T.S Eliot’s masterpiece poem, The Waste Land, and Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play, Endgame were both written in the shadow of great disasters. Land has tones desolation despair humanity is shown at brink extinction. Beckett known for his association with Theatre Absurd where suffering meaninglessness life stressed on. presents disillusionment man a decayed meaningless modern world. Written afte...

The First World War marks an inevitable transformation in the traditional gender roles of women from being passive domestic sustainers family into active contributors social life as voluntary nurses, ambulance drivers, and factory workers. Nevertheless, women’s poetic contribution to literary representations war continue be precariously neglected till publication Catherine Reilly’s Scars Upon m...

This research aims to describe and analyze the alienation phenomenon experienced by students in dealing with online learning sociology subject. study uses a phenomenological study. The was conducted at senior high school Ponorogo Regency. technique used determine subject this is purposive sampling. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews documentation. Meanwhile, data analysis ...

‘Words, words, words.’ This was Hamlet’s reply to Polonius’ question, ‘What do you read, my lord?’ (Shakespeare, 1603) [1]. By repeating the word three times, Hamlet suggests that what he is reading is meaningless. Before launching the journal Archives of Public Health, we have asked ourselves: ‘Do we not already produce too many words too many journals?’ or in other words ‘What is the added va...

Abstract Many older adults succeed in finding meaning life, even deep old age. There is, however, a minority of adults, particular among the oldest old, who feel that life no longer makes sense: they suffer from consequences age, explicated feelings loneliness, social isolation and disconnectedness, fears for (further) decline dependency. This article seeks to address this darker side ageing. I...

Objective: Suicide is a multidimensional phenomenon, and examining each of its dimensions can help control this destructive social phenomenon. This study aimed to investigate meaningless absurd experiences in people who attempted suicide Iran. Methods: The present was conducted using qualitative-descriptive phenomenology. participants were selected the purposive sampling method from persons adm...

We place the paper [Berger-Sellke] By Berger and Sellke in context of the discussion about the validity of p-values and alternative methods for quantifying evidence against a point null hypothesis. 1. Prologue: Quantifying Evidence against a Point null hypothesis Fisher's p-values are everywhere in empirical science. Quoting a recent provocative paper [1] which addressed the (ir)reproducibility...

? 'Organising Disaster: Civil Protection and the Population', whilst trying to nd the 'same, same but dierent', 1 has directed our aention to the practicalities of undertaking social scientic forms of comparison, as well as to some of the ethical and political questions that arise from its use. 2 Much has been wrien about the laer question: as we detail in the book's Introduction and touch on a...

Intraspecific violence is now established as a biological phenomenon intrinsic to living nature. Ethologists maintain that culturally moulded programs of aggression which can be released by certain environmental triggers exist in the nervous system among higher animals. Evidence also suggests that there co-exists a biological capacity for morality and empathy. A child by the age of two is endow...

OBJECTIVES This study illuminated the meanings of existential loneliness (EL) as narrated by frail older people. METHOD Data were collected through individual narrative interviews with 23 people 76-101 years old receiving long-term care and services. A phenomenological hermeneutical analysis was performed, including a naïve reading and two structural analyses as a basis for a comprehensive un...