OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to trace the foundations of DD Palmer's sense of self and philosophy of chiropractic to its sources in modern Western philosophy as well as current metatheories about modernity. DISCUSSION DD Palmer's sense of self was indicative of a modern self. A modern self is characterized as a self that developed after the Western Enlightenment and must come to t...

The growth of cybercommunities is a notable social phenomenon. Empirical studies of cybercommunities have described new forms of social behaviour that call for deeper conceptual analysis. Drawing on evidence from our research in the cybercommunity Second Life, the authors examine the sociology of cybercommunities through the lens of Giddens’ abstract theories of modernity. In particular, the au...

Received: 10 August 2005 Revised: 21 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 From my perspective as a sociologist there are far too few artists in sociology today, those who combine an innovative vision with an exhilarating voice. With the loss of Claudio Ciborra that number has diminished. Readers of this journal may be somewhat surprised that I appreciate Ciborra largely as a sociological ...

When modern society marches toward post-modern society, people are still experiencing the same alienation and spiritual impoverishment as in Yeats’ times. It’s known that both modernity aesthetic tradition embodied poems. Previous studies, however, have tried to interpret each individually, usually combining theories convenient their purposes, but seldom intend include when studying poetry. Thr...

Motivated by recent distributed systems technology, Aguilera et al. introduced a hybrid model of computing, called the message-and-memory or m&m for short. In this model, processes can communicate message passing and also accessing some shared memory (e.g., through RDMA connections). We first consider basic problem implementing an atomic single-writer multi-reader (SWMR) register all in systems...

In Ottoman Empire cosmology was integrated with theology in the religious orders. Temporally and socially their descent goes hand rise of guilds. This coexistence vakıflar guild explained ideal type method Weber two different social coordination, which are integration inclusion. An based on community norms could be achieved by generalizing interest ethical and/or ethnic leader vakıflar. On othe...

A columnist in a Turkish newspaper recently asked : « Will nothing really be the same again ? » [Kaplanoglu, 1999: 6] referring to the impact of the earthquake of August 17, 1999, on the Turkish psyche. The writer Murathan Mungan [1994] used a similar metaphor earlier in what seems today like a prophetic statement : « I think Turkey has really come to lean against the wall. There is nowhere to ...

I nternational communication theory and research historically have done well with those subjects that characterize modernity, such as the nation-state and "the fact." Today, however, it is the postmodern condition within which communication takes place-a condition also known as the information society, for many of the critical features of postmodernity are the effects of the use of new informat...