abstract the feminist movement in the united states like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. from the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the u.s. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. one of the important issues in which women played a key role in party p...

Mountain glaciers and ice caps are undergoing rapid mass loss but rates of present-day changes models future projections both lack long-term (centennial-scale) context. Here, we reconstruct the maximum glacier extent surface Jostedalsbreen, which is largest in mainland Europe, during Little Ice Age (LIA) ∼ 1740 to 1860. The LIA ice-covered area was 568 km2 volume between 61 km3 91 km3. We show ...

What does it mean to live for sociology, today? In attempting to answer this question I return to Max Weber’s famous lectures delivered toward the end of his life—one on science as a vocation and the other on politics as a vocation. He presented ‘‘Science as a Vocation’’ in November 1917 toward the end of World War I and the more pessimistic ‘‘Politics as a Vocation’’ in January 1919 after Germ...

The trope of the "body politic" is reproduced in a Bengali popular court, or moot, not only through explicit submetaphors of that master metaphor but through a grammatical example of what Peirce called diagrammatic iconism. The iconism of reduplicated verbs with reciprocal meaning became pivotal in the metacommunicative negotiation of the agenda of a rural Bangladeshi moot. Such forms of iconic...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the probable effects of perception of politics on impression management behaviors of hotel employees in Izmir, Turkey. For this study, a total number of 205 usable questionnaires were collected from employees working in five star hotels in Izmir city center. The hypothesized relationships were tested using SPSS 17 version. The results indicated that...