Buscar recursos académicos

Materias / palabras clave: Psicología social; Psicología; Social service; Psychological aspects; Psychology

El emprendimiento social no es asistencialismo, ni filantropía, ni equivalente a responsabilidad social empresarial; es liderazgo social a cargo de personas que conocen el contexto donde actúan y motivan a los demás. ...

Materias / palabras clave: Social action; Non-governmental organizations; Political activity; Acción social; Organizaciones no gubernamentales; Actividad política

Materias / palabras clave: Education; Social aspects; Social action; Educación; Aspectos sociales; Acción social

A comienzos de la década de 1970, un grupo de intelectuales colombianos liderados por el innovador sociólogo Orlando Fals Borda creó un colectivo dedicado a la investigación-activista, llamado La Rosca de Investigaci...

Materias / palabras clave: Responsabilidad social; Acción social; Evaluación; Nonprofit organizations; Management; Social action; Social responsibility of business; Balance social; Entidades no lucrativas; Objetivos sociales

Materias / palabras clave: Educación; Investigación; Action research in education; Educacion; Investigacion

In recent history the metropolitan meetings of multilateral economic institutions and supra-national governing bodies have been accompanied by massive demonstrations. In Europe the actions of militant demonstrators have ...

Materias / palabras clave: social action, social justice, psychology, counselling; Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology

Materias / palabras clave: Action (physics); Epistemology; Sociology; Cognitive science; Psychology; Philosophy; Physics; Quantum mechanics

There are two broad intellectual streams in the description and explanation of social action. One, characteristic of the work of most sociologists, sees the actor as socialized and action as governed by social norms, rul...

How behavior and institutions are affected by social relations is one of the classic questions of social theory. This paper concerns the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in m...

Abstract This paper is concerned with those actions of business firms which have harmful effects on others. The standard example is that of a factory the smoke from which has harmful effects on those occupying neighbouri...

Materias / palabras clave: Communicative action; Action (physics); Computer science; Communication; Psychology; Sociology; Physics; Social science; Quantum mechanics

The recent proliferation of scholarship on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded, alongside resource mobilization and pol...

Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is s...

The dominant model of disease today is biomedical, and it leaves no room within tis framework for the social, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness. A biopsychosocial model is proposed that provides a bluep...

The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has received considerable attention in the literature. The present study is a quantitative integration and review of that research. From a database of 185 independent studies publish...

How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiated and professionally facilitated change of ...

Introduction 1. The Semiotic Landscape 2. Narrative Representations: Designing Social Action 3. Conceptual Representations: Designing Social Constructs 4. Representation and Interaction: Designing the Position of the Vie...

Abstract Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970...

Introduction - Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research PART ONE: LOCATING THE FIELD Qualitative Methods - Arthur J Vidich and Stanford M Lyman Their History in Sociology a...

This article addresses the centrality of the self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. Self-per- cepts of efficacy influence thought patterns, actions, and emotional arousal. In causal tests the higher the level of induce...