Browsing by Subject "human society"
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Faceless heroes: A content analysis of determinants for the recruitment, career development and retention of Emergency Medical Dispatchers in the United States of America
(Elsevier, 2021-05-26)Emergency Medical Dispatchers (EMDs) provide life-critical telephone-based medical advice 24 h a day, 365 days a year. EMDs are the first point of contact but rarely, if ever, meet the public whom they serve. They are ... -
Higher inequality increases the gap in the perceived merit of the rich and poor
(SAGE Publications, 2017-08-08)The rewards people receive are often taken as indirect evidence of their merit. We outline an argument that addresses how the magnitude of macrolevel income inequalities affects perceptions of the distribution of merit in ... -
Ideology shapes how workers perceive and react to workplace discrimination: An experimental study on parenthood discrimination
(Elsevier, 2022-01-29)Employers use ideologically-tinged rhetoric to justify workplace discrimination. We argue that workers will be less likely to label biased treatment against them as discriminatory when they subscribe to those ideologies ... -
Judgments of economic fairness are based more on perceived economic mobility than perceived inequality
(SAGE Publications, 2022-09-29)Are judgments of the fairness of the American economy based on perceptions of economic inequality, mobility, or both? In two experiments, the authors varied information on levels of U.S. inequality and mobility, measuring ... -
Locality and local gazetteers in the republic: a case for the continuity of spatial order
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-04-04)The way late imperial political elites in China positioned themselves in the tianxia - their life world - can be described as a balance between polity and locality, which was often accompanied by an enduring sense of local ... -
Roots of reciprocity: Gratitude and reputation in generalized exchange systems
(SAGE Publications, 2017-12-21)Social scientists often study the flow of material and social support as generalized exchange systems. These systems are associated with an array of benefits to groups and communities, but their existence is problematic, ...