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Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...

Tim Tully recently gave a fascinating account of his mission to Russia to find the names of Pavlov’s dogs [1]. Unfortunately, his essay perpetuates one of the most enduring myths in science: that Pavlov routinely used a bell in training salivary conditioning in dogs. Tully says: “For several repetitions, Pavlov would ring a bell just before giving food to a hungry dog. Before long, he noticed, ...

This research note draws the attention to the harmful consequence of a serious lack of empirical research in the field of International Human Resource Management: myth-building on the basis of one or two publications. The apparent myth of high expatriate failure rates is shortly discussed. To prevent another myth from appearing, this time in the field of staffing policies, this research note pr...

This Article explores the reality and mythology of NFTs in art law world by unpacking six myths, misconceptions, poorly understood truths about that prevent persons, particularly lawyers, from understanding role are playing could play beyond. The discusses legal financial attributes potentialities for artists, galleries, dealers, investors, museums, and, most especially, lawyers who advise play...

ness and Approximations Thursday, June 9, 2011 Abstractness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as followsness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as follows Thursday, June 9, 2011 Abstractness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as follows 1. Even Turing machines are abstract models that can’t be implemented fully.ness and Approximations • This r...

A Socially Constructed Myth: A thin body ideal for women is prevalent in modern Western societies. Cultural images emphasize a thin and firm body (Bordo 2003). Feminists have labeled this ideal, found ubiquitously in fashion magazines, on television, and in other forms of mass media, a “tyranny of slenderness” (Chernin 1994) and an unrealistic and unattainable “beauty myth” (Wolf 1991). For mos...

Surrealism and the New Universal Myth During the 1940s and 1950s, surrealists increasingly explored abstraction. A widespread interest in biomorphism (the use of organic shapes that reference natural life forms) was accompanied by a heightened emphasis on automatism. Investigations into abstraction paralleled the search for a new social myth, which André Breton deemed therapeutic, mind expandin...

myths show the layers of human being's collective unconsciousness and include a  nations' symbolic and mysterious conceptions. banugoshasbnameh is a mythic verse book including mythic functions. in banugoshasbnameh, banugoshasb is a warring and heroic archetype. her functions remind the glory of   women's role in agricultural era, the era which is famed for its matriarchy and in ...