Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way, Hasia R. Diner. Yale University Press, New Haven (2015), 247 pp.
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): R. William Weisberger (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Globalization and Environment Reader, Peter Newell, J. Timmons Roberts (Eds.). Wiley-Blackwell (2016), 454 pp., ISBN: 978-1-118-96413-2
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Erin Pischke (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The importance of International Collaboration, collegiality, and the free flow of people and ideas
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Michèle Companion (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
To the Reader: Introduction to the Special Section of the SSJ on Amitai Eztioni’s Essay
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Stephanie L. Witt (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Amitai Etzioni: Communitarian Centrist and Principled Pluralist
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Paul Schumaker (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Moral dialogs
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Amitai EtzioniAbstractMoral dialogs are social processes through which people form new shared moral understandings. They differ from reasoned deliberations because they are focused on values and not on facts, logic or reason. They differ from irrational passions because value statements require moral justifications. Such dialogs take place not just in families and communities, but often on national levels and sometimes even on transnational ones. They played a core role in major societal changes brought about by social movements, s...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Sociology: Moral dialogues and normative change
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Hilary SilverAbstractMoral dialogues are one mechanism of cultural change, allowing communities to resolve conflicts and revise the fundamental norms and values governing their members’ relationships. This essay illustrates the moral dialogue process with the debates over sexual harassment in the Trump era. Victimized women launched a transnational “megalogue” that pervaded politics, business, entertainment, academia, and other spheres. It transformed norms, institutions, and enforcement of acceptable behavior in employment a...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Communitarian idealism?
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): James M. Jasper (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The relevance of moral dialogs for policy studies and political science
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Donald P. Haider-Markel (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Political science: Moral dialogues and our understanding of American politics
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Nicholas P. LovrichAbstractThis commentary focuses on the connection between Etzioni’s moral dialogues conception and the concepts of social capital, civil society and the ultimate outcome to be anticipated from the election of Donald Trump in 2016. The optimist view that a progressive social movement is in the making is called somewhat into question given the well documented decline in the very institutions and trust-based norms essential for the moral dialogues in question to transpire. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Moral dialogs and public opinion research
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Jeffrey LyonsAbstractEtzioni’s article is thought provoking, and contains a series of arguments that would be useful lines of inquiry for scholars of public opinion. In many ways, these ideas link to, and can enrich existing areas of research on opinion formation, opinion change, and political behavior more broadly. Specifically, the elite vs. mass nature of these dialogs, the extent to which they are actual political discussions, and the impact of polarization on them are avenues where these ideas can inform broader understandin...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The role of the media in developing a shared moral understanding
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Bradley WilsonAbstractOver the last few decades, research has shown that media outlets are good at telling people what to think about, fulfilling what researchers call the agenda-setting role of the media. To that end, media outlets from social media to newspapers can play a pivotal role in developing a shared moral understanding. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social capital and health at the country level
This study examines the relationship between social capital and health. We use various estimation methods such as pooled OLS, a split-sample approach, a quadratic regression, and fixed effects model to investigate country-level unbalanced panel data of 194 countries for the time period 1990–2015. The results support the negative effect of bonding social capital and the positive effect of bridging social capital on health. The effects are more pronounced in low income countries. The first contribution of the paper is to better explain the mixed results of previous studies by focusing on the distinction between the two typ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mobile use, personal values, and connectedness with civic life
This study aims to examine whether and how mobile communication enables citizens to translate their value orientations into their connectedness to the civic life. Specifically, we probe the indirect process in which different types of personal values predict key dimensions of engagement with civic affairs through patterns of mobile phone use. We show that individualism is indirectly associated with engagement with civic affairs through informational mobile use, whereas the link between collectivism and community involvement is positively intervened by relational mobile use. Additionally, socio-tropic empathy yields indirec...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Selective exposure to partisan media: Moderating factors in evaluations of the president
This study proposes that moderating factors have different effects on conservative and liberal news consumers. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
