this book received such publicity at the time of its publication that there must be few who do not know what it is about. Briefly, it is the result of a four years study by a research team, headed by Dr. Pauline Morris, principal lecturer in Sociology at the Borough Polytechnic, London, of the physical, psychological and sociological environment which institutions provide for the mentally handi...

The matter of meaning in place, is one of the main qualities of human life. People consciously or unconsciously looking for meanings in places. The importance of finding the meaning of place is that, Understanding the meaning will lead to “act” in place. Finding the place friendly, or finding it insecure will lead to act differently. Now the question is that, is the meaning of place, something ...

Differently abled people face a variety of different issue and problems that cut them off from their surroundings. Regardless of all the advancement, we cannot ignore the fact that the conditions provided by the society for the deaf and hard hearing are still far from being perfect. The communication with deaf and hard hearing by means of written text is not as efficient as it might seem at fir...

In this paper, we analyze how culture affects individual and collective reactions to incentive environments created by institutions, or put differently, how culture influences institutional performance. We also analyze the forces that operate in the other direction: how institutions shape culture. We then combine these two causalities to show that current institutional choices influence future ...

Necrophilia is a paraphilia whereby the perpetrator gets sexual pleasure in having sex with the dead. Most jurisdictions and nations have laws against this practice. Necrophilia exists in many variations, and some authors have attempted to classify necrophilia. However many related terms such as pseudonecrophilia continue being used differently by different authors, necessitating the introducti...