Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...

the present article has adopted a critical discourse perspective to study ahmad-e jām’s ons al-tāʾebīn. ahmad-e jām (b. 1049 ad in nāmaq, near toršīz, khorasan; d. 1141ad) was one of the mystics of khorasan, iran. traces of cultural transition can be found in his works and ons al-tāʾebīn is his masterpiece. the book mainly criticizes the official mysticism of the writer’s time. the cult which h...

never-never land. In the reality of a concrete context, we are able to grasp the point of a text without slipping into an infinite regress bereft of meaning. 73 Moreover, neither traditions nor prejudices are mere mental forms or ideas that can be replaced by simply imagining different forms or ideas. Prejudices and interests often are learned or absorbed in a deep sense; they become embodied i...