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À l'heure où immigration et identité nationale sont officiellement associées comme parties prenantes d'un problème, l'historien Gérard Noiriel revient pour laviedesidees.fr sur les enjeux scientifiques et politiques que ces notions recouvrent. Entretien.

À l'heure où immigration et identité nationale sont officiellement associées comme parties prenantes d'un problème, l'historien Gérard Noiriel revient pour laviedesidees.fr sur les enjeux scientifiques et politiques que ces notions recouvrent. Entretien.

À l'heure où immigration et identité nationale sont officiellement associées comme parties prenantes d'un problème, l'historien Gérard Noiriel revient pour laviedesidees.fr sur les enjeux scientifiques et politiques que ces notions recouvrent. Entretien.

À l'heure où immigration et identité nationale sont officiellement associées comme parties prenantes d'un problème, l'historien Gérard Noiriel revient pour laviedesidees.fr sur les enjeux scientifiques et politiques que ces notions recouvrent. Entretien.

Humanity in a prescientific universe -- Living on automatic pilot -- Between gods and beasts -- Our negative image of our animal self -- Confronting and recognizing our biology -- Biology becomes mechanistic and emerges as a science -- The human body is composed of cells -- The body evolves -- Most human traits are determined by genes, which are composed of DNA -- We have a life cycle and sexuality that is genetically programmed -- Neurobiology reveals how the brain works -- How should we perceive humanity in the third millennium? -- The blank slate, the human nature, and the biological determinism fallacies -- Human nature as potentials for forming communities -- Science enriches our appreciation of the arts and humanities -- Moral values bind a community -- The human condition and our world view change every generation -- Rethinking science teaching -- A human outlook for the third millennium

The article examines the problem of the priority of preserving and increasing the resident population of the Far East due to demographic challenges and risks of negative political consequences in connection with the increasing trend of depopulation of the territories of the Far Eastern Federal District and the threat of loss of national sovereignty. The author identifies significant challenges of a demographic nature. The purpose of the study is to identify demographic challenges and risks using the means of political science analysis: their socio-political consequences in the Far Eastern Federal District. Achieved results: 1) using the author's definition of socio-political reality as a potential and actualized political being, the understanding of the peculiarities of socio-political reality in the Far Eastern Federal District as its subregional variety, formed under the influence of certain challenges and risks, and at the same time generating new ones that can pose threats to national security, is revealed; 2) justified the priority of preserving and increasing the resident population of the Far East due to demographic challenges and risks of negative political consequences in connection with the increasing trend of depopulation of the territories of the Far Eastern Federal District and the threat of loss of national sovereignty; 3) significant demographic challenges identified.

In this article we examine how the science of colonial administration, which evolved within the training for colonial administrators in the decades 1930–50 in Britain, became institutionalized in British Universities. We will see that both the colonial context and the somewhat ambivalent conception of colonial administration conveyed by academics such as Margery Perham, Lucy Mair and officials from the Colonial Office may have justified the need to consider colonial administration to be a scientific discipline in its own right, but that it was perhaps the fight between the universities to control and produce the British administrative elite which provided the driver that helped that science to gain institutional legitimacy.

Describes how the election brought to the forefront the issues of definition of India's national identity, the nature of Indian federalism, and the accelerated political mobilization of the lower castes.

Interest in electronic democracy in the developed world has increased since the early 1990s when rapid technological advances combined with a crisis of political legitimacy. This focus on electronic democracy led many to believe that the "new" media have fundamentally altered the traditional practices of political parties. This is not necessarily the case. Indeed, political parties have long utilized technological advances. Further, it must be recognized that many characteristics of the new media are to be approached with caution, particularly when the new opportunities for participation are accompanied by centralization & exclusion. In short, it cannot yet be proven that new media technologies have fundamentally altered the behavior of political parties. 41 References. K. A. Larsen

Abstract: Science denial has adverse consequences at individual and societal levels and even for the future of our planet. The present article aimed to answer the question: What leads people to deny even the strongest evidence and distrust the scientific method? The article provides a narrative review of research on the underpinnings of science denial, with the main focus on climate change denial. Perspectives that are commonly studied separately are integrated. We review key findings on the roles of disinformation and basic cognitive processes, motivated reasoning (focusing on ideology and populism), and emotion regulation in potentially shaping (or not shaping) views on science and scientific topics. We also include research on youth, a group in an important transition phase in life that is the future decision-makers but less commonly focused on in the research field. In sum, we describe how the manifestations of denial can stem from cognitive biases, motivating efforts to find seemingly rational support for desirable conclusions, or attempts to regulate emotions when feeling threatened or powerless. To foster future research agendas and mindful applications of the results, we identify some research gaps (most importantly related to cross-cultural considerations) and examine the unique features or science denial as an object of psychological research. Based on the review, we make recommendations on measurement, science communication, and education.

In recent years, there has been a fast-growing body of literature on the sources of social trust. However, empirical studies focusing on non-Western societies are rare. To fill the gap, this study is intended to explore both the individual and contextual sources of social trust in rural China. This study uses hierarchical linear models to analyze the multilevel foundations of social trust based upon a unique two-level data set from the China General Social Survey (CGSS) conducted nationwide at both the individual and village level in rural China. The results indicate that Chinese villagers markedly differentiate between the particularized and generalized forms of trust. While particularized trust is strongly influenced by both personal experiences and subjective orientations, generalized trust is closely associated with one's basic values (i.e., norms of civility). Moreover, both types of trust are very unevenly distributed in rural China, and geographically dispersed villages tend to strongly constrain the development of social trust. Given the complex nature of social trust, these results suggest that more sophisticated studies should be introduced to map how its forms and magnitudes vary across localities. Adapted from the source document.