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Some History of Clinical Sociology and Sociological Practice, Part I
From the beginning of the discipline, sociologists have used their knowledge to bring about change. This paper reviews the early antecedents of sociological practice, and then concentrates on three areas of practice as illustrative of practice. These are: studies in intergroup relations, before and after World War II; the studies of the morale of soldiers conducted during the Second World War; and the juvenile delinquency and poverty programs. After the end of World War II the focus of sociology shifted from the outside world to disciplinary concerns, and theoretical development was seen as incompatible with the use of sociology. Sociological practice has emerged as a social movement within sociology in response to the problems created by this shift in focus. This article ends with a description of the paradigm shift; a later article will discuss the recent emergence of sociological practice
Clinical Sociology and Adolescent Medicine: The Design of a Program
This article describes the uses of sociological theory and knowledge in the design and operation of an in-hospital program for the care of physically ill and injured adolescents. The central tasks of adolescence — resolution of the conflict between autonomy and dependency, the development of intimacy and competence, the ability to take on adult roles, and the development of the self — may be hampered by a total institution which depersonalizes patients and fosters dependency. The development of normative structures which encourage autonomy, continuity of role evelopment, appropriate levels of intimacy, and continued development of the self are encouraged by appropriate modifications of usual hospital routine. Normative support for these modifications is developed through educational programs for house staff (residents and interns), nurses, and others involved in the program. While the article emphasizes sociological concerns, the success of the program depends on contributions from an interdisciplinary team drawn from medicine, nursing, social work, and sociology
Finite Schur filtration dimension for modules over an algebra with Schur filtration
Let G be GL_N or SL_N as reductive linear algebraic group over a field k of
positive characteristic p. We prove several results that were previously
established only when N 2^N. Let G act rationally on a finitely
generated commutative k-algebra A. Assume that A as a G-module has a good
filtration or a Schur filtration. Let M be a noetherian A-module with
compatible G action. Then M has finite good/Schur filtration dimension, so that
there are at most finitely many nonzero H^i(G,M). Moreover these H^i(G,M) are
noetherian modules over the ring of invariants A^G. Our main tool is a
resolution involving Schur functors of the ideal of the diagonal in a product
of Grassmannians.Comment: 22 pages; final versio
Evaluation of a Commodity Supplemental Food Program among the Aged Poor in Detroit
This article reports on the evaluation of a demonstration program in which elderly residentsof the Detroit area were provided foods through the Commodity SupplementalFood Program. Organized in a short period of time, the evaluation of this demonstrationprogram had to take into account the realities of program needs, and lack offunding for the evaluation. Elderly participants in the Focus:Hope Food for Senior
Resummation of Threshold, Low- and High-Energy Expansions for Heavy-Quark Correlators
With the help of the Mellin-Barnes transform, we show how to simultaneously
resum the expansion of a heavy-quark correlator around q^2=0 (low-energy), q^2=
4 m^2 (threshold, where m is the quark mass) and q^2=-\infty (high-energy) in a
systematic way. We exemplify the method for the perturbative vector correlator
at O(alpha_s^2) and O(alpha_s^3). We show that the coefficients, Omega(n), of
the Taylor expansion of the vacuum polarization function in terms of the
conformal variable \omega admit, for large n, an expansion in powers of 1/n (up
to logarithms of n) that we can calculate exactly. This large-n expansion has a
sign-alternating component given by the logarithms of the OPE, and a fixed-sign
component given by the logarithms of the threshold expansion in the external
momentum q^2.Comment: 27 pages, 8 figures. We fix typos in Eqs. (18), (27), (55) and (56).
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Frobenius Splittings
We give a gentle introduction to Frobenius splittings. Then we recall a few
results that have been obtained with the method.Comment: 21 pages, typos correcte
The large N limit of M2-branes on Lens spaces
We study the matrix model for N M2-branes wrapping a Lens space L(p,1) =
S^3/Z_p. This arises from localization of the partition function of the ABJM
theory, and has some novel features compared with the case of a three-sphere,
including a sum over flat connections and a potential that depends
non-trivially on p. We study the matrix model both numerically and analytically
in the large N limit, finding that a certain family of p flat connections give
an equal dominant contribution. At large N we find the same eigenvalue
distribution for all p, and show that the free energy is simply 1/p times the
free energy on a three-sphere, in agreement with gravity dual expectations.Comment: 28 pages, 4 figure
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