This paper attempts to show that the intellectual construct women’s language is entirely justified on a political, ideological, and economic basis that stresses the fact that women have historically been victims of overt (and covert) discrimination and exploitation in our society. Linguistically speaking, however, a women’s language seems not to exist in traditional strict terms, but rather as ...

This paper traces reflective practices through the lens of criticality as a commonality of mindset and action in relation to a teacher’s experience within a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institute in Brisbane, Australia. This experience spans a period of 13 years, in which the efficacy of this teacher’s praxis was put to the test and personally questioned. The paper highlights the recu...

Marcia’s (1966) identity status approach was employed in the examination of an existential domain of identity—conceptualized as a component of ideological identity, and operationalized as a multidimensional set of death orientations. Paralleling the identity status constructs of exploration and commitment, the underlying constructs of this domain were proposed to be death contemplation and acce...

Individual differences in moral views are often explained as the downstream effect of ideological commitments, such as political orientation and religiosity. Recent studies in the U.S. suggest that moral views about recreational drug use are also influenced by attitudes toward sex and that this relationship cannot be explained by ideological commitments. In this study, we investigate student sa...

The quickly growing presence of ideological groups on the Internet has garnered interest into how these groups use technology to persuade others. This study extends current research on the influential effects of website credibility and interactivity to the context of ideological group websites. Results of this study indicated that credibility and interactivity had direct and interactive effects...

This paper reviews how COVID-19 became a global pandemic, why we now have to live with it, and what needs be done stop viruses going in the future. Specifically, it argues that still prevailing neoliberal model of development combined related forms class structure ideological struggle all but guaranteed priorities capital its agents, along COVID-19, would win out end. Vaccinations become only p...

The article examines with a fine-tooth comb the evolution of civil rights movements African Americans by making comparative study between movement sixties and Black Lives Matter Movement in 2013. After great hopes raised Barack Obama's election 2008, series savage often unpunished killings young 2012-2020 sparked ire black community gathered around Movement. Although ideological foundations bot...

International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate individuals’ recurrent struggle with cognitive dissonance as they seek to maintain, and pass on to their childr...

The South African HIV and AIDS experience is unique in many ways considering the country's delayed and robust epidemic, the apartheid context, and successive HIV-denialist government regimes. While the struggle for democracy may have overshadowed the enormity of the unfolding HIV epidemic, there was also a delay in constructive religious responses to it early on. In 1990, HIV/AIDS was declared ...