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Metric Properties of the Neighborhood Inventory for Environmental Typology (N…
Objectives: Establish metric properties of the Neighborhood Inventory for Environmental Typology (NIfETy). Method: A total of 919 residential block faces were assessed by paired raters using the NIfETy. Reliability was evaluated via interrater and internal consistency reliability; validity by comparing NIfETy data with youth self-reported violence, alcohol, and other drug exposure and crime sta…
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- Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2010. pp.159-184
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Exploring Methods to Investigate Sentencing Decisions
The determinants of sentencing are of much interest in criminal justice and legal research. Understanding the determinants of sentencing decisions is important for ensuring transparent, consistent, and justifiable sentencing practice that adheres to the goals of sentencing, such as the punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation of the offender, as well as reparation for the vict…
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- Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 185-219
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The Cost-Effectiveness of NBPTS Teacher Certification
A cost-effectiveness analysis of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) program suggests that Board certification is less cost-effective than a range of alternative approaches for raising student achievement, including comprehensive school reform, class size reduction, a 10% increase in per pupil expenditure, the use of value-added statistical methods to identify effecti…
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- Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 220-241
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Measuring Law for Evaluation Research
Evaluations that combine social science and law have tremendous potential to illuminate the effects of governmental policies and yield insights into how effectively policy makers’ efforts achieve their aims. This potential is infrequently achieved, however, because such interdisciplinary research contains often overlooked substantive and methodological challenges. This article offers detailed g…
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- Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 242-266
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Principles for a Cultural Psychology of Creativity
This article focuses on a novel theoretical paradigm emerging in the study of human creativity: the cultural-psychological approach. It starts by differentiating between the long past of individualistic accounts of creativity (the lonely genius) and the short history of psychological understandings (the creative individual). The social and the cross-cultural psychology of creativity are both co…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 147-163
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Commentary: How can Creativity in a Social Context be Possible?
Glaveanu’s (2010) ‘We-paradigm’ creativity is related to culture and social context, especially due to his emphasis on the role of the community as a provider of criteria for evaluating creativity. In addition, he suggests five principles for studying this kind of creativity. In this article, I will apply these principles to study the Korean cultural phenomenon, Shinmyeong. The characteristics …
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 165-173
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The Interface Work of Narrative
The article explores further Lyra (1999) and Hermans’ (1999, 2001a, 2001b) glossing of complexity terminology within analysis of identity formation, taking a particular interest in differing uses of narrative within identity negotiations. Lyra (1999) draws attention to the importance of using an extended time frame to assess the power dynamics involved within any communicative exchange. The fra…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 175-194
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Commentary: Self-Narrative Reconstruction in Psychotherapy: Looking at Differ…
This commentary focuses on Cross’s (2010, this issue) work as an opportunity to elaborate upon how to study narrative-dialogical processes from the perspective of complexity. We start by elaborating on the notion that narrative development is a multidimensional activity that extends through several organizational levels and on the limitations of conventional research methods for narrative analy…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 195-212
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Culture as the Co-evolution of Psychic and Social Systems: New Perspectives o…
In this article we contribute a new theoretical perspective to the analysis of the relationship between individual and culture, and the person and the environment. Many hotly debated issues in cultural psychology, such as reification, the discourse of personality traits, and models of part—whole hierarchies are productively addressed. Taking a systems-theoretical approach following Niklas Luhma…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 213-241
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Commentary: Environment, Behaviour and Communication: The Definitive Answer o…
The attempt to create general theory in social sciences is not new. Reductionism is one of the main problems in this process. Here I analyze the relationship between human, environment, and culture, based on Luhmann’s systems theory and its implications for modern psychology as discussed in Thommen and Wettstein’s (2010) critique of the field. Distinguishing three types of system (biotic, psych…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 243-251
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Guilt in a Fluid Culture? A View from Positioning Theory
What is the status of guilt as an emotion in postmodern society? According to Zygmunt Bauman, postmodern consumer society supplies a cultural context in which guilt loses in importance. By definition, guilt is connected to a breach in shared rules, but rules and norms have allegedly become fluid today, thereby rendering clear breaches and ensuing guilt rare events. In this article, I provide an…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 253-266
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Sympathy, Compassion, and Empathy in English and Russian: A Linguistic and Cu…
In this corpus-based study I contribute to the description and analysis of linguistic and cultural variation in the conceptualization of sympathy , compassion, and empathy. On the basis of a contrastive semantic analysis of sympathy, compassion, and empathy in English and their Russian translational equivalents, socuvstvie , sostradanie, and soperezivanie, I demonstrate significant differences …
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 267-285
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Commentary: Framing Sympathy
The expression of emotion takes many forms and their linguistic expression is one of the key ways they are articulated. The study of the semantic fields in which the expression of emotion takes place is in need of an appropriate methodology and a sufficiently broad set of examples. Anna Gladkova’s attempt to use the methodology of Natural Semantic Metalanguage to explore the semantics of certai…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 287-296
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US Free Trade Agreements and Policy Flexibility: Will New Rules Hinder Indust…
Free trade agreements have become a central feature of many developing countries' growth strategies, encouraged by an evaluation literature that quantifies their positive impact on trade. However, trade gains come at the cost of policy space, particularly when the partner is a developed country, and though this cost has been acknowledged, its impact has not been explored. This article seeks to …
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 387 - 410
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Elites, Rent-Cycling and Development: Adjustment to Land Scarcity in Mauritiu…
According to rent-cycling theory, low rent aligns the interests of the elite and the majority in providing public goods and efficiency incentives to promote economic growth, while high rent risks deflecting the elite into self-enriching rent deployment, which distorts the economy and triggers a collapse from which recovery is protracted because rent recipients resist reform. The theory also pre…
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 411 - 433
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The Impacts of Supermarket Procurement on Farming Communities in India: Evide…
The rapid expansion of supermarket retailing, with its impact on farmer communities, represents a contentious part of India's recent economic development. This article reports on three districts of Karnataka, where a survey of 78 farmers supplying fruits and vegetables to Reliance Fresh, a leading supermarket chain, reveals low levels of vertical co-ordination, a lack of written contracts, and …
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 435 - 456
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A Development Delivery Institution for the Tribal Communities: Experience of …
This article examines the varied impacts of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) as a development delivery institution for the tribal communities vis-à-vis other social groups across the Indian States, using the framework of new institutional economics. A number of State-specific, socio-economic institutional factors seem to be responsible for these variations. The article the…
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 457 - 479
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Targeting Cash to Malawi's Ultra-Poor: A Mixed Methods Evaluation
Governments target transfers so that limited resources reach impoverished households; targeting errors therefore indicate inefficiency in resource use and inability to reach the poorest households. This article examines the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme (SCTS), using mixed methods and multiple data sources, including examination of underlying assumptions, the operationalisation of key conc…
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 481 - 502
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The State and the New Society: The Role of the Arts in Singapore Nation-building
This paper takes an historical perspective on the trajectory of Singapore's arts and cultural landscape from 1965 to 2000. It examines the arts and cultural field as an ideological site within which the People's Action Party government constantly sought to reinvent or vision a new society. From harnessing the arts for the task of creating “civilised” and “cultured” citizens immediately after in…
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- Volume 34, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 131 - 149
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Pontianaks, Ghosts and the Possessed: Female Monstrosity and National Anxiety…
In its self-conscious transformation into a global city with a national culture that strains to include post-industrial values, contemporary Singapore has had to struggle with the repressed anxieties that threaten to return and disrupt its entry into the advanced stages of global capitalism. This article argues that such struggles are ritually performed in a selection of contemporary Singapore …
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- Volume 34, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 151 - 170
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