989 research outputs found
Social Status and Egalitarianism in Non-Lineage-Based, Agrarian Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Funeral Attendance
No full textThis paper explores the role of social status in relationships between richer and
poorer households in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities by analyzing who goes to whose funerals in six resettled Zimbabwean villages. Funerals allow social status to be observed because non-attendance is a sign of disrespect. We find that the richer a household hosting a funeral, the less likely heads of neighboring households were to attend. This is consistent with the existence of an egalitarian norm that was being violated, to some degree, by the richer households. This norm is stronger among kin but also holds for non-kin. An analysis of assistance provision offers no evidence that some richer households complied with the norm and eschewed punishment. While the egalitarian norm appears weak (punishment for norm violation was exerted but compliance did not follow), patron-client relationships appear not to have emerged in its place
Dr. Abigail Cheever – Faculty Author Interview
No full textAbigail Cheever, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Film Studies Program, discusses her new book, Real Phonies : Cultures of Authenticity in Post-World War II America, published by the University of Georgia Press. By focusing on authenticity and identity, Dr. Cheever analyzes the changing representation of adolescence, depression, serial killers, Jewish and African American experience, and corporations in the transition from existentialism to post-structuralism and multiculturalism in America
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2016-2017: Abigail Brooks
Get PDFIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Abigail Brooks (Women\u27s Studies, Providence College) discusses her newest book The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2016-2017: Abigail Brooks
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Abigail Brooks (Women\u27s Studies, Providence College) discusses her newest book The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention
Statewide drought and heat needs assessment with Oregon farmers and ranchers
No full textlead author: Berit Dinsdale, Ph.D. ; project supervisors and co-contributors: María Zamora Re, Ph.D. and Abigail Tomasek, Ph.D.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-70).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Land fragmentation under rapid urbanization: A cross-site analysis of Southwestern cities
No full textabstract: Using National Land Cover Data we analyzed land fragmentation trends from 1992 to 2001 in five southwestern cities associated with Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites.Corresponding Author:
Abigail M. York
Arizona State University
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Seeking solutions to Vulnerability in Old Age: Preferences, constraints, and alternatives for coverage under Peru's pension system
Get PDFExploiting new data from a survey and behavioral experiment conducted in Peru we analyze individuals?preferences for securing income in old age. We identify a group that is unrationed by the mandate to save in Peruç—´ pension system, and draw insights from their affiliation and contribution behavior. Among the unrationed, those who are more tolerant of risk, have more children, and have a greater share of housing in their accumulated assets are less likely to affiliate and/or contribute to the formal pensions system. Further, the less risk tolerant choose private individual retirement accounts over a publicly administered pension system.Pensions, vulnerability, risk preferences, Latin America
On the social appropriateness of discrimination
Get PDFUnderstanding what motivates discrimination is of importance to economists and social scientists in general. In this paper, the authors address whether the taste to discriminate against outsiders is related to social norms. Recent studies have shown various different types of economic behaviour are more likely to occur when they are perceived to be more socially appropriate. The theoretical work of Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2005) suggests discrimination will also be stronger when social norms favour it. This paper tests whether such a relationship exists. In this Nottingham School of Economics working paper, Abigail Barr, Tom Lane and Daniele Nosenzo use experimental methods to address the question. They find participants perceive it to be more socially appropriate to discriminate on the basis of social identities artificially induced, using a trivial minimal group technique, than on the basis of nationality, a natural social identity. Correspondingly, they find that participants discriminate more in the artificial identity setting. These results suggest social norms, and the preference to comply with them, do indeed affect discriminatory decisions, and that the social inappropriateness of discrimination can help reduce discriminatory behaviour
Updating the criminal law on child neglect: protecting children from severe emotional abuse
No full textPaper by Abigail Gill (Policy and Research Assistant at the charity Action for Children) concerned with updating the law on child neglect to protect children from emotional neglect. The author highlights the problem, the need for legislation, the detail of that legislation and the mechanism for bringing forward that legislative change. This paper gives the perspective of a body campaigning for a change in the law
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