Background Currently, one of the most difficult problems facing students, teachers and their parents in educational settings is the high and growing incidence of bullying. A plethora of materials has been developed to assist people to deal with bullying but a review of the literature reveals that most approaches are didactic in nature. That is they take the teacher’s, parent’s or designer’s (ex...

Examines how the electronic journal Sociological Research Online has rapidly established itself as a leading journal and how it has gained credibility; discusses possible future sources of revenue. Learned Publishing (1997) 10, 339–343

One of the most pressing issues in the social sciences and in distributed artificial intelligence research is the micro-macro link that is the question of how individual action and social structure are interrelated. Besides others disciplines, sociological research has identified emotion as being a possible key component in this link. Unfortunately, sociological theories in question remain rela...

Abstract Undergraduate research in sociology departments provides opportunities for student engagement and faculty development. Although undergraduate the natural physical sciences graduate mentoring have been extensively studied, there are few systematic studies of process extracurricular from perspective both students. We carried out semi-structured qualitative interviews with 23 assistants (...