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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…

Jason L. Powell Health Sciences and Social Care School of Community Salford University UK [email protected] Margaret M. Edwards School of Social Science Liverpool John Moores University UK [email protected] Abstract Introduction This paper analyses key policy narratives regarding old age and…

G. Coates Abstract Contemporary performance appraisal (PA) has become an important tool in the overseeing of employees in work. Little of the vast literature however, has focused on its effects on the individual, beyond simple descriptions that inform its management…

John Sandlos Faculty of Environmental Studies York University Abstract There are countless examples of scientific paradigms that appear, by virtue of hindsight, to be derived from the social and cultural milieu of a given epoch. Newton, for example, saw an…

Carl H.A. Dassbach Department of Social Sciences Michigan Technological University I confess that, with few exceptions, reading anything POMO makes me angry – angry because reading an incomprehensible text is a waste of my time, angry because contempt for the…

Steve Mainprize Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Douglas College [email protected] This draft is a revision of a paper entitled” A Venture in Forecasting the Future of Electronic Monitoring: elective affinities in the engineering of social control”, presented at the…

Fran Collyer Department of Management University of Canberra [email protected] Abstract The subject of creativity and invention have long captured the imagination of poets and writers, and even scientists themselves. An ‘Index of Scientific Writings on Creativity’ in 1974 listed 9,968…

Linda Mooney East Carolina University Kevin Ousley East Carolina University Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society in Chattanooga, TN on April 2, 1993. The authors gratefully acknowledge the valuable assistance of Jon Beckert, Brian Crisp,…