Opinion Leadership in the Research of Lazarsfeld, Merton, and Others (Excerpt)
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- Written by Jakub Lipták
- Category: Studies
Abstract: The article describes the four main studies dealing with the concept of opinion leadership: the studies People’s Choice, Rovere, Decatur and Elmira. Out of these four, three were authored or co-authored by Paul Lazarsfeld.
An Outline of Problems Related to Accessibility of Contraception to and Voluntary Sterilization of Marginalized and Disadvantaged Groups (Excerpt)
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- Written by Jozef Jurík
- Category: Studies
Abstract: The requirement of availability of contraception and voluntary sterilization to marginalized and disadvantaged groups follows from the National Program of Care for Women, Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health. This article tries to answer two questions related to it:
Systemism: The Alternative to Individualism and Holism
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- Written by Mario Bunge
- Category: Studies
Abstract: Three radical worldviews and research approaches are salient in social studies: individualism, holism, and systemism. Individualism focuses on the composition of social systems, whereas holism focuses on their structure. Neither of them is adequate, one because all individuals are interrelated and two because there are no relations without relata. The only cogent and viable alternative is systemism, according to which everything is either a system or a component of a system, and every system has peculiar (emergent) properties that its components lack.
Official History in Slovak and Czech Law (Excerpt)
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- Written by Dalibor Jurášek
- Category: Studies
Abstract: The article deals with the concept of official history. It lists some examples of official history from current Slovak and Czech law, suggests a classification of official history and briefly discusses theoretical questions related to official history.
Mainstream Science on Intelligence
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- Written by Linda Gottfredson et al.
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This public statement, signed by 52 internationally known scholars, was active on the information highway early in 1995 following several rather heated and negative responses to Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve. It was first published in The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, December 13, 1994. An alphabetical listing of the scholars and their home institutions are given at the end of the statement.