edited by Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America’s Political Past and Present by Elisabeth S. Clemens; Doug Guthrie Review by: Nina Eliasoph American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 118, No. 2 (September 2012), pp. 504-506 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666598 . Acce...

The Register of Full-Time Social Workers in Mental Health contains, at the time of writing, 217 names; of the workers so registered 96 hold the Certificate of the London School of Economics Mental Health Course, and the majority of the others have had training and experience as members of the staffs of Voluntary Associations for Mental Welfare. Approximately 25 workers have notified that they a...

Synopsis: Many theorists have long emphasized the importance of civic society and voluntary associations as vital to the lifeblood of democracy. Interest in this perennial topic has been revived by Putnam’s theory of social capital claiming that rich and dense associational networks facilitate the underlying conditions of interpersonal trust, tolerance and cooperation, providing the social foun...

BACKGROUND Although numerous investigations have indicated that social participation (SP) has positive effects on the health of older adults, there have been few studies on its negative health consequences. We examined the cross-sectional associations of the type, frequency, and autonomy for SP with physical and mental health. METHODS The analytical subjects were 5126 males and 7006 females w...

Task selection, previously thought to operate only under conscious, voluntary control, can be activated by unconsciously-perceived stimuli. In most cases, such activation is observed for unconscious stimuli that closely resemble other conscious, task-relevant stimuli and hence may simply reflect perceptual activation of consciously established stimulus-task associations. However, other studies ...

The present study examined associations between emotional awareness facets (type clarity, source clarity, negative emotion differentiation, voluntary attention, involuntary attention) and sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES)) in a large US sample (N = 919). Path analyses-controlling for variance shared between sociodemographic variables and allowing emot...

The present study investigated the relative contribution of bottom-up and top-down control to task selection in the voluntary task-switching (VTS) procedure. In order to manipulate the efficiency of top-down control, a concurrent working memory load was imposed during VTS. In three experiments, bottom-up factors, such as stimulus repetitions, repetition of irrelevant information, and stimulus-t...