Professional elevators to the Russian political elite by N. A. Yushkina

“…The article identifies and analyses the main professions-suppliers of personnel to the authorities, reveals their role in the formation of the Russian managerial political elite, and also considers professional spheres and social groups from which incorporation into the political class occurs. …”
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Land, power and conflict in Afghanistan: seeking to understand complexity by Adam Pain

“…How such conflicts play out, and which social groups or individuals they involve, also depend to a large degree on spatial positioning.…”
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A inserção do artigo 227 na Constituição Federal de 1988: os movimentos sociais, os atores políticos e a causa do menor by Maria Nilvane Fernandes, Angela Mara de Barros Lara

“…In the sequence, the documentary analysis highlights the movements involved in the five Popular Amendments that collected almost two million signatures, broadening the boundaries of the discussion, and expressing the dynamics of social groups. The article concludes that in the context of the insertion of article 227 into the Federal Constitution, social movements and political actors had not surpassed the term minor in the formal setting. …”
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SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SPACE IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT by Marina A. Vasilyeva

“…The article examines the main positions that are important for the concept of “environmental design” that developed at that time: an instrumental attitude to space and the deliberate variability of forms, the projectivity of the environment, as well as the presence of social groups that have access to this design. The author suggests considering the Enlightenment (the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century) as the beginning of a great deal of work on creating effective methods and techniques for creating spaces in which social and political goals were realized through aesthetic techniques.…”
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Protocol for public opinion survey, Ecuador 2025 by Javier Chiliquinga-Amaya, Marco Faytong-Haro, Romina Sánchez, Michela Andrade, Efraín Vásquez, Patricio Alvarez-Muñoz

“…The main objective is to understand how trust in different social groups and institutions, perceptions of security, and gender roles influences these political attitudes. …”
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SOCIAL PROTEST IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIA by L. M. Efimova

“…There impact varies in different regions of the country, on various social groups of Indonesian population. As a consequence forms and modes of the social protest are different in diverse regions of the country and among various social and ethnic groups. …”
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МИРОВОЗЗРЕНЧЕСКИЕ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ В ЭПОХУ ПОСТИНДУСТРИАЛЬНОГО ОБЩЕСТВА by R. Y. Chyhur

“…Availability of information, awareness of various social groups, media development, the existence of opportunities for rapid feedback – all these changes occur not only in the society, but also some of its scope and structure, including education, labour, intellectual abilities, values, family. …”
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Trust and Distrust in a Democratic State of Law by Marta Krasoń, Robert Krasoń

“…Trust is one of the most prominent values for maintaining cohesion of social groups and, more broadly, whole societies. People had to first have trust in themselves in order to trust the law and the state and, eventually, to have the state to trust them. …”
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PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY AS A SOCIAL MECHANISM OF REALIZATION OF PERSONNEL POLICY IN HEALTH CARE by O. V. Plotnikova

“…The social nature of this mechanism is analyzed on the levels of Russian society, social groups, health workers and at the level of individual physician and health worker. …”
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Land Conflict, Territorial Reconfiguration and the Values Tied to Land in the Cahabón Mountains (Guatemala) by Agnès Bergeret

“…At each sequence in this process, social and territorial organisation patterns have been transformed by the confrontation between the region’s two local social groups: the mixed-race Ladinos and the native Mayan-Q’eqchi’. …”
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Céréales, pains, levains et fours dans la région d'El Hoceima by Dominique Caubet, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas

“…Our cross-disciplinary ethnobotanical and linguistic approach focuses on discourses and terms that seek to better understand the uses of different forms of speech and to convey what the social groups under study attribute to prepared foods and to the nature of the plants that make them up. …”
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How does Legalization alter Islamists’ Electoral Strategies? A Comparative Study of Mauritania’s Tawassoul Party in the 2006 and 2013 Local Elections by Matt Buehler

“…This study concludes by positing a potential explanation, focusing on the party’s desire to attract support from marginalized social groups based in rural areas, especially Haratine voters.…”
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The Fractured Self: Exploring Selfhood in the Neuronovel The Echo Maker and the Neuromemoir Brain on Fire by Bonnie Cross

“…I argue that The Echo Maker and Brain on Fire complicate the perception of selfhood as the main character in each text can no longer trust their own perceptions and must instead weave together their fragmented personal experience, background from their social groups, and scientific explanations of their conditions to regain a sense of self. …”
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Conflit foncier, reconfiguration territoriale et valeurs de la terre dans les montagnes de Cahabón (Guatemala) by Agnès Bergeret

“…At each sequence in this process, social and territorial organisation patterns have been transformed by the confrontation between the region’s two local social groups: the mixed-race Ladinos and the native Mayan-Q’eqchi’. …”
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Stratégies territoriales amérindiennes dans un contexte pluri-ethnique : la région de Auaris (Roraima) by François-Michel Le Tourneau

“…We then show what are the strategies of the three main social groups present in the area (the Sanuma, the Ye’kuana, the “Whites”). …”
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Active Ageing Level of Older Persons: Regional Comparison in Thailand by Md. Nuruzzaman Haque

“…Implementation of an Integrated Active Ageing Package (IAAP), containing policies for older persons to improve their health and economic security, to promote participation in social groups and longer working lives, and to arrange learning programs, would be helpful for increasing older persons’ active ageing level in Thailand.…”
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Un avenir post-nucléaire ? Les atermoiements des acteurs du territoire de Trino (Italie) en contexte de démantèlement by Maude Gallimard, Cesare Mattina

“…From a diachronic perspective, this article shows how the various actors and social groups of this territory went through the phase of decline in nuclear production (referendum of 1987 decreeing a moratorium on the construction of new plants), the uncertain phase of the shutdown of nuclear power plants production (1990), and then passive safety (1990-2003) and dismantling (since 2003) to settle in the lasting uncertainty of dismantling and waste management, waiting for a national repository that, in Italy, has still not been realized. …”
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Psychological mechanisms of group influence on individual behavior by S. A. Ganat

“…The paper analyzes psychological mechanisms of group influence on individual behavior, including conformity, social suggestion, authority pressure, and imitation, which have a decisive influence on individual behavior formation in social groups. Special attention has been paid to these mechanisms’ transformation under the influence of digital media and new communication technologies in the context of globalization. …”
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Cadres théoriques mobilisant les concepts de résilience et de vulnérabilité by Pauline Buchheit, Patrick d’Aquino, Olivier Ducourtieux

“…The concepts of resilience and vulnerability have been used in different disciplines to analyze and manage the dynamics of geographical areas and social groups facing rapid and uncertain changes. Both concepts are used within a variety of frameworks of analysis of society-environment relationships. …”
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Formation of political organizations in Western Siberia during fragmentation and collapse of CPSU. 1989–1991 by S. V. Novikov

“…The events of the 1980s, perestroika in the USSR and the rapid process of politicization of relations between social groups, require further analysis. The actual material accumulated and processed in a series of dissertations and monographic West Siberian studies makes it possible to analyze the contribution of political forces that appeared during the years of perestroika to the destruction of the administrativecommand system for a long time ensuring the existence and development of the Soviet state. …”
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