In this article I discuss the difference between Vygotsky’s and Vasilyuk’s uses of the term perezhivanie. Arguably, this difference may have contributed to some of the current ambiguity regarding the notion of perezhivanie in cultural psychology. In short, I propose that Vasilyuk’s perezhivanie can be understood as a special type of activity, whereas Vygotsky’s perezhivanie can be better unders...

S INTERNATIONAL, 63 (4-A), 1253 . Participants were divided into three groups : Abused by priest (N = 48), no abuse (N = 76), and childhood sexual abuse history (N = 20) . Each subject completed a background data questionnaire, religiosity index, spiritual' injury scale, and trauma symptoms checklist. The abused by priest group scored higher than the group who experienced no abuse on guilt, dis...

In a recent article published in this journal, Lombard, Snyder-Duch, and Bracken (2002) surveyed 200 content analyses for their reporting of reliability tests; compared the virtues and drawbacks of five popular reliability measures; and proposed guidelines and standards for their use. Their discussion revealed that numerous misconceptions circulate in the content analysis literature regarding h...

“How do you explain to an innocent citizen of the free world importance a credit default swap on double-A tranche subprime-backed collateralized debt obligation” (Lewis 222-3)? This question, asked by author Michael Lewis through eyes one his subjects – Ben Hockett appears have answer: with great difficulty. Lewis's book, The Big Short: Inside Doomsday Machine, lays out internal workings invest...

This study is concerned with the presence of religion and religious characters in contemporary popular culture, specifically which groups receive media attention and in what ways they are portrayed. After a careful review of studies in media, religion, and culture, American television is analyzed with a focus on the Fox medical drama House. Using both quantitative and qualitative data found in ...

Despite the vast amount of research regarding type II diabetes, little is known about the relationship between fatalistic beliefs and self-efficacy in individual self-care among adult Appalachians with type II diabetes. As a result of multiple predisposing risk factors that include high rates of obesity and poverty, as well as a lack of access to preventative care services, the prevalence of di...

An event is a spatio-temporally localizable occurrence. Each event in our universe can be defined within a two-dimensional space in which one dimension is causality and the other is serendipity. Unfortunately, the majority of scientists in the Modern Era in their fascination with rules of causality and wanting to believe in a complete deterministic expression of the universe have banished all n...

This essay brings together two practitioners of critical irony, Michel Foucault and Jon Stewart, to examine problems in the standard critiques of the impact of irony on cultural discourse. For years, critics have bemoaned the increased use of irony in culture, arguing that too much irony in public discourse leads to the formation of distant and disengaged subjects. Using Foucault’s work on parr...

This article examines an urban centre in the heart of the First World through a critical development lens. It contends that traits of the Third World entail certain characteristics which remain consequential as axes of analysis for a variety of economic, political and geographic settings, including new applications in contexts that are typically excluded from the focus of international developm...

enemy” in the minds of South Korean conservatives who returned to power in 2008 rather than a real general in the 1950s. This film differs from post-1990 war films by clearly establishing the fact that the Korean War was an invasion of the South by the North, not unlike Cold War anticommunist films, but is more anti-North Korean than anticommunist by presuming that the “enemy” is the Supreme Le...