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Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...social problem-solving abilities – there are many vulnerabilities that can heighten the risk of suicide. Professor Rory O’Connor, President of the International Academy of Suicide Research, has been studying the psychological processes behind self-inflicted death for over 20 years. “Did you see the news?” he asks when I meet him. The morning’s papers are...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...Social Development, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005...Find out more about The Open University's Education Studies (Primary) qualification. Most contemporary theorists argue that cognitive processes need to be taken into account in order to explain how the social environment makes its mark on the child’s gender development and how the child plays an important...
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How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...social media channels and were swallowed up by millions of people in recent months. On the science front, one example of fake news includes articles downplaying the fact that cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke are bad for human health. Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, co-founders of the website Retraction Watch, which detects academic papers withdrawn due to...
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Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...social conditions of the ordinary working person. Although Deller is not referencing it directly, it also parallels a movement from the USA in the 1930s, which drew on European surrealist techniques that were current at the time and applied them to social commentary and critique (Fort, 1982). A technique that was favoured by artists in this earlier social surrealist...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...social/political dimensions. The challenge for public health systems is to formulate effective responses on all three fronts; and to measure effectiveness, we need metrics. Demonstrating the efficacy of biomedical interventions is relatively straightforward. Likewise, we can measure the effectiveness of interpersonal interventions to improve knowledge and change...
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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...social production, shaped by power dynamics. So how do we reconcile such perspectivism with a continuing search for robust knowledge, whether ‘at home’ or ‘abroad’ – knowledge that is sorely needed in the current climate? As a sociologist researching families and relationships, my primary approach has involved qualitative methods ever since I discovered how much...
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...social outcomes of home education. In particular, employment is an area of society that we know very little about when it comes to the home education community. Members of this community might be familiar with questions received by those who don’t home educate, regarding whether this mode of education adequately prepares young people for participating in society, with...
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...works, promoted by the poststructuralists of the 1980s. Social reality is a mirage, constructed in language and other symbols, and bound together by relations of power. Once you become aware of this, you can work to deconstruct it, and to promote a different configuration of values and beliefs for mainstream society. You can shift the meaning of words and, through this,...
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