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Book SynopsisThis companion features 35 original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x IntroductionGeorge Ritzer 1 PART I: INTRODUCTION 15 Introduction to Part IGeorge Ritzer 16 1. Globalization in Hard Times: Contention in the Academy and BeyondAnthony McGrew 29 2. What Is Globalization?Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White 54 3. The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal GlobalizationRobert J. Antonio 67 4. Globalization: The Major PlayersGeorge M. Thomas 84 5. Globalization TodayJohn Boli and Velina Petrova 103 6. Theories of GlobalizationWilliam I. Robinson 125 7. Studying Globalization: Methodological IssuesSalvatore Babones 144 8. Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Theory for the Twenty-fi rst CenturyUlrich Beck 162 PART II: THE MAJOR DOMAINS 177 Introduction to Part IIGeorge Ritzer 178 9. The End of Globalization? The Implications of Migration for State, Society and EconomySubhrajit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi 201 10. Globalization and the Agrarian WorldPhilip McMichael 216 11. Globalization and the EnvironmentSteve Yearley 239 12. Cities and GlobalizationMichael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma 254 13. The Sociology of Global OrganizationsStewart Clegg and Chris Carter 272 14. Economic Globalization: CorporationsPeter Dicken 291 15. Outsourcing: Globalization and BeyondGeorge Ritzer and Craig Lair 307 16. Globalization and Consumer CultureDouglas J. Goodman 330 17. Cultural GlobalizationJohn Tomlinson 352 18. Globalization and IdeologyManfred B. Steger 367 19. Media and GlobalizationDouglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce 383 20. Globalization and Information and Communications Technologies: The Case of WarHoward Tumber and Frank Webster 396 21. Political GlobalizationGerard Delanty and Chris Rumford 414 22. Globalization and Public PolicyTim Blackman 429 23. Religion and GlobalizationPeter Beyer 444 24. Globalization and Higher EducationPeter Manicas 461 25. Sport and GlobalizationDavid L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger 478 26. The Fate of the LocalMelissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada Jr 498 27. Public Health in a Globalizing World: Challenges and OpportunitiesFarnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach 516 PART III: MAJOR ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS 539 Introduction to Part IIIGeorge Ritzer 540 28. Globalization and Global Inequalities: Recent TrendsGlenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling 549 29. World Inequality in the Twenty-fi rst Century: Patterns and TendenciesRoberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran 565 30. Globalization and CorruptionCarolyn Warner 593 31. Globalization and SexualityKathryn Farr 610 32. War in the Era of Economic GlobalizationGerald Schneider 630 33. Globalization and International TerrorismGus Martin 644 34. Resisting GlobalizationRichard Kahn and Douglas Kellner 662 35. The Futures of GlobalizationBryan S. Turner 675 Index 693

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Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary collection on global public entity strategic communication Research into public sector communication investigates the interaction between public and governmental entities and citizens within their sphere of influence. Today's public sector organizations are operating in environments where people receive their information from multiple sources. Although modern research demonstrates the immense impact public entities have on democracy and societal welfare, communication in this context is often overlooked. Public sector organizations need to develop communicative intelligence in balancing their institutional agendas and aims of public engagement. The Handbook of Public Sector Communication is the first comprehensive volume to explore the field. This timely, innovative volume examines the societal role, environment, goals, practices, and development of public sector strategic communication. International in scope, this handbook describes and analyzes the contexts, pTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Acknowledgment xvii Introduction to Public Sector Communication 1Vilma Luoma-aho and María-José Canel Part 1 Public Sector Communication and Society 27 Introduction to Part I. Public Sector Communication and Society 27Michael X. Delli Carpini 1. Public Sector Communication and Democracy 31Michael X. Delli Carpini 2. Public Sector Communication and Organizational Legitimacy 45Arild Wæraas 3. Trust, Fairness, and Signaling: Studying the Interaction Between Officials and Citizens 59Nadine Raaphorst and Steven Van de Walle 4. Transparency and Corruption in the Public Sector 71Katerina Tsetsura and Vilma Luoma‐aho 5. Politics and Policy: Relationships and Functions Within Public Sector Communication 81Leanne Glenny Part II Public Sector Communication, Organizations, Stakeholders, and Employees 97 Introduction to Part II. Public Sector Communication, Organizations, Stakeholders, and Employees 97Magnus Fredriksson 6. Public Sector Communication and Publicly Valuable Intangible Assets 101Maria‐José Canel, Vilma Luoma‐aho, and Xabier Barandiarán 7. The Influence of Weber and Taylor on Public Sector Organizations’ Communication 115Jari Vuori, Kaidi Aher, and Marika Kylänen 8. Formal and Functional Social Exchange Relationships in the Public Sector 127Ben Farr‐Wharton, Yvonne Brunetto, and Kate Shacklock 9. How Does the Idea of Co‐Production Challenge Public Sector Communication? 139Sanna Tuurnas 10. Change Communication: Developing the Perspective of Sensemaking and the Perspective of Coworkers 153Charlotte Simonsson and Mats Heide 11. Public Sector Communication and Mediatization 167Magnus Fredriksson and Josef Pallas Part III Public Sector Communication and Practices 181 Introduction to Part III. Public Sector Communication and Practices 181Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen 12. Public Sector Communication and Performance Management: Drawing Inferences from Public Performance Numbers 185Asmus Leth Olsen 13. Change Management and Communication in Public Sector Organizations: The Gordian Knot of Complexity, Accountability, and Legitimacy 197Helle Kryger Aggerholm and Christa Thomsen 14. Public Sector Organizations and Reputation 215Jan Boon and Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen 15. Public Sector Communication: Risk and Crisis Communication 229Finn Frandsen and Winni Johansen 16. Public Sector Communication and Strategic Communication Campaigns 245Kelly Page Werder 17. Public Sector Communication and NGOs: From Formal Integration to Mediated Confrontation? 259Tine Ustad Figenschou Part IV Public Sector Communication and Citizens 273 Introduction to Part IV. Public Sector Communication and Citizens 273Karen B. Sanders 18. Citizen Engagement and Public Sector Communication 277Paloma Piqueiras, Maria‐José Canel, and Vilma Luoma‐aho 19. Understanding the Role of Dialogue in Public Sector Communication 289Karen B. Sanders and Elena Gutierrez‐García 20. Public Sector Communication and Citizen Expectations and Satisfaction 303Vilma Luoma‐aho, Laura Olkkonen, and Maria‐José Canel 21. Public Sector Communication and Social Media: Opportunities and Limits of Current Policies, Activities, and Practices 315Alessandro Lovari and Chiara Valentini 22. Citizen Communication in the Public Sector: Learning from High‐Reliability Organizations 329Karen B. Sanders and María de la Viesca Espinosa de Los Monteros, 23. Public Sector Communicators as Global Citizens: Toward Diversity and Inclusion 345Marianne D. Sison Part V Public Sector Communication Measurement and Evaluation 361 Introduction to Part V. Public Sector Communication Measurement and Evaluation 361Jim Macnamara 24. The Fundamentals of Measurement and Evaluation of Communication 367Anne Gregory 25. Measuring and Evaluating Media: Traditional and Social 383Stefania Romenti and Grazia Murtarelli 26. Measuring and Evaluating Audience Awareness, Attitudes, and Response 405Glenn O’Neil 27. Aligning and Linking Communication with Organizational Goals 417Ansgar Zerfass, and Sophia Charlotte Volk 28. New Developments in Best Practice Evaluation: Approaches, Frameworks, Models, and Methods 435Jim Macnamara Part VI Conclusion 455 29. Conclusion: A Vision of the Future of Public Sector Communication 457Maria‐José Canel and Vilma Luoma‐aho Index 467

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Book SynopsisLaw's Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination. Represents an innovative approach to interdisciplinary legal scholarship Features new developments in theorizing law's relations with language, society, and culture Includes contributions from European and North American scholars across several relevant disciplines Reveals the prevalence and power of the use of metaphors in the legal profession and in the popular imagination Table of Contents1. Law's Metaphors: Introduction (David Gurnham) 2. Metaphor as Analogy: Reproduction and Production of Legal Concepts (Angela Condello) 3. The Metaphor of Proportionality (Nicola Lacey) 4. Flesh of the Law: Material Legal Metaphors (Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos) 5. The Trials of Lizzie Eustace: Trollope, Sensationalism, and the Condition of English Law (Ian Ward) 6. M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!: Metaphors, Laws, and Fugues of Justice (Anne Que'ma) 7. 'We Want to Live': Metaphor and Ethical Life in F.W. Maitland's Jurisprudence of the Trust (Adam Gearey)8. Debating Rape: To Whom does the Uncanny 'Myth' Metaphor Belong? (David Gurnham) 9. Is the Blush off the Rose? Legal Education Metaphors in a Changing World (Michelle LeBaron)

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Book SynopsisHow do girls and boys in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) in the majority world vary with respect to central indicators of child growth and mortality, parental caregiving, discipline and violence, and child labor? How do key indicators of national gender equity and economic development relate to gender similarities and differences in each of these substantive areas of child development? This monograph of the SRCD is concerned with central topics of child gender, gendered parenting, gendered environments, and gendered behaviors and socializing practices in the underresearched and underserved world of LMIC. To examine protective and risk factors related to child gender in LMIC around the world, we used data from more than 2 million individuals in 400,000 families in 41 LMIC collected in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, a household survey that includes nationally representative samples of participating countries. In the fi rst chapter of this monograph, we describe the conTable of ContentsGENDER IN LOW- ANDMIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES CONTENTS I. GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: INTRODUCTION Marc H. Bornstein, Diane L. Putnick, Robert H. Bradley, Kirby Deater-Deckard, and Jennifer E. Lansford II. GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: GENERAL METHODS Marc H. Bornstein, Diane L. Putnick, Robert H. Bradley, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Jennifer E. Lansford, and Yumiko Ota III. THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL CAPITAL ASSETS IN YOUNG GIRLS’ AND BOYS’ MORTALITY AND GROWTH IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES Robert H. Bradley and Diane L. Putnick IV. MOTHERS’ AND FATHERS’ PARENTING PRACTICES WITH THEIR DAUGHTERS AND SONS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES Marc H.Bornstein and Diane L. Putnick V. DAUGHTERS’ AND SONS’ EXPOSURE TO CHILDREARING DISCIPLINE AND VIOLENCE IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES Kirby Deater-Deckard and Jennifer E. Lansford VI. GIRLS’ AND BOYS’ LABOR AND HOUSEHOLD CHORES IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES Diane L. Putnick and Marc H. Bornstein VII. GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: REFLECTIONS, LIMITATIONS, DIRECTIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS Marc H. Bornstein, Diane L. Putnick, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Jennifer E. Lansford, and Robert H. Bradley REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7 24 33 60 78 104 123 145 171 COMMENTARY CONTEXT AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF A GLOBAL SCIENCEOF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A COMMENTARY Kofi Marfo CONTRIBUTORS STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY SUBJECT INDEX 172 183 185 187

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Book SynopsisThe questions of whether preschool children benefi t more strongly when early care and education (ECE) is at or above a threshold of quality, has specifi c quality features, and/or is of longer duration were examined in secondary data analyses of eight large ECE studies. These issues are pivotal in recent ECE policies designed to improve school readiness skills, especially for children from low-income families. Threshold analyses examined whether quality had stronger associations with gains in child outcomes in settings with high levels of quality than those with lower quality. Features analyses considered whether specific measures of instruction and of teacher-child interaction were more predictive of gains than global quality measures. Dosage analyses tested whether the amount of in ECE settings or in instruction in specific content areas predicted child outcomes. Threshold analyses provided some evidence for thresholds in measures of instructional quality in relation to reading aTable of ContentsQUALITY THRESHOLDS, FEATURES, AND DOSAGE IN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION: SECONDARY DATA ANALYSES OF CHILD OUTCOMES CONTENTS I. QUALITY THRESHOLDS, FEATURES, AND DOSAGE IN EARLY CARE AND 7 EDUCATION: INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW Martha Zaslow, Rachel Anderson, Zakia Redd, Julia Wessel, Paula Daneri, Katherine Green, Elizabeth W. Cavadel, Louisa Tarullo, Margaret Burchinal, and Ivelisse Martinez-Beck II. QUALITY THRESHOLDS, FEATURES, AND DOSAGE IN 27 EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION: METHODS Margaret Burchinal, Yange Xue, Anamarie Auger, Hsiao-Chuan Tien, Andrew Mashburn, Elizabeth W. Cavadel, and Ellen Peisner-Feinberg III. TESTING FOR QUALITY THRESHOLDS AND FEATURES 46 IN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION Margaret Burchinal, Yange Xue, Anamarie Auger, Hsiao-Chuan Tien, Andrew Mashburn, Ellen Peisner-Feinberg, Elizabeth W. Cavadel, Martha Zaslow, and Louisa Tarullo IV. TESTING FOR DOSAGE-OUTCOME ASSOCIATIONS IN 64 EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION Yange Xue, Margaret Burchinal, Anamarie Auger, Hsiao-Chuan Tien, Andrew Mashburn, Ellen Peisner-Feinberg, Elizabeth W. Cavadel, Martha Zaslow, and Louisa Tarullo V. QUALITY THRESHOLDS, FEATURES, AND DOSAGE IN EARLY CARE 75 AND EDUCATION: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Martha Zaslow, Margaret Burchinal, Louisa Tarullo, and Ivelisse Martinez-Beck REFERENCES 88 APPENDIX 95 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 99 COMMENTARY REFLECTIONS ON QUALITY AND DOSAGE OF PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT 100 Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal and Portia Miller CONTRIBUTORS 114 STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY 118 SUBJECT INDEX 120

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Book SynopsisAn inclusive and accessible resource on the interdisciplinary study of gender and sexuality Companion to Sexuality Studies explores the significant theories, concepts, themes, events, and debates of the interdisciplinary study of sexuality in a broad range of cultural, social, and political contexts. Bringing together essays by an international team of experts from diverse academic backgrounds, this comprehensive volume provides original insights and fresh perspectives on the history and institutional regulatory processes that socially construct sex and sexuality and examines the movements for social justice that advance sexual citizenship and reproductive rights. Detailed yet accessible chapters explore the intersection of sexuality studies and fields such as science, health, psychology, economics, environmental studies, and social movements over different periods of time and in different social and national contexts. Divided into five parts, the Companion first discusses the theorTable of ContentsEditors vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Part I Introduction 1 1 The Diversity and Academic Institutionalization of Sexuality Studies 3Nancy A. Naples Part II Theoretical and Methodological Diversity 19 2 Sexology 21Agnieszka Kościańska 3 Sexualities in Historical Comparative Perspective 40Mathew Kuefler 4 Postcolonial Sexualities 61Vrushali Patil and Jyoti Puri 5 Queer Theory 79J. Michael Ryan 6 Queer Methodologies and Social Science 95Stuti Das 7 Queer Pedagogies 122Leigh Potvin Part III Health, Science, and Psychology 141 8 Sexuality, Science, and Technology 143Donna J. Drucker 9 Sexuality and Socialization 160Leah R. Warner, Emily A. Leskinen, and Janelle Leyva 10 LGBTQ Reproduction and Parenting 179Kate Luxion Part IV Sexuality and Institutions 203 11 Sexuality and Religion 205Kelsy Burke and Brandi Woodell 12 Sexuality Education 225Louisa Allen 13 Sexuality, Employment, and Discrimination 242Patti Giuffre and Courtney Caviness 14 Commodification of Intimacy and Sexuality 258Julia Meszaros Part V Popular Culture 279 15 Sexuality and Popular Culture 281Diane Grossman 16 LGBT Literature 299Julie Beaulieu 17 Queer Comics and LGBT in Comparative Perspective 318Helis Sikk Part VI Citizenship, Policy, and Law 335 18 Sexual Citizenship in Comparative Perspective 337Carol Johnson and Vera Mackie 19 Sexuality and Migration 357Shweta M. Adur 20 Sexuality and Criminal Justice 371Sharon Hayes and Cristina Khan 21 Sexual Harassment Policy in the US and Comparative Perspective 389Jennifer Ann Drobac 22 Sex Work and Sex Trafficking 409Kamala Kempadoo and Elya M. Durisin Part VII Human Rights and Social Justice Movements 427 23 Sexual Rights and Globalization 429Shweta M. Adur 24 The Global LGBT Workplace Equality Movement 445Apoorva Ghosh 25 Reproductive Justice 464Michele Eggers-Barison and Crystal M. Hayes Index 482

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Book SynopsisCOMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studiesCompanion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns. Uniquely broad in geographical and thematic scope, this comprehensive volume brings together essays by more than fifty international scholars and researchers to provide expert assessments spanning the many dimensions of urban studies. Organized into five parts, the Companion begins with a review of the current state of cities across East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, and Latin America, and all other world regions. Subsequent sections discuss contemporary theoretical perspectives, describe common methodological approaches used by urban scholars, and examine the political, social, and economic proTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface xxi Introduction: A World of Cities and Urban Problems in the Twenty-First Century xxivJavier Ruiz-Tagle, Anthony Orum, and Serena Vicari Haddock Part I Cities Across World Regions 1 1 Cities and Regions in South Asia 3Tanvi Bhatikar and Neha Sami 2 Making Cities and Regions in Globalising East Asia 21Junxi Qian, Jia Ling, and Shenjing He 3 Latin American Cities and Regions 43Guillermo Jajamovich, Oscar Sosa López, and Gabriel Silvestre 4 Cities and Regions in Sub-Saharan Africa 64Warren Smit 5 Australasian Cities: Urban Change Across Australia and New Zealand 85Kristian Ruming and Tom Baker 6 European Cities Between Continuity and Change 109Yuri Kazepov, Roberta Cucca, Byeongsun Ahn, and Christophe Verrier 7 The North American City 135Jon Teaford Part II Leading Theoretical Perspectives and Approaches 153 8 New Directions in Frankfurt Critical Theory for Critical Urban Theory 155Tino Buchholz 9 Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago 176Pranathi Diwakar and Joshua Babcock 10 Environmental Perspectives on Cities 196Maria Christina Fragkou and Anahí Urquiza 11 Feminist Urban Research: Praxis and Possibility Across Time and Space 218Brenda Parker Part III Methodological Approaches 237 12 A Critical-Empirical Approach to the Use of Demographic Methods and Sources in Urban Studies 239Ricardo Truffello, Fernanda Rojas Marchini, and Monica Flores 13 GIS in Urban Studies: A Tool of Expert Analysis, Practical Application, and Citizens’ Participation 265Inga Gryl, Ana Parraguez Sanchez, and Thomas Jekel 14 Urban Ethnography 282Margarethe Kusenbach and Japonica Brown-Saracino 15 Cities and Networks 311Kathryn Freeman Anderson and Zachary P. Neal 16 Policy Mobilities: How Localities Assemble, Mobilise, and Adopt Circulated Forms of Knowledge 329Astrid Wood Part IV Social Problems In Twenty-First-Century Cities 349 17 Social Heterogeneity and Diversity 351Ayda Eraydin 18 Inequalities and the City: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class 373David Benassi, Andrea Ciarini, and Enzo Mingione 19 The Role of Residential Context and Public Policies in the Production of Urban Inequalities 398María Mercedes Di Virgilio 20 Immigration and Immigrants in European Countries 420Moshe Semyonov and Rebeca Raijman 21 Migration and Migrants in Post-reform Chinese Cities 450Da Liu and Zhigang Li 22 Migration and Migrants in the United States: The Case for a Fifth Immigration Phase 475Christopher Levesque and Jack DeWaard 23 Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification: Nexuses 497Sandra Annunziata, Loretta Lees, and Clara Rivas Alonso Part V Political and Economic Problems In Twenty-First-Century Cities 517 24 Urban Citizenship and Governance 519Annika Hinze 25 Policies and Policy Approaches in Cities 539Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García Cabeza 26 Financialisation and Real Estate 562Anne Haila 27 Housing in the Global North and the Global South 579Darinka Czischke and Alonso Ayala Part VI Closure 605 28 Conclusions 607Anthony Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle, and Serena Vicari Haddock Index 613

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Book SynopsisHigher cognitive functions are reliably predicted by working memory measures from two domains: children''s performance on complex span tasks, and infants'' looking behavior. Despite the similar predictive power across these research areas, theories of working memory development have not connected these different task types and developmental periods. The current project works to bridge this gap with a processoriented theory, focusing on two tasks assessing visual working memory capacity in infants (the change-preference task) versus children and adults (the change detection task). Previous results seem inconsistent, with capacity estimates increasing from one to four items during infancy, but only two to three items during early childhood. A probable source of this discrepancy is the different task structures used with each age group, but prior theories were not suffi ciently specific to relate performance across tasks. The current theory focuses on cognitive dynamics, that is, the formTable of ContentsI. WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY IN CONTEXT: MODELING DYNAMIC PROCESSES OF BEHAVIOR, MEMORY, AND DEVELOPMENT 25 II.THE COGNITIVE DYNAMICS THEORY OF VISUAL WORKING MEMORY 56 III. EMPIRICAL TESTS OF PREDICTIONS COMPARING CAPACITY ESTIMATES ACROSS TASKS AND DEVELOPMENT 82 IV. MODEL SIMULATIONS TESTING THE REAL-TIME STABILITY HYPOTHESIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN VISUAL WORKING MEMORY 109 V. NEW QUESTIONS AND REMAINING CHALLENGES TO ACCOUNT FOR DEVELOPMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS IN VISUAL WORKING MEMORY 128 REFERENCES 139 APPENDIX 148 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 149 COMMENTARY 159 EXPLORING THE POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY IN WORKING MEMORY DEVELOPMENT 160 Nelson Cowan CONTRIBUTORS STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY 162 SUBJECT INDEX

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Book SynopsisExecutive control (EC) is a central construct in developmental science,although measurement limitations have hindered understanding ofits nature and development in young children, relation to social risk,and prediction of important outcomes. Disentangling EC from thefoundational cognitive abilities it regulates and that are inherentlyrequired for successful executive task completion (e.g., language, visual/spatial perception, and motor abilities) is particularly challenging atpreschool age, when these foundational abilities are still developing andconsequently differ substantially among children. A novel latent bifactormodeling approach delineated respective EC and foundational cognitiveabilities components that undergird executive task performance ina socio demographically stratifi ed sample of 388 preschoolers in alongitudinal, cohort-sequential study. The bifactor model revealed adevelopmental shift, where both EC and foundational cognitive abilitiescontributed uniquely to executiveTable of ContentsCONTENTSI. EXECUTIVE CONTROL IN EARLY CHILDHOOD.........................7C. A. C. Clark, N. Chevalier, J. M. Nelson, T. D. James,J. P. Garza, H.-J.Choi, and K. A. EspyII. THE PRESCHOOL PROBLEM SOLVING STUDY: SAMPLE, DATA, AND STATISTICAL METHODS...........................30T. D. James, H.-J.Choi, S. A. Wiebe, and K. A. EspyIII. DISTINGUISHING EXECUTIVE CONTROL FROM OVERLAPPING FOUNDATIONAL COGNITIVE ABILITIES DURING THE PRESCHOOL PERIOD..........................47J. M. Nelson,T. D. James, H.-J. Choi, C. A. C. Clark, S. A. Wiebe, and K. A. EspyIV. A NEW LOOK AT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE SOCIO-FAMILIAL CONTEXT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN’S EXECUTIVE CONTROL: CLARIFYING THE MECHANISMS OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES....................69C. A. C. Clark, T. D. James, and K. A. EspyV. ELUCIDATING NEW PATHWAYS TO DIMENSIONS OF ADHD SYMPTOMS IN PRESCHOOL BY JOINTLY MODELING EXECUTIVE CONTROL AND FOUNDATIONAL COGNITIVE ABILITIES.......................................96J. M. Nelson, T. D. James, and K. A. EspyVI. EXECUTIVE CONTROL IN PRESCHOOLERS: NEW MODELS, NEW RESULTS, NEW IMPLICATIONS.................111K. A. Espy, C. A. C. Clark, J. P. Garza, J. M. Nelson, T. D. James, and H.-J. ChoiREFERENCES..............................................................................129ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS..............................................................150COMMENTARYCOMMENTARY ON THE CHANGING NATURE OF EXECUTIVE CONTROL IN PRESCHOOL.....................................151Michael T. WilloughbyCONTRIBUTORS........................................................................166STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY...........................................168SUBJECT INDEX........................................................................170

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the development of spatial skills is important for improving overall success in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields (e.g., Wai, Lubinski, Benbow, & Steiger, 2010). Children use spatial skills to understand the world and can practice them via spatial assembly activities like puzzles or blocks. These skills have been linked to success in subjects like mathematics (Mix & Cheng, 2012) and science (Pallrand & Seeber, 1984; Pribyl & Bodner, 1987). This monograph sought to answer four questions about early spatial development: 1) Can we reliably measure spatial skills in 3- and 4-year-olds?; 2) Do spatial skills measured at 3 predict spatial skills at age 5?; 3) Do preschool spatial skills predict mathematics skills at age 5?; and 4) What factors contribute to individual differences in preschool spatial skills (e.g., SES, gender, fine-motor skills, vocabulary, and executive function)? Longitudinal data generated from a new spatial skill test for 3-yeaTable of ContentsCONTENTSI. SPATIAL SKILLS, THEIR DEVELOPMENT, AND THEIR LINKS TO MATHEMATICS.............................. 7Brian N. Verdine, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Nora S. NewcombeII. METHODS FOR LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PRESCHOOL SPATIAL AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS........ 31Brian N. Verdine, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Nora S. NewcombeIII. RESULTS—CONSIDERING THE 2-D AND 3-D TRIALS OF THE TOSA SEPARATELY AND TOGETHER.... 56Brian N. Verdine, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Nora S. NewcombeIV. RESULTS—LINKS BETWEEN SPATIAL ASSEMBLY, LATER SPATIAL SKILLS, AND CONCURRENT AND LATER MATHEMATICAL SKILLS.................................................................... 71Brian N. Verdine, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Nora S. NewcombeV. RESULTS—INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE FACTORS IN SPATIAL AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS............... 81Brian N. Verdine, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Nora S. NewcombeVI. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: HOW EARLY SPATIAL SKILLS PREDICT................................ 89LATER SPATIAL AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLSBrian N. Verdine, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Nora S. NewcombeREFERENCES................................................................................................................... 110ACKNOWLEDGMENTS........................................................................................................ 126COMMENTARYCAUSAL INFERENCE AND THE SPATIAL–MATH LINK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD................................... 127Drew H. BaileyAUTHOR BIOS................................................................................................................ 137STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY...................................................................................... 139SUBJECT INDEX.............................................................................................................. 141

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Book SynopsisThis monograph is an edited collection of chapters within the domainof developmental methodology that collectively share the following goals.First, this monograph provides updated and comprehensive, yet also accessible and brief, summaries of our current understanding of key methodologies used in developmental science.Second, this monograph describes how our current understanding can be further leveraged to advance understanding of human development. Third, this monograph identifies shortcomings in our understanding of developmental methodology in order to provide a roadmap for future methodological advances. Fourth, this monograph aims to organize developmental methodology as a subdiscipline within developmental science.The chapters of this monograph were selected to identify major themes of developmental methodology, broadly defined to encompass issues of design, analysis, and research progression. Besides covering a wide range of topics, chapters were selected that (a) represent actTable of ContentsCONTENTSI. DEVELOPMENTAL METHODOLOGY AS A CENTRAL SUBDISCIPLINE OF DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE..... 7Noel A. CardII. MORE THAN JUST CONVENIENT: THE SCIENTIFIC MERITS OF HOMOGENEOUS CONVENIENCE SAMPLES..... 13Justin Jager, Diane L. Putnick, and Marc H. BornsteinIII. FROM SMALL TO BIG: METHODS FOR INCORPORATING LARGE SCALE DATA INTO DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE..... 31Pamela E. Davis-Kean and Justin JagerIV. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL DATA..... 46Kevin J. Grimm, Pega Davoudzadeh, and Nilam RamV. DESIGN-BASED APPROACHES FOR IMPROVING MEASUREMENT IN DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE..... 67Johnathan Rush and Scott M. HoferVI. PERSON-SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE APPROACHES IN DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH..... 84Michael J. Rovine and Lawrence L. LoVII. REPLICATION, RESEARCH ACCUMULATION, AND META-ANALYSIS IN DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE..... 105Noel A. CardVIII. THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENTAL METHODOLOGY..... 122Todd D. Little, Eugene W. Wang, and Britt K. GorrallCOMMENTARYOBSERVATIONS ABOUT HOW WE LEARN ABOUT METHODOLOGY AND STATISTICS..... 140Paul E. JoseCONTRIBUTORS..... 152STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY..... 155SUBJECT INDEX..... 157

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Book SynopsisThe birth of an infant sibling is a common occurrence in the lives of many toddler and preschool children. The current study examined individual differences in trajectories of young children''s behavioral and emotional adjustment after the birth of a sibling. Growth mixture modeling (GMM) was conducted with a sample of 241 families expecting their second child using a longitudinal research design across the first year after the sibling''s birth (prenatal, 1, 4, 8, and 12 months) on seven syndrome scales of the Child Behavior Checklist. Multiple classes describing different trajectory patterns of adjustment and adaptation emerged. There was no evidence of a persistent maladaptive response indicating children undergo a developmental crisis after the birth of a sibling. Most children were low on all problem behaviors examined and showed little change, although some children did experience more pronounced changes in the borderline or clinical range. There was an Adjustment and AdaptatioTable of ContentsI. INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSITION TO SIBLINGHOOD FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE 7Brenda L. Volling II. METHODS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE FAMILY TRANSITIONS STUDY FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE 26Wonjung Oh, Brenda L.Volling, Richard Gonzalez, Lauren Rosenberg, and Ju-Hyun Song III. STABILITY AND CHANGE IN CHILDREN'S EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL ADJUSTMENT AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 46Brenda L. Volling,Wonjung Oh, and Richard Gonzalez IV. DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES OF CHILDREN'S AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 53Brenda L.Volling, Richard Gonzalez,Tianyi Yu, and Wonjung Oh V. DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES OF CHILDREN'S ATTENTION PROBLEMS AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 72Ju-Hyun Song,Wonjung Oh, Richard Gonzalez, Brenda L.Volling, and Tianyi Yu VI. DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES OF CHILDREN'S ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 82Elizabeth Thomason,Wonjung Oh, Brenda L.Volling, Richard Gonzalez, and Tianyi Yu VII. DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES OF CHILDREN'S EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 93Patty X. Kuo, Brenda L.Volling, Richard Gonzalez,Wonjung Oh, and Tianyi Yu VIII. DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES OF CHILDREN'S WITHDRAWAL AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 106Wonjung Oh, Ju-Hyun Song, Richard Gonzalez, Brenda L.Volling, and Tianyi Yu IX. DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES OF CHILDREN'S SOMATIC COMPLAINTS AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 118Emma Beyers-Carlson, Matthew M. Stevenson, Richard Gonzalez,Wonjung Oh, Brenda L.Volling, and Tianyi Yu X. DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES OF CHILDREN'S SLEEP PROBLEMS AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 130Paige Safyer, Matthew M. Stevenson, Richard Gonzalez, Brenda L.Volling, Wonjung Oh, and Tianyi Yu XI. GENERAL DISCUSSION: CHILDREN'S ADJUSTMENT AND ADAPTATION FOLLOWING THE BIRTH OF A SIBLING 142Brenda L.Volling REFERENCES 159 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 183 COMMENTARY PREDICTING NORMATIVE AND PROBLEMATIC FAMILY PATHWAYS TO THE TRANSITION TO SIBLINGHOOD: COMMENTARY ON VOLLING ET AL.'S MONOGRAPH 184Nina Howe CONTRIBUTORS 196 STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY 199 SUBJECT INDEX 201

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Book SynopsisProvides an international and management perspective on the field of corporate communication Corporate communication plays an important role in higher-level management to help build and preserve a company's reputation. This intangible yet valuable asset determines the net worth of a company and affects the success of its operations. Corporate Communication: An International and Management Perspective introduces readers to the broad environment of the modern extended organization and provides an understanding of the globalization process. It describes how economic, political, and cultural features of a country affect company decisions and communication and discusses various communication disciplines and practices that are employed in programs and campaigns. This book addresses the key management issues of sustainability and technology and innovation. It also emphasizes the importance of why corporate communication must be seen as a management function and not resTable of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgements xv Author Biography xvii Overview of the Book’s Five Parts xix Part I The Extended Enterprise 1 1 Introduction: The Domain of Corporate Communication 5 1.1 Stakeholder Management 6 1.2 Twin Goals of Corporate Communication 7 1.2.1 Strengthening Relationships with Stakeholders 7 1.2.2 Maintaining Corporate Reputation 9 1.3 Conclusions 11 Discussion Questions 12 2 Stakeholder Relations: Investors and Employees 15 2.1 Investor Relations 15 2.1.1 SEC’s Full and Timely Disclosure Rules 16 2.1.2 Feedback and Power 16 2.1.3 Investor Relations Activities 17 2.2 Employee Relations 18 2.2.1 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 18 2.2.2 Employee Communications 19 2.2.3 Recruitment and Training of Workers 20 2.2.4 Helping Workers Adjust to Foreign Employers 22 2.2.5 Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining 22 2.2.6 Standardization vs. Customization of Employee Relations 24 2.3 Conclusions 24 Discussion Questions 25 3 Stakeholder Relations: The Community and Consumers 28 3.1 Community Relations 28 3.1.1 Programs and Activities 29 3.1.2 Importance in Oil and Mining Industries 30 3.1.3 Developing a Community Relations Program 31 3.2 Consumer Relationship Management (CRM) 31 3.2.1 Moving from a Transaction to a Relationship 32 3.2.2 Social Contract and Consumer Rights 33 3.2.3 Power Relationship 34 3.2.4 Social Responsibility to Consumers and Society 34 3.2.5 Emerging Concept of “Social CRM” 36 3.2.6 Privacy 37 3.3 Conclusions 38 Discussion Questions 38 Case 1 General Electric – Profile of a Multi-National Corporation 40 Case 2 Wells Fargo Misapplies CRM 44 Part II Strategic Application of Communication Practices 51 4 Public Relations: Influencing Public Opinion 55 4.1 Historical Connection Between Public Relations and Public Opinion 56 4.1.1 The Public Relations Audit 56 4.1.2 Use of Surveys in Public Relations 57 4.1.3 Current Difficulties with Surveys 58 4.1.4 The Edelman Trust Barometer 59 4.1.5 CNBC/Burson-Marsteller Corporate Perception Indicator 59 4.1.6 Pew Research and Just Capital 60 4.2 Gaining Influence Through Publicity 60 4.2.1 Applying Perception Management: Putting “a Spin” on a Story 61 4.2.2 The Challenge Faced by Publicity: Limited Human “Channel Capacity” 62 4.2.3 Proactive Media Relations Strategy 62 4.2.4 Bernays – A Prominent Publicist 62 4.2.5 Harold Burson – Thoughts About Public Opinion 63 4.2.6 Proactive Media Relations 63 4.3 International Application of Persuasion 64 4.3.1 Public Diplomacy Campaigns 65 4.3.2 Business Support 65 4.3.3 Social Media Support 66 4.4 International Differences and Constraints in Media Relations 66 4.4.1 Use of “Guanxi” and Press Clubs 67 4.4.2 Unprofessional Practices 67 4.4.3 Constraints on Press Freedom 68 4.4.4 Singapore’s Authoritarianism 69 4.4.5 Insult Laws 69 4.4.6 Concentrated Media Ownership 69 4.5 Conclusions 70 Discussion Questions 70 4.A Foreign Media Relations Guide 71 5 Public Affairs: Exercising Power in the Socio-Political Environment 76 5.1 Central Role of Government Relations 77 5.1.1 Government Relations in China 77 5.1.2 Cases of Intervention by Governments 77 5.2 Government Litigation 81 5.3 The Term “Corporate Diplomacy” Grows 82 5.4 Tools of Public Affairs 83 5.4.1 Negotiations 83 5.4.2 Lobbying 84 5.5 Conclusions 86 Discussion Questions 86 6 Global Marketing Communication: Facilitating Exchanges 91 6.1 Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) 91 6.2 The Marketing Mix: The 4 Ps 92 6.2.1 Product, Price, and Place 93 6.2.2 The Promotion Mix 95 6.3 Accommodating International Differences 98 6.3.1 “Think Global, Act Local” – Global Brand Architecture 98 6.3.2 Standardization vs Customization 99 6.3.3 Recognizing Cultural Differences 100 6.4 Conclusions 101 Discussion Questions 102 7 Social Media and Big Data: Extending Relationships 106 7.1 The Internet 106 7.1.1 Overseas Expansion Invites Languages Other than English 107 7.2 Social Media Marketing 108 7.2.1 Major Types 108 7.2.2 Videos – Additional Impact 110 7.2.3 Viral and Buzz Marketing 110 7.3 Social Media Impact on Corporate Communications 112 7.3.1 Changed Power Relations 112 7.4 Big Data – its Uses and Limitations 113 7.4.1 Analyzing Big Data 113 7.4.2 Applications of Big Data Analysis 114 7.5 Improving the Reliability of Big Data 117 7.5.1 Limitations of Big Data 117 7.5.2 New Approaches and Research Centers 118 7.6 The Future of Big Data – The Next Step 119 7.6.1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) 119 7.7 Conclusions 119 Discussion Questions 120 8 Digital and Social Marketing: Extending Practices and Influencing Behavior 124 8.1 Growth of Digital Marketing 124 8.1.1 Awareness of New Technology by Public Relations and Public Affairs 124 8.1.2 New University Degree Programs and Company Positions 125 8.1.3 Impact of Digital Marketing 126 8.1.4 Role of Public Affairs and Advocacy Advertising 126 8.2 Social Marketing – Changing Consumer and Citizen Attitudes and Behavior 127 8.2.1 Application to Public Health 128 8.2.2 Tackling the Obesity Issue Worldwide 128 8.2.3 Use of Wide Range of Communication Practices 131 8.3 Conclusions 131 Discussion Questions 131 Case 3 High Drug Prices Become a Public Issue 133 Case 4 Uber Requires Public Affairs Assistance and Cultural Overhaul 139 Part III International Perspective 147 9 The Force of Globalization 151 9.1 Conditions That Facilitate Globalization 152 9.1.1 Enabling Effect of Communication and Other Technologies 152 9.1.2 Rise of Scientific Thinking 153 9.2 Drivers of Globalization 153 9.2.1 Search for New Markets 154 9.2.2 Seeking Low Labor Costs 154 9.2.3 Seeking National and Company Growth 156 9.2.4 The Newest Driver: Inversion Deals 157 9.3 Obstacles to Globalization 158 9.3.1 Resurgent Nationalism 159 9.3.2 National Security Concerns 160 9.3.3 Weak Infrastructures 162 9.3.4 Widening Income Disparities 163 9.4 Saving Globalization 164 9.5 Conclusions 165 Discussion Questions 166 10 Interacting with International Players 171 10.1 Powerful MNCs 171 10.1.1 Illustrative Company Profiles 172 10.2 Nation States 173 10.2.1 China’s Antitrust and Bribery Actions 173 10.2.2 France Confronts Google Over Its Tax Deal 174 10.3 Supranational Organizations 174 10.3.1 United Nations 175 10.3.2 World Economic Institutions 177 10.4 European Union 177 10.5 Civil Society 181 10.6 NGOs as Advocacy Groups 182 10.7 Collaboration is Growing 183 10.8 Conclusions 184 Discussion Questions 184 11 Political and Economic Features of Nation States 188 11.1 Major Political Systems and Ideologies 188 11.1.1 Authoritarian Systems 188 11.1.2 Democratic Systems 190 11.2 Major Economic Systems 190 11.2.1 Free Market System 190 11.2.2 Command and Control Economies 192 11.2.3 Mixed Systems: Social Corporativism and Social Capitalism 193 11.3 Political Risk Assessment 193 11.3.1 Due Diligence in AES’s Acquisition of Telsi in the Republic of Georgia 194 11.4 Conclusions 195 Discussion Questions 195 12 Social and Cultural Features of Nation States 198 12.1 Major Aspects of a Country’s Social System 199 12.1.1 Community Institutions 199 12.1.2 Demographics and Other Forms of Audience Segmentation 202 12.2 Features of Cultural Systems 203 12.2.1 Individualism vs. Collectivism 204 12.2.2 Power Distance 205 12.2.3 Uncertainty Avoidance 206 12.2.4 Masculinity–Femininity 207 12.2.5 High vs. Low Context 207 12.2.6 Other Cultural Variables 208 12.3 Media Systems 209 12.3.1 Al Jazeera 209 12.4 Conclusions 209 Discussion Questions 209 13 The Nation Brand: Comparison with Product and Company Brand 213 13.1 Differences between Brand and Reputation 214 13.1.1 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index 214 13.2 Building and Strengthening a Nation State 215 13.2.1 Nation-Building 215 13.2.2 Economic Development 216 13.2.3 Attracting Industry: Approaches by Countries and Cities 217 13.3 Strategy to Attract Foreign Investment 219 13.4 How Nation Brands Are Tarnished 220 13.4.1 Reputational Risks and Crises 220 13.5 Strengthening a Nation Brand 221 13.5.1 Olympics 222 13.6 World Economic Forum 222 13.7 Conclusions 223 Discussion Questions 223 Case 5 Can Public Relations Promote Globalization? 225 Case 6 Building China’s Nation Brand 227 Part IV Pivotal Issues Facing Management 235 14 Sustainability and Climate Change 237 14.1 Sustainability Begins with the Environment 237 14.1.1 Social Costs and Social Reports 238 14.1.2 Environmental Programs 238 14.2 Focus on Availability of Natural Resources 239 14.2.1 The Price System and Recycling 240 14.2.2 Greater Attention to Supplier Relations 240 14.2.3 Unilever Launches a Broad-Scale Plan 243 14.2.4 Other Sustainability Measures 243 14.3 Climate Change: The Ultimate Sustainability Challenge 245 14.3.1 Global Warming and Human Activity Argument 246 14.3.2 Application of Communication Practices 248 14.3.3 International Actions and Agreements 249 14.4 Conclusions 251 Discussion Questions 252 15 Technology and Innovation: New Risks and Issues 256 15.1 Gaining Acceptance for New Technologies 257 15.1.1 The Diffusion/Adoption Process 258 15.1.2 Controversial Technologies 258 15.2 Intellectual Property Rights 260 15.2.1 Patent Disputes and Theft of IP 260 15.2.2 Litigation Public Relations 261 15.3 Technology Creates Risks 262 15.4 The Science and Healthcare Settings of Technology 263 15.4.1 Science Settings at the Whitehead Institute and Brookhaven National Lab 263 15.4.2 Healthcare Settings 264 15.5 Conclusions 267 Discussion Questions 267 Appendix 268 Science Writing 268 Two Litigation Cases 268 Case 7 Reputational Crisis Faced by Samsung in Faulty Galaxy Note 7 Recall 270 Part V Corporate Communication Contribution to Management 277 16 Global Corporate Social Responsibility 281 16.1 Corporate Irresponsibility Abroad 281 16.1.1 Poor Working Conditions: The Bangladesh Disaster 281 16.1.2 Sales of Dangerous Products Abroad 282 16.1.3 Foreign Purchases of Agricultural Land 282 16.1.4 Offensive Banking and Insurance Practices 283 16.2 Foundations of Global Corporate Social Responsibility 283 16.2.1 A Common Code of Ethics and Professional Standards 283 16.2.2 Observing Global Declarations 284 16.3 Management Approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility 285 16.3.1 A Compensatory Approach to CSR: Social Bookkeeping 285 16.3.2 The Global CSR Pyramid 287 16.3.3 Corporate Citizenship 289 16.3.4 New Business Models 290 16.4 Forging International Agreements – the Case of Bangladesh 291 16.4.1 Nike Shows the Way 291 16.4.2 Some CSR Lessons Learned 292 16.5 Conclusions 293 Discussion Questions 293 17 Corporate Governance: The Corporate Communication Role 296 17.1 Maintaining Corporate Legitimacy 296 17.1.1 Uncertainty of Public Support for Business 297 17.1.2 Protecting the Free Market System 298 17.2 The Business–Society Relationship 298 17.2.1 Widening the Composition of the Board 299 17.2.2 Boards Face Activists 300 17.3 Shareholder Resolutions 301 17.4 Role of Corporate Communication in Corporate Governance 301 17.4.1 Protect Company Reputation and Legitimacy 301 17.4.2 Engage in Issues Management and Direct Crisis Management 303 17.4.3 Factor Public Opinion into Corporate Decision Making 304 17.4.4 Help Managers Engage with Stakeholders 305 17.4.5 Address the Public Interest 306 17.5 Conclusions 310 Discussion Questions 310 Case 8 VW’s Crisis of Corporate Governance 312 Index 325

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Book SynopsisThe second editionof the bestselling titleonmodern notions of race, providingtimely examination of perspectives on race, racism, and human biological variation In this fully updated second edition of this popular text on the study of race, Alan Goodman, Yolanda Moses, and Joseph Jones take a timely look at modern ideas surrounding race, racism, and human diversity, and consider the ways that ideas about race have changed over time. New material in the second edition covers recent history and emerging topics in the study of race. The second edition has also been updated to account for advancements in the study of human genetic variation, which provide further evidence that race is an entirely social phenomenon.RACEcompels readers to carefully consider their own ideas about race and the role that race plays in the world around them. Examines the ways perceptions of race influence laws, customs, and social institutions in the US and around the worldTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xiv 1 Introducing Race, Human Variation, and Racism 1 Part 1 Histories of Race, Difference, and Racism 7 2 Inventing Race 9 3 Creating Race 15 4 Human Mismeasure 27 5 Inventing Whiteness 45 6 Separate and Unequal 69 Part 2 Why Human Variation is Not Racial 91 7 Introduction: Race ≠ Human Biological Variation 93 8 Skin Deep? 101 9 Sickle Cell Disease: Not for Blacks Only 111 10 The Apportionment of Variation, or …: Why We are All Africans Under the Skin 123 11 The Evolution of Variation 133 Part 3 Living with Race and Racism 147 12 Introduction: Living with Race and Racism 149 13 The Census and Making Race “Official” 158 14 Race and Education 178 15 Linking Race and Wealth: An American Dilemma 194 16 Race and Health Inequalities 213 17 Conclusion 232 Glossary 250 Index 257

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Book SynopsisAn innovative, student-friendly textbook covering the major elements of the field of Family Communication Family Communication, a rapidly growing sub-discipline within Communication Studies, explores the processes and factors involved in family interactions and relationships. Communication in Family Contexts is a clear and accessible survey of the essential principles, theories, and concepts of the field. Unlike textbooks that present a vast amount of material across only a few chaptersthis innovative textbook features brief, easily-understood chapters ideally-suited for undergraduate courses on the subject. The text provides concise yet comprehensive coverage of a diverse range of topics, from fundamental aspects of caretaking and sibling communication, to topics not covered in other textbooks such as estrangement and marginalization. 33 chapters cover theories of family communication, family communication processes, and communicating in family relationsTable of ContentsPreface xi Meet the Authors xv Meet the Case Study Contributors xvii Acknowledgments xxi About the Companion Website xxiii Chapter 1: An Introduction to Communication in Family Contexts 1 Chapter 2: Research Paradigms and Methods that Inform Family Communication Research 7 Part I: Theories of Family Communication 17 Chapter 3: Affection Exchange Theory 19 Chapter 4: Communication Privacy Management Theory 27 Chapter 5: Family Communication Patterns Theory 35 Chapter 6: Family Systems Theory 43 Chapter 7: Narrative Theories 49 Chapter 8: Social Cognitive Theory 57 Chapter 9: Relational Dialectics Theory 63 Part II: Family Communication Processes 75 Foundational Processes 77 Chapter 10: Caregiving in Families 79 Chapter 11: Conflict and Forgiveness 87 Chapter 12: Coping and Resilience in Families 101 Chapter 13: Difficult Family Conversations 109 Chapter 14: Discourse Dependence 119 Chapter 15: Family Distancing 127 Chapter 16: Information Management and Disclosure in Families 137 Chapter 17: Supportive Communication in Families 145 Chapter 18: Uncertainty Management 157 Major Family Transitions 165 Chapter 19: Cohabitation and Marriage 167 Chapter 20: Delaying, Forgoing, and Transitioning to Parenthood 175 Chapter 21: Divorce and Dissolution 185 Chapter 22: Remarriage and Stepfamily Formation 193 Part III: Communicating in Family Relationships 201 Family and Relationship Types 203 Chapter 23: Communication and Adoptive Families 205 Chapter 24: In-Law Relationships 215 Chapter 25: Intergenerational Relationships 223 Chapter 26: LGBTQ Families 235 Chapter 27: Parent–Child Relationships 241 Chapter 28: Partner Relationships 253 Chapter 29: Sibling Relationships 263 Chapter 30: Voluntary Kin Families 271 Family Communication in Context 275 Chapter 31: Family Communication in Health Contexts 277 Chapter 32: Family Communication in Organizational Contexts 287 Chapter 33: Family Communication in Technological Contexts 299 Author Index 311 Subject Index 315

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Book SynopsisThe majority of the world's children grow up learning two or more languages. The study of early bilingualism is central to current psycholinguistics, offering insights into issues such as transfer and interference in development. From an applied perspective, it poses a universal challenge to language assessment practices throughout childhood, as typically developing bilingual children usually underperform relative to monolingual norms when assessed in one language only. We measured vocabulary with Communicative Development Inventories for 372 24-month-old toddlers learning British English and one Additional Language out of a diverse set of 13 (Bengali, Cantonese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi-Urdu, Italian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Welsh). We furthered theoretical understanding of bilingual development by showing, for the first time, that linguistic distance between the child's two languages predicts vocabulary outcome, with phonological overlap related to expTable of ContentsCONTENTS 7 I: INTRODUCTION Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Claire Delle Luche, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett 30 II: METHODS Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Claire Delle Luche, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett 43 III: ANALYSES AND RESULTS FOR STUDY 1: ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF LINGUISTIC DISTANCE ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Claire Delle Luche, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett 61 IV: RESULTS FOR STUDIES 2 AND 3: THE UKBTAT MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION TO NONTARGET ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Claire Delle Luche, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett 68 V: GENERAL DISCUSSION Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Claire Delle Luche, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett 81 APPENDIX 91 REFERENCES 109 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS COMMENTARY 110 ADVANCES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF YOUNG BILINGUALS: COMMENTS ON FLOCCIA ET AL. Erika Hoff and Cynthia Core 124 CONTRIBUTORS 127 SUBJECT INDEX

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Book SynopsisWe live in an increasingly pharmacological and medical world, in which children and adults frequently encounter alleged treatments for an enormous range of illnesses. How do we come to understand what heals and why? Here, 15 studies explore how 1,414 children (ages 511) and 882 adults construe the efficacies of different kinds of cures. Developmental patterns in folk physics, folk psychology, and folk biology lead to predictions about which expectations about illnesses and cures will remain relatively constant across development and which expectations will undergo change. With respect to a constant framework, we find that even young school children distinguish between physical and psychological disorders and the treatments that would be most effective for those disorders. In contrast, younger children reason differently about temporal properties associated with cures. They often judge that dramatic departures from prescribed schedules will continue to be effective. They are also lesTable of ContentsCONTENTSI. INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING MEDICINES AND MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS...7Kristi L. Lockhart and Frank C. KeilII. THE PROPER REALMS OF MEDICINES AND THEIR ALTERNATIVES: WHAT COUNT AS CURES?...33Kristi L. Lockhart and Frank C. KeilIII. TIME COURSES OF ILLNESSES AND TREATMENTS...63Kristi L. Lockhart and Frank C. KeilIV. AGENCY AND SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ILLNESSES AND TREATMENTS...83Kristi L. Lockhart and Frank C. KeilV. REASONING ABOUT SIDE EFFECTS: INFLUENCES OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL EXPECTATIONS...100Kristi L. Lockhart and Frank C. KeilVI. TREATMENTS AND TRADEOFFS...123Kristi L. Lockhart and Frank C. KeilVII. FOLK MEDICINE AND FOLK CURES...140Kristi L. Lockhart and Frank C. KeilREFERENCES...159ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...174COMMENTARYCOMMENTARY: WHAT HEALS AND WHY? CHILDREN’S UNDERSTANDING OF MEDICAL TREATMENTS...175Karl S. Rosengren, Matthew J. Jiang, Charles W. Kalish, David Menendez, and Iseli G. HernandezCONTRIBUTORS...184SUBJECT INDEX...186

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Book SynopsisThe value of human life is a significant moral value for most people. Yet, past research has devoted little attention to the development of moral reasoning about the value of life. The present studies investigated how adolescents and adults reason about the value of life in the context of so-called trolley car situations. These situations, adopted from philosophy, involve the option of sacrificing the life of one person to save five others. Based on past developmental research, we expected that individuals would reason about distinct and sometimes conflicting considerations regarding the value of life. This approach contrasted with past research on adults'' responses to trolley car situations, which has been taken to show that most moral evaluations are based not on reasoning but on affective, automatic reactions. In Study 1, 288 adolescents and adults were interviewed about trolley car situations designed to examine considerations like the value of human life and the relatioTable of ContentsI. INTRODUCTION (page 7)Audun Dahl, Matthew Gingo, Kevin Uttich, and Elliot Turiel II. STUDY 1: INVESTIGATING BOTH EVALUATIONS AND REASONING ABOUT SYSTEMATICALLY VARIED TROLLEY CAR SITUATIONS 31Audun Dahl, Matthew Gingo, Kevin Uttich, and Elliot Turiel III. STUDY 2: VARYING THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE POTENTIAL VICTIMS 65Audun Dahl, Matthew Gingo, Kevin Uttich, and Elliot Turiel IV. GENERAL DISCUSSION 77Audun Dahl, Matthew Gingo, Kevin Uttich, and Elliot Turiel REFERENCES 100 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 109 COMMENTARY CHALLENGING A DUAL-PROCESS APPROACH TO MORAL REASONING: ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS EVALUATIONS OF TROLLEY CAR SITUATIONS (page 110)Melanie Killen and Kelly Lynn Mulvey CONTRIBUTERS 124 SUBJECT INDEX 126

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Book SynopsisDevelop your leadership communication Communicating with Mastery provides readers with a rich treasure trove of frameworks and tools for leadership communication as developed and taught over the past decade at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Designed for the business leader on the go, it provides you quick access to helpful approaches to vexing communication problems leaders face today in speaking and writing to various audiences. Projects often fail not because of the vision, but in the articulation of that vision. With the help of this book, you'll learn how to ensure you get the results you desire as a leader and communicator including: Speak with conviction and write with impactTailor your communication to any goal, setting, or audienceScale your leadership through effective coaching Every time you write or speak, you need to make your words count. And this book shows you how.Table of ContentsForeword xi Introduction xiii Individuality xvi Relevance xvi Iteration xvii Feedback xviii Stakes xviii Part 1 Speaking with Conviction and Writing for Impact 1 1 Adopting a Communication Mindset 3 Know Your AIM 3 Beyond AIM: The Leadership Communication Canvas 14 2 Speaking with Conviction 25 Managing Your Anxiety 26 Verbal, Vocal, Visual: Your Recipe for Successful Communication 29 3 Writing for Impact: Active, Brief, and Clear 45 Active 46 Brief 47 Clear 48 Synthesis > Summary 48 The Yin and Yang of Writing: Style and Content 50 The Power of Editing (Others’ Work and Your Own) 53 Part 2 Tailoring Your Communication to Goal, Setting, or Identity 57 4 Tailoring Your Communication to Your Goal 59 Pitching 59 Storytelling 69 Disclosing Personally 82 5 Tailoring Your Communication to Your Setting 91 Meetings 91 Virtual Meetings 97 On Stage (TED Talks, LOWKeynotes, and the Like) 99 When Co-Presenting 101 When Fielding Questions 103 When Using Slides 107 6 Tailoring Your Communication to Your Identity 111 Leading in Your Second (or Third, or Fourth) Language 112 Leading as an LGBTQ Person 113 Leading as a Woman 123 Leading as a Rookie 129 Leading as a Military Veteran 131 Part 3 Scaling Your Leadership: The Communication Coaching Process 139 7 When Being Coached 141 Establishing Your Goals 141 Selecting Your Coach 143 Adopting a Coaching Mindset 145 8 When Coaching Others 147 What Makes a Great Coach? 147 Defining the Coaching Role 149 Tools of the Trade 150 9 Creating a Coaching Culture 157 Everyone Can Coach (But Not Everyone Should) 157 Embracing Radical Candor 159 Mirroring and Modeling Best Practices 163 Epilogue: It’s in Your Hands Now 165 Appendix A: Power Verbs 169 Appendix B: Memo on the Quality of Memos 173 Appendix C: More Tips on Winning Writing from Glenn Kramon 179 Appendix D: The Leadership Communication Bookshelf 183 Bibliography 187 Acknowledgments 191 About the Authors 195 Index 197

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Book SynopsisA unique academic reference dedicated to listening, featuring current research from leading scholars in the field The Handbook of Listening is the first cross-disciplinary academic reference on the subject, gathering the current body of scholarship on listening in one comprehensive volume. This landmark work brings together current and emerging research from across disciples to provide a broad overview of foundational concepts, methods, and theoretical issues central to the study of listening. The Handbook offers diverse perspectives on listening from researchers and practitioners in fields including architecture, linguistics, philosophy, audiology, psychology, and interpersonal communication. Detailed yet accessible chapters help readers understand how listening is conceptualized and analyzed in various disciplines, review the listening research of current scholars, and identify contemporary research trends and areas for future study. Organized into five parts, the Handbook begins Table of ContentsAbout the Editors ix About the Authors xi Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1Debra L. Worthington and Graham D. Bodie Part I Methodological Approaches 7 1. Physiological Approaches 9Susan Teubner‐Rhodes and Stefanie E. Kuchinsky 2. Phenomenological Approaches 27Lisbeth A. Lipari 3. Interpretive Approaches 41Mohan J. Dutta and Phoebe Elers 4. Empirical Approaches 55Andrea J. Vickery Part II Disciplinary Foundations 69 5. Architecture 71Karen Van Lengen 6. Audiology 89Annette Hurley and Meagan M. Walczak 7. Interpersonal Communication 103Valerie Manusov 8. Language Learning 121Nicole Altvater‐Mackensen 9. Linguistics 139Vahid Aryadoust, Yuvadarshini Ilang Kumaran, and Stella Ferdinand 10. Management and Leadership 163Sarit Pery, Guy Doytch, and Avraham N. Kluger 11. Media Studies 181Kate Lacey 12. Musicology 199Elvira Brattico and Niels Trusbak Haumann 13. Philosophy 217Deborah S. Mower 14. Psychology 233Margarete Imhof 15. Sound Studies 253Matt Brounley Part III Teaching Listening 263 16. Instructional Design and Assessment 265Michael Rost 17. Teaching Listening in Classroom Settings 279Mary Lahman 18. Music Education 291Daniel C. Johnson 19. Training and Development 303Judi Brownell 20. Listening Education in the Medical Curriculum 315Helen Meldrum and Rebekah Apple Part IV Contexts and Applications 327 21. Mindful Interpersonal Listening 329Susanne M. Jones and Amy C. Joyer 22. Listening, Lying, and Deceit 341Timothy R. Levine 23. Mediated Listening 353Christopher D. Bond 24. Listening and Relational Lawyering 361Susan L. Brooks 25. Listening in Health Care 373Lisa McKenna, Ted Brown, Louise Oliaro, Brett Williams, and Angela Williams 26. Listening for Healthy Democracy 385Jim Macnamara Part V Emerging Perspectives 397 27. Performative Listening 399Chris McRae 28. Augmented Reality 409Mark Roman Miller and Jeremy N. Bailenson 29. Building Peace Through Listening 419Zenebe Beyene 30. Silence 427Robin Patric Clair Epilogue: Moving Toward Listening Literacy 439Andrew D. Wolvin Index 449

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Book SynopsisThis monograph examines the interplay between behavioral and cognitive representations of attachmet during early childhood. We track the continued development of secure base support and use while assessing maternal co-construction processes and thier joint impact on children''s secure base behavior and attachment representations. First, our investigation establishes that smoothly interacting dyads have mothers who continue to provide secure base support and children who use them as secure base across early childhood (mother sensitivity-child security links). Furthermore, the patterning of children''s secure base behavior when interacting with the mother is related to the structure of children''s knowledge about secure base relationships. Second, we introduce mother co-construction skills and evaluate their impact on the mother child relationship. Using two different co-construction tasks, we scored maternal co-construction in terms of skills that promote secure base script knowledgeTable of ContentsI. INTRODUCTION: THE CO-CONSTRUCTION OF MOTHER-CHILD ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN EARLY CHILDHOODGerman E. Posada and Harriet S. Waters (Page 7) II. MEASURES: SECURE BASE BEHAVIOR, CO-CONSTRUCTION, AND ATTACHMENT SCRIPTSGerman E. Posada and Harriet S. Waters (Page 22) III. THE ORGANIZATION OF ATTACHMENT BEHAVIOR IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: LINKS WITH MATERNAL SENSITIVITY AND CHILD ATTACHMENT REPRESENTATIONSGerman E. Posada, Jill M. Trumbell, TIng Lu, and Garene Kaloustian (Page 35) IV. CO-CONSTRUCTIONS OF ATTACHMENT REPRESENTATIONS AND AFFECT-REGULATING COGNITIONS: THE ROLE OF MATERNAL ATTACHMENT SECURITYHarriet S. Waters, Michelle A. Steiner, Widaad Zaman, Adela Apetroaia, and Judith A. Crowell. (Page 60)V. MATERNAL SENSITIVITY AND CO-CONSTRUCTION SKILLS: CONCURRENT AND LONGITUDINAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH PRESCHOOLERS; SECURE BASE BEHAVIOR Ting Lu, German E. Posada, Jill M. Trumbell, and Laura Anaya (Page 74) VI. INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF SECURE BASE SCRIPT KNOWLEDGE: THE ROLE OF MATERNAL CO-CONSTRUCTION SKILLS Adela Apetroaia and Harriet S. Waters (Page 91) VII. MATERNAL SECURE BASE SCRIPT KNOWLEDGE AND JUDGEMENTS OF MOTHER-CHILD INTERACTIONSHarriet S. Waters, David M. Corcoran, and Theodore E. A. Waters (Page 106) VIII. CONCLUSION: CO-CONSTRUCTING A SECURE BASE PARTNERSHIP: MOTHER-CHILD INTERACTIONS, COMMUNICATION, AND SCRIPT REPRESENTATIONS German E. Posada and Harriet S. Waters (Page 121) APPENDICES (Page 135)ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (Page 153)COMMENTARIESTHE MOTHER-CHILD ATTACHMENT PARTNERSHIP IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: SECURE BASE BEHAVIORAL AND REPRESENTATIONAL PROCESSESBrian E. Vaughn (Page 154) ATTACHMENT AND MEMORY RESEARCH: REFLECTING ON A SHARED PAST AND A COLLABORATIVE FUTUREElaine Reese (Page 162) CONTRIBUTORS (Page 173) SUBJECT INDEX (Page 176)

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Book SynopsisExplore the major theories within crisis communication, fully revised and updated Theorizing Crisis Communication provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art review of both current and emerging theoretical frameworks designed to explain the development, management, and consequences of natural and human-caused crises. A critique of the many theoretical approaches of crisis communication, this volume provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the management, response, resolution, and significance of failures in corporate responsibility, as well as destructive global events such as pandemics, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, chemical spills, and terrorist attacks. This second edition contains new theories from related subfields and updated examples, references, and case examples. New chapters discuss metatheoretical considerations and theoretical advancements in the study of social media. Throughout the text, the authors highlight similarities, patterns, and relationships aTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword xi 1 Introduction to Crisis Communication 1 Defining Crisis 4 Defining Communication 12 Plan for This Book 19 Conclusion 20 2 Theorizing about Crisis and Crisis Communication 21 Critiquing Theory 31 Conclusion 32 3 Theories of Communication and Warning 33 Detection of Risks 34 Warnings 36 Hear-Confirm-Understand-Decide-Respond Model 44 Applications of the Hear-Confirm-Understand-Decide-Response Model 46 Strengths and Weaknesses of the Hear-Confirm-Understand-Decide-Response Model 47 Protective Action Decision Model 48 Applications of the PADM 52 Strengths and Weaknesses of the PADM 54 Integrated Model of Food Recall 55 Applications of the Integrated Model of Food Recall 58 Strengths and Weaknesses of the Integrated Model of Food Recall 58 Emerging Warning Systems 59 Conclusion 61 4 Theories of Communication and Crisis Development 63 Assumptions of Stage Models 66 Three-Stage Model 69 Applications of the Three-Stage Model 71 Strengths and Weaknesses of the Three-Stage Model 72 Fink’s Four-Stage Cycle 72 Applications of Fink’s Four-Stage Cycle 74 Strengths and Weaknesses of Fink’s Four-Stage Cycle 75 Turner’s Six-Stage Sequence of Failure in Foresight 76 Applications of Turner’s Six-Stage Sequence of Failure in Foresight 78 Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication 79 Applications of CERC 80 Strengths and Weaknesses of CERC 84 Conclusion 85 5 Theories of Communication and Crisis Outcomes 87 Organizational Learning 88 Sensemaking 94 Organizational Legitimacy 98 Balance Theory 102 Stealing Thunder 105 Situational Crisis Communication Theory 108 Discourse of Renewal 113 Conclusion 117 6 Theories of Communication and Emergency Coping and Response 119 Assumptions of Communication and Emergency Response 121 Chaos Theory and Emergent Self-Organization 122 Theories of Communication and Crisis Coordination 128 Communication and Community Resilience 137 Four-Channel Model of Communication 148 Integrated Crisis Mapping Model 153 Conclusion 155 7 Theories of Crisis Communication and Legacy Media 157 The Legacy Mass Media 159 News Framing Theory 160 Focusing Events and Agenda Setting 163 Exemplification Theory 168 Uses and Gratifications Theory 171 Cultivation Theory 175 Media System Dependency Theory 178 Crisis News Diffusion 182 Diffusion of Innovations 185 Conclusion 189 8 Theories about Social Media and Crisis Communication 192 Social Information Processing Theory 196 Warranting Theory 198 The MAIN Model 201 Dialogic Theory of Public Relations 204 Social-Mediated Crisis Communication Model 208 Emerging Theories of Social Media in Crisis Communication 211 Conclusion 212 9 Theories of Influence and Crisis Communication 213 Apologia 215 Image Repair 218 Kategoria 223 Dramatism 227 Narrative Theory 231 Message Convergence Framework 234 Conclusion 237 10 Theories of Communication and Risk Management 239 Social Amplification of Risk Framework 242 Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model 245 Mindfulness 248 High Reliability Organizations 252 The Precautionary Principle 258 Cultural Theory 262 The IDEA Model 266 Conclusion 270 11 Theories of Crisis Communication and Ethics 271 Ethics 272 Crisis Communication as an Ethical Domain 275 Responsible Communication 278 Significant Choice 280 The Ethic of Care 282 Virtue Ethics 284 Justice 286 Applications of Moral Theory to Crisis 287 Conclusion 292 12 Applying Theories of Crisis Communication 293 Choosing a Theory 294 The Rationale for Asking Question 295 Questions Focusing of Ontology 295 Questions Focusing on Axiology 297 Questions Focusing on Epistemology 298 Selecting a Data Set and Method 300 Selecting Literature for Review 302 Forming Conclusions and Implications of Research 303 The Practicality of Theory in Understanding Crisis Communication 304 Persistent Challenges 305 Invisible Success 305 Global Causation 306 Insufficient Instruction for Self-Protection 306 Persistent Opportunities 307 New Perspectives for Study 308 A Final Word 310 References 311 Index 348

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of original essays by leading medical sociologists from around the world, fully updated to reflect contemporary research and global health issues The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is an authoritative overview of the most recent research, major theoretical approaches, and central issues and debates within the field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this wide-ranging volume summarizes significant new developments and discusses a broad range of globally-relevant topics. The Companion's twenty-eight chapters contain timely, theoretically-informed coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and emerging diseases, bioethics, healthcare delivery systems, health disparities associated with migration, social class, gender, and race. It also explores mental health, the family, religion, and many other real-world health concerns. The most up-to-date and comprehensive single-volume reference on the key concepts Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii Preface xix Part I Introduction 1 1 Medical Sociology and Its Changing Subfields 3Terrence D. Hill, William C. Cockerham, Jane D. McLeod, and Frederic W. Hafferty 2 Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory 22William C. Cockerham and Graham Scambler 3 Research Methods in Medical Sociology 45Joseph D. Wolfe, Shawn Bauldry, and Cindy L. Cain 4 Health and Culture in the Global Context 62Stella Quah 5 Bioethics: A Study in Sociology 82Kristina Orfali and Raymond De Vries Part II Theoretical Approaches 103 6 The Sociology of the Body 105Sarah Nettleton 7 Biomedicalization Revisited 125Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Laura Mamo, and Janet K. Shim 8 Health Lifestyles: Bringing Structure Back 150William C. Cockerham 9 The Life Course Perspective 171Kim M. Shuey and Andrea E. Willson 10 Social Capital and Health 192Lijun Song and Yvonne Chen Part III Health and Social Inequality 215 11 Health and Social Class 217Jarron M. Saint Onge and Patrick M. Krueger 12 Health and Gender 237Ellen Annandale 13 Health, Ethnicity, and Race 258Hannah Bradby and James Y. Nazroo 14 African American Health 279Christy L. Erving and Lacee A. Satcher 15 Latinos and Equity in Health Care Access in the US 303Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel 16 Social Policies and Health Inequalities 322Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Jaunathan Bilodeau, and Kaitlin Conway Part IV Health and Social Relationships 347 17 Health and the Family 349Mieke Beth Thomeer and Kirsten Ostergren Clark 18 Health and Religion 370Ellen Idler 19 Migration and Health 389Elyas Bakhtiari 20 Mental Health 410Teresa L. Scheid Part V Health and Disease 431 21 Emerging Infectious Diseases 433Ron Barrett 22 Beyond the Lost Self: Old Insights and New Horizons in the Sociology of Chronic Illness 447Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski Part VI Health Care Delivery 471 23 Health Professions and Occupations 473Jason Adam Wasserman and Brian Philip Hinote 24 Doctor-Patient Relationship 495Hyeyoung Oh Nelson 25 Complementary and Alternative Medicine 516Eeva Sointu 26 American Health Care System: Reforms for Access, Outcomes, and Cost Amid Legal, Legislative, and Political Disputes 537Bernice A. Pescosolido and Carol A. Boyer 27 The British Healthcare System 556Jonathan Gabe 28 The Chinese Health Care System 572Lei Jin and Chenyu Ye Author Index 590 Subject Index 605

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Book SynopsisInfoselves delivers a multifaceted analysis of the commodification of self-identity online, from both a domination and a liberation perspective. Drawing on multiple resources, the book places its discussion of online identity within the larger context of self-identity evolution, arguing for the recognition of online identity as a legitimate component of the self-identity system. Advertising executive turned academic, Demetra Garba?evschi offers readers the means to understand the way our online identities are formed and used, to reflect on the future of self-identity, and to become more aware of the radical implications of our digital footprint. Readers will discover what it means to be an infoself in a deep digital context, from exploring the informational makeup of self-identity, to examining the various sources of identity information found online, to exposing the uses of this information through both latent and assertive self-commodification. Considering the many sTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Moment in Time and Our Self-Identity Dilemma 1 Chapter Overview 9 References 11 1 Identity and the Value of Self-Commodification 13 1.1 “It’s Complicated” 13 1.2 The Identity of Identity 14 1.3 The Logic of Self-Commodification 23 1.4 A Brief History of Online Identity 36 1.5 Identity Through-the-Line 47 References 47 2 The Datafied Identity and Latent Self-Commodification 53 2.1 The Internet of Us 53 2.2 The Digital Context of Identity Building 55 2.3 The New Nature of Identity 71 2.4 The Identity Economy 79 2.5 Datafied, Commodified 85 References 86 3 The Rise of Assertive Self-Commodification 91 3.1 Two Sides to Every Story 91 3.2 The Self as a Branded Commodity 92 3.3 The Business of Running the Self 111 3.4 Self-Branding, Influencership, and Authenticity 123 3.5 The Transformative Power of Personal Branding 126 References 127 4 Researching Online Identity 134 4.1 Lessons From an Unexpected Social Experiment 134 4.2 Why Investigate? 138 4.3 From Zero to Theory: A Grounded Theory Approach 149 4.4 Quantifying Online Identity 158 4.5 As Long as We Know … 173 References 174 Conclusion: Managing Infoselves 179 References 185 Index 186

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Book SynopsisAn innovative textbook that presents a novel and compelling examination of family communication studies Family Communication as Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication presents a series of metaphors through which students explore the nuances and complexities of family interaction. With a unique approach to the foundational theories and real-world practices of family communication, this easily accessible textbook helps students develop a clear understanding of what family communication is and what it can be. Contributions by both prominent and newer scholars theorize about family communication, offer new perspectives, challenge long-held assumptions, and describe original research to provide students with an up-to-date representation of the leading thinking in the field. Each concise chapter focuses on a specific element of family life, engaging key metaphors to stimulate classroom discussion about family in contexts ranging from ritual and embodiment to estrTable of ContentsFORWARD INTRODUCTION:1. Family Communication as… Choice: Thinking about and Theorizing Family Communication Studies Using Metaphors –Jordan Allen, Utah Valley University; Katherine J. Denker, Ball State University; and Jimmie Manning, University of Nevada, Reno PART I: CREATING AND SUSTAINING FAMILY: FAMILY COMMUNICATION AS…2. Relationship – Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, University of South Carolina3. Ritual – Dawn O. Braithwaite and Robert D. Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln4. Biology – Anuraj Dhillon, California Polytechnic State University and Amanda Denes, University of Connecticut5. Maintenance – Scott A. Myers, West Virginia University6. Transition – Carolyn K. Shue and Glen H. Stamp, Ball State University PART II: MATERIALIZING FAMILY: FAMILY COMMUNICATION AS…7. Social Identity – Jordan Soliz and Morgan April, University of Nebraska-Lincoln8. Heteronormative – Yachao Li, College of New Jersey9. Raced – Shardé M. Davis, University of Connecticut and Megan E. Cardwell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln10. Embodied – Laura L. Ellingson, Santa Clara University11. Performance – Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University and Nivea Castaneda, Boise State University12. Narrative – Jody Koenig Kellas and Toni Morgan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln13. Dialogue – Elizabeth A. Suter, University of Denver and Leah M. Seurer, University of South Dakota14. Object – Devika Chawla, Ohio University PART III: CONTEXTUALIZING FAMILY: FAMILY COMMUNICATION AS… 15. Memory – Robin M. Boylorn, University of Alabama16. Boundary – Jeffrey T. Child, Kent State University17. Organization – Caryn E. Medved, State University of New York Baruch College18. Health – Christina G. Yoshimura, University of Montana19. Mediated – Rebecca Johnson, University of Kansas and Danielle M. Stern, Christopher Newport University20. Art – Sandra L. Faulkner, Laura Stafford, and Kimberly Kuiper, Bowling Green State University PART IV: COMPLICATING FAMILY: FAMILY COMMUNICATION AS… 21. Argument – Jennifer L. Bevan and Erin S. Craw, Chapman University22. Deviance – Kristina M. Scharp, University of Washington and Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, Michigan State University23. Taboo – Allison R. Thorson, University of San Francisco and Amanda J. Holman, Creighton University24. Failure – Andrea Lambert South and Jacqueline Emerine, Northern Kentucky University25. Loss – Jillian A. Tullis, University of San Diego26. Forgiveness – Vincent R. Waldron and Douglas L. Kelley, Arizona State University27. Support – Adrianne Kunkel, University of Kansas; Natalie Hoskins, Middle Tennessee State University; Marissa Wiley, University of Kansas; and Michael Robert Dennis, Emporia State University28. Resilience – Tamara D. Afifi, Chantel Haughton, and Allison Mazur, University of California Santa Barbara

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Book SynopsisDiscover the real-life impacts of social media use through a collection of fascinating academic perspectives Successes and Setbacks of Social Media: Impact on Academic Life rigorously explores the positive and negative impacts of social media as a communication tool. The book incorporates a diverse group of opinions and perspectives, all of which reflect on how social media might influence academic success, relationships, self-worth, and engagement with virtual networks. Accomplished academic and editor Dr. Cheyenne Seymour delivers an insightful examination of the different ways that social media can catapult people into success or failure. Four key areas are explored: academics, authenticity, relationships, and self-worth. Each area contains a synthesis of the latest research, supplemented with contributions that explore the negative and positive aspects of each area. The editor also includes perspectives that discuss emerging technologies, the impact tTable of ContentsList of Contributors ix Biography xiii Introduction: Pervasiveness of Social Media in Higher Education 1 Part I Academics 9 1 Grades: Smiling Face Emoji 11 Introduction 11 Social Media and Civic Engagement in the College Classroom: Reflections on a Social Media Campaign Promoting Diversity and Inclusion 17Drew T. Ashby-King Posting for Progress 22LaKisha Grant-Washington #ISucceed: Impact of Social Media on Academic Success in Higher Education Programs 27Carlton Smith 2 Grades: Worried Face Emoji 32 Introduction 32 You Don’t Belong Here 36Catherine G. Molleno Change the Perspective: Online Distraction to Recharging Online 40Chandra Herring-Morrow To be Liked: Social Media’s Impact on African Americans in Academia 44Tyjuana Wilson Part II Authenticity and Facades 49 3 #NoFilter 51 Introduction 51 Community and Labor: The Affordances and Constraints of Social Media 55Kathryn S. Jaekel, Luz Rodriguez, and Samantha Lanigan Authoring Authenticity Through Social Media 59Tara M. Hart Hashtags as Identity: Black Male Authenticity Online 64Michael R. Williams 4 There’s a Filter for That 73 Introduction 73 Rewriting One’s College Experience with Social Media 78Joi Sampson and Zaiah Sampson Social Networking: From Invasion of Privacy to True Self 83Lisa M. Wisniewski You Are Not Your Brand: Confronting the Spiritual Perils of Social Media 87Randy Laist Part III Relationships 93 5 We Are Connected 95 Introduction 95 Social Media: From Deleted to Private, Private to Public Profiles 99Jennifer van Alstyne It Takes A Village: Facebook Group Supports #PhDMommy 104Katherine H. Burr Social Media Network: Contribution to Success 109Erik S. Dey 6 It’s Complicated 113 Introduction 113 Fake News and Family: Here’s How to Get Results 117Phillip J. Fox Avoiding Social Media in Grad School: Not Here for the Comments 121Linda Nozart-Frierson Far Away and Far From: Fickle Relationship with Long-Distance Support Structures 125Gillian P. Foss Part IV Self-Esteem 129 7 I Would Follow Me 131 Introduction 131 Facebook Friends and Law School 134Jacquie B. Smith The Courage of Vulnerability as a Pedagogical Tool for Emancipatory Education in Feminist Social Work 137Kharoll-Ann Souffrant A Novel Perspective on Social Media 141Kimberly D. Hellerich 8 Unfollowing Myself 148 Introduction 148 The Balancing Act: The Accumulating Pressures of Social Media and Success 152Thomas Witherspoon Bodies, Images: The Impact of Social Media on Body Image 156Alysa Auriemma Drawing Comparisons: Social Media, Impostor Syndrome, and Socialization 160Kristina M. Perrelli Part V Looking Ahead 165 Social Media Influencing Higher Education 167 Index 172

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Book SynopsisDiscover the fundamentals of human communication with this comprehensive and insightful resource Written in four sections, The Work and Workings of Human Communication identifies the underlying fundamentals that make our communication distinctively human. These fundamentals are the common ground that tie together the many topics and subject matters covered by the study and discipline of communication. They are also the basis of the unique contribution of the communication discipline to the social sciences. Professor, researcher and theorist Robert E. Sanders starts by focusing on what is unique about human communication and moves on to an examination of the complexities of scientific inquiry in the social sciences in general and in the communication discipline specifically. At the heart of the matter is the fact that humans are thinking beings who can make choices and therefore are not entirely predictable. This points towards new topics and questions that are likely to arise as the discipline evolves. Sanders' approach leads to recognition of the fact that communication is at the center of how humans build our ways of life and participate together. By focusing on the underlying fundamentals that give rise to the discipline's topics and subject areas, The Work and Workings of Human Communication encourages students to engage in independent thought about what they want to contribute by: Emphasizing the importance of communication in creating, sustaining or changingand participating inour ways of life on an interpersonal level and on a societal levelRecognizing that human communication is inherently collaborative; people affect situations by interacting with others, not acting on othersExplaining the history, current agendas and possible future of the social science side of the Communication discipline A perfect resource for new graduate students in introductory communication courses who have an interest in the social science side of the discipline, The Work and Workings of Human Communication is also highly valuable for undergraduate communication and liberal arts students who don't possess a background in the discipline.Table of ContentsPreface xiv Communication Matters xiv This Book’s Approach xv This Book’s Topics and Focus xvii Benefits to Students xviii The Main Fundamentals of Human Communication xix Communication among Us Humans vs Communication among Other Creatures xxii Our Subject Matter xxiii Our Discipline on the Social Science Side xxvi Overview of Contents xxix Section One: Preliminaries 1 1. Communication Among Animate Creatures, Especially Us Humans 7 1.1 Incentivizing Communication 8 1.2 Benefits (and Harms) that Communication Brings about 12 1.3 Incentivizing Re/actors’ Attention to Communication 14 1.4 The Inherent Uncertainty before the Fact of What Communication Will Bring about 16 1.5 How We Humans Make Our Communication Work, or Work Better 20 1.5.1 The Communicator’s Role in Making Communication Work 20 1.5.2 The Re/actor’s Role in Making Communication Work 22 1.6 Human Communication as a Subject Matter within the Social Sciences 23 1.6.1 The Distinct Communication Part that Our Discipline Studies 25 1.6.2 The Boundary between Communicating and Other Conduct 26 1.7 A Sampling of Research on the “Communication Part” 27 1.7.1 Research on Communicative Items Produced in Re/action to Exigent Conditions 29 1.7.2 Research on Communicative Items and the Actual Results They Bring about 30 1.7.3 Research on the Doing of Communication 33 1.7.4 A Focus on the Communication Part across Open-Endedly-Many Topics 35 2. The Overall Effectiveness of Human Communication 36 2.1 Finding Evidence of the Effectiveness of Human Communication 36 2.1.1 Impressions of Ineffectiveness 37 2.1.2 Impressions of Effectiveness 37 2.1.3 The Impossibility of Getting Direct Evidence of Communicator Effectiveness 38 2.1.4 The Soundness of Indirect Evidence of Effectiveness 40 2.2 A Sample of Indirect Evidence of the Overall Effectiveness of Human Communication 42 2.2.1 The Communicative Achievement of a Mundane Event 43 2.2.2 The Communicative Infrastructure Underlying a Mundane Event 45 2.2.3 The Communicative Infrastructure Underlying Everything Else 47 Reprise of Section One and Overture to Section Two 49 Section Two: Fundamentals of Human Communication 51 3. Human-Made Environments We Create and Participate in Communicatively 57 3.1 Dual Human-Made Environments 58 3.1.1 The Motion-Action Distinction 60 3.1.2 A Modified Body-Mind Dualism 61 3.2 The Material Environment and Its Objective Realities 63 3.3 The Interpreted Environment and Its Subjective Realities 65 3.3.1 The Reality of Subjective Realities 66 3.3.2 Communication of, and About, Subjective Realities 67 3.3.3 From Private Subjective Realities to Shared Intersubjective Realities 70 3.3.4 The Tie between Objective and Subjective Realities: Searle’s Version 73 3.3.5 The Tie between Objective and Subjective Realities: Garfinkel’s Version 74 3.3.6 Our Discipline’s Focus on Communication of and About Subjective Realities 75 3.3.7 The Focus of Other Social Sciences on Subjective Realities 77 3.3.8 Subjective Realities in Our Lives and Our Communication 78 4. Our Expressive Means and Communication Media 81 4.1 Our Expressive Means Are Unrestrictive 82 4.2 Our Communication Media Are Unrestrictive 84 4.3 Our Expressive Means Unavoidably Communicate Subjective Realities 85 4.3.1 The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: Language, Culture, and Cognition 88 4.3.2 General Semantics: Language, Reality and Unreality 88 4.4 Our Communication Media Unavoidably Communicate Subjective Realities 89 4.4.1 The Medium of Writing: Plato on Its Evils 92 4.4.2 The Medium of Writing: Walter Ong on Its Cultural and Intellectual Impact 93 4.4.3 Mass Media vs Internet: Habermas on Dialogue and Democracy 94 5. Making Communication Work in the Human-Made Environment 95 5.1 Effortless Ways the Probability Is Increased of Bringing about a Targeted Re/action 96 5.1.1 Structures 97 5.1.2 Roles 99 5.1.3 Norms 99 5.1.4 Conventionalized Practices and Formulas 100 5.1.5 Shared Knowledge and/or Experience (Education) Re: Tasks and Activities 101 5.2 Effortful Ways of Increasing the Probability of Bringing about a Targeted Re/action 102 5.2.1 Components of Audience Research and Analysis and Their Application 103 5.2.2 Methodological Contingencies in Audience Research 104 5.2.3 Audience Analysis in a Digital Age 105 5.2.4 A Case Study of Mishandling Audience Research and Analysis 105 Reprise of Section Two and Overture to Section Three 109 Section Three: The Communication Discipline and Its Place in the Social Sciences 111 6. The Communication Discipline’s Foundation and Evolution 115 6.1 The Discipline’s Roots as Self-Contained and Independent 116 6.2 The Modern Discipline’s Expanding Scope 118 6.3 The Tradition of Communicator-Centrism and the Linear Model 122 6.4 From Monologic to Dialogic: The Collaborative Model 123 6.4.1 Collaboration in the Doing of Communication 123 6.4.1.1 Overt vs De Facto Collaboration 126 6.4.1.2 The Collaborative Model in Ostensibly Monological Situations 127 6.4.1.3 Communicator-Centrism in Actually Dialogical Situations 130 6.4.2 Collaboration on the Actual Results of Communication 131 6.4.2.1 Collaboration on Re/actions among Masses of People 133 6.4.2.2 The Collaborative Basis of Human-Made Interpreted Environments 134 6.4.2.3 Collaboration On and Through Linkages Among Multiple Communicative Episodes 135 7. The Communication Discipline’s Subject Areas 137 7.1 The Present: Studying Communication as It Affects People’s Interests and Undertakings 137 7.1.1 The US Discipline’s Two Main Professional Associations: NCA and ICA 138 7.1.2 Fifty-Seven Subject Area Divisions Across the NCA and ICA (Ca. 2017) 139 7.1.3 Common Ground Across Our Subject Area Divisions 144 7.1.4 A Rationale for the Discipline’s Current Subject Area Divisions 144 7.2 The Future: Studying Communication as the Engine of the Human-Made Environment 145 7.2.1 The Relevance of What We Already Study to the Discipline’s Possible Future 149 7.2.2 A New Specialization in Research and Theory: Reverse Engineering 150 7.2.3 A New Subject Area: The Linking of Independent Communicative Episodes 151 8. Positioning the Communication Discipline Among the Social Sciences 153 8.1 The Minority Position: Communication is an Interdisciplinary Subject Matter 156 8.1.1 The Case against Studying Communication in Any One Discipline 156 8.1.2 Four Reasons Why an Interdisciplinary Approach Is Inadequate 159 8.1.2.1 Reason One: Communication-Specific Proficiencies and Skills are Variable 160 8.1.2.2 Reason Two: Discordant Extra-Communicative Influences Have to Be Reconciled 161 8.1.2.3 Reason Three: Extra-Communicative Influences Cannot Be Fully Determinate 161 8.1.2.4 Reason Four: Communication Produces What Other Social Sciences Study 162 8.2 The Majority Position: The Communication Discipline Is an Independent Social Science 163 8.2.1 Past Efforts to Formulate Our Discipline’s Identity and Mission 164 8.2.1.1 Formulations Sponsored by the Association of Communication Administrators 164 8.2.1.2 A Formulation Published by the National Communication Association 166 8.2.2 The Elusiveness of the Communication Part 168 8.3 Our Discipline’s Identity and Mission Presently vs in a Possible Future 171 8.3.1 Our Discipline’s Identity and Mission Presently 172 8.3.2 Our Discipline’s Identity and Mission in a Possible Future 173 Reprise of Section Three and Overture to Section Four 177 Section Four: Scientific Inquiry in the Social Sciences and in Communication 179 9. The Practice of Scientific Inquiry in General 187 9.1 The Human Face of Scientific Inquiry 189 9.1.1 Personal Expertise 190 9.1.2 The Discovery Process 191 9.1.3 Scientific Communities 192 9.1.4 Normal Science and Paradigm Shifts in Scientific Communities 193 9.1.5 The Practical Need for Scientific Communities 194 9.1.6 The Epistemological Necessity of Scientific Communities 197 9.2 The Presumption of Orderliness on Which All Scientific Inquiry Rests 198 9.3 Fact and Theory 203 10. Scientific Inquiry in the Social Sciences 209 10.1 Social Science vs Physical Science 210 10.2. The Problematics of Scientific Inquiry in the Social Sciences 215 10.3 Qualitative vs Quantitative Research and Analysis 222 10.3.1 The Detachment–Neutrality Problem in Social Science Inquiry 224 10.3.2 Methodological Issues that Divide the Qualitative and Quantitative Sides 225 10.3.2.1 Concerns about Quantitative Research and Analysis from the Qualitative Side 226 10.3.2.2 Concerns about Qualitative Research and Analysis from the Quantitative Side 227 10.3.3 The Scientific Community’s Role in Ensuring Sound Research and Theory 229 10.3.4 Orderliness Found via Qualitative Research and Analysis 231 10.3.4.1 Orderliness in an Action Sequence 231 10.3.4.2 Orderliness in the Cultural Valuation of Speaking 234 10.3.5 Orderliness Found via Quantitative Research and Analysis 235 10.3.5.1 Orderliness in the Geographical Variation of an Interpersonal Action 236 10.3.5.2 Orderliness in the Covariation of Communication Practices and Marital Stability 237 10.3.6 Orderliness Found via Quantitative Plus Qualitative Research and Analysis 239 10.4 The Critical Side vs the Scientific Side of the Social Sciences 240 11. Social Scientific Inquiry in the Communication Discipline 242 11.1 The Problematics of Social Scientific Inquiry in the Communication Discipline 243 11.2 Two Reasons Why the Discipline’s Proliferation of Subject Matters May Be “Natural” 246 11.2.1 The Discipline’s Subject Matter Spans Open-Endedly-Many Phenomena 246 11.2.2 The Discipline’s Culture Favors a Proliferation of Subject Matters 247 11.3 Groundwork Already Laid for the Coalescence of Our Research and Theory 248 11.3.1 Theories Related to Exigences that Incentivize the Doing of Communication 249 11.3.2 Theories about the Results that Communication Brings about 251 11.3.3 Theories Related to the Doing of Communication 254 11.4 The Coalescence of Our Research and Theory in a Possible Future 257 Reprise of Section Four and This Book 262 Bibliography 264 Index 270

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface viiiMonroe E. Price Introduction 1Rodrigo Cetina Presuel and Loreto Corredoira Part I Communication Rights: Principles 7 1. Freedom as the Essential Basis for Communication Rights 9Ignacio Bel Mallén 2. Dignity, a Revolutionary Principle in a Cosmopolitan Society 20Javier Gomá Lanzón 3. Communication Rights in an Internet-Based Society: Why Is the Principle of Universality So Important? 30Loreto Corredoira 4. Communication Rights in the United Nations System: From Declarations to "Soft Law" 47Leopoldo Abad Alcalá 5. Universality vs. Standardization: The Privatization of Communication Rights on Social Media 57Rodrigo Cetina Presuel 6. United States and International Communication Rights Frameworks and the Pursuit of Global Consensus 75Erik Ugland Part II Communication Rights: A Study of Subjects and Messages 87 7. Communication Rights and Their Messages: News, Opinions, Ideas, and Advertising 89Ignacio Bel Mallén 8. Subjects of Communication Rights: A Special Study of Minors 100Isabel Serrano Maíllo 9. News: Objectivity and Truth 111Justino Sinova 10. Journalists, Confidentiality, and Sources 121Lorenzo Cotino Hueso 11. Addressing the Risks of Harms Caused by Disinformation: European vs. US Approaches to Testing the Limits of Dignity and Freedom of Expression Online 135Divina Frau-Meigs 12. The Law and Ethics of Journalism in a Changing World: New Professional Realities and Challenges for Communication Professionals 147Fernando Gutiérrez Atala Part III Studies in Comparative Communication Law 157 13. Data Protection as a Limit to Communication Rights: A General Vision of Data Protection in Europe 159José Martínez Soria 14. Regulation of Internet Intermediaries and Communication Rights 172Joan Barata 15. Imperiling Community Memory: The European Right to be Forgotten's Tampering of Search Engine Results 185Kristie Byrum 16. The Crime of Historical Denialism as a Limit to the Freedom of Expression 195Germán M. Teruel Lozano 17. Hate Speech in the United States and Abroad: Finding Common Ground 205Chris Demaske 18. Political Communication and Electoral Campaigns in Europe: The Search for International Standards 217Rafael Rubio 19. One Servant Cannot Serve Two Masters: A Struggle for Divided Loyalties of Media Regulation in Hong Kong 228Grace Leung and Richard Wu 20. Latin American Thinking in Communication and Advances in Communication Rights 241Rolando Guevara-Martínez 21. Media Disorder and the Future of Journalism: International Developments and the Challenge of WikiLeaks 253Jane Johnston and Anne Wallace Part IV At the Intersection of Law and Ethics: Challenges in the Age of Algorithms, Disinformation, and Post-Truth 265 22. Public Communication and Sustainability in a Post-Truth Era 267María José Canel 23. Freedom of Expression in Social Networks and Doxing 279Pedro Anguita R 24. The Emerging Threat of Synthetic Media: A Consideration of Journalists' Responsibilities 292Muira Nicollet McCammon 25. Journalism Routines Depend on Clicks: Best Practices for Using Metrics in Journalism 303Mariza Zapata Vásquez 26. Epilogue 315Ignacio Bel Mallén and Marisa Aguirre Nieto Index 319

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xix 1. Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: Formation: From Crossroads to Trajectories and Urgencies on Shifting Terrain 1Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama Part I Critical Junctures and Reflections in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: Revisiting and Retracing 29 2. Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication 31Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz 3. Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited 41Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin 4. Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication 57Dreama G. Moon 5. Reflections on "Problematizing 'Nation' in Intercultural Communication Research" 73Kent A. Ono 6. "A Transdisciplinary Turn in Critical Intercultural Communication" 85Ako Inuzuka 7. "Other Bodies" in Interaction: Queer Relationalities and Intercultural Communication 95Gust A. Yep 8. Theorizing at the End of the World: Transforming Critical Intercultural Communication 109S. Lily Mendoza Part II Critical Theoretical Dimensions in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 127 9. Culture as Text and Culture as Theory: Asiacentricity and Its Raison D’être in Intercultural Communication Research 129Yoshitaka Miike 10. Fabricating Difference: Interculturality and the Politics of Language 151Crispin Thurlow 11. Livin' la Vida Marimacha: Post Borderlands and Queerness in Starz's Vida 167Bernadette Marie Calafell and Nivea Castaneda Acrey 12. The Hegemony of English and the Rise of Anti-globalism: Problems, Ideologies, and Solutions 177Yukio Tsuda 13. On Terra Nullius and Texts: Settler Colonialism, Native Disappearance, and the Introductory Cultural Studies Reader 197Aimee Carrillo Rowe 14. Studying AsiaPacifiQueer Communication: An Autoethnographic Critique of Japanese Queer Reimagining(s) of Hawai'i 211Shinsuke Eguchi 15. Re-imagining Intercultural Communication Amid Multiple Pandemics 227Kathryn Sorrells 16. Therapeutic Media Representations: Recreating and Contesting the Past in Poland 249Jolanta A. Drzewiecka 17. A Call for Transformative Cultural Collaboration: Jewish Identity, the Race-religion Constellation, and Fighting Back Against White Nationalism 263Miriam Shoshana Sobre 18. Decolonizing Theory and Research: Asiacentric Womanism as an Emancipatory Paradigm for Intercultural Communication Studies 277Jing Yin 19. Why Do Citizens with Guns Fear Immigrants with Flags? Flag-waving and Differential Adaptation Theory 299Antonio Tomas De La Garza and Kent A. Ono Part III Critical Inquiry Practices in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 315 20. Methodological Reexaminations: Decolonizing Autoethnography and New Pathways in Critical Intercultural Communication 317Ahmet Atay 21. Embracing the Rigor of Critical Intercultural Communication Methods of Inquiry: Reflections on Seeing, Knowing, and Doing 327Mark P. Orbe 22. A Sense of Healing: A Relational Meditation in Queer (and Trans) of Color Communism 337Lore/tta LeMaster and Michael Tristano, Jr. 23. Doing Critical Intercultural Communication Work as Political Commitment: Lessons Learned from Ethnographic Methods 351Gloria Nziba Pindi 24. Configuring a Post- and Decolonial Pedagogy: The Theory-method Conundrum 365Devika Chawla 25. Critical Embodiment: Reflections on the Imperative of Praxis in the Four Seasons of Ethnography 375Sarah Amira de la Garza 26. The Depths of the Coatlicue State: Mitos, Religious Poetics, and the Politics of Soul Murder in Queer of Color Critique 383Robert Gutierrez-Perez 27. Culture Counts: Quantitative Approaches to Critical Intercultural Communication 395Srividya Ramasubramanian, Julius Matthew Riles, and Omotayo O. Banjo 28. Culture-centered Method for Decolonization: Community Organizing to Dismantle Capitalist-colonial Organizing 407Mohan Dutta Part IV Critical Topics in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 419 29. Homophobic Ghana? A Critical Intercultural Communication Intervention 421Godfried Asante 30. Discussions of Race and Racism in Asian North American Pacific Islander's YouTube Videos: A Content Analysis 429Kristin L. Drogos and Vincent N. Pham 31. Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy at a Crossroads: Espousing Commitments as Pedagogical Praxis 441Yea-Wen Chen and Brandi Lawless 32. What's Cooking? Caste as the (Not So) Secret Ingredient of Indian American Identity 451Santhosh Chandrashekar 33. The Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting: Engaging in Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy 459Richie Neil Hao 34. Bridgerton: A Case Study in Critical Cultural Approaches to Racial Representations in Popular Culture 465Tina M. Harris and Meghan S. Sanders 35. Unsettling Intercultural Communication: Settler Militarism and Indigenous Resistance from Oceania 473Tiara R. Na'puti and Riley I. Taitingfong 36. Recovering the Dots of Social Injustice and Ecological Violence: A Case for Critical Intercultural Communication 483Etsuko Kinefuchi 37. Navigating Undocumented Activism: Narratives, Positionality, and Immigration Politics 493Josue David Cisneros and Ana Lisa Eberline 38. A Critical Intercultural View of War on Terror Militarism: The Case of the Production of Knowledge About Afghan Women in North America and Western Europe 503Isra Ali 39. Reading a Letter for Black Lives Matter: A Cultural Studies Approach to Asian American Intercultural Communication 509LeiLani Nishime and Elizabeth S. Parks 40. Interstitials: Post-pandemic Reflections on the Matrix of Access, Inclusion and Privilege 517Priya Raman and Deanna L. Fassett 41. Sensing Race in the Time of COVID-19 527Sachi Sekimoto 42. Intersectional Delights: White South African Diaspora in the US 535Melissa Steyn and Cuthbeth Tagwirei Part V Critical Intercultural Communication Futures 551 43. Returning to (Neo)Normal: A Case Study in Critical Intercultural Health Communication 553Kristen L. Cole, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, and Sarah De Los Santos Upton 44. The Intercultural Questions at the Center of a Critical Reclamation of the University 569Kathleen F. McConnell 45. The Challenge of the 'More-than-human World': Toward an Ecological Turn in Intercultural Communication 577S. Lily Mendoza and Etsuko Kinefuchi 46. Conclusion: Dynamic Challenges of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 595Thomas K. Nakayama and Rona Tamiko Halualani Index 599

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Book SynopsisProvides an integrated and holistic review of effective crime prevention programs, practices and policies, their theoretical grounding, the scientific evidence of their effectiveness, and the practical issues involved in their implementation at the community, state and national levels. The Prevention of Crime offers a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand overview of crime prevention strategies, such as programs and practices guided by life-course developmental theories of crime, situational crime prevention, law enforcement practices and policies, and correctional interventions. Containing the most up-to-date and accurate information about what works in crime prevention, this unique textbook introduces students to the public health and prevention science approaches to addressing the causes of crime, with a focus on prevention-oriented, community-based interventions. Throughout the text, the authors emphasize the importance of using high-quality scientific meTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements About the companion website Section I – Introduction to Crime Prevention Chapter 1: The Goals and Logic of Crime Prevention Chapter 2: A Brief History of Crime Prevention Section II: The Foundations of Prevention Science Chapter 3: How Theory and Research Inform the Science and Practice of Prevention. Chapter 4: Evaluation Science Section III: What Works to Prevent Crime? Chapter 5: Establishing a Standard for Judging Intervention Effectiveness Chapter 6: Situational and Legal Crime Prevention Programs, Practices and Policies Chapter 7: Contextual Interventions Chapter 8: Individual-Level Crime Prevention: Preventing the Onset of Crime Chapter 9: Individual-Level: Reducing the Continuity of Offending Section 4: Crime Prevention in Practice Chapter 10: Selecting and Implementing Effective Crime Prevention Programs, Practices and Policies in Local Communities Chapter 11: Dissemination and Implementation Science: Taking Effective Crime Prevention Programs, Practices and Policies to Scale Chapter 12: The Future of Crime Prevention Index

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Book SynopsisBeginner-friendly advice on how to start and run a local FM station There are approximately 2000 low power FM radio stations in the United States. That number will grow as more licenses are issued in the coming years. Low Power FM For Dummies walks you through the key steps you need to take to establish, manage, and help run one of these hyper-local broadcast operations. You'll get easy-to-follow help on everything from making all your gear work to financing your operation, managing your staff, and complying with rules and regulations. Not sure where to begin? No worries! This book explains the process of getting a broadcast license and collecting all the necessary tools. It also provides insight on starting with a station that streams online only. Already got started? That's great too! You'll learn to refine your approach to low-power FM station management with the useful tips found within. Low Power FM For Dummies will also help you: Serve your community at a hyper-local level with pTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: Lighting the Fuse: Getting High Impact from Low Power 5 Chapter 1: Getting High Impact from Low Power 7 Chapter 2: Finding or Founding Your Nonprofit 19 Chapter 3: Getting Permission to Broadcast 39 Part 2: Countdown to Blastoff: Launching Your Broadcast 59 Chapter 4: Firing Up Your Frequency 61 Chapter 5: Weaving Your Webcast 75 Part 3: Staying in Orbit: Building a Station That Endures 89 Chapter 6: Where the Magic Happens: Building a Studio with a Spark! 91 Chapter 7: Cranking It Up: Developing Your Music Collection 111 Chapter 8: Going for the Gold: Developing Station Income 127 Chapter 9: Holding the Line: Managing Station Expenses 141 Part 4: Star Systems: (Low) Power to the People! 157 Chapter 10: Keeping It Legit: Broadcasting Rules and Responsibilities 159 Chapter 11: It’s Showtime! Developing Programming and Taking It Live 175 Chapter 12: Forming the Band: Building Your Crew 197 Part 5: Riding the Waves: Ups and Downs in Community Broadcasting 209 Chapter 13: Understanding Murphy’s Law of Radio 211 Chapter 14: Cultivating Community Connections 225 Chapter 15: Connecting with Listeners Locally and Worldwide 241 Part 6: The Part of Tens 255 Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Fill Dead Air (and Come Alive!) 257 Chapter 17: Ten Epic Radio Broadcasts 265 Chapter 18: Ten Inspiring Insights from Low Power FM Station Founders 275 Appendix A: Directory of Low Power FM Radio Stations 285 Appendix B: Glossary 293 Index 299

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Book SynopsisSocial Movements: An Anthropological Reader expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclusively anthropological in nature and global in its focus-thereby serving as an invaluable tool for instructors and students alike. Based on fieldwork carried out on four continents - North America, South America, Africa, and Asia - and in 14 countries Includes articles that address problems ranging from global health and the spread of diseases; loss of control over basic resources such as water and fuel; militarization; to the repression of indigenous peoples and of women Offers solutions formulated by local peoples Trade Review"Expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclusively anthropological in nature and global in its focus - thereby serving as an invaluable tool for instructors and students alike." Anthropologie "I would highly recommend the book for development scholars." Development and Change “Between global processes and local contexts, a great variety of social movements are at work. This careful and theoretically illuminating selection of case studies shows June Nash’s masterful grasp of a quickly growing field in anthropology.” Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University “An exciting volume! The contributors write from first-hand ethnographic knowledge of struggles in the anti-globalization movement, including the indigenous, peasants, women, industrial and urban workers, and even Islamic movements as they work to achieve a more equitable, democratic society.” Helen Safa, University of Florida “With characteristic excellence and originality, June Nash traces a particular history in the making: how localized struggles worldwide are emerging globally in response to the devastations of economic corporate globalization.” Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its DiscontentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Social Movements and Global Processes: June Nash (City University New York). Part I: Fragmentation and the Recomposition of Civil Society. 2. When Networks Don’t Work: Marc Edelman (City University New York). 3. The State and the Right Wing: The Village Scout Movement in Thailand: Katherine A. Bowie (University of Wisconsin-Madison). 4. Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity: Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon). 5. Activism and Class Identity: The Saturn Auto Factory Case: Sharryn Kasmir (Hofstra University). Part II: Secularization and Fundamentalist Reactions. 6. Print Islam: Media and Religious Revolution in Afghanistan: David B. Edwards (Williams College). 7. Local Islam Gone Global: The Roots of Religious Militancy in Egypt and its Transnational Transformation: James Toth (Northeastern University). 8. Nationalism and Militarism in West Papua: Institutional Power, Interpretive Practice, and the Pursuit of Christian Truth: Danilyn Rutherford (University of Chicago). 9. The Sarvodaya Movement’s Vision of Peace and a Dharmic Civil Society: George Bond (Northwestern University). Part III: Deterritorialization and the Politics of Place. 10. Ethnic Resurgence: Autonomy Movements against Deterritorialization: June Nash (City University New York). 11. Resiliance of Nationalism in a Global Era: Megaprojects in Mexico’s South: Molly Doane (Marquette University). 12. The Politics of Place: Legislation, Civil Society and the ‘Restoration" of the Florida Everglades: Max Kirsch (Florida Atlantic University). 13. "Land, Water, and Truth": San Identity and Global Indigenism: Renée Sylvain (University of Guelph). Part IV: Privatization, Individualization, and Global Cosmopolitanism. 14. The Fair Trade Movement: Changing the Rules of Trade with Global Partnership: Kimberly M. Grimes (University of Delaware). 15. "The Water is Ours, Carajo!": Deep Citizenship in Bolivia’s Water War: Robert Albro (Wheaton College). 16. From the Cosmopolitan to the Personal: Women’s Mobilization with Respect to HIV/AIDS: Ida Susser (City University of New York). 17. Political Organization among Indigenous Women of the Amazonia: Ligia Simonian (Federal University of Pará). 18. At Home in the World: Women’s Activism in Hyderabad, India: Deepa Reddy (University of Houston-Clear Lake). Index

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Book SynopsisThis distinctive anthology contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban studies. The expert and well-known scholars who have written these essays cover central topics that have evolved over the past 25 years.Trade Review“In Cities and Society the nation’s leading urban scholars tell us why cities are in the condition they are in, and what our options are for making them better places in which all groups can live, work, and play.” Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University “The essays in Cities and Society provide the reader with a solid foundation in both neo-Marxist and post-modernist schools of thought. Woven together with short and smartly-written introductions, it is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the way that contemporary academic writers make sense of the urban world.” Daniel J. Monti, Jr., Boston UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Contemporary Issues in Urban Sociology. Part I: Recent Theoretical Perspectives on Cities and Society. 1 The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place. Harvey Molotch. 2 Urban Restructuring: A Critical View. John Logan and Todd Swanstrom. 3 Space and Status. Daphne Spain. 4 Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate. Michael Dear. 5 Modernity, Post-modernity, and Urban Culture. Mike Savage and Alan Warde. Part II: Globalization and Its Impact on Cities. 6 Overview of Global Cities. Saskia Sassen. 7 Rural-Urban Interface and Migration. Alan Gilbert and Josef Gugler. 8 Community, Ethnicity, and Urban Sociology. Jan Lin. 9 The New Urban Reality. Roger Waldinger. 10 The Return of the Sweatshop. Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum. Part III: The Changing Urban Economy. 11 Understanding Homelessness: From Global to Local. Jennifer Wolch and Michael Dear. 12 Markets, Decision-Makers, and the Real Estate Cycle. Susan S. Fainstein. 13 Gentrification, Cuisine, and the Critical Infrastructure: Power and Centrality Downtown. Sharon Zukin. 14 Gazing on History. John Urry. 15 Neo-Bohemia: Art and Neighborhood Redevelopment in Chicago. Richard Lloyd. Part IV: Urban Policy Choices. 16 Chaos or Community? Directions for Public Policy. Paul Jargowsky. 17 The Missing Link. Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton. 18 Fortress L. A. Mike Davis. 19 Economic Inequality and Public Policy: The Power of Place. Todd Swanstrom, Peter Dreier and John Mollenkopf. 20 The Challenge of Urban Sprawl. Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio, and Gar Alperovitz

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Book SynopsisAn anthology that contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban studies. It brings together 20 of the most important classic and contemporary readings on cities and society. It provides coverage of various trends, theoretical perspectives, and policy issues.Trade Review“In Cities and Society the nation’s leading urban scholars tell us why cities are in the condition they are in, and what our options are for making them better places in which all groups can live, work, and play.” Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University “The essays in Cities and Society provide the reader with a solid foundation in both neo-Marxist and post-modernist schools of thought. Woven together with short and smartly-written introductions, it is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the way that contemporary academic writers make sense of the urban world.” Daniel J. Monti, Jr., Boston UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Contemporary Issues in Urban Sociology. Part I: Recent Theoretical Perspectives on Cities and Society. 1 The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place. Harvey Molotch. 2 Urban Restructuring: A Critical View. John Logan and Todd Swanstrom. 3 Space and Status. Daphne Spain. 4 Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate. Michael Dear. 5 Modernity, Post-modernity, and Urban Culture. Mike Savage and Alan Warde. Part II: Globalization and Its Impact on Cities. 6 Overview of Global Cities. Saskia Sassen. 7 Rural-Urban Interface and Migration. Alan Gilbert and Josef Gugler. 8 Community, Ethnicity, and Urban Sociology. Jan Lin. 9 The New Urban Reality. Roger Waldinger. 10 The Return of the Sweatshop. Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum. Part III: The Changing Urban Economy. 11 Understanding Homelessness: From Global to Local. Jennifer Wolch and Michael Dear. 12 Markets, Decision-Makers, and the Real Estate Cycle. Susan S. Fainstein. 13 Gentrification, Cuisine, and the Critical Infrastructure: Power and Centrality Downtown. Sharon Zukin. 14 Gazing on History. John Urry. 15 Neo-Bohemia: Art and Neighborhood Redevelopment in Chicago. Richard Lloyd. Part IV: Urban Policy Choices. 16 Chaos or Community? Directions for Public Policy. Paul Jargowsky. 17 The Missing Link. Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton. 18 Fortress L. A. Mike Davis. 19 Economic Inequality and Public Policy: The Power of Place. Todd Swanstrom, Peter Dreier and John Mollenkopf. 20 The Challenge of Urban Sprawl. Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio, and Gar Alperovitz

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Book SynopsisBrings together classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice. This book offers broad coverage of contemporary discussions, including theoretical pieces by John Rawls, Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin. It contains papers that apply theories of justice to issues, such as gender and the family, and world poverty.Trade Review"This is an essential collection for students interested in the meaning and politics of social justice." Debra Satz, Stanford University "This volume is a wonderful introduction to the main contemporary debates about distributive justice. . . the editors provide a sure guide for students through this fascinating landscape of ideas." Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona "This collection is clear in conception, carefully edited, and sharply introduced. Could a course on social justice reasonably ask for anything more?" Mark Philp, University of OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Historical Essays:. 1. Of Property: John Locke. 2. Of Justice: David Hume. Part II: Contemporary Theories:. 3. On Justice as Fairness: John Rawls. 4. An Entitlement Theory: Robert Nozick. 5. Equality of Resources: Ronald Dworkin (NYU). 6. Against Equality of Resources: Relocating Dworkin’s Cut: G. A. Cohen (All Souls, Oxford. 7. Against Luck Egalitarianism: What is the Point of Equality? Elizabeth S. Anderson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). 8. The Concept of Desert: David Miller. Part III: Issues:. 9. The Family: Gender and Justice: Susan Moller Okin. 10. The Market: On the Site of Distributive Justice: G. A. Cohen. 11. Justice across Cultures: Is Multiculturalism Bad for Animals? Paula Casal. 12. Justice across Borders: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend: Thomas W. Pogge (University of Colombia). 13. Justice across Generations: The Non-Identity Problem: Derek Parfit (All Souls, Oxford). Index

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Book SynopsisIn How to do a Research Project, Colin Robson has created an essential tool for students. Written specifically to address the needs and concerns of the undergraduate, this tightly focused volume guides students through the process of conducting and completing a research project and is relevant to all disciplines that require the use of social research methods. Friendly and accessible, this text includes a number of accompanying support materials to aid students further. Closely integrated sets of end-of-chapter tasks covering all aspects of research projects from design to completion, as well as lists of suggested further reading, enhance each chapter. Additionally, an extensive associated website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/researchproject gives students access to a wide range of helpful materials relevant to their particular needs, making this book an invaluable resource.Trade Review"Most introductory research methods texts are dreary, overly technical, weighty manuals that no one really wants to read. How to Do a Research Project is not one of these. It is a highly readable, engaging guide that provides the necessary technical detail minus the dryness." (International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Spring 2007)Table of ContentsAcknowledegments. Introduction. PART I: Making preparations:. Project planning checklist. 1 Preliminaries. Recognizing realities. As a student on a course. If you are by yourself. If you are doing this as part of your job. To everybody. Making it worthwhile. Considering your audience(s). Individual or group research?. Types of group research. Support groups. Working together successfully. Project milestones. The structure of the book. End-of-chapter tasks. Further reading. Chapter 1 tasks. 2 Approaches to research. A concern for truth. Different purposes of research. Description. Exploration. Explanation. Emancipation. Research design. The qualitative/quantitative divide. Fixed and flexible designs. Fixed designs. Flexible designs. Overview of some different research traditions. Action research. Case studies. Documentary analysis. Ethnographic research. Evaluation research. Experiments. Grounded theory studies. Surveys. A note on feminist research. Choosing an approach. Further reading. Chapter 2 tasks. 3 Developing your ideas. Selecting a topic. Replication research. From a topic to research questions. From research questions to a research design. Do I really need research questions?. Hypotheses. Developing the design. Finding and using sources. Planning the search for sources. Internet searching. Library searching. Asking the author. Dealing with the sources. Ethical considerations. Ethics committees. Ethics guidelines. Avoiding the unethical. Confirming your choices. Further reading. Chapter 3 tasks. 4 Selecting the method(s) of collecting data. Trustworthiness and credibility. Reliability. Validity. Research arguments. Data collection methods. Interviews. Fully structured interviews. Semi-structured interviews. Unstructured interviews. Group interviews. Telephone interviews. Using interviews in your project. Questionnaires and diaries. Questionnaires. Diaries. Using questionnaires or diaries in your project. Tests and scales. Using tests or scales in your project. Observation – structured and participant. Structured observation. Participant observation. Using observation in your project. Using documents and other secondary sources. Library research. Unobtrusive measures. Using documents in your project. Other methods. Using multiple methods. Which method?. Further reading. Chapter 4 tasks. PART II: Doing it:. 5 Practicalities of data collection. Sampling and sample sizes. Representative samples. Non-probability samples. Informed consent. Laboratory research. Gaining access for field research. Formal and informal contracts. Getting on and getting out. Insider research. Pilots. Collecting the data. What to do if you run into difficulties or out of time. Further reading. Chapter 5 tasks. PART III: Making something of it:. 6 Analysing and interpreting your findings. What this chapter tries to do. Preparing for analysis. Quantitative (numerical) data. Categorical variables. Ordered categorical variables. Summarizing and displaying categorical data. Continuous variables. Calculating summary statistics with continuous variables. Calculating variability. Displaying continuous variables. Statistical tests and statistical significance. Effect sizes. Clinical significance. What test do I use?. Qualitative data. Data reduction and organization. An example – the grounded theory approach to analysis. Using specialist computer packages for qualitative data analysis. Summary of qualitative data analysis. Interpretation - what is going on here?. Further reading. Chapter 6 tasks. 7 Writing the report. Planning and drafting. Research arguments. Claims. Reasons and evidence. Considering your audience(s) again. Avoiding plagiarism. Professional standards. Language matters. References. Abstracts and executive summaries. The first full draft. Revising and polishing. The final version. Other forms of presentation. A final word. Further reading. Chapter 7 tasks. References and author index. Subject index

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Book SynopsisContains essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. This title covers psychology, history, literature, feminism, sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queerness, hybridity, and diasporic consciousness. It features an introduction of the field.Trade Review“An extremely helpful collection for teaching that locates the field’s beginnings and, importantly, charts its intellectual power and influence.” Gary Y. Okihiro, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface viii Acknowledgments x Retracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies 1 Kent A. Ono Part I Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies Psychology 1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health 17 Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue 2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of Chinese America 35 Ben R. Tong 3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong’s Criticisms 73 Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue History 4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 83 L. Ling-chi Wang 5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography 91 Sucheng Chan 6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 108 Elaine H. Kim 7 A Response to Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan 117 Ronald Takaki Literature and Feminism 8 Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake (excerpt) 133 Frank Chin 9 The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? 157 King-Kok Cheung Part II Influential Essays in Asian American Studies 10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies 177 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature 196 Elaine H. Kim 12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s 215 Keith Osajima 13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago’s Filipino American Community since 1925 226 Barbara M. Posadas 14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn 235 Richard Fung 15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences 254 Lisa Lowe 16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the Asian American Writer in Late Capitalism 276 E. San Juan, Jr. 17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile 296 Oscar V. Campomanes 18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary 319 David Palumbo-Liu 19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation: Filipinos in the United States 332 Yen Le Espiritu 20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 350 David L. Eng Index 370

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Book SynopsisContains essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. This title covers psychology, history, literature, feminism, sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queerness, hybridity, and diasporic consciousness. It features an introduction of the field.Trade Review“An extremely helpful collection for teaching that locates the field’s beginnings and, importantly, charts its intellectual power and influence.” Gary Y. Okihiro, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface viii Acknowledgments x Retracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies 1 Kent A. Ono Part I Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies Psychology 1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health 17 Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue 2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of Chinese America 35 Ben R. Tong 3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong’s Criticisms 73 Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue History 4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 83 L. Ling-chi Wang 5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography 91 Sucheng Chan 6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 108 Elaine H. Kim 7 A Response to Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan 117 Ronald Takaki Literature and Feminism 8 Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake (excerpt) 133 Frank Chin 9 The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? 157 King-Kok Cheung Part II Influential Essays in Asian American Studies 10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies 177 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature 196 Elaine H. Kim 12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s 215 Keith Osajima 13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago’s Filipino American Community since 1925 226 Barbara M. Posadas 14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn 235 Richard Fung 15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences 254 Lisa Lowe 16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the Asian American Writer in Late Capitalism 276 E. San Juan, Jr. 17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile 296 Oscar V. Campomanes 18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary 319 David Palumbo-Liu 19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation: Filipinos in the United States 332 Yen Le Espiritu 20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 350 David L. Eng Index 370

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Book SynopsisBrings together thirty-eight original essays covering the wide inter-disciplinary field of political sociology. This title covers traditional questions and various topics including debates on gender, citizenship, and political identity. It includes editorial introduction, abstracts, further reading lists, and a consolidated bibliography.Trade Review"Putting together a reader or companion in the field of political sociology is notoriously difficult. Kate Nash and Alan Scott have done a splendid job in producing a collection that is comprehensive, coherent, and up-to-date. The quality of the contributions is outstanding." --Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia "An enormously comprehensive and pluralistic overview of contemporary debates in the field of political sociology. Though nobody will agree with all the contributors, everybody in the field will learn a lot from this stimulating volume." --Hans Joas, Freie Universität, Berlin "The parameters of politics are open and contested as never before. Nash and Scott's collection effectively captures the way contemporary social forces have disrupted older political assumptions. It fulfils the vital task of intellectual preparation for shaping new political agendas in a globalized and fragmented world." --Martin Albrow, University of Surrey Roehampton "The book's strong points would appear to be its catholic outlook in the best sense of the term, and its international, mainly British and European cast of established authors ..." (Canadian Journal of Sociology Online)Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction (Kate Nash and Alan Scott). Part I: Approaches to Power and The Political. 1. Marxist Approaches to Power (Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster). 2. Pluralism and Elitism (Richard Bellamy, University of Reading). 3. Rational Choice Approaches to Analyzing Power (Keith Dowding, London School of Economics). 4. Power, Government, Politics (Barry Hindess, Australian National University). 5. Society, Morality and Law: Jurgen Habermas (Max Pensky, SUNY Binghampton). 6. A Political Sociology for Complex Societies (Niklas Luhmann, Stefan Lange and Uwe Schimank, Fernuniversität, Hagen, Germany). 7. "Postmodern" Political Sociology (David Owen, University of Southampton). 8. Studying Power (John Scott, University of Essex). Part II: The State and Governance. Formation and Form. 9. Theories of State Formation (Gianfranco Poggi, European University Institute, Florence). 10. Political Legitimacy (David Beetham, University of Leeds). 11. Gender and the State (Robert W. Connell, University of Sydney). Political Processes. 12. Administration, Civil Service and Bureaucracy (Antonino Palumbo, University of Palermo). 13. Policy Networks (Peter John, University of London). 14. Parties and Interest Intermediation (Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University). 15. Social Movements and Political Process (David Meyer, University of California-Irvine). 16. The Media and Politics (John B. Thompson, University of Cambridge). Violence and the State. 17. The Political Sociology of War (Alan Scott, University of Innsbruck, Austria). 18. Revolution (Michael Drake, University of East Anglia). 19. Terror Against the State (Donatella della Porta, University of Florence). Part III: The Political and The Social. State and Civil Society. 20. Civil Society and the Public Sphere (Larry Ray, University of Kent). 21. Trust and Social Capital (Arnaldo Bagnasco, University of Turin, Italy). 22. The State and the Market (Colin Crouch, European University Institute, Florence). 23. Markets Against States: Neo-Liberalism (Fran Tonkiss, University of London). The Politics of Collective Identity and Action. 24. Beyond New Social Movements: Social Conflicts and Institutions (Pierre Hamel and Louis Maheu, University of Montreal). 25. The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity (Aletta Norval, University of Essex). 26. Imagined Communities Alan Finlayson (University of Wales, Swansea). 27. Political Rituals (Sigrid Baringhorst, University of Technology at Sydney). 28. The Politics of Popular Culture (John Street, University of East Anglia). 29. Body Politic (Roberta Sassatelli, University of East Anglia). Citizenship. 30. Citizenship and Gender (Ruth Lister, Loughborough University). 31. Post-National Citizenship: Reconfiguring the Familiar Terrain (Yasemin Soysal, University of Essex). 32. Government and Citizenship (Giovanna Procacci, University of Milan). Part IV: Political Transformations. Democratization. 33. Transformation, Transition, Consolidation: Democratization in Latin America (Joe Foweraker, University of Essex). 34. Feminism and Democracy (Judith Squires, University of Bristol). Postmodernization, Fragmentation, Globalization. 35. Postmodernization of Politics (Jan Pakulski, University of Tasmania). 36. Nationalism and Fragmentation Since 1989 (John Schwarzmantel, University of Leeds). 37. A New Phase of the State Story in Europe (Patrick Le Gales, CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Paris)). 38. The "Singapore Model": Democracy, Communication, and Globalization (Danilo Zolo, University of Florence). Index.

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Book Synopsis* An entertaining and informative guide to the range of aesthetic criteria that goes into judging mass culture's most celebrated texts and objects - from Batman to motor bikes, and pop stars to internet pornography.Table of ContentsList of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Alan McKee. 1. The Best Contemporary Mainstream Superhero Comics Writer – Brian Michael Bendis: Henry Jenkins. 2. The Best Batman Story – The Dark Knight Returns: Will Brooker. 3. The Best Serial Killer Novel – Red Dragon: Sue Turnbull. 4. The Best Australian Romance Novelist – Emma Darcy: Glen Thomas. 5. The Best Website For Men Who Have Sex With Men – cruisingforsex.com: Mark McLelland. 6. The Best Basketball Player – Michael Jordan: Thomas McLaughlin. 7. The Best Sneakers – The Nike Air Max Classic TW: Claire Gould. 8. The Best Action Console Game – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: John Banks. 9. The Best Motorbike – the Ducati 916 Superbike: Margaret Henderson. 10. The Best Propaganda – Humphrey Jennings, The Silent Village (1943): John Hartley. 11. The Best Villain in Xena: Warrior Princess – Alti: Sara Gwenllian Jones. 12. The Best Pop Princess – Kylie Minogue: Marc Brennan. 13. The Best Disco Record – Sharon Redd: “Never Give You Up”: Simon Frith. 14. Conclusion: Alan McKee. Index

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Book SynopsisIn this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership.Trade Review"One of the most refreshing, insightful and thought-provoking books on leadership. This intelligent treatment opens up many new lines of inquiry and offers many new theoretical and practical insights." John Storey, The Open University Business School “This is a book for leaders, and for those of us who watch our leaders with appreciation, distaste, empathy, and frustration. Professor March shakes the foundations of how we think about leadership…This book will not offer you six easy steps to becoming an effective leader, but it will provoke, amuse, challenge, and irritate you. It will force you to think about leadership in ways that will destroy your innocence.” Joanne Martin, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsForeword - Jean-Claude Thoenig. Preface - James G. March. Preface - Thierry Weil. 1. Introduction: an original approach to a hackneyed subject. The organization of the course. From oral to written presentation. Issues linked with leadership. 2. Othello: leadership and private life, innocence and cleverness, revenge and the social order. Prologue on the appreciation of leaders. Private life and public role. Can revenge serve the social order?. Cleverness, innocence, and virtue. Why do people act as they do?. The characters in Othello. 3. Saint Joan: are heretics mad or are they geniuses?. Exploitation and exploration. Can leaders selected for their reliability be turned into creative leaders?. Diversity and unity. Saint Joan. 4. War and Peace: ambiguity, incoherence, and irrelevance. Ambiguity and incoherence: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Leaders confronted by ambiguity. A novel with a structure reflecting a view of history: irrelevance. The social order in War and Peace. What is power?. The powerlessness of power. Power and hierarchy. Power as seen by those who do not have it. Assuming the ambivalence of power. Identity and social order: the characters in War and Peace. Heroism and irrelevance. The social order based on merit. Why we are disappointed by our bosses. Why are bosses not particularly clever?. 5. Sex and leadership. The sexed nature of leadership in organizations. Sexuality and organizations. Private fantasies and social control of behavior. Sexual harassment. Sexual relationships. Ambiguous sexual behavior. The sexuality of leaders. Are efficient organizations feminine?. Efficient organizations with no heroic leader. 6. Don Quixote and the virtue of arbitrary commitment. A strange novel. Don Quixote and reality. Primary implications for leadership. Don Quixote's vision of life. Other lessons for leaders from Don Quixote. Great visions, great actions, and great expectations. Heroes to protect us from our own irrelevance. The stuff that dreams are made of. The pleasures of the process. 7. Plumbers and poets. What do leaders really do?. Appendix 1: INTELLIGENCE VERSUS REASON, an overview of James March's work. Miseries of Reason. The limitations of rationality or the critique of pure reason. The application of suitable procedures or the critique of practical reason. Thwarted learning or the critique of dialectic reason. The technology of foolishness or the critique of immediate reason. Splendors of Reason. The charms of orthodoxy. The rigorous and efficient use of reason. Systemic reason or the quest for intelligence. Redemption through enthusiasm. The collective need for individual gambles. How to make the challenge of exploration attractive. Beyond rationality: poetry, intuition, and enthusiasm. Institutions are not based on haggling alone. Insignificant actions. Optimism without hope. Mundane organizations and gardening. Appendix 1: Intelligence Versus Reason: An Overview of James March's Work. Appendix 2: Mundane Organizations and Heroic Leaders. Index

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Book SynopsisIn this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership.Trade Review"One of the most refreshing, insightful and thought-provoking books on leadership. This intelligent treatment opens up many new lines of inquiry and offers many new theoretical and practical insights." John Storey, The Open University Business School “This is a book for leaders, and for those of us who watch our leaders with appreciation, distaste, empathy, and frustration. Professor March shakes the foundations of how we think about leadership…This book will not offer you six easy steps to becoming an effective leader, but it will provoke, amuse, challenge, and irritate you. It will force you to think about leadership in ways that will destroy your innocence.” Joanne Martin, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsForeword - Jean-Claude Thoenig. Preface - James G. March. Preface - Thierry Weil. 1. Introduction: an original approach to a hackneyed subject. The organization of the course. From oral to written presentation. Issues linked with leadership. 2. Othello: leadership and private life, innocence and cleverness, revenge and the social order. Prologue on the appreciation of leaders. Private life and public role. Can revenge serve the social order?. Cleverness, innocence, and virtue. Why do people act as they do?. The characters in Othello. 3. Saint Joan: are heretics mad or are they geniuses?. Exploitation and exploration. Can leaders selected for their reliability be turned into creative leaders?. Diversity and unity. Saint Joan. 4. War and Peace: ambiguity, incoherence, and irrelevance. Ambiguity and incoherence: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Leaders confronted by ambiguity. A novel with a structure reflecting a view of history: irrelevance. The social order in War and Peace. What is power?. The powerlessness of power. Power and hierarchy. Power as seen by those who do not have it. Assuming the ambivalence of power. Identity and social order: the characters in War and Peace. Heroism and irrelevance. The social order based on merit. Why we are disappointed by our bosses. Why are bosses not particularly clever?. 5. Sex and leadership. The sexed nature of leadership in organizations. Sexuality and organizations. Private fantasies and social control of behavior. Sexual harassment. Sexual relationships. Ambiguous sexual behavior. The sexuality of leaders. Are efficient organizations feminine?. Efficient organizations with no heroic leader. 6. Don Quixote and the virtue of arbitrary commitment. A strange novel. Don Quixote and reality. Primary implications for leadership. Don Quixote's vision of life. Other lessons for leaders from Don Quixote. Great visions, great actions, and great expectations. Heroes to protect us from our own irrelevance. The stuff that dreams are made of. The pleasures of the process. 7. Plumbers and poets. What do leaders really do?. Appendix 1: INTELLIGENCE VERSUS REASON, an overview of James March's work. Miseries of Reason. The limitations of rationality or the critique of pure reason. The application of suitable procedures or the critique of practical reason. Thwarted learning or the critique of dialectic reason. The technology of foolishness or the critique of immediate reason. Splendors of Reason. The charms of orthodoxy. The rigorous and efficient use of reason. Systemic reason or the quest for intelligence. Redemption through enthusiasm. The collective need for individual gambles. How to make the challenge of exploration attractive. Beyond rationality: poetry, intuition, and enthusiasm. Institutions are not based on haggling alone. Insignificant actions. Optimism without hope. Mundane organizations and gardening. Appendix 1: Intelligence Versus Reason: An Overview of James March's Work. Appendix 2: Mundane Organizations and Heroic Leaders. Index

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Book SynopsisFollowing the GMC's call for greater social and behavioural science input into undergraduate medical education, this brand new title in the Lecture Notes series provides an understanding of how education, social class, family, economics and occupational circumstances, as well as cultural and ethnic influences, shape patients and health professionals alike. A deeper appreciation and understanding of these issues can have a positive effect on clinical diagnosis and practice. Emphasising clinical relevance at all times, the book features photographs and line drawings to illustrate key points, and case studies that provide real-life illustrations of the points discussed. It also contains ''points of view'' boxes which encourage critical thinking and challenge the reader to come up with their own explanations for the phenomena described. Lecture Notes: The Social Basis of Medicine provides information and materials useful not only for undergraduate medical studTrade Review"This book is written in an easy to understand style and contains case studies to illustrate the points made In the text. This helps make it accessible and allows the reader to dip into Individual of sections and chapters of the book for quick reference." (AfPP, June 2009) "The Social Basis of Medicine is a user-friendly, engaging introduction to a topic that even the most hardened surgeon-to-be would appreciate." (Times Higher Education, February 2010)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1 The social basis of medicine. 2 Beliefs about health, ill health and the body. 3 Health and health care in the popular sector. 4 Health and health care in the professional sector. 5 Health and health care in the folk sector: complementary and alternative medicine. 6 The consultation. 7 Health inequalities. 8 Sex and gender, race and ethnicity in health and health care. 9 Mental health, illness and health care. 10 Disability and society. 11 Promoting health. 12 Chronic illness. 13 Death and dying. 14 International health. Glossary

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Book SynopsisBy considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.Trade ReviewMexico is well known for its vulnerability to a variety of disasters, ranging from droughts and floods to devastating epidemics. Using extensive archival resources in Mexico and Spain, environmental historian Endfield (Univ. of Nottingham) focuses on three regions with their diverse environments--the Rio Conchos Basin in the state of Chihuahua, Guanajuato and the Chichimec territory, and the Valley of Oaxaca--to compare and contrast the impact of climate crises on the economic and social-political systems of the agrarian Indian and Spanish societies of colonial Mexico from 1521 to 1820. The author discusses climate disasters of the late pre-Hispanic period, as well as the prehistory of the three study regions. Repeated climate events resulted in societal disruption, demographic changes, and conflict. Endfield shows how the societies in these three regions coped with and adapted to the risks and hazards of extreme weather over the centuries. This impressive archival study on Mexico provides a historical perspective on environmental change and the cultural response in such detail and depth that it will be used by many disciplines as global warming produces more frequent and devastating climate events in Mesoamerica and elsewhere. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- J. B. Richardson III, University of Pittsburgh (Choice, February 2009)Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 A Vulnerable Society. Introduction. Changing Vulnerabilities. Climate Change and the 'Double-Sided' Structure of Vulnerability 5 Exploring Climate and Society in Mexico. Climate History and Vulnerability in Mexico. Case Studies and Approach. 2 Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South and Central Mexico in the Pre-European and Contact Period. Environmental Marginality and Society in the Conchos Basin, Chihuahua. Guanajuato and the Chichimec Territory. Power and Political Growth in the Central Valley of Oaxaca. 3 Exploring the Anatomy of Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. The Tools of Conquest and Colonization. The Emergence of Regional Colonial Political Economies. Climatic Variability and Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico: A Preview. 4 Responding to Crisis: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Moral Economic and Institutional Responses to Climate and Crisis in Colonial Mexico. Speculation and Scarcity: Capitalizing on Climate Knowledge. Trade in Grains: Providing for the 'Engines' of the Colonial Political Economy. Tribute, Food Aid and the Supernatural: Appealing to a Common Sense of Loss. 'Compadrazgo', Community Engagement and Public Works. 'Most sensitive and saddening events': Flood Risk and Social Capital Response in Colonial Guanajuato. 'Great floods' and 'Strong winds': Damaging Events, Adaptation and 'Non-Adaptation' in Colonial Oaxaca. Responding Strategically: Climate, Consciousness and Experimentation. 5 Dearth, Deluge and Disputes: Negotiating and Litigating Water and Climate in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Water and Local 'Everyday Conflicts' in the Country and City. Regional Resistance: Drought, Disease and Rebellion in Northern Mexico. Vulnerability, Riots and Rebellions: Rare Events or 'Tipping Points'? 6 Illusory Prosperity: Economic Growth and Subsistence Crisis in the Disastrous Eighteenth Century. Introduction. Decline and Depression in Seventeenth-Century Mexico. Economic Boom and Bust: Absolutism and Globalization in Late Colonial Mexico. 'A time of calamity': A Synthesis of Climate and Crises in Late Colonial Mexico. From Crisis to Insurrection: Vulnerability and Popular Unrest in the Early Nineteenth Century. 7 Regional, National and Global Dimensions of Vulnerability and Crisis in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Prolonged Drought and the Conditions of Crisis in Late Colonial Chihuahua. Drought, Risk and the Social Construction of Flooding in the Bajío. Resilience and the Rare Event: Climate, Society and Human Choice in the Indigenous South. Crises in Context and Historical 'Double Exposure'. Closing Comments. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisBy considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.Trade Review“This impressive archival study on Mexico provides a historical perspective on environmental change and the cultural response in such detail and depth that it will be used by many disciplines as global warming produces more frequent and devastating climate events in Mesoamerica and elsewhere. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” (CHOICE, February 2009) "Mexico is well known for its vulnerability to a variety of disasters, ranging from droughts and floods to devastating epidemics. Using extensive archival resources in Mexico and Spain, environmental historian Endfield (Univ. of Nottingham) focuses on three regions with their diverse environments--the Rio Conchos Basin in the state of Chihuahua, Guanajuato and the Chichimec territory, and the Valley of Oaxaca--to compare and contrast the impact of climate crises on the economic and social-political systems of the agrarian Indian and Spanish societies of colonial Mexico from 1521 to 1820. The author discusses climate disasters of the late pre-Hispanic period, as well as the prehistory of the three study regions. Repeated climate events resulted in societal disruption, demographic changes, and conflict. Endfield shows how the societies in these three regions coped with and adapted to the risks and hazards of extreme weather over the centuries. This impressive archival study on Mexico provides a historical perspective on environmental change and the cultural response in such detail and depth that it will be used by many disciplines as global warming produces more frequent and devastating climate events in Mesoamerica and elsewhere." (J. B. Richardson III, University of Pittsburgh, Choice, February 2009) Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 A Vulnerable Society. Introduction. Changing Vulnerabilities. Climate Change and the 'Double-Sided' Structure of Vulnerability 5 Exploring Climate and Society in Mexico. Climate History and Vulnerability in Mexico. Case Studies and Approach. 2 Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South and Central Mexico in the Pre-European and Contact Period. Environmental Marginality and Society in the Conchos Basin, Chihuahua. Guanajuato and the Chichimec Territory. Power and Political Growth in the Central Valley of Oaxaca. 3 Exploring the Anatomy of Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. The Tools of Conquest and Colonization. The Emergence of Regional Colonial Political Economies. Climatic Variability and Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico: A Preview. 4 Responding to Crisis: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Moral Economic and Institutional Responses to Climate and Crisis in Colonial Mexico. Speculation and Scarcity: Capitalizing on Climate Knowledge. Trade in Grains: Providing for the 'Engines' of the Colonial Political Economy. Tribute, Food Aid and the Supernatural: Appealing to a Common Sense of Loss. 'Compadrazgo', Community Engagement and Public Works. 'Most sensitive and saddening events': Flood Risk and Social Capital Response in Colonial Guanajuato. 'Great floods' and 'Strong winds': Damaging Events, Adaptation and 'Non-Adaptation' in Colonial Oaxaca. Responding Strategically: Climate, Consciousness and Experimentation. 5 Dearth, Deluge and Disputes: Negotiating and Litigating Water and Climate in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Water and Local 'Everyday Conflicts' in the Country and City. Regional Resistance: Drought, Disease and Rebellion in Northern Mexico. Vulnerability, Riots and Rebellions: Rare Events or 'Tipping Points'? 6 Illusory Prosperity: Economic Growth and Subsistence Crisis in the Disastrous Eighteenth Century. Introduction. Decline and Depression in Seventeenth-Century Mexico. Economic Boom and Bust: Absolutism and Globalization in Late Colonial Mexico. 'A time of calamity': A Synthesis of Climate and Crises in Late Colonial Mexico. From Crisis to Insurrection: Vulnerability and Popular Unrest in the Early Nineteenth Century. 7 Regional, National and Global Dimensions of Vulnerability and Crisis in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Prolonged Drought and the Conditions of Crisis in Late Colonial Chihuahua. Drought, Risk and the Social Construction of Flooding in the Bajío. Resilience and the Rare Event: Climate, Society and Human Choice in the Indigenous South. Crises in Context and Historical 'Double Exposure'. Closing Comments. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisTelevision is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of cable, the proliferation of content providers, the development of niche marketing, the introduction of high-definition television, the blurring of traditional genres, and the creation of new formats like reality-based programming Argues that television programmes of the 1990s afforded viewers a symbolic resource for negotiating the psychological challenges associated with the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age Explores the ways in which television provided viewers with tools for coming to terms with their fears about living in the fast-paced , increasingly diverse, information-laden society of the 90s Trade Review“In The Small Screen, Brian L. Ott explores how US television of the 1990s met the Information Age. With theoretical clarity and acute critical analysis of content and form in the television experience, Ott illustrates how some Americans embraced the future through hyperconscious television while others celebrated the past through nostalgia. A breakthrough study.” Thomas W. Benson, Pennsylvania State University “Brian L. Ott’s book is accessible to students and valuable for professional scholars. It integrates a wide range of contemporary scholarship at a high level of sophistication without ever falling into jargon or postmodern dogma. This volume will be cutting edge in the rhetorical study of television.” Barry Brummett, University of Texas-Austin "...ultimately what is pleasing about Ott's book is its willingness to take television seriously…" M/C Reviews “Ott…hints at the coming identity crisis as the connected age replaces the information age. Summing Up: Recommended.” Choice “Ott’s distinctions between hyperconscious and nostalgic programming serve as fine distinctions for considering the cultural significance of television.” PsycCritiquesTable of ContentsContents. Preface. 1. Television and Social Change. The Times They Are a-Changin’. Television as Public Discourse. 2. Life in the Information Age. The Information Explosion. Society through the Lens of Technocapitalism. Social Anxieties in the Information Age. 3. Hyperconscious Television. Embracing ‘the Future’: The Attitude of Yes. The Simpsons as Exemplar. Symbolic Equipments in Hyperconscious TV. 4. Nostalgia Television. Celebrating ‘the Past’: The Attitude of No. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Exemplar. Symbolic Equipments in Nostalgia TV. 5. Television and the Future. (Re)Viewing the Small Screen. Life and Television in the Twenty-First Century. The Next Great Paradigm Shift?. References. Index

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