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Annotation The linguistic study of workplace language is a new and exciting area of research. This book explores the expression of power in a New Zealand workplace through examination of 52 everyday interactions between four women and their colleagues. The main focus of this research is the expression of three types of "control acts", i.e., directives, requests and advice. The women include two managers who demonstrate an interactive participative style of management. They tend to minimise rather than exert power, although their status is still evident in their speech. The study is original in its combination of a quantitative and a qualitative approach, as well as in its combination of a detailed categorisation of head acts and an analysis of context and role relationships. Through the design of the study and the methodology used, the results which are brought forward challenge earlier research both on power and control acts. The data analyzed is drawn from the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project

Intro -- Foreword: The Cold War and the Transformation of Social Science -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Cold War Social Science, Transnational Entanglements -- Scope, Goals, Organization -- Exchanges across the Iron Curtain -- Modernization Theory Meets Postcolonial Nation Building -- Creating Good Citizens -- Social Science under Debate -- Taking Stock -- Liberation/Repression -- Value-Free and Detached/Value-Laden and Engaged -- Center-Periphery/Polycentric -- Target Audiences and Timeliness -- References -- Part I: Exchanges Across the Iron Curtain -- Chapter 2: "Overtake and Surpass": Soviet Algorithmic Thinking as a Reinvention of Western Theories during the Cold War -- Programmed Instruction: From American Behaviorism to Soviet Cybernetics -- Following the West: The Mathematization of Soviet Psychology -- The Rise and Departure of the Soviet Leader in Programmed Instruction -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Scientometrics with and without Computers: The Cold War Transnational Journeys of the Science Citation Index -- Making the Science Citation Index in Cold War America -- East-West Exchanges: A Socialist Market for a Capitalist Product -- The Vicissitudes of the Science Citation Index in the USSR -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Cold War Social Sciences beyond Academia? Radio Free Europe and the Transnational Circulation of Cold War Knowledge during the "CIA Years," 1950-1971 -- RFE as a "Surrogate" Radio in the Early Cold war -- More than Just Sound: Radio Free Europe as a Non-Academic Producer of Cold War Knowledge -- The Transsystemic and Transatlantic Circulation of RFE's Cold War Knowledge -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Modernization Theory Meets Postcolonial Nation Building.

I am pleased to be able to address this, the eighteenth annual meeting of the Social Science History Association. I have many valued memories of presidential addresses, but my favorite was Jerry Clubb's 1984 talk in the Chinese restaurant in Toronto, where speakers, waiters, and many other patrons all competed in a cacophonic, noisy free-for-all. Jerry did not even try to finish the talk, so we had to wait until it appeared in the journal (Clubb 1986).

Among the various facets of the new public history movement, applied history holds particular interest for social science historians. Public history generally involves the effort to use historical work for nonacademic audiences; it thus embraces historical museum work, aspects of archive preservation, and media presentations for general audiences. All these are admirable goals, not of course novel, but receiving new and explicit attention in a variety of recent programs, and in the Public History Association. Applied history, though part of public history in its broadest sense, has a more specific mission (one must note that some of the presentation training programs in public history are labeled "applied," a terminological confusion that one hopes can be remedied). Applied historians seek directly to integrate certain kinds of historical research with the process of policy research, in both public and private sectors. Applied historians do this research themselves, most typically on a contract basis from academic sanctuaries but potentially as policy researchers independent of a direct academic base. They are also involved in training graduate students in this research mode, and in several cases have also mounted undergraduate courses or programs in the genre.

The introduction of soc sci evidence in judicial proceedings goes back to 1908 & the 'Brandeis brief'. The constitutionality of Oregon's law limiting women to an 8-hour work day in factories was being challenged on the ground that it restricted freedom of contract unreasonably & hence violated the `due process' provisions of the 14th Amendment. The Court learned from the Brandeis brief just how widespread was the belief, both from medical experts & the general community, about women's physical capacity upon which it rested its decision upholding the Oregon law. In the May, 1954 desegregation decision the Justices chose to take account of soc sci res findings in exactly the same way that their predecessors took account of the data in Brandeis's brief : to buttress their 'judicial notice' of the effects of the soc situation at the moment of decision. To outlaw segregation the court relied on a series of precedents for interpreting the 14th Amendment, not on sociol or soc psychol. It is fortunate that the Supreme Court, though it seems to have been influenced to some degree by the soc sci'ts, did not rest its protection of the rights of minorities on the largely irrelevant books & articles cited, or on the need to establish as a fact that segregation has a harmful personality effect. Nevertheless, soc sci is the courts' best means of acquiring accurate knowledge of human behavior. J. A. Fishman.

Published as An autarkic science : physis, culture, and power in Franco's Spain / Néstor Herran and Xavier Roqué, as appears in the print version of Historical studies in the natural science. © 2013 by the Regents of the University of California/Sponsoring Society or Association. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of California/on behalf of the Sponsoring Society for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® on [JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/r/ucal)] or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com ; We discuss the rise of modern physics in Spain during Francoism (1939-1975) within the context of culture, power, and the ongoing historical assessment of science during the dictatorship. Contrary to the idea that Francoist policy was indifferent if not hostile to modern science, and that ideology did not go deeper than the rhetorical surface, we discuss the ways in which the physical sciences took advantage of, and in turn were used by, the regime to promote international relations, further the autarkic economy, and ultimately generate power. In order to understand what physics meant within the National Catholic political order, we contrast the situation in the post-Civil War decades with the situation before the war. First we discuss how the war transformed the physicists' community, molding it around certain key fields. We then turn to the work of right-wing ideologues and conservative scientists and philosophers, who stressed the spiritual dimension of the discipline and argued for the integration of science into the Christian scheme of the world. The cultural realignment of the discipline coincided with the institutional changes that harnessed physics to the military and economic needs of the autarkic state, which we discuss in the final section. To conclude, we reflect upon the demise of autarkic physics in the late 1960s and the overall implications of our argument with regard to the development of physics in Spain

This book, the first in the new series Traditions in Social Theory, is a comprehensive introduction to philosophical problems in the social sciences, encompassing traditional and contemporary perspectives. It is readily accessible, with a firm emphasis on communicating difficult philosophical ideas clearly and effectively to those from outside this discipline. Ted Benton and Ian Craib move systematically through major topic areas, from positivism to post-structuralism, using a wide variety of examples and cases to illustrate key themes

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