scholarly journals Developmental Predictors of Violent Extremist Attitudes

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 755-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Nivette ◽  
Manuel Eisner ◽  
Denis Ribeaud
Keyword(s):  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Conditional Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Rule Breaking ◽  
Legal Constraints ◽  
Moral Neutralization ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Objectives: This study examines the influence of collective strain on support for violent extremism among an ethnically diverse sample of Swiss adolescents. This study explores two claims derived from general strain theory: (1) Exposure to collective strain is associated with higher support for violent extremism and (2) the effect of collective strain is conditional on perceptions of moral and legal constraints. Methods: This study uses data from two waves of the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youth. We use ordinary least squares procedures to regress violent extremist attitudes at age 17 on strain, moral and legal constraints, and control variables measured at ages 15 to 17. Conditional effects were examined using an interaction term for collective strain and moral neutralization and legal cynicism, respectively. Results: The results show that collective strain does not have a direct effect on violent extremist attitudes once other variables are controlled. However, the degree to which individuals neutralize moral and legal constraints amplifies the impact of collective strain on violent extremist attitudes. Conclusions: This study shows that those who already espouse justifications for violence and rule breaking are more vulnerable to extremist violent pathways, particularly when exposed to collective social strife, conflict, and repression.

Impact of Advertising and Public Relations on Tourism Development in Da Nang, Vietnam

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Xuan Tran ◽  
Minh Nguyen ◽  
Ha Kieu Tan Luu ◽  
Ny Ngo ◽  
My Tran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Structure Equation Modeling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Destination Brand ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

An exploratory study was conducted to determine the impact of advertising and public relations on the visit intention of tourists in Da Nang, Vietnam. In 2015, Trip Advisor and New York Times selected Da Nang, Vietnam as one of the top Asia tourist destinations. This study sought to address the relationship between advertising or public relations and tourists' intention to visit based on the theory of planned behavior. Structure Equation Modeling was conducted to predict the impact of advertising and public relations on the visit intention of tourists in Da Nang. Findings indicate that an increased favorable attitude and control of advertising would increase tourist arrivals. Surprisingly, an increased positive attitude and control of public relations did not significantly affect tourists' intention to visit. Instead, the social norms of public relations were effective in driving the decision to visit but the social norms of advertising were not. The findings have contributed to destination brand through advertising and public relations. Implications are discussed.

scholarly journals History of substance use and control in British Guiana

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kellie Moss ◽  
Deborah Toner
Keyword(s):  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Licensing Laws

Whilst the impact of drugs on the culture of Caribbean societies and Indigenous populations is well documented, their role in maintaining influence over an ethnically diverse population and regulating labour productivity are frequently overlooked. In this paper we examine the use of drugs as a means of compelling and retaining labour in British Guiana during the nineteenth century. We also assess changes over time in how the colonial state managed concerns that the use of intoxicants threatened its control over the labouring population through licensing laws, carceral institutions and the criminalisation of certain drugs.

Political connections, the cost of debt and board attributes: evidence from Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 842-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chwee Ming Tee
Keyword(s):  
Audit Committee ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Board Diversity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Crony Capitalism ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the relationship between politically connected firms (PCFs) and the cost of debt is moderated by board attributes such as audit committee independence, ethnic board diversity, gender board diversity and family controlling ownership. Design/methodology/approach This study employs ordinary least squares model to examine the moderating effect of audit committee independence on the association between PCFs and the cost of debt; moderating effect of ethnic board diversity on the association between PCFs and the cost of debt; moderating effect of gender board diversity on the association between PCFs and the cost of debt; and moderating effect of family-controlled boards on the association between PCFs and the cost of debt. Findings The results show that PCFs are associated with lower cost of debt, consistent with crony capitalism theory. Furthermore, board attributes are shown to have significant moderating effect on the association between PCFs and the cost of debt. Specifically, the cost of debt in PCFs can be further reduced, provided the boards have higher audit committee independence, are ethnically diverse, have higher proportion of female directors in the board and audit committee and are controlled by family shareholders. Originality/value This study reveals evidence on the impact of board attributes on the cost of debt in PCFs. All findings suggest that concerns on PCFs’ severe agency problems can be alleviated through effective monitoring. The significant board attributes that facilitate effective monitoring are audit committee independence, ethnic board diversity, gender board diversity and family ownership.

scholarly journals Fenomena Phubbing: Suatu Degradasi Relasi Sosial Sebagai Dampak Media Sosial

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Rafinita Aditia
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Abstract—This study aims to find out about the phubbing phenomenon as a degradation of social relations as a result of social media. The term phubbing is an abbreviation of the words phone and snubbing, which are used to show the attitude of hurting the other person by using an excessive smartphone. This type of research used a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. The data needed in this study are qualitative data as primary data in the form of images, words and not numbers in a discourse regarding the phubbing phenomenon as a degradation of social relations as a result of social media. Based on the results of the research, it is found that phubbing behavior can threaten the disruption of ongoing communication relationships, causing social degradation. The social degradation that occurs is due to the impact of phubbing perpetrators' indifference to their environment because they are too busy using smartphones, especially in the use of social media. Therefore it is necessary to limit and control the use of social media properly so that the phubbing phenomenon can be resolved immediately and the degradation of social relations does not occur. Keywords: phubbing, degradation, social relation, social media   Abstrak—Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tentang tentang fenomena phubbing sebagai suatu degradasi relasi sosial sebagai dampak dari media sosial. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Data yang dibutuhkan dalam penelitian ini merupakan data kualitatif sebagai data primer berupa gambar, kata-kata dan bukan angka-angka dalam sebuah wacana mengenai fenomena phubbing sebagai suatu degradasi relasi sosial sebagai dampak dari media sosial. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diperoleh hasil bahwa perilaku phubbing mampu mengancam terganggunya hubungan komunikasi yang sedang berlangsung, sehingga menyebabkan degradasi sosial. Degradasi sosial yang terjadi ialah karena dampak dari keacuhan pelaku phubbing terhadap lingkungannya karena terlalu sibuk menggunakan smartphone, terlebih dalam penggunaan media sosial. Oleh karena itu penggunaan media sosial perlu dibatasi dan dikontrol dengan baik agar fenomena phubbing dapat segera teratasi dan degradasi relasi sosial tidak terjadi. Kata kunci : phubbing, degradasi, hubungan sosial, sosial media

The Regulation of Theatres

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Russell
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tier System ◽  
Legal Constraints ◽  
Professional Artists ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Drury Lane

Romantic-period theatre faced long-standing legal constraints on where playhouses could be built, the kind of plays that could be staged, and the social status of actors. This chapter shows how new legislation and historical conditions gradually altered this picture. The impact of the French Revolution and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars created a demand for forms of theatrical entertainment that would mediate the rapidity and scale of cultural and political change, forms for which the ‘illegitimate’ theatres of London were particularly suited. The dominant ‘legitimate’ theatres of Covent Garden and Drury Lane responded to this competition by becoming bigger in scale and developing new, visually spectacular genres such as melodrama and Gothic drama. By the 1820s the two-tier system of legitimate and illegitimate theatres had lost its cultural force and actors were legally recognized as no longer akin to vagrants but as professional artists, analogous to poets and novelists.

scholarly journals Impact of the religious festivity on the Tunis Stock Exchange

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Olfa Chaouachi
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Trading Volume ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The month of Ramadan is anticipated to influence the behavior of the stock market, where the environment in Ramadan is different from other months. During the Ramadan month, transformations in the social life of people are quite apparent and significant, and the overall economic activity tends to decelerate as the number of working hours decreases. This paper aims to explore the impact of the Ramadan month on the stock market returns, volatility, and trading volume on the Tunis Stock Exchange (TSE) between September 2009 and July 2019. To achieve these objectives, the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) technique and the ordinary least squares regression are used. The results show that the impact of the Ramadan month on the daily returns is positive and statistically significant at a 1% level. It is also found that the impact of the Ramadan month on the volatility and trading volume is negative and statistically significant. The findings can help domestic and foreign investors and regulators to better comprehend the Tunisian stock exchange and investor behavior. Moreover, this research can help investors to develop their trading strategies.

scholarly journals Social status, health status and therapy response in heroin addicts

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-472
Author(s):  
B. A. Abalkhail
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Drugs Of Abuse ◽  
Therapy Response ◽  
Heroin Addiction ◽  
Heroin Addicts ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Thistudy identified the impact of heroin compared to other drugs of abuse on the social, nutritional and health status of addicts, and assessed their response to detoxification. A total of 243 heroin addicts and 66 non-heroin addicts were included in the study. Heroin and non-heroin addiction had similar impact on social and nutritional status, but heroin addicts were seven times more likely to develop hepatitis B or C infection. Non-heroin addicts were more prone to develop depressed cellular immunity. The number of relapses was twice as high for heroin addicts who experienced more unpleasant symptoms during therapy. Active interventions to prevent and control addiction are needed regardless of the type of drug abused.

scholarly journals Impact of a Social Constructivist Instructional Strategy on Performance in Algebra with a Focus on Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Umar A. Ginga ◽  
Yusuf F. Zakariya
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

There have been perennial concerns on the low academic performance of students among researchers and other education stakeholders. Innovative teaching strategies have, therefore, gained prominence in the field of mathematics education. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of a social constructivist instructional strategy on students’ performance in algebra. The present study is quasi-experimental, and its type is a posttest control group involving 154 secondary school students that are randomly selected across four intact classes. The random selection of students to treatment and control controls is assumed to improve the validity of the results. Two research questions are raised, and two null hypotheses are formulated and tested at p≤0.05 level of significance. One research instrument, algebra performance test (APT), was developed, pilot-tested (test-retest reliability coefficient of 0.897), and used to measure students’ performance in both treatment and control groups. The data are analyzed using independent sample t-tests. The findings indicate that there are significant differences in the mean performance scores between experimental (mean = 16.05, SD = 2.74) and control (mean = 11.46, SD = 2.49) groups, t(152) = 10.83, p<0.05. These findings may be interpreted to be evidence of the effectiveness of the social constructivist instructional strategy in improving performance in algebra better than the conventional teaching method. Also, a significant difference exists between the mean performance scores of males (mean = 17.83, SD = 2.82) and females (mean = 14.72, SD = 1.77) in the experimental group (t(80) = 6.11, p<0.05). Thus, the effect of the social constructivist instructional strategy on students’ performance in algebra is gender-sensitive. Based on these findings, some recommendations are made to students, teachers, parents, administrators, and other stakeholders.

Impact of Advertising and Public Relations on Tourism Development in Da Nang, Vietnam

2019 ◽  
pp. 1115-1131
Author(s):  
Xuan Tran ◽  
Minh Nguyen ◽  
Ha Kieu Tan Luu ◽  
Ny Ngo ◽  
My Tran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Structure Equation Modeling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Destination Brand ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

An exploratory study was conducted to determine the impact of advertising and public relations on the visit intention of tourists in Da Nang, Vietnam. In 2015, Trip Advisor and New York Times selected Da Nang, Vietnam as one of the top Asia tourist destinations. This study sought to address the relationship between advertising or public relations and tourists' intention to visit based on the theory of planned behavior. Structure Equation Modeling was conducted to predict the impact of advertising and public relations on the visit intention of tourists in Da Nang. Findings indicate that an increased favorable attitude and control of advertising would increase tourist arrivals. Surprisingly, an increased positive attitude and control of public relations did not significantly affect tourists' intention to visit. Instead, the social norms of public relations were effective in driving the decision to visit but the social norms of advertising were not. The findings have contributed to destination brand through advertising and public relations. Implications are discussed.

Socio-Economic Questions of Motivating Collaborators in the Context of Remote Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
S. V. Boyko ◽  
N. N. Pokrovskaia ◽  
A. L. Slobodskoy ◽  
V. A. Spivak
Keyword(s):  
Remote Work ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Distributed Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Relationships ◽  
Interpersonal Ties ◽  
Almost All ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Motivation and involvement of individual and collective subjects of social and labor relations in work in the traditional format of building work processes is based on strong and diverse interpersonal ties, supported by constant repetitive interaction. Remote work (work outside the office) leads to the need to rethink the impact of the manager on the employee from the standpoint of motivation and control. Distributed work involves a new approach to building interactions between employees in a team, rethinking and reconfiguring group relationships in a team. In the context of social isolation measures caused by the pandemic, almost all enterprises (with the exception of a rather narrow list of strategically important industries) faced the need to change the approach to organizing work processes in general, and managers discovered new problem areas in the field of motivation. In the event of a sudden lockdown, the first to solve the social and psychological problems of maintaining the involvement of employees in work processes, at the same time, problems of a socioeconomic nature receded into secondary positions, since physical and mental health was recognized as an absolute priority. The article is devoted to the analysis of the main approaches to resolving problem areas in the field of socio-economic approaches to motivating employees of enterprises and organizations in a format of remote distributed work that is unexpected for companies and employees.

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