Social Interaction

Risk perception is the subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 FT / McKinsey BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOne of the world''s most influential economists sets out the basis for a new s...

This issue focuses on radical interactionism, which recent emergence as an alternative perspective to conventional symbolic interactionism has spar...

This book explores how a civilization, specifically, Western civilization accommodates multiple cultures, their interactions and transformations, h...

Online social networking services have eliminated the four walls of brick and mortar found in traditional networking and now provide global access ...

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conf...

Although the position of Saudi women within society draws media attention throughout the world, young Saudi men remain part of a silent mass, their...

One of the most globally recognised sub-disciplines of social psychology is the field of intergroup relations, which has a strong relationship with...

The concept of the public intellectual has a rich and colorful history. It began in the early twentieth century, when the new mass media catapulted...

Every encounter begins with a greeting. Be it a quick Hello! or the somewhat longer and gracious Sula manchwanta galunga omugobe! shaking hands or ...

In an attempt to better account for the impressive diversity of positions and relations that characterizes the eighteenth-century world, this colle...

Love, Family and Friendship: A Latin American Perspective presents current research on different aspects of interpersonal relationships, including ...

Is happiness catching? Are your friends making you fat? Can your sibling make you smart? Is wealth contagious? Where is true love found? Does free ...

This book is a major documentation of the discursive practices of Africans when they engage in online communication. It presents mainly linguistic ...

This book originates from a basic, yet innovative question: in which forms of qualification and justification do social actors support themselves t...

The Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM) is the first major reference work to integrate fundamental concepts and research dir...