Introduction In recent decades, companies are paying more and more attention to develop and adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. -i.e. the voluntary integration of social and environmental concerns in their companies' operations and in their interaction with stakeholders (European Commission, 2001). ... To further explain the issue, it is firstly necessary to be aware of the previously prevalent theory on agency logic, which lead to the argument of negative relationship between CSR and CFP. ... Sample Selection Issues In addition to the agency logic that influenced t...

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Mental health is a state of wellbeing that the apparent social determinants influence on young individual's health. ... In regards to this health issue, these factors are evidently influenced in which young individuals are impacted on more so negatively than positively. ... Education provides opportunities for young people to learn, enhancing their understanding on this health issue. ... In addition, it is evident that mental health is influenced by these social determinants that include factors, which either influences on the health of young individuals positively or negatively....

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For that purpose, in this essay I will examine the fundamental and legal issues of why in Kazakhstan there is a low concernment of people in exercising their right to vote and participate in the all-nation referendum, guaranteed by the Constitution, and propose some possible solutions for this unavoidable problem. ... Furthermore, the legal issues of the people's right to participate to governance can be supported by the Article 3, where is emphasized that the people shall be the only source of state power. ... And also from my point of view, the population of Kazakhstan more worries ab...

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In Political conservatism as motivated social cognition, Jost et al. first offer a critique as well as an overview of the vast history of relevant research, and then they integrate the various findings and the eclectic theories they have produced under a unifying theory of motivated social cognition. ... In order to satisfy them with a belief formation, however, these needs and motives determine the "extent" and "modes" of information processing as well as the "selective exposure" to available information about given issues (340). ... These two fundamental tenets...

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Sindbis virus is an alphavirus that is transmitted by mosquitoes to animal and human hosts in manygeographical locations worldwide. Sindbis virus is a relatively mild human pathogen but causes mild to severe encephalitis and mortality in mice, thereby serving as a model for related human encephalitic viruses. Our laboratory has extended the use of Sindbis virus as a tool to study the role of programmed cell death in a variety of human disorders. We found that Sindbis virus infects and induces classic apoptotic cell death in a variety of cultured cell lines and in cultured primary neurons. Desp...

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" bioethics is confronted with an extraordinarily difficult quandary: how to reconcile the clearly immense differences in the social and personal realities of moral life with the need to apply a universal standard to those fragments of experience that can foster not only comparison and evaluation but also action."" ... For these reasons, we are compelled to continuously embark on introspective discourses of current systems of understanding health issues as well as the nature of their employment. Equally as important are our prospective discourses so as to deal effectively with health rights i...

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Together all three readings this week highlight the enormous impact disability schemes have on individuals and the monumental task the current reforms have in addressing these issues. Ultimately, any in depth discussion is both outside the scope of this discussion but also my very preliminary understanding of the issue. ... The NDIS is undeniably a social policy delivered within neoliberal economic ideologies. ... Without going into a detailed analysis of the negative consequences of delivering social policy using neo liberal ideologies, it is suffice to say that there is an overwhelmingly lar...

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The cultural and social vortex created by the founders of Passion Christian Conferences precipitates an insincere form of worship and a false religious movement. ... This flexibility to rethink the ways in which a sermon should be delivered and how the listener experiences the message creates a confrontation of issues that are similar to those encountered by the Spanish upon the cross-cultural interaction with the Nahua tribes of Mexico-how religion should be administered, assurance of true devotion, and abandonment of old rituals and behaviors. ... Passion leaders utilize social media, tele...

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The efforts to address this issue should include social movements and practical steps taken to reduce the chances of misuses. ... There are also reports that the availability of SNS increases the chances of students engaging in school bullying and socially excluding targeted classmates. ... As the ease of sharing all kinds of personal information and expanding social networks increases, so will the indirect and non-binding nature of interpersonal connections. ... As for the possible efforts that can be made to deal with these problematic aspects, the first should be the social movements to r...

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Films are often constructions of reality, offering representations of the current issues within a society's culture. ... This representation of society exposes the detrimental effects of a male hegemony, and the subsequent rape culture that flourishes, effectively working to expand the viewer's social awareness of the issues surrounding gender, allowing them to identify and reject misogyny around them. ... Dialogue is also used to represent how social judgment from an oppressively male dominant culture is used to blame the victim, to shame them into silence. ... Communicating to the ...

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The issues of political parties using the Agenda Setting Theory, for political advertising campaigns is questionable of its effectiveness on voter opinions and behavior. ... Social media, as an alternative to traditional media sources, also influences voter opinions and voting behavior. ... Social circle explores how family and friends influence a citizen's opinion and how these relationships impact voting behavior. ... Pre-existing party affiliation determines how strongly a person feels about a specific issue and what that person tends to believe. ... Many negative ads use fear, which h...

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Relevant literature, as well as up to date legislation and policy involving equality and human rights will be used to look at the issue critically, by identifying the inequalities related to class and how it can have an impact upon the social, personal and educational experience of the child within school as well as parent and teacher. ... This will then be followed by, a reflection analysis of how the process of entering a child's experience has affected my understanding of the issues explored in this module. ... An equal approach understands that society is, based on social categories ...

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Computer technology presents many new challenges to social policy regarding issues such as privacy, as it relates to data mining and criminal investigations. ... Within the federal government, departments dealing with law enforcement, national security, criminal justice, the private sector, foreign policy, critical infrastructure and social issues are all involved in the ongoing efforts to develop these solutions. ... On the issue of cyber crime, Canada is an active participant in an number of international organizations such as the G8 Group of Senior Experts on Transnational Organized Crim...

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Noted African-American social psychologist, Kenneth B. ... The author exhorts black leaders to expand their vision and address race neutral issues that significantly affect the African-American community with the same degree of fervor they accord race specific issues. ... The IAF addresses all issues in a race neutral manner in the spirit of interracial cooperation. ... Affirmative action is always a potentially divisive issue. ... As neither group is likely to compromise on this issue and as black Americans generally view affirmative action as indispensable to the ultimate goal of racial equa...

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This era was one of propaganda which blossomed debates over various issues and commonly took on the guise of a battle between good and evil. On the issue of marijuana, the plant itself was characterized as an evil spirit that would infest the youth with addiction in a fashion comparable to demonic possession. ... Of course, like any debatable issue the legalization of marijuana is not a one-sided topic it in fact becomes a delicate comparative of pros and cons which leads to the issue's three-decade strong non-resolvability. ... The half truths that conceived the myths of marijuana came f...

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The early 20-century was a big chaos and had continuous fluctuation of economy in America, and this instability of American society led to several social issues such as unemployment and the growth of large communities of foreign peoples. ... Starting of World War I in 1914 under Wilson's presidency even deepened the economy of American society, so as unemployment became an issue for the society, the nativism began to rise, and Congress started to restrict enormous amount of immigrants with the establishment of new laws. ... Since America was in great economic, social, and politic fluc...

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This extract, which is taken from chapter eight of George Orwell's Animal Farm, revolves around this issue. ... He maintains control of his subjects by ramifying its ideology throughout a variety of political and social institutions, including religion, education and art. ... Equally important, one needs to highlight the parallelism between events in this fable and the political and social situation in the Soviet Union under the reign of Joseph Stalin. ... Orwell seeks to assert that they both seem to conform to the political and social notion of the happy slave that perpetuates public su...

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After the invention of automobiles from the 18th century till the 21st century, the majorities of people all around the world have started to prefer using fuel-powered vehicles to horses, chariots, or walking because it is believed that driving a car can show the high social status in the society and that owning as many cars as possible can show the wealth to the public. ... In favor of the increasing trend for private vehicles, public means of transportation buses, trolleybuses, trams and trains, and rapid transit including metro, subways or underground (Wikipedia, 2015), should hig...

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An interrelated issue that was linked to this issue was the issue of race. ... Now in order to understand Lincoln's opinion on how the issue of slavery should be dealt with while adhering to the Constitution, one must look at Lincoln's opinion of race. ... This is true because Lincoln himself supported a law in Illinois that forbade intermarriage relations between blacks and whites, stating in one the Lincoln-Douglas debates to counter Douglas's argument that he was favoring the social equality of black people. "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of ...

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The film has avoided the typical Hollywood style sexuality and violence embedded in blockbuster films, obviously to expose a serious scientific issue that is currently unfolding before us in the "not so distant future". ... Secondly, the conflict theory can also clarify the reasons behind the social rigidity expressed in the film. ...

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The novel speaks to the development of the notion that the transition from China to America brings upon estrangement that can bear pains and gains for Asian American families and through Leila's interactions with her family and the relationship she has with them, the reader is able to see the representation and assimilation of the Asian American Identity in the United States and the social and economic struggles that comes along with it. ... This life has been seen as easier to Leila, there at times where she wants to escape and pursue an "American Dream" but she is too tied t...

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Indian political discourse has focused on specific policy measures and client patron relationship between social groups and political parties. ... Community mobilization also became a means of empowerment of more social groups such as the unification of Dalits under Scheduled Caste movement culminating in the formation of a political party and rich rural peasantry mobilising through the demands of reservation for Other Backward Castes. ... Democracy has a protective value in the context of persistent traditional social order where gains from growth may be cornered by elite. ... However, evolut...

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The failure to address these issues crumbles the foundation of the strength of the argument he tries to make. ... Rauch truly exploits every successful example of biotechnology to explicitly address how its implementation can be successfully used to deal with so many known environmental issues that could never be solved by natural or traditional farming. ... Issues such as these cause great concern for his audience which diminishes the power of his argument. He mentions these social and economic problems are solvable with the use of money and attention, but does not provide any effective solu...

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The value of liberty must be reflected throughout all social, economic and political structures of successful anarchist civilizations, structures such as in the workplace. ... These independent working groups meet on a wide variety of social concerns and "confederate" to bring proposals on the issues back to the general assembly so that decisions are "made as democratically as possible by those affected.... All supporters of social anarchism, anarchism formed on the basis of decentralized social relations, agree on the idea of self-management throughout economic and social relat...

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However, a problem arises in interpreting such correlations for, as McClelland (1973) has pointed out, in the absence of controls for socioeconomic level, which is highly correlated with both IQ and credentialing, it is impossible to determine to what extent the correlations between IQ and job performance were mediated by social advantage. ... The results uniformly suggest that various kinds of practical knowledge and abilities, such as the ability to get along with others and tacit knowledge about what is expected, are often far more important for success than intellectual ability as measu...

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