Fatal nonatherosclerotic myocardial infarction in a young man with allergic bronchial asthma

A 34-year-old man with allergic asthma died an (instantaneous) sudden cardiac death as a result of multiple myocardial infarcts. These occurred in the absence of coronary atherosclerosis. The major mechanism by which the infarcts occurred was recurrent coronary artery spasm. The latter can occur spontaneously, asthma patients being particularly prone to it. However, various medications prescribed by different physicians may also have played a role.     

Die Rolle der Kritik in der Dynamik des Kapitalismus und der normative Wandel

Die französische Soziologie der 70er Jahre gab sich kritisch, stieß damit aber weder im moralischen Sinne noch im Sinne der Gerechtigkeit auf großes Interesse. Im Gegensatz dazu betonte die pragmatische Soziologie der 80er Jahre das absichtsvolle Handeln der Individuen und nahm die moralischen Motive, die sie für sich in Anspruch nahmen, sehr ernst. Sie hat dabei jedoch sehr oft die kritische Sichtweise aufgegeben. In ?Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme“ haben wir versucht, einen Rahmen zu konstruieren, der es ermöglicht, die Kernpunkte einer kritischen mit denen der pragmatischen Soziologie zu verbinden, und dazu das Programm einer Soziologie der Rolle der Kritik im sozialen Leben entwickelt. Um zu verstehen, wie ein neuer ?Geist des Kapitalismus“ in den letzten dreißig Jahren entstehen konnte, muss man in der Zeit um 1968 ansetzen, einer Phase, die durch ein hohes Niveau der Kritik gekennzeichnet war. Der Kapitalismus hat zunächst — ohne Erfolg — versucht, dieser Krise auf dem Gebiet der sozialen Gerechtigkeit zu begegnen, um dann große Teile einer neuen Form der Kritik zu verinnerlichen, die Ende der 60er Jahre entwickelt wurde und die sich auf Forderungen nach Autonomie, Authentizität und Kreativität konzentrierte. Die Anpassung des Kapitalismus an diese Form künstlerischer Kritik, wie wir sie bezeichnen, hat zu seiner Wiederbelebung beigetragen. Zusammenfassend entwickeln wir ein Modell normativen Wandels, das auf dem Begriff der Bewährungsprobe und dem des Wechsels zwischen Regimen der Verlagerung und Kategorisierung gründet.     

Procedural Justice in Family Conflict Resolution and Deviant Peer Group Involvement Among Adolescents: The Mediating Influence of Peer Conflict

The involvement of adolescents with deviant peer groups is one of the strongest proximal correlates to juvenile delinquency and stems from a variety of causes. Past research has linked ineffective parenting with peer variables, including deviant peer group involvement and peer conflict during adolescence. In this study, adolescents’ appraisals of procedural justice within the family (adolescents’ appraisals of how fairly they are treated by parents in the process of resolving family conflict) were examined as one aspect of effective parenting that may relate to deviant peer group involvement in early adolescence. Data from 1660 middle school students (ages 11–14, mean = 12.6) indicated that higher appraisals by adolescents of procedural justice during family conflict resolution were related to lower levels of both peer conflict and deviant peer group involvement. A structural model was tested in which the relationship between adolescents’ appraisals of procedural justice in the family and deviant peer group involvement was partially mediated by measures of peer conflict. This model was found to have adequate fit to the data, indicating that part of the relationship between procedural justice appraisals and deviant peer group involvement can be explained by levels of peer conflict. Implications of these findings are discussed.

The Impact of Relationship Status, Gender, and Minor Status in the Police Response to Domestic Assaults

Data from police records on 320 domestic violence calls for assistance collected during a four-month period from five jurisdictions operating under a pro-arrest statute in a Northeastern state were examined to determine the distribution of incidents by victim-suspect household relationship. It was hypothesized that, despite the lack of any statutory distinction, police compliance with the requirements of a pro-arrest statute—and mandatory arrest policies—would be higher in incidents involving a parent complainant than in incidents between other household members. Logistic and ordinary least-squares regression indicated that the odds of arrest for cases of child to parent and sibling assault were significantly higher than for other kinds of relationships, especially adult partner cases. Analyses also revealed that police compliance with victim assistance actions was significantly less likely for victims of parent to child and sibling violence relative to other victim-suspect relationships. The police were also more legalistic in the application of the statute to both female victims and female suspects. The implications of the increased role of extra-legal variables in the arrest decision (i.e. age, gender and relationship status) and the police support of parental authority are examined.     

Power in Paradise: The Political Implications of Santos's Utopia

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
—Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.
Antonio Gramsci, Selections