Diversity Management: An Emerging Employment/Consulting Opportunity for Sociological Practitioners

Diversity management is examined as an emerging employment and/or consulting role of possible interest to sociological practitioners. First, the general development of diversity management since the mid-1980s is traced. Demographic imperatives for diversity management as well as some definitions, emphases, procedures, and publications are identified. Second, the linkages between diversity management and sociology/sociologists are discussed, as to: (a) substantive connections, (b) special sociological insights, (c) training suggestions, and (d) corporate involvement issues

Wędrówki po definicjach.Znaczenia terminów „nowoczesny”/„nowoczesność”/„modernizm”

The main task of the present article is to characterize the changing perspectives in the description and definition of modernism and modernity in a reciprocal relationship of these two categories. The creation of definitions is described here as a processes of fictionalization with a generational viewpoint of scholars. Moreover, the article indicates the difference between a nominal and a relational mode of defining and the question of institutionalization of knowledge within the framework of definition projects. Such research perspectives lead to the conclusion about dialogical and at the same time contradictory character of historical formations of phenomena to which the studied terms allude

Use of Clozapine in Women of Childbearing Age: A Literature Review and Recommendations

Concerns about medications in women of childbearing age include impact on fertility, pregnancy, neonatal outcome, breastfeeding, and behavioral teratogenesis. The objectives were to examine possible risks of clozapine on these parameters. PsycINFO and MEDLINE searches were performed and Novartis was contacted regarding their clozapine pregnancy registry. Since prolactin levels are not elevated with clozapine as they are with typical antipsychotics, there is not interference with fertility. Adverse pregnancy outcomes included gestational diabetes, should dystocia, seizure, and mild floppy infant syndrome. Higher concentrations of clozapine were present in breast milk than in maternal blood. Despite a lack of case-control prospective data, available information raises some questions regarding the safety of clozapine in pregnancy. Suggestions for treatment are made. Reproductive counseling should be given to women starting on clozapine. Individual risk-benefit assessments must be performed. In pregnant women taking clozapine, the clinician should screen for gestational diabetes and advise against breastfeeding

Bridging the social and the biomedical: engaging the social and political sciences in HIV research

This supplement to the Journal of the International AIDS Society focuses on the engagement of the social and political sciences within HIV research and, in particular, maintaining a productive relationship between social and biomedical perspectives on HIV. It responds to a number of concerns raised primarily by social scientists, but also recognized as important by biomedical and public health researchers. These concerns include how best to understand the impact of medical technologies (such as HIV treatments, HIV testing, viral load testing, male circumcision, microbicides, and pre-and post-exposure prophylaxis) on sexual cultures, drug practices, relationships and social networks in different cultural, economic and political contexts. The supplement is also concerned with how we might examine the relationship between HIV prevention and treatment, understand the social and political mobilization required to tackle HIV, and sustain the range of disciplinary approaches needed to inform and guide responses to the global pandemic. The six articles included in the supplement demonstrate the value of fostering high quality social and political research to inform, guide and challenge our collaborative responses to HIV/AIDS

Book Reviews

The New Class War: Reagan\u27s Attack On The Welfare State and Its Consequences by Francis Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. Reviewed by SAMUEL R. FRIEDMAN Social Service Politics In the United States and Britain by Willard C. Richan. Reviewed by GARY P. FREEMAN Mothers At Work: Public Policies In the United States. Sweden and China by Carolyn Teich Adams and Kathryn Teich Winston. Reviewed by SUSAN MEYERS CHANDLE

Batendo palmas a uma só mão: Colonialismo, pós-colonialismo e as fronteiras espácio-temporais do modernismo

O ensaio põe em causa a ideia dominante de que o Ocidente inventou a modernidade e o modernismo, enquanto o resto do mundo se limitou a imitar o Ocidente mediante formas dele derivadas. Reflecte sobre as paisagens urbanas de Xangai e Manhattan para desfazer a equivalência comummente aceite entre modernização e ocidentalização, e socorre-se da história mundial comparada e dos estudos pós-coloniais para sugerir novos modos de pensar os limites espácio-temporais do modernismo/modernidade. Põe em paralelo as traduções de gravuras japonesas por Cassatt, as adaptações de artefactos africanos por Picasso e a reescrita de Conrad pelo escritor sudanês Tayeb Salih para demonstrar a existência de fluxos culturais transcontinentais na formação de diferentes modernismos.The essay challenges the prevailing view that the West invented modernity and modernism, while the rest imitated the West in derivative forms. It considers the cityscapes of Shanghai and Manhattan to upset common equations of modernization with Westernization and draws on comparative world history and postcolonial studies to offer new ways of thinking about the spatio/temporal boundaries of modernity/modernism. Cassatt’s translations of Japanese woodblock prints, Picasso’s adaptations of African art, and the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih’s rewriting of Conrad are juxtaposed to demonstrate transcontinental cultural flows in the formation of different modernisms.Cet essai met en cause l’idée dominante selon laquelle l’Occident a inventé la modernité et le modernisme, et ce alors que le reste du monde se serait limité à imiter l’Occident à travers des formes qu’il produit. Nous tentons par conséquent de réfléchir sur les paysages urbains de Chang-hai et de Manhattan, pour mettre en question l’équivalence communément admise entre modernisation et occidentalisation, en nous penchant sur l’histoire mondiale comparée et sur les études post-coloniales, afin de suggérer de nouveaux modes à partir desquels il faudra penser les limites espacio-temporelles du modernisme/modernité. Sur cette voie, nous comparons les traductions des gravures japonaises par Cassatt, les adaptations des artefacts africains par Picasso et la réécriture de Conrad par l’écrivain soudanais Tayeb Salih, pour démontrer l’existence de flux culturels trans-continentaux dans la formation des différents modernismes

Hvorfor ikke sammenligne?

This article gives a critical overview over risks inherent in comparison, –risks of inequality between the two compared phenomena, the risk of using a normative standard, derived from one work or context for the evaluation of another work or another context, the risk of reducing the uniqueness of a work to generic or topical dimensions etc. However, the article moves on to make a strong argument for the necessity of comparison. It suggests the development of a more dynamic, dialectic and relational form of comparison. The article argues that any comparison is full of contradictory movements and therefore argues that a modern comparative method should focus on incommensurable juxtapositions, on contrapuntal opposition and reciprocity.This article gives a critical overview over risks inherent in comparison, –risks of inequality between the two compared phenomena, the risk of using a normative standard, derived from one work or context for the evaluation of another work or another context, the risk of reducing the uniqueness of a work to generic or topical dimensions etc. However, the article moves on to make a strong argument for the necessity of comparison. It suggests the development of a more dynamic, dialectic and relational form of comparison. The article argues that any comparison is full of contradictory movements and therefore argues that a modern comparative method should focus on incommensurable juxtapositions, on contrapuntal opposition and reciprocity