The psychologist and social scientist are aware of the complexities of phenomena in their own field and may look upon the metaphors and analogies of the cyberneticians with skepticism. The danger is that eventually some cybernetician goes astray and makes proposals which to the psychologist and social scientist are completely outrageous. The end point of the process may come when each field ret...

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in how strategic action influences network structure. Motivated by the widespread belief that ‘networks matter’ in the process of reaching personal objectives, it is a natural assumption that rational actors will try to strategically arrange their ties in order to optimize their expected utility. Starting from the notion that there exist rival the...

There is much knowledge about dementia from the social sciences and one way of organising it is to see it as part of professional learning. This book is such a text: it provides social scientists with an insight into dementia knowledge and for those with practice experience it provides illustrations of how the social sciences can help to make sense of this work. There is room for such a text in...

As the body of Information Systems (IS) research on social media grows, it faces increasing challenges of staying relevant to real world contexts. We analyze and contrast research on social media in the e-government field and in IS research, by reviewing and categorizing 63 studies published in key journal outlets, in order to identify and complement research foci and gaps. We find that, in com...

This paper focuses on the problems involved in developing cross-country comparisons of the intergenerational stance of fiscal policy. Of course, these comparisons are nowadays based on the method of generational accounting and in particular most of them rely on comparing the total size of intertemporal public liabilities (IPLs). I first utilize the machinery of generational accounting in order ...

Fixing a watch does not mean one understands the future and understanding the nature of time, does not mean one can repair a watch. Fixing a watch requires technical skills and a theory of moving parts; understanding the future requires much more diverse skills; to begin with: an understanding and appreciation of theories of social change, cultural mythology, and the politics of epistemology. B...

Objectives: Social capital has been recognized as one important social determinant for health, but we still have limited knowledge about how it can be used to explain inequality in health. This study investigated the links between individual social capital and self-rated health by gender and educational level, and analyzed if access to social capital might explain the observed disparities in se...

the construct quality of life is analytical, practical, construct and a main element in policy- making and the study of policies in public sphere as well as it has been known as an indicator in social development. the characters of the construct as dynamic, multidimensional, and has been diversity conceptions about it due to using more fields in their studies. however this attention caused to i...