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Ranging from the philosophical foundations of sociology and the discovery of `the social' to distinctive sociological approaches, to the significance of issues pertaining to gender and patriarchy, to questions of modernity and post-modernity, this book is comprehensive in subject matter. Among the distinctive features of the book are: clarity of exposition from a well-known and respected commentator in the field; focus boxes to facilitate comprehension; tremendous range of material; and powerful organization of the material around key organizing principles. The book is a major accomplishment w

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Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale's work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her "call to service" into practice: by first learning how the laws of God's world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the famil.

CLASSICAL ELITE THEORY AND THE CONCEPT OF THE DEEP STATE: RESEARCH OUTLOOK ON THE EXAMPLES OF TURKEY AND ITALY This paper is an attempt to clarify the relationship between the elite theory and the idea of the deep state. Both approaches address similar questions about how concentrated political power is created in the state, and both offer similar answers. An analysis of the historical context based on Italian and Turkish experiences with deep-state entities like mafia and intelligence agencies helps us understand dysfunctional elites in action. Consequently, the article explores research possibilities and theoretical solutions combining elitists view of politics with historical data.

Abstrak : Pelaksanaan PILKADA secara langsung ternyata bukan tanpa masalah. PemilihanKepala Daerah yang telah diselenggarakan selama ini ternyata cukup banyak mendapat tantanganinternalpenelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif, penentuan informan secara purposif didasari pulaoleh alasan subjektif yang memiliki keterbatasan dana, waktu dalam melakukan penelitian iniHasil Penelitian menunjukkan Umumnya Elite dan masyarakat Kota Manado telah mengetahuibahwa pemilihan Kepala Daerah dan Wakil Kepala Daerah akan dipilih secara langsung olehmasyarakat. Harus ada Sosialisasi yang mendalam dari pemerintah dalam hal ini adalah KPUDterhadap pelaksanaan PILKADA di Kota Manado serta peran serta Elite dan partai politik yangada di Kota Manado.Kata Kunci : Sikap Elite Politik Lokal, Pemilihan Kepala Daerah

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: What is ageing? -- Chapter 2: Wear and tear? -- Chapter 3: Telomeres - measuring the lifetime of cells -- Chapter 4: Cell senescence - down but not out -- Chapter 5: Old before their time -- Chapter 6: Ming the Mollusc and other models -- Chapter 7: It's in the genes -- Chapter 8: Eat less, live longer? -- Chapter 9: The immune system - first responders -- Chapter 10: The immune system - the specialists take over -- Chapter 11: The bugs fight back -- Chapter 12: HIV/AIDS - adding insult to injury -- Chapter 13: Epigenetics and chronology - the two faces of time -- Chapter 14: Stem cells - back to fundamentals -- Chapter 15: Something in the blood? -- Chapter 16: The broken brain -- Chapter 17: Alzheimer's disease - the family that led the way -- Chapter 18: Alzheimer's disease - a challenge to amyloid -- Chapter 19: It's the environment, stupid -- Chapter 20: Treat the person, not the disease -- Chapter 21: Ageing research - from the lab into our lives -- Notes on sources -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Copyright

1. Introduction -- 2. Stakeholder and risk analysis -- 3. Commissioning research -- 4. Applying for research funding -- 5. Negotiation to contract -- 6. Project planning -- 7. Research staff -- 8. Implementing the project -- 9. Dissemination -- 10. Intellectual property, copyright, confidentiality and data protection -- 11. Ethics in social research -- 12. Summary.

Emotional intelligence is a determinant factor in sports performance. The present study analysed differences in total emotional intelligence and its four dimensions in 2166 Spanish athletes (25.20 ± 10.17 years) from eight sports (volleyball, track and field, shooting, football, basketball, handball, gymnastics, and judo). A total of 1200 men and 966 women answered anonymously using a Google Forms questionnaire sent via WhatsApp about demographics and psychological variables. A Pearson correlation was conducted to assess the age–emotional intelligence relationship. An independent T-test and One-Way ANOVA were carried out to check for age differences between biological sex and sport and a One-Way ANCOVA to determine differences between sports controlled by age. Age differences were observed by sex and sport (p < 0.001). An association was found between age and emotional intelligence dimensions (p < 0.001), except for other's emotional appraisal (p > 0.05). Judo was the sport with the highest levels of regulation of emotions, other's emotional appraisal, use of emotion, and total emotional intelligence (p < 0.05). Generally, emotional intelligence was found to be more developed in individual sports than in team sports, except football. Consequently, psychological skills like emotional intelligence could be critical to achieving high performance, depending on the sport.

In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herenstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls "the New Naturalism", is the effort to explain religion on the basis of cognitive science. Another, which she calls "the New Natural Theology", is the attempt to reconcile natural-scientific accounts of the world with traditional religious belief. These two projects, she suggests, are in many ways mirror images -- or "natural reflections"--Of each other. Examing these and related efforts from the perspective of a constructivist-pragmatist epistemology, Smith argues that crucial aspects of belief - religious and other - that remain elusive or invisible under dominant rationalist and computational models are illuminated by views of human cognition that stress its dynamic, embodied, and interactive features. She also demonstrates how constructivist understandings of the formation and stabilization of knowledge - scientific and other - alert us to simularities in the springs of science and religion that are elsewhere seen largely in terms of difference and contrast. In Natural Reflections, Smith develops a sophisticated approach to issues often framed only polemically. Recognizing science and religion as complex, distinct domains of human practice, she also insists on their significant historical connections and cognitive continuities and offers important new modes of engagement with each of them--Jacket