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Grint, Keith. "Problems, problems, problems: The social construction of ‘leadership’." Human Relations 58, no. 11 (November 2005): 1467–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726705061314.

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Cnaan, Ram A., and Simon Bergman. "Construction of social problems by social work students." International Social Work 33, no. 2 (April 1990): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002087289003300207.

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Almahmoud, Essam, and Hemanta Kumar Doloi. "Assessment of Social Sustainability in Construction Projects Using Social Network Analysis." JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH AND MARKETING 3, no. 6 (2018): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/jibrm.1849-8558.2015.36.3003.

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This paper aims to propose a framework that puts the stakeholders at the forefront of achieving sustainability in the social context. This research, thus, argues that the social sustainability outcomes in construction are best achieved by taking into account the satisfaction of the stakeholders. Based on sustainability and equity theories, a dynamic assessment model has been developed to evaluate the contributions of projects in a social context. Multiple stakeholders and their differing interests associated with the construction projects have been integrated using social network analysis. The mapping of the relationships between the project stakeholders, with respect to their relative stakes and seven social core functions, have been integrated into the assessment model. The findings of this research suggest that the degree of satisfying the needs of diverse stakeholders is highly significant in achieving social sustainability performance of projects. Using a case study from Saudi Arabia, the applicability and significance of the assessment model has been demonstrated. The application of the model provides the opportunity to identify any problems and to enhance the overall performance of projects in the social context. The functionality and efficacy of the model need to be further tested outside the Saudi Arabian region. The research is original in the sense that for the first time, a novel approach has been developed, putting the stakeholders at the forefront of achieving sustainability outcomes in construction projects
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Garcia, J. L. A. "Race as a Social Construction." Harvard Review of Philosophy 26 (2019): 115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview201910727.

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This paper raises serious problems for the commonly held claim that races are socially constructed. The first section sketches out an approach to our construction of institutional phenomena that, taking Searle’s general approach, restricts social construction proper to cases where we adopt rules that bind relevant parties to treat things of a type in certain ways, thus constituting important roles in, and parts of, our social lives. I argue this conception, construction-by-rules, helps distinguish genuine construction from other activities and relations and also solves a problem raised against simplistic conceptions. The second shows why and how Sally Haslanger, Linda Alcoff, and Glenn Loury have explained race as a social construct. The next points out problems for their and other accounts, including circularity, difficulties arising from conceptual and linguistic history, and non sequiturs. After returning to Haslanger in more detail, I proceed critically to engage work by Ian Hacking, Lawrence Blum, Luc Faucher and Edouard Machery, and Charles Mills. The following sections move from specific accounts in the literature to offer general arguments that viewing races as products of social construction threatens to mislead in numerous ways. At the end, I discuss the significance of the issue and challenge whether social constructionist accounts are genuinely liberating.
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Grint, K. "Sisyphus and the social construction of computer user problems." Information Systems Journal 5, no. 1 (January 1995): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2575.1995.tb00086.x.

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Weinberg, Darin. "On the Social Construction of Social Problems and Social Problems Theory: A Contribution to the Legacy of John Kitsuse." American Sociologist 40, no. 1-2 (January 7, 2009): 61–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12108-008-9059-5.

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Eisikovits, Zvi, Chaya Koren, and Tova Band-Winterstein. "The social construction of social problems: the case of elder abuse and neglect." International Psychogeriatrics 25, no. 8 (May 13, 2013): 1291–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610213000495.

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ABSTRACTThe interaction and inter-penetrability overlap of abuse and neglect has been previously described. Therefore, the question is not whether a distinction can be made between the two, but how specific events are constructed into abuse and/or neglect based on how each of the protagonists involved (researchers, professional workers, family members, and the older persons themselves) make sense of abuse and neglect. The purpose of this paper is to explore the social and psychological construction of elder abuse and neglect and illustrate the theoretical constructs using case material and its application to the field.
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Lin, Holin, and Chuen-Tsai Sun. "Problems in simulating social reality: Observations on a MUD construction." Simulation & Gaming 34, no. 1 (March 2003): 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046878102250607.

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Williams, Jerry. "Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience: The Social Construction of Environmental Problems." Sociological Inquiry 68, no. 4 (October 1998): 476–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682x.1998.tb00481.x.

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Solomos, John. "Problems, But Whose Problems: The Social Construction of Black Youth Unemployment and State Policies." Journal of Social Policy 14, no. 4 (October 1985): 527–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400015014.

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ABSTRACTThe issue of black youth unemployment has become a central aspect of government race relations policies over the last few years, particularly in the aftermath of the 1981 street disturbances. This paper attempts to locate the various stages of response to this question, both at the level of ideology and of policy. It argues that although the policies pursued have been legitimized as helping young blacks, they have failed to mount an effective response to the employment crisis facing this group. In addition, it is argued that policies have tended to ignore the question of racism and to concentrate on the supposed cultural and personal handicaps which young blacks inherit from their cultural background. It concludes by questioning the ideology of equal opportunity, which is the core concept underlying government responses to racial discrimination, and argues for a more critical analysis of recent interventions premised on this notion.
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Lenart, Mihaly. "Construction problems as tiling puzzles." Design Studies 10, no. 1 (January 1989): 40–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0142-694x(89)90023-9.

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Hamel, Pierre, and Harry H. Bash. "Social Problems and Social Movements: An Exploration into the Sociological Construction of Alternative Realities." Social Forces 75, no. 1 (September 1996): 355. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2580785.

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Platts, Todd K. "Analyzing the Social Construction of Media Claims: Enhancing Media Literacy in Social Problems Classes." Teaching Sociology 47, no. 1 (August 6, 2018): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0092055x18793493.

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Roth, Silke, and Harry H. Bash. "Social Problems and Social Movements: An Exploration into the Sociological Construction of Alternative Realities." Contemporary Sociology 27, no. 3 (May 1998): 300. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2655214.

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Wade, Lisa. "Journalism, advocacy and the social construction of consensus." Media, Culture & Society 33, no. 8 (November 2011): 1166–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443711418273.

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Scholarship examining media coverage of social problems largely examines coverage of contentious issues. In this study, I contribute to our understanding of journalist practices by examining coverage of an issue over which there is a US consensus: female genital cutting (FGC). With an analysis of newspaper coverage supplemented by interviews and primary documents, I find that, in contrast to existing literature that shows that reporters must refrain from issue advocacy, when consensus is widespread reporters can and do collaborate with advocates, harmonize with opinion writers, and use their physical presence and access to newsprint to pressure the state. Journalists, however, do not simply respond to consensus. Instead, I find that they can actively construct consensus by offering unique frames that depoliticize advocacy. These findings contribute to our understanding of media coverage of social problems by illustrating how consensus is both shaped by and shapes journalist practices.
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Kreimer, Pablo, and Juan Pablo Zabala. "Chagas Disease in Argentina: Reciprocal Construction of Social and Scientific Problems." Science, Technology and Society 12, no. 1 (March 2007): 49–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097172180601200104.

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This article intends to study the possibilities and limitations of scientific knowledge as a factor of social development in peripheral societies. We challenge the idea that the only promotion of scientific knowledge is a legitimate and adequate method to overcome the social problems that many people in Latin America are subjected to. Instead, we propose to investigate the relationships among the social actors involved in the production and circulation of scientific knowledge. We take the case of Chagas disease, a recurring theme in the public agenda since the 1950s, to show how the issue has emerged and has been taken in by public policies related to the production of scientific knowledge. We analyse the different viewpoints and conceptions about the disease, and how they moulded the different institutional initiatives of intervention into the problem. We assume that the practices associated with these mechanisms condition the type of knowledge produced and its possible uses.
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Chermak, Steven. "Book Review: Constructing Social Problems." Criminal Justice Review 28, no. 2 (September 2003): 437–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/073401680302800236.

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Friedman, Marilyn. "Nancy J. Hirschmann on the Social Construction of Women's Freedom." Hypatia 21, no. 4 (2006): 182–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2006.tb01135.x.

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Nancy J. Hirschmann presents a feminist, social constructionist account of women's freedom. Friedman's discussion of Hirschmanns account deals with (1) some conceptual problems facing a thoroughgoing social constructionism; (2) three ways to modify social constructionism to avoid those problems; and (3) an assessment of Hirschmann's version of social constructionism in light of the previous discussion.
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Chan, Kwun-fu. "Destructive construction." Social Transformations in Chinese Societies 16, no. 1 (May 7, 2020): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/stics-04-2019-0009.

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Purpose This study aims to examine the problems encountered during the establishment of the Central Police Academy (CPA) under the Nationalist regime from 1936 to 1949. While the authoritarian party-state unified the police academies by forceful means, this catalyzed the cleavage between the schools of police studies and resulted in power struggles over police education, intellectual thought, collectivity and even the national reform of police administration. More than narrating the progress of power consolidation, this study attempts to identify the problems underlying the factional strife and to reveal the interwoven pattern of these power struggles, exploring the confusion regarding what the police is, a question that troubled Chinese policemen from the mainland to Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach This paper explains the emergence of the factional strife from the beginning of the preliminary growth of the Police Academies in Nanking and Chekiang. It widely makes use of the official archives from Japan Center for Asian Historical Records and Historica Academia to show the dynamic situation in police education and administration. Rather, the official publications of the Police Academies and their affiliated associations reveal the hidden political agenda behind a unified framework as the party-state claimed. Moreover, official gazettes, memorials and newspapers are also used to strengthen the core argument of this study. Findings This paper examines the impact of the factional strife between the police leaders Dai Li and Li Shizhen on the CPA from 1936 to 1949. It illustrates that the establishment of the CPA ostensibly unified the nationwide police force but triggered power struggles over the control of the police administration. More importantly, it also shows how the factions strove for larger shares of power under the supreme doctrines that Chiang Kai-shek and the party-state imposed. Originality/value The failure of police education to become powerful was a special case among other more typical institutions. The governors coercively merged the police academies and created robust conditions for growth under the shelter of state authority. The police force did not follow the same path of national monopoly as what recent studies found but drifted apart with its vested interests and incompatible beliefs. Hence, the greater the demand for centralized control by the state, the greater the tension of the factional strife.
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ZHOU, Zhihua. "China Embarks on Massive Social Housing Construction Programme." East Asian Policy 04, no. 03 (July 2012): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793930512000220.

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In March 2011 the Chinese government announced its plan to construct 36 million social housing in 2011-2015. Although capital and land provisions for 2011 had been made, some problems have emerged. Chinese social housing development should be legislated to provide legal evidence not only for the proper implementation of this plan in the coming years, but also for social housing development in the coming decades.
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Sonnenstuhl, William J., and Harrison M. Trice. "The Social Construction of Alcohol Problems in a Union's Peer Counseling Program." Journal of Drug Issues 17, no. 3 (July 1987): 223–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002204268701700302.

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While the referral processes in management-based employee assistance/industrial alcoholism programs have been studied, little attention has been paid to those in union peer counseling programs. This study closes the gap by reporting ethnographic data collected in one union's member assistance program. The Tunnel and Construction Workers Union is an occupational community characterized by a heavy drinking culture, and its program consists of credentialed alcoholism counselors and a network of union members who also belong to Alcoholics Anonymous. In negotiations with these groups, drinkers learn that they are alcoholic and achieve sobriety. Negotiations break down into three stages: Getting into the Network, Learning to Stay in the Network, and Taking Responsibility. As in management-based programs, constructive confrontation and job performance are crucial elements in the negotiations. In unions, however, those elements take on a slightly different meaning because unions operate within a different social context than management-dominated work organizations.
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Jiang, Mengmeng, and Wenqian Wang. "Problems and Countermeasures of China’s Social Security Information Construction Based on Computer." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1744, no. 3 (February 1, 2021): 032184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1744/3/032184.

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Best, Joel. "Constructing animal species as social problems." Sociology Compass 12, no. 11 (September 6, 2018): e12630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12630.

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Spector, Malcolm. "Constructing Social Problems Forty Years Later." American Sociologist 50, no. 2 (September 3, 2018): 175–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12108-018-9391-3.

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Shao, Yong Gang, Jing Zhe Xu, and Zhong Yuan Xia. "Analysis of Transmission Line Engineering Construction Stage Cost Management Problems." Advanced Materials Research 850-851 (December 2013): 1094–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.850-851.1094.

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In recent years, the rapid development of the national economy has brought rapid growth in electricity demand; the power grid construction has entered a period of rapid development. Construction of power transmission line project is an important part of power grid construction，the cost management of construction stage, it is of great significance for the entire project cost management, improve the efficiency of construction enterprises. In this paper, based on the theory of cost management in construction stage, from the three aspects of social and economic factors, human factors and natural factors, analyzed the current situation and problems of transmission line engineering construction cost management and to the actual engineering data are discussed. Finally, in view of the present situation and problems of the construction cost management, this paper puts forward some suggestions.
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Järvinen, Margaretha, and David Kivinen. "Homelessness as a Social Construction: A Study on Marginalized Women." Nordisk Alkoholtisdkrift (Nordic Alcohol Studies) 12, no. 1_suppl (February 1995): 4–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/145507259501201s09.

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The focus of the article is on homeless women in Copenhagen. One of the main arguments is that the so-called new homelessness is not as new as it might appear at first glance. Although statistics indicate an increase in the proportion of women who have no home, this does not necessarily mean that social distress among women has increased. Included in the statistics today are certain groups (such as battered women, poor single parents with housing problems) who 15 years ago would not have been registered as homeless. As a result, the homeless population has become more and more heterogeneous, at the same time as the institutions for the homeless have become more and more differentiated and professionalized. This, in turn, has resulted in a situation where priority is given to those homeless clients who can meet the system's expectations of rehabilitation. Two groups among the homeless are not welcome at these institutions: substance abusers and people with mental problems. For these two groups of socially marginalized people, there seems to be no place in the Danish welfare state.
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Perkins, Stephen J. "The social construction of executive remuneration in the UK." Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance 4, no. 1 (March 13, 2017): 76–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joepp-01-2017-0001.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect theoretically on a quarter-century of attempts to codify “best practice” standards related to oversight of and reporting on executive remuneration. Issues around the regulation of UK executive remuneration are analysed focussing on decision making by elite actors, informed by corporate governance codification artefacts and theoretical considerations inspired by notions of the social construction of reality. Design/methodology/approach Using documentary materials to trace evolution of executive remuneration regulation in the UK, consideration is given to the social antecedents of processes governing corporate board remuneration committee practices. The paper reconstructs the social construction of the UK Corporate Governance Code and draws on relevant theoretically inclined literature to help make sense of processes involved. Findings Shaping the problems, to be addressed as “legitimate problems”, is core to efforts intended to create “persuasive narratives” around how UK executive remuneration should be regulated. Research limitations/implications The paper sketches an agenda for subsequent empirical “field” investigation to assess the social antecedents of UK executive remuneration outcomes. Practical implications Offering an alternative way of thinking about executive reward and on-going controversy as to how it may be legitimately regulated, informed by contextual considerations. Originality/value A novel look at executive remuneration from a social construction of reality perspective. Adding value to public debate on organisational effectiveness at a time of warnings from luminaries such as the Bank of England governor about the adverse social impact of “stateless companies” and calls for action against unfairness in income distribution.
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Wai, S. H., Aminah Md Yusof, Syuhaida Ismail, and C. A. Ng. "Exploring Success Factors of Social Infrastructure Projects in Malaysia." International Journal of Engineering Business Management 5 (January 1, 2013): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/55659.

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In the context of construction management, Social Infrastructure Projects (SIPs) have long been overlooked. However, SIPs are one of the main criteria for enhancing economic productivity. This paper analyses the results of a survey aiming to develop a framework for SIP success factors to enhance the likelihood of success in the provision of SIPs in Malaysia. The principal component analysis reduces a set of 41 project success factors to six dimensions based on the idea of the project life cycle, i.e., the preconstruction factor, the construction factor and post-construction factor, and three internal factors: the organizational factor, the information management factor, and the change management factor. Understanding these success factors could be crucial in managing SIPs, since it will allow project stakeholders to take precautionary steps to identify foreseeable problems and areas for improvement. This will increase the success rate of the project and could even help avoid problems completely.
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Piñeira-Mantiñan, Mariá José. "Social problems and public image of the housing estates of 1960's in Spain. An analysis of cases." Dela, no. 21 (December 1, 2004): 351–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dela.21.351-360.

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The decade of the 1960’s in Spain was characterized for period in which there proliferated the construction of housing estates. Though these constructions in a beginning(principle) were constructed in the periphery of the cities nowadays they form a part of the urban con-solidated nucleus. They are characterized for having a morfogía in opened apple and in ge-neral to receive groups with scanty buying power.
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Chen, Yu, Cheng Zhu Yan, and Chao Ouyang. "Quality Control Measures of Concrete Work." Applied Mechanics and Materials 214 (November 2012): 460–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.214.460.

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Today's social engineering construction cannot be separated from the concrete, Concrete is a non-uniform brittle material, Concrete in the construction process will encounter many real problems. And this article is to discuss common quality problems in concrete construction, and to introduce effective control measures.
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Bird, Elizabeth Ann R. "The Social Construction of Nature: Theoretical Approaches to the History of Environmental Problems." Environmental Review: ER 11, no. 4 (1987): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3984134.

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Loseke, Donileen R. "Lived Realities and the Construction of Social Problems: The Case of Wife Abuse." Symbolic Interaction 10, no. 2 (November 1987): 229–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/si.1987.10.2.229.

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Brownstein, Henry H. "THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME PROBLEMS: INSIDERS AND THE USE OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS." Journal of Crime and Justice 18, no. 2 (January 1995): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0735648x.1995.9721046.

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Trigg, Lisa J. "Social Construction of the Patient Through Problems of Safety, Uninsurance, and Unequal Treatment." Advances in Nursing Science 32, no. 3 (July 2009): E17—E27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ans.0b013e3181b0d721.

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Best, Joel. "Innumeracy in social problems construction: Missing children, vanishing workers, and other statistical claims." Argumentation 8, no. 4 (November 1994): 367–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00733480.

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Almahmoud, Essam, and Hemanta Kumar Doloi. "Assessment of social sustainability in construction projects using social network analysis." Facilities 33, no. 3/4 (March 2, 2015): 152–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/f-05-2013-0042.

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Purpose – This paper aims to propose a framework that puts the stakeholders at the forefront of achieving sustainability in the social context. This research, thus, argues that the social sustainability outcomes in construction are best achieved by taking into account the satisfactions of the stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – Based on sustainability and equity theories, a dynamic assessment model has been developed to evaluate the contributions of projects in a social context. Multiple stakeholders and their differing interests associated with the construction projects have been integrated using social network analysis. The mapping of the relationships between the project stakeholders, with respect to their relative stakes and seven social core functions, have been integrated in the assessment model. Findings – The findings of this research suggest that the degree of satisfying the needs of diverse stakeholders is highly significant in achieving social sustainability performance of projects. Using a case study from Saudi Arabia, the applicability and significance of the assessment model has been demonstrated. The application of the model provides the opportunity to identify any problems and to enhance the overall performance of projects in the social context. Research limitations/implications – The functionality and efficacy of the model need to be further tested outside the Saudi Arabian region. Originality/value – The research is original in the sense that for the first time, a novel approach has been developed, putting the stakeholders at the forefront of achieving sustainability outcomes in construction projects.
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Frawley, Ashley. "‘Unhappy News’: Process, Rhetoric, and Context in the Making of the Happiness Problem." Sociological Research Online 23, no. 1 (December 13, 2017): 43–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780417744791.

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Drawing on a study of UK national broadsheets, this article examines the emergence and spread of happiness as a social problem in the UK by drawing on the theoretical insights of social problem constructionism and related social movement theory in terms of the processual, rhetorical, and contextual factors involved in the construction, transmission, and institutionalisation of new social problems. In particular, issue ownership in the realm of process and flexible syntax, experiential commensurability, empirical credibility, and narrative fidelity in the realm of rhetoric are argued to have played an important role in the discursive spread of the happiness problem in this public arena. A socio-political context hospitable to de-politicised and highly personalised constructions of social issues is argued to have played a major contextual role in the construction of the ‘happiness problem’.
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Zhao, Hui Qin, and Ning Wang. "The Countermeasures for Colleges and Universities to Construct a Low-Carbon Campus." Advanced Materials Research 573-574 (October 2012): 812–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.573-574.812.

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Global warming has become the focus of global concern; the development of low-carbon economy will be a profound economic and social change. It must through the implementation of low-carbon education, training low-carbon awareness to solve global warming problem, to develop low-carbon economy, and to realize sustainable development. University as a social organization plays a leading and exemplary role in the construction of low-carbon society. This article has analyzed the problems in the construction of low-carbon campus from the current situation, and put forward the countermeasures of constructing low-carbon campus.
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Bolden, Galina B. "Across languages and cultures: Brokering problems of understanding in conversational repair." Language in Society 41, no. 1 (January 23, 2012): 97–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404511000923.

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AbstractThis article examines the interactional construction of language competence in bilingual immigrant communities. The focus is on how participants in social interaction resolve problems of understanding that are demonstrably rooted in their divergent linguistic and cultural expertise. Using the methodology of conversation analysis to examine mundane video-recorded conversations in Russian-American immigrant families, I describe a previously unanalyzed communicative practice for solving understanding problems: by one participant enacting the role of a language broker in a repair sequence. The article thus contributes to the existing research on the interactional construction of language competence, on the one hand, and on the organization of repair and its relationship to social epistemics, on the other. (Language brokering, repair, conversation analysis, social epistemics, multiparty conversation, Russian, immigrant families, intercultural communication)*
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Manderson, Desmond. "Metamorphoses: Clashing Symbols in the Social Construction of Drugs." Journal of Drug Issues 25, no. 4 (October 1995): 799–816. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002204269502500410.

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In order to understand the nature and intensity of the debate over the reform of “drug” legislation, it is necessary to appreciate the aesthetic forces which influence attitudes to this question, and the symbolic meaning which is attached to the imagery of drugs. The “war on drugs” is a war about emotional imagery and contested symbols, and in particular about the idea of the boundary—a matter crucial to the metaphysics and social organization of Western society. At the same time, it will be argued, it is the failure to recognize that we are dealing with the symbolic realm which bedevils both drug users and legislative policy. The reification of symbols causes and perpetuates the very problems that are intended to be solved. In their fetishization of the objects of drug use, the law and the addict are far more alike than one might think.
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Ptashchenko, Liana. "Destructive factors affecting the economic situation of construction enterprises." ЕКОНОМІКА І РЕГІОН Науковий вісник, no. 2(73) (September 23, 2019): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26906/eir.2019.2(73).1624.

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The problems of construction enterprises in Ukraine, destructive factors of influence on their financial results are investigated. There is an opinion on the need to improve the system of regulation of construction and construction enterprises and to develop a state strategy for reforming the construction industry on the basis of innovations, energy efficiency, environmental safety and social orientation of the development of the national economy of Ukraine. In order to solve the problems of construction companies, the elimination of destructive factors impact on their financial situation should develop a national strategy to reform the construction industry based on innovation, energy efficiency, environmental safety and social orientation of the national economy of Ukraine. Common scientific methods of statistical research, analysis, generalization are used.
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BOCHAROV, Alexey Yu, Olga A. MAMAEVA, and Mikhail V. SERDYUK. "FEATURES AND PROBLEMS OF MODEL PROJECT DOCUMENTATION." Urban construction and architecture 6, no. 4 (December 15, 2016): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17673/vestnik.2016.04.1.

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The authors examine historical experience of application of standard designs in buildings. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the established and announced by the state goals of expansion of the use of model projects. These objectives are to accelerate the development and reduce the cost of the project documentation for the construction, improving its quality, the use of standardized technical and technological solutions and reducing the estimated cost of capital construction. The paper presents the current system of regulatory legal acts in the field of design in the construction of the model. The analysis of the main requirements to include information in the register of model project documentation, model project passport is presented. The authors view the prospects of development of model project system to meet the challenges associated with an acute social challenge - the resettlement of citizens from emergency and dilapidated housing.
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S, Lukyanchenko, Babyak V, and Hnes I. "EXPERIENCE IN USING MODULAR SOCIAL HOUSING." Architectural Studies 2020, no. 2 (November 2020): 194–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/as2020.02.194.

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The modular modular architecture is currently actively used in construction since it has many advantages over traditional construction. This type of design simplifies and speeds up the process of creating not only social housing, but also campuses and hospitals when there is an epidemic and you need to quickly provide patients with wards, or get out of the housing crisis during the economic crisis. In addition to being practical, it is much cheaper and more environmentally friendly. This article provides examples of the use of modules in construction and architecture to argue the relevance and need to use modular architecture and develop it. The use of the technology of modular formation of architectural objects can solve urgent problems in the modern world: overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, hostilities, the formation of social and niche specialized housing. These examples are not innovations that are unattainable or not scalable for technological reasons. The highlighted issue only shows the need to disseminate these solutions in practice.
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Ilhan, Bahriye, and Banu Yobas. "Measuring construction for social, economic and environmental assessment." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 26, no. 5 (June 17, 2019): 746–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-03-2018-0112.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the issues that should be considered for a better gauge of the construction industry and built environment and to propose a set of indicators for measuring the social, economic and environmental value of construction. Design/methodology/approach The indicators proposed in this study use Pearce’s schema, which presents a framework to evaluate the socio-economic value of construction and its contribution to sustainable development. After analysing the problems faced by the industry, solutions are raised and finally indicators for each pillar of Pearce’s schema are established through a literature review. Since the proposed indicators can be used for cross-country analysis, these comparisons are also presented as graphs including only those countries for which valid national data could be sourced from OECD databases. Findings The issues, suggestions and indicators related to each concern about the main domains of the schema are addressed through the related literature and supported by available statistical data. Originality/value Although previous studies have drawn attention to measures for better evaluation of the construction industry and the built environment, this study, distinctively, presents an integrated approach in order to gauge the true value and impacts of construction in a more comprehensive way. The work’s contribution to the body of knowledge is in revealing the hidden input and impact of construction on sustainable development by determining the barriers to this and their solutions, in addition to the proposal of relevant indicators.
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Corr, Philip J. "Clarifying Problems in Behavioural Control: Interface, Lateness and Consciousness." European Journal of Personality 24, no. 5 (August 2010): 423–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.781.

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The target paper highlights a number of unresolved issues that, I believe, continue to impede the construction of a viable model of behavioural control in personality psychology; namely, (a) the relationship between controlled and automatic processing (the ‘interface’ problem’) and (b) the time it takes for controlled processes, including consciousness, to be generated (the ‘lateness’ problem). The diversity of views expressed in the commentatories indicates that these are, indeed, real and unresolved problems. This response is structured around the following key questions. (1) How long–term goal planning interfaces with the automatic machinery of behaviour? (2) The extent of the impact of the ‘lateness’ of controlled (including conscious) processes for building models of behavioural control? (3) How best to characterise the personality traits associated with the FFFS, BIS and BAS? (4) How does the BIS control mismatch detection, the generation of error signals, and response inhibition and switching? (5) Is consciousness really a necessary explanatory construct in models of behavioural control? (6) Might neural ‘crosstalk’ of encapsulated action–goal response systems point to the functional significance of consciousness? (7) What are the implications of issues raised in the target paper for lexical and social–cognitive approaches to personality? I conclude by re–iterating the importance of the problems of ‘lateness’ and ‘interface’ for the construction of a viable model of behavioural control sufficient for the fostering of theoretical integration within personality psychology as well as affording the building of conceptual bridges with general psychology. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Chelton, Mary K. "Young Adults as Problems: How the Social Construction of a Marginalized User Category Occurs." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 42, no. 1 (2001): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40324033.

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Reinecke, Juliane, and Shaz Ansari. "Taming Wicked Problems: The Role of Framing in the Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility." Journal of Management Studies 53, no. 3 (May 26, 2015): 299–329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.12137.

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Corney, Roslyn H., and Anthony W. Clare. "The construction, development and testing of a self-report questionnaire to identify social problems." Psychological Medicine 15, no. 3 (August 1985): 637–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700031494.

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SynopsisThe construction and testing of a short self-report questionnaire identifying social problems, difficulties and dissatisfactions is described. The questionnaire covers housing, occupation, finance, social and leisure activities, child/parent and martial relationships, relationships with relatives, friends, neighbours and workmates, and legal problems. The results of the administration of the questionnaire in a number of settings are provided and discussed, and a final version is included in the Appendix.
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Herd, Denise. "Voices from the Field: The Social Construction of Alcohol Problems in Inner-City Communities." Contemporary Drug Problems 38, no. 1 (March 2011): 7–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009145091103800102.

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Hardiyanti, Eka Putri. "Dampak Sosial Ekonomi Pembangunan STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat." Diakronika 19, no. 2 (December 27, 2019): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/diakronika/vol19-iss2/106.

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ABSTRACT Construction is a process of change that is based on planned and deliberated, and demanded eiter the goverment or the society in improving the lives of more prosperous. Indonesia national construction is a construction paradigm that is built on the practice of pancasila that Indonesia fully human construction and the counstruction of Indonesia society. The construction carried out by the Indonesia goverment is essentially to improve thair living standard society. The construction impacts include the social dimension as the waning of cultural values, social norms causing forms of deviant behavior and dependence of society on the other side as a result of the intervention system construction has an impact on socioe economic conditions. So is the case with the construction of the college located in, Kampung Olo is STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat that occurred in their socio economic society. The researchar aims to know and desribe the impacts of constructins STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat toward economic social society Kampung Olo, Nanggalo district Padang city.In this research using Structural Functional Theory form Robert. K. Merton. Beside, the research that used is qualitative research with Descriptive type. As for the information that is taken by using purposive sampling. The number of participants is 21 participants consisting of 15 participants who trade, 3 participants from staff officer Kelurahan and Leader of RW 01 and RW 02. The type of data used primary and secondary data. Method of data colletion is done by 3 ways: 1) observations (non participant), 2) interview, 3) document analysis. To achieve the validity of the reseacrh, the researcher using triagulasi technique. The unit of analysis used is group with data analysis Milles and Huberman consist from steps are reduction, data presentation, and conclucion.Based on the result of the research found the impacts of construction STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat in Kampung Olo, Nanggalo disrtrict Padang city. 1) Social impact which consist : a. Increasing social network the traders ang migrant society, b. Increasing social norm or more increase the regulations around Kampung Olo especially college area, c. An increase in social problems, d. Demography, the populations density of the society in Kampung Olo. 2) Economic impact: a. Change in the society’s livelihood, b. Increasing society asset after the constructions of the college, c. Increasing society’s income. Keywords: Impact of construction, Socio, Economic
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