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This article delves into the critical role of risk assessment in the parole and probation processes within the United States...

This article explores the multifaceted landscape of community supervision strategies within the United States criminal justice system. Beginning with an...

Humans act, at least partly, on the basis of how they think others expect them to act. This means that...

Although today’s mixture of theories and approaches combining interpersonal and mass communication is a two-sided one (incorporating researchers with training...

In The people’s choice, Paul F. Lazarsfeld and his colleagues laid out many of the key issues that disciplines such...

Media use is a central leisure-time activity for many families worldwide. Given the considerable time investment of family members in...

Communication scholars, psychologists, sociologists, and other social scientists have long been interested in how individuals interpret the real world around...

What do we mean when we say a story is realistic? At first, that may seem simple. One possibility is...

Beyond one’s own direct experiences of the world, humans rely on communication to form impressions about the rest of reality....

Meta-analyses have been conducted within the last twenty years in four areas in the field of perceived social reality. Their...

Research on small group communication has a long history of examining how participation in groups affects perceived reality. Groups often...

There are several definitions of pluralistic ignorance – in the fields of psychology, sociology, and communications the term is not...

Work is the labor, task, or duty that is one’s accustomed means of livelihood. Anthropologists among social scientists have debated...

Xenophanes was a Greek Presocratic philosopher, poet, rhapsode, and social and religious critic. Born circa 570 BC in the Ionian...

In the modern world, the diversity of cultures on this planet becomes more evident when seen in the process of...

The Yabarana are an Orinoquian indigenous group of Amazonas State, Venezuela. Most live along the banks of the Parucito River...

Since the early European-natives encounters, two main groups were identified in the southernmost region of the archipelago of Tierra del...

As one of the most famous of all cultures in anthropology and beyond, the Yanomami are ethnographic celebrities. They are...

Robert Mearns Yerkes was an American psychobiologist who was among the most influential psychologists of the early 20th century. Although...

Yeti is the mysterious giant bipedal creature of the eternal snows of the Himalayas. The yeti (yeh-teh) has always been a...

Y-STR is a relatively new term for geneticists, becoming common in DNA literature in the second half of the 1990s....

Zafarraya is a Mousterian site located within the El Boquete de Zafarraya (The Zafarraya Pass) of the Sierra Tejeda Mountains...

This article explores the pivotal role of mental health services within the corrections system in the United States. The introduction...

This article examines the pivotal role of Substance Abuse Treatment Programs within the US criminal justice system, addressing the pervasive...

This article delves into the pivotal role of correctional officers in the United States criminal justice system. Beginning with a...

The article provides a comprehensive exploration of prison safety and security measures within the context of the United States criminal...

This article examines the multifaceted phenomenon of solitary confinement within the United States criminal justice system, delving into its historical...

This article explores the multifaceted landscape of reentry and reintegration programs within the context of the United States criminal justice...

This article explores the multifaceted dimensions of the parole system and post-release supervision within the context of the US criminal...

This article explores the multifaceted realm of juvenile corrections and detention centers within the context of the United States’ criminal...

This article explores the multifaceted landscape of private prisons within the United States’ criminal justice system. The introduction provides a...

This comprehensive article delves into the multifaceted issue of prison overcrowding within the United States criminal justice system. Beginning with...

The media landscape of West Asia includes countries and media systems as diverse as Turkey, with big media conglomerate holdings;...

Social norms entail learned expectations of behavior or categorization that are deemed desirable, or at least appear as unproblematic (Sherif...

Visual portrayals of women in the media tend to emphasize idealized standards of thinness and beauty that are beyond the...

Immediately following the debut of Nintendo in 1995, researchers questioned what effects games like Super Mario Brothers had on those...

Television is the world’s storyteller, telling most of the stories to most of the people, most of the time. As...

In a projection, a person attributes certain aspects of him or herself to others. The process is closely tied to...

Our perceptions of reality may often rely on mass mediated images. Walter Lippmann’s classical work, Public Opinion, first published in...

The term “extra-media data” describes a methodological approach to assessing the quality of media content. The phrase was coined in...

False consensus is the inaccurate perception that our own beliefs are similar to those of others, when in fact they...

A person expresses false uniqueness, an inaccurate social comparison, when that individual perceives that differences between his or her own...

Benjamin Lee Whorf was a chemical engineer, a linguist, and an anthropologist. He pursued his interest in anthropology and linguistics...

Raymond Williams was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the 20th century. As a social theorist and cultural critic,...

Edward O. Wilson was born in Alabama on June 10, 1929. He grew up with an early interest in and...

Clark Wissler was an influential American anthropologist, although his impact on anthropological theory is often overlooked. Many of Wissler’s ideas...

Witch doctor, also sometimes witchman, is an unfortunate term created by English speakers during colonial times in Africa to refer...

The term witchcraft is used in a great number of ways, to refer to supernatural beliefs and practices that the...

Eric Robert Wolf spent his professional career defining and expanding issues such as peasant society, state formation, development of capitalism,...

Eric Wolf viewed culture as a web of relations, constantly changing over time. Power on the endpoints of the relationships...