This article reviews recent sociocultural studies of families of children with intellectual disabilities to introduce the range of research conducted from this perspective and to highlight the methodological, conceptual, and theoretical contributions of this approach to the study of mental retardation. Sociocultural studies examine families within their cultural, historical, and sociopolitical ...

Title of Thesis: The Relationship Between Women's Perceptions of the Campus Environment and Self-Esteem as Moderated by Women's Identity Attitudes Shelly Lynne Ossana, Master of Arts~ 1986 Thesis directed by: Dr. Janet Helms Assistant Professor Department of Psychology An e:·: ami nation of the relationships among undergraduate women's self-esteem, perceptions of the campus environment, and wom...

It is the lack of a common, transdisciplinary language and a metaphorical map encompassing the existing major systems that constrains progress on evolutionary theory. A modification of Eldredge and Gould`s model of "punctuated equilibria" can create such a map. This map should highlight a universal sequence for organizational change processes within and among systems. If this map combines this ...

South Africa, LGBT Issues in South Africa has undergone significant sociopolitical transformation in the last six decades, from the “legal” adoption of apartheid in 1948 to the first democratic election in 1994, and a new constitution two years later. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in South Africa is at the forefront of constitutional and sociopolitical reform. Num...

Along with the rise in research on globalization, the concept of globalization has become a subject to a more critical scrutiny. While majority agree that it represents a serious challenge to the state-centrist assumptions of most previous social science, doubts about its newness, inevitability and epoch-making qualities are also being raised. Others argue that the globalization literature neg...

How powerful is the status quo in determining people's social ideals? The authors propose (a) that people engage in injunctification, that is, a motivated tendency to construe the current status quo as the most desirable and reasonable state of affairs (i.e., as the most representative of how things should be); (b) that this tendency is driven, at least in part, by people's desire to justify th...

In the context of contemporary New Zealand, this paper discusses the need for occupational therapy to substantiate its claims of being a holistic profession with particular reference to the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand (referred to by the Maori as Aotearoa). In this era of accountability and consumer choice, occupational therapists need to more effectively meet the cultural needs...

This essay seeks to explore the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, to address the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and to explore the practical and theoretical qualities that secondand third-wave generations of black feminists have in common. Ultimately, the goal of this essay is to clearly understand the sociopolitical platform of hip-hop feminists and how t...