Review of: Sociology of Work - An Encyclopedia

This reference resource with versions available in a twovolume print edition as well as online, consists of 335 entries from leading scholars and subject experts. The entries cover a broad spectrum of international topics ranging from “alienation” to “working poor.” Entries in both formats include “see also” references and “further readings,” while the online version includes links to cited articles

Exploring the Changing Teaching Practices and Needs of Business Faculty at Santa Clara University

This report will present the findings and recommendations of a study designed to explore Santa Clara University (SCU) business faculty’s current and emerging undergraduate teaching practices. The study was led locally by researchers in the SCU Library, with parallel studies conducted at fourteen other institutions of higher education in the United States during the 2018-19 academic year. These studies were coordinated at the national level by Ithaka S&R, a not-for-profit research and consulting service that helps academic and cultural communities serve the public good and navigate economic, technological, and demographic change. Ithaka will publish a capstone report of major themes across all fourteen institutions in Winter 2020 and will include recommendations that libraries, universities, and business schools can use to support the changing teaching practices of their business faculty

Breaking the Chains that Prevent Student Comprehension: Exhuming and Rectifying Common Chemistry Misconceptions through Music

Regardless of how students construct alternative conceptions (or misconceptions) within the subject of chemistry, they serve as significant barriers to scaffolding of proper knowledge. Just as any structure must be built upon a solid foundation, student knowledge must be constructed upon an underpinning of core facts and concepts. Unfortunately, when these facts and concepts are false due to some misunderstanding, proper scaffolding of knowledge ceases. Traditional methods, such as “conceptual change texts” and “computer animations” have been shown to be effective in fostering conceptual change in students. One area in which research is limited is in the use of music, in both addressing student misconceptions, as well as, fostering conceptual change in students. This paper will examine the complexities that students experience when learning chemistry and the historical context of misconceptions. It will discuss the notion of conceptual change, how research has shown it can be achieved, and propose the innovative use of music as a means of promoting it. Relevant theories to addressing and correcting misconceptions in the classroom (e.g. metacognition, the 5E learning model, argumentation, and active learning) are also discussed

Cancelling Serials Based on their Availability in Aggregated Full-Text Databases

Canceling an individual serial subscription when the journal is available in a third-party aggregated full-text database (AFTD) has been an option for academic libraries since these databases came into wide use in the late 1990s, yet little discussion of this option has taken place in the literature. Third-party aggregated full-text databases refer to products sold by companies that do not themselves publish journals but only distribute journal content - for example, various well known products sold by EBSCO and ProQuest and some open access databases such as Project Muse. This article looks at several case studies that discuss this option at some length and describes Santa Clara University Library\u27s (SCU) experience employing it. Two of the studies conclude that canceling individual journal subscriptions based on their availability in an AFTD is an acceptable, even desirable, option while two others conclude it far too risky. Considering the many variables involved, this article argues that there is insufficient evidence to make a definitive judgement about whether this option is appropriate for all academic libraries or for all subject areas. It also suggests that fiscal responsibility demands that academic librarians evaluate this option within the context of their institutional and disciplinary circumstances rather than rely on studies and experiences from other libraries that may have little relevance to their specific situation

Review of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy

This 2015 addition to the Palgrave Social Science Handbook series has the goal of providing a framework for understanding “how to shape a society with the best conditions for philanthropic giving”. In their introduction Wiepking and Handy refer to the eight mechanisms that drive people to make philanthropic donations which they distilled from a literature review of more than 500 empirical articles. While much in known about individual motivations for philanthropic donation to nonprofit organizations the current work sets out to build on this knowledge and provide a framework for understanding “the conditions under which people are more, or less, generous” and in particular, “how major country-specific differences in governmental, fiscal and legal policies” shape an individual\u27s philanthropic behavior. They have assembled a wealth of empirical data and scholarly analysis which is organized into three parts: introduction; country chapters, and; themes and findings

Review of The Minimum Wage: A Reference Handbook

The Minimum Wage: A Reference Handbook. Edited by Oren M. Levin-Waldman. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016. 354 p. $58 hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-4408-3394-6),$58 (1 user) e-book (978-1-4408-3395-3). Debate among economists over the theoretical and actual efficacy of a minimum wage seems as intense today as it ever was and in the American political arena the debate continues to be contentious and sharply divided along party lines. While not a completely balanced treatment, this recent addition to ABC-CLIO’s Contemporary World Issues series is notable because it provides essential background on the struggle for, and against, a minimum wage law that is accessible to those who have little or no knowledge of the history behind it. It provides an introduction to the wide ranging socioeconomic and political motivations and controversies that have surrounded the minimum wage in the United States since it was first enacted into law in 1938 in the Fair Labor Standards Act

Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions.

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process involving the transfer of magnetic potential energy to plasma kinetic energy through changes in the magnetic field topology. Results are presented of experimental measurements as well as numerical modeling of relativistic magnetic reconnection driven by short-pulse, high-intensity lasers that produce relativistic plasma along with extremely strong magnetic fields. Evidence of fast magnetic reconnection was identified by the plasma's x-ray emission patterns, changes to the electron energy spectrum, optical probing techniques, and by measuring the time over which reconnection occurs, while numerical modeling suggests the process occurs within the relativistic regime wherein the magnetic energy density exceeds the electron rest mass energy density. Accessing these conditions in the laboratory may allow for further investigation to provide insight into previously inaccessible regimes relevant to space and astrophysical plasmas.PHDApplied PhysicsUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135743/1/aeraym_1.pd

Review of Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility: CSR, Sustainability,Ethics and Governance.

This dictionary would be an outstanding addition to any academic or public library collection as it provides definitions for more than six hundred terms critical to understanding the concept of corporate social responsibility. The group of 128 contributors from 25 countries makes it an international effort: predominantly European, Australian and American academics

The language of racism and the criminal justice system

The question of racial bias in the criminal justice system has long been a controversial one in South African legal, sociological and political discussion. This thesis is an intervention in the discussion, in favour of the argument that the criminal justice system is a site of racial and other forms of bias. Whereas the conventional emphasis has been on the structures of bias, the focus here is upon the language of bias in the criminal justice system, that is, upon the way in which white judicial officers speak to or about working-class people of colour. Traditionally, the analysis of biased language has been concerned with the patent racist utterance or opinion, identified according to the positivist techniques of content analysis. However, of late an important shift has taken place in the language of racism, to a discourse formally free of blatant racist insults. The analysis of the language of this "new racism" in the criminal justice system is the central focus of this thesis