Books: 'Social comparison theory'

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Rationalities in history: A Weberian essay in comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Cultural and linguistic influence on developmental neural basis of theory of mind: Whorfian hypothesis revisited. Hauppauge, N.Y: Nova Science, 2009.

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The ability to mourn: Disillusionment and the social origins of psychoanalysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

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1958-, Fischer Agneta, and Manstead A. S. R, eds. Emotion in social relations: Cultural, group, and interpersonal processes. New York: Psychology Press, 2005.

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Information theory: Structural models for qualitative data. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1986.

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Information theory: Structural models for qualitative data. Beverly Hills, Calif: Sage Publications, 1986.

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Setola, Nicoletta, ed. Research tools for design. Spatial layout and patterns of users' behaviour. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-027-3.

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The publication proposes a critical reading of the results emerging from the Seminar organised in January 2010 by the Department of Architectural and Design Technology on research tools for the architectural project. The spatial layout of buildings and urban spaces influences behaviour and the relations of the users, and in this displays the social nature of the architectural function in comparison to other spheres of design. Space Syntax (theory, methodology and techniques for the analysis of complex systems) takes this theory as the basis for its research. The seminar, attended by leading academic and professional figures, offered the opportunity for exchange between its own research and the experiences carried forward by the Space Syntax research and consultancy group.

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Dondi, Cristina. Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8.

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The volume contains a reassessment of the economic and social impact of the printing revolution on the development of early modern European society, using 15th-century printed books, which still survive today in their thousands, as historical sources. Papers on production, trade, the cost of books in comparison with the cost of living, literacy, the transmission of texts in print, and the use and circulation of books and illustration are the result of several years of international, collaborative, and multidisciplinary research coordinated by the 15cBOOKTRADE project funded by an ERC Consolidator grant (2014-2019) and supported by the Consortium of European Research Libraries.

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Teratologies: A cultural study of cancer. London: Routledge, 1997.

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Zhukova, Galina. Mathematical methods for management decisions. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1084987.

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The purpose of this manual is to help students to master basic concepts and research methods used in the theory of optimal control. The foundations of mathematical modeling. Systematic mathematical methods for managerial decision-making in linear, nonlinear and dynamic problems of optimal socio-economic processes. Each section contains numerous examples of the application of these methods to solve applied problems. Much attention is paid to comparison of the proposed methods, a proper choice of study design problems, case studies and analysis of complex situations that arise in the study of these topics theory of decision-making, methods of optimal control. It is recommended that teachers, students and graduate students studying advanced mathematics.

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Ammannati, Francesco, ed. Dove va la storia economica? Metodi e prospettive. Secc. XIII-XVIII – Where is Economic History Going? Methods and Prospects from the 13th to the 18th Centuries. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-287-5.

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The book proposes to take stock of the situation of the studies of economic history of the pre-industrial age, in an attempt to grasp what – in the current state of European research – is the cultural scope and role of the discipline among the many specialisations of history and economic science. It analyses the different approaches that have characterised the various European historiography schools over time, as well as the evolution and prospects of directions of research; it reflects on the analysis of the sources, the methods that are at the basis of their use, and the interpretative questions that they pose for the academic. Finally it proposes the inclusion of economic history within the more general context of research, through an interdisciplinary comparison between the method proper to this discipline and that of other economic and social sciences.

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Suls, Jerry. Social Comparison: Contemporary Theory and Research. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, 1991.

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Suls, Jerry. Social Comparison: Contemporary Theory and Research. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, 1990.

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M, Suls Jerry, and Wills Thomas Ashby, eds. Social comparison: Contemporary theory and research. Hillsdale, N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

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(Editor), Jerry Suls, and Ladd Wheeler (Editor), eds. Handbook of Social Comparison: Theory and Research (The Springer Series in Social/Clinical Psychology). Springer, 2000.

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Health, Coping, and Well-being: Perspectives From Social Comparison Theory. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.

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Bram, Buunk, and Gibbons Frederick X, eds. Health, coping, and well-being: Perspectives from social comparison theory. Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.

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Suls, Jerry, and Ladd Wheeler. On the Trail of Social Comparison. Edited by Stephen G. Harkins, Kipling D. Williams, and Jerry Burger. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859870.013.13.

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Social comparison, a major source of social influence, refers to the selection and utilization of information about other people’s standings and opinions to make accurate self-assessments or to protect or enhance self-esteem. We survey the development of comparison theory over six decades, its ambiguities, and reformulations based on the psychology of attribution and social cognition. Selective comparisons allow people to gauge how well they have fulfilled their potential and capacity to accomplish important tasks, and whether their beliefs, values, and actions are appropriate and worthwhile. Exposure to superior and inferior targets shifts self-evaluations toward (assimilation) or away (contrast) from the targets, depending on the kinds of information made cognitively accessible by the situation or by individual differences. To illustrate comparison’s effects on social influence, applications, such as the effects of academic tracking on self-esteem and effects of large social networks on mental and physical health outcomes, are described.

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Suls, Jerry, Rebecca L. Collins, and Ladd Wheeler, eds. Social Comparison, Judgment, and Behavior. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190629113.001.0001.

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This edited volume presents both classic and contemporary conceptual, empirical, and applied perspectives on the role of comparisons with other people—a core aspect of social life—that have implications for the self-concept, opinions, subjective and physical well-being, conformity, decision-making, group behavior, education, and social movements. The volume is comprised of original chapters, authored by noted experts, divided into three sections: basic comparison processes, neighboring fields, and applications. The first section is comprised of chapters that update classic theories and present advances, such as the dominating effect of local versus global comparisons, an analysis of the psychology of competition, how comparisons across different domains influence self-concept and achievement, and the integral connections between stereotyping and comparison. The second section introduces perspectives from neighboring fields that shed new light on social comparison. These chapters range from judgment and decision science, cognitive psychology, social network theory, and animal social behavior. The third section presents chapters that describe applications of comparison, including relative deprivation; health psychology; the effects of income inequality on well-being; the relationships among social hierarchies, power, and comparison; and the interconnections of psychological processes such as comparison and differential construal that favor the status quo and can discourage social action in the face of injustice and inequity.

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Buunk, Bram P., and Frederick X. Gibbons. Health, Coping, and Well-Being: Perspectives from Social Comparison Theory. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Early Social Interaction: A Case Comparison of Developmental Pragmatics and Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Forrester, Michael A. Early Social Interaction: A Case Comparison Of Developmental Pragmatics And Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Burns, Karyl J. SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION: A PREDICTION AND COMPARISON OF SELF-EFFICACY SCORES. 1992.

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1939-, Arboleda-Flórez J., and Sartorius N, eds. Understanding the stigma of mental illness: Theory and interventions. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

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Wills, Thomas Ashby, and James M. Sandy. Comparing Favorably. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780195130447.003.0008.

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This chapter considers how people may use social comparison to cope with psychological distress arising from sources such as negative life events, failure experiences, and threats to self-esteem. It includes the theory of social comparison, the theory of downward comparison, and the mechanisms of downward comparison (selection of target, constructed comparisons, derogation of an outgroup, counterfactual thinking), as well as current issues in social comparison research.

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Huotari, Mikko, and Jürgen Rüland. Context, Concepts, and Comparison in Southeast Asian Studies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190846374.003.0005.

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This chapter argues that the value of comparative area studies (CAS) depends on some original frame of reference, here the field of Southeast Asian studies. We trace the evolution of this field in view of research on other world regions and general methodological debates. The chapter also highlights the role of CAS in overcoming increasingly rigid methodological divides over such core issues as context-sensitivity and the challenges of comparative research practice. We outline a methodologically pluralist framework of area studies comparisons. This requires methodological bridges between mainstream disciplines and area studies as well as innovative approaches to conceptual problems associated with comparing different regions and cultures. In the process, CAS can also increase attention to non-Western regions, which sometimes get short shrift in theory building in the social sciences. Thus, CAS is in a particularly strong position to mediate the ongoing internationalization and “de-Westernization” of global knowledge.

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Gooding-Williams, Robert. History of African American Political Thought and Antiracist Critical Theory. Edited by Naomi Zack. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.10.

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The relationship between antiracist critical theory and the study of the history of African American thought merits consideration in light of an ongoing debate between anachronists and antiquarians about the relationship between the current practice of philosophy and the study of the history of philosophy. Contemporary antiracist critical theory is extensive and includes expansive genealogical and critical historical accounts of modern racism; racial and gender oppression; roles that policing, prison growth, and segregation play in perpetuating racial inequality; and appraisals of recent black politics—including the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Many of these efforts take up the history of African American political thought and complicate our understanding of the relationship between the issues that engage contemporary critical theorists and the issues that engaged some of their predecessors. Recent scholarship on the social and political thought of W. E. B. Du Bois is highly relevant to this comparison between critical theory and intellectual history.

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J, Millar, and Rowlingson Karen, eds. Lone parents, employment and social policy: Cross-national comparisons. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2001.

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Cowell, Frank. Inequality and Poverty Measures. Edited by Matthew D. Adler and Marc Fleurbaey. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199325818.013.4.

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The theory of inequality measurement can be founded on a few very simple principles concerning the comparison of income distributions. This chapter discusses the standard principles and the types of inequality indices that follow from them. It shows how these principles and indices can be related to conventional approaches to social-welfare analysis. Adjusting a few pieces within this same framework enables one to derive alternative, novel types of inequality indices and lays the basis for commonly-used types of poverty indices. The chapter also covers other general approaches to distributional comparisons including first-order and second-order dominance and their interpretation in terms of inequality and poverty.

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Fischer, Agneta H., Antony S. R. Manstead, and Brian Parkinson. Emotion in Social Relations: Cultural, Group, and Interpersonal Processes. Psychology Press, 2004.

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Bowden, Roger. The Information Theory of Comparisons: With Applications to Statistics and the Social Sciences. Springer, 2018.

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Weymark, John. Social Welfare Functions. Edited by Matthew D. Adler and Marc Fleurbaey. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199325818.013.5.

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This chapter provides an introduction to the use of social welfare functions in welfare economics and social choice theory for the comparative evaluation of social alternatives. With a social welfare function, social preferences depend on individual well-beings. These well-beings are expressed in terms of either preferences or utilities. Three main approaches are considered: Bergson-Samuelson social welfare functions, Arrovian social welfare functions, and Sen’s social welfare functionals. How the measurability and comparability of utility can be modeled and how limitations on the types of utility comparisons that are possible restrict the kinds of social welfare functions that can be considered is also discussed. Extensive social choice theory is used to deal with heterogeneous opinions about how to make utility comparisons.

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Mitchell, Robert, and Catherine Waldby. Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Science and Cultural Theory). Duke University Press, 2006.

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Mitchell, Robert, and Catherine Waldby. Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Science and Cultural Theory). Duke University Press, 2006.

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Pestieau, Pierre, and Mathieu Lefebvre. Social Spending. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817055.003.0003.

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There is a great diversity among welfare states in Europe. This diversity is reflected in the scale of expenditures for social protection systems, their evolution over time and the division of expenditures among programs. This chapter analyses the level and structure of expenditures for the last year for which data is available. Then, it turns to the evolution of social expenditure over time. Even though one observes some convergence, social spending is increasing in almost all countries. One of the reasons for this is the development of entitlements that makes it difficult to dismantle programs that have lost most of their raison d’être. Another issue concerns the international comparison of programs that are public in some countries and private, but heavily subsidized, in others.

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(Editor), J. Millar, and Karen Rowlingson (Editor), eds. Lone Parents, Employment and Social Policy: Cross-National Comparisons. Policy Pr, 2001.

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Abramson, Corey M., and Neil Gong, eds. Beyond the Case. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190608484.001.0001.

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The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multisited ethnographic projects over the last three decades, yet field research often remains associated with small-scale, in-depth, and singular case studies. The growth of comparative ethnography underscores the need to carefully consider the process, logics, and consequences of comparison. This need is intensified by the fact that ethnography has long encompassed a wide range of traditions with different approaches toward comparative social science. At present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have many studies to emulate but few scholarly works detailing the process of comparison in divergent ethnographic approaches. Beyond the Case addresses this by showing how practitioners in contemporary iterations of traditions such as phenomenology, the extended case method, grounded theory, positivism, and interpretivism approach this in their works. It connects the long history of comparative (and anti-comparative) ethnographic approaches to their contemporary uses. Each chapter allows influential scholars to 1) unpack the methodological logics that shape how they use comparison; 2) connect these precepts to the concrete techniques they employ; and 3) articulate the utility of their approach. By honing in on how ethnographers render sites or cases analytically commensurable and comparable, these contributions offer a new lens for examining the assumptions, payoffs, and potential drawbacks of different forms of comparative ethnography. Beyond the Case provides a resource that allows both new and experienced ethnographers to critically evaluate the intellectual merits of various approaches and to strengthen their own research in the process.

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Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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W, Stigler James, Shweder Richard A, Herdt Gilbert H. 1949-, and University of Chicago. Committee on Human Development., eds. Cultural psychology: Essays on comparative human development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Haux, Tina. Dimensions of Impact in the Social Sciences. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447324089.001.0001.

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Academics are increasingly required to demonstrate their impact on the wider world. The aim of this book is to compare and contextualise the dimensions of impact within the social sciences. Unlike most other studies of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework impact case studies, this book includes case studies from three different sub-panels (Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work and Politics and International Relations), which in themselves capture several disciplines, and therefore allows for a comparison of how impact and academic identify are defined and presented. The impact case studies are placed in an analytical framework that identifies different types of impact and impact pathways and places them in the context of policy models. Finally, it provides a comparison across time based on interviews with Social Policy professors who are looking back over 40 years of being involved as well as analysing the relationship between research and policy-making. This long view highlights successes but also the serendipitous and superficial nature of impact across time.

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Zack, Naomi. Ideal, Nonideal, and Empirical Theories of Social Justice. Edited by Naomi Zack. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.59.

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Ideals of justice may do little toward the correction of injustice in real life. The influence of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice has led some philosophers of race to focus on “nonideal theory” as a way to bring conditions in unjust societies closer to conditions of justice described by ideal theory. However, a more direct approach to injustice may be needed to address unfair public policy and existing conditions for minorities in racist societies. Applicative justice describes the applications of principles of justice that are now “good enough” for whites to nonwhites (based on prior comparisons of how whites and nonwhites are treated).

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Hermans, Hubert J. M. Social and Societal Over-Positioning. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687793.003.0006.

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The process of over-positioning shows how exaggeration of positioning leads to I-prisons that limit the freedom of the self. After presenting some examples of over-positioning (pushy parents) and under-positioning (depression), the main focus is on the comparison of the former Soviet communist system that placed the other (the community) above the self (the individual), and the capitalist society in its neo-liberal manifestation that places the self above the other. In this context, the following developments are discussed: the process of marketization and economizing in modern societies and their manifestation in consumerism as forms of over-positioning, the “empty self” resulting from the combination of individualism and consumerism after World War II, the shadow side of the American Dream; the excesses of hyperconsumption in an affluent society, the psychological consequences of money orientation, and the failure of overconsumption to contribute significantly to happiness.

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Licht, Amir N., and Jordan I. Siegel. The Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurship. Edited by Anuradha Basu, Mark Casson, Nigel Wadeson, and Bernard Yeung. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546992.003.0019.

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Recent years have witnessed an emergence of entrepreneurship research in mainstream economics, some of which relates to legal institutions. The current literature exhibits considerable methodological disarray, however. There is no agreed definition for entrepreneurship — for example, whether innovation is a necessary element or whether self-employment suffices, or whether self-employment and ownership of a small business firm are equally entrepreneurial. Likewise, there is often no clear definition of, and distinction among, various social institutions. This makes it difficult to compare and even relate studies to one another. This article adopts an institutional economics approach its basic analytical framework. Social institutions are thus defined as the written and unwritten ‘rules of the game’: laws, norms, beliefs, and so forth. This framework is enriched primarily with insights from cross-cultural psychology, the discipline that specializes in cross-national comparisons of culture.

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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. Intimate Pleasures and the Madness of Love. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.003.0009.

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Chapter 7 analyzes the real sex films Ken Park and Irréversible in the context of different sexual/social aesthetics in sexually explicit films by drawing on “old” and “new” forms of narrative theory as a “bridging synthesis” of disciplinary approaches. The different generations of narrative theory alluded to in this chapter concern Will Wright’s old critical realist analysis of the Western genre and Tanya Krzywinska’s new, postmodernist “narrative formula” approach. This chapter opens with narrative comparison of one European and one US real sex film to point to their similar narrative reversals and contradictions in the context of the “normal chaos of love,” with a major focus on Ken Park’s narrative. Wright’s and Krzywinska’s theoretically and generationally different versions of narrative theory are thus drawn together in terms of current risk sociological history and distinguished from each other epistemologically for further consideration in later chapters.

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Breitenwischer, Dustin, Hanna-Myriam Häger, and Julian Menninger, eds. Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen II. Ergon Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783956505126.

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This volume deals with historically specific forms of factual and fictional narration within literature and various non-literary media. The contributions address the question of how and why the respective medium, the historical context, socio-cultural norms, and aesthetic conventions can (or cannot) formulate certain claims to factuality or fictionality within a given narrative. More specifically, the collected essays clarify that the validity claims of a text are equally tied to its historical framework, its particular medium, and its respective narrative practice. The discussion, analysis, and comparison of historical peculiarities on the one hand and an extended media arsenal on the other thus enables the contributors to uncover and describe narrative-specific characteristics of factual and fictional narration in their diverse forms of expression. In line with the disciplinary diversity of its contributors, the volume is aimed both at media-scientifically oriented narratologists and literary scholars as well as social scientist and scholars in the humanities who are invested in the interdisciplinarity of narrative theory.

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Shushan, Gregory. Interpretations, Implications, and Conclusions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190872472.003.0005.

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An analytical comparison is made of the near-death experiences (NDEs), afterlife beliefs, and myths in the three regions, in relation to their shamanic practices, funerary rituals, revitalization movements, and attitudes toward death and the dead. In order to explain the cross-cultural similarities and differences in all their manifestations, a comprehensive interdisciplinary theory is put forth. The experiential source hypothesis is combined with elements from the psychological, cognitive, social, and historical sciences. Beyond the three regions, despite general thematic similarities worldwide, certain NDE themes occur only in indigenous societies, while some occur in seemingly random unrelated pairs of cultures. Philosophical implications for beliefs in life after death are explored in light of the cross-cultural evidence, and models of the nature of a possible afterlife are discussed. The implications of the study for contemporary historiographical and epistemological issues are also put forth.

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Tran, Thanh V., and Keith T. Chan. Applied Cross-Cultural Data Analysis for Social Work. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888510.001.0001.

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Applied Cross-Cultural Data Analysis for Social Work is a research guide which provides a hands-on approach for learning and understanding data analysis techniques for examining and interpreting data for the purpose of cultural group comparisons. This book aims to provide practical applications in statistical approaches of data analyses that are commonly used in cross-cultural research and evaluation. Readers are presented with step-by-step illustrations in the use of descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate statistics to compare cross-cultural populations using large-scale, population-based survey data. These techniques have important applications in health, mental health, and social science research relevant to social work and other helping professions, especially in providing a framework of evidence to examine health disparities using population-health data. For each statistical approach discussed in this book, we explain the underlying purpose, basic assumptions, types of variables, application of the Stata statistical package, the presentation of statistical findings, and the interpretation of results. Unlike previous guides on statistical approaches and data analysis in social work, this book explains and demonstrates the strategies of cross-cultural data analysis using descriptive and bivariate analysis, multiple regression, additive and multiplicative interaction, mediation, and SEM and HLM for subgroup analysis and cross-cultural comparisons. This book also includes sample syntax from Stata for social work researchers to conduct cross-cultural analysis with their own research.

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Cohen, Richard I., ed. Rebeca Raijman, South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. xviii + 271 pp. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0050.

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This chapter reviews the book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective (2015), by Rebeca Raijman. In South African Jews in Israel, Raijman explores Jewish immigration from South Africa to Israel and post-migration adaptation and mobility within the latter country. Drawing on a mainly quantitative approach as well as qualitative insights derived from the personal experiences of immigrants, Raijman delves into the linguistic, economic, and identificational assimilation of South African Jews in Israel. Her book provides a solid, balanced discussion of social theory and makes use of conceptualization, international comparison, and in-depth analysis, while also dispelling some of the myths and legends that continue to dominate the popular perception of aliyah.

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Salet, Willem, Camila D'Ottaviano, Stan Majoor, and Daniel Bossuyt, eds. The Self-Build Experience. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348429.001.0001.

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Comparing self-build experiences in city-regions over three continents, this book spans gigantic local differences. In order to make sense of comparison, a strict selection of paradigm is made to focus the analysis in all cases on the same relationships. The paradigm combines critical economic theory (coined by David Harvey) and cultural institutional analysis (inspired by Henri Lefebvre) in order to focus on the struggle between material and immaterial forces underlying the local performances. The analysis focuses both on the micro level performances and at the trans scalar social and political conditions to these practices. The commissioning role of residents vis-à-vis the role of the leading social movements focus on the social normalisation of moral ownership of the poor residents. The challenge is to sustain this active institutionalisation also in future processes of professionalization as the relationships on the lower segments of housing markets appear to be vulnerable for commercial economic exploitation.

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Robeyns, Ingrid. The Capability Approach. Edited by Serena Olsaretti. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199645121.013.5.

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This chapter analyzes the contribution of the capability approach to the literature on distributive justice. The capability approach in itself does not provide a full theory of distributive justice, but rather argues that the metric of distributive justice should be functionings and/or capabilities. The chapter critically analyzes various issues that need addressing when we adopt this metric, such as the questions of which capabilities should be selected, and how they should be aggregated in order to make interpersonal comparisons of advantage. Comparisons with other metrics of justice are also discussed, such as Rawls’s social primary goods and welfarist metrics. The chapter concludes by arguing that we should think of the capability approach to justice as a family of theories, and describes which theoretical modules are needed for a full capabilitarian theory of justice.

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