Increased glutamate/GABA ratio links the autism and schizophrenia spectra through a social disorganisation trait phenotype

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. S696-S697 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.C. Ford ◽  
R. Nibbs ◽  
D.P. Crewther
Keyword(s):  
Social Disorganisation

scholarly journals The Challenges of National Integration in Nigeria

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua O. Nweke
Keyword(s):  
State Structure ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
National Integration ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Social Disorganisation

This paper interrogates the challenges of national integration in Nigeria. Several policies and programmes of government like harmonized state structure, establishment of National Youths Service Corps Scheme, Federal Character Commission have not been able to achieve the goal of unifying the peoples of Nigeria. The question is, what are the factors responsible for lack of unity, tribalism, nepotism, electoral malpractices, anarchy and social disorganisation, which are the bane of the Nigerian soda-political structure today? This paper provides answers to this question. It exposes the intricacies of national integration and seeks to x-ray the factors which hinder the realization of the dream of national integration and their possible alternatives. The identified alternatives deal with how to achieve the objective of national integration in Nigeria.

Social Disorganisation in Uganda: Before, During, and After Amin

1980 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidan Southall
Keyword(s):  
Military Regimes ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Disorganisation

The defeat of Amin and the liberation of Uganda by Nyerere's Tanzania is the most significant African event of the last decade. With it Africa came of age, able to criticise itself, no longer determined to support the honour of corrupt rulers against the world simply because they are black. Amin's buffoonery at last grew tiresome with surfeit. He was a clown who lived his life of power, self-indulgence, and tyranny to the utterance, making himself and his country a total jest, so that all the world must recognise the basic absurdity and iniquity of post-uhuru military régimes in Africa.

The "Social" Determination of Strike Activity: An Explication and Critique

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Strike Activity ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fundamental Causes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Disorganisation

The social analysis of strike activity is in its infancy despite the many recent publications which focus on the "social" rather than the "economic" causes of strikes. In the past, writers have searched for fundamental causes and have concentrated on three major areas: social disorganisation, frustration and com munication and the basic conflict of interest between employer and employee. Now, utilising the concepts of structure and process, the social perspectives of strike activity have been reformulated. It would appear that the earlier, static, one-way approach may have distorted reality. Thus a dialectic between structure and process should form the focus of attention when considering the causes of strikes. The conclusion is that the concept of a dialectic is an important step forward in replacing the old fundamentalist perspective, even though the concept still requires considerable refinement before it can be fully operational as a useful research tool.

scholarly journals Without Place, Is It Real?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F Donnermeyer
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Critical Criminology ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Crime And Place ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Theory Of Crime ◽  
Social Disorganisation ◽  
Realist Criminology

This article reviews Matthews’ (2014) Realist Criminology as an opportunity to address larger shortcomings within critical criminology, which is the failure to develop an alternative theory of crime and place to the mainstream theories of social disorganisation and collective efficacy. It uses rural criminological work related to violence against women and substance use, production and trafficking to illustrate the importance of place for development of a realist criminology that can consider localised expressions of power and inequality, and the multiplicity of networks and roles by which people can simultaneously be involved in both conforming and deviant/criminal behaviours. The article also suggests that a critical theory of crime and place would be useful to the synthesis and re-interpretation of criminological literature that is either theory-less or lacks a critical perspective.

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