People spend cash sensibly: research suggests they are not likely to spend it anti-socially (for example, on alcohol) and cash is no more prone to diversion than in-kind assistance.
You see that trifecta not only in the actions of harassers, who are socially supported, for example, by views and likes, but in the institutionalised policies of social media companies, whose policies tend to reflect mainstream norms".
Experts cited alarming new statistics -- around 13percentt of us were socially phobic, for example -- and magazines dished up the requisite alarmist trend stories.
The assiduous focus on economic freedom of the past two decades, to the exclusion of political and social freedom, has allowed a sizable segment of the Chinese population to prosper, but it can also be socially destabilizing — for example, by widening the wealth gap.
Others of us try to hide our Dark Side behind the collective darkness, blind to our negativity because it is socially acceptable; for example, rooting for our own team while hoping the other team will lose, and believe it's okay because everybody else is doing the same kind of thing.
Discourse analysts see research findings as socially constructed, for example, products of historical, geographical, economic and other contexts, and influenced by the researchers themselves 22 (e.g. disciplinary background, age, gender, ethnicity and so on).
Contact tracing is a key investigatory tool but not without its own limitations, as it is dependent on the testimony of the complainants who must be able or willing to disclose all behaviors that could have led to transmission, some of which may be illegal or socially stigmatized (for example, illicit drug injection).
Despite evidence that behaviours with the potential to undermine health are socially patterned (for example, that people in lower socioeconomic groups tend to consume less fruit and vegetables (Giskes 2010)), potential differences in behavioural responses to product sizing interventions between socioeconomic subgroups remain unclear.
The term denotes the degree to which one's social status (for example, culturally and socially constructed in terms of roles, responsibilities, rights, duties, and expectations concerning behavior) influences differing effects of natural hazards and the social processes that lead to and maintain that status (Wisner et al. 2012).
New York was always more fluid socially than Boston and Philadelphia, for example.
