To address gaps in the literature regarding the role of family routine on school disengagement and delinquent behaviors, we tested whether family routine moderated relations between school disengagement and delinquent behaviors in an urban, low socioeconomic status (SES), African American sample of adolescents (N = 204, 48% male). Adolescents reported on school disengagement and delinquent beha...

Creativity is on the American mind. President Obama routinely suggests that creativity and ingenuity are the keys to America’s economic future.1 Bill Gates emphasizes the power of creativity to solve the world’s most pressing, and most difficult, problems.2 But the creativity story is, of late, usually bleakly told: indeed, a recent Newsweek cover story proclaimed a “Creativity Crisis.”3 Last N...

As the latest American Comparative Literature Association reports (the ACLA state of discipline reports) suggest, following “translational turn” in comparative literature, novel intersections between translation studies and literature have paved way for further negotiations these two subjects a promising way. The aim this article is to discuss changing roles (translated) reconsider supposedly c...

In his article "Radical Theology and the Reorganization of the US-American Religious System," Philippe Codde uses the example of the highly popular movement of death-of-God theology in the 1960s to demonstrate the wide applicability for cultural research of Itamar Even-Zohar's polysystem theory and to illustrate the validity of Even-Zohar's assertion that peripheral elements in any system can y...

sor of Sociology in the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Sociology, as well as Director of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago. His current major interest is comparative health systems is explored in Health Care: Can There Be Equity? The United States, Sweden, and England. ABSTRACT: A review of the emerging literature on crossnational healt...