Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, II: A Linear Hypothesis about Status Enhancement, Status Detraction, and Satisfaction with Membership

Social Forces ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis A. Zurcher ◽  
Kenneth L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Linear Hypothesis ◽  
Status Inconsistency ◽  
Status Enhancement

From status inconsistency to revisionism: Russian foreign policy after color revolutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-506
Author(s):  
Esmaeil Mazloomi ◽  
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh ◽  
Mohd Aminul Karim
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Normative Structure ◽  
Status Inconsistency ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Color Revolutions ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Status Enhancement

AbstractThis paper delves into the shifts in the foreign policy of Russia, considering what has determined Russia's grand strategy orientation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It also attempts to offer an explanation of why Russia becomes discounted with the ‘constitutive and normative structure’, and how its foreign policy shifted toward the anti-status quo orientation, especially after the color revolutions. The main purpose of this paper is to explain the shift in Russia's foreign policy, from the search for the ‘greatpowerness’ status via different enhancement strategies in light of status quo in the ‘revolutionary decade’, to revisionism after the color revolutions in Commonwealth of Independent States region (2003–2005). To substantiate this, the study uses process-tracing and document analysis to show the changes in Russia's foreign policy. As demonstrated in this paper, power rendered is unable of directing or disinclined to direct its policies toward status quo, due to internal effects of perceived ‘status immobility’ resulting from the failure of several status enhancement strategies. Accordingly, the shift in Russia's foreign policy was a result of changing the Russian perception from status inconsistency to status immobility.

Modeling a random sequence of extremes of loads for fatigue tests under irregular loading

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
N.A. Mahutov ◽  
I.V. Gadolina ◽  
S.G. Lebedinskiy ◽  
E.S. Oganyan ◽  
A.A. Bautin
Keyword(s):  
Random Sequence ◽  
Fatigue Tests ◽  
Linear Hypothesis ◽  
Resource Estimation ◽  
Transition Matrices ◽  
Random Loading ◽  
Markov Transition ◽  
Random Nature ◽  
Irregular Loading ◽  
Markov Transition Matrices

Methods and approaches to tests under random loading are considered, their role is characterized. To ensure the random nature of loading, a modeling method based on Markov transition matrices and real processes recorded in operation is proposed. Keywords: random loading process, Markov repetition matrices, resource estimation, corrected linear hypothesis, parameter of completeness of the loading spectrum. [email protected]

scholarly journals Ecological variation in wealth–fertility relationships in Mongolia: the ‘central theoretical problem of sociobiology’ not a problem after all?

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1796) ◽  
pp. 20141733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Alvergne ◽  
Virpi Lummaa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Theoretical Problem ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Mass Privatization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Socioeconomic Success ◽  
Status Enhancement

The negative wealth–fertility relationship brought about by market integration remains a puzzle to classic evolutionary models. Evolutionary ecologists have argued that this phenomenon results from both stronger trade-offs between reproductive and socioeconomic success in the highest social classes and the comparison of groups rather than individuals. Indeed, studies in contemporary low fertility settings have typically used aggregated samples that may mask positive wealth–fertility relationships. Furthermore, while much evidence attests to trade-offs between reproductive and socioeconomic success, few studies have explicitly tested the idea that such constraints are intensified by market integration. Using data from Mongolia, a post-socialist nation that underwent mass privatization, we examine wealth–fertility relationships over time and across a rural–urban gradient. Among post-reproductive women, reproductive fitness is the lowest in urban areas, but increases with wealth in all regions. After liberalization, a demographic–economic paradox emerges in urban areas: while educational attainment negatively impacts female fertility in all regions, education uniquely provides socioeconomic benefits in urban contexts. As market integration progresses, socio-economic returns to education increase and women who limit their reproduction to pursue education get wealthier. The results support the view that selection favoured mechanisms that respond to opportunities for status enhancement rather than fertility maximization.

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