OBJECTIVES First, to examine the rates of Palestinian adolescents' exposure to (i.e., witnessing and experiencing) different patterns of psychological aggression and physical violence in their families of origin; and second, to examine the correlation between this exposure and sociodemographic characteristics, parents' psychological adjustment problems, and family exposure to political stressor...

Sociological research into the body pedagogics of occupational, educational, religious and sporting groups focuses on cases in which social material environment reproduces these ‘ways life’, yet devotes little attention to how cultures persist within circumstances hostile their maintenance. Developing a transactionalist approach pedagogics, I address this lacuna by investigating case cycling so...

Abstract Sociological studies of prisons require expanded methodologies and interdisciplinary concepts to address challenges posed by changing prisoner demographics transformed geopolitics. We aim revitalize sociological inquiry on leadership focussing the question whether cause radicalization. Our findings support those most persuasive original studies: distinct prison climates generate differ...

Religious beliefs could facilitate human cooperation [1–6], promote civic engagement [7–10], improve life satisfaction [11–13] and even boom economic development [14–16]. On the other side, some aspects of religion may lead to regional violence, intergroup conflict and moral prejudice against atheists [17–23]. Analogous to the separation of races [24], the religious segregation is a major ingre...

We conducted 4 experiments to examine how people incorporate visual information about strangers’ religious identities—religious badges—into their decisions about how much to trust them. Experiment 1 revealed that Christian and non-Christian participants were more trusting (as measured by self-report) of targets who wore a religious badge associated with Christianity (Ash Wednesday ashes) than t...

The relationship between language and culture has become a rich source of inquiry in the context of English language teaching. Learning materials can depict cultural content in different cultural senses, namely aesthetic, sociological, semantic, and pragmatic. The present study aimed to investigate the way cultural aspects are represented in the reading and dialog sections of global (American E...