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Milind Deogaonkar, MD Department of Neurosciences Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH USA [email protected] Abstract Social and economic inequality is detrimental to the health of any society but especially when the society is diverse, multicultural, overpopulated and undergoing rapid but unequal…
John SandlosFaculty 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 early…
David LocherDept. of Social Sciences Missouri Southern State College [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper is an attempt to stimulate thought and discourse toward postmodern social theory. The writings of Baudrillard and Lyotard are deconstructed with a focus on their conceptualization of…
Al BellamyEastern Michigan University College of Technology Cheryl HanewiczEastern Michigan University College of Technology ABSTRACT This study assessed the degree to which emotion management factors constrain hostile types of communication within electronic chat room settings. It further examined whether gender…
Alexander ThomasDepartment of Sociology SUNY Oneonta [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper traces the recent history (1948-1998) of economic restructuring in a rural community in central New York State. It is argued that several similarities exist between the experience of the small…
Nicholas FoxMedical School University of Sheffield [email protected] This paper explores postmodern social theory approaches to research writing. In particular I am interested in the possibilities which an emphasis on intertextuality can offer in the production of social research. Intertextuality is…
Emanuel Smikun American Social Indicators The neofunctionalist movement in sociology adopted functionalism as a tradition rather than a method (Alexander 1985). Its general discourse and research programs are mainly concerned with rehabilitating Parsons, further elaborating and proliferating his ideas and…
Ronald HinchDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology University of Guelph [email protected] Crysal HepburnDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology University of Guelph [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper examines issues related to the definition and study of serial murder. It examines definitional issues such as…
Evelyn KallenYork University ABSTRACT This paper will attempt to demonstrate that cyberhate messages promoted on the Internet by organized political and religious hate groups incite hatred and promote harmful action against racial, ethnocultural, religious and same-sex oriented minorities. The author’s…
Mike SostericDepartment of Global and Social Analysis Athabasca University [email protected] Mike GismondiDepartment of Global and Social Analysis Athabasca University [email protected] Gina RatkovicDepartment of Sociology University of Alberta [email protected] ABSTRACT The academy, like many public and private institutions before it, has…
