This paper examines the way in which ‘authority’ and ‘authoritarianism’ have been confl ated in contemporary philosophical thought. More specifi cally, it will show how the psycho-social critique of political authority developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s established a paradigm for the critique of political authority as ‘authoritarian irrationalism’. The paper goes on to explore the l...

Appropriate decisions based on cost-effectiveness evaluations of health-care technologies depend upon the cost-effectiveness threshold and its rate of growth as well as some social rate of time preference for health. A more traditional approach to this problem is outlined before a social decision-making approach is developed, which demonstrates that social time preference for health is revealed...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate teacherschr('39') experiences of social status. Methodology: The present study was conducted using descriptive phenomenological method. The statistical population of the study included all the official teachers of education in the country in the academic year of 2018-19. The research sampling method was purposive and the data collection method ...

The weblog medium, while fundamentally an innovation in personal publishing has also come to engender a new form of social interaction on the web: a massively distributed but completely connected conversation covering every imaginable topic of interest. A byproduct of this ongoing communication is the set of hyperlinks made between weblogs in the exchange of dialog, a form of social acknowledge...

In reply to Dr Benians's article which suggests that social workers at times abuse their authority, three areas can be considered: the broader context of the social work task, the legal process itself, and the contribution made by child psychiatrists.