Case ReportOpen accessPhrase in the titleSocial Psychology and Performative Interventions in Human Systems. The GENERATIVE MethodAlessio Nencini, Alessandro Meneghini, Marco PratiThe purpose of this paper is to describe the GENERATIVE method, a methodology for promoting change in human systems (i.e., contexts involving human interactions, such as organizations, communities, institutions). The first part of the paper is focused on the description of the interactionist and constructionist epistemological background adopted. The second is dedicated to the presentation of human systems as socially … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 29 May 2015 · 7,416 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleThe Role of Developmental Psychology to Understanding History, Culture and Social ChangeGeorg W. OesterdiekhoffDevelopmental psychology of the past generations has evidenced that the whole pre-modern humankind stood on pre-operational or concrete-operational stages. Only the modern humankind has also developed the fourth stage of human development, the adolescent stage of formal operations. Lew Vygotski was 1933 one of the first to earmark convincingly the connection of socialisation (school education) and cognitive development as a … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 4 · 29 Jan 2015 · 12,911 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsHow (Un)biased are Airport Security Screening Procedures? A Social-Cognitive ExperimentPoornima Madhavan, Jeremy R. BrownProblem statement: This research examined the role that social-cognitive biases such as gender biases and racial biases play in decision making processes during the screening of carry-on luggage at airports. This research is unique in that no research so far has addressed the social-psychological underpinnings of airport security screening procedures. Approach: Participants (n = 36) performed a computer simulated task … …Current Research in Psychology, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 30 Jun 2010 · 8,009 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsAble-Bodied Individuals’ Initial Interaction Decisions Concerning a Partner in a WheelchairMelissa Ann Tafoya, Paul MongeauEstablishing and maintaining personal relationships is a quintessential part of the human experience, with a few notable exceptions, persons with disabilities have been virtually ignored by relationships scholars. This study seeks to advance disability research by examining how a wheelchair influences able-bodied participant’s perceptions of initial interactions. Using various scenarios, we asked students how they would react if they were … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 4 Dec 2018 · 7,768 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAncient Roman Civilization and Modern, Industrial Society a Contribution to the Sociological Theory of Long-Term Social ChangeGeorg W. Oesterdiekhoff, Stefan BreuerAncient Roman civilization had many technological, economical and institutional prerequisites to develop the modern, industrial society. However, it did not do so but collapsed instead. For centuries researchers try to find the explanations to the rise of modern, industrial society, to the collapse of the ancient civilization and to the differences between ancient and modern societies. Piagetian psychology can help … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 17, Issue 1 · 13 Apr 2021 · 7,827 accessesView PDFCite
Literature ReviewOpen accessIn the abstractSocial Cohesion: Its Meaning and ComplexitiesItumeleng Mekoa, Dauda BusariThe concept Social cohesion is relative and a somewhat difficult concept to define. Many scholars have offered varying degree of definitions but the main challenge noticed in the definition, is the multiple definitions based on individual scholar’s orientation or ideology. Another problem poised by these definitions of the concept is that of multi-level and multi-dimensional nature. Contemporary scholars of social … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 27 Mar 2018 · 9,915 accessesView PDFCite