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The purpose is to examine the relationship between the rank- &-file citizens in a Japanese community & their reputational leaders with respect to their value orientations. Empirical evidence supported the following hyp's: The leaders are more sociable, less authoritarian, & more internat'ly minded. No appreciable diff's (t test) between the leaders & the general pop sample R's were found as far as econ liberalism is concerned. On the basis of these findings, a few points of theoretical importance are suggested, eg, the leaders respond diff'ly to some of the items included because of their cognitive capacity to see things beyond their own interest. AA.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Dying, Bereavement and Social Care -- 1.1 Dying, Bereavement and Social Care: An Ambiguous Relationship -- 1.2 Aims, Approach, Sources and Structure -- 2 Social Care -- 2.1 Care and Carers: Some Definitions -- 2.2 Structure of Services -- 2.3 Essential Features of Social Care -- 2.4 The Social Context of Social Care: Current Issues and Trends -- 3 Understanding Death and Dying -- 3.1 The Relevance for Practice of Theoretical Understandings -- 3.2 Defining Death: Biological and Social Death -- 3.3 The Demography of Death -- 3.4 Changed Social Understandings of Death -- 3.5 Rites of Passage -- 3.6 Dying: Introduction -- 3.7 Who is Dying? -- 3.8 What is Dying? -- 3.9 Facing Death: Psychological Perspectives -- 4 Facing Death -- 4.1 Managing the Present -- 4.2 Abandoning the Future -- 4.3 Separation, Loneliness and the Social Bond -- 4.4 Some Reflections upon Theory -- 5 Care Workers' Involvement with Those Facing Their Own Death -- 5.1 Social Care with People Facing Death: A Broad Spectrum -- 5.2 The Social Care Response -- 5.3 Issues of Training and Support -- 5.4 Conclusion: Social Care with People who are Dying -- 6 Understanding Grief and Bereavement -- 6.1 Defining Key Terms -- 6.2 The Grieving Process and the Grief Work Hypothesis -- 6.3 Theoretical Developments and Debate -- 6.4 A Child's Grief -- 6.5 Consequences of Grief -- 6.6 Conclusion: Understanding Grief -- 7 Experiencing Bereavement -- 7.1 Individual Aspects of the Experience of Grief -- 7.2 Social Aspects of the Grieving Experience -- 7.3 Responding to Grief: The What and Who of Receiving Help -- 8 Care Workers' Involvement with Those Who are Bereaved -- 8.1 Bereavement: A Significant Feature in All Areas of Social Care -- 8.2 The Social Care Response.

Intro -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1 Hyperconnectivity and Digital Reality: An Introduction -- References -- 2 Communicative Action in the Light of the Onlife -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Technology and Society -- 2.3 Manuel Castells and Communication Power -- 2.4 Habermas and Communicative Action -- 2.5 Hardt and Negri: Empire -- 2.6 Material Aspect -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Scaffolding the Self in Onlife -- 3.1 The Onlife Manifesto and Reality -- 3.2 Scaffolding -- 3.3 Theoretical Framework for Scaffolding -- 3.3.1 Co-constructing Places -- 3.3.2 Remembrance and the Feeling of Home -- 3.3.3 The Question of Co-constitution -- 3.4 The Blurriness of Boundaries as Modules and Modes for Scaffolding -- 3.5 Co-creations of Selves, Others, and Technologies -- 3.6 Conclusions and Perspectives -- References -- 4 Onlife Attention: Attention in the Digital Age -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Attention a la Manifesto -- 4.3 Genealogies of Attention -- 4.3.1 Attention as a Figure-Ground Distinction -- 4.3.2 Attention as Searchlight -- 4.3.3 Digital Multitasking -- 4.4 Attention Economy and the Possibility of Onlife Attention -- 4.5 From Distributed Responsibility to Distributed Attention -- References -- 5 Consciousness in a Hyperconnected World: The Entanglements of Human-Machine Cognition -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 What Is Conscious and Non-conscious Cognition? -- 5.3 The Fear of Information Flow and Drawing Boundaries -- 5.4 Ecologies and Cognitive Assemblages: Human-Machine Choice Making -- 5.5 New Models of Self, Democracy and Morals? -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Redistribution of Medical Responsibility in the Network of the Hyper-connected Self -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Trust and Empowerment in the Epoch of E-Scaped Medicine -- 6.3 Do as Doctors Do -- 6.4 Leaving the Safe Harbour -- 6.5 It "HIT" Me!.

"Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy), language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional, essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment, slang, taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities, place-names from indigenous languages, the fellowship and parody of children's songs, and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese"--

"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silences that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East and Africa. These essays show that silence is a powerful language of remembrance and commemoration and a cultural practice with its own rules." "This broad-ranging book discloses the universality of silence in the ways we think about war through examples ranging from the Spanish Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Armenian Genocide and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Bringing together scholarship on varied practices in different cultures, this book breaks new ground in the vast literature on memory, and opens up new avenues of reflection and research on the lingering aftermath of war."--Jacket

"Digital literacy practices have often been celebrated as means of transcending the constraints of the physical world through the production of new social spaces. At the same time, literacy researchers and educators are coming to understand all the ways that place matters. This volume, with contributors from across the globe, considers how space/place, identities, and the role of digital literacies create opportunities for individuals and communities to negotiate living, being, and learning together with and through digital media. The chapters in this volume consider how social, cultural, historical, and political literacies are brought to bear on a range of places that traverse the urban, rural, and suburban/exurban, with emphasis placed on the ways digital technology is used to create identities and do work within social, digital, and material worlds. This includes agentive work in digital literacies from a variety of identities or subjectivities that disrupt metronormativity, urban centrism (and other -isms) on the way to more authentic engagement with their communities and others. Featuring instances of research and practice across intersections of differences (including, but not limited to race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and language) and places, the contributions in this volume demonstrate the ways that digital literacies hold educative potential"--

Intro -- Foreword: Multimodal, Multidimensional, and Multilevel Social Network Systems -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Knowledge Brokers, Networks, and the Policymaking Process -- Knowledge Brokerage and Use of Research Evidence -- Knowledge Brokerage in Policy and Practice Settings -- Knowledge Brokers in Health and Medicine -- Knowledge Brokers in Education -- Knowledge Brokers in Communication -- Knowledge Brokerage and Social Network Analysis -- Explicit Network Measurement of Brokerage Activity -- Social Network Analysis, Knowledge Brokerage, and Research Evidence -- References -- Disseminating Evidence to Policymakers: Accounting for Audience Heterogeneity -- Evidence to Inform the Dissemination of Evidence to Different Policymaker Audiences -- What Sources Do Policymakers Turn to for Research Evidence? -- Who Do Policymakers Perceive as Reliable Sources of Research Evidence? -- What Do Policymakers Perceive as the Most Important Attributes of Evidence? -- How Do Knowledge and Attitudes About Evidence Vary Among Policymakers? -- Strategies to Account for Audience Heterogeneity When Disseminating Evidence to Policymakers -- Audience Segmentation Analysis -- Message Tailoring -- Framing -- Conclusion -- References -- "Being Important" or "Knowing the Important": Who Is Best Placed to Influence Policy? -- Use of Network Analysis to Study Power and Influence -- Hubs and Authorities -- Methods -- Results -- Who Are the Important Actors and How Do We Know Them? -- Who Can Accurately Identify the Important Actors? -- Power Through Agency or Structure? -- Discussion -- Limitations -- References.

What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of search technology's broader implications for knowledge production and social relations, the authors shed light on a culture of search in which our increasing reliance on search engines influences not only the way we navigate, classify, and evaluate Web content, but also how we think about ourselves and t

In this book, The Boundaries of Afghans' Political Imagination, the author seeks an answer to the question of how tradition, specifically its normative-axiological aspects, shapes the political attitudes and actions of the Afghans. The author points to two different concepts of social order which are moulded by the Pashtunwali: on the one hand, a tribal code which is part of Pashto language tradition; and on the other hand, by Sufism, the religious and philosophical current in Islam expressed