Showing papers by "Paul DiMaggio published in 2010"
TL;DR: In this article, the diffusion of stereotypes or racial prejudice in a social system based on assumptions about how people process outgroup information and the likelihood of intergroup interaction is modeled, and a structural theory of action that explains how neural and social networks change reciprocally.
Abstract: dynamic networks in conjunction with other forms of non-relational data. From this per spective, psychologists and sociologists both can model, for example, the diffusion of stereotypes or racial prejudice in a social system based on assumptions about how people process outgroup information and the likelihood of intergroup interaction. Together, these independent streams of research can jointly develop a structural the ory of action that explains how neural and social networks change reciprocally. It is here that the future (understanding) of inequality lies. R6F6R6NC6S
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TL;DR: A novel method to teach basic procedural skills to medical students beginning the surgery clerkship is implemented, insuring that necessary technical skills are imparted during the surgery rotation.
Abstract: Background In response to declining instruction in technical skills, the authors instituted a novel method to teach basic procedural skills to medical students beginning the surgery clerkship. Methods Sixty-three medical students participated in a skills training laboratory. The first part of the laboratory taught basic suturing skills, and the second involved a cadaver with pig skin grafted to different anatomic locations. Clinical scenarios were simulated, and students performed essential procedural skills. Results Students learned most of their suturing skills in the laboratory skills sessions, compared with the emergency room or the operating room ( P = .01). Students reported that the laboratory allowed them greater opportunity to participate in the emergency room and operating room. Students also felt that the suture laboratory contributed greatly to their skills in wound closure. Finally, 90% of students had never received instruction on suturing, and only 12% had performed any procedural skills before beginning the surgery rotation. Conclusions The laboratory described is an effective way of insuring that necessary technical skills are imparted during the surgery rotation.
33 citations
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: The nineteenth century was marked by what historian Lawrence Levine has called a “sea change” in American culture as discussed by the authors, and the arts were becoming sharply stratified, and works that just a few decades before had been presented in mixed programs to mixed audiences were now enclosed in nonprofit art museums and orchestras.
Abstract: The nineteenth century was marked by what historian Lawrence Levine has called a “sea change” in American culture. During the first part of the century, urban Americans shared a common culture, which they experienced at home and in a relatively undifferentiated set of public entertainments. By 1900, the arts were becoming sharply stratified. Works that just a few decades before had been presented in mixed programs to mixed audiences were now enclosed in nonprofit art museums and orchestras, part of an upper-class culture set off by a distinctive ideology and etiquette of appropriation. This classification and sacralization of the arts was accomplished by urban elites, members of a new industrial and commercial upper class actively engaged in transforming itself into a status group, with command over authoritative cultural resources.1
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