Abstract As pressure increases to support social justice, coalitions try understand their role in oppression while implementing practices create equitable environments. Twenty-six education-focused community the United States participated study. Coalition interviews and membership rosters are used evaluate degree which these engage engagement conducive empowerment. Involvement emphasize communi...

Hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs), which were generalized from fuzzy sets, constrain the membership degree of an element to be a set of possible values between zero and one; furthermore if two or more decision-makers select the same value, it is only counted once. However, a situation where the evaluation value is repeated several times differs from one where the value appears only once. Multiset hesi...

Even though urban renewal has attracted much attention in recent years, relatively few studies focus on the sustainability of projects, which is surprising given associated economic benefits. To fill this gap, we review 31 typical cases China that have existed for over 10 years and utilize fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to identify causal configurations lead a high level sta...

The paper presents a generalization of the Pittsburgh approach to learn fuzzy classification rules from data. The proposed approach allows us to obtain a fuzzy rule-based system with a predefined level of compromise between its accuracy and interpretability (transparency). The application of the proposed technique to design the fuzzy rule-based classifier for the well known benchmark data sets ...

We survey recent approaches to inconsistency measurement in propositional logic and provide a comparative analysis in terms of their expressivity. For that, we introduce four different expressivity characteristics that quantitatively assess the number of different knowledge bases that a measure can distinguish. Our approach aims at complementing ongoing discussions on rationality postulates for...

In this article I examine Bourdieu’s conception of symbolic domination as based on misrecognition and compare it with Gramsci’s notion of hegemony based on consent. Drawing on ethnographic research in workplaces in the USA and Hungary I show how both theories are flawed. Gramsci does not appreciate the importance of mystification as a foundation for stable hegemony in advanced capitalism while ...