Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Title
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The Social Psychology of Ordinary Ethical Failures
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2004) -
Social Psychology Under Analysis.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 1991) -
Social science and ethnic options
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The Social Science of Democracy?
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)Alexis de Tocqueville is surely one of the most widely cited, discussed, and celebrated political theorists in the world. Jon Elster's book, Alexis de Tocqueville: the First Social Scientist proceeds from a provocative ... -
The Social Sciences, Philosophy, and the Cultural Turn in the 1930s USDA
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)One of the more unusual attempts by the American state to mobilize academic expertise unfolded in the late 1930s, when the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) hired scholars in the “culture and personality” ... -
Social Security Pension Reform in China
(Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 1999)China has legislated a mixed social security pension system with a defined benefit pay-as-you-go portion and an investment-based defined contribution portion. This paper analyses the economics of these two types of systems ... -
Social status, masculinity, and testosterone in young men
(Elsevier BV, 2011)Among other things, sexual selection theory posits that in species with limited male parental investment, males should evolve biological mechanisms to competitively dominate or otherwise compete with one another. It is ... -
Social-Cognitive Contributors to Young Children’s Empathic and Prosocial Behavior
(MIT Press, 2011)This chapter discusses motivational factors and the contributors responsible for the empathic and prosocial behavior of young children. The reasons that people engage in prosocial behaviors, including self-benefit and ... -
The Social-Institutional Bases of Gender Stratification: Japan as an Illustrative Case
(University of Chicago Press, 1988)Gender stratification theory can be informed by a cross-cultural perspective and greater attention to the embeddedness of stratification processes within the social context. This article focuses on how the development and ... -
Socially Conscious Decision Making
(Springer, 2003)For individually motivated agents to work collaboratively to satisfy shared goals, they must make decisions about actions and intentions that take into account their commitments to group activities. This paper examines the ... -
Sociodemographic and career history predictors of suicide mortality in the United States Army 2004–2009
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)The US Army suicide rate has increased sharply in recent years. Identifying significant predictors of Army suicides in Army and Department of Defense (DoD) administrative records might help focus prevention efforts and ... -
Sociological Description and the Forensics of Sexuality
(Oxford University Press, 2018-01-11)This chapter analyses how typologies of deviant female sexuality shaped medico-legal narratives of abortion in colonial eastern India. I argue that forensic medicine shaped normative understandings of Indian women through ... -
Sociology and the Study of Immigration
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A Sociology of Institutions: Review of Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank: The Political Construction of Business Interests
(Council for European Studies, 2012) -
Socrates in the Italian Renaissance
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Soft Actuators and Robots that Are Resistant to Mechanical Damage
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)This paper characterizes the ability of soft pneumatic actuators and robots to resist mechanical insults that would irreversibly damage or destroy hard robotic systems—systems fabricated in metals and structural polymers, ... -
Soft Hair on Black Holes
(American Physical Society (APS), 2016)It has recently been shown that BMS supertranslation symmetries imply an infinite number of conservation laws for all gravitational theories in asymptotically Minkowskian spacetimes. These laws require black holes to carry ... -
Soft incommensurate reconstruction on Pb/Si(111): Structure, stress modulation, and phase transition
(American Physical Society (APS), 1995)We resolve the atomic structure of the one-monolayer incommensurate (IC) reconstruction of Pb on Si(111) using a tunneling microscope. The local structure of this surface consists of two types of Pb trimers and a quasi-1×1 ...