Effective teaching is a product of faculty motivation and involvement in institutions which systematically recognize and reward quality instruction. For teaching to be effective, incentives for faculty involvement must be put forward by administrators over an extended period of time. Yet, the organization of faculty and curricula in community colleges provides limited incentives for "becoming i...

There is widespread agreement that the process of election campaigning, particularly the roles of parties and the news media, have been transformed during recent decades. Many are concerned that these developments have generated widespread apathy, or even alienation, from the traditional modes of electoral participation in representative democracies. This tendency is thought to be particularly ...

There is an urgent need for reconstructing models of property to make them more women-friendly. However, we need not start from scratch: both 'canonical' and feminist authors can sometimes provide concepts which we can refine and apply towards women's propertylessness. This paper looks in particular at women's alienation from their reproductive labour, building on Marx and Delphy. Developing an...

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people are a highly-stigmatized population. For this reason, they might internalize society's normative gender attitudes and develop negative mental health outcomes. As an extension of the minority stress model, the psychological mediation framework sheds light on psychological processes through which anti-transgender discrimination might affect menta...

technologies and various media have affected social institutions such as family and causeshape changes in relationships within the family. one of the means of communication that are easilyand widely used in the household is internet. with the entrance of media, especially the internet tothe family, changes in personal, social, public and private relationships are occurred. the use ofsocial netw...

Mattering is the extent to which we make a difference in the world around us. People matter simply because: others attend to them (awareness), invest themselves in them (importance), or look to them for resources (reliance). We construct and validate a mattering index, using confirmatory factor analysis. We establish the discriminant validity of the mattering index, using self-consciousness, se...

Abstract This article applies Paul Tillich's existentialist analysis of the human predicament, particularly what it means to exist and be fallen, social media. I argue that media heightens feelings alienation estrangement, supporting this claim with evidence from empirical research in psychiatry communication studies. Thus, offer an application a Tillichian approach area culture previously unex...

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