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- 1From:Medical World News (Vol. 32, Issue 11)At a news conference, President Bush defended his administration's approach to the AIDS crisis. "Here's a disease where you can control its spread by your own personal behavior," the president said. Later, a White House...
- 2From:Social Work (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the family and social-environmental problems reported by parents of 226 children seen at a child guidance clinic. Responses to a 21-item problem inventory revealed a relatively high frequency of...
- 3From:Public Interest (Issue 115) Peer-ReviewedMany social scientists believe that society's perception of social problems is based on its capacity to sympathize with those being affected by such social ills. These sociologists, which include Joseph Gusfield and Mary...
- 4From:Humanist in Canada (Issue 120) Peer-ReviewedDr. Watters is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of the book Deadly Doctrine: Health, Illness and Christian God-Talk (Prometheus Books, 1992). When I was a...
- 5From:Acta Ethnographica Hungarica: An International Journal of Ethnography (Vol. 61, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: New museology, emerging in the 1970s, reached critical museology in the early 2000s. A few peculiar examples of participatory museology can be found when looking back to decades of tradition at the Skanzen...
- 6From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 55, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe decolonization/decoloniality of the twenty-first century should not be confused with postmodernism and postcolonialism, which cascaded from the powerful Euro-North American academies as well as from the influence of...
- 7From:Social Education (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed2000 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Winners and Honor Books National Council for the Social Studies is pleased to celebrate the 2000 Carter G. Woodson Book Awards. In this, the twenty-sixth year of the Awards, one...
- 8From:Social Policy (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRichard Cloward is ill with lung cancer. On Sept, 20th, from 5:00 -- 8:00 p.m., people will gather with Dick at Prohansky Auditorium, Graduate Center, City University of NY, 365 Fifth Ave (bet. 34th & 35th Sts). The...
- 9From:Interpretation (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Church and the City More than ever, the city needs congregations with an urban, metropolitan vocation. As suburban sprawl continues, we are invited by our own scriptures to be faithful to the city. Human life...
- 10From:Trial (Vol. 31, Issue 9)Lawyers have throughout history been the bulwark of freedom and the hope of the individual pitted against the mighty, a role fulfilled today by the Assn of Trial Lawyers of America. For thousands of years the words of...
- 11From:Medical World News (Vol. 30, Issue 14)The `Caring' Buck Stops Here As parameters of national health worsen, FPs need to reidentify with reform. One of every four Americans gets less than optimal medical care, usually as a result of "going naked" in...
- 12From:Journal of Church and State (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAmerican Catholic history during the second quarter of the twentieth century, a period described by the historian David O'Brien as the era of "Social Catholicism,"(1) was a period when many church leaders sought to...
- 13From:Brookings Review (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe government has started working with the private sector, especially religious organizations, to solve poverty-related social problems. The reason for this tactic is because the US population believes many of these...
- 14From:Annual Review of SociologyPeer-ReviewedThe study of crime and deviance has always been one of the most theoretically fertile areas in sociology. Fundamental questions on why individuals violate norms, the origins of social order, official reactions to...
- 15From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 268)* Edward Shils, the influential and quirky University of Chicago sociologist who flourished in the middle of the last century, once wrote, "There is no permanent solution to any important problem in human life." It's...
- 16From:Jurimetrics Journal of Law, Science and Technology (Vol. 56, Issue 4)ABSTRACT: The idea that income inequality in the United States is a progressive problem that will, absent radical intervention, lead to serious economic and social problems has become prevalent. This idea has been given...
- 17From:Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review (Vol. 6) Peer-ReviewedThis dissertation explores the extent to which adults' perceptions of youth affect their perceptions of disorder in their local area. Utilising qualitative data from semistructured interviews and a focus group alongside...
- 18From:Social Forces (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDramatic changes in the age distribution of suicide in the U.S. are associated with variations in the demographic characteristics of birth cohorts. Using an age-period-cohort-characteristic model, we show that cohort...
- 19From:International Journal of Social Economics (Vol. 24, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPresident Jimmy Carter's social reform agenda was aimed at improving the quality of the country's economic, monetary and banking system as a means for restoring the internal and external convertibility of the US dollar....
- 20From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe transformation of Tom Joad from a listless private sufferer to an individual committed to social improvement in John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' reflects the philosophy of Thomas Paine. Steinbeck's novel traces...