The Social Information Processing Process Model consists of organizing the social adaptation and behavior children in line with their responses to situations they encounter peers daily lives. affects children's ability interact peers, level interaction, provides information about structure interaction. In this direction, it was aimed examine relationship between processing interaction skills 60...

This article explores the relationship between social pedagogy and work in Greece. The search begins with identification of their philosophical roots, which, although they are common start from Ancient Greek philosophers, have led course each discipline a different direction. What follows is presentation most important defining elements development studies Greece, which include features histori...

The state plays a central position in theoretical debates in International Relations (IR). Both Realists and Liberals see the state as the central actor in the international system and thereby follow a Western understanding of the state as the holder of the monopoly of force. In the IRsub discipline of security studies new categories such as weak state, quasi state or state failure have created...

The authors used an event-contingent daily recording strategy, the Rochester Interaction Record (RIR), to examine the motivational dynamics of interpersonal relations. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the authors demonstrated that social interactions were more pleasant when participants felt autonomous, competent, and related. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness consistently predicted inte...

Recent rhetoric surrounding the contemporary aid relationship between donors and African states is couched in terms of a high level consensus between western and African political leaderships, a central pillar of which is adherence to liberal principles of governance and economic management. The paper argues that an analysis of the nature of this consensus and its prospects requires that we nee...

This paper shows how a socioterritorial system could be computationally modeled by means of two social theories, Sociology of Organized Action (SOA) and Social Systems (SS) to study power relations among social actors. It is concluded that both approaches helps the empirical research and that they complement each other, while SOA emphasizes the power relations, the SS focuses on the generative ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of different types of social relations in adolescent health inequalities. DESIGN Cross sectional study. Measures included family social class, indices of social relations to parents, friends, teachers, and school. SETTING Random sample of 55 schools in Denmark. PARTICIPANTS Nationally representative sample of 5205 students from grades 5, 7, and 9. ...

Informal social relations play a significant role in people's lives. Despite considerable research on social networks and social capital, sociologists still do not clearly understood why some relationships lead to better outcomes than others. This article examines how individuals mobilize social support, defined as resources that flow through social relations, to achieve their objectives. We pr...