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Inequalities and Power in Digital Agriculture
There are several patterns of inequalities linked to the development and adoption of digital technologies in agriculture that can be observed across the globe: (1) in digital technology development; (2) in the distribution of benefits from the use of digital technologies; (3) in sovereignty over data, hardware and digital infrastructure; (4) in skills and knowledge (‘digital literacy’); and (5) in problem definition and problem-solving capacities. The existing inequalities are structural and represent expressions of corporate power. From such a perspective, digitalization in agriculture is not a ‘revolution’ per se; rather, digital technologies mirror and reproduce existing power relations. However, there are also emancipatory initiatives that are applying digital technologies to challenge existing inequalities and to advance alternative visions of agriculture. 
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  • 16 Nov 2021
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Inequalities in Sociology
The digital is increasingly present in everyday life, with a deep and growing social, political and economic impact, and society 5.0 is one of the possible attempts for this materialisation. However, the digital is not experienced by everyone in the same way, so this digitalisation of societies will have varied implications for individuals, namely the transformation of differences in access and digital literacy into new inequalities. Sociology – as the scientific knowledge of the reciprocal influence of interactions between individuals and the influence of the social context – will have a heuristic potential for understanding this reality. Sociology will, thus, take on, concurrently with other sciences, a relevant role concerning the subsequent development of a more balanced society in this digital dimension, increasingly important in defining the social position of the individual, and, thus, will add to a development that materialises the potential of this digital society.
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  • 30 Oct 2020
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Inequality
In social science, inequality refers to the disparities in the distribution of resources, opportunities, or privileges among individuals or groups within a society. These disparities can manifest in various forms, including economic, educational, and social inequalities, contributing to differential access to resources and opportunities. The study of inequality involves examining the structural factors, such as socioeconomic status, gender, and ethnicity, that perpetuate and shape these disparities, with the aim of understanding their impact on individuals and society at large.
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  • 25 Jan 2024
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Influence of Customer Mistreatment on Hospitality Employee Responses
Customer mistreatment is a reflection of poor customer behaviors, which include speaking loudly, verbal abuse, making unfair demands, skipping a queue, and other disrespectful behaviors. Customer mistreatment may be an unavoidable issue for the hospitality industry.
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  • 10 Oct 2023
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Influence of Mindfulness on Men’s Sexual Activity
Mindfulness practice and mindfulness-based interventions are widely known, especially for women’s sexuality. The practice of mindfulness favours different variables of male sexuality, such as satisfaction and sexual functioning or genital self-image. Mindfulness-based interventions represent a valuable and promising contribution.
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  • 06 Mar 2023
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Influencer Marketing
Influencer marketing (also known as influence marketing) is a form of social media marketing involving endorsements and product placement from influencers, people and organizations who have a purported expert level of knowledge or social influence in their field. Influencers are someone (or something) with the power to affect the buying habits or quantifiable actions of others by uploading some form of original—often sponsored—content to social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat or other online channels. Influencer marketing is when a brand enrolls influencers who have an established credibility and audience on social media platforms to discuss or mention the brand in a social media post. Influencer content may be framed as testimonial advertising.
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  • 14 Oct 2022
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Influencing Factors of Digital Village Development in China
Digital rural construction is an important strategy for rural revitalization. In terms of dynamic evolution, the core density curve of China’s digital rural construction shifted to the right between 2011 and 2021, accompanied by gradient influence and a multipolar development trend; local general budget revenue, the per capita disposable income of rural residents, rural infrastructure investment, computer ownership per 100 rural residents, added value of primary industry, education level, and rural power generation are some of the factors that affect the development level of China’s digital countryside. 
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  • 04 Aug 2023
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Influencing Factors of Logistics Alliance Profit Distribution
Alliance is a common organizational operation form in the logistics industry. A reasonable profit distribution mechanism is the foundation for the formation and stability of the logistics alliance.
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  • 03 Aug 2022
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Influencing Factors of University-Going Women with Entrepreneurial Intentions
Entrepreneurship and business activities are considered the backbone of any economy due to their great contributions to the gross domestic product and the generation of jobs, thereby achieving greater stability in economic indicators, which leads to strengthening the growth of the economy. However, the roles of women in the academic and business fields have experienced significant evolution, challenging deep-rooted stereotypes and reflecting a profound social transformation of the perception of gender roles. The psychological well-being of women entrepreneurs could be considered the most important element of their lives; this includes mental and physical health, as well as work performance. Personality traits directly affect an individual’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. The personal traits that describe entrepreneurs and that exert an extremely strong influence on behavior are mainly self-efficacy, autonomy, innovation, internal locus of control, achievement motivation, optimism, knowledge, continuous learning, resilience, tolerance to stress, and risk taking, among others.
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  • 20 Feb 2024
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Influencing Factors on Carbon Trading Price in China
Carbon emission trading market construction is an important policy tool to promote the realization of China’s “double carbon” goal. However, problems still exist, such as the lack of market trading vitality, the large difference in carbon trading prices between the eight pilot markets and the instability of the prices. In order to explore the key influencing factors on carbon trading prices, 15 factors were selected to study in detail according to the policy, green industry, economy and environment. Taking China’s eight pilot carbon trading markets as research subjects, the researchers explored the correlation degree of each factor by using the improved gray relational analysis model (GRAM) from the two dimensions of space and time. The research results show that from the space dimension, the industrial development level, development degree of low-carbon industries, air pollution degree and green technology maturity are the main factors that affect the carbon trading price in the eight pilot areas. Meanwhile, from the time dimension, the correlation degree between various factors and carbon trading price both showed a downward trend as a whole, and the fluctuation of the correlation degree of individual factors was different from the overall trend. In conclusion, the researchers can put forward recommendations on the pricing mechanism of the carbon trading market after this comprehensive research.
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