Social Research articles from March 2001

Social Research archives from March 2001

Editor's Introduction.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... The papers in this issue are versions of the presentations given at the Social Research conference on privacy held at New School University in October 2000. This conference was the seventh in the conference series we initiated in 1988, and this...

Part 1: Private/Public: The Evolution of the Distinction.
March 22, 2001... Introduction: Private and Public PERHAPS the thinker who best understood both the strangeness and the necessity of the terms private and public was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was a great believer in private and public life as he thought they...

Part II: Privacy and the Law: The Legal Construction of Privacy.
March 22, 2001... Introduction: The Legal Construction of Privacy A RECURRING theme in the literature on privacy is the multivalent nature of the word "privacy" itself. When we speak of private property we mean something quite different from when we speak of...

Part III: Keynote Address.
March 22, 2001... Threats to Privacy A GRAPHIC in Wired magazine some years ago captured the excitement of the burgeoning Internet. Pictured was a long line of men stripped to the waist tugging on a rope, pulling something huge that couldn't be seen beyond...

Part IV: Privacy and the Self: The Rise and Fall of Privacy.
March 22, 2001... Introduction: Privacy and the Self THE papers is this section address the subject of the rise and fall of privacy in its relation to the self. It is not surprising that the authors of these papers are all scholars of literature, for not...

Part V: Invasions of Privacy: Violations of Boundaries.
March 22, 2001... Introduction: Invasions of Privacy THE papers in this section all deal with obstacles to defending privacy (whether understood as a constitutional right, or not) in the face of threats from new information technologies. The authors are...

Part VI: Privacy and the State.
March 22, 2001... Introduction THE papers in this section address the topic "Privacy and the State" from three different cultural, social, and political perspectives. Fatos Lubonja offers chilling testimony to the crippling effects of the loss of privacy...

Part VII: Is Privacy Now Possible? A Discussion.
March 22, 2001... Introduction THE question before the panel is of course rhetorical. Privacy is simultaneously possible and impossible, depending on shifting legal norms, public expectations, and technological developments. It also depends on whether our...