The impact of inter-group relationships on intra-group cooperation. A case study in rural India.

We study the impact of inter-group relationships, with inter-group distance, on intra-group cooperation behavior for Indian rural households. This is an application to a real world case of some experimental results of the identity economics literature. This literature offers insight of channels through which inter-group relationships affect in-group actions, with identification to the in-group, and the resulting norm enforcement behavior. We proxy distance with differences of returns to attributes to one traditionally low status group (the Scheduled Castes, SC, standing for traditionally so-called untouchables), compared to the rest of the population (reference group). We then study the effect of this distance variable on in-group cooperation. In our data set, a cooperative behavior corresponds to the involvement in a collective action for water supply. Inter-group relationships appear to have the expected effect on intra-group cooperation for SC and households: the worst inter-group relationships, the more intra-group cooperation. --

Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes

Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of mandated political representation of the low castes to examine its effect on crime reports by these people. Mandated political representation of the low castes in India appears to affect the declaration of crime only for two very specific crime categories: identity-based crimes and murders. The increase in identity-based crimes (based on caste) is consistent either with better recording of existing crimes, or an increase in the incidence of committed crimes. The evolution of murders, which according to most specifications have increased after the implementation of political representation, is only consistent with an increase in incidence. This is all the more worrisome, given that the introduction of exclusive special courts, which were meant to further empower the low castes to report identity-based crimes, has not had the desired effect. A comforting observation is that crime disclosures do not increase during electoral years, contradicting the qualitative literature which points to incidents concerning reserved seats during elections. Nevertheless, mandated political representation has not had as strong an effect in giving voice to the low castes as has been documented earlier for women

The impact of inter-group relationships on intra-group cooperation. A case study in rural India.

We study the impact of inter-group relationships, with inter-group distance, on intra-group cooperation behavior for Indian rural households. This is an application to a real world case of some experimental results of the identity economics literature. This literature offers insight of channels through which inter-group relationships affect in-group actions, with identification to the in-group, and the resulting norm enforcement behavior. We proxy distance with differences of returns to attributes to one traditionally low status group (the Scheduled Castes, SC, standing for traditionally so-called untouchables), compared to the rest of the population (reference group). We then study the effect of this distance variable on in-group cooperation. In our data set, a cooperative behavior corresponds to the involvement in a collective action for water supply. Inter-group relationships appear to have the expected effect on intra-group cooperation for SC and households: the worst inter-group relationships, the more intra-group cooperation

The challenges facing Generation-Y

A new book from former social psychology alumni at the LSE aims to open up discussion about the challenges facing young professionals in the world of work today. Ann-Victoire Pincé discusses the motivations behind the book and what it can contribute to our understanding of organisational psychology

Alien Registration- Poissant, Mrs. Victoire (Biddeford, York County)

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The Discovery of the Koryaks and Their Perception of the World

The first information that we have about the Koryaks was reported in 1669 by Sosnovskij, the administrator of the small fortified town of Okhotsk, who had heard of them from the Tunguzian people. The first true ethnographic data were gathered only in 1700, when Atlasov (1935 [1891)], who had left the fortified town of Anadyr in 1697 to explore new territory, discovered Kamchatka and collected interesting information about the population of that peninsula, in particular the Koryaks. This was the beginning of a long period of exposure. Without doubt, it was the 'second Kamchatka expedition' (1733-1746) that supplied the most useful elements of the study for this region and its population. ..

From private collections to public exhibitions : the case study of Châteu La Coste

The current report corresponds to an internship at Château La Coste, in the department of art and architecture for the private collection of Patrick McKillen in Aix-En- Provence, France. The duration was of 4 months from the 15th August 2019 to the 15th December 2019. The collection of Patrick McKillen at Château La Coste consists of an outdoor exhibition 36 artworks and architecture installation from famous contemporary artists and architects worldwide. The first artist to construct a massive architectural building on the property was Tadao Ando, who built the art centre starting from 2009 and welcomed its first visitors only in the summer of 2011. The ongoing constructions on site today are of; Richard Roger, James Turell, Jean Nouvelle with Louise Bourgeois and Richard Long. On top of the outdoor installations there are three exhibition galleries on site, two Wilmotte galleries and Renzo Piano pavilion with a gallery space. The purpose of the internship experience was to understand and explore the functioning of private collections to their opening to the public by being in the heart of the management structure of Château La Coste. The internship was a need to comprehend the grounding work of exhibiting artworks that are the public. This report aims at answering the question of why private collectors open their collection to the public, how they follow their vision and why these new collectors have a willingness to open private collections to the public. The growing number of institutions like this one are becoming case studies to understand the changing cultural dynamics in the art market. This phenomenon is global and has become a new norm to consume culture to consume culture thought the private collection it is not a unique case that we are seeing with Château La Coste. Through academic research and my personal experience at the Château La Coste this report aims at understanding the trend of contemporary art collecting and exhibiting in our time

Beatrice vue d'en bas de Michèle Mailhot, une étude narratologique féministe : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy at Massey University

This study, written in French, is a feminist narratological analysis of Béatrice vue d'en bas by Michéle Mailhot published in Quebec in 1988. It aims to examine, in a textual and structural manner, the narrative characteristics of the novel in order to reveal its feminist significance. The first two chapters, entirely based on Genette's theory which provides a structural and textual approach, study the novel in terms of time, voice and focalisation at the levels of story, text and narration. Chapter three focusses on the question of characterisation, showing from the close analysis of textual indices how the main characters are constructed in the narration. Chapter four demonstrates how the feminine is inscribed in the novel by recapitulating those narrative specificities, outlined in the previous chapters which are characteristic of feminist writing as it has been defined by literary theorists such as France Théoret. The concept of intertextuality is also briefly examined from the same feminist perspective. The conclusion situates Béatrice vue d'en bas as a work of the feminist literary type known as "the writing of the feminine"

Differential Evolution Algorithm with Diversified Vicinity Operator for Optimal Routing and Clustering of Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks

Due to large dimension of clusters and increasing size of sensor nodes, finding the optimal route and cluster for large wireless sensor networks (WSN) seems to be highly complex and cumbersome. This paper proposes a new method to determine a reasonably better solution of the clustering and routing problem with the highest concern of efficient energy consumption of the sensor nodes for extending network life time. The proposed method is based on the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm with an improvised search operator called Diversified Vicinity Procedure (DVP), which models a trade-off between energy consumption of the cluster heads and delay in forwarding the data packets. The obtained route using the proposed method from all the gateways to the base station is comparatively lesser in overall distance with less number of data forwards. Extensive numerical experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in managing energy consumption of the WSN and the results are compared with the other algorithms reported in the literature