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Merchandise displayers, sometimes known as visual mer­chandisers, design and install displays of clothing, acces­sories, furniture, and other products to attract...

Doctors and other health care professionals often make tape recordings documenting what happened during their patients’ appointments or surgical procedures....

Anthropologists Clyde Kluckhohn and William Kelley claim that by “culture,” we mean those historically created selective processes that channel men’s...

Cultural ecology is the study of the adaptation of a culture to a specific environment and how changes in that...

Cybernetics is the study of control and self-organizing processes in systems, including living organisms, human organizations, and machines. Cybernetic modeling...

The advent of the personal computer combined with the development of the Internet and easy-to-use, Internet-based computer applications has created...

Cultural relativism is the idea that beliefs are affected by and best understood within the context of culture. It is...

Culture is that complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and other capabilities acquired by man as...

Within anthropology, the “tree of life” concept can be viewed from either a biological or a cultural perspective. The cultural...

Culture is a system created by human activity comprising spiritual, organizational, and material items and expanding within the Earth’s nature...

“Culture and personality” has been perhaps the most mythologized and misunderstood of American anthropology’s interdisciplinary endeavors. Ruth Benedict and Margaret...

The culture area concept was developed in the early 1900s, at a time when American anthropology was in its infancy....

A neologism derived from a neologism, cyberculture welds together the ‘‘cyber ’’ from cyberspace with ‘‘culture.’’ It is important to...

Elite culture can be defined as those ‘‘high’’ cultural forms and institutions that were exclusive to, and a distinguishing characteristic...

Fans have become important to work in media sociology and cultural studies for a variety of reasons: they can be...

The reproduction of our society’s sex gender system has been a continuing puzzle for sociologists of gender. The history of...

Idioculture is defined as ‘‘a system of knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and customs shared by members of an interacting group to...

Mass culture typically refers to that culture which emerges from the centralized production processes of the mass media. It should...

Material culture refers to the physical stuff that human beings surround themselves with and which has meaning for the members...

There is a movement among sociologists and social critics to include the built environment and physical bodies in social analysis,...

Multiculturalism or the political accommodation of minorities became a major demand in the last quarter of the twentieth century, filling...

The word ‘‘popular’’ denotes ‘‘of the people,’’ ‘‘by the people,’’ and ‘‘for the people.’’ In other words, it is made...

The Static-99 and its revised form, the Static-99R (together referred to as Static-99/R), are static, actuarial risk assessment instruments. The...

The Statistical Information on Recidivism (SIR) Scale is a static actuarial risk assessment tool developed and employed within the Correctional...

The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) is one of the most widely used and researched structured risk...

The Two-Tiered Violence Risk Estimates (TTV) is a measure designed to assess the likelihood of future violence in offenders. It...

The Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) and the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide-Revised (VRAG-R) are actuarial instruments designed to estimate the...

The Violence Risk Scale (VRS), developed by Stephen Wong and Audrey Gordon, is a forensic risk assessment tool designed to...

The Violence Risk Scale–Sexual Offender Version (VRS-SO) is a sexual offense risk assessment and treatment planning tool. The VRS-SO is...

It is important to assess risk of future violence for adolescents who have been charged with or convicted of criminal...

The Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory 2.0 (YLS/CMI 2.0) is a standardized instrument designed to help professionals assess risk...

Courts often rely on expert witnesses to better understand complex scientific or clinical issues that may be unfamiliar to judges,...

On March 13,2006, members of the Duke University lacrosse team held a drunken party at the home of the team’s...

Drug testing has become a relatively popular means of addressing student drug use. Before it was introduced in the school...

Broadly defined, a “drug” is any nonfood substance that in some way alters the physical or psychological processes of the...

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program was founded in Los Angeles in 1983. In this program, a trained police...

Many school districts have enacted dress codes in the belief that they will help increase student self-esteem, enhance school unity,...

DoSomething.org is a website that has a wealth of information on anything that could possibly interest an American teenager. Its...

On March 6, 2008, Alaa Abu Dhein, 26, entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, a religious school in Jerusalem, Israel. Armed...

In a region notorious for its history of wars and terrorist attacks, perhaps one of the most shocking incidents involved...

On May 24, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school districts can be held legally liable in cases of...

Dating violence has been defined as the use or threat of physical, sexual, verbal abuse, or stalking within a dating...

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