due to the complex nature of deviation, delinquency and crime, criminology and sociology of deviations have used, in their studies of social deviations, not only different theoretical frameworks but different methods commonly used in qualitative and quantitative approaches. this diversity of methods has provided great opportunities for the evaluation of the methods and eclectic use of methods, ...

This paper deals with ways in which designers of user-centered systems and products can make use of other disciplines, primarily social science, to inform design practice. It discusses various ways in which theories, models and frameworks from social science can be integrated into design research and the problems that can arise when translating concepts, theories and methods from one discipline...

We study the effect of social information on the voluntary provision of public goods. Competing theories predict that others contributions might be either substitutes or complements to one’s own. We demonstrate a positive social information effect on individual contributions, supporting theories of complementarities. We find the most influential level of social information is drawn from the 90t...

Putting health theories, research and knowledge into practice is a challenge referred to as the knowledge-toaction gap. Knowledge translation (KT), and its related concepts of knowledge mobilization, implementation science and research impact, emerged to mitigate this gap. While the social interaction view of KT has gained currency, scholars have not easily made a link between KT and the concep...