The burgeoning gendered terms and the derogatory languages that underpin patriarchy on Chinese social media emerge as an encumbrance to development of women’s discourse which is plagued with alienation. Given this, this paper reviews recent research progress into alienation media, manifest representations produced by language seek possible solutions for constructing healthy discourse. Through a...

The current investigation sought to understand the relationships between college student alienation, academic achievement, and use of WebCT. Fifty-three students enrolled in an undergraduate educational psychology course provided three types of data: 1) self-rating of eight Likert scale alienation items, 2) academic achievement measured with four types of multiple choice questions evaluating ma...

The concept of reification is used by Marx to describe a form of social consciousness in which human relations come to be identified with the physical properties of things, thereby acquiring an appearance of naturalness and inevitability. This essay presents a systematic reconstruction of Marx's theory of reification, with an emphasis on the social-structural dimensions of the concept. This rec...

This study investigated differences between Mexican- and Anglo-American college students on the Psychological Screening Inventory (PSI; Lanyon, 1970, 1973)-a brief personality instrument designed to detect persons who might benefit from more extensive evaluations in mental health settings. Further, this study controlled for the Mexican Americans' acculturation level, age, and socioeconomic stat...

The purpose of this study was to explore the continuing impact of growing up with an ill sibling on well siblings' late adolescent functioning. Forty late adolescents (M age = 18.78, SD = 0.83), who identified themselves as growing up with an ill sibling, completed a semistructured interview, demographic questionnaire, Personality Assessment Screener, and My Feelings and Concerns Sibling Questi...

The works of T. S. Eliot and Bob Dylan seem to flow from the same spring – an agonizing sense of the contemporary human condition and the state of society – and several critics have recently begun to observe the similarities between these two writers. Through comparative readings of T. S. Eliot’s and Bob Dylan’s earlier and later works this project investigates how their religious turn influenc...

statement of the problem: in this article relationship between social trust and civil society (with emphasis on voluntary associations) is empirically examined. in addition, this article attempts to answer this question: what kind of relationship is there between voluntary associations membership and social trust? method: 457 students of mazandaran university were chosen and the questionnaires ...

A qualitative retrospective study was conducted on 40 adults who experienced parental alienation as a child. Individuals participated in one-hour, semi-structured interviews. Audiotapes were transcribed verbatim and submitted to a content analysis for primary themes and patterns. Findings pertaining to the process of alienation from the targeted parent were analyzed for this article. Results re...

BACKGROUND Community mental health care has shifted focus from resettlement to empowerment, reflecting a wider agenda for social inclusion. PURPOSE This study evaluated mental health day services from the perspectives of thirty-nine clients. METHOD Data analysis of the four focus groups explored the implications for occupational therapy. The data collected were subjected to constant compara...