The paper presents a model that synthetically incorporates several paradigms of collective action theories to bring up conditions when different types of collective action games would occur. Different from past literatures, the paper focuses on the analysis when various types of actors are allowed to play games interactively. The designation of game-playing partners follows the three mechanisms...

The revised common objectives of the EU Strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion include targeting the high risk of social exclusion faced by some people as a result of immigration.Access to decent and affordable housing is a critical condition for inclusion in society and integration into a host culture.A key objective of this study is to assist the development of more coherent and inte...

Global health pandemics (such as COVID-19) can result in rapid changes to sanctionable behaviour, impacting society and culture a multitude of ways. This study examined how pandemic accompanying moral order was produced within through social interaction during the first second waves COVID-19 Australia. The data consisted corpus 29 video-recorded paediatric palliative care consultations were ana...

This study aimed at discussing and representing discourse analysis of classroom talk in two contexts. It is significant, since it considers different genres of talk, cultural and social identities, social relations, different ideologies and many other aspects in this analysis. It attempts to analyze the dominant classroom patterns in two contexts. Two cases of study were analyzed in this study:...

The Catholic Church's Bicentennial Program to combat social injustice "must involve the full community of the Church if it is to succeed," John Cardinal Dearden said last night. The Archbishop of Detroit outlined a two part social action program of the Catholic bishops of America in his address to the Catholic Committee on Urban Ministry <CCUM) conference. ''Basically, our plan for the American...

Intelligent systems should be able to initiate and understand social interactions, which are always brought about by physical actions. Thus, all physical actions need to be interpreted for their social effects. This paper gives an analytical framework that identifies the main challenges in modelling social interactions. Such interpretation is subjective and might lead to misunderstandings betwe...

Time Magazine proclaimed in 2006 that their “Person of the Year” was “You” in recognition of the growing significance of online communities, social media, and usergenerated content. We believe that this symbolic award is a harbinger of vast technological and societal changes that will unfold over many years—just as the proclamation of the Computer as Time’s 1982 Person of the Year foreshadowed ...

In a semi-naturalistic response-effect compatibility paradigm, participants were given the opportunity to learn that hand-shaking actions would be followed by social effects (human hand-shaking stimuli from a third-person perspective) or inanimate effects (block arrow stimuli). Relative to the actions, these effects appeared on the same or the opposite side of the screen (positional compatibili...

In this paper we present a formal framework for social agents. The social agents consist of four components: the information component (containing knowledge and belief), the action component, the motivational component (where goals, intentions, etc. play arole) and the social component (containing aspects of speech acts and relations between agents). The main aim of this work was to describe al...