Sustainability 13, no. 19 (September 23, 2021): 10563. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131910563.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the relationship between people’s behaviors and residential spaces, bringing to public and academic attention, on the one hand, the exacerbation of pre-existing problems and, on the other, the potential of spaces, such as communal gardens and apartment-block terraces, to become important resources of sociability or privacy. Overall, this raises the question of how to assess the responsiveness of the existing residential stock to needs that transcend the traditional concept of housing adequacy—e.g., the need for adaptable, open, and livable spaces. This research moves from the assumption that underused spaces in residential neighborhoods represent a crucial asset for creating new economic and social values through architectural and urban projects. Consequently, moving from an in-depth observation of a selection of public housing buildings in Turin as a paradigmatic case study, the aim is to explore the potential for the adaptive reuse of residential spaces at different scales—from the apartment to the neighborhoods—highlighting the implications for design. In doing so, the paper puts forward a methodological approach, which widens the way housing adequacy is normally assessed, by focusing on the possibility of transformation of often neglected spatial resources.
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Gatti, Flora, and Fortuna Procentese. "Local Community Experience as an Anchor Sustaining Reorientation Processes during COVID-19 Pandemic." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (April 14, 2021): 4385. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084385.
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In recent months, Italian citizens have alternatively experienced a forced, total or partial, loss of their opportunities to go out and meet their social network or their reduction, according to the restrictions locally needed to contain the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. The effects of these unprecedented circumstances and restrictions on their local community experience are still to be deepened. Consequently, this study investigated young citizens’ experiences of and attitudes towards their local communities of belonging after ten months of alternatively strict and partially eased restrictions. The World Café methodology was used to favor the exchange of ideas and open new viewpoints among participants. What emerged suggests that the communities of belonging may have worked as anchors to which young citizens clung as an attempt not to be overwhelmed by the disorientation brought about by the loss of their daily life (e.g., routines, life places, face-to-face sociability). On the one hand, this suggests that a renewed focus on local communities and a more involved way of living in them may stem from this tough time. On the other hand, these results point out the need for more meaningful and actively engaged people–community relationships as drivers for recovery processes under emergency circumstances.
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Membiela-Pollán, Matías, María Alló-Pazos, Carlos Pateiro-Rodríguez, and Félix Blázquez-Lozano. "The Inefficiency of the Neoclassical Paradigm in the Promotion of Subjective Well-Being and Socioeconomic, and Environmental Sustainability: An Empirical Test for the Spanish Case." Sustainability 11, no. 24 (December 11, 2019): 7102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11247102.
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The recent literature developed in the field of happiness economics highlights the overvaluation of income and material prosperity as determinants of happiness, and calls into question many of the assumptions of traditional economic theory linked to “rationality” and the “non-satiety” of the consumer. This article aimed to study which factors explain individual subjective well-being, paying special attention to the role of income and the incidence of social variables and focusing on the case of Spain. As a novelty, this research introduces variables such as trust or the perception of justice, among others. Based on the analysis of the European Social Survey and through the estimation of an ordered logit, we find that, in line with the theory of happiness economics, the material aspects do not play a relevant role as explanatory of subjective well-being, unlike social aspects, such as sociability and trust in people (social capital). In addition, our results indicate that in the case of Spain, the most materialistic people are associated with a lower level of happiness. Thus, it seems that the excess of concern for material and economic issues in the pursuit of happiness undermines socioeconomic and environmental sustainability by causing the “wealth destruction effect”.