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Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's...
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This lecture delivered to an international Conference in Norway on social exclusion and marginalization offered a preliminary approach to capture social exclusion phenomena as capability deprivation. It also offers a first sketch about the several methods of inquiry with regards to the different...
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affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise … this power by influencing their followers choice of action. We study a two-action model for a society with opinion leaders … choice is made by simple majority of the actions chosen by each member. For this model, we axiomatize satisfaction and power …
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interactions among social groups in a setting where one group has captured power. While using a model featuring random matching and … repeated games, it is shown that whenever one group seizes power, members of other groups will perceive additional value in …. However, not all societies that have experienced power captures converge towards segregation. It is shown that the proportion …
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Opinion leaders are actors who have some power over their followers as they are able to influence their followers … opinion leaders. We introduced a power and a satisfaction score and studied some common properties. In this paper we …
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What are the implications of Piketty's Capital for sociology and political science? Capital's argument focuses on the evolution of the r/g ratio (capital returns over growth rate) and outlines two modes of economic inequalities. One is characteristic of affluent (g r) societies and the other is...
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, norms that appear abstract and universal take into account the bargaining power of the two sides. The strong side bends the … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees : Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations … principles to actions is mainly the fact of individuals who behave more selfishly and who have a stronger bargaining power. The …
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Opinion leaders are actors who have some power over their followers as they are able to influence their followers … opinion leaders. We introduced a power and a satisfaction score and studied some common properties. In this paper we …
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inclination to choose one of the actions. By definition opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they exercise … this power by influencing the behavior of their followers, i.e. their choice of action. After all actors have chosen their … bipartite digraphs we introduce novel satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power …
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Opinion leaders are actors who have some power over their followers as they are able to influence their followers … opinion leaders. We introduced a power and a satisfaction score and studied some common properties. In this paper we …
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