732 Extracts from: Allende S, La Realidad Médico-Social Chilena, Santiago, Chile. Ministerio de Salubridad, 1939. Translated by Bruna Galobardes, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Despite every effort to trace and contact copyright holders prior to publication, this has not been possible. If notified we will be pleased to rectify any errors or omissions at the e...

Theories in the social sciences are informed either by sociology or by economics. That is, they either draw generalizations from verbal descriptions of social interaction or from mathematical representations of interacting agents as constrained maximizers. The three models discussed in this paper are not less rigorous than economic models and, because they are validated relative to a formal log...

Since the 1960s, communication scholars have attempted to examine television's contributions to viewers' perceptions of a wide variety of topics and issues. Unfortunately, little effort has been made to investigate the influence of television on adolescents' perceptions of social reality. This study investigates the relationship between television viewing and perceptions of social reality among...

Purpose. The paper attempts to investigate the constructivist approach social world and its implications for forecasting. Theoretical basis. Social forecasting is mainly based on idea that a human "determined ontologically". Using methodology of natural sciences, most predictions forecasts fail encompass all multiplicity variability future. postmodern interpretation reality gave impetus develop...

Virtual reality exposure therapy has been proposed as a viable alternative in the treatment of anxiety disorders, including social anxiety disorder. Therapists could benefit from extensive control of anxiety eliciting stimuli during virtual exposure. Two stimuli controls are studied in this study: the social dialogue situation, and the dialogue feedback responses (negative or positive) between ...

The diffusion of information, ideas, opinions and media in a social network and the influence of individual nodes on the diffusion process are important questions in the social sciences. However, till date, there has been no method to automatically capture fine-grained social interactions between people and utilize it to better model the diffusion process. In this paper, we describe the use of ...

We present Redgraph, the first generic virtual reality visualization program for Semantic Web data. Redgraph is capable of handling large data-sets, as we demonstrate on social network data from the U.S. Patent Trade Office. We develop a Semantic Web vocabulary of virtual reality terms compatible with GraphXML to map graph visualization into the Semantic Web itself. Our approach to visualizing ...

In this paper we introduce an ontology based on the notion of agent to represent and reason about social reality. We model social constructions as agents, for example, groups, organizations, normative systems, and roles, and we attribute mental attitudes to them. Roughly, we define obligations or regulative norms as goals of the normative system, constitutive norms as beliefs of the normative s...