Western cultures have witnessed a tremendous cultural and social transformation of sexuality in the years since the sexual revolution. Apart from a few public debates and scandals, the process has moved along gradually and quietly. Yet its real and symbolic effects are probably much more consequential than those generated by the sexual revolution of the sixties. Sigusch refers to the broad-base...

The New Public Management (NPM) revolution is being challenged by ideas and practices (re)establishing a focus on social factors in public administration. This paper presents some Australian experience of the move to balance the market instruments of NPM by bringing community oriented instruments and community based knowledge upon which these depend into public policy and management.

Non-technical summary. As we consider a transition to low-carbon future, there is need examine the mineral needs for this transformation at scale reminiscent of Green Revolution. The efficiency gains agrarian came ecological and social costs that should provide important lessons about future metal sourcing. We present three options Mineral Revolution: status quo, incremental adaption revolution...

Speaking at the 2009 Society for Medical Anthropology Conference, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock pointed out that the advent of the genomic revolution brings with it important societal, political, and social issues that have the potential to radically change both human life and interaction.

Journal of Futures Studies, November 2006, 11(2): 35 60 It is widely accepted in the literature dealing with social and educational change, that the world is experiencing an information and technology revolution. Globally, more and more people are entering a "post-industrial, globalized, pan-capitalist" world and a "post-information" and "networked" society (Milojevic 2002: 166). Rapid changes ...

The field of computer science is undergoing a fundamental change. The big data revolution calls for improved computational methods, beyond the exponential growth of storage or computational capacity. At the same time, pressing issues in sustainability, including complex environmental, social and economic aspects, are also reshaping the field of computer science, as they often raise new challeng...

one of the main puzzles of modern population and social history is why, among all countries confronting rapid population growth in the second half of the twentieth century, China chose to adopt an extreme measure of birth control known as the one-child policy. a related question is why such a policy, acknowledged to have many undesirable consequences, has been retained for so long, even beyond ...

The power and role played by social media in developing social and political movements for political changes in North Africa and the Middle East have transformed how social media viewed and used. To date, few IS studies have investigated the role of Information Systems in the context of politics. The goal of this paper is to understand the role of social media including micro-blogs and social n...

Four revolutions are transforming the cardiology of our day. The first is a social revolution. It has resulted in plummeting esteem for the medical profession reflecting disenchantment coupled with the rapid emergence of the recognition that health care is a right rather than a privilege. The second revolution, interventional cardiology, has provided powerful therapeutic tools demanding technic...