ICT and geographies of British Arab and Arab American activism

Current literature on migrant transnationalism highlights the role of new information and communication technologies (ICT) in facilitating lives that are situated simultaneously ‘here’ and ‘there’. Yet discussions of transnationalism and ICT obscure many complexities because of the tendency to focus on migrants' connections with ‘homeland’. In this article, we consider more broadly the spatiality of migrant activism and the different ways that ICT enters into it. Drawing on interviews conducted with Arab American and British Arab activists, we ask where is migrant activism geographically situated? How might their use of ICT factor into, or not factor into, activists' activities? In considering our respondents' diverse forms of activism, the multitude of aims and geographical orientations underpinning their activism, and their highly variable use of ICT, this article provides a variegated understanding of migrants' political subjectivities that avoids privileging any single geographical scale or location.     

Sampling based approach for one-hit and multi-hit models in quantal bioassay

Bayesian methods for estimating the dose response curves with the one-hit model, the gamma multi-hit model, and their modified versions with Abbott's correction are studied. The Gibbs sampling approach with data augmentation and with the Metropolis algorithm is employed to compute the Bayes estimates of the potency curves. In addition, estimation of the relative additional risk and the virtually safe dose is studied. Model selection based on conditional predictive ordinates from cross-validated data is developed.     

Organizations Have Opinions: A Redefinition of Publics

Random telephone interviews of organizations reveal that, contraryto popular belief, organizations do have opinions and that suchopinions can be obtained by use of traditional survey methods.In addition, when compared with a sample of individuals, theopinions of organizations differ from those of individuals onsome questions and not on others. It is suggested, therefore,that the omission of organizations from public opinion researchmay result in a misrepresentation of reality.     

Making a Better Living from Caregiving: Comparing Strategies to Improve Wages for Care Providers*

Plusieurs stratégies ont été utilisées implicitement ou explicitement afin d'améliorer le taux de rémunération des prestataires de soins, pour la plupart des femmes. Ces tactiques comprennent: élever les titres de compétences requis pour exercer la profession; organiser et syndicaliser; exiger la parité salariale; solliciter du financement public pour leurs services. Alors que plusieurs chercheurs ont étudié le processus et les effets de ces stratégies sur les sciences infirmieres, très peu d'études semblables ont été réalisées auprès d'autres prestataires. Dans cet article, les auteures ont entrepris l'examen comparatif de l'efficacité des quatre stratégìes énumérées ci‐dessus pour atteindre les taux de rémunération appropriés en sciences infirmières, dans la profession de sage‐femme et en puèriculture. Several strategies have been employed either implicitly or explicitly to improve the remuneration levels of largely female care providers; these tactics include increasing entry‐to‐practice credentials; organizing and unionizing; seeking pay equity considerations; and seeking public funding for their services. While many scholars have investigated the process and effects of these strategies for nursing, there has been very little similar research conducted concerning other care providers. In this paper, we undertake a comparative examination of the effectiveness of the four aforementioned strategies in achieving appropriate levels of remuneration within nursing, midwifery and child care.     

A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents' Attitude-Behavior Consistency

The attitudes and self-reported behaviors of outgoingness towardother people among a group of over 100 male adolescents weremeasured each semester for the last five semesters of high school.Cross-lagged panel correlation differences show a tendency (sevenof nine times) for attitudes to be nonspuriously antecedentto behaviors. During the first three semesters different observationalcomposites of behaviors correlated positively with the self-reportedmeasures of behaviors. Theoretical implications of these findingsare discussed from the perspective of social adaptation theory.A distinction is drawn between assimilatory and accommodativesituations. It is suggested that attitudes and behaviors aremore likely to be consistent in assimilatory than accommodativesituations.     

The Best Seller as an Indicator of Societal Narcissism: Is There a Trend?

A content analysis of the subject matter of nonfiction bestsellers was performed to assess changes in societal narcissism.A number of content categories were identified, a priori, asindicative of narcissism, conceptually defined in terms of self-absorption:e.g., concern for psychic self-improvement, mysticism, and aninterest in health, physical fitness, diet, and sexuality. Anunobtrusive measure, the Dewey Decimal Classification number,was used to sort best-selling titles into narcissistic and non-narcissisticgroups for the years 1950 through 1979. As hypothesized, societalnarcissism, as reflected in popular reading preferences, increasedover the three-decade period.     

Value Bases in Social Work Education

Correspondence to Elisabeth Lynn, Lecturer in Social Work, Centre for Applied Social Studies, 9th Floor, Chemistry Tower, University of Wales Bangor, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK. Summary In this paper the two values of social justice and personalcaring are identified as key ideologies within social work education.Their presence is traced within a historical ebb and flow oftheory and practice and it is argued that this dialectic isembedded in social and individual systems. Based on fieldworkresearch with social work lecturers and practice teachers, itis argued that anti-oppressive social work needs a reflexivetheory/practice model to provide an understanding of how structuralpower affects all aspects of an individual. This demands a workingsynthesis of the two values of Personal Canng and Social Justicewithin an understanding of a multiple approach.