Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and exclusion, confirming much of the economic...

Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented and environmental change. While women’s direct indirect contribution to economies increasingly recognized, their the of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview focus group data, we investigate role in supporting UK communities examine implications wellbeing. Our findings reveal that beyo...

This study integrates the lens of social influence theory, virtual communities of practice, and practicebased view into a theoretical model to understand the role of social influence in B2B virtual communities in the collaboration of innovation activities with co-creating users. Specifically, the main goal of this study is to unravel the relationships among social influence, contribution behavi...

Character education is supposed to meet early adolescents' need (i.e., eighth and ninth graders) for strengthening social competence. Moreover, adolescents' engagement in character education is integral to their learning from the education. The engagement and deficit in social competence are therefore plausible conditions for the effectiveness of character education in promoting social competen...

Inverse reinforcement learning Predicting future behavior Group dynamics Do users change behavior in response to social interactions? We first take a model-free view. Given that a user makes a contribution to a certain community, how likely is the user to visit that community again as a function of the resulting social interactions? We use data from reddit.com, a social media website with many ...