China's Scientific Elite. By Cong Cao. [London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. 256 pp. £60.00; $95.00. ISBN 0-415-32757-1.]

2005 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 431-433
Author(s):  
Stanley Rosen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Systematic Effort ◽  
Scientific Elite ◽  
Elite Status ◽  
Science Framework ◽  
The Impact

Since the completion of his doctoral dissertation in sociology at Columbia University in 1997, Cong Cao has published a number of very insightful articles on various aspects of China's scientific elite. He has now taken the next step and, incorporating some material from these earlier publications, given us the most systematic effort to examine this important social group. His agenda is certainly ambitious. Inspired by one of his mentors, the late, great sociologist Robert K. Merton, Cao employs the Mertonian sociology of science framework, using the norm of universalism and the theory of social stratification in science to determine the basis for the formation of this elite group. Using membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as the indicator of elite status, Cao sets himself four primary tasks. The first – and the major focus of the book – is to examine the various factors that might have played a role in one's selection to this Academy, including social origins, the influence of mentors, the quality of research, political party membership, and personal relations. Secondly, he examines the impact of major historical changes on the development of science and the formation of this elite. Thirdly, he seeks to put the Chinese case into a comparative perspective, often citing the work of another of his mentors, Harriet Zuckerman, a leading scholar of the American scientific elite, among other sources. Finally, he addresses the role this elite has played in influencing the nation's policy making and urging autonomy and democracy in scientific research and societal life.

Roundtable Discussion of the Impact of the 4th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Robyn J. Barst ◽  
Marc Humbert ◽  
Ivan M. Robbins ◽  
Lewis J. Rubin ◽  
Robyn J. Park
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Pulmonary Hypertension ◽  
Vascular Diseases ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Maryland School ◽  
The Impact

A discussion among attendees of the 4th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension took place to share “an insider's look” into the current and future research and treatment implications in pulmonary hypertension. Myung H. Park, MD, guest editor of this issue of Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director, Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Program, Division of Cardiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, moderated the discussion. Participants included Robyn Barst, MD, Professor Emerita, Columbia University, New York; Marc Humbert, MD, PhD, Universite Paris-Sud, French Referal Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, Hopital Antoine-Beclere, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Clamart, France; Ivan Robbins, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; and Lewis J. Rubin, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego.

Orthodoxy and Dissent

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 72-74
Author(s):  
Vera Rich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
American Association ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Soviet Sociology ◽  
Slavic Studies

Soviet Sociology of Science by Linda L. Lubrano American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Columbus, Ohio 1976 102pp The Phenomenon of Science — A Cybernetic Approach to Human Evolution by V. F. Turchin Columbia University Press New York 1977 $21.90 348pp

David Berger, editor. The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881 and Its Impact. New York: Columbia University Press. 1983. Pp. 187.

2004 ◽  
pp. 370-373
Author(s):  
Ewa Morawska
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Brooklyn College ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Jewish Migration ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines David Berger's The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881 and Its Impact (1983). The wave of pogroms in Russia in 1881–2 forcefully brought to the surface a complex of demographic, ideological, and cultural developments that had been working their way through the Jewish communities of the Pale since the mid-19th century and which were to affect profoundly modern Jewish history. Commemorating the centennial of those catalytic years and their aftermath, especially the mass emigration and resettlement of Russian Jews during the three decades that followed, the book under review re-examines the impact of these events on different areas of life of 20th-century Jewry. The volume consists of fourteen short essays presented originally as papers at the 9th Annual Conference on Society in Change held at Brooklyn College in March of 1981. The Legacy of Jewish Migration reads well, and the variety of topics treated in the book successfully holds the reader's attention; also, bibliographies appended to each selection are useful and up to date.

scholarly journals Challenging the Centre: Asylum Seekers Encounter Native Citizens

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Pirkko Koski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
National Significance ◽  
The Impact

In Paper Anchor (Paperiankkuri) at the Small Stage of the Finnish National Theatre in 2011 a group of actors, dancers, asylum seekers and eventually also stage technicians (re-)enacted the asylum seekers’ stories: how they had fled their home countries, feared for their lives and faced problems in their country of destination, Finland. It brought the spotlight on asylum seekers, who occupy a marginal position in society and made them visible on many levels: they were present in the stories that were told on stage, in the encounter between performers and spectators and in an art institution that has great national significance. The periphery and the centre, in this case the asylum seekers and the native Finns, met in shifting circumstances and also in a way that is characteristic of the theatre: the performers and spectators were simultaneously physically present, whereas the public debate on refugee issues usually takes place in written texts. In Paper Anchor, the asylum seekers also assumed the role of a witness, whereas in official processes they are obligated to defend themselves and search for evidence. The impact of Paper Anchor was largely based on the aesthetic form of the performance. Although the dominant power structures between the centre and the periphery remained untouched, theatre testified to its ability to affect the spectator through the presence of individual subjects and consequently their subject positions. The debate was shifted to differences within a culture instead of between cultures, as Rosi Braidotti writes: “It is the syntax of social relations, as well as their symbolic representation, that is in upheaval.” (Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects. Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Columbia University Press, New York 2011, p.8.)

scholarly journals Charles Wagley: mentor and colleague

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-643
Author(s):  
Maxine L. Margolis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
Coffee Cultivation ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Professor Charles Wagley was my mentor at Columbia University, my colleague at the University of Florida and a dear friend. His influence on me can be summarized in one word: Brazil. From the time I took his course, "Peoples of Brazil", as a first semester graduate student at Columbia I was captivated and most of my subsequent field research and publications have had Brazilian themes. Under Dr. Wagley's direction I did field research for my dissertation in the coffee region of northern Paraná and focused on the shift from coffee cultivation to cattle ranching and the social and economic consequences of that change. My subsequent research in the area involved the impact of frost on this shift in economic base as well as one of its results: the flight of poor Brazilians to Paraguay. Then starting in the late 1980s my research shifted and I began focusing on Brazilian immigrants in New York City. This was part of a growing movement of Brazilians arriving in New York, elsewhere in the United States and in Europe and Japan. Since then most of my subsequent research and publications have been on this new wave of international migrants

scholarly journals What Went Wrong? Reflections on the Condition of Architecture and Urbanism in Lebanon

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elie Haddad
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Impact

In a short article presented at a conference in New York City two years ago, Joan Ockman lucidly diagnosed the contemporary dilemma faced by architecture, i.e. how to insert itself between a pessimistic discourse that warns of the end of time, and an uncritical surrender to globalization. This dilemma is now universal(i). It applies to New York City, where in the same context Kenneth Frampton commented on the dystopia of an “oddly paranoid, rather ruthless, instrumental and resentful landscape”(ii), as well as to other cities around the world, especially in the Third World, where more difficult conditions permeate architectural practice, resulting in even more devastated landscapes. This article will discuss issues that relate to architectural practice and pedagogy, drawing on specific examples in the context of Beirut, Lebanon, and reflecting on the impact of‘architectural education’ and the transformations within the architectural profession in this context. One can no longer deny the negative impact of economics on a profession that has been, for the most part, idealistic in its approach to the built environment, but the responsibility of architects and architectural education, can no longer beminimized in assessing the problems that cities like Beirut face today. i The conference was organized at Columbia University, andpublished as The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the21st Century, New York: Monacelli Press, 2003. See JoanOckman’s “Criticism in the Age of Globalization” [78-9]ii “Brief Reflections on the Predicament of Urbanism” , ibidem[13]

scholarly journals Shifting Perceptions: Lessons from an exploratory study of the Inside Criminal Justice Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Emilia Delgadillo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Criminal Justice Program ◽  
Network Failure ◽  
The Impact

This is an exploratory study of the efficacy of Inside Criminal Justice (ICJ), an eight-week long course for incarcerated students and public prosecutors that fosters respectful and open discussions about the criminal-legal system in order to rethink public safety. ICJ’s impact falls within applied contact theory, intergroup relations, and interventions aimed at reducing bias. The ICJ course was founded in 2018 as a joint initiative between three key institutions in the Tri-State Area (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut): the District Attorney’s Office, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), and Columbia University. ICJ brings current prosecutors inside correctional facilities to learn about and discuss issues of criminal justice alongside incarcerated students while developing joint policy proposals centered on improving the justice system. This program is the first of its kind in the area. Through semi-structured interviews of students and prosecutors from across the seven cohorts and qualitative data analysis, this dissertation considers the impact of ICJ on three domains: pre-existing beliefs related to the justice system, changes to concrete behaviors, and network building/transformation. It presents evidence of a reciprocal humanizing experience for its participants that helps shift perceptions, as suggested by Allport's (1954) contact hypothesis. It then examines the translation of that shift to individual and larger-scale changes resulting from ICJ involvement, and explores the distinct forms of credibility ICJ networks give to its participants as well as the ways network failure contribute to justice involvement. There is limited literature about programs that bring these types of criminal justice actors together in an educational setting. In addition to informing a larger, more systematic program evaluation, this exploratory study identifies key themes for future exploration, and presents evidence about the program’s efficacy.

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