The rise of government by indicators, by figures may reveal a new wave of rationalization organized by the state in the classic Weberian sense. Contemporary forms of government are marked by the rise of indicators, measures and new metrics to compare, certify, codify and evaluate. In many countries, performance measurement has become one of the symbols of the transformation of governance. The p...

Roughly three decades ago, the political dimensions of decision making about the technological hazards embedded in contemporary societies became publicly visible, provoking the emergence of a new politics of risk. Public controversies about what constituted “acceptable risk,” and who should decide and how, proliferated in a wide range of technical domains. Social movements challenged expert def...

In an examination of epidemiology and social time, this paper argues that the time perspective should be an important consideration within epidemiology. Time' is an element to which this field devotes little theoretical attention, although it is present as a part of epidemiology's main concepts. Drawing from history and geography, the text offers historical notes on social time as imposed by gl...

The concept and experience of community have been changing in contemporary societies, from a traditional an idealistic, homogeneous context, characterized by union, to the exploration new forms organization participation. specific characteristics dynamics emerging video game (VG) communities can help us better understand importance cultures. Based on ethnographic study five jams data eight focu...

Political participation has become an important topic in contemporary political thinking. Western scholars’ views that reflect experiences societies have predominant theoretical articulations on participation. This study offers a critical review of the conceptual frameworks democratic and non-democratic societies. Drawing previous research, it developed new definition typology China. It eschews...

The “behavioral immune system” is a motivational system that evolved as a means of inhibiting contact with disease-causing parasites and that, in contemporary human societies, influences social cognition and social behavior. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the behavioral immune system and how it works, along with a review of empirical research documenting its consequences for a wide ...

This article describes self-cultivation practices originating from the cultural traditions of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. It delineates the therapeutic implications of the three states of self pursued by these three traditions: namely, the relational self, the authentic self, and the nonself. Several psychotherapy techniques derived from each of these traditions are discussed in the con...

BACKGROUND The universality of marriage in human societies around the world suggests a deep evolutionary history of institutionalized pair-bonding that stems back at least to early modern humans. However, marriage practices vary considerably from culture to culture, ranging from strict prescriptions and arranged marriages in some societies to mostly unregulated courtship in others, presence to ...

The expression ‘social stratification’ refers to the positions held by individuals and groups in the structures of inequality existing in a society. Specifically, it denotes the classification of individuals and groups into different categories on the basis of the amount of one or more privileges enjoyed by the members of each category and/or the intensity of power that they are able to exert o...