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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…
Augusto De Venanzi Central University of Venezuela [email protected] Abstract This article explores diverse cases of social exclusion across time and space aiming to uncover its essential production processes. Special attention is paid to the various ways in which exclusion originates…
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.…
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. Especially when the society is diverse, multicultural, overpopulated and undergoing rapid but unequal economic…
Fran M. Collyer [email protected] Abstract In the last two decades of the twentieth century many governments across the world have displayed an unprecedented attraction toward policies which encourage and allow the marketisation of the public sector and the privatisation of…
Thomas Volken University of Zurich Switzerland Abstract For quite some time sociologists have been discussing information and communication technologies (ICT) as the heart and engine of societal change. But only recently have researchers begun to investigate the cultural preconditions of…
Kathleen Korgen William Paterson University Patricia Odell Bryant College Phyllis Schumacher Bryant College Abstract A large study of college students found that differences by race/ethnicity in use of the Internet exist even among undergraduates at Internet-accessible colleges and universities. Differences…
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,…
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…
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…
