Despite the relevance of nationalism for politics and intergroup relations, sociologists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the phenomenon in the United States, and historians and political psychologists who do study the United States have limited their focus to specific forms of nationalist sentiment: ethnocultural or civic nationalism, patriotism, or national pride. This article in...

BACKGROUND Interprofessional education (IPE) is crucial in fostering effective collaboration and optimal team-based patient care, all of which improve patient care and outcomes. Appropriate interprofessional communication is especially important in geriatrics where patients are vulnerable to adverse effects across the care continuum. Transitions in geriatric care are complex, involving several ...

process of industrialization and urbanization. Woolf reveals the enduring roots of poverty in the disruptions offamily life by age, death, and illness, coupled with underemployment and subsistence wages, particularly for women, children, and the aged. He also explores the continuity in official attitudes towards poverty, and in the various strategies which became fashionable across Europe to co...

The paper investigates the strategic choices made by young science-based firms’ regarding the selection of knowledge sources. Drawing on two streams of research – on alliances and on social networks – two different dimensions of this strategy are considered: the activation of the entrepreneurs’ social capital (versus the intentional inclusion of new knowledge sources) and the persistence of tie...

Trends toward later and less marriage and childbearing have been evenmore pronounced in East Asia than in the West. At the same time, many other features of East Asian families have changed very little. We review recent research on trends in awide range of family behaviors inChina, Japan,Korea, and Taiwan. We also draw upon a range of theoretical frameworks to argue that trends in marriage and ...

I generalize the Von Neumann-Morgenstern (vNM) Expected Utility Theorem in the case of a finite set by weakening the Independence and Continuity axioms. In the resulting representation a lottery ∑ πixi is evaluated by ∑ Ψ(πiu(xi)), where the shape of Ψ determines what I call mixture attitudes. I consider three extensions: 1) allowing mixture-seeking attitudes in addition to mixture-averse attit...

process of industrialization and urbanization. Woolf reveals the enduring roots of poverty in the disruptions offamily life by age, death, and illness, coupled with underemployment and subsistence wages, particularly for women, children, and the aged. He also explores the continuity in official attitudes towards poverty, and in the various strategies which became fashionable across Europe to co...