The purpose of this article is to discuss the media effects approach broadly, to point out limitations the traditional approach imposes on the field, and to discuss a mix of attributes approach with a focus on the study of new technologies for the…
Papers in Sociology
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In an apartment building on Chicago's Southside, fifty of the seventy-five residents are sex workers. Our study uses in-depth interviews and participant observation of Chicago's sex work economy to argue that sex work is one constituent part of an…
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Joel cites it to define single and double loop learning in his proposal
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This paper discusses the present 'legal consciousness' literature and seeks to identify two different conceptions of legal consciousness. Most of this literature originated in the United States, but there has also been a growing interest in issues…
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The Christian Democratic Unions (CDUs) recent proposal for a national `guiding culture as the basis for immigrant integration has aroused considerable controversy in Germany. This paper examines the underlying assumptions and frame- work of this…
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A proper sociological approach to fear is of both empirical and theoretical significance in understanding late modern society. Normally fear has been explored psychologically, as one of the emotions, but recently a sociology of emotions has begun to…
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Regression methods were used to select and score 12 items from the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) to reproduce the Physical Component Summary and Mental Component Summary scales in the general US population…
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Core Affect is a state accessible to consciousness as a single simple feeling (feeling good or bad, energized or enervated) that can vary from moment to moment and that is the heart of, but not the whole of, mood and emotion. In four correlational…
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BACKGROUND: Although the prevalence of asthma and morbidity related to asthma are increasing, little is known about the natural history of lung function in adults with this disease. METHODS: We used data from a longitudinal epidemiologic study of…
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A 2 x 2 achievement goal framework comprising mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals was proposed and tested in 3 studies. Factor analytic results supported the independence of the 4 achievement…
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In the global war of ideas, the United States finds itself facing a systems problem that cannot be solved by simply delivering the right message. The question is not how can we construct a more persuasive message? Rather it is what kind of reality…
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The last 50 years of molecular genetics have produced an abundance of new discoveries and data that make it useful to revisit some basic concepts and assumptions in our thinking about genomes and evolution. Chief among these observations are the…
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In the Persistent World of the cyberspace formed by MMORPG, realistic conversations between game characters play an important role so that players can be immersed in the game. However, this conversation between game characters in MMORPG has been…
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Multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) syndrome, also known as idiopathic environmental intolerance, is a controversial diagnosis that encompasses a wide range of waxing and waning, subjective symptoms referable to more than one body system and…
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Examines the use of e-mail in communications between physician and patient. Case of 67-year-old retired man who instead of calling his physician, e-mails him with questions about his various medical conditions and medications; The patient's point of…
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An analysis of the French prison systems ebullience since 2001 shows that to use incarceration as a social vacuum cleaner in order to rid society of the dregs resulting fromthe economic transformations of neoliberalism is in fact an aberration. Not…
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O processo de intensificação da pesca comercial na região gerou tipos sociais de pescadores que atuam de maneira singular sobre os recursos pesqueiros, originando tensões sociais e litígios em torno dos recursos da ictiofauna. As relações sociais de…
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A simbologia da Água e a sua conceptualização levam-nos a questionar no âmbito das novas ciências da comunicação e informação sobre estratégias e metodologias que concorrem para a alteração de velhos registos de pensamento e de mentalidades. A…
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Life is mostly composed of the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Although these six elements make up nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids and thus the bulk of living matter, it is theoretically possible that some…
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Data on the health status of migrants are still scarce. One of the reasons for this is that migration status has not been well recorded in official statistics and epidemiological studies. In order to obtain an adequate and standardised…
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