Recently added articles from Social Research:
Endangered scholars worldwide.
Dec 22, 2008; ... IRAN FARZAD KAMANGER, an Iranian teacher, has been brutally and repeatedly tortured since his arrest in 2006 and is now facing the imminent possibility of execution. He was sentenced to death by the Iranian Revolutionary Court on February 25, 2008, charged with "endangering ...
Editor's introduction.(Brief article)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE DECISION TO EDIT AN ISSUE ON FRAUD UNFORTUNATELY REFLECTS the sense of the times we are living through in this country. Although it seems highly likely that fraud has always been an aspect of social life, it now seems to have virtually taken over. Instances range from the often ...
Disgrace: the lies of the patriarch.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC COMPLEX OF THE HEBREW BIBLE, WHICH OPENS with Genesis and the creation of the world and closes at the end of Kings with the Babylonian exile, (1) tells a sad story--notwithstanding the faint light that flickers at the end, a glimpse of hope of a better future for the ...
State-of-the-art impersonations for comedy and everyday.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... RECENTLY SOCK PUPPETRY HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS. IT IS CURIOUS HOW the latest means of faking identity can take on the names of age-old--in this instance also childish--games and performances. That nomenclature helps us understand what is going on, apparently. Puppet theater goes well back in ...
When false representations ring true (and when they don't).(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... IN APRIL 2007, MARILEE JONES RESIGNED AS MIT'S DEAN OF ADMISSIONS after word reached the administration that she had fabricated part of her resume 28 years earlier (Lewin, 2007: A1). When she first applied for a job at MIT in 1979, Jones had claimed to have earned degrees from three ...
Election fraud and the myths of American democracy.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND THE BITTER 36-DAY FIGHT that followed over the pivotal state of Florida, opened the eyes of many Americans to a reality they had, up to that point, largely chosen to ignore: that their electoral system was--in at least some parts of the ...
Fraud in science.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... IT WAS A POPULAR MYTH IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH century that scientists like Einstein, perhaps befuddled by the complicated mathematics they rely on, had abandoned common sense. It was, after all, the steam engine that created the Industrial Revolution, and a skilled mechanic ...
Fraud in the U.S. health-care system: exposing the vulnerabilities of automated payments systems.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... IN 1993, ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO DECLARED HEALTH-CARE fraud the "number two crime problem in America" after violent crime--a remarkable status for a category of white-collar crime. In 1995, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh testified that cocaine-traffickers in Florida and California were ...
Moral, social, and economic dimensions of insurance claims fraud.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... CONSUMER DISHONESTY STEMS FROM A COMPLEX INTERPLAY OF motivations and circumstances, moderated by morality, opportunity, social norms, and institutional context. The complexity is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in the case of insurance fraud, particularly claims fraud. Claims fraud may ...
What went wrong? Accounting fraud and lessons from the recent scandals.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... In the public eye, Enron's mission was nothing more than the cover story for a massive fraud. --Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind CORPORATE FRAUD, BANKRUPTCIES, AND VARIOUS ILLEGAL ACTS HAVE always been part of the business environment. Every time fiascos ...
What do we know about tax fraud? An overview of recent developments.
Dec 22, 2008; ... QUESTIONS ABOUT TAX FRAUD HAVE BEEN AROUND AS LONG AS TAXES themselves and will remain an area of discovery as long as taxes exist. To understand the impact of a tax system, it is important to know who complies with the tax law as well as who does not. Tax fraud is a large and growing ...
Charles Tilly, 1929-2008.(In memoriam)
Jun 22, 2008; ... CHARLES TILLY, OUR ESTEEMED COLLEAGUE AND LONGTIME MEMBER of the editorial board of Social Research, died on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Chuck joined the Graduate Faculty of the New School in 1984 as Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History, and in 1990 became University Distinguished ...
Endangered scholars worldwide.(cases on academic freedom)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The last four months have been exceptionally bad ones for academic freedom. As well as the four new cases listed below, many instances of generalized repression have victimized countless teachers and students around the world. In February a derision of the Federal High Court of Ethiopia ...
Editor's Introduction.(Editorial)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008; ... THE PAPERS IN THIS ISSUE CONCERN THE RELATED SUBJECTS OF martyrdom, self-sacrifice, and self-denial. They have long and complex theological histories but would not have been chosen as our theme if they did not have an equally rich, and problematic, place in today's world. Who and what is a ...
Morality and self-sacrifice, martyrdom and self-denial.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... MY CHIEF INTEREST IS TO EXPLORE THE QUESTION, IS SELF-SACRIFICE A necessary part of morality?. Think of a person who gives away millions of dollars to those in need while keeping millions for himself. He does not appear to sacrifice anything, but he acts morally by preventing or ...
Suicide, violence, and cultural conceptions of martyrdom in Palestine.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... MUCH OF THE SCHOLARLY DISCOURSE ON "SUICIDE TERRORISM" FOCUSES on the political strategies of these acts of violence and fails to consider their cultural dimensions, which are key to understanding how these acts gain popular support and become potential individual motivations. These forms ...
Martyrdom and sacrifice in a time of terror.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... IN AN INTERVIEW, DR. ABDUL AZIZ RANTISI, THE POLITICAL HEAD OF the Hamas movement in Palestine, objected to my use of the term "suicide bombers" to describe his young colleagues in Hamas who chose to blow themselves up in acts of violence against Israel (Rantisi, 1998). His concern was the ...
Can martyrdom survive secularization?(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... THE ADVENT OF THE SUICIDE BOMBER AS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON during the past decade and a half has vastly increased our interest in but only marginally improved our understanding of martyrdom. The word remains as mysterious, hard to define, and highly explosive as ever. Modern scholars much ...
Emily Wilding Davison: secular martyr?(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ON JUNE 4, 1913, A TALL, SLENDER, 40-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WITH RED hair and green eyes stood quietly at the rail of the Epsom Downs race track, waiting for the running of the English Derby. Her name was Emily Wilding Davison and she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) ....
Trading pain for knowledge, or, how the West was won.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. --Simone Weil, "Human Personality" A GENERATION AGO, THE SUBJECT WAS KNOWLEDGE AND POWER; TODAY, the subject is knowledge and pain ....