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Revealing what lies behind much contemporary political rhetoric, Morgan Marietta shows that the language of America's most prominent leaders often relies on deep, even sacred, ideals. Comprehensively and in great detail surveying the rhetorical inventions employed in influential social movements and into the highest levels of government, The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric systematically analyzes the use of absolutist claims-and appeals to what a speaker deems to be universal truths-as essential elements of persuasion in the American political landscape. In exploring the sometimes subt

1. The Second National Fertility Survey 1971 (NEGO II) -- 1.1. Objectives -- 1.2. The questionnaire -- 1.3. The sample -- 1.4. The organization of the survey and the analysis of the data -- 1.5. Results -- 1.6. The national survey of 1966 (NEGO I) -- 2. Ideal, Desired, Present, and Expected Family Size -- 2.1. The evaluation of statements about desired and expected family size -- 2.2. Definition of the family-size variables -- 2.3. Results for Belgium -- 2.4. Differential fertility -- 2.4.1. Fertility differentiation according to cultural community -- 2.4.2. Relationship between family size and some cultural and economic variables -- 2.5. Conclusions -- 3. Familiarity with and Source of Information about Methods of Contraception -- 3.1. Awareness of contraceptive methods -- 3.2. Source of information about methods of contraception -- 3.3. Relationships with a number of cultural and socio-economic variables -- 3.4. Shifts between 1966 and 1971 -- 3.5. Evaluation of the general situation -- 4. Use of Contraception -- 4.1. Past, present and future use -- 4.2. Changes in use -- 4.3. Duration of the use of contraception -- 4.4. Mode of application -- 4.5. The relationship with some cultural and economic variables -- 4.6. Evaluation of the situation -- 5. Effectiveness of Contraception -- 5.1. Concepts underlying the statistical analysis applied -- 5.2. The number of accidental pregnancies -- 5.3. Effectiveness of contraception in general -- 5.4. The effectiveness of particular contraception methods -- 5.5. Implications for the estimation of the frequency of induced abortion -- 5.6. Evaluation of the situation -- 6. From Planning Behaviour To Planning Result -- 6.1. Planning status of the pregnancies and of the subjects -- 6.2. The relationship with the fertility history -- 6.3. Relationships with some cultural and socio-economic variables -- 6.4. Evaluation of the situation -- 7. The Relationship Between Contraceptional Behaviour and Some Sexual Aspects of the Partner Relation -- 7.1. The investigation of some sexual aspects of the partner relation in NEGO II -- 7.2. The relationship between knowledge about contraception methods and some sexual aspects of the partner relation -- 7.3. The relationship between the use of contraception and the sexual aspects of the partner relation -- 7.4. The relationship between the family-planning pattern, its results, and some sexual aspects of the partner relation -- 7.5. Evaluation of the situation -- 8. The Influence of Contraceptive Behaviour on Family Size -- 8.1. The interrelationships between cultural and economic differentiation, the use of various methods of contraception, and differences in family size -- 8.2. The influence of changes in the use of the methods of contraception under study on the decrease in family size between 1966 and 1971 -- 8.3. Evaluation of the situation -- 9. Conclusions and Implications for Policy -- References.

This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals. It presents a critical exchange between two leading contemporary social theorists, Patrick Baert and Simon Susen, advancing debates at the cutting edge of scholarship on the changing role of intellectuals in the increasingly interconnected societies of the twenty-first century. The discussion centres on Baert's most recent contribution to this field of inquiry, The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual (2015), demonstrating that it has opened up hitherto barely explored avenues for the sociological study of intellectuals. In addition, the authors provide an overview of various alternative approaches that are available for understanding the sociology of intellectuals – such as those of Pierre Bourdieu, Randall Collins, and Neil Gross. In doing so, they grapple with the question of the extent to which intellectuals can play a constructive role in influencing social and political developments in the modern era. This insightful volume will appeal to students and scholars of the humanities and social sciences, particularly to those interested in social theory and the history of intellectual thought. --

1. Introduction : the problem of asbestos -- 2. 'I've got the dust as well' : asbestos litigation, pleural plaques and masculinity in the UK -- 3. Evaluating science and risk : living with and dying with asbestos in South Africa -- 4. 'Show me the evidence' : science and risk in Indian asbestos issues -- 5. 'Through no fault of our own' : asbestos diseases in South Africa and the UK -- 6. Reframing risk : comparative framings of asbestos and disease -- 7. Conclusion : diseased identities and social justice.

1. Dying kings in the ANE : Gilgames and his travels in the Garden of Power -- 2. Sacred marriage in the ANE : the collapse of the garden and its aftermath -- 3. Renewing the cosmos : garden and goddess in first millennium ideology -- 4. The Seleucids at Babylon : flexing traditions and reclaiming the garden.

1. The Age of Ambivalence -- 2. Conceptual Frames: Risk and Intersectionality -- 3. Risk, Inequality, and (Post) Structure: Risks as Governing -- 4. The Performative Aspects of Risk and the Constitution of Subjects -- 5. Doing, Redoing, and Doing Away: Performing Risk -- 6. The Lived Experience of Risk: Multiple Standpoints and Agencies -- 7. Risk Networks: Actors, Actants, and Assemblages -- 8. Methodological Applications -- 9. Risk, Intersectionality, and Ambivalence—A Way to Understand Inequality -- Epilogue: Imagining the Future Differently. .

"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the "play-based childhood" began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the "phone-based childhood" in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this "great rewiring of childhood" has interfered with children's social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the "collective action problems" that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes-communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children-and ourselves-from the psychological damage of a phone-based life"--

Cover -- Half-title -- Series -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Tables and Figures -- 1 Conflict, civil war and underdevelopment -- 2 Revisiting the greed and grievance explanations for violent conflict -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The greed or natural resource-based explanation for conflict -- 2.2.1 The theory of greed -- 2.2.2 Empirical issues in connection with the greed mechanism -- 2.3 Grievances and horizontal inequality as conflict drivers -- 2.3.1 Theories of grievance -- 2.3.1.1 Relative deprivation -- 2.3.1.2 Polarization -- 2.3.1.3 Horizontal inequality -- 2.3.2 Measurement of grievance -- 2.3.2.1 Relative deprivation -- 2.3.3 Some empirical findings -- 2.4 Synthesis and social contract -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 3 Greed, grievance and globalization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A model of social contract and civil conflict -- 3.2.1 The government side -- 3.2.2 The rebel side -- 3.2.3 Solving the model -- 3.2.3.1 Non-cooperative behaviour -- 3.2.3.2 International aid, diaspora finance, greed and grievance -- 3.2.3.3 Globalization, growth and internal conflict -- 3.3 Conclusions -- 4 Economic dimensions of the liberal peace and its implications for conflict in developing countries -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Ideal theories of the liberal peace -- 4.3 Economic theories of the liberal peace -- 4.4 Globalization and internal conflict in developing countries -- 4.4.1 The gains from trade -- 4.4.2 Globalization and conflict -- 4.5 Conclusions and policy implications -- 5 Enforcing peace agreements through commitment technologies -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The imperfect credibility of peace agreements -- 5.3 Commitment technologies for the rebel group -- 5.4 The finance and production of sanctions -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 The conflict-growth nexus and the poverty of nations -- 6.1 Introduction.

In this book, Professor Nicholson outlines social scientific approaches to international relations and then describes the problems of rational decision-making in conflict situations. He shows how rationality is in many strategic situations hard to define and often leads to paradoxes such as the prisoners' dilemma. In the following part the author explores rational beliefs about the international system. He examines theories of arms races, alliances and the international problems of ecology. Here he is critical of the classical school of international relations for a lack of rigour in dealing with the problems of evidence and belief. Finally, Michael Nicholson discusses the philosophy of science, policy and ethics. This book is both an exposition and a defence of a social scientific approach to international relations. With its emphasis on social scientific approaches, theory building and testing - and above all its clarity and accessibility - it provides students with a key to understanding the complex field of conflict analysis

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This paper seeks to reframe the debates on cosmopolitanism and mobile cosmopolitan subjects by focusing its analysis on a multidimensional character of sociospatial relations. In particular, it critically engages with these works which too often see subjects as social categories and distinguish cosmopolitans from others, and which are silent about how people relate to space. The paper makes use of the study of mobile professionals working an international organization belonging to the United Nation family of organizations and argues that mobility in space creates a condition for emerging of sites of diversity and of new spatial imaginaries. It asks how these two aspects are related to each other. While the first aspect is addressed in the empirical studies, the paper makes a claim that cosmopolitanism is about challenging the latent spatial imaginaries and creating alternative geographies. Grounding this claim in empirical research, the paper complements the theoretical works on normative cosmopolitanism.

No Marxist theory of communication & the media exists, although attempts have been made to apply Marxist concepts-eg, alienation, manipulation, dependence, & bourgeois capitalist control-& to develop a leftist structural-functionalism. Existing communications theory & research deals with specific semiotic & psychological aspects; its actual superstructure & historic background have not been examined. Such research has been controlled by the processes of capitalist concentration & accumulation, & the necessity for optimizing control over these processes. The global communications-information complex must be seen within the globalized structure of the transnational capitalist system. Existing theories & models are ideological to the extent that they serve this system; eg, the cybernetic model views the human being as a manipulable object that can be dominated & controlled, ignoring the social, anthropological, historical, economic, ethical, & political aspects of communication. Alternative approaches, originating in Latin America & other Third World areas, to communication's role in the construction of new societies are briefly noted. S. Whittle.

This is the final version of the article. Available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. ; Purpose: Process evaluations generate important data on the extent to which interventions are delivered as intended. However, the tendency to focus only on assessment of pre-specified structural aspects of fidelity has been criticised for paying insufficient attention to implementation processes and how intervention-context interactions influence programme delivery. This paper reports findings from a process evaluation nested within a randomised controlled trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (SFP 10-14) in Wales, UK. It uses Extended Normalisation Process Theory to theorise how interaction between SFP 10-14 and local delivery systems - particularly practitioner commitment/capability and organisational capacity - influenced delivery of intended programme activities: fidelity (adherence to SFP 10-14 content and implementation requirements); dose delivered; dose received (participant engagement); participant recruitment and reach (intervention attendance). Methods: A mixed methods design was utilised. Fidelity assessment sheets (completed by practitioners), structured observation by researchers, and routine data were used to assess: adherence to programme content; staffing numbers and consistency; recruitment/retention; and group size and composition. Interviews with practitioners explored implementation processes and context. Results: Adherence to programme content was high - with some variation, linked to practitioner commitment to, and understanding of, the intervention's content and mechanisms. Variation in adherence rates was associated with the extent to which multi-agency delivery team planning meetings were held. Recruitment challenges meant that targets for group size/composition were not always met, but did not affect adherence levels or family engagement. Targets for staffing numbers and consistency were achieved, though capacity within multi-agency networks reduced over time. Conclusions: Extended Normalisation Process Theory provided a useful framework for assessing implementation and explaining variation by examining intervention-context interactions. Findings highlight the need for process evaluations to consider both the structural and process components of implementation to explain whether programme activities are delivered as intended and why. ; The research was funded by the National Prevention Research Initiative (https://www.mrc.ac.uk/research/initiatives/national-prevention-research-initiative-npri/; Award no. G0802128). Funding partners are: Alzheimer's Research Trust; Alzheimer's Society; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council; British Heart Foundation; Cancer Research UK; Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government Health Directorate; Department of Health; Diabetes UK; Economic and Social Research Council; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Health & Social Care Research & Development Office for Northern Ireland; Medical Research Council; The Stroke Association; Welsh Government; and World Cancer Research Fund. The Welsh Government provided c.£675k of partnership funding, to cover the cost of implementation in three trial areas, and the associated training and support provided by the Cardiff Strengthening Families Programme team. Further support from Welsh Government provided £208 k to cover programme delivery in six trial sites from August 2011-July 2012. The Cardiff Strengthening Families Programme team also provided financial support for programme delivery and trial recruitment in schools. The work was undertaken with the support of The Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence. Joint funding (MR/KO232331/1) from the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, the Welsh Government and the Wellcome Trust, under the auspices of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, is gratefully acknowledged. Laurence Moore was funded by the Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12017/14) and Chief Scientist Office at the Scottish Government Health Directorates (SPHSU14). SEWTU is funded by Welsh Government.

This paper is based on an ethnographic study of the occupational culture of a social work team in the UK. It is a discussion of some key aspects of social workers' construction of women as clients. Data were collected from observation of routine case talk, reading of case files and in‐depth interviews with social workers. The conclusion of the research is that three defining discourses can be identified in the culture of the social work office: women as oppressed, women as responsible for protection, and women as making choices.

AbstractMore and more educational institutions have to replace face‐to‐face classes with online learning classes or e‐learning due to the spread of coronavirus (COVID‐19). To create efficient online learning experiences, students' readiness and willingness to join e‐learning activities must be considered. A few aspects to consider are how accessible online learning technology is to the participants, their proficiency in using e‐learning devices, and their motivation in joining online learning, especially online EFL classes. Therefore, this study attempted to understand those aspects of online learning by gathering survey feedback from a group of students. The survey participants were seventh‐grade students of Muhammadiyah 2 Junior High School of Purwokerto, Indonesia. Data were collected using a five‐point Likert scale questionnaire. The results of the survey would be analysed to find out frequencies, means, and standard deviations. The results have concluded that, despite significant positive feedback regarding the students' readiness and motivation for joining e‐learning classes and online EFL learning, there were still a number of students who were unsure of their readiness in joining such activities. Therefore, it is suggested that further effort is made to make online learning more accessible to more students.