OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to trace the foundations of DD Palmer's sense of self and philosophy of chiropractic to its sources in modern Western philosophy as well as current metatheories about modernity. DISCUSSION DD Palmer's sense of self was indicative of a modern self. A modern self is characterized as a self that developed after the Western Enlightenment and must come to t...

The growth of cybercommunities is a notable social phenomenon. Empirical studies of cybercommunities have described new forms of social behaviour that call for deeper conceptual analysis. Drawing on evidence from our research in the cybercommunity Second Life, the authors examine the sociology of cybercommunities through the lens of Giddens’ abstract theories of modernity. In particular, the au...

This article analyzes the major characteristics of modernity, of modern civilization; the major analytical approaches related to the major social structures and the contemporary state. The core of this analysis is the notion of multiple modernities. This idea assumes that the best way to understand the contemporary world is for modernity to be seen as a story of continual formation, constitutio...

Le esperienze didattiche in ambienti 3D si stanno diffondendo sempre più e con risultati significativi, specialmente in ambienti internazionali. In questo articolo illustro alcune sperimentazioni didattiche che attraverso una modalità d i cooperative learning ho svolto su differenti tipi di tematiche scientifiche. In un primo momento con ambienti immersivi creati ad hoc e poi con una metodologi...

This collection highlights the diverse and complicated ways that violence becomes axiomatic, namely through political rhetoric, epistemological impositions, colonial legacies. Considering how axiomatic emerges from events of rupture as well slow-moving structural inequalities, authors interrogate both novelty mundane quality current moment. Approaching expands conceptual lexicon for discussing ...