Published in Nature
Decades of data on the legacy of childhood experience for adult health and wealth should help policymakers plan for future well-being, shows a book by pioneers of cohort studies. Children sit in a queue with empty plates waiting for lunch
Published in Nature
Many countries that see themselves as distinctive have handled the pandemic badly. "The COVID-19 pandemic supplies a natural experiment on the public health effects of hubris."
Published in Bio Systems
Double contingency-each of us (Ego) expects others (Alter) to entertain expectations as we entertain them ourselves-can be considered as the micro-operation of an above-individual (i.e., social) logic of expectations. Meaning is provided to events from the perspective of hindsight, but with reference to horizons of meaning. Whereas "natural selecti...
Women's initiation into injection drug use often establishes a pattern of risk following first injection. This study explored sources of gendered power dynamics in injection initiation experiences for people who inject drugs. A qualitative subsample from two prospective community-recruited cohorts of people who inject drugs in San Diego and Tijuana...
While the specification of situating context(s) is commonly treated as an indispensable part of social scientific research, the choices this involves are rarely directly explicated. An exception is conversation analysis (CA), which differs from many other approaches in its privileging of participants’ orientations as a basis for empirically groundi...
O neoliberalismo é um espaço de produção de subjetividade cujo eixo é a noção de capital humano. Considerando-se que, para o discurso neoliberal, a construção desse capital humano deve ter início na primeira infância, mostramos que, nesse contexto, a educação é entendida como um investimento destinado a hierarquizar e valorizar esse capital. Partin...
Published in Nature
Governments should stop spending billions of dollars on weapons and protect citizens from the real threats they face.
Published in Heliyon
Electronic communication platforms, Ethical issues, Facebook, Social media, School children, Cyber pornography, Cyber sexting, Cyber stalking, Abusive language, Cyber bullying, Cyber hacking, Education; Media education; Media use; Information science, Sociology.
