We contrast stem and joint family systems, to show how differences in norms of inheritance and residence profoundly influence our values and social constructs. They shape how people evaluate each other and patterns of conflict and cooperation within and between generations. Through this, they influence many fundamental aspects of social organization and behaviour. These influence health outcome...

Since socialism as a logically consistent system will both produce and require human beings with different consciousness, behavior and capabilities than those produced and required by capitalism, one has a chicken-and-egg dilemma for a transition to socialism. Particularly important is the obfuscation of the social cooperative nature of human production (and hence existence) behind both the ide...

The emergence of the information society has contributed to the increasing relevance of civil society issues, both directly by altering the relationship between the state and civil society, and indirectly by affecting other geopolitical changes that are also of importance to civil society. In the information age, those who hold to romantic conceptions equating the nation-state with states that ...

In modern society public administrations (PAs) are undergoing a transformation of their perceived role from controllers to proactive service providers. PAs are today under pressure to constantly improve the quality of delivered services, while coping with quickly changing context (changes in law and regulations, societal globalization, fast technology evolution) and decreasing budgets. As a res...

Between about 1964 and 1969, drug consumption was embedded into the transnational networks of a countercultural youth underground. In London, the high mobility of the underground members was evoking a deep-rooted fear of a casual way of life. The West Berlin underground was much more politicized than its London counterpart. In West Berlin, until the last third of the 1970s, there was no coordin...