Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part post by Amitai Etzioni examining the nation’s anti-obesity policies through the lens of a responsive communitarian philosophy. Today, Etzioni lays out a responsive communitarian framework and uses it to diagnose the problems with our current methods of fighting obesity. Tomorrow , Etzioni describes how these current policies should be r...

I view the World Wide Web as an information food chain (figure 1). The maze of pages and hyperlinks that comprise the Web are at the very bottom of the chain. The WebCrawlers and Alta Vistas of the world are information herbivores; they graze on Web pages and regurgitate them as searchable indices. Today, most Web users feed near the bottom of the information food chain, but the time is ripe to...

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part post by Amitai Etzioni examining the nation’s anti-obesity policies through the lens of a responsive communitarian philosophy. Yesterday, Etzioni laid out a responsive communitarian framework and used it to diagnose the problems with our current methods of fighting obesity. Today, Etzioni describes how these current policies should be ...

Etzioni (The George Washington University) (Corresponding author email: etzioni@gwu.edu) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00067.x Bookmarks for public sociologists

PREAMBLE We seek to understand and control the forces that govern our lives, to participate in shaping our futures. We are no longer confident that specialists and administrators-the staff of our social institutions-will govern them wisely and justly without our participation. Health services cannot be excluded from the demand for greater public accountability and participation. Health is too i...

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Nevertheless, women now hold a larger proportion of desired "male dominated" jobs. The progress is impressive when compared with the situation in the past, but it falls far short of liberationists' goals. Thus, while the proportion of women scientists has grown over the last five years from 8 to 10 per cent, a 25 per cent increase, parity is still a long way off. The number of women doctors in ...

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