scholarly journals Altruistic investment as a personal networking strategy: The development of scale and testing its constructive validity

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-176
Author(s):  
L.V. Mararitsa ◽  
T.V. Kazantseva ◽  
L.G. Pochebut ◽  
A.L. Sventsitskiy
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Structural Modeling ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
First Order ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
The Social

The article describes the process of verifying the constructive validity of the “Altruistic Investment Scale”. Altruistic investment is one of the networking strategies that allow scientists to consider the social behavior of an individual in terms of its involvement in the mechanisms of social capital formation and conversion. The results of the empirical research confirm the theoretical model and show that the developed scale corresponds to the components of the strategy, measured in an alternative ways. Testing of this hypothesis was carried out using structural modeling (n = 362). The reliability of the scale was 0.74 (Cronbach’s alpha, n = 670), the grades obtained by the scale do not depend on gender, are not related to social desirability, and correlate in the expected way with other scales of altruism and selfishness. The principal novelty of the construct of altruistic investment was demonstrated. In contrast to the construct of altruism, which is motivational by its essence, altruistic investment is a more complex concept and includes values and behavioral components as well. Moreover, the Altruistic Investment Scale doesn’t measure the ‘first-order’ altruism.

The Logic of Logic, and Beyond

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Cronk ◽  
Beth L. Leech
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Social Behavior

This chapter examines Mancur Olson's arguments, which he articulated in The Logic of Collective Action, and compares them with those of his supporters and detractors. It also reviews the social science literature on cooperation, focusing primarily on the theoretical and empirical research on collective action that grew out of Olson's challenge. According to Olson, the members of a group have interests in common. His logic was an economic logic, based on the behavior of firms in the marketplace in their quest for profits. Olson extended this logic of the market to human social behavior. The chapter considers Olson's solutions to the problem of free riding and the possibility that no group would ever form, including coercion, small groups, selective benefits, and the by-product theory of public goods provisioning. Finally, it describes some major extensions of and challenges to Olson's path-breaking model.

Eazidi Women's Practices of Empowerment and Capital Formation Following Enslavement by ISIS

2020 ◽  
pp. 487-508
Author(s):  
Kaziwa Salih
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Middle Eastern Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time

This chapter begins by surveying the historical context of rape in Iraq through the narrative of Eazidi women who escaped enslavement by ISIS. It then discusses the theology of rape in Islam, which has motivated ISIS to commit rape and legitimized the rape of Eazidi women. The chapter then theorizes the social capital of Middle Eastern women. The chapter argues that, for the first time, the Eazidi community in Iraq is altering the social consequences of rape by developing empowerment methods that amount to a social revolution within the Eazidi community. This empowerment not only protects Eazidi women survivors from experiencing common post-rape consequences but also increases their capital, in all its Bourdieusian forms.

Dissent among the Non-Russian Peoples of the USSR: A Brief Commentary from the Sociological Perspective

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Tönu Parming
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Ideal

The present brief commentary is focused primarily on a topic which at first appearance might seem tangential, but which nevertheless is of central importance to a sociological study of dissent among the non-Russian people of the Soviet Union, who together make up approximately one-half of that country's total population. Ongoing sociological study of any phenomenon ideally is characterized by a data-theory cycle, where a conceptual or theoretical model or framework helps guide empirical research, and where the social reality manifest in observations or the data collected continually tests and refines the guiding model or framework. The ideal is, of course, rarely attained, a matter most noticeable and pronounced in the study of “Soviet minorities.”

scholarly journals The delimitation of areas of strategic intervention in Poland: A methodological trial and its results

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Bański ◽  
Marek Degórski ◽  
Tomasz Komornicki ◽  
Przemysław Śleszyński
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
New Method ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Territorial Cohesion

Abstract This main aim of this study is the examination and discussion of a conceptual and theoretical model for Poland’s areas of strategic intervention. Following a review of the current strategic documents at national and regional levels, it is possible to propose two basic categories of areas of strategic intervention: 1) growth areas (territories with natural or socioeconomic properties particularly favourable for development); and 2)problem areas (territories with unfavourable features and socioeconomic and/or natural processes). Among the problem areas it is possible to distinguish three main types: the social, the economic and the natural, albeit with the possibility of applying an even more detailed typology that allows for combinations of these types. Scientific findings can be combined with the results of empirical research to encourage the proposal of a new method of delimiting areas of strategic intervention. The identification of growth areas is primarily based on expert knowledge, which is clearly qualitative. In turn, the processes by which problem areas are delimited is quantitative in nature, reflecting analyses of selected diagnostic indicators that take social, economic and natural issues into account. The results which were obtained relate to the concept of endogenous development, as well as the assumptions under pinning policies of territorial cohesion.

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