Editor's note: Why are the major social rankings of the China Integrated City Index 2022 dominated by Chinese core cities? Which megalopolises have entered an aging society? Which megalopolises ...

IN recent discussions on the social functions of science not every contributor has escaped the pitfall of confining the role of science to improving material conditions. I venture to offer the ...

While identifying pathways to adequately fund social care is critical to achieving ... social needs—which centralize administrative functions and operational infrastructure.

It leads to a notable dependence of non-core cities on core cities when it comes to social functions, with the gap between non-core cities and core cities widening. This is a phenomenon that ...

Enough was said unthinkingly about Mrs. Bradley Martin and her waste of money on a ball, but the people who criticise these social functions, "admittedly nothing in themselves," seem to forget ...

Benefits can be provided in kind or in cash, and benefits can be means-tested or non means-tested. The defined set of risks and needs within social protection can be classified in eight functions ...

Furthermore, the team found significant associations between social isolation and lower executive functions (processes that enable individuals to organize and adapt their behaviors to achieve ...

Spencer argued that society had ‘social structures’ that carried out social functions.’ Thus, the root of the idea of social structure comes from ‘the organismic metaphor’ applied to ...