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THE AUTHOR BEGINS BY CHALLENGING MICHEL WIEVIORKA'S DISMISSAL OF THE CLAIM THAT THERE IS A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TERRORISM AND THE MEDIA. TERRORISTS' MANIPULATION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE MEDIA IS SHOWN TO PLAY A CRUCIAL PART IN THEIR PROPAGANDA WAR. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES BY ARGUING THAT VOLUNTARY SELF-RESTRAINT AND SELF-REGULATION BY THE MEDIA ARE THE BEST POLICY OPTIONS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY IN REGARD TO THE MEDIA'S RESPONSE TO TERRORISM, BUT THAT THE MASS MEDIA NEED TO WORK HARDER AT DEVISING MEASURES OF SELF-RESTRAINT THAT ARE BOTH APPROPRIATE AND EFFECTIVE.

Feminist thought has conventionally been ignored by psychology through a series of mechanisms, including exclusion of certain kinds of theory, terming feminist writing a form of politics rather than science, drawing attention to internal inconsistencies in feminist thought, & using a liberal rhetoric to mask exclusionary practices. Despite these efforts, feminists have succeeded in challenging the pedagogic & epistemological models of psychology, calling attention to distinctively feminist ways of knowing & to how psychology has participated in the oppression of women. These challenges have met with firm resistance, & feminists continue to remain on the margins of the discipline, which offers views from inside & outside the profession. However, while this perspective has advantages, it must eventually become instrumental in the transformation of the discipline. 45 References. D. M. Ryfe

This is one in a series of papers on civilizational issues. Its predecessors have argued for the existence of a world system/civilization, "Central Civilization," born regionally in the Middle East about 1500 B.C. in the collision of two smaller, expanding local civilizations, expanded throughout the globe, engulfing all competing civilizations to become the unique global social system in the last 100-150 years. If continuing social struggles both are and imply continuing social entities, there is social continuity-stabilities, trends and cycles--in the struggles forming and maintaining Central Civilization.ill A consequence of accepting Central Civilization as a genuine entity, or a reason for treating it as a fruitful heuristic, is, in particular, the finding that it possesses a political cycle (states system--univcesal empire) characteristic of other entities commonly treated as civilizations (Wilkinson, 1986; 1987, 53-56; 1988) as well as a political evolution (from multistate anarchy to balance-of-power) incipient but never successfully established in other world systems (Wilkinson, 1985).