This paper explores the coevolution of social networks and behavioral norms. Previous research has investigated the long-term behavior of feedback systems of attraction and influence, particularly the tendency toward homogenization in arbitrary cultural fields. This paper extends those models by allowing that norms diffuse not only by simple contagion but through intentional sanctioning behavio...

Vaccination programs have been successful in Cuba, whatever metrics are used to evaluate them: the population is protected against 13 diseases, well beyond WHO goals; illnesses such as polio, diphtheria, whooping cough and others have been eradicated; and even hepatitis B is slated to disappear. How can these results be explained? Certainly strong political will, a society based on justice and ...

The Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has exposed significant weaknesses in many countries terms of preparedness to deal with a completely new type public health threat. Difficulties and delays the supply COVID-19 vaccines have drawn attention leading role played by transnational corporations access medicinal products. authors consider these problems against background concept ep...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to test empirically two major conceptualizations of parent-child relations in later adulthood-intergenerational solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms-and their predictive validity on elders' quality of life using comparative cross-national data. METHODS Data were from a sample of 2,064 elders (aged 75 and older) from the five-country OASIS stud...

Scholars have often oscillated between celebrating the transformative potential of solidarity and recognising ambivalent nature cooperation for disadvantaged marginalised groups. How can we make sense these differences? This article addresses this question by unpacking intersectional along two dimensions: ways issues are framed; extent to which organisations adopt a praxis redress disparities i...

The paper uses the case study of the controversy regarding the construction of a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Manhattan, New York, to analyze the different theoretical approaches to the concept of solidarity. It is argued that the presence of affectional solidarity which is based on feelings of caring, friendship and love was very limited in the case under study. Instea...

Recent narratives of the civil rights movement document black veterans’ contributions to the movement’s success, often attributing their efforts to their military experience. While this attribution makes sense intuitively, alternative explanations for black veterans’ mobilization are not fully explored in existing work. For instance, black veterans were often among the most active members in ma...

Over the last two decades, the Internet has been a laboratory for social innovation. One of the most unexpected collective discoveries has been the existence of another mode of organization to achieve large−scale co−ordination. This mode relies neither on the market, where price signals perform important co−ordinating functions horizontally (as Friedrich Hayek famously stated), nor on public an...

It analyzes the relationship between accelerated process of technological development and resulting consequences that end up interfering in structure rights freedom equality, historical achievements humanity. focuses on perverse effects progress technology when focused exclusively improvement techniques themselves mere profit, to detriment reverence respect for human person, ideals fraternity s...