American doctors performed many other odd experiments. The book The Male Hormone tells the story of Professor Fred Koch and his student Lemuel McGee, both employed at the University of Chicago. They cheerfully mashed, extracted, fractionized and distilled thousands of kilograms of bulls’ testicles, in search of the pure male sex hormone. From 40 kg […]
День: 04.11.2015
Reduced Teaching Loads
Faculty may negotiate a reduced teaching load for an initial period after they are hired. New faculty often desire a reduced teaching load to allow them time to get settled in a new environment and to get their labs and their research set up and underway. The committee’s survey asked all tenure-track and tenured faculty […]
Rejuvenation
Around 1900 average life expectancy increased. This was mainly due to better nutrition and hygiene. More and more people lived into middle age and beyond. Rather in the same way as in our own time, many people at the turn of the twentieth century felt the need to combat the decline that accompanies old age. […]
Television and Gender-Role Stereotypes
Another powerful agent of gender-role socialization is television. Depictions of men and women in TV dramas are often blatantly stereotypical (Lauzen et al., 2008). Men are more likely than women to appear as active, intelligent, and adventurous, and to take positions of leadership. Men are also often featured in work-related roles while female characters are […]
Otaku sexuality in Japan
Patrick W. Galbraith Introduction This chapter is an exploration of ‘otaku’ sexuality in Japan. According to the Kojien Japanese dictionary, otaku are ‘People who are interested in a particular genre or object, are extraordinarily knowledgeable about it, but are lacking in social common sense’ (cited in Kam 2013: 152). After a mass-mediated debate in the […]
HOW THE CONCEPT OF SEX HORMONES. ORIGINATED
The first use of the term “hormone” can be traced back to Britain. In 1905, Ernest H. Starling, professor in physiology at University College in London, introduced the concept of hormones: These chemical messengers…or “hormones” as we may call them, have to be carried from the organ where they are produced to the organ which […]
The third wave (1997-the 2000s): Post-colonial administration, tongzhi citizenship building, and the emergence of the politics of difference
If the tongzhi movement in the 1990s aimed at identity and community building, the movement in the 2000s has gradually moved on to building sexual citizenship. The HKSAR government actively promotes the family as a core value in Hong Kong society and as an essential part of ‘Chinese culture’. The first Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa […]
Schools, Books, and Gender Roles
Studies indicate that girls and boys often receive quite different treatment in the classroom, a process that strongly influences gender-role socialization. Among the findings of these studies are that teachers call on and encourage boys more than girls; that teachers are more likely to tolerate inappropriate behavior of boys than girls; and that boys are […]
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND. SOCIAL EFFECTS OF SEX RESEARCH:. THE SEXOLOGICAL MODEL. OF SEXUALITY
LEONORE TIEFER Ideology works precisely by making us believe that what is socially created, and therefore subject to change, is really natural, and therefore immutable. (Weeks, 1995, p. 34) The guiding metaphor of scientific nativism, that the body and its natural processes provide a “base” or “foundation” which determines the superstructure of social relations, in […]
CAPABILITIES AND SKILLS IN IT FIELD
In most economies, there are often links between capabilities, skills and career outcomes of individuals (Faulkner&Lie, 2007). Also IT sector requires special skills and capabilities. But although there is a need for skilled IT workers, many of them are currently underemployed and are using only a limited range of skills repertoirs. Underemployment is a particularly […]