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Public Consciousness (public + consciousness)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences85%
Distribution within Humanities and Social Sciences
General & Introductory Geography32%

Selected Abstracts

Extent and Nature of Sexual Harassment in the Fashion Retail Workplace: 10 Years Later

FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 1 2005
Catherine Amoroso Leslie
Sexual harassment continues to be a pervasive and costly problem for businesses, government, and educational institutions. In the past 15 years, workplace sexual harassment has become prominent in the public consciousness. In fashion retailing, an industry with a large number of young, unmarried female employees and relatively large power differentials between organizational levels, sexual harassment is an important issue. The purpose of this study was to replicate Workman's 1993 article "Extent and Nature of Sexual Harassment in the Fashion Retail Workplace." The same instrument was administered to 144 female clothing and textile students at a large state university. One hundred six participants (73.6%) had experienced at least one incident of sexual harassing behavior. This was consistent with Workman's finding of 73.5%. In the majority of the variables tested, very little had changed between 1993 and 2003. [source]

Colonial Networks, Australian Humanitarianism and the History Wars

GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2006
ALAN LESTER
Abstract The ,History Wars' have brought contests among Britons over the colonisation of Aboriginal land and people to the forefront of public consciousness in Australia. These contests, however, were the result of trajectories that criss-crossed British imperial spaces, connecting Australia with other settler colonies and the British metropole. A number of historians and historical geographers have recently employed the notion of the network to highlight the interconnected geographies of the British Empire. This paper begins by examining the utility of such a re-conceptualisation. It then fleshes out empirically the networked nature of early nineteenth century humanitarianism in colonial New South Wales. Both the relatively progressive potential of this humanitarian network, and its complicity in an ethnocentric politics of assimilationism are analysed. Settler networks, developed as a counter to humanitarian influence in the colony, are also examined more briefly. This account of contested networks demonstrates that they were never simply about communication, but always, fundamentally, about the organisation and contestation of dispossessive trajectories that linked diverse colonial and metropolitan sites. The paper concludes by noting some of the implications of such a networked analysis of dispossession and assimilation for Australia's ,History Wars'. [source]

Track three diplomacy and human rights in Southeast Asia: the Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor

GLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 1 2002
Herman Joseph S. Kraft
Transnational networks of non-government organizations are increasingly becoming a fixture in international relations, particularly their contribution to traditional notions of diplomacy and its objectives. Less noticed, however, is the involvement of transnational NGO networks in alternative channels for diplomatic exchange, which have been referred to as ,track three diplomacy'. Described as a form of civil society that transcends borders and nationalities, track three networks and activities involve NGO networks that are movement based, and concerned primarily with raising public consciousness over issues. While their direct influence on formal processes of foreign policy-making has been limited, they have contributed to expanding both the scope of debate in international relations and the breadth of participation in those debates. Track three networks provide a forum for those communities marginalized by an international system that gives primacy of place to states and their officially-declared concerns. Their impact is limited, however, by their lack of institutionalization and their reluctance to cooperate with government agencies , an issue that goes towards both their effectiveness and their identity in the long-term. [source]

Literature, Social Science, and the Development of American Migration Narratives in the Twentieth Century

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2007
Erin Royston Battat
This article traces the complementary relationship between social science and American migration narratives in the twentieth century, with particular attention to texts produced in the Depression era, and to more recent scholarship on the literature of African-American migration. While social scientists borrowed the tools of literary artists to understand migration in the 1920s, writers in the Depression era employed sociological and anthropological methods to bring the plight of the southern migrant into the public consciousness. Narratives of southern white, Mexican-American, and African-American migration proliferated within a social scientific paradigm that depicted the migrant as a marginal figure, and the emergence of the concept of ,ethnicity' shaped the representation of internal migrants. Social science continues to influence literary criticism, as critics employ sociological and anthropological concepts to understand migration narratives. [source]

Anthropological Knowledge and Native American Cultural Practice in the Liberal Polity

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2002
Professor James P. Boggs
U.S. Indian policy is caught between two incommensurable theories or paradigms. First, liberal theory extended the worldviewof early physical science to understand human nature. Providing the conceptual foundation for liberal polities, it largely underwrote U.S. Indian policy into the mid-20th century. Liberal theory recently has been superceded, as theory, by anthropological culture theory, which better accounts for variations between peoples and the realities of human life. The advent of culture theory marks a major paradigm shift within science and public consciousness. Liberal theory, however, remains the foundation for the powerful ideology of liberalism and the institutional practices of Western capitalism and democracy. Thus arise uncomfortable disjunctions,first, between incommensurable theories that both remain vital forces in public life, and, secondarily, between knowledge and practice. This article explores these contending theoretical formations, disjunctions between them, and illustrates how these disjunctions translate into contemporary argument in U.S. Indian policy. [source]

The Mythologeme of Siberia

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 6 2006
On the Concept of a Siberian Motif in Russian Literature
This article is deals with the literary image of Siberia in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature. Siberia became more than just a locale in both Russian literature and in the public consciousness: it became a particular concept, a complex idea. Traditionally associated with severe weather, long dark winters and later the proverbial place of penal servitudes, Siberia as a topos began to be unconsciously interpreted as the mythological "land of the dead." The author analyzes a wide range of examples from texts by Ryleev, Pushkin, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Erofeev and others, and illustrates that by placing their characters in Siberia, Russian writers follow the old archetypal plot of initiation. Surviving in Siberia is hence interpreted as coming back from the dead , a social, psychological or emotional rebirth. [source]

Manufacturing technology for terrestrial PV systems: high efficiency crystalline Si through amorphous Si

PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS, Issue 2 2002
Minoru Kaneiwa
In order to meet the rapidly growing demands for solar power photovoltaic systems, grounded on public consciousness of global environmental issues, Sharp has increased the production of solar cells and modules 50-fold in last 7 years. Efforts to establish manufacturing technologies of solar cells for terrestial use and approaches toward high light-to-electricity conversion efficiency using silicon material (crystalline to amorphous ) are described. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]