Social Choice and Popular Control

In democracies citizens are supposed to have some control over the general direction of policy. According to a pretheoretical interpretation of this idea, the people have control if elections and other democratic institutions compel officials to do what the people want, or what the majority want. This interpretation of popular control fits uncomfortably with insights from social choice theory; some commentators—Riker, most famously—have argued that these insights should make us abandon the idea of popular rule as traditionally understood. This article presents a formal theory of popular control that responds to the challenge from social choice theory. It makes precise a sense in which majorities may be said to have control even if the majority preference relation has an empty core. And it presents a simple game-theoretic model to illustrate how majorities can exercise control in this specified sense, even when incumbents are engaged in purely re-distributive policymaking and the majority rule core is empty

Social Media under Social Control: Regulating Social Media and the Future of Socialization

The process of socialization for new and future journalists will look dramatically different from the process undergone by previous generations of journalists, due to economic realities and changes in the nature of news production. The rise of social media and its role in the establishment of a successful career will also affect the integration of these rising professionals into their employing organizations. These changes in the socialization process will require alterations both in the day-to-day management of these individuals and in the theoretical approaches to studying their work, particularly with regard to the impact of social media on the profession. This paper demonstrates a wide range of concerns that media managers and researchers must consider as the journalism profession incorporates these new professionals into its ranks

Social support, social control and health behavior change in spouses

Our work on support processes in intimate relationships has focused on how partners in committed relationships help one another contend with personal difficulties, and how partners elicit and provide support in their day-to-day interactions. We are particularly interested in how these support skills relate to marital outcomes (Pasch & Bradbury, 1998; Pasch, Harris, Sullivan, & Bradbury, 2004; Sullivan, Pasch, Eldridge, & Bradbury, 1998) and how they relate to behavior change in spouses (Sullivan, Pasch, Johnson, & Bradbury, 2006), especially health behavior changes. In this chapter, we review research examining the effects of social support and social control on spouses\u27 health behaviors, propose a theory to account for discrepancies in these findings, and report initial data examining the usefulness of this theory in understanding the relationship between social support, social control, and partner health behavior

Between social control and conflict: an analytical framework for social movements

The main goal of this article is to attempt to determine the analytical framework of social movements that would constitute an essential element of this form of collective activity. In order to identify this element (or elements) I will review the four main approaches to the study of social movements, which allows me to settle the issue in sociological conflict tradition. From the point of view of the outlined objective, Alain Touraine’s approach will be a key perspective

ACCESS CONTROL IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT

Collecting users into groups is a common activity in social networking sites such as Facebook, Google groups, Yahoo groups and many other web applications. This project explores access control techniques for dynamically created groups. The starting point was Yioop [1], a PHP-based search engine. The ability to create social groups was added to Yioop. The Grouping feature is enhanced by adding additional features like: blogs and pages for each individual user and as well as for groups of users. Access control is provided to every group and each user within a group based on the ownership of the group or blog. Adding these features along with the access control techniques allows users to use Yioop as a searchable social networking website. Techniques for automatically adding the access levels to groups and blogs have been explored. Activities like changing the group privacy options and transferring the administrative privileges to users within a group were implemented. Experiments were conducted to compare the access control methods of the existing social networking sites with the access control methods in Yioop and based on the comparisons it can be said that Yioop now includes the basic access control methods that a user likes to have

PERAN MAHASISWA sebagai SOCIAL-CONTROL (Studi Tentang Partisipasi Mahasiswa dalam Mengawasi Pengelolaan Dana Desa di Desa Kondongia Kecamatan Lohia Kabupaten Muna)

Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah: (1) Untuk mengetahui bentuk Pengelolaan Dana Desa di Desa Kondongia Kecamatan Lohia Kabupaten Muna (2) Untuk Mengetahui Peran Mahasiswa sebagai social-control dalam mengawasi Pengelolaan Dana Desa di Desa Kondongia Kecamatan Lohia Kabupaten Muna. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Desa Kondongia Kecamatan Lohia Kabupaten Muna yang berlangsung pada bulan Desember 2018. Penentuan informan dilakukan secara purposive sampling yaitu teknik penentuan informan secara sengaja yang berjumlah 14 orang dan data penelitian ini diperoleh melalui interview (wawancara) serta analisis secara deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil penelitian yang dilakukan menunjukkan bahwa (1) Bentuk Pengelolaan Dana Desa di Desa Kondongia kurang mengutamakan kepentingan masyarakat berdasarkan prinsip yaitu: (1) Transparansi di sini memberikan arti bahwa anggota masyarakat memiliki hak dan akses yang sama untuk mengetahui proses anggaran karena menyangkut aspirasi dan kepentingan masyarakat terutama pemenuhan kebutuhan-kebutuhan hidup masyarakat (2) Akuntabilitas merupakan pertanggungjawaban publik yang berarti bahwa proses penganggaran mulai dari perencanaan, penyusunan dan pelaksanaan harus benar-benar dapat dilaporkan dan dipertanggungjawabkan kepada DPRD dan masyarakat. (3) Value for money (Ekonomis, Efesien, Efektif) berkaitan dengan pemilihan dan penggunaan sumber daya dalam jumlah dan kualitas tertentu pada harga yang murah. Efisiensi berarti bahwa penggunaan dana masyarakat tersebut dapat menghasilkan pembangunan yang maksimal (berdaya guna). Efektif berarti bahwa penggunaan Dana Desa harus mencapai target-target atau kepentingan publik. (2) Peran Mahasiswa sebagai social-control dalam mengawasi Pengelolaan Dana Desa di Desa Kondongia Kecamatan Lohia Kabupaten Muna yaitu: (1) Mengkritik merupakan bentuk teguran yang di lakukan mahasiswa kepada Pemerintah Desa dalam menjalankan tugasnya mengelolah Dana Desa kurang baik kepada masyarakat (2) Mengevaluasi merupakan kegiatan yang dilakukan mahasiswa untuk menjembatani masyarakat dengan Pemerintah Desa guna untuk membahas Anggaran Dana Desa yang dijalankan dalam pembangunan masyarakat kurang efektif