The concept of hegemonic masculinity has been used in gender studies since the early-1980s to explain men's power over women. Stressing legitimating consent (rather than crude physical or political ensure submission), it health behaviours and use violence. Gender activists others seeking change relations with women have mobilised interventions, but links between theory activism often not explored. translation 'hegemonic masculinity' into interventions is little examined. We show how, South...

This paper provides the outcomes of a supply chain management (SCM) practice survey designed to identify current trends in UK industrial small‐ medium‐sized enterprises. The analysis identifies adaptation SCM techniques and relationships between customers smaller suppliers. outcomes, based on 288 firms, indicates lack effective from traditional adversarial modern collaborative “e” – chain; issues businesses need address improve performance their chains, so competitive position by grasping...

This article explores the awareness and level of implementation e‐commerce in UK small medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Results a survey 298 firms suggest that issues leadership waste management are greater importance to SMEs than development capability. Those which have developed capability not done so strategically yet enjoy significant cost time savings. The also identifies challenges faced by SMEs. Finally, paths suggested, might be followed such seeking enhance their performance e‐commerce.

This article explores the production of post-apartheid Afrikaner identity in South Africa. Centred around private sphere braai, draws on discursive psychology to investigate participants' dilemmas and struggles over their as Afrikaners, Africans, ways which these identities are being redefined. The ‘backstage’ talk that is usually reserved for fellow whites or Afrikaners illustrates a clear difference between public constructions identity. While participants rejected many stereotypes...

Partisan patterns of compliance with public health measures are a feature early COVID‐19 responses. In many cases, these differences in behaviour relate to pre‐existing group identities. However, times rapid societal change, novel opinion‐based groups can emerge and provide new basis for partisan identification divergent collective behaviour. Here, we use network methods map the emergence opposing assess their implications longitudinal study, tracked attitudes self‐reported sample UK...

Deepfakes are a form of multi-modal media generated using deep-learning technology. Many academics have expressed fears that deepfakes present severe threat to the veracity news and political communication, an epistemic crisis for video evidence. These commentaries often been hypothetical, with few real-world cases deepfake's epistemological harm. The Russo-Ukrainian war presents first real-life example being used in warfare, number incidents involving Russian Ukrainian government officials...

Masculinity is often studied as produced and enacted by men, unintentionally positioning women mere consumers of masculinity, rather than active agents in its construction. This study explored five young South African women’s constructions masculinity the contexts work, friendships, family, romantic relationships contextual variation acceptable across contexts. While they advocated nonhegemonic ‘‘nice guy’’ masculinities social work contexts, appealed strongly to ‘‘hegemonic’’ or traditional...

A Random Digit Dialing survey (n = 794) examined the interracial contact experiences and racial attitudes of White South Africans. The measured not only in terms individuals' prejudice, but also their perceptions group threat, perceived injustice, support for various government policies designed to rectify legacy apartheid. results indicated that frequency quality predicted Whites' both race compensatory preferential redress, these effects were partly mediated by sense fairness, prejudice....

This article develops an identity performance model of prejudice that highlights the creative influence expressions on norms and situations. Definitions can promote social change or stability when they are used to achieve identification, explanation, mobilization. Tacit explicit agreement about nature is accomplished collaboratively by persuading others accept (1) abstract definition “prejudice,” (2) concrete exemplars (3) associated beliefs how a target group should be treated. reviews...

Social media has become a major platform for information-exchange, discourse, and protest been linked to wide range of pressing macro developments. Consequenlty, there is significant interest from scholars as well the wider publuc understand how social affordances interact with human behavior. In attempts address these demands, present article borrows identity tradition explain group formation processes in Web 2.0 other online ecosystems. We propose that users creatively strategically...

Policies and programs designed to challenge the effects of racial discrimination (such as affirmative action) are hotly contested. Factors which have been proposed explain opposition these policies include prejudice, group threat self-interest, perceptions intergroup justice. We report results two random national telephone surveys tested a theoretically based model predictors policy support in post-apartheid South Africa. The provided limited for Blumer's position model. Compensatory...

Informed consent and understanding are essential ethical requirements for clinical trial participation. Traditional binary measures of may be limited not the best level understanding. This study designed compared 4 potential participants being prepared enrollment in South African HIV vaccine trials, using detailed operational scoring criteria.Assessment 7 key components was via self-report, checklist, vignettes, narrative measures. Fifty-nine participants, including members preparedness...

Racial segregation encourages members of historically advantaged groups to form negative intergroup attitudes, which then motivate practices discrimination that sustain inequality and disadvantage. By implication, interventions designed increase contact have been proposed as a means reducing dominant group prejudices promoting social change. In this article, we highlight another mechanism through shapes relations, namely, by inhibiting political solidarity between disadvantaged groups....

ABSTRACT There is little published literature on the ethical concerns of stakeholders in HIV vaccine trials. This study explored challenges identified by various stakeholders, through an open‐ended, in‐depth approach. While few previous studies have been largely quantitative, respondents this had opportunity to spontaneously identify issues that they perceived be priority concern South African context. Stakeholders following as priorities: informed consent, social harms, collaborative...

We assess the strategic alignment of attitudes and active construction attitude-based identity across two studies. Study one assessed twitter response (hashtags in English) to war Ukraine for five months after Russia's first invasion 2022 (N = 8149). Results demonstrated that individuals publicly expressed hashtags similar others close them followership network, showing their support condemnation Russian qualitatively different ways. was a preregistered Prolific experiment with geographical...

Opinion dynamics models have huge potential for understanding and addressing social problems where solutions require the coordination of opinions, like anthropogenic climate change.Unfortunately, to date, most such little or no empirical validation.In present work we develop an opinion model derived from a real life experiment.In our experimental study, participants reported their opinions before after interaction using response options "agree" "disagree," strength 1 10.The entailed showing...

Authoritarianism emerges in times of societal threat, part driven by desires for group-based security. As such, we propose that the threat caused COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increased authoritarian tendencies and this can be partially explained national identification. We tested hypothesis collecting cross-sectional data from three different countries April 2020. In Study 1, Ireland (N = 1276) showed predicted identification, which turn authoritarianism. 2, replicated indirect...

Computer mediated communication has marked differences from the face-to-face context. One major difference is that, in online context, we often have explicit access to others' opinions and these are only informational cues available. We investigate if awareness of opinion congruence, absence any other reference categories, may be sufficient foster social identification. In a pre-registered experiment (N = 681), manipulated exposure opinions, measured levels ingroup identification,...

Abstract The social identity approach asserts that self‐categorization is fluid and created anew in context. Despite this, research often conceptualizes identities as being based on static categories. In this article, we assess: how attitudes may be relevant attributes used to categorize the self others, therefore have potential foster identification; such categories/identities can updated with new attitudinal information; greater impact when socially expressed. Across three preregistered...

This paper provides an overview of supplier development literature in a variety sectors. The models that have emerged for and associations are used as the basis smaller suppliers with view to aiding economic development. suggests rationale rewards small firms applications pilot model test concept.

Abstract This article explores how people do sympathetic talk in relation to the European “refugee crisis.” The analysis was grounded critical discursive psychology and also drew on concept of affective–discursive practice. Data retrieved from a phone‐in program Irish national radio over 6‐month period when refugee crisis debate at its height. It is shown that speakers deployed elaborate repertoires with ease described their normative emotional response plight asylum seekers. But these same...