Despite recent and growing interest in organizational politics, conceptual thought in this area tends to be dominated by a single theoretical perspective. In this paper we describe and contrast three ...

For some time now, in this column, I have been arguing that we as a society have culturally constructed the serial killer as an evil monster in our factual as well as fictional accounts of him. I ...

According to the functionalist theoretical perspective of sociology introduced by Emile Durkheim in the nineteenth century, society is held together by social consensus, or cohesion, in which members ...

Our tendency to see the world of psychiatric illness in dichotomous and opposing terms has three major sources: the philosophy of Descartes, the state of neuropathology in late nineteenth century ...

Family Relations, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan., 1988), pp. 36-41 (6 pages) Theories of gender on which public policy and therapeutic interventions are based have not kept up with the family transition from ...