Month July 2012

Reinald Döbel Institut fuer Soziologie Scharnhorststr Introduction This essay was written back in 1995, as a compilation of a partly improvised speech delivered to an audience of students and lecturers at the University of Muenster in Germany. The occasion was…

“Working theoretically from an evolving standard of truth, Professor McGettigan takes the reader through major issues in science that detail how we move from A to B to C. That is to say, inside of 200 pages of beautifully written…

Nadejda Stahovski It is well known that the contents of a series of fundamental concepts handled by social- human sciences is quite controversial in the works of reference. Any dictionary of sociology or cultural anthropology would offer us the picture…

Bruce Burnett, Dr School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education Queensland University of Technology Australia [email protected] Abstract This paper seeks to revisit traditional neomarxist western understandings of student resistance within the context of the major postwar Japanese student movement.…

Mike Sosteric Department of Global and Social Analysis Athabasca University [email protected] Mike Gismondi Department of Global and Social Analysis Athabasca University [email protected] Gina Ratkovic Department of Sociology University of Alberta rat[email protected] NOTE: All authors contributed equally to this project. Abstract…

Ever wonder what happened to postmodernism? Good Science explains why postmodernism went down in flames Where no one has gone before… NASA scientists have redefined reality by transforming humans from earth-dwellers into planet-hopping extra-terrestrials. Artificial Intelligence Scientists, such as Marvin…

Roberto Rodriguez Gomez Centro de Estudios Sobre la Universidad Coordinación de Humanidades Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México roberto@servidor:unam.mx Mike Sosteric Department of Global and Social Analysis Athabasca University [email protected] Introduction Following the Second World War, higher education in Mexico began…

Nicholas C Burbules Department of Educational Policy Studies Whitman College [email protected] T A Callister Department of Educational Policy Studies Whitman College [email protected] Abstract The enormous educational potential of the Internet is threatened by the increasing commercialization of cyberspace. Beyond the…

Computers provide a capacious medium, promising the availability of an enormous quantity of resources at our fingertips. As a result, human memory has been extended with digital media from a basic unit of portable dissemination of 100,000 words (an average…

Catherine Simpson Bueker, PhD Presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Please direct all correspondence to: [email protected] Abstract The relationship between marital status and immigrant political incorporation has received surprisingly scant attention from scholars, particularly given…