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Around the world, newspapers and magazines, cable and satellite television programs, radio broadcasts, documentary film, and more recently Internet sites...

Feminist media pedagogy is a critical teaching practice and body of scholarship concerned with the lives and relationships of both...

Transnational feminist media studies, an emergent area of scholarship, is both a critical intervention and a response to the challenges...

The term “feminization” tends to be used in communication studies in two basic ways. On the one hand, it describes...

The subject of this article is the field of study that examines the representation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender...

Theorizing about gender and organizations has proved a complex challenge, resulting in a body of literature that is “patchy and...

Pharmaceutical Careers Background Through trial and error, prehistoric humans discovered that certain plants were effective in treating injuries and fevers....

Photography Careers Background In the photographic process, images are produced by exposing light-sensitive chemicals called silver halides to light. The...

Plastics Careers Background Since the first synthetic plastics were produced in 1909, plastics have become a part of everyday life....

Printing Careers Background Printing is a dynamic and highly technical industry that enters into nearly every facet of our lives....

Public Relations Careers Background The origins of public relations date back to early Greece, when Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle developed...

Public Safety Careers Background Virtually every aspect of life involves policies, regulations, and laws that help to promote public safety....

Pulp and Paper Careers Background How much paper do you think you use? According to one estimate, the average American...

Radio Careers Background Broadcast technology developed in the 20th century enabled people to reach large audiences around the world instantly,...

Railroad Careers Background Despite its decline as a method of passenger transportation, the railroad remains the most efficient method of...

Real Estate Careers Background The real estate business helps fulfill one of our most basic needs: shelter. For many people,...

On the Galapagos Islands, one has the exciting opportunity to walk in the footsteps of Charles Darwin on this primeval...

Perhaps no one knows more about orangutans than the renowned “professor of primates” who has spent more than 30 years...

Sir Francis Galton was one of the most influential scientists of his time and is of systematic anthropological and bioethical...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma), who is discussed in the anthropological literature for his adoption of nonviolent resistance (Satyagraha, the vindication...

In every society, young people form loose or organized groups or networks around myriads of intertwining and competing interests and...

For the last 40 years, Clifford James Geertz has been the most influential and controversial anthropologist to capture the interest...

Gemeinschaft, or “community,” has always been an ambiguous notion. Particularly in the German context, it has been contrasted with the...

Gender is a social and cultural categorization defined by the meanings given to biological differences between the sexes. Gender roles...

Gene flow is the transfer of genes from one population to another population, usually by migration of one population into...

Generative grammar is a theory of language that is generally said to have made its appearance in 1957, with Noam Chomsky’s...

School climate refers to the general tone of social relations in and around schools: how people in the school relate...

School discipline refers to a system of rules, monitoring, sanctions, and rewards implemented by school personnel with the intent of...

School transitions signify students’ entries into new schools. They are important milestones that lead to both positive and negative events...

The empirical association between schooling and economic success is one of the most secure findings in the social sciences. With...

The concept of social capital has been widely used in educational research. However, researchers have yet to come to an...

Standardized tests are tests that are administered under controlled (or “standardized”) conditions – specifying where, when, how, and for how...

Status attainment research begun by sociologists in the United States more than three decades ago laid the foundation for the...

With over 3 million teachers working in the US public school system, teaching attracts consider able attention from sociologists. Many...

The study of teachers and teaching has always been an important focus of sociology of education, but the analysis of...

Tracking is the process of differentiating individuals’ school experiences through the grouping of students for instructional purposes based on actual...

Despite diverse cultural traditions seen in family life around the globe, a common thread of domestic violence weaves through nearly...

Violence against women has become a focal concern for international organizations such as the United Nations (2005) and the World...

The lens through which a society views itself plays a critical role in how it identifies, measures, and interprets a...

Too often, young people are considered suspicious for no reason other than their age. Instead of recognizing their creativity, excitement,...

The U.S. Department of Justice is a federal agency overseen by the U.S. Attorney General and charged with a multitude...

While federal studies show that the rate of school-related homicides and nonfatal violence has fallen over most of the past...

Patrick Purdy had a history of arrests, mental illness, and alcohol-related problems– but no one could have predicted that he...

On October 27, 1975, 18-year-old Robert Poulin shot seven people, killing one, at St. Pius X High School in Ottawa,...

On September 2, 2006, Douglas Pennington, age 49, drove two hours from his home and entered the campus of Shepherd...

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) had its origin in the July 1998 U.S Department of Education...

Which elements of films, novels, or plays are able to produce suspense in the viewer or reader? (We will use...

In general, suspension of disbelief is understood to be an audience’s tolerance of the fictionality of media content. The phrase...

Representation and explanation of complex communication phenomena are goals of communication research and theory building. To reach these goals, communication...

Transportation into a narrative world refers to the feeling of being lost in the world of a narrative, of being...