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In Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise, Carlo Morselli examines how business-oriented criminals who have personal networks designed to promote high numbers of diverse contacts achieve and maintain competitive advantages in their earning activities and overall criminal careers

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Make Your Voice Heard! -- Levels of Government -- Exploring an Issue -- Getting in Touch -- Be Prepared -- Research and Resources -- Make It Personal -- Meeting Face-to-Face -- The Follow-Up -- Staying Involved -- Glossary -- Index -- Websites -- Back Cover

"Does parasocial contact impact on inter-group bias? Widening the scope of Contact Theory, this study aims at experimentally examine the impact of parasocial out-group presentation on decisions in a two-person prisoner's dilemma game and social cognitive constructions of the social event. Within a minimal group experiment, 80 university students were randomly assigned to anonymous or video-wise personalization conditions. Participants rather took personal advantage of expected contributions to a commonly shared dilemma situation in anonymous settings than if a member of the out-group was personalized (p<.05). As perceptions of group boundaries, out-group homogeneity, and similarity did not systematically differ across the conditions, implications are discussed." (author's abstract)

Intro -- Heritage Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Heritage speakers and heritage languages -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Characterizing heritage speakers -- 1.2.1 Unofficial language -- 1.2.2 Language dominance shift -- 1.2.3 Divergent grammars and other possible effects of the dominance shift -- 1.2.4 Personal and cultural ties to the language -- 1.2.5 Age of onset and acquisition in a naturalistic setting -- 1.2.6 Are HLs community languages? -- 1.2.7 Summary -- 1.3 The contact scenario approach to HLs -- 1.3.1 Typical contact scenarios -- 1.3.2 An example: Turkish as a HL in Northwestern Europe -- 1.3.3 Evaluating the scenario approach -- 1.4 Overview of the book -- History of the field of heritage language studies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The perspective of the diaspora languages -- 2.2.1 Dutch from a diaspora perspective -- 2.2.2 Other diaspora varieties -- 2.2.3 Diaspora studies in a broader perspective -- 2.3 The perspective of the country of immigration -- 2.3.1 The United States -- 2.3.2 Early studies on ethnolects and Canadian HL research -- 2.3.3 Case studies of HL languages in the United States -- American Portuguese -- American Finnish -- American Greek -- 2.3.4 HLs in Australia -- 2.3.5 The European context -- 2.3.6 Summary -- 2.4 Summary and introduction of the speakers' perspective -- Social aspects of heritage languages -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The scenario approach: Attending to social and linguistic factors -- 3.3 Maintenance -- 3.3.1 Indigenous minorities -- 3.3.2 Immigration -- 3.3.3 Social factors that affect maintenance -- Case study: Turkish in the Netherlands -- The primacy of everyday interaction -- 3.3.4 Investigating language choice -- Interlocutor effects -- Generations -- Family language use -- Networks -- Communities of practice.

A frontier place, Canada's North is an interface in which competing educational, historical, and cultural paradigms collide, intersect, and coalesce. The unique nature of this Northern mosaic rests upon the shared experience of social disorientation and culture shock. A collection of fourteen timely essays that investigate the experience of Canadian culture above the 53rd Parallel, Horizons North is at once academic and personal, analytic and discursive - offering insights on the subject of

In this paper we examine the knowledge-Transfer Channels of the universities and public research institutes in Jena. The empirical study is based on a survey of 297 personal interviews with researchers of both types of organisations. Our study focuses on three questions: (a) The importance and multitude of existing transfer channels, (b) their geographic distribution and (c) the importance of face-to-face contacts. With regard to the first question the analysis reveals some shortcomings of the usual channels considered in many empirical studies. Above all, informal transfer channels play an important role and in addition the multitude of transfer channels at hand turns out to be large. These outcomes suggest a very cautious interpretation of the claimed influences of transfer mechanisms like patents, joint publications and so on. As to the regional distribution of the linkages our results confirm the relevance of geographical proximity. A substantial part of the relevant transfer co-operations concentrate on the city and region. Finally, we examine the idea that "distance matters" is due to the necessity of face-to-face contacts. By means of asking the researchers directly we found the puzzling result, that knowledge-transfer rests significantly upon personal contacts, but that this does not imply a bias towards geographical proximity.

The spread of mobile communication, most obtrusively as cell phones but increasingly in other wireless devices, is affecting people's lives and relationships to a previously unthought-of extent. Mobile phones, which are fast becoming ubiquitous, affect either directly or indirectly every aspect of our personal and professional lives. They have transformed social practices and changed the way we do business, yet surprisingly little serious academic work has been done on them. This 2002 book, with contributions from the foremost researchers in the field, studies the impact of the mobile phone on contemporary society from a social scientific perspective. Providing a comprehensive overview of mobile phones and social interaction, it comprises an introduction covering the key issues, a series of unique national studies and a final section examining specific issues

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Understanding Civil Liberties -- Chapter One: The United States and Civil Liberties -- Chapter Two: Freedom of Speech -- Chapter Three: Freedom of Religion -- Chapter Four: Civil Liberties and National Security -- Chapter Five: special Population Issues -- Chapter Six: A Right to Privacy -- Notes -- Discussion Questions -- Organizations to Contact -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

"The American South and LGBT Politics" published on by Oxford University Press.

Promoting Career Development after Personal Injury is written for anyone who has professional contact with adolescents or adults that have a disability arising from injury. The text provides postgraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to career development for this specialised field. It covers the disadvantages commonly experienced in education and work by someone with a disability. The relevance of ability, interest and values for job choice is stressed. Assessment, guidance and counselling are outlined. Job placement and accommodation to the workplace are treated as key issues. This book is the second in a series of books and could be read usefully in conjunction with the author's previous Sense publication, Encountering Personal Injury (2016). However, there is no pre-requisite knowledge needed. The current text arose from a background of some 30 years' teaching, research and clinical practice in this field. Each chapter builds towards the satisfactory educational and vocational placement of a person. A total of 19 clinical case studies are used. This text is written in an informal, easy-to-read and light-hearted style. It will find applications wherever personal injury is encountered in special education, career development, vocational and rehabilitation psychology, rehabilitation counselling, social work, occupational therapy and physiotherapy