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Geoffrey Moss [email protected] Abstract Bourdieu’s cultural capital thesis asserts that students from privileged socioeconomic backgrounds tend to acquire a background in high culture (i.e. cultural capital) that they invest in scholastic pursuits and thereby obtain returns in the form of…
Almudena Moreno Mnguez Jurídicas y de la Comunicación Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Valladolid Spain [email protected] Introduction As a result of the changes that Spanish families are undergoing within the context of Europe, several institutions undertook research in the…
René Levy Université de Lausanne Eric Widmer Universités de Genève et de Lausanne Jean Kellerhals Université de Genève Abstract Are present-day families still like those described by sociology in the middle of the 20th century or have they changed beyond…
Yuliang Liu School of Education Instructional Technology Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville, Illinois [email protected] Abstract With computer-mediated communication (CMC) being widely employed in all fields, a growing body of CMC research has accumulated in recent decades. The research regarding the…
David R. Heise Indiana University Scientific assessment of subjective culture became a practical matter in the final quarter of the twentieth century. Psychologists Osgood, May, and Miron (1975) derived three dimensions of affective meaning from multivariate analyses of adjective rating…
Nicholas J Fox Medical 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.…
Loet Leydesdorff Science & Technology Dynamics Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Amsterdam [email protected] Henry Etzkowitz Science Policy Institute Social Science Division State University of New York at Purchase [email protected] Abstract A transformation in the functions of university, industry, and…
Al Bellamy Department of Interdisciplinary Technology School of Technology Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan Cheryl Hanewicz Department of Interdisciplinary Technology School of Technology Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan Abstract This study explored the influence that personal relations and communications within…
Brad West Flinders University Australia [email protected] Abstract This article revisits the debate surrounding the concept of positive deviance, arguing that the term is strategic for understanding the mythological, narrative and sacred dimensions of deviant social phenomena. Studies of deviance have…
Max Koch University of Ulster [email protected] Abstract The road to the Good Friday Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland is interpreted from the perspective of a theoretical ‘closure notion of citizenship’, which is taken from both the citizenship approach and the…
