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Since the end of World War II, more than one and a half million citizens of the U.S.S.R. have emigrated to the West in a unique and unprecedented movement called the "the Third Soviet Emigration." Notwithstanding the political and international importance of this exodus, it is not weIl known or understood today because it has not been adequately studied until now. This article is intended to improve our understanding of the Third Soviet Emigration by examining its background, evolution and dynamics.

Social impact assessment in Social Sciences builds a base of knowledge transparency and direct involvement in social inequality, creating an alternative to the stagnation of scientific results and allowing them to become a real impact through society improvements. Four parameters inform and measure the degree of researchers' involvement in a scientific project and the improvements that this generates in society. These parameters are: Dissemination, Transfer, Impact and Social Creation. Social improvement does not come until impact is achieved, since dissemination does not ensure knowledge application, and transfer does not ensure that its application generates improvement as even sometimes its generates deterioration. However, we can achieve social impact by writing scientific publications about successful social realities that others have done. The new concept of social creation is a step beyond, and defines the process when from social research itself new successful social realities that improve society in ways that hitherto had not existed emerge.

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomenon. In the first half of the book, Wendt justifies the insertion of quantum theory into social scientific debates, introduces social scientists to quantum theory and the philosophical controversy about its interpretation, and then defends the quantum consciousness hypothesis against the orthodox, classical approach to the mind-body problem. In the second half, he develops the implications of this metaphysical perspective for the nature of language and the agent-structure problem in social ontology. Wendt's argument is a revolutionary development which raises fundamental questions about the nature of social life and the work of those who study it

Social scientists usually assume that the attitudes, behaviors, and statuses of respondents to longitudinal surveys are not altered by the act of measuring them. If this assumption is false—or even if the quality of survey participants' responses change because of measurement—then social scientists risk mischaracterizing the existence, magnitude, and correlates of changes across survey waves in respondents' characteristics. In this article, we make the case that social scientists ought to worry more about panel conditioning biases. We also describe and demonstrate empirical strategies for estimating the magnitude of such biases in longitudinal surveys, and we provide illustrative empirical results that are germane to social science research. We end by outlining a research agenda that would generate specific information about the nature and degree of panel conditioning in specific longitudinal surveys as well as a broader understanding of the circumstances in which panel conditioning is most likely to occur.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- I. Language/Power in the Social Sciences -- 1. Poetics, Politics, and Truth: An Invitation to Rhetorical Analysis -- 2. Text/Context: The Rhetoric of the Social Sciences -- II. Rhetoric and Truth in the Social Sciences -- 3. The Interpretation of Disciplinary Writing -- 4. No Anthro-Apologies, or Der(r)idHing a Discipline -- 5. Textual Form and Social Formation in Evans-Pritchard and Lévi-Strauss -- III. Social Science as Political Discourse -- 6. Communication, Persuasion, and The Establishment of Academic Disciplines: The Case of American Psychology -- 7. Poetics and Politics in Ethnographic Texts: A View from the Colonial Ethnography of Afghanistan -- 8. Listening for the Silences: The Rhetorics of the Research Field -- 9. The Rhetoric of Efficiency: Applied Social Science as Depoliticization -- 10. Fact, Fiction, and Factions: Scandal, Controversy, and "Filemaking" as Social Theory -- IV. Challenges for the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences -- 11. Human Needs and Control: A Foundation for Human Science and Critique -- 12. Narration, Reason, and Community -- 13. From Suspicion to Affirmation: Postmodernism and the Challenges of Rhetorical Analysis -- Index

Despite current strong trends in the world toward political & economic liberalization, counterveiling trends also exist, as evidenced by the widening gap between rich & poor nations. Also, despite declines in proportionate population, rich nations now account for a greater share of world wealth, trade, & finance than they did in the 1970s. The widening gap is due largely to the rapid technological progress taking place in the rich nations & a counterproductive asymmetry in the management of the world economy. Rich nations must assume greater responsibility for alleviating these conditions. Social science can assist through research in: economic history; strategies for strengthening the UN system; integration of environmental inputs into the system of national accounts; & the depth, scope, & dispersion of the growing interdependence of nations. 12 References. D. Generoli