Showing papers on "Shadow (psychology) published in 1984"

The shadow of God and the hidden Imam : religion, political order, and societal change in Shiʿite Iran from the beginning to 1890

Abstract: Dismissing oversimplified and politically-charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern Iran that exposes the roots of what became Khomeini's theocracy.

The shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, political order, and societal change in Shi'ite Iran from the beginning to 1890

Abstract: Dismissing oversimplified and politically-charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern Iran that exposes the roots of what became Khomeini's theocracy.

Soviet Psychiatric Abuse: The Shadow Over World Psychiatry

Abstract: This book provides an account of contemporary historical assessment of the response to psychiatric abuse in the Soviet Union. It discusses all the major activities against Soviet psychiatry that took place in the West between the Honolulu and Vienna world psychiatric congress.

Government and shadow economy in the Soviet Union

Abstract: (1984). Government and shadow economy in the Soviet Union. Soviet Studies: Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 528-543.

The growing shadow economy: Implications for stabilization policy

Abstract: Not only has the shadow economy obviously been growing much more rapidly than the official economy in the Western industrialised countries, it also appears to have a growth cycle of its own, running counter to the official economy's growth cycle. This raises a number of important questions for stabilization policy.

Shadow Realities in Close Relationships.

Abstract: Starting from phenomenological theories about the negotiation of reality in dose relationships, a case is made for Shadow Realities in such relationships. Shadow realities are integrated alternative realities, not now in the relationship reality but at times available to people in the relationship. Shadow realities include unacceptable and threatening information and interpretations that fit the relationship and could undermine the negotiated relationship reality. The article offers theoretical discussion of what may be in these shadow realities, reasons people avoid them, what the gains and risks are for a couple of exploring their shadow realities, and the therapeutic applications of understanding and doing therapy within a framework that includes shadow realities.

Shadow Prices for Economic Appraisal of Projects: An Application to Thailand

Abstract: The study reviews past estimates of shadow prices in Thailand and their use in World Bank appraisals. Applying the Squire-van der Tak methodology, it proceeds to estimate conversion factors for project analysis in Thailand. Efficiency conversion factors were estimated for broad categories of commodities, as well as for selected sub-categories, including construction, electricity, transportation and rice. Estimates were also made of the shadow wage rate and of the opportunity cost of capital and land, drawing on an assessment of factor markets in Thailand. An annex also provides estimates of social conversion factors allowing for growth and income distribution considerations. Besides providing up-to-date estimates of shadow prices (conversion factors) for use in economic (and social) analysis of projects in Thailand, the study provides a case study of application of the Squire-van der Tak methodology. It also confirms the findings of other studies that Thailand is a country with relatively undistorted prices, as indicated by the fact that there is relatively little dispersion in conversion factors and that most of them are close to unity.

The kingdom by the sea : a journey around the coast of Great Britain

Abstract: Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in "The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain". Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure...' After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid and engaging reading. "A sharp and funny descriptive writer. One of his golden talents, perhaps because he is American and therefore classless in British eyes, is the ability to chat up and get on with all sorts and conditions of British...Theroux is a good companion". ("The Times"). "Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments". ("The New York Times"). "Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly". (Anthony Burgess, "Observer"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles, "Riding the Iron Rooster", "The Happy Isles of Oceania", "Sunrise with Seamonsters", "The Tao of Travel", "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star", "The Old Patagonian Express", "The Great Railway Bazaar", "Dark Star Safari", "Fresh-air Fiend", "Sir Vidia's Shadow", "The Pillars of Hercules", and his novels and collections of short stories, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner "The Mosquito Coast" are available from Penguin.

American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of “The Human Negro” in Philip Roth

Abstract: In a number of essays collected in Shadow and Act, Ralph Ellison categorizes the typical uses to which modern American white writers have put Black characters: to image "the unorganized, irrational forces in American life"'; to image "disorder and chaos"2; to image "infantile rebellions [against], fears of, and retreat from reality"3; to image "almost everything [the white mind] would repress from conscience and consciousness. "4

Aging in a Technological Society: Desiderata and Dilemmas in Decision-Making

Abstract: Every society has its ways of dealing with its aging and elderly members. To say that these are a reflection of the society’s mores, its ethos, its religion, and also its economic and political condition may sound like a truism. But it is an undeniable social fact of life that this milieu determines, in large part, the place of and prospects for all sectors, and certainly the elderly. It is, therefore, to the priorities and values prevailing in the final decades of the twentieth century that we must look for the shape of the future. Only a flip of the calendar away from 1984, we already live within the Orwellian shadow. In the rush into tomorrow’s world, science and technology play a powerful role. Historiographers offer theories as to the nature of social change. Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin had differing views except that for all of them technology was the major driving force. Sorokin1 put forward the notion of the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, pervading the particular period; he said that every era has its own character, expressed in its system of arts, truth, ethics, government, law, institutions, etc. The names reveal the nature and values of past historical periods. There are the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, and so on.

On the shadow wage of urban jobs in LDCs.

Abstract: Presenting and exploiting a simple model the relationship between the social opportunity cost associated with the creation of an urban job i.e. the shadow wage and the market wage taking into consideration induced rural-to-urban migration is examined. It is suggested that the shadow wage is lower than the market wage when agents are risk-averse and even if they are risk-neutral but their contemporaneous consumption function is concave and the social value of savings exceeds the social value of consumption as is likely to be the case in less developed countries. Consequently it appears that society does not lose from the creation of additional urban jobs even after the migration induced thereby from the rural areas is totally accounted for. The policy significance of determining the relationship between the social opportunity cost associated with the creation of an urban job and the market wage has bearing on such critical issues as the optimal choice of capital intensity in urban industry and the optimal level of employment in public urban industry.

AIDS casts a longer shadow.

Abstract: The good news is of rapid progress in describing what seems to be a new virus — the bad news, proof of heterosexual transmission and of the mounting prevalence of antibodies.