{"title":"The World of Youthful Drug Use","authors":"H. Blumer, Alan Sutter, Roger C. Smith, S. Ahmed","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5170","url":null,"abstract":"Les A. presentent les resultats de leurs demarches pour etablir un programme visant a inciter les jeunes consommateurs de drogue a l'abstinence, fonde sur l'influence mutuelle qu'ils peuvent exercer les uns sur les autres. Ils ont ainsi etabli des contacts avec les figures centrales consommatrices de drogue dans la population jeune d'Oakland, provenant principalement de groupes minoritaires, et mene des groupes de discussion destines a leur faire prendre conscience des dangers d'une telle consommation.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115976953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dance as Experience: Pragmatism and Classical Ballet","authors":"J. V. Delinder","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5173","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the experience of classical ballet and its relationship to everyday life by drawing upon Dewey's emphasis on the importance of integrating the consummatory experience into everyday life, and the necessity of removing any limitations that prevent it from occurring. How can a regimented, formalized dance form such as classical ballet create a consummatory experience for the artist How can such a structured art form as classical ballet be ephemeral or related to experience? It might be argued that classical ballet's structure is too rule bound, thus limiting the possibility of experience, vis a vis, modern, exploratory dance. The regimen of classical ballet by its very nature is criticized for limiting the freedom of expression that contributes to a consummatory experience. My analysis will focus on the assertion that classical ballet does not limit experience for the artist. Classical ballet is based on logical patterns and once these patterns become recognisable they express experience. By understanding the individual movements that comprise the patterns we achieve consummatory experience. Traditional or classic arts can provide a road map to consummatory experience.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131547810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The global economy and changes in the determinants of cross-national income inequality : Section on Global Research","authors":"Theresa Morris","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5158","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the capacity of modernization theory, dependency theory, world-system analysis, and political democracy theory to explain the determinants of income inequality in less-developed countries before and after major structural economic changes, stemmingfrom the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the OPEC oil crisis in 1973 and 1974, occurred in the global economy. Data from two cohorts of countries are used to test these theories. The first cohort contains thirty-three countries with data on income inequality between 1968 and 1973, and the second cohort contains thirty-one countries with data on income inequality between 1985 and 1992. The results suggest that world-system analysis and some aspects of dependency theory are relevant to explaining income inequality both before and after the global changes. However, modernization theory and political democracy theory are only predictive of levels of income inequality before changes in the global economy occurred. Overall, the results of this research highlight the importance of integrating historical shifts in the global economy into theories of income inequality","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129011900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing a model of American elite generational continuity with cross national data : Section on Global Research","authors":"D. Kurtz","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5153","url":null,"abstract":"A cross national data set consisting of 122 national chief executives who were in office in 1990 is used to test the validity of a model of American elite generational continuity. The hypothesis is that the model will be as useful in explaining the kinship dimensions of elite continuity in other political systems as it is in the study of American political leadership. In broad terms the findings with respect to national chief executives correspond closely to the expectations of the model. Most of the differences between the expected and the discovered kinship patterns may be accounted for by the fact that descendants of at least some of the leaders still have time to enter the political arena","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115141104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marcuse and the Quest for Radical Subjectivity","authors":"D. Kellner","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129860845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Border states and civil rights : Activism prior to 1955 : Social Movements","authors":"J. V. Delinder","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5154","url":null,"abstract":"Early civil rights activism prior to 1954 Brown case is marked by the absence of an intervening agency or organization associated with the type of mass mobilization found in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other events in the later civil rights movement. The community action in Topeka, Kansas before Brown illustrates that civil rights actions have always been around, but only recent scholarship of the civil rights movement has brought these seemingly less significant campaigns to the foreground The activism in Topeka, Kansas, characterized as indirect action tactics, was organized around primarily local level issues. These local level issues were also historically situated prior to the national push to desegregation which occurred after the 1954 Brown decision","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114328799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing the self of self-determination : Liberal and anti-liberal tensions in modern Irish nationalism : Social Movements","authors":"W. Swart","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5159","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the relationship of modern nationalism to the philosophical dictates of eighteenth century liberalism. It argues that although the ethos of modern nationalism developed out of the liberal ideal of popular sovereignty, the process of constructing a national self as the legitimate benefactor of that sovereignty often embraces very anti-liberal ideas. This paper explores this tension through a case study modern Irish nationalism. Although born out of the dictates of British liberalism, Irish nationalism also drew upon the anti-liberal objectives of European Romanticism and Socialism in order to create a unique national self. By combining these liberal and anti-liberal ideals, Irish nationalist leaders articulated a political culture which claimed the right of self determination for a community symbolically separated from the British Empire","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116243369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceived parent-child interaction and boys' self-esteem in Nigeria","authors":"P. O. Sijuwade","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5165","url":null,"abstract":"The problem under consideration in the present paper deals with the relationship between parent-child interaction patterns and the child self-esteem in a private high school in the city of Lagos Nigeria. The relationship between these variables is examined. It is hoped that a cross-cultural investigation of the effects of parent-child interaction on the child's self-esteem will enable us to make a more precise statement about the nature of this relationship. The hypotheses dealing with parental support and child's self-esteem was strongly supported by the data","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127630273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authoritarianism in The Netherlands : Mission completed? Downward trends in authoritarianism in The Netherlands 1970-1992 with an international comparison of world data : Section on critical theory","authors":"T. D. Meloen","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5157","url":null,"abstract":"Three basic hypotheses on authoritarianism in The Netherlands are proposed. A composite Middendorp data set was used, that included five national random samples in The Netherlands: 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and 1992. The first hypothesis maintains that the authoritarianism syndrome will not disintegrate in time. This stability-hypothesis was strongly supported in the 1970-1992 period. The second hypothesis suggested that the levels of authoritarianism have steadily decreased in time. This decreasing-levels hypothesis also received consistent support. Non authoritarian attitudes are now supported among a majority of the population. It is argued that the decrease of authoritarianism levels cannot be attributed to disintegration of the authoritarianism syndrome proper. Hypothesis three stated that The Netherlands is among the lowest in levels of authoritarianism andstateauthoritarianism in the world. This lowest level-hypothesis was explored using cross national data of authoritarian attitudes and state authoritarianism. The indicators indeed suggest that The Netherlands rank among the lowest in authoritarian attitudes as well as in state authoritarianism, together with Scandinavia, Iceland, Canada and New Zealand. The results suggest that the quest of Adorno et al. may have been completed, at least for countries like The Netherlands in the 1990s","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126574919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}