Explaining altruism : a simulation-based approach and its limits / / Eckhart Arnold

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959592603321
• Autore: Arnold Eckhart
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2008
• ISBN: 3-86838-007-8; 3-11-032757-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Collana: Practical Philosophy ; ; 11; Practical philosophy ; ; Bd. 11
• Disciplina: 171.8
• Soggetti: Altruism - Computer simulation; Cooperativeness - Computer simulation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The riddle of altruism -- Chapter 3: The generalized theory of evolution as theoretical framework -- Chapter 4: Modeling the evolution of altruism -- Chapter 5: Empirical research on the evolution of altruism -- Chapter 6: Learning from failure -- Chapter 7: Summary and final reflections -- Chapter 8: Appendices -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: Employing computer simulations for the study of the evolution of altruism has been popular since Axelrod's book „The Evolution of Cooperation“. But have the myriads of simulation studies that followed in Axelrod's footsteps really increased our knowledge about the evolution of altruism or cooperation? This book examines in detail the working mechanisms of simulation based evolutionary explanations of altruism. It shows that the „theoretical insights“ that can be derived from simulation studies are often quite arbitrary and of little use for the empirical research. In the final chapter of the book, therefore, a set of epistemological requirements for computer simulations is proposed and recommendations for the proper research design of simulation studies are made.

Charlotte Mary Yonge : Writing the Victorian Age / / edited by Clare Walker Gore, Clemence Schultze, Julia Courtney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910633933403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031106729; 3031106725
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 pages)
• Disciplina: 823.8
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - 19th century; Literature; Anglican Communion; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Women's Studies; Anglicanism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Charlotte M. Yonge and the Concept of Conservative Community - Rosemary Mitchell -- 2. A Woman’s Outlook: Charlotte Yonge’s Sense of Place - Julia Courtney -- 3. Charlotte M. Yonge, Empire and the Wider World - Terry Barringer -- 4. Charlotte M. Yonge and the Long Victorian Family: Instructing the “Mother-Sister” - Tamara Wagner -- 5. Disability and Bioethics in Yonge’s Novels - Martha Stoddard Holmes -- 6. “What I can myself remember”: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Life Writing - Valerie Sanders -- 7. ‘Hard cash is a necessary consideration’: Money and Class in Charlotte M. Yonge’s Fictional Portrayals of Contemporary Family Life - Susan Walton -- 8. ‘A lady with a profession’: Governesses in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge - Clare Walker Gore -- 9. Providence and Progress: Science, Education and the Professions in Charlotte M. Yonge - Clemence Schultze -- 10. Charlotte M. Yonge and the Vocation of Childhood: Youth and Social Critique in Yonge’s novels - Gavin Budge -- 11. Changing Anglican Religious Practice, the Material Culture of Church Building, and the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge ; (William Whyte) -- 12. Yonge’s Missions: At Home and Abroad - Barbara Dennis -- 13. “I am too high church and too narrow”: Charlotte M. Yonge and Alexander Macmillan - Ellen Jordan -- 14. Charlotte Yonge and Feminist Criticism - Talia Schaffer.
• Sommario/riassunto: This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the life and work of Charlotte M. Yonge, a highly influential and popular nineteenth-century writer who is emerging from a long period of critical neglect. Its wide-ranging chapters capture the scope and quality of current work in Yonge studies, addressing the full range of her prolific literary output from her best-selling novels to her nature writing, biographies, and letters. Considering themes from gender, disability, and empire, to Tractarianism, secularism, and the idea of progress, these essays consider how Yonge reflected and shaped the tastes, ideas and anxieties of her readers and contemporaries. Exploring her key role in the Anglican revival, her importance as a test case in the development of feminist criticism, and her formal innovativeness as a novelist, this collection places Yonge centrally in the nineteenth-century literary landscape and demonstrates her ongoing relevance to scholars and students of the period. Clare Walker Gore is a lecturer in English Literature at the Open University. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was named a BBC/AHRC ‘New Generation Thinker’. Her book, Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, appeared in 2019. She is pursuing a project on Victorian women writers. Clemence Schultze is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Durham University, after a career lecturing on ancient history. She has published on nineteenth-century classical reception, was for ten years Chair of the Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship, and has co-edited an essay collection on Yonge. Julia Courtney is retired from the Open University where she was an administrator, associate lecturer and research fellow. She has published articles and book chapters on aspects of Victorian literature and culture and has co-edited two essay collections. She is co-editor, with Clemence Schultze, of theCharlotte M. Yonge Fellowship Journal.

Bridges and barriers : earnings and occupational attainment among immigrants / / Jennifer Karas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955528203321
• Autore: Karas Jennifer
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, c2002
• ISBN: 1-280-36146-8; 9786610361465; 1-931202-88-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 p.)
• Collana: The new Americans
• Disciplina: 331.6/2/0973
• Soggetti: Foreign workers - United States; Immigrants - United States - Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-153) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Practical, Ideological, and Theoretical Considerations -- 3 Background and Description of Study -- 4 Analysis -- 5 Origins and Destinies -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Karas compares the earnings and occupational attainment of Chinese, Cuban, Filipino, Korean, and Mexican immigrants to those of foreign-born non-Hispanic whites. Using census data, she tests three models of attainment: a human and social capital model, a local labor market model, and a model combining human capital and local labor market indicators against a baseline ethnic heritage model.She finds a double hierarchy of inequality. Asian and Hispanic immigrants are lower on socio-economic scales than foreign-born non-Hispanic whites, but Asians have higher earnings than Latinos. Ethnic differences on human and social capital factors and local labor market indicators explain the variation in socioeconomic attainments and contribute to differences in immigrant attainments. However, foreign-born non-Hispanic whites retain an advantage over the other groups even after differences in human and social capital and local labor market conditions are eliminated.