the purpose of this article is to introduce the thoughts of pierre bourdieu, admittedly one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century. his works, produced within the last three decades, go beyond conventional sociological research, making a fruitful theoretical contribution to sociology. his sociology is based on a basic idea: social reality lies neither on individuals nor on groups, but...

Hypertext constitutes a new way to communicate and think about information. Hypertextual nonsequentiality offers us new ways to analyze the world and facilitates access to philosophical activity to thousands of new social actors. Hypertext is democratising thought and enabling debates between different widely dispersed people. This paper considers hypertext’s role inside new social, scientific ...

The oceans encompass the most important ecosystems for the health of our planet, most of it unseen and at depths unimaginably remote and little explored. It is there that microbial communities pulse to the ancient rhythms of life on earth. Researchers are beginning to plumb these mysterious depths to learn what organisms are there and how they interact to shape the global cycles of macronutrien...

OBJECTIVES We examined associations between parental military service and adolescent well-being. METHODS We used cross-sectional data from the 2008 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey collected in public school grades 8, 10, and 12 (n = 10,606). We conducted multivariable logistic regression analyses to test associations between parental military service and adolescent well-being (quality o...

OBJECTIVE To identify the proportion of female carers who experience death thoughts and the factors associated with these thoughts, using data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH). METHODS A cross-sectional analysis of the fifth ALSWH survey was conducted. 10,528 middle-aged women provided data on caring and death thoughts, 3077 were carers and 2005 of those were i...

OBJECTIVE To examine the occurrence of past month suicidal feelings in extreme old age. Further, to identify factors associated with such feelings. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based study. SETTING Gothenburg, Sweden. PARTICIPANTS 269 adults (197 women, 72 men) without dementia born in 1901-1909 who participated in a psychiatric examination. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Death thoughts and...

BACKGROUND Those who stutter have a proclivity to social anxiety. Yet, to date, there is no comprehensive measure of thoughts and beliefs about stuttering that represent the cognitions associated with that anxiety. AIMS The present paper describes the development of a measure to assess unhelpful thoughts and beliefs about stuttering. METHODS & PROCEDURES The Unhelpful Thoughts and Beliefs a...

this article is to analyze the tendency of mirza fath’ali akhoondzadeh to freemasonic circle, his relations to the members of mirza malkam khan’s freemasonry center and his playwriting on the basis of such relations. initially, his tendency to freemasonic cycles in tbilisi and his relations to malkam khan’s freemasonry center have been proved and   his common intellectual elements with malkom k...

Correlates of patient disclosure of suicide ideation to a primary care or mental health provider were identified. Secondary analyses of IMPACT trial data were conducted. Of the 107 patients 60 years of age or older who endorsed thoughts of ending their life at least "a little bit" during the past month, 53 indicated they had disclosed these thoughts to a mental health or primary care provider d...