Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences

The aim of this essay is to examine the racial achievement gap in American education through the lens of Erik Erikson's fourth stage of psychosocial development: industry vs. inferiority (Erikson, 1950). To set the stage, I will argue that the well-documented...

INTRODUCTION The study intend to assess perspectives on Nigeria's foreign policy from the year 1960 till 2007. Our curiosity and historical inquisitiveness at this inquiry is predicated on four major strands. First, the beginning of the period of...

INTRODUCTION Educational Aspirations refer to the early impressions of one's own academic abilities and the highest level of education an individual expects to attain has also been linked to academic achievement. Today's modern society expects everyone...

Introduction Epilepsy constitutes the second most categories of Neurological Disorders, following Stroke and mood problems (Carlson, 1992). Each year an average of 15,500 people learns that they have epilepsy, 44% are diagnosed before the age of...

The study of employees' commitment in the aftermath of downsizing exercise becomes important because organizations are required to maintain a core of committed individuals who will sustain life in organizations after a reduction in the work force....

To an outsider, the need to belong to Hizb ut-Tahrir (1) (henceforth, HT) appears to be somewhat irrational because involvement can lead to considerable disadvantage. Abid Javaid, for example, was dismissed from his Home Office job after a BBC television...

"To spleet the ears of the groundlings"--Hamlet In the historical moment in which Shakespeare's Hamlet was composed, the ear was coded as an admonishing organ, the avenue for hearing sermons. Though Protestant preachers in Shakespeare's day attacked...

"Thoughts are a nuisance," says Bion's patient in Learning from Experience; "I don't want them" (1962b:34-35). "Thinking", writes Arendt in The Life of the Mind, is "equally dangerous to all creeds and, by itself, does not bring forth any new creed"...

Introduction Olfaction, which is the special sense of smell, has a role in the enjoyment and selection of food, defence and sexual behaviours especially in lower animal. Today it is widely recognised that the sense of smell is closely linked to...

The tradition of children health protection was established by Catherine II in 1763 while signing the Manifest about founding in Moscow the Imperial Moscow Foster Home, which became the Science Children Health Center of Russian Medical Academy of Science...

The division between Psychology and Sociology into increasingly smaller fields of expertise has made communication between both disciplines virtually impossible. Suddenly, these two subjects seem to have lost the ability to talk to each other. It is...

Introduction In 1945, the United Nations (UN) coined the term "Non-Governmental " (NGO) and since then, there has been a continuous proliferation of NGOs particularly due to government and market failure in both Northern and Southern countries (Edwards...

The past few decades have seen the proliferation of street children in Nigeria. This is evident in the number of children seen on the street scavenging, begging, hawking and soliciting. Oloko (1999) expressed that the phenomenon of street children...

Since the turn of the 20th century, there has been significant industrial development across the world. This development has nearly exhausted the global forest resources. So much so that after 1961, 500 million hectares of tropical forests have been...

Human values or value systems, which are about things we attach importance to, go a long way to influence our overall behaviours. Indeed, knowledge of what an individual or a group of individuals holds as important , and of the degree of importance...

Contrary to what dominant approaches in psychology assume, there is a dimension to human behaviour and experience that may not be objectively measurable. Favouring a 'pure' objectivist epistemology quite often leads to dismissing the importance of...

The Novel as a Work of Mourning (trauerarbeit)--a Performative Response to Loss: Reading William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and Requiem for a Nun as 'Prose Elegies'--An Alternative to Postmodern Melancholy. "To elegize is to sing...

This paper was presented at the: International and Interdisciplinary Conference of Human Rights, Individualism and Globalization. Sponsored by the Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness Bethany College School of Arts and Sciences (April...

Introduction Ever since the seminal work of Thurstone (1927) subjective continua occupy a prominent place in psychological theory. This notion captures in a convenient and general way two complementary aspects of the perceptual system: its systematicity...

For autonomists, "mental illness" diagnoses and various psy practices are social constructions. Survivor and client movements provide spaces for examining those constructions and developing alternative constructions. These spaces can involve actual...

This paper will review the legacy of the bio-psychosocial model in the field of 'mental health care'. The latter, placed in speech marks because it is typically more about responding to presumed mental disorder than promoting mental health, can...

In the quest for understanding the nature of reality and the best way of studying it, knowledge is 'fragmented' into an array of expertise areas. This process, may provide greater depth of analysis of any given study subject. Nevertheless, such...

Traditional psychologists hold the ideological position that 'intelligence' is objectively measurable and consists of 'cognitive' traits (Cernovsky, 1991). They assume that language is a passive 'tool' through which 'intelligence' can be conceptualized...