Informal exchanges between friends, family and acquaintances play a crucial role in the dissemination of news and opinion. These casual interactions are embedded in a network of communication that spans our society, allowing information to spread from any one person to another via some set of intermediary ties. Weblogs have recently emerged as a part of our media ecology, and incidentally engen...

To better understand and manage complex systems like ecosystems it is critical to know the relative contribution of the system components to the system function. Ecologists and social scientists have described a diversity of ways that individuals can be important; This paper makes two key contributions to this research area. First, it shows that throughflow (Tj), the total energy or matter ente...

1. Holism in biology 1.1 Reductionism, Mechanism, and Individualism 1.2 Vitalism 1.3 Emergentism 1.4 Examples: Physiology 1.5 Examples: Ecology 1.6 Examples: Evolutionary Biology 1.7 Examples: Genetics 1.8 Recurring Themes 2. Holism in physics 2.1 Holism in space–time theories 2.2 Holism in quantum physics 3. Holism in the social sciences 3.1 What is social holism? 3.2 Two types of social holis...

The production of iron-scavenging siderophores by the opportunistic animal pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a textbook example of public goods cooperation. This trait provides an excellent model system with which to study cooperation. Further, the links between siderophore production and P. aeruginosa virulence allow us to investigate how pathogen ecology, social behaviour and pathology might...

not offspring survival in a cooperative cichlid Rick Bruintjes, Zina Heg-Bachar and Dik Heg* Department of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Hinterkappelen, Switzerland; School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Bern, Switzerland; a...

This Series paper describes programming to prevent violence against women and girls, and emphasises the importance of systematic, sustained programming across the social ecology (ie, the delicate equilibrium of interacting social, institutional, cultural, and political contexts of people's lives) to transform gender-power inequalities. Effective prevention policy and programming is founded on f...

1 Department of Sociology and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington 2 Department of Sociology, University of Washington 3 Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington 4 School of Public Health, Harvard University 5 Department of Statistics, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences,...

Philipp Sprau, Tobias Roth, Rouven Schmidt, Valentin Amrhein, and Marc Naguib Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Boterhoeksestraat 48, 6666 GA Heteren, The Netherlands, Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne, 1 Rue de la Pisciculture, 68300 Saint-Louis, France, University of Basel, Zoological Institute, Vesalgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland, and Com...

© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Hipp, John R., and Charis E. Kubrin. 2017. “From Bad to Worse: How Changing Inequality in Nearby Areas Impacts Local Crime.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(2): 129–51. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.06. This research is supported in part by NIJ grant 2012R2CX0010. We thank George Galster and Nicholas Branic for comments on an earlier...