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An Outline of a Theory of Play

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Termination of Pregnancy: Contrast in American and Indian Positions in the Global Scenario. [PDF]

Indian J Community Med
Sethi S, Arora P, Thimmaiah G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic electioneering from the evangelical pulpit: Evidence from a computational analysis. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Jacob MS, Lelkes Y, Wolken S, Westwood SJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surprising epileptic semiology in seventeenth-century beatification testimonies: A neuropsychiatric analysis of St. Joseph of Copertino. [PDF]

Epilepsy Behav Rep
Costa D, Chiozza S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Creating a Masterpiece. The Road to (and Beyond) Woodward and Hoffmann's 1969 Angewandte Chemie Treatise

The Chemical Record, EarlyView.
This publication describes how R. B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann crafted their masterpiece publications. Illustrations include Woodward's first draft of the famous “Violations There are none. Nor can violations be expected of so fundamental a principle of maximum bonding.” Original but discarded text shows the stepwise paths toward the W‐H masterpieces.
Jeffrey I. Seeman
wiley   +1 more source

Tuberculosis in Tibetan refugee settlements in India: a human rights perspective. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Yanga N, Hynie M, Quach H, Vorstermans J, Daftary A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Linguistic Variation across Instructional Segments in International Teaching Assistants' Discourse: A Corpus‐Based Analysis

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Legal Pluralism in the Shadow of the Centralistic State. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Schlesinger C.
europepmc   +1 more source