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Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

They scored higher on social interaction.

States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care.

Social progress.

Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

At first the researchers of the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores on social interaction.

Others are more motivated by collaboration and social experiences.

They help to maintain social stability.

They are deprived of all social benefits.

He is resistant to social changes.

"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

A New Jersey black bear that walks upright on its two back legs and has become a social media darling has re- emerged and has been captured on video months after its last sighting.

Any social group that encourages free exchange of ideas and pursuit of knowledge is beneficial.

As informatization progresses in society, the cause and structural nature of social inequality changes as well.

Current life structures, career paths, educational choices, and social norms are out of tune with the emerging reality of longer lifespans.

Gender norms and social expectations about caregiving may make it more difficult for men to provide care to sick spouses.

given that sustained social contacts have been shown to support health and a long life, those wishing to maximize the health value of crafts might consider joining a group of like-minded folks.

Hunger also outweighed the mice's social needs, the researchers found.

I can't imagine living my professional or social life without international interactions.

In one the focus could be on building financial success and personal achievement, in another on creating a better work/life balance, still another on exploring and understanding options more fully, or becoming an independent producer, yet another on makin

In the study, researchers found that hunger outweighed other physical drives, including fear, thirst and social needs.

It can be hard to identify which parcels are carrying crucial items such as Social Security checks, but USPS and UPS try their best to prioritize sensitive material.

It reached the 23rd floor, and it's legend continued to grow on social media with every floor it climbed.

Its key objective is to place at the centre of recovery efforts measures that would generate high levels of employment and provide basic social protection for the most vulnerable.

Leslie worries that the rise of the Internet, among other social and technological changes, has reduced our appetite for aimless adventures.

mice are usually social animals and prefer to be in the company of other mice, according to the study.

Never afraid to talk up his own accomplishments, a boastful Careme made a fortune as wealthy families with social ambitions invited him to their kitchens.

Scholars of the information society are divided over whether social inequality decreases or increases in an information-based society.

Schools and prisons with craft programs report that they have a calming effect and enhance social skills.

States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and healthcare.

The bear first gained fame after it was spotted wandering around neighborhoods and was caught on videos that were posted on social media and shown on national television.

The family turned to social media expressing their gratitude saying, "From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to deeply thank each and every person that stopped by!"

The museum's social media account has been flooded with messages of support.

These skills are extremely important for our professional, social, and intellectual lives.

They will coordinate with the Social Security Administration to make sure that Social Security checks reach the right people in a timely fashion.

Those who engaged in activities that were not intellectually challenging, either in a social group or alone, did not show such improvements.

The trend of social and economic development.

The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.

If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.

Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.

But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.

Social change.

But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.

a basis for explaining human genetic diversityan aid to understanding different populationsan explanation for social and cultural differencesa term to describe individual human characteristicsmodern genetics research is likely to fuel racial conflictsrace is a poorly defined marker of human genetic diversityrace as a biological term can explain human genetic diversitygenetics research should consider social and cultural variablesit is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosisit is important to include social variables in genetics researchracial categories for genetic diversity could lead to wrong clinical predictionsdiscrimination against black people may cause negligence in clinical treatmentThey be more precise with the language they use.

While we argue phasing out racial terminology in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities between groups, Yudell said.

Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.

The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

E.B.Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people.

Wherever needed, social workers come to help.

We hope you enjoy the series about how you can make a difference by becoming a social worker.

Today we are going to be talking about becoming a social worker.

Throughout these series, you will learn more about the profession, the necessary steps to get a social work degree, the rich history of social work and many ways that social workers help others.

There are more than 600,000 professional social workers in the country, and we all either have a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree or a Ph D in social work.

There are more clinically trained social workers than clinically trained psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined.

The most well-known aspect of the profession is that of a social safety net.

The National Association of Social Workers represents nearly 145,000 social workers across the country.

Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.

Social work is the helping profession.

Social work is different from other professions, because we focus on the person and environment.

Our mission is to promote, protect and advance the social work profession.

Next, we are going to talk about choosing social work.

Later in these series, you will hear from Stacy Collins and Mill Wilson, fellow social workers at the National Association of Social Workers.

I’m a social worker, a lobbyist and a special assistant to the executive director at the National Association of Social Workers.

In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

Hi, I’m Elisabeth Hofler, master of social work.

have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.

They can climb the social ladder even without a degree.

They are concerned about social issues.

Some of the messages mentioned the environment, some financial savings, others social responsibility.

Social science can also teach politician, how to avoid our collective capacity for self-destructive behaviour.

Social norms are primitive and elemental.

Laura Hamilton, the author of a study on parents who pay for college, will argue in a forthcoming book that college administrations arc overly concerned with the social and athletic activities of their students.

It represents social progress.

It raises doctors' awareness of their social responsibilities.

It is the most malicious social evil of our time.

It is the greatest threat to social stability.

It is the biggest obstacle to social mobility.

It is better to start from the community to help poor children move up the social ladder.

It is actually about what their peers think of them, what their social norms are, what is seen as desirable in society.

In the UK, new studies are in development and social scientists are regularly spotted in British government offices.

How do we convince our inner caveman to be greener? We ask some outstanding social scientists.

Fortunately for the planet, social science and behavioural economics may be able to do that for us.

Existing social networks can be more effective in creating change in people's behaviour.

By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they graduate.

But social scientists are most concerned about crafting messages that exploit our group mentality .

"It's been hard not to share pictures of her because people always want to know how babies and toddler (學(xué)走路的孩子) are doing and to see pictures, but we made the decision to have social media while she did not," O'Hanlon said.

A lot of the government advertising has been about individual responsibility, but actually understanding that drinking is very much about the social activity and finding ways to help young people get home safely and not end up in hospital is one of the th

A steady stream of similar headlines accuse the Net and its offspring apps, social media sites and online games of addicting us to distraction.

According to social psychologist Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science, the average data-sharing rate for the journal Psychological Science, which uses the badges, increased tenfold to % from 2013 to 2015.

Additionally, those affected by inadequate health and social care are too vulnerable to launch the protests that have addressed other forms of discrimination.

Although the American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidelines recommending that parents model appropriate social media use for their children, it does not explicitly discuss oversharing by parents.

And this is contrasted by the lady's social skills and common sense.

As marketing professors Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan recently explained in Hazard Business Review HBR, leisure time was once seen as an indicator of high social status, something attainable only for those at the top.

Because children's brain and behavioral disorders, like hyperactivity and lower grades, can also be linked to social and genetic factors, it's tough to pin them on exposure to specific chemicals with solid 33 statistical evidence, which is what the EPA re

But social scientists are most concerned about crafting messages that exploit our group mentality (心態(tài)).

But thinking about or remembering descriptions in terms of their social meaning activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex—part of the brain's social network—even as traditional memory regions registered low levels of activity.

By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are "catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others " who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they gra

Children not as liked by their first-grade peers had slightly lower grades in fifth grade, while those with higher social acceptance had higher grades.

For example, in the case of young people's drinking, one of the things that I've identified is that drinking for people, say, between the ages of 18 and 24, is all about the social activity.

Hale wasn't just a writer, she was also a fierce social advocate, and she was particularly obsessed with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that she claimed had a deep moral influence.

hi, I'm Elisabeth Hofler, master of social work.

I found myself filling my time up with endless work meetings and social events, rushing along as busy as a bee.

I just got the idea a few months ago after posting some holiday photos on my social media accounts.

I post a lot on social media anyway.

If humans are generally geared to recall details about one another, this pattern is probably even more powerful among teenagers who are very attentive to social details: who is in, who is out, who likes whom, who is mad at whom.

I'm a social worker, a lobbyist and a special assistant to the executive director at the National Association of Social Workers.

In the future, they will improve our health care, social welfare and standard of living.

It's particularly striking centuries later when these issues are still prominent in public discussions about social justice and women's rights.

Kate Ratliff, who studies social attitudes at the University of Florida, Gainesville, says that it can seem as if there are two camps in a field—those who care about open science and those who don't.

Laura Hamilton, the author of a study on parents who pay for college, will argue in a forthcoming book that college administrations are overly concerned with the social and athletic activities of their students.

Less inherently interpersonal subjects, such as math, could acquire a social aspect through team problem solving and peer tutoring.

Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

Mott survey found among the 56 percent of mothers and 34 percent of fathers who discussed parenting on social media, 72 percent of them said sharing made them feel less alone, and nearly as many said sharing helped them worry less and gave them advice fro

Our workplace culture, social norms and individual behaviors all play a part.

Research shows that when we absorb information in order to teach it to someone else, we learn it more accurately and deeply, perhaps in part because we are engaging our social cognition.

Researchers have already begun to use smartphones in social scientific research, either to query people regularly as they engage in their normal lives or to record activity using the device's built-in sensors.

Robots capable of social engagement help with loneliness as well as cognitive functioning, but the robot itself doesn't have to engage directly—it can serve as an intermediary for human communication.

Second, they rely on a system that has long been marked by a poor relation between national health and social care services.

since he began to informally announce the network at farming conferences and on social media, he's received a steady stream of inquiries from interested farmers.

So here's another way in which smartphones might transform the way we live and work: by offering insights into human psychology and behavior and, thus, supporting smarter social science.

Social acceptance by peers in early childhood also predicted grades in fifth grade.

Social science can also teach politicians, how to avoid our collective capacity for self-destructive behaviour.

Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers mus

Steinberg pointed out that parental sharing on social media helps build communities, connect spread-out families, provide support and raise awareness around important social issues for which parents might be their children's only voice.

The aim was to enable older people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, but this increased concern about the lack of coordination between free health and paid-for social car.

The data was slightly complicated by the fact that there was a tendency for kids who were social in the real world to also use more online communication, but by bracketing out different cases it became clear that the real-world sociality component correla

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change.

The National Association of Social Workers represents nearly 145, 000 social workers across the country.

The results, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, surprised them.

The same held true for people who used products that implied they were short on time: In one experiment, for example, customers of the grocery-delivery service Peapod were seen as of higher status than people who shopped at grocery stores that were equall

The startup's product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.

And she said social media companies must also take more responsibility.

Andrew Miller thinks social media needs more attention than banks mainly because it remains unknown how users' data will be taken advantage of.

Another study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view "volunteer" as an important social role.

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.

But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another.

But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees.

But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement.

But what starts as fun usage of apps turns into tremendous pressure in real social media interaction at secondary school.

Children as young as ten are becoming dependent on social media for their sense of self-worth, a major study warned.

David Brooks, author of the Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love,Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.

Delayed reward may be expected from news of public affairs, economic matters, social problems, science, education, and health.

During the rosy years of elementary school (小學(xué)), I enjoyed sharing my dolls and jokes, which allowed me to keep my high social status.

Every college discussion about community values, social climate and behavior should include recognition of the developmental importance of student autonomy and self-regulation, of the necessary tension between safety and self-discovery.

Experts say it's an invaluable social practice that results in big benefits.

Fellow robots is one company bringing social robots to the market.

For animals their size, ants have been astonishingly successful, largely due to their wonderful social behavior.

For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward.

For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships.

For many of them, it's a way of meeting people and having a social life.

Good news beats bad on social networks.

He also won praise from social media users after Mr.Anderson posted about the act of kindness on Facebook.

His latest book the social animal, however, is more ambitious and serious than his earlier books.

How are social robots different from household robots?

However, social changes are brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes.

However, those in the 10 to 12 age group were "concerned with how many people like their posts", suggesting a "need" for social recognition that gets stronger the older they become.

I guess that there's probably some demanding work schedule, or social anxiety around stepping up to help for an unknown sport.

If acceptable social behavior is too strictly defined and controlled, the insensitive or aggressive behavior that administrators are seeking to minimize may actually be encouraged.

If students rely on administrators to regulate their social behavior and thinking pattern, they are not facing the challenge of finding an identity within a larger and complex community.

In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest.

In the past two decades, however, continued connection with and dependence on family,thanks to cellphones,email and social media, have increased significantly.

It's an amazing accomplishment and one we cannot achieve without generous support from individuals, corporations, and other social organizations.

It's an opportunity to be social, release endorphins, and improve your strength.

It's partly that his writings rode a wave of social, political and scientific progress.

Keep track of children's use of social media.

Learning to deal with the social world is equally important.

Many of our conversations are gossip, I have noticed three effects of gossip: It can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.

Mothers should be freed from housework for social life.

New compulsory age-appropriate relationship and sex education lessons in England should help equip children to deal with the growing demands of social media.

Other organisations such as banks ask customers to sign long contracts they may not read or understand, but Miller believes social media requires special attention because it is so new.

Participants indicated the degree to which the social role mattered by responding to statements such as "volunteering in hospital is an important part of who I am".

Popularity is a well-explored subject in social psychology.

Reading can be a social activity.

She said social media firms were exposing children to major emotional risks, with some youngsters starting secondary school ill-equipped to cope with the tremendous pressure they faced online.

She said: " children are using social media with family and friends and to play games when they are in primary school.

Small talk is the grease for social communication.

Social media firms would conduct a survey on the kitemark scheme.

Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company jibo.

Social robots are not just finding their way into the home.

Some social app companies were to blame because they didn't adequately check their users' registration.

Some social apps were popular among the children even though they supposedly require users to be at least 13.

Surprisingly, these people live largely by their own laws and their own social customs.

Teresa posted a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website accompanied by the touching words: ＂what a blessing this young man was to our family! he was so sweet and kind to do this.

That's the message from a group of members of the UK government who have been examining how social media firms like Linkedin gather and use social media data.

The changes in our population will have lasting effects on our social development and our way of life.

The measure to reduce risks from social media.

The report found that youngsters felt their friendships could be at risk if they did not respond to social media posts quickly, and around the clock.

The researchers also found that IQ and family social and economic class made no real difference in how the boys turned out.

The shock and anger when a social media firm does something with data that people don't expect, even if users have apparently permission, show that the current situation isn't working.

The values of artistic works, according to cultural relativism, are simply reflections of local social and economic conditions.

The writer advises users of social media to read the terms and conditions even if there is a kitemark.

When a student attacks a professor on the social media, the language used actually says more about the student.

When another person helps us in such ways, he or she is participating in what I've called a social prosthetic system.

Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years.

While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with the social animal lie elsewhere.

While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools.

It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training.

They also focused on important rituals that appeared to preserve a people’s social structure, such as initiation ceremonies that formally signify children’s entrance into adulthood.

Progress in both area is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies; however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong.

Durkheim proposed that religious beliefs functioned to reinforce social solidarity.

Coinciding with the groundbreaking theory of biological evolution proposed by British naturalist Charles Darwin in the 1860s, British social philosopher Herbert Spencer put forward his own theory of biological and cultural evolution.

American social scientist Lewis Henry Morgan introduced another theory of cultural evolution in the late 1800s.

Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who,according to the two-step-flow theory,are supposed to drive social epidemics by influcencing their friends and colleagues directly.

The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observation about social influence,with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media,not interpersonal,influence-even the most influential members of a population simply don’t interact with that many others.

In their recent work,however,some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.

At Harvard, Mr.Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read”—they form a sort of social glue.

This tendency in the natural sciences has long been evident in the social sciences too.

Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.

Within the complex social structure of the scientific community, researchers make discoveries; editors and reviewers act as gatekeepers by controlling the publication process; other scientists use the new finding to suit their own purposes; and finally, the public receives the new discovery and possibly accompanying technology.

The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it’s presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long.

Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of example of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool.

Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful.

Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through networks of friends via social communication.

When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.

Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.

To paraphrase the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter: there is no radical innovation without creative destruction.

This has resulted in protests from social scientists.

These issues all have root causes in human behavior: all require behavioral change and social innovations, as well as technological development.

The social sciences are flourishing.

The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.

The idea is to force social scientists to integrate their work with other categories, including health and demographic change; food security; marine research and the bio-economy; clean, efficient energy; and inclusive, innovative and secure societies.

The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targeted at social scientists.

Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

However, the numbers are still small: in 2010, about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these keywords.

Here, too, the problems are social: the organization and distribution of food, wealth and prosperity.

Global challenges and social innovation ought to receive much more attention from scientists, especially the young ones.

During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems.

But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite.

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.

According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

“The Heart of the Matter,” the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing “progressive,” or left- liberal propaganda.

In response, the American Academy formed the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education”.

But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”

Plus, whatever image we present is magnified by social-media services like LinkedIn.

It tells the fashion industry that it must take responsibility for the signal it sends women, especially teenage girls, about the social tape-measure they must use to determine their individual worth.

But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

His father was a clerk in the British navy pay office –a respectable position, but wish little social status.

A moralist, satirist, and social reformer.

The implication is that Millennials prefer news from the White House to be filtered through other source, Not a president's social media platform.

Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests.

So when young people are critical of an over-tweeting president, they reveal a mental discipline in thinking skills - and in their choices on when to share on social media.

Most Americans rely on social media to check daily headlines.

A 2014 survey conducted in Australia, Britain, and the United States by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that young people's reliance on social media led to greater political engagement.

"The Heart of the Matter," the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

A moralist, satirist, and social reformer Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in "misinterpretation or exaggeration of actual news" via social media.

Across 18 trials each, the living rats were 52 percent more likely on average to set the social robot free than the asocial one.

An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through networks of friends via social communication.

And that's the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

As such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epoch stood.

Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students' educational experiences, many first-generation students lack insight about why they are struggling and do not understand how students like them can improve.

Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influen

But even if you accept Friedman's premise and regard corporate social responsibility policies as a waste of shareholders' money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their li

Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted in fundamental social concepts like liberty and property.

During the experiment, the social robot rat followed the living rats around, played with the same toys, and opened caged doors to let trapped rats escape.

During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate-varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, i

Even among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe symptoms.

Eye contact can be a friendly social signal.

finally, figures close to the France government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e.g., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.

For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on: and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initi

Greg Jaroszewski, a real estate brokers with Gagliardo Realty Associates, said he's not convinced that kids should be involved in selecting a home—but their opinions should be considered in regards to proximity to friends and social activities, if possibl

his father was a clerk in the British Navy Pay office—a respectable position, but with little social status.

In a recent study involving over 400 healthy adults, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania examined the effects of perceived social support and the receipt of hugs on the participants' susceptibility to developing the common cold aft

In a social situation, eye contact with another person can show that you are paying attention in a friendly way.

In an experiment published in 1988, social psychologist Fritz Strack of the University of Würzburg in Germany asked volunteers to hold a pen either with their teeth—thereby creating an artificial smile—or with their lips, which would produce a disappointe

In fact, these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication, which makes absolute sense, since human beings thrive off of social connections.

In his book The tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that "social epidemics" are driven in large part by the actions of a tiny minority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well-connected.

In it, a mother is asked to interact with her child in a normal way before putting on a blank expression and not giving them any visual social feedback.

In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like

In other words, the choice to share news on social media may be the heart of the issue.

In some ways the scientific publishing model resembles the economy of the social internet: labour is provided free in exchange for the hope of status, while huge profits are made by a few big firms who run the market places.

In their recent work, however, some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

It is a kind of social glue.

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them. 　

People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come down with a cold, and the researchers calculated that the stress-reducing effects of hugging explained about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.