The yolk, defined by McKelvey as the smallest ball intersecting all median hyperplanes, is a key concept in the Euclidean spatial model of voting. Koehler conjectured that the yolk radius of a random sample from a uniform distribution on a square tends to zero. The following sharper and more general results are proved here: Let the population be a random sample from a probability measure μ on <...

Introduction Does phenomenology have any insights or theoretical resources to offer the sociology of everyday life? In the present chapter, we will suggest an affirmative reply to this question. Not only because sociality is a central theme in phenomenology, but also because phenomenologists consistently emphasize the importance of examining the world, including social reality, just as we exper...

In this study, we investigated the relationships between observed social withdrawal (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale [PANSS] Passive Social Withdrawal and PANSS Active Social Avoidance), subjectively experienced social withdrawal (Social Functioning Scale [SFS] Withdrawal and SFS Interpersonal Behavior), and their associations to the underlying psychological patterns of Object Relations an...