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Sociology conceived of and practised as a universalistic science in the positivistic tradition turns people into passive objects suitable for manipulation by centralised bureaucratic apparatuses. Fully indigenised sociology, by contrast, seeks to restore people as creators of knowledge and agents of social change. This conception of sociology returns science to the people and assists them in bringing about a new world that is as different from post-Renaissance Europe as the latter was from the Middle Ages.

The level of alcohol consumption has important relationships to the prevalence of drinking related problems in an epidemiological sense. And it is in turn influenced to a large extent by material conditions created by social and economic forces. Historically, in England, the surplus grain produced during the transitional period from feudalism to capitalism was converted into distilled spirits and served as a major source of primitive capital accumulation. And commercial brewing was one of the first manufacturing enterprises to organize itself along the capitalist principles of production. These economic processes resulted in abundant supplies of alcohol which were literally forced upon the newly created masses of workers. This is how heavy drinking and drunkenness, which had been more common among the upper class, spread to the working class with the advent of capitalism.

Intro -- Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830 -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Kantian School and the Consolidation of Modern Historiography of Philosophy -- Chapter 2: The Birth of Comparative History of Philosophy: Joseph-Marie de Gérando's Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie -- Chapter 3: India in Friedrich Schlegel's Comparative History of Philosophy -- Chapter 4: The Exclusion of Africa and Asia from the History of Philosophy: The Formation of the Kantian Position -- Chapter 5: Systematic Inclusion of Africa and Asia under Absolute Idealism: Friedrich Ast's and Thaddä Anselm Rixner's Histories of Philosophy -- Chapter 6: Absolute Idealism Reverts to the Kantian Position: Hegel's Exclusion of Africa and Asia -- Chapter 7: The Comparative History of Philosophy in August Tholuck's Polemic against Hegel -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This article investigates the characteristics of the workhouse populations in Lancashire in 1881. The analysis is based on the snapshot view provided by the 1881 census and, despite the limitations of such an approach, this large-scale survey reveals significant variations in the experience of poverty and local relief policies in a largely industrial region that had been at the forefront of the anti-poor law movement. The workhouse populations are shown to be diverse, and contrast markedly with pauper populations previously studied. Lancashire's Poor Law Unions are divided into three types: conurbation, urban industrial and rural. These three groups appear to represent three different patterns of workhouse residency. The workhouse populations in rural Lancashire are broadly similar to those discussed elsewhere, being dominated by elderly males. However, urban industrial workhouse populations contained large numbers of adults of working age and the absence of children from workhouses in the conurbation is particularly striking.

This paper explores the oral histories of two survivors of Canada's institutions for persons labelled with intellectual disability. Both of these men survived the abuses of the institutions and went on to become committed to rights advocacy for others labelled with an intellectual disability. They were determined to tell their stories and act as change agents so that no one else experiences the abuse they did. In this paper, Peter and Martin tell parts of their stories, including their journey toward self-advocacy. This paper provides a space for these truths to be revealed in the time of class action law suits that are underway for these survivors. No opportunity was provided for the class action members to tell their stories in court, so this paper contains pieces of the narrative that survivors want people to know. Their stories are told in both narrative and art form. These artifacts highlight common themes of institutional abuse and isolation, but also of remarkable resiliency and strength. Their stories serve as an important record of the history of institutionalization in Canada and help to shape a better understanding of the roots of self- advocacy, including the importance of "nothing about us without us" (Charlton, 1998).