A plethora of scholarly research has been conducted on social science: on its organizational and communicative patterns, on the historical development of research standards, and on the diversity of local research practices. But this body of work on the sociology of social research does not hang together in ways that it could, and should, if knowledge is to accumulate. Contributors hail from var...

2 The research described in this thesis was part of the MObility REStoration program (MORES), which was funded by an OSF grant from the University of Twente. De auteur bedankt het Institute for BioMedical Technology van de Universiteit Twente voor de financiële ondersteuning bij de totstandkoming van dit proefschrift. te Leiden.

Over the past 30 years, the legal status of husbands and wives in marriage has undergone major changes with the result that wives are now beginning to have more of an independent legal identity than in the past and, to some extent, more of an equal relationship with their husbands although full equality has not yet been achieved. At the same time, divorce laws and policies have consistently mov...

"First-Aid Community Training" (F.A.C.T.) scheme has been floated to teach the general public correct attitudes towards safety in daily life. This scheme should reduce the number of accidents, and save the country millions of pounds. It is surely an intriguing paradox that in an expanding environment of state medical services a private army of trained unpaid volunteers should be flourishing. Th...

Study objective: To develop a measure of unplanned pregnancy that is valid, reliable, and appropriate in the context of contemporary demographic trends and social mores and can be used in a variety of situations, including the production of population prevalence estimates. Design: A two stage study design: qualitative (inductive) methods to delineate the construct of pregnancy planning, and qua...

The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the Myth of Redemptive Violence. It enshrines the belief that violence saves, that war brings peace, that might makes right. It is one of the oldest continuously repeated stories in the world. Here Walter Wink describes just how pervasive this myth still is in the mores of Wester...

Drawing upon a series of studies that examines the information world of poor people, the author discovers four critical concepts that serve as the basis for defining an impoverished life-world. These concepts are risk-taking, secrecy, deception, and situational relevance. Moving back and forth among the worlds of janitors, single mothers, and an aging population, the author develops a conceptua...