This investigation examined process-level pathways to nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI; e.g., self-cutting, -burning, -hitting) in 2 cohorts of suburban, upper-middle-class youths: a cross-sectional sample of 9th-12th graders (n = 1,036, 51.9% girls) on the West Coast and a longitudinal sample followed annually from the 6th through 12th grades (n = 245, 53.1% girls) on the East Coast. High rates o...

While crowdsourcing has proved to be a useful method in several contexts, the power relations in crowdsourced processes remain largely unexamined. For designing better crowdsourcing technologies and processes, it is important to understand those power structures and relations within the crowd itself as well as between the participants: who has the power, what is being produced through crowdsour...

To the extent that a society is to work, there exist a need for a cooperative process, including Weber’s and Merton’s note of common means and goals. But at the same time, there exist no societal process without involving conflict; (conflict in a dynamic and dialectical sense.) Dealing with this problematic situation the emergence of “division of labor”, as a compulsive social differentiation, ...

The damaging effects of employment have been discussed for many years. Marx identified several possible forms of alienation. Laborers can be alienated from the product of their labor (Marx, 1963 trans.). They can also be alienated from the process of production, making work external from their nature and not improving their abilities. In Marx’s view capitalists abuse the power of ownership to a...

A movie may mirror a person's experiences in life and is not just for amusement. Movies include moral lessons that viewers learn from. It educates us about attitudes, behaviors, language, culture, culture. It's simple individuals to appreciate movies visually as literary. Melancholy appropriately examined utilizing the alienation idea based on movie's plot. Human was at first social phenomenon ...