scholarly journals Exploding the Class Action Agency Costs Myth: The Social Utility of Entrepreneurial Lawyers

2006 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Gilles ◽  
Gary B. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Agency Costs ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
The Social

Impact of the Locus of Causality and Internal Control on the Social Utility of Causal Explanations

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Perrin ◽  
Benoît Testé
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
External Control ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Locus Of Causality ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types

Research into the norm of internality ( Beauvois & Dubois, 1988 ) has shown that the expression of internal causal explanations is socially valued in social judgment. However, the value attributed to different types of internal explanations (e.g., efforts vs. traits) is far from homogeneous. This study used the Weiner (1979 ) tridimensional model to clarify the factors explaining the social utility attached to internal versus external explanations. Three dimensions were manipulated: locus of causality, controllability, and stability. Participants (N = 180 students) read the explanations expressed by appliants during a job interview. They then described the applicants on the French version of the revised causal dimension scale and rated their future professional success. Results indicated that internal-controllable explanations were the most valued. In addition, perceived internal and external control of explanations were significant predictors of judgments.

The Impact of Endorsing the Belief in a Just World on Social Judgments

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Testé ◽  
Samantha Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Social Judgments ◽  
Just World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
The Impact

The present research examines the social value attributed to endorsing the belief in a just world for self (BJW-S) and for others (BJW-O) in a Western society. We conducted four studies in which we asked participants to assess a target who endorsed BJW-S vs. BJW-O either strongly or weakly. Results showed that endorsement of BJW-S was socially valued and had a greater effect on social utility judgments than it did on social desirability judgments. In contrast, the main effect of endorsement of BJW-O was to reduce the target’s social desirability. The results also showed that the effect of BJW-S on social utility is mediated by the target’s perceived individualism, whereas the effect of BJW-S and BJW-O on social desirability is mediated by the target’s perceived collectivism.

scholarly journals Student Perception of the Social Value of Responsible Management

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Crisanta-Alina Mazilescu ◽  
Laurent Auzoult-Chagnault ◽  
Loredana Ileana Viscu ◽  
Bernard Gangloff
Keyword(s):  
Student Perception ◽  
Gender Effect ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Managerial Efficiency ◽  
Responsible Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Organisational Level

In responsible management, managerial efficiency and sustainable development meet and influence each other. In order to give meaning to their organisation, to respect and look after their collaborators, a manager must promote a set of values on a personal, organisational and societal level. The purpose of this paper is to study the social value attributed to responsible management by students of a technical university. We have therefore undertaken to study a set of seven values attributed to responsible management and, more precisely, their utility and social desirability on a personal, organisational and societal level. The values have been operationalized with personality descriptors. The 60 participants in this study are students from a Romanian technical university. They had to assess, on four scales of seven points each (two for desirability and two for social utility), the value of a person characterised by one of the seven values attributed to responsible management. The results show us that efficiency is the value perceived by the students as being the most desirable for responsible management, and that in terms of social utility, agility is the most appreciated value. We found that there is indeed an effect of the context in which these values are perceived. Efficiency, audacity, dedication and integrity are perceived as more useful at an organisational level, while solidarity was perceived as more useful on a societal level. At the organisational level we also found a gender effect, in the sense that women appreciate people who are efficient, have integrity or are humble more than men do.

The value of sociality

foresight ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeniya Lukinova ◽  
Mikhail Myagkov ◽  
Pavel Shishkin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Utility Function ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Know How ◽  
General Utility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Decisions

Purpose – This paper aims to study the value of sociality. Recent experimental evidence has brought to light that the assumptions of the Prospect Theory by Kahneman and Tversky do not hold in the proposed substantive domain of “sociality”. In particular, the desire to be a part of the social environment, i.e. the environment where individuals make decisions among their peers, is not contingent on the framing. Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans are “social animals” for adaptive reasons. However, entering a social relationship is inherently risky. Therefore, it is extremely important to know how much people value “sociality”, when the social outcomes are valued more than material outcomes and what kinds of adaptations people use. Design/methodology/approach – We develop a new theory and propose the general utility function that features “sociality” component. We test the theory in the laboratory experiments carried out in several countries. Findings – Our results suggest that when stakes are low the theory of “sociality” is successful in predicting individual decisions: on average, people do value “sociality” and it surpasses the monetary loss. Originality/value – The main contribution of this paper is the breakdown of the risk attitudes under low stakes and individual level of decision-making. Another advancement is the ability to formalize the social utility or the theory of “sociality” in an economic model; we use general utility function that we define both on the outcomes and on the process of the decision-making itself and test in laboratory studies.

Prestaţia compensatorie în Codul civil român

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2021) ◽  
pp. 164-179
Author(s):  
Flavius Antoniu BAIAS ◽  
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Stela STOICESCU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Legal Institution ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
The Right ◽  
Compensatory Payment

This study aims to describe the legal regime of the compensatory payment, with reference to the legislative framework, the sources of inspiration of the regulation, as well as to the current national case-law in this matter, which confirms, by the large number of cases solved after the entry into force of the Civil Code, the social utility of this legal institution. On the basis of the case law examples provided, the authors analyze the legal nature of the compensatory allowance by distinguishing it from similar institutions – the maintenance obligation between ex-spouses or the right to compensation – the conditions to be fulfilled when granting compensatory payment, the criteria used to impose, modify or terminate the obligation, and the substantive and procedural law difficulties of these disputes.

scholarly journals PENDEKATAN KONSTRUKTIVIS SOSIAL DALAM PENINGKATAN HASIL BELAJAR IPS DI SD KELAS IV

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Elsinora Mahananingtyas
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
School Age ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Constructivist Approach

Learners at elementary school age generally have a concept that is rich, but not systematically, not organized and spontaneous. With a skilled supervisor dialogue together, then learners can develop the concepts that are more systematic, logical, and rational. A social constructivist approach stresses the social context in learning that knowledge is constructed and built together with the teacher or friend of the more skilled colleagues. The purpose of this research is to improve or enhance quality (quality) were learning in class by applying the social constructivist approach at grade IV in the primary Christian Advent of Ambon. The method of this research is a type of class action Research with 4 stages, namely planning, implementation, observation and reflection. The results of this research that is happening gradual classical on the learners of the cycle I meeting 1 to 2 meetings amounted to 6.6% of the cycle I of the meeting 1 of 59% to 65.6% in meeting 2. While the ketuntasan of classical learners on cycle II increased to 6.8% in cycle II meeting 1 of 77.2% to 84%. Cycle II whole learners, prepared with a value above the KKM i.e. 15 learners or 100% complete

The social utility of ‘data literacy’

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luci Pangrazio ◽  
Julian Sefton-Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Utility ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals On Singing and Listening in Vaughan Williams's Early Songs

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-282
Author(s):  
Ceri Owen
Keyword(s):  
Art Music ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Narrative Coherence ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Early Songs

Vaughan Williams's celebrated set of Robert Louis Stevenson settings, Songs of Travel, has lately garnered liberal scholarly attention, not least on account of the vicissitudes of its publication history. Following the cycle's premiere in 1904 it was issued in two separate books, each gathering stylistically different songs. Though a credible case for narrative coherence has been advanced in numerous accounts, the cycle's peculiar amalgamation of materials might rather be read as a signal to its projection of multiple voices, which unsettle the longstanding critical tendency to map a single protagonist through its progress. The division marked by the cycle's publication history may productively be understood to reflect a tension inherent in its aesthetic propositions, one constitutive of much of Vaughan Williams's work, which frequently mediates between the individualistic and the collective, the “artistic” and the “accessible,” and, as I suggest, the subjective voice of the individual artist in its invitation to the participation of a singing and listening community. I propose that Vaughan Williams's early songs frequently frame the idea or demand the engagement of a listener's contribution, as particular modes of singing and listening—and singing-as-listening—are figured and invited within the music's constitution. Composed as he was searching for an individual creative voice that simultaneously sustained a nascent commitment to the social utility and intelligibility of national art music, these songs explore the possibility of achieving a self-consciously collective authorial subjectivity, often reaching toward a musical intersubjectivity wherein boundaries between self and other—and between composer, performer, and listener—are collapsed. In the recognition of such processes lies a means of examining the tendency of Vaughan Williams's work toward projecting a powerfully subjective voice that simultaneously claims identification with no single agency.

Family, Duty and Expectation: A Case for the Joint Performance of Pindar’s Isthmian 2 and Pythian 6

Mnemosyne ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-53
Author(s):  
Robert Clear
Keyword(s):  
Social Utility ◽  
Joint Performance ◽  
The Social

Abstract This paper argues that Pythian 6 was reperformed at the premier of Isthmian 2. The audience’s reception of the two performances is explored, as well as the social and performative agenda of Isthmian 2. It is argued that this joint performance had a specific social utility: to direct the audience to construe Thrasyboulos as the heir to his father’s status and honour.

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