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Alexandar R Thomas Department of Sociology and Anthropology Northeastern University [email protected] Abstract Conventional wisdom suggests that the reduction of funding for social welfare policies during the 1980s is the result of a conservative backlash against the welfare state. With such…

Linda Mooney Department of Sociology East Carolina University [email protected] Sarah C Brabant University of Southwestern Louisiana The authors would like to thank Jon Beckert for his helpful assistance. Direct all correspondence to Linda A. Mooney The impact of relational status…

Evelyn Kallen York 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…

Michelle Proulx Department of Sociology McMaster University Brian Campbell Department of Sociology and Anthropology Mount Allison University Abstract The adoption of computer assisted learning technologies in higher education must be understood in relation to the overall use of computers by…

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…

Oz Almog Department of Sociology Emek Jeezrael College [email protected] About The Author: Dr. Oz Almog is a lecturer in Sociology at the Emek Jeezrael College in Israel. He specializes in Israeli Popular Culture, the Cultural History of  Israeli Society and…

Ronald Hinch Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Guelph [email protected] Crysal Hepburn Direct all correspondence to Ronald Hinch [email protected] Phone: 519-824-4120 ex. 2195 fax: 519-837-5961] Abstract This paper examines issues related to the definition and study of serial murder.…

Thomas M Scheff Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected] Suzanne M Retzinger Superior Court, Ventura CA Family Relations Mediator [email protected] *This article was earlier turned down by Social Problems as being too psychological, and by the Archives of…

Michael D Mehta Environmental Policy Unit Queen’s University [email protected] Abstract Relatively few social scientists have studied citizen protest groups concerned with civilian nuclear power, and the relationship between political conflict over risk and regulation of the nuclear industry. Drawing from…

James Curry Department of Social Studies El Colegio de la Frontera Norte [email protected] Abstract It is now almost taken for granted that we are living in an economic era in which knowledge and information are of crucial importance in the…