Entropy is a concept derived from Physics that has been used to describe natural and social systems’ structure and behaviour. Applications of the concept in the social sciences so far have been largely limited to the disciplines of economics and sociology. In the current paper the concept of entropy is applied to organizational citizenship behaviour with implications for urban organizational su...

■ Abstract This review discusses research on the urban street gang after the 1960s, the period in which social scientists began to conceptualize the gang outside of the social-problems framework. Street-gang research has changed dramatically in the past three decades in accordance with general shifts in sociological research, including developments in gender studies, economic sociology, and rac...

Development sociology as a distinct area of study gained prominence in the post-world war era with the evolving interest in political and economic progression of the post-colonial world. The emerging discipline from the mainstream sociology have been particularly interested in development paths and strategies adopted in nations in the various regions of the world with greater emphasis in develo...

This is a theoretical reflection, based on Michel Maffesoli's Comprehensive Sociology, which is concerned with the health care of adolescents in contemporary everyday life, and particularly with the phenomenon of urban tribes. These are understood as groups of people who have emotional ties, building a bond of sociality towards a common goal. This study focuses on the importance to take into ac...

F.C.D. Andrade , K.Z. Kramer , J.K. Monk , A.J. Greenlee , R. Mendenhall e a Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA b Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 61801, USA c Department of Human Development and Family Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, U...

Lifelogging, a technique for digitally gathering every moment in life using wearable cameras, is a growing phenomenon. However, it is important to remember that in addition to recording their own lives, users are recording others as well, which raises privacy issues around lifelogging from a bystander’s perspective. This warrants conducting bystander-focused privacy studies in an uncontrolled e...

Rowland Atkinson and John Flint are researchers at the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. Both have an interest in the spatial distribution and experience of social exclusion and have been commissioned to devise a methodology for tracing residents who leave regeneration areas in Scotland. •In its simplest formulation snowball sampling consists of identifying respondents who are...