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Introduction / Wilson Carey McWilliams -- Macroscopic action : on Amitai Etzioni's contribution to social theory / Hans Joas -- The cultural dimensions of The active society / Edward W. Lehman -- The cybernetic institutionalist / Fabio Rojas -- The constitution of activity : Etzioni's foundation of social theory in collective action and collective actors / Frank Adloff -- The actively drifting society / Joseph H. Spear -- Communitarianism : the highest state of progressivism The active society revisited / Dennis Hale -- The teamwork of Sisyphus : post-Fordist capitalism, corporate culture, and Etzioni's "active society" / Eugene McCarraher -- Membership and belonging : Etzioni's "authenticity" and the existential challenges of liberalism / Richard Boyd -- Swing low sweet chariot : transformation and religious tradition / William C. Green -- The eagle and the worm : The active society from a community organizer's perspective / Mike Miller -- Searching for active citizenship / David S. Gutterman and Melissa Buis Michaux -- Courting megalogues : judicial power in The active society / Paul A. Sracic -- Community formation, gender issues, and the evolution of international law : a perspective on Amitai Etzioni's The active society / Frances T. Pilch -- "Lighting damp logs" : social movements, liberal democracy, and the politics of transformation / Daniel J. Tichenor -- From The active society to the good society : the second sailing of Amitai Etzioni / Patrick J. Deneen -- The active society revisited : a response / Amitai Etzioni

This study explores the correlates of early sexual debut and risk factors of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among the youth in Malawi. Data was obtained from the Malawi Demographic Health Survey 2010. Out of a sample of 2987 males and 9559 females aged 15–24 years, 1405 males and 5217 females were considered. Chi-square and multivariate analysis was performed and findings presented by gender. The results indicate that females aged 15–19 years (OR=4.18), who were Muslims (OR=1.42), with no education (OR=3.99), were significantly more likely to initiate sexual debut early. Meanwhile, males aged 15–19 years (OR=3.50), from the northern region (OR=2.35) and of the Chewa ethnic group (OR=1.45) were significantly more likely to initiate sexual debut early. Muslims males (OR=0.57), from the poorest (OR=0.69) households were significantly less likely to initiate sexual debut early. Females who initiate sex earlier form a distinct risk group in this study. Specific intervention is therefore needed for young females in their early teen years before they initiate sexual debut.

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record. ; This article draws on a collection of petitions by Palestinian Arabs and Jews to explore how families negotiated the admission of mentally ill relatives into government mental institutions under the British mandate between 1930 and 1948. In contrast to the conclusions of the existing literature, which focuses largely on the development of parallel Jewish institutions as establishing the foundations of the Israeli health system, these petitions reveal that the trajectories of both Arab and Jewish mentally ill were complex, traversing domestic, private, and government contexts in highly contingent ways. The second part of this article examines the petitions themselves as dense moments of engagement by Palestinian Arabs and Jews with the British mandate, in which the anxieties and priorities of the mandate were strategically re-deployed in order to secure admission into chronically underfunded and overcrowded institutions. Petitioners also sought to mobilize other actors, often within the state itself, as intercessors, a strategy which attempted to thread together state and society in a meaningful and advantageous way at a time when both seemed to be unravelling. Taken together, these pathways and petitions foreground the space of interaction between the British mandate and its subjects, thereby offering new perspectives on both.