Had the New President, So I Said, OK, Erving, I Am Sending Over a Reporter

This interview with Russell Dynes, professor emeritus at the Universityof Delaware, was recorded over the phone on February 4, 2009. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Dynes edited the transcript and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”

Environment Crises

Report consists of three different parts(print) 91 p. ; 28 cm.Preface -- List of Tables -- Part A: Dimensions of Community Leadership and the Definition of Water Resources Problems -- Part B: Factors in the Community Perception of Water Resource Problems -- Part C: A Sociologist Looks at Water Resources Researc

Social movements, violence, and change: the May Movement in Curaçao

(print) x, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cmPREFACE ix -- 1 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE The Riot; The May Movement as a Synthesis; Social Movements and Social Change 3 -- 2 CURACAO : HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT Population Sources; The Impact of the Refinery on Curacao; Curacao's Place Within the Kingdom of the Netherlands 24 -- 3 THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE : SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE RESPONSE TO SOCIAL STRAIN The Population Base and the Stratification System; Politics and Government; Politics and Labor; Personal Politics; The Labor Movement; The Growth of Radical Politics 46 -- 4 THE EMERGENCE OF THE MAY MOVEMENT Labor Unrest; Emergence of the May Movement-Economic Mobilization; Elaboration of the May Movementoliticization; Significance of Internal Conflict; Significance of Structural Setting 68 -- 5 THE MAY MOVEMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE AND REFORM IN CURACAO Political Change and Reform; Economic Change and Reform; Sociocultural Change and Reform; The Societal Capacity for Reform 96 -- 6 THE MAY MOVEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF OTHER SOCIAL MOVEMENTS The Nature of Violence and the Direction of Protest; The Importance of Labor in Social Movements in Developing Countries; The May Movement and Racial Disturbances in the United States; The May Movement and Other Western Social Movements; The Consequences of the May Movement for the Curacao of the Future 124 -- APPENDIXES A. The Agreement of Kralendijk B. Conclusions and Recommendations, May 30, 1969 : Report of the Commission for the Investigation of the Causes of the May 30, 1969 Riots in Curacao C. Data Collection 159 -- INDEX 17

Levels of Aspiration and Family Affection : Religious Preference as a Variable

Author Institution: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus 1

Bridging Alone: Religious Conservatism, Marital Homogamy, and Voluntary Association Membership

This study characterizes social insularity of religiously conservative American married couples by examining patterns of voluntary associationmembership. Constructing a dataset of 3938 marital dyads from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households, the author investigates whether conservative religious homogamy encourages membership in religious voluntary groups and discourages membership in secular voluntary groups. Results indicate that couples’ shared affiliation with conservative denominations, paired with beliefs in biblical authority and inerrancy, increases the likelihood of religious group membership for husbands and wives and reduces the likelihood of secular group membership for wives, but not for husbands. The social insularity of conservative religious groups appears to be reinforced by homogamy—particularly by wives who share faith with husbands

Subminimal Inhibitory Concentrations of the Disinfectant Benzalkonium Chloride Select for a Tolerant Subpopulation of Escherichia coli with Inheritable Characteristics

Exposure of Escherichia coli to a subminimal inhibitory concentration (25% below MIC) of benzalkonium chloride (BC), an antimicrobial membrane-active agent commonly used in medical and food-processing environments, resulted in cell death and changes in cell morphology (filamentation). A small subpopulation (1–5% of the initial population) survived and regained similar morphology and growth rate as non-exposed cells. This subpopulation maintained tolerance to BC after serial transfers in medium without BC. To withstand BC during regrowth the cells up regulated a drug efflux associated gene (the acrB gene, member of the AcrAB-TolC efflux system) and changed expression of outer membrane porin genes (ompFW) and several genes involved in protecting the cell from the osmotic- and oxidative stress. Cells pre-exposed to osmotic- and oxidative stress (sodium chloride, salicylic acid and methyl viologen) showed higher tolerance to BC. A control and two selected isolates showing increased BC-tolerance after regrowth in BC was genome sequenced. No common point mutations were found in the BC- isolates but one point mutation in gene rpsA (Ribosomal protein S1) was observed in one of the isolates. The observed tolerance can therefore not solely be explained by the observed point mutation. The results indicate that there are several different mechanisms responsible for the regrowth of a tolerant subpopulation in BC, both BC-specific and general stress responses, and that sub-MIC of BC may select for phenotypic variants in a sensitive E. coli culture

Earthquakes, Volcanoes and God: Comparative Perspectives from Christianity and Islam

This paper asserts that both Christian and Islamic traditions of faith affect the ways in which people both try to make sense of, and respond to, disasters. This contention is supported by the results of empirical research, which demonstrates that differing Islamic and Christian perspectives on human suffering caused by disasters are neither as diverse, nor are they so intractable, as is commonly supposed. Today pastoral convergence between the two traditions may also be discerned, together with a general acceptance of the policies of both State agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) which are concerned with hazard relief and the propagation of policies of disaster risk reduction (DRR). Indeed some important disaster relief NGOs have emerged from Islamic and Christian faith communities and are supported by charitable donations

Prognostic model to predict postoperative acute kidney injury in patients undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery based on a national prospective observational cohort study.

Background: Acute illness, existing co-morbidities and surgical stress response can all contribute to postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery. The aim of this study was prospectively to develop a pragmatic prognostic model to stratify patients according to risk of developing AKI after major gastrointestinal surgery. Methods: This prospective multicentre cohort study included consecutive adults undergoing elective or emergency gastrointestinal resection, liver resection or stoma reversal in 2-week blocks over a continuous 3-month period. The primary outcome was the rate of AKI within 7 days of surgery. Bootstrap stability was used to select clinically plausible risk factors into the model. Internal model validation was carried out by bootstrap validation. Results: A total of 4544 patients were included across 173 centres in the UK and Ireland. The overall rate of AKI was 14·2 per cent (646 of 4544) and the 30-day mortality rate was 1·8 per cent (84 of 4544). Stage 1 AKI was significantly associated with 30-day mortality (unadjusted odds ratio 7·61, 95 per cent c.i. 4·49 to 12·90; P < 0·001), with increasing odds of death with each AKI stage. Six variables were selected for inclusion in the prognostic model: age, sex, ASA grade, preoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate, planned open surgery and preoperative use of either an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or an angiotensin receptor blocker. Internal validation demonstrated good model discrimination (c-statistic 0·65). Discussion: Following major gastrointestinal surgery, AKI occurred in one in seven patients. This preoperative prognostic model identified patients at high risk of postoperative AKI. Validation in an independent data set is required to ensure generalizability