... satisfying explanation of the reasons the ideals of female beauty have changed over the last two hundred years but the pursuit has become more insistent. UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO DOLORES JANIEWSKI Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior. By Hanes Walton, Jr. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985...

...John Walton Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Indian Summer of the Behavioral Sciences John Walton The origins of our metaphor are clouded in ambiguity. From Freeman s Sermons (as quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary) we learn that Indian Summer is two or three weeks of fair...

...William A. Brownell Signs, Language, and Behavior . By Morris Charles . New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1946 . Pp. xii , 365 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 415 Means to Be an Individual he asks in pained surprise. Then, on second...

...Allan Kornberg Party Loyalty Among Congressmen: The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans, 1947-1962 . By Mayhew David R. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1966 . Pp. xiv , 189 . $4.50 . The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841-1852 . By Silbey...

... of our political imagination. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 antipositivism authoritarianism critical theory political psychology behavioralism References Adorno Theodor W. Horkheimer Max . 2002 . Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments . Edited...

...Adrian Mackenzie This essay analyzes a genre of self-improvement literature based on scientific models of animal behavior and neurophysiology. Popular science books such as Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking , by Malcolm Gladwell, or Mind Wide Open: Why You Are What You Think , by Steven...

... services, driving down standards and prices, and normalizing risky behaviors. The article posits that these changes in the sex industry are symptomatic and reflective of wider shifts in labor-capital relations and technology and therefore argues that bringing research on platform work and sex work...

...Andrew Pendakis This article explores the historical construction of the entrepreneur as a figure of antinomian or “deviant” risk. Though risk-bearing behavior has been the characteristic most often invoked to specify the economic function of the entrepreneur, this ostensibly descriptive category...

...Clifton Evers On December 11, 2005, residents of the Sydney beachside suburb of Cronulla took part in a demonstration to chase away “gangs” of men from inland suburbs. The demonstration was a reaction against “un-Australian” behavior by these “outsiders” who were allegedly rude to women, colonizing...

... on the long-lasting consequences of civil rights struggles in African American communities. My analysis foregrounds the novel’s indictment of paternalistic leadership figures, such as Bill Cosey and Fruit, illustrating that the consequences of their destructive behavior are insidious and far-reaching...

... authorities used the prospect of temporary release as a means of incentivizing conformist behavior among prisoners. It is argued that the effectiveness of this seemingly straightforward mechanism was complicated by practical restrictions on the granting of temporary release, thus leading to “behaviorist...

... gradually seep into domestic civilian life as the new norms. The gross abuses of presumed enemy combatants in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay come back to haunt us, as war crimes abroad impact behavior at home. The expansion and deformation of US prison culture—isolation, solitary confinement, and other...

... to the modern mind. Lest we be thought guilty of impiety toward this august presence, we had best confine our remarks to a single aspect of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the third virtue noted in Mayhew, the expression of moral judgments. Dr. Kinsey avows that he makes no judgments, moral or social; he...

... conclusions about them. The position I shall defend is that mental illness, properly understood, is decidedly not a myth. Those who have declared that it is have challenged the mental health profession and society at large to think more clearly and to justify their attitudes toward and their behavior...

... Push, Litter or Honk, the Chinese Are Told, echoed the New York Times of March 10. To all appear­ ances, there did not seem to be much worth reporting about a campaign to bring under control disorderly or unhygienic behavior in Chinese society. Amusing the campaign may be, but it is not therefore...

... in the movement in psychology known from its founder and most iconoclastic exponent as Watsonian behaviorism. This movement also issued its definitive statement near the end of the decade. In 1928 John B. Watson published his The Ways of Behaviorism, which he announced in a preface to be his best effort to make...

... Niebuhr s repudiation of his own Social Sources of Denominationalism in favor of the ap­ proach that produced The Kingdom of God in America was taken as an advance toward understanding the recurring cycles of dy­ namism and stasis in American thought and collective behavior. From May s article it seemed...

... of the stable? 796 Manuel De Landa The central idea, the notion of an evolutionary stable strategy, was formulated with respect to behavioral strategies (such as those involved in territorial or courtship behavior in animals), but it can be extended to apply to the engineering strategies involved in putting...

... publicized events of their kind in the nineteenth century.2 As such they were instrumental in disseminating representations of sexual behavior between men that were no longer predicated upon the evocation of a sexual crime that earlier in the same century was still named (often in Latin) as unnameable...

... alien to American behavior and circumstance. The Fulbrighter abroad who has not been specifically trained to an awareness of the springs of our behavior would be quickly routed in the familiar argument; that some grantees do submit, or adopt the expedient of seeming agreement to avoid trouble (for who...