rogue or a charlatan. Again and again, in recent years, television has shown enraged audiences, or sections of audiences, shouting down an unpopular speaker; or mobs roaming the streets looking for prey. At its extreme it becomes lynch law; but in ordinary everyday life it is busy perpetuating artificial barriers, or erecting new ones, in social life, in education, in the professions. In intern...

The Calibration for Two-Phase Randomized Response Estimator Chang-Kyoon Son a; Ki-Hak Hong b; Gi-Sung Lee c; Jong-Min Kim d a Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Seoul, Republic of Korea b Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Dongshin University, Jeollanam-Do, Republic of Korea c Department of Children's Welfare, College of Health and Welfare, Woosuk University, Je...

B. At least one course will be taken in each of the following areas: social science, humanities, and history. C. At least four courses will be taken in one of the following disciplines as a field of specialization: literature, music, history, political science, sociology, and economics. A candidate may elect a five-course interdisciplinary focus on Africa or Afro-American affairs as a specializ...

Søren Ventegodt*, Niels Jørgen Andersen, and Joav Merrick The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstræde 4-8, DK-1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Norwegian School of Management, Sandvika, Norway; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of the Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem and Zusman Child Development Center, Div...

Methods Incidence data on lung cancer for the period 1988-2008 were obtained from the Croatian National Cancer Registry, while mortality data were obtained from the World Health Organization mortality database. Population estimates for Croatia were obtained from the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. We also calculated and analyzed age-st...

Most people interested in Syrian affairs used to believe that the country was extremely stable. The regime's media fed this belief, constantly reiterating the assertion that Syria was the most secure and stable country in the world. Infact, however, this stability was merely a veneer. In reality, cracks and rifts appeared that damaged the Syrian society, undermined its cohesion, and created num...

Part of the difficulty of introducing social economics into the principles course is the perception that social economics is anathema to mainstream economics. 1 As noted by Warren Samuels, however, "neoclassical economics is already a form of social economics" despite its "pretensions of methodological individualism and value-neutrality" [Samuels, p. 2]. Heilbroner also makes the case that the ...