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Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon 重塑采矿项目的社会接受度:巴西亚马逊地区社会影响评估的贡献

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231203173

Jacques Demajorovic, Viviane Pisano, Adriano Augusto França Pimenta

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Sustainability and the politics of the body in alternative food consumption: An embodied materialist perspective 可持续性和替代食品消费中的身体政治:体现唯物主义的观点

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231206493

Alice Dal Gobbo

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Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns Femtech应用程序和印度生殖机构的量化:问题和关注

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231206491

Paro Mishra, Ravinder Kaur, Shambhawi Vikram, Prashastika Sharma

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The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century 政治争论的构成：19 世纪之交的抗议和骚乱案例

IF 2 3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/00113921221084359

J. Gøtzsche-Astrup

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From project-based to community-based social impact assessment: New social impact assessment pathways to build community resilience and enhance disaster risk reduction and climate action 从以项目为基础的社会影响评估到以社区为基础的社会影响评估:建立社区复原力、加强减少灾害风险和气候行动的社会影响评估新途径

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231203168

Angelo Jonas Imperiale, Frank Vanclay

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Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context 社会媒体和社会影响评估:在不断变化的背景下不断发展的方法

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231203179

Kate Sherren, Yan Chen, Mehrnoosh Mohammadi, Qiqi Zhao, Keshava Pallavi Gone, HM Tuihedur Rahman, Michael Smit

{"title":"Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context","authors":"Kate Sherren, Yan Chen, Mehrnoosh Mohammadi, Qiqi Zhao, Keshava Pallavi Gone, HM Tuihedur Rahman, Michael Smit","doi":"10.1177/00113921231203179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921231203179","url":null,"abstract":"Among many by-products of Web 2.0 come the wide range of potential image and text datasets within social media and content sharing platforms that speak of how people live, what they do, and what they care about. These datasets are imperfect and biased in many ways, but those flaws make them complementary to data derived from conventional social science methods and thus potentially useful for triangulation in complex decision-making contexts. Yet the online environment is highly mutable, and so the datasets are less reliable than censuses or other standard data types leveraged in social impact assessment. Over the past decade, we have innovated numerous methods for deploying Instagram datasets in investigating management or development alternatives. This article synthesizes work from three Canadian decision contexts – hydroelectric dam construction or removal; dyke realignment or wetland restoration; and integrating renewable energy into vineyard landscapes – to illustrate some of the methods we have applied to social impact assessment questions using Instagram that may be transferrable to other social media platforms and contexts: thematic (manual coding, machine vision, natural language processing/sentiment analysis, statistical analysis), spatial (hotspot mapping, cultural ecosystem modeling), and visual (word clouds, saliency mapping, collage). We conclude with a set of cautions and next steps for the domain.","PeriodicalId":47938,"journal":{"name":"Current Sociology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136070179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA 重新连接到社会:重新定位和重新调整的SIA的本体论基础

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231203172

Richard Howitt, Dyanna Jolly

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Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts 洪水风险下社会脆弱性的生成过程:社会影响的战略管理建议

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231203174

Pablo Aznar-Crespo, Antonio Aledo, Guadalupe Ortiz, Arturo Vallejos-Romero

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Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa 精简21世纪的社会影响评估和灾害风险评估——来自南非的观点

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231203175

Leandri Kruger, Luke Sandham, Dewald van Niekerk

{"title":"Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa","authors":"Leandri Kruger, Luke Sandham, Dewald van Niekerk","doi":"10.1177/00113921231203175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921231203175","url":null,"abstract":"Despite considerable improvements in social impact assessment practice, the shortfalls and neglected status of social impact assessment persist. Integrated impact assessments have been suggested to address some of these shortcomings. Due to its transdisciplinary nature, disaster risk assessment has been identified as an emerging area that could assist social impact assessment in managing social changes and risks and improving community resilience. Emerging research from South Africa and abroad have shown that social impact assessment–disaster risk assessment integration offers opportunities for streamlining and improved practice across four areas, that is, theoretical discourses, legislative and statutory provisions, practitioner perspectives and combined methodologies. The resulting streamlined social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment will be more suitable for 21 st -century challenges, allowing for enriched social impact assessment practice, contributions to social sustainability and strengthening of the social resilience of at-risk communities. From observations of the South African context, we suggest that streamlined social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment will optimally address the challenges of developing sustainably and enhancing the resilience of at-risk societies in the 21st century in South Africa, the global south and also the rest of the world.","PeriodicalId":47938,"journal":{"name":"Current Sociology","volume":"2017 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135219779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts 解析全球气候政治与地方的关系:可再生能源、社区斗争和社会影响

3区社会学

Current Sociology Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.1177/00113921231203177

Nain Martínez

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