1.1 MYSTIFICATION = Distortions of perceptions of reality that mask/obscure that reality. Ideological practices produce human beings as social subjects by transforming “lived experiences” into subjectivity. Mystification concerns the ways in which cognitive understandings of “what exists” are formed out of our lived experiences, formed in such a way that they distort and mask the way the social...

The article analyzes new aspects of the evolution Social Democratic Party Germany (SPD) against backdrop situation in Europe and world, confirming forecasts made author’s previous publications. party remains an important political force globally, influences development European social-democratic thought, actively participates reforming Union. German Democrats uphold principles liberal democraci...

Social phobia has become one of the commonest manifestations of fear in any society. This fear is often accompanied by major depression or social disabilities. With the awareness that fear can be aggravated in social situations, virtual reality researchers and psychologists have investigated the feasibility of a virtual reality system as a psychotherapeutic intervention to combat social phobia....

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

Critical Realism (CR) states that knowledge (epistemology) is different from being or existence (ontology). There is a reality (unobservable structures) which exists independent of human thought. Critical realists believe that these unobservable structures cause observable events. Therefore, the social world can be understood only if people understand the structures that generate events. This i...

Wanting to relate their interest in the corporation's internal economic activities to the social world beyond the firm, business historians may find the study of consumption a valuable area of research. In Consumption and the l•orld of Goods, John Brewer and Roy Porter make this point that no matter how "entrenched" the field of economic history and how vast the scope of social and cultural his...