Alvin W. Gouldner (1920--1980) was a prolific sociologist of the post-World War II era who spent the early part of his career (the 1950s) in the field of industrial sociology. A case study of Gouldner's early life and career is useful insofar as it intertwines with the development of industrial sociology as a distinct subfield within sociology. Through this analysis we are also better able to u...

BACKGROUND In higher income countries, social disadvantage is associated with higher arthritis prevalence; however, less is known about arthritis prevalence or determinants in low to middle income countries (LMICs). We assessed arthritis prevalence by age and sex, and marital status and occupation, as two key parameters of socioeconomic position (SEP), using data from the World Health Organizat...

Globalization, widely cited as the dominant international economic trend of the post-World War II era, is deeply connected with the opening of the world economy. The relationship between trade and growth has been intensively debated in the economic literature, within the fields of economics, sociology, political sciences, and others. However, in the areas of International Business (IB) and mana...

INTRODUCTION NATIONAL INTEREST AS A RATIONALE FOR HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION Practical Military Questions and Concerns Social and Political Movements Contemporary Considerations and Questions Uncovering the Process in Nazi Germany THE NAZI HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION PROGRAM Experimental Methods of the Hypothermia Studies Human Dimensions of the Experimental Program Results of the Human Hypothermia Resear...

Since the 1988 Bicentennial and the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations colonial images have flourished in Australia, highlighting the roles of convicts and free settlers during early colonization. Old sites, such as Port Arthur have been re-invigorated, and in 2004 Tasmanians celebrated the bicentenary of 'white' settlement. However, social scientists have given little attention to the r...

Polybius was right. The world must be seen as an organic whole where everything affects everything else. That being the case, we are faced with such complexity that attempts to understand the full ramifications of any given event or person's life are fraught with peril, including the attempt to understand Alexander D. Langmuir's impact on public health. Some people are indeed "larger than life"...

Like in most other countries after World War II, in the Netherlands the traditional system of educational quality control came to a definite end. This system was characterised by small numbers of students and intensive personal contact between the university professor and his (or in exceptional cases: her graduates). This enabled the individual professor’s status as a scholar to be taken as evi...

It covers research, teaching, departmental governance, students and social life. It also highlights the extraordinary contributions made to the war effort in both the first and second world wars. From its first professors, A. Wilhelm Hofmann and Edward Frankland, the department has been home to many eminent chemists, including, in the later twentieth century, the Nobel laureates Derek Barton an...

Evolutionary understanding of behaviour of firms is gradually becoming more accepted in a variety of disciplines such as economics, management and organization. Contributing to a multidisciplinary understanding of strategic behaviour, this paper analyzes foreign direct investment strategies of US firms in Europe since the second world war. Taking routinized investment behaviour, satisficing str...