Od underclass do Homo sovieticusa: Czynnik ludzki hamulcem modernizacji

A contextual definition of the underclass

Assessing whether or not an underclass exists, how it came to be, and what policies are likely to affect it all turn on how the term "underclass" is defined. The underclass has been variously defined by any or all of four characteristics: chronic poverty; nonnormative behavior with respect to income generation and family formation; spatial concentration of such poverty and/or behavior; and inte...

Women in Poverty: A New Global Underclass

OD elements of countable OD sets in the Solovay model

It is true in the Solovay model that every countable ordinal-definable set of sets of reals contains only ordinal-definable elements.

Razumijevanje Straha Od Kriminaliteta

Fear of crime as a concept has been present in criminological literature for quite some time. Numerous researches have been undertaken in order to explain this phenomenon, but still, it remains unclear what exactly represents this concept. Because of this, the expert working in the Þ eld of crime prevention have been having difÞ culties in creating successful preventive programs of fear of crim...

Homo Socialis and Homo Sapiens

The assumption that individuals are behaving rationally can, at times, usefully constrain predictions of individual and collective behavior. However, success in predicting human and group behavior will often require relaxing this assumption of rationality, instead employing evolutionary, neural, and cognitive constraints. One particularly important form of neural and cognitive constraint is tha...