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Status Struggles: Network Centrality and Gender Segregation in Same- and Cross-Gender Aggression
Robert Faris,Diane Felmlee +1 more
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Literature on aggression often suggests that individual deficiencies, such as social incompetence, psychological difficulties, or troublesome home environments, are responsible for aggressive behavior as mentioned in this paper, which is not the case.Abstract:
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Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed
David S. Yeager,Carol S. Dweck +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that students who believe that intellectual abilities are qualities that can be developed (as opposed to qualities that are fixed) tend to show higher achievement across challenging school transitions and greater course completion rates in challenging math courses.
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The Latino threat: constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation : Leo R. Chavez, Stanford University Press 2008. 272 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0804759342 ()
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The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: Implications for science, policy, and practice
Bruce J. Ellis,Marco Del Giudice,Thomas J. Dishion,Aurelio José Figueredo,Peter Gray,Vladas Griskevicius,Patricia H. Hawley,W. Jake Jacobs,Jenée James,Anthony A. Volk,David Wilson +10 more
TL;DR: The evolutionary model contends that understanding the evolutionary functions of adolescence is critical to explaining why adolescents engage in risky behavior and that successful intervention depends on working with, instead of against, adolescent goals and motivations.
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The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens
TL;DR: Benhabib argues that the central principles that shape our thinking about political membership and state sovereignty are in tension, if not outright contradiction, with one another as mentioned in this paper, and argues for an internal reconstruction of both, underscoring the significance of membership in bounded communities, while at the same time promoting the cultivation of democratic loyalties that exceed the national state, supporting political participation on the part of citizens and noncitizen residents alike.
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Changing climates of conflict: A social network experiment in 56 schools
TL;DR: It is shown that it is possible to reduce conflict with a student-driven intervention, and the power of peer influence for changing climates of conflict is demonstrated, and which students to involve in those efforts is suggested.
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Perceptions of interdependence and closeness in family and peer relationships among adolescents with and without romantic partners
Brett Laursen,Vickie Williams +1 more
TL;DR: Across the adolescent years, interdependence and perceived closeness shift from parents to peers, with patterns that differ somewhat for adolescents with and without a romantic partner.
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Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
TL;DR: We the sisters of the church feeling that we are interested in the welfare of the same and also working hard to finish the house and have been working by night and day as discussed by the authors.
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Unnecessary roughness? School sports, peer networks, and male adolescent violence
TL;DR: The authors examined the extent to which participation in high school interscholastic sports contributes to male violence and found that football players and wrestlers are significantly more likely than nonathletic males to be involved in a serious fight.
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Collision of Wills: How Ambiguity about Social Rank Breeds Conflict
TL;DR: Gould as mentioned in this paper argues that human conflict is more likely to occur in symmetrical relationships among friends or social equals than in hierarchical ones, wherein the difference of social rank between the two individuals is already established, and that violence most often occurs when someone wants to achieve superiority or dominance over someone else, even if there is no substantive reason for doing so.