In social mechanism design, norm negotiation creates individual or contractual obligations fulfilling goals of the agents. The social delegation cycle distinguishes among social goal negotiation, obligation and sanction negotiation and norm acceptance. Power may affect norm negotiation in various ways, and we therefore introduce a new formalization of the social delegation cycle based on power ...

 Common facilitators/reasons for disclosing are: trust in the recipient of disclosure; positive experiences with previous disclosure; existence of strong social support; to gain social support; to obtain stress relief form withholding a secret; obligation and duty to inform; self-acceptance of HIVpositive identity; to share knowledge; and to control disclosure (i.e. to disclose before someone ...

This paper presents an analysis employing the quantitative research method to study Vietnamese adult children’s obligation to parents. Using primary data gathered from 95 Vietnamese American adults, this study examines the relationship between obligation to parents and life satisfaction of Vietnamese American adults. The findings indicate that obligations to parents have been adapted among the ...

Promotive voice is essential for improving team and organization performance. Yet in the current literature, less was known regarding the psychological reasons why people engage in promotive voice. Through the lens of social exchange, we proposed that employees who received support from colleagues may develop higher level of felt obligation for constructive change which leads to promotive voice...

skopos theory ,as a functionalist approach, has made a notable switch from a lingusitic oriented to a more sociocultural concept of translation. initially proposed by vermeer, skopos theory framework has been applied by several researchers in their attempts to defend translators’ dignity and social status. yet; as far as the authors are concerned, no researcher has ever employed sociological th...

Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of recurring fulfilments in a complex system of obligations. It recommends decoupling an obligation from a party and generating prescriptions from the obligation at regular time points. The prescription generated in this way holds all necessary data and fulfilments are assigned to it. In this way obligations and their fulfilments can be checked easily ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Japan introduced a nationwide long-term care insurance (LTCI) system in 2000, making long-term care (LTC) a right for older adults regardless of income and family availability. To shed light on its implications for family caregiving, we investigated perceived filial obligation norms among coresident primary family caregivers before and after the policy change. DESIGN AND ...

Abstract CSR is a relatively new concept for Georgia. Its history not even two decades old, and the development process taking place at slow pace. In recent years, of social responsibility has been more or less accepted by large businesses. From unsystematic measures companies are slowly moving to strategic approach, although their initiatives mainly focused on increasing well-being vulnerable ...

We consider the problem of decomposing a group norm into a set of individual obligations for the agents comprising the group, such that if the individual obligations are fulfilled, the group obligation is fulfilled. Such an assignment of tasks to agents is often subject to additional social or organisational norms that specify permissible ways in which tasks can be assigned. An important type o...