Increasing Social Variability and Insurance Equilibrium

1988 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv Sobti
Keyword(s):  
Social Variability

Where Does the South Begin? Social Variability at the Southern Top of the World

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 50-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Barcelo ◽  
M. F. del Castillo ◽  
L. Mameli ◽  
E. Moreno ◽  
B. Videla
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Variability

scholarly journals Behavioral flexibility of vervet monkeys in response to climatic and social variability

2014 ◽  
Vol 154 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard McFarland ◽  
Louise Barrett ◽  
Ria Boner ◽  
Natalie J. Freeman ◽  
S. Peter Henzi
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Vervet Monkeys ◽  
Social Variability

Gossip in Ethnographic Perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Niko Besnier
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Moral Systems ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Social Variability ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Among the various methodological approaches to gossip, ethnography stands out as the most naturalistic and contextual. From an ethnographic perspective, gossip must be defined from the ground up, an approach that is attentive to local conceptualizations and to cross-social variability, but also one that opens a Pandora’s box of caveats regarding the possibility of arriving at a cross-cultural definition of gossip. Early debates among anthropologists pitched an understanding of gossip as a solidarity-enhancing mechanism against an approach that saw gossip as a tool for individual advancement. Other approaches have focused on its aesthetic aspects, its uses in negotiating between overlapping moral systems, and its role in variously exacerbating structures of political oppression or resisting them. The relationship between gossip and reputation, the way in which gossip articulates with larger systems of information flows, and the link between gossip and emotions remain underexplored areas in ethnographic approaches to gossip.

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