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The authors comment on an earlier aritice in Society by Eugene Goodheart and offer a novel hypothesis about the origins of
religion.
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Lionel Tiger (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Marc Bühlmann Wolfgang Merkel Lisa Müller Bernhard Weßels 《Politische Vierteljahresschrift》2008,49(1):114-122
Ohne Zusammenfassung
* Die vier Autor(inn)en arbeiten in einem gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt des NCCR Democracy (vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds
finanziertes National Centre of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century) und des WZB an einem „Demokratiebarometer“ für die 30 OECD-Staaten, das die Ignoranz der 0-Varianz bei Polity und Freedom House aufkl?ren will.
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Marc Bühlmann (Corresponding author)Email: |
Wolfgang MerkelEmail: |
Lisa MüllerEmail: |
Bernhard We?elsEmail: |
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This meditative essay by a writer and professor reflects on the milestone of reaching 50 years of age. The author relates
his own experiences and those of his elder literary friends and colleagues who have felt comparable anxieties and coped with
similar challenges toward aging and death. He records their own milestones on life’s journey as well as their insightful and
often quite hopeful, if not always cheery, responses. Several of them, like the author, admit that turning 50 has entailed
for them a coming to terms with the impossibility of realizing some immortality projects.
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John RoddenEmail: |
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Official apologies and truth commissions are increasingly utilized as mechanisms to address human rights abuses. Both are
intended to transform inter-group relations by marking an end point to a history of wrongdoing and providing the means for
political and social relations to move beyond that history. However, state-dominated reconciliation mechanisms are inherently
problematic for indigenous communities. In this paper, we examine the use of apologies, and truth and reconciliation commissions
in four countries with significant indigenous populations: Canada, Australia, Peru, and Guatemala. In each case, the reconciliation
mechanism differentiated the goal of reconciliation from an indigenous self-determination agenda. The resulting state-centered
strategies ultimately failed to hold states fully accountable for past wrongs and, because of this, failed to transform inter-group
relations.
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Cindy Holder (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Lee H. Igel 《Society》2008,45(6):512-514
Most people mistakenly assume that health care first became a major political issue in 1945 because President Harry S. Truman’s
special address to Congress on Nov. 19 of that year marked the first time a sitting president publicly endorsed a national
health-care program. But the question of whether—or to what extent—it is the responsibility of government to subsidize health
care for its citizens has been around for a much longer amount of time. Now that health care has become a major focus of domestic
political debate, especially in light of the impending presidential election, this article, modified from an entry in the
forthcoming Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections, & Electoral Behavior (Sage Publications), serves to inform the reader of the origins and history of health care as a campaign issue.
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Lee H. IgelEmail: |
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Robert Dingwall 《Society》2009,46(3):247-249
‘Social precognition’ is the forerunner of new developments in science and technology such as extended life or immortality.
While life-extension may have been neglected by philosophers or social scientists, it has been explored in depth by creative
writers. They underline the threat of new kinds of inequality and of the conservatism of a society that protects the interests
of the long-lived. They also question the quality of a longer life as likely to be lonely and empty rather than wise, peaceful
and fulfilled.
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Robert DingwallEmail: |
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Lenn E. Goodman 《Society》2009,46(1):29-37
Against the background of prophetic and rabbinic thought and action, where ideas of God and the good allowed morality and
spirituality to inform one another, Goodman considers the role of public intellectuals today. He cites the expanding electronic
media for lengthening the reach and broadening the franchise but narrowing the gaze and the audience of those intellectuals
who seek a public role and warns against oversimplification, shrillness, and the hazards of the echo chamber, where pigeonholing
and niche marketing shrink one’s audience to the already convinced.
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Lenn E. GoodmanEmail: |
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Alan Rubenstein 《Society》2009,46(2):160-167
Hans Jonas was a philosopher who looked nihilism in the eye and courageously stood his ground. He did so by volunteering to
serve against the Nazis in World War II, by discovering the links to nihilism in his thought of his teacher Martin Heidegger
and by developing a novel philosophy of nature that took its lessons from both Aristotle and Darwin. Jonas’s philosophy of
organic nature – his rehabilitation of the soul as a relevant notion for biology – provided prescient insights for the still
developing fields of bioethics and environmental ethics.
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Alan RubensteinEmail: |
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The case of the erased residents of Slovenia – when approximately 18,000 people who were mostly of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian
ethnicity, were erased from the permanent residence registry of the Republic of Slovenia – represents one of the most severe
cases of administrative ethnic/racial discrimination and human rights violations in the post-communist East and Central Europe
outside the conflict area. The erasure caused “civil death” of the people who were affected by the measure, depriving them
of civil, political, social, and economic rights. In 2007, 4 years after the 2003 Constitutional Court decision, declaring
the 1992 erasure an unconstitutional act of the state and requiring the legislator to adopt measures to reinstate the statuses
of the erased people, the problem remains unsolved and unaddressed both systemically and individually, and the situation of
erasure persists. This article presents the case and analyses of the framework that made the erasure possible in terms of
the preparation of the majority of Slovenes to accept and even support the violations and politicians to renounce their political
responsibility to those who have lost the right to have rights.
This article is based on the insights of the research project Contemporary Citizenship: Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (2000–2003) led by Vlasta Jalušič. The analysis of the case of erased was published in Jasminka Dedić, Vlasta Jalušič, and
Jelka Zorn (eds.), The Erased: Organized Innocence and the Politics of Exclusion, translated from Slovenian by Olga Vuković and Marjana Karer (Ljubljana: Peace Institute, 2003), at . The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewer for the extensive and most helpful comments.
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Vlasta Jalušič (Corresponding author)Email: |
Jasminka DedićEmail: |
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Laura Ymayo Tartakoff 《Society》2008,45(4):363-367
A law school dean, a university president, a scholarly judge, and the head of the Foreign Ministry division in charge of Chile’s
frontiers agree: The Constitution of 1980 was the initial turning point in Chile’s transition from autocracy to pluralism.
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Laura Ymayo TartakoffEmail: |
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Anthony Elliott 《Society》2009,46(4):357-362
This article considers the rise of cosmetic surgical culture against the backdrop of recent explanations that foreground celebrity
culture and the consumer industries. By contrast to these mainstream accounts, the article contends that surgical culture
has become increasingly interwoven with major institutional changes of the global electronic economy. Personal vulnerabilities
in the workplace and wider new economy are explored in the context of people seeking to reinvent themselves and improve their
life prospects through cosmetic surgery.
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Anthony ElliottEmail: |
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James F. Guyot 《Society》2008,45(6):529-533
Women advance more rapidly in the appointive executive and judicial branches than in the elected legislative branch at both
national and state levels. Demand side and supply side factors explain much of this. In particular, greater male variability
restricts the opportunity for gender equity.
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James F. GuyotEmail: |
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David Popenoe 《Society》2009,46(5):429-436
Non-marital cohabitation has become widespread in modern, Western nations. It has led to dramatic declines in marriage rates
and contributed to high levels of unwed births and lone-parent families, thus negatively affecting child wellbeing.
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David PopenoeEmail: |
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Wilfred M. McClay 《Society》2008,45(5):403-405
Whatever else the 2008 presidential election may result in, we can be sure that it will only contribute further to the steadily
declining role of political parties in American politics, and the myriad negative consequences arising from that decline.
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Wilfred M. McClayEmail: |
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Jeremy Freese 《Society》2009,46(1):45-48
Public intellectuals are successful suppliers of commentary in the attention market for serious thought. Blogs are a relatively
new technology that substantially alters this market. More people can now nurse aspirations to be public intellectuals, but
blogs also make plain the difficulties of actually reaching a public in ways that books do not. Blogs also vitiate other romantic
ideas about the public intellectual as transcendent figure. Even so, blogs may well provide the services for which transcendent
public intellectuals are often lauded better than these figures ever did.
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Jeremy FreeseEmail: |
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Renée C. Fox Victor M. Lidz Helen E. Sheehan Barrett P. Brenton Heike Thiel de Bocanegra 《Society》2009,46(4):308-318
Based on first-hand qualitative research, this article describes and analyzes the significant role that a local, New York
City-based social service agency played in responding to 9/11; the sources of its notable ability to provide assistance to
individuals and families affected by this terrorist attack; and the structural strains and unanticipated divisions within
the agency that the heroism of its fervid engagement nevertheless engendered.
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Renée C. FoxEmail: |
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Joanna R. Quinn 《Human Rights Review》2009,10(1):55-71
Getting to peace is not a straightforward process. In Uganda, internal conflict has raged for more than 20 years between the
Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army. The construction of a comprehensive negotiated settlement is at the mercy of conflicting
ideologies and influences at the international, national and grassroots levels. This paper examines the Juba peace talks,
the major actors in the negotiation process, and tension between prosecution and amnesty.
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Joanna R. QuinnEmail: |
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Ruth Levy Guyer 《Society》2009,46(3):250-254
The morbidity and mortality issues likely to arise for geriatric superstars are not unlike those already realized for so-called
miracle babies. The therapeutic imperative and other social pressures, the technological imperative, financial interests,
and media hyping have driven the overzealous medical-science pursuits of very old individuals and very young fetal infants.
This article discusses lessons learned and lessons expected.
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Ruth Levy GuyerEmail: |
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Jon A. Shields 《Society》2009,46(3):224-226
Conservative, and particularly religious opponents of enhancement technologies and of prolonging life indefinitely face formidable
challenges from policymakers who are largely liberated from any forms of Christian moral consensus. This is the predicament
of Daniel Callahan and others who are unable to translate their inescapably religious objections in secular terms.
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Jon A. ShieldsEmail: |