The article examines an actual problem of international integration, associated with the peculiarities political consciousness in modern global society. research methodology is determined by synthesis analytical and comparative historical approaches. authors consider such conditions society existence which objective social polarity a heterogeneity structures give rise to wide range needs intere...

Schools’ overt or explicit practices are a dominant lens through which education researchers and policymakers attempt to understand how schools racially inequitable. Yet, Lewis Diamond argue that contemporary racial inequalities largely sustained implicit factors, like institutional structural inequalities. Ray’s framework on racialized organizations similarly outlines our sociopolitical struct...

This article describes and analyses a database on the dynamics of sociopolitical instability in the United States between 1780 and 2010. The database was constructed by digitizing data collected by previous researchers, supplemented by systematic searches of electronic media archives. It includes 1,590 political violence events such as riots, lynchings, and terrorism. Incidence of political vio...

We investigate the idea that firms’ choices of M&A evaluation methods are influenced by two socio-political factors that arise in the behavioral theory of the firm—uncertainty and controversy. In doing so, we investigate boundary conditions between arguments that expect firms to use financial analysis such as net present value as the primary tool and arguments that emphasize different forms of ...

Located in the Gauteng Province of South Africa (SA), Soweto is home to at least 1.1 million blacks and represents the largest black community in this sub-Saharan nation. Historically, its townships, spread over 40 sq miles of territory located to the southwest of Johannesburg, were created as a result of the residential segregation of blacks relocated to the area to work as cheap labor in the ...

The ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ is a concept familiar to students of resource management, and many academic disciplines have devoted considerable attention to its understanding and solution. Despite a long tradition of concern with issues directly related to the problem, the field of geography has been relatively silent in the commons literature, especially on the theoretic front. The present ar...

Despite existing literature that demonstrates the relation between an attitude of social responsibility and activism; few studies have examined the underlying factor structure of social responsibility. The current study had two goals. The first goal was to examine the structure of a measure of social responsibility attitude for urban adolescents. The second goal was to examine the associations ...