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Neil J. MacKinnon, PhD* Department of Sociology & Anthropology University of Guelph Jeffery D. Molson, BSc, BEd College Heights Secondary School Guelph, Ontario J. Douglas May, MD Oncology and Palliative Program Cambridge Memorial Hospital Cambridge, Ontario * Direct all correspondence…

Herman W. Smith UM-St. Louis Shuuichirou Ike Teikyo University Ying Li Shanghai Abstract This paper places Project Magellan within the larger semantic differential tradition. We illustrate how Heise (1997) improved the first-generation paper-and-pencil techniques for producing more highly reliable and…

Herman W Smith UM-St. Louis Takako Nomi UM-St. Louis *To be read at the Asia and Asian American Studies Section of the American Sociological Association for presentation at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco, August, 1998. Abstract Students of Japan…

Timothy McGettigan Department of Sociology Wake Forest University [email protected] Abstract In this article, I propose a solution to the paradox of emancipation (i.e., a theoretical impasse that results from the twin problems of relativity and coercion that one must confront…

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Milan Zafirovski University of North Texas [email protected] Abstract The equation of human rational behavior with instrumentalist, especially economic, rationality represents the hallmark of the economic or rational choice approach. The latter imports, makes explicit and extends orthodox economics’ implicit conception…

Andreas Schneider Texas Tech University Abstract What are the most appropriate ways to gauge cross-cultural differences? This paper develops a methodological tool where gender serves as a intra-cultural standard of comparison for the analysis of cross-cultural differences. I present a…

Will Kalkhoff Kent State University Abstract Work on delinquent and violent subcultures in criminology has focused on the relationship between holding values (attitudes, beliefs, etc.) in support of delinquency or violence and actual involvement in these activities. However, empirical research…

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…

William Cummings University of South Florida Abstract This article argues that world-systems theory commits itself to analyses whose form and content is shaped by its own choice of explanatory metaphors. After considering metaphor in academia in general, analysis proceeds from…