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, ...

achieving the millennium development goals has proven to be a real challenge. providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. social network analysis can provi...

this study aims at investigating the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in the four corners 4 textbook, drawing on cda. more specifically, van leeuwen’s (1996) framework, which highlights the connection of linguistic and social practices, is used as the analytical framework to examine gendered social actors in this english language teaching (elt) textbook. to this end, c...

In this article we derive implications about social positions from a formal theory of social influence. The formal theory describes how, in a group of actors with heterogeneous initial opinions, a network of interpersonal influences enters into the formation of actors' settled opinions. We derive the following conclusions about a special form of structural equivalence. If actors are structurall...

In this paper we sketch a framework for multi-actor simulation of an organization. In contrast to many approaches to multi-actor simulation, we design the actors as cognitively plausible actors. The interaction and cooperation of the actors is based on social constructs. In elaborating a cognitive perspective on actors, we use the cognitive architecture ACT-R for modelling the individual actors...

We consider the problem of labeling actors in social networks where the labels correspond to membership in specific interest groups, or other attributes of the actors. Actors in a social network are linked to not only other actors but also items (e.g., video and photo) which in turn can be linked to other items or actors. Given a social network in which only some of the actors are labeled, our ...

3. DEFINITION Spatio-temporal social networks model the relationships expressed in a social network and the changes to it over time. These changes can be of two types; First, Changes to the level of expressed relationship between two or more actors. For example, in a social network which expresses trust, there could be a change in the level of trust between two actors. Second, changes to the ph...