We define and characterize the class of all weighted solidarity values. Our first characterization employs the classical axioms determining the solidarity value (except symmetry), that is, efficiency, additivity and the A-null player axiom, and two new axioms called proportionality and strong individual rationality. In our second axiomatization, the additivity and the A-null player axioms are r...

This article outlines a theory of subjectivity and social consciousness that complements prevalent debates in cultural studies about marginality and subjectivity. The article suggests that we can interpret the constitution of subjectivity sociologically as between the nation-state and global market integration. More broadly, we can think about social processes in global market capitalism throug...

• Women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia develop their small informal businesses through the spaces of marginality and articulation independence. Independence is gained mobility developing income source seen as control over bodies. The lens negotiating ‘independence’ integrates conflicting subjectivities. Marginality resistance, suffering claimed control, interpellation, re-construction own identities...

Marginal and peripheral populations are important for biodiversity conservation. Their original situation in a species’ geographic ecological space often confers them genetic diversity traits of high adaptive value. Yet theoretical hypotheses related to marginality difficult test because confounding factors that influence marginality, namely environment, geography, history. There is an urgent n...