The paper has discussed the characteristics of consciousness of professional role of rural teachers and the relationship between consciousness of professional role and work autonomy. By randomly sampling, a survey is conducted among 265 primary and secondary school teachers from Sichuan province. It is found that the whole consciousness of professional role of rural teachers from Sichuan provin...

This collection of papers presents a very wide range of findings both empirical and conceptual, as its sub-title suggests. It is undoubtedly an essential textbook for anyone interested in the study of consciousness whatever their background. Some of the papers in this collection are destined to become classic foundational studies in the emerging study of the neural correlates of consciousness. ...

This article articulates a neo-pragmatist theory of human rights by drawing and expanding upon the American classical pragmatism of G.H. Mead. It characterizes this neo-pragmatist theory of rights by its anti-foundationalist, relational, fictive, and constitutive nature, and begins by providing a reconstruction of Mead’s social pragmatist approach to rights, a contribution systematically ignore...

Abstract We argue that Graziano and Kastner are mistaken to claim that neglect favors their self-directed social perception account of consciousness. For the latter should not predict that neglect would result from damage to mechanisms of social perception. Neglect is better explained in terms of damage to attentional mechanisms.

Distinctions between quantitative and qualitative social science misrepresent the actual choices confronting analysts of observations concerning social processes. Analysts regularly (if not always self-consciously) choose between adopting and avoiding formal representations of social processes. Despite widespread prejudices to the contrary, formalisms are available and helpful for all sorts of ...

Our qualitative study examines the social psychology of gay men’s experiences with their procreative, father, and family identities. Indepth interviews were conducted with 19 childless gay men and 20 gay men in the United States who have fathered using diverse means excluding heterosexual intercourse. By focusing on men aged 19 – 55 residing primarily in Florida and New York, our novel analysis...

■ Abstract Legal consciousness as a theoretical concept and topic of empirical research developed to address issues of legal hegemony, particularly how the law sustains its institutional power despite a persistent gap between the law on the books and the law in action. Why do people acquiesce to a legal system that, despite its promises of equal treatment, systematically reproduces inequality? ...

Artificial consciousness, sometimes labeled as machine consciousness, is the attempt to model and implement those aspects of human cognition which are identified with the often elusive and controversial phenomenon of consciousness (Aleksander 2008; Chella and Manzotti 2009). It does not necessarily try to reproduce human consciousness as such, insofar as human consciousness could be unique due ...