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From Fun to Nightmare. Measuring Students’ Senior Trip Experiences Through a Mixed-method Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
From Fun to Nightmare.
Cebola, Pedro   +2 more
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Health Insurance Coverage of Young Adults: Issues and Broader Considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Compares the 19-to-26 age group to others in terms of insurance status by income level, health, and citizenship; access to insurance; and attitudes toward insurance.
Genevieve M. Kenney, John Holahan
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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
wiley   +1 more source

Liturgies of the Future: The Process and Methods of Inculturation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Reviewed Book: Chupungco, Anscar J. Liturgies of the Future: The Process and Methods of Inculturation.
Nevile, Donald C.
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
wiley   +1 more source

Rituals of Care: A Look at the Church\u27s Ministry with the Sick [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
(excerpt) I had an interesting experience last month writing an article on Christian healing for a journal of medicine. The parameters of the requested article were a bit vague, and as I prodded the editor with questions I realized just how much I was ...
Larson-Miller, Lizette
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