News sourcing practices are critical as they shape from whom journalists get their information and what information they obtain, mostly from elite sources. This study evaluates whether social media platforms expand the range of actors involved in the news through a quantitative content analysis of the sources cited by NPR’s Andy Carvin on Twitter during the Arab Spring. Results show that, on ba...

We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations of nonprofits in 100 American cities: elite-oriented cultural and educational institutions, and socialwelfare oriented organiza...

This paper is a comparative study of the elite capture in Pakistan and developmental structure South Korea. The seeks to examine: why does Pakistani state remain captured by social actors, despite similar post-colonial geopolitical trajectories Korea, failing set up transform into an Asian tiger? On other hand, Korea was able become achieved high rates economic growth, uplifting living standard...

Audiences are usually seen as groups of people who collectively or individually read, watch or hear works of arts. This mode of relationship is referred to as reception as opposed to creation, which is supposed to be the productive stage of the artistic communication process. Art becomes the product of an independent elite, which does not respond to an audience's demands but opposes the dominan...

Using surname distributions, we compare long run social mobility rates for elite and underclass groups in India 1860-2012, with those of other societies such as Sweden and the USA. It is not clear whether recent social mobility rates in India should be higher or lower than in the West. The caste system notoriously embedded privilege in elite castes. But since Independence a quota of places in h...

Phase I. Discovering the new construct’s domain space (i.e., the relevant associated behaviors within the environment encompassed by the proposed construct) (determine the key behaviors that best represent a construct, from the perspective of the theory-based literature, experts, and target participants for whom the construct is being defined) Step 1a. Behavioral elicitation through literature ...

The main contribution of this book is the ‘law of social mobility’: underlying social status in families regresses only slowly toward the mean, with a persistence rate of 0.75, and this persistence rate is constant across all societies. The persistence rate can be interpreted as the intergenerational correlation of underlying social status. Underlying social status, or social competence, is nev...