Economic sociology has experienced a remarkable rebirth. this trend has been chronicled and celebrated in a number of publications and reached its height with the appearance of two successive editions of a massive Handbook, edited by neil J. Smelser and richard Swedberg. 1 this feat, added to the influence achieved by mark granovetter's article on the social " embeddedness " of economic action,...

It is my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce Joe G. Hollyfield, MD, PhD, who will deliver the Proctor Lecture this afternoon. I met Joe at ARVO—40 ARVOs ago. We both attended our first ARVO meeting in Sarasota in 1970. At that time, the meeting was held entirely in hotels on Lido Key. The afternoon beach time was religiously protected then, with nothing scheduled between noon and 4 o’clock...

A fair number of social scientists, several journals such as the Journal of Economy and Philosophy, the Journal of Behavioral Economics, and the Journal of Economic Psychology, a new section of the American Economics Association, and several symposia (such as the one published by the Journal ofBusiness in 1086) are attempting to develop a new paradigm tha t will expand the range of sociological...

Soft skills training is usually a topic of attention and evaluation among university lecturers educational scholars in Vietnam. However, there are still numerous issues with the at time, which why this study focuses on value soft courses Ho Chi Minh City Open University. The essay specifically examines after-school social contact between students to be component that has significant influence s...

Disagreement on which theory of collective behavior best predicts or explains how crowd processes work prompted this case study. By closely examining, through participant observation, the unfolding of one episode of nonviolent collective behavior at a professional football game, four frequently applied theories of collective behavior are tested for their utility in sports crowd situations. Each...

This newsletter is the latest development in a trend that has been evident for some time now: qualitative methods are undergoing a renaissance unlike anything seen for the last 25 years. This resurgence has been demonstrated in a number of ways. Over one thousand members of the American Political Science Association, including twenty eight APSA Presidents and seven APSR Editors, signed the peti...

I t is somewhat embarrassing to review a work by a distinguished author whose system of thought makes no appeal whatsoever to the reviewer. The senior author of the work under review is an eminent Harvard sociologist who is pre-eminently a Man with a System. The system is an elaborate taxonomy of social phenomena according to a fourfold pattern. It is developed in great detail in Parsons’ earli...

Reducing C02 emissions for addressing climate change concerns is becoming increasingly important as the C02 concentration in the atmosphere has increased rapidly since the industrial revolution. Many mitigation methods, including C02 sequestration and novel C02 utilization, are currently-under investigation. Most of these processes require C02 in a concentrated form. However the C02 from large ...

We report on novel focused ion beam fabrication techniques that can greatly improve the optical performance of photonic crystal structures. The finite depth and conicity effects of holes and trenches in Lithium Niobate (LN) photonic crystals have been theoretically analyzed, showing that the conicity causes refraction into the bulk sample, resulting in high transmission loss and no useful spect...

The photosensitivity of highly Er/Yb doped and undoped phosphate glass fibers is characterized under irradiation with intense pulsed 193 nm light from an ArF excimer laser through a phase mask. The ultraviolet photosensitivity of the active fibers is shown to be roughly half that of the passive fibers. We also demonstrate that the strong growth of the fiber Bragg grating reflectivity observed u...