The Social Science Journal articles from July 1996

The Social Science Journal archives from July 1996

Media framing of movement protest: the case of American Indian protest.
July 1, 1996... During the late 1960s through the mid 1970s Americans saw Native Americans increase their use of direct action measures, including occasional confrontational tactics. These techniques included seizures of property, marches, and demonstrations....

Cooperative bases of control: toward an interactionist conceptualization.
July 1, 1996... One common sociological answer to "how is society possible?" is through control.(1) A specific type of control of individual behaviors in a social context, or social control, remains as one of the cornerstone concepts in the discipline.(2)...

Senate confirmation of cabinet nominations: institutional politics and nominee qualifications.
July 1, 1996... Speaking on Raymond Donovan's nomination to be secretary of labor in Ronald Reagan's initial cabinet, Senator Metzenbaum identified the fundamental conflict which underlies the Senate's exercise of its power to advise and consent on...

Deductive versus inductive reasoning: a closer look at economics.
July 1, 1996... The neoclassical paradigm continues to be the dominant framework in mainstream economics in large part because its assumptions of rationality and maximizing behavior have long provided theoretically and mathematically elegant explanations of a...

The fate of economics and the role of economists.
July 1, 1996... Is economics of any value to modern society? What has happened to economists as students of society who were able to observe and make meaningful conclusions as to why we behave as we do in our economic actions? What are the implications of such...

Tailgate partisanship: political and social expression through bumper stickers.
July 1, 1996... Campaign committees, citizens' groups, and businesses seek to persuade potential voters, members, and consumers to support their interests. The mass media, from television to direct mail, are the most frequently used transmitters of...

Seat belt laws and traffic fatalities: a research update.
July 1, 1996... Do seat belt laws save lives? This question demands serious consideration if for no other reason than the fact that approximately 40,000 people are killed annually by traffic accidents in the United States. Although there has been considerable...

Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families.
July 1, 1996... Reviewed by: Jay Corzine, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Murray Straus' intent in writing Beating the Devil Out of Them is to convince both social scientists and the general public that the corporal punishment, or spanking, of children is a...

PoliceSpeak: Police Communication and Language and the Channel Tunnel; English-French Lexicon.
July 1, 1996... Reviewed by: Gunter Schaarschmidt, University of Victoria The twentieth century, among many other firsts, seems to have become the century for the large-scale emergence of dictionaries of language for special purposes (LSP). This is due...

Weber and Toennies: comparative sociology in historical perspective.
July 1, 1996... Reviewed by: Peter Leigh Taylor, Colorado State University This edited volume of Werner J. Cahnman's writings brings to light the work of a relatively little known sociologist who dedicated his career to the development of a truly comparative...