F.C.D. Andrade , K.Z. Kramer , J.K. Monk , A.J. Greenlee , R. Mendenhall e a Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA b Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 61801, USA c Department of Human Development and Family Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, U...

the concept of individualism in the field of sociology was introduced by the empirical scheme of one's position in society. the growing importance of the attention to this pattern affected by social changes has been rapid and rough. cultural and social processes of modernization and modern age always create new conditions and stimulus leading to changes and verities in methods of individua...

Research on Women's Health in Africa: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities Chimaraoke O. Izugbara & Eleanor Krassen covan a African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya b Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden c School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa d Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University ...

BLOCKS is a computer program that carries out the statistical estimation of models for stochastic blockmodeling according to Nowicki and Snijders (2001). This manual gives information about BLOCKS version 1.8 (June, 2007). ∗We are grateful to Peter Boer for his cooperation in the development of the StOCNET and BLOCKS programs. Authors’ addresses: Tom Snijders, ICS, Department of Sociology, Grot...

Satoshi Awata, Dik Heg, Hiroyuki Munehara, and Masanori Kohda Laboratory of Animal Sociology, Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585, Japan, Department of Behavioural Ecology, Zoological Institute, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50a, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland, and Usujiri Fisheries Statio...

*Direct all correspondence to Rosalind Berkowitz King, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 6100 Executive Blvd., Room 8B07, Bethesda, MD 20892-7510, e-mail: [email protected]; to Jenifer L. Bratter, Department of Sociol...

NAVJOT S. SODHI,∗ THOMAS M. BROOKS,†‡§ LIAN PIN KOH,‖ GREG ACCIAIOLI,# MARIBETH ERB,∗∗ ALAN KHEE-JIN TAN,†† LISA M. CURRAN,‡‡ PETER BROSIUS,§§ TIEN MING LEE,‖‖ JASON M. PATLIS,## MELVIN GUMAL,∗∗∗ AND ROBERT J. LEE††† ∗Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore, email [email protected] †Center for Applied Biodiv...

first, it is argued that the rule of patterns, the natural consequences of matterialization of science,and the deliberate deviation of the western social sciences from theology are singled out as the factors which have led to the total ignorance of such subject as theology and sociology. similar cases happen in philosophy and science. due to the prevailing cultural atmospher in the west, such a...

mainstream sociology under positivism has sought to provide universal theory, in one hand, and the historiography has attempted to narrative description of events, in the other hand. pathological studies show that both are suffering from extremism; so that mainstream sociology have neglected to study of special affairs and historiography  has not been able to build and provide theoretical gener...