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A critical view on social performance assessment at company level: social life cycle analysis of an algae case Hasselt University Ghent University University of Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Purpose Social indicators are not easy to be quantitatively analyzed, although at the local scale, the social impacts might be relevant and important. Using the existing approaches for both quantitative and semi-qualitative measurements, this study aims to assess the social impacts of a company working on algae production systems in Belgium through social life cycle analysis (SLCA). By highlighting the opportunities and challenges on the way of ...
Social mobility and life satisfaction across European countries : a compositional perspective on dissociative consequences of social mobility Ghent University
A classic claim in social mobility effects research holds that social mobility is a disruptive and harmful experience. It has been suggested that the experience of social mobility is less disruptive when mobility at the national level is high, because this increases the social and cultural heterogeneity of social classes, which may facilitate the adaptation to the social class of destination. In this article we empirically test the tenability of ...
Towards life cycle sustainability assessment, including social life cycle assessment Ghent University
New Life, Old Friends: A Cross-cultural Comparison of the Use of Communication Technologies in the Social Life of College Freshmen KU Leuven
Communication technologies make it possible for college freshmen to maintain their pre-college relationships, while at the same time building new relationships on campus. For American freshmen the transition to college is generally considered as a major change that involves distancing oneself from family and pre-college friends, while for Flemish freshmen the transition to college appears to be a more gradual process. Consequently, American ...
New charity economy and social work : reclaiming the social dimension of public life in the context of changing welfare rationales Ghent University
A complex historical transformation of the institutional framework of the welfare state is taking place changing the relationship between citizens, the state, civil society, and the market, which leads to an emerging so-called charity economy. The key question we address is how social work and social pedagogy can continue to fulfil their public and professional mandate while changing welfare rationales increasingly constrain its social justice ...
The social life of divorced parents. Do custody arrangements make a difference in divorced parents’ social participation and contacts? KU Leuven
© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Social life is fostered by having a partner and children that create interactions and generate new social networks. For divorced parents, the question is whether these positive relationships remain after marital dissolution. Do children form an additional barrier to social interaction, or do new partners present a means to reconstruct divorcees’ social life? In this case, it is important to consider custody ...
Social Support Predicts Differential Use, but not Differential Effectiveness, of Expressive Suppression and Social Sharing in Daily Life KU Leuven
UNLABELLED: While emotion regulation often happens in the presence of others, little is known about how social context shapes regulatory efforts and outcomes. One key element of the social context is social support. In two experience sampling studies (Ns = 179 and 123), we examined how the use and affective consequences of two fundamentally social emotion-regulation strategies-social sharing and expressive suppression-vary as a function of ...
Social Exclusion in Later Life (SELL). Measurement and drivers of social exclusion among older adults Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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