College and universities present distinct opportunities to interact across racial and ethnic lines that may influence people’s prejudice toward different groups. This study examines the influence of four forms of cross-race interaction on traditional and modern forms of racial prejudice among...

This paper argues on behalf of a public pedagogy approach to developing a critical understanding of digital health technologies. It begins by appraising the hitherto polarised articulations of digital innovation as either techno-utopian or techno-dystopian, examining these expectations of...

What does it mean to live in a dying place? This auto-critical article asks this question in the context of the Windsor/Detroit region, one of the most economically depressed zones in North America. Using the work of Barthes, Benjamin, and Taussig, I ruminate on the psycho-somatic experiences of...

This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is...

This paper is dedicated to the relationship between market development and democracy. We distinguish between contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is reached, and whether, conversely,...

This paper deals with the cultural premises of the social-economic dynamics in Russia. This involves cultural traditions, value reference points and moral aims accepted in the society. There seems to be substantial grounds to suppose that the appearance of radical reformers on the Russian...

This study (1) reports frequency rates of mutually exclusive traditional, cyber and combined (both traditional and cyber) bullying roles; and (2) investigates whether adolescents belonging to particular bullying roles show higher levels of involvement in risky online activities (Compulsive...

The editors of <i>Societies</i> would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2014:[...]

Because of the negative effects of cyberbullying; and because of its unique characteristics; interventions to stop cyberbullying are needed. For this purpose, more insightful information is needed about cyberbullying victims’ (<i>i.e.,</i> the target group) experiences, perceptions, attitudes and...

A tanulmány a közép-kelet-európai régió változásait először a világtörténelem kontextusában elemzi. Történelmi összehasonlításokkal igazolja, hogy egyedülálló átalakulásról van szó. Ez az egyetlen totális átalakulás, amely a nyugati civilizációban végbemenő...