Integrating Social Justice and Political Engagement into Engineering

Engineering and Social Justice

Social Justice in Social-Ecological Systems: Resilience Through Stakeholder Engagement

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Trust and Reciprocity: Social Capital and Political Engagement

In this paper we estimate individual-level social capital as a latent attribute using survey questions on personal attitudes by applying a modification of the econometric methodology by Spady (2006). Compared to other measures of social capital, using this technique has several advantages: It makes more efficient use of information by allowing the aggregation of information from several questio...

Social Groups, Sport and Political Engagement in New Zealand

Many prominent social theorists contend that memberships in voluntary associations make major contributions to making citizens more engaged with democracy. Although substantial attention has been directed at the potential role of sports groups, previous studies using survey data have not found membership in sports groups to be associated with political activity. New Zealand presents an importan...

Political consumerism: Civic engagement and the social media connection

An ongoing debate concerns the extent to which political consumerism constitutes political behavior. To address this debate, researchers have examined several predictors of political consumerism, but have not focused on its communicative dimensions, especially with respect to digital media. In this study we conceptualize political consumerism as a form of civic engagement, and we theorize that ...