Book review: Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal and Adriana Cruz (eds), Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 798-800
Author(s):  
Jiang Hui
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies

scholarly journals Book Review: Positive Psychology Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Edited Collection by Danuta Gabryś-Barker and Dagmara Galajda.

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Sonja Babic
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Human Functioning ◽  
Positive Character

Traditionally, within psychology, the focus has been on the negative aspects of human functioning and how to improve and treat problems. Positive Psychology (PP) emerged to balance the field by ensuring a consideration of both positive and negative dimensions; to examine what goes well in life as well as instances of disorder and dysfunction. As a result, PP concentrates on “positive emotion, positive character traits, and institutions that enable individuals to flourish” (MacIntyre, 2016, p. 3). PP has recently started gaining researchers’ attention in language learning and teaching (MacIntyre, Gregersen, & Mercer, 2016), although it is still in its infancy within Second Language Acquisition (SLA). This volume is one of the first few edited collections to address this nascent field. It comprises theoretical, practical and empirical studies of foreign language learning and teaching through the lens of PP. It encompasses four main sections, namely, introducing PP in SLA; focus on learners: positive interventions; focus on teachers: personal and professional wellbeing; and, focus on assessment: achievement and success.

Book review: Mario Bisiada (ed.), Empirical studies in translation and discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 696-698
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies

Book Review: Religion: Empirical Studies

Theology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 109 (849) ◽  
pp. 218-219
Author(s):  
Douglas Davies
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies

Islamic Ontology of Death Anxiety in the Work of Abdel-Khalek

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
James A. Beshai
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Arab American ◽  
Human Vulnerability ◽  
Christian View ◽  
First Time

This is a book review of Abdel-Khalek's (2005) Arabic Handbook on “Death and Dying.” This review extrapolates the Islamic ontology presented in 492 pages covering 56 empirical and 304 empirical studies published by a host of Arab, American and European psychologists and psychiatrists. The Handbook presents an Islamic ontology on death anxiety for the first time to English readers. Freud's Judeo-Christian view of death anxiety is already familiar to readers of Omega. But the Islamic ontology of death is relatively unknown even though it is relevant. This reviewer finds the Islamic ontology of death to be similar to the Judeo-Christian one. Islam provides believers with assurance of God's mercy regardless of human vulnerability to evil. Death anxiety can be relieved by exercising moderation in relations with others. Quoting from the Qur'an, Abdel-Khalek (2005) makes the claim that there is a judicious path to follow between daily distress and achieving social goals. The Arabic term to describe this path is Surat-Mustakeem. It comes close to Aristotle's Eudaimona or happiness. Death Anxiety is neither negative nor positive in connotation. It is the ethical pursuit of a dialectic of truth and virtue. Death anxiety research shows a convergence between ontology and empirical research.

scholarly journals Book Review: Shamionov R. M., Bocharova E. E., Beskova T. V., Grigorieva M. V., Usova N. V., Klenova M. A., Tarasova L. E. Discriminatory Attitudes in the Modern World

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-376
Author(s):  
Alfiya R. Vagapova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Emotional Level

Discriminatory attitudes and discrimination of individuals based on their nationality, religion, gender, age, physique, social status are a serious problem of the modern multipolar world. In the monograph of the group of authors (R. M. Shamionov, M. V. Grigorieva, E. E. Bocharova, T. V. Beskova, N. V. Usova, M. A. Klenova, L. E. Tarasova), the results of theoretical and empirical studies on phenomenology, mechanisms, determinants and types of discriminatory attitudes are presented. The latter are considered as a socio-psychological phenomenon characterized by prejudice and negative feelings towards Others and a willingness to oppress them. R. M. Shamionov and M. V. Grigorieva attempt to develop and validate a tool for assessing discriminatory attitudes and their content at the emotional level. The team of authors are hopeful that the monograph reveals the features of specific types of discriminatory attitudes in the social environment, the factors that reinforce them and the conditions under which they are eliminated. The book will be useful to students and post-graduate students, as well as specialists whose activities are connected with social relations.

scholarly journals Where is Trauma Society Heading? A book review: Toshchenko Zh.T. Obshchestvo Travmy: Mezhdu Evolyutsiei i Revolyutsiei (Opyt Teoreticheskogo i Empiricheskogo Analiza). [Society of Trauma: Between Evolution and Revolution (Experience of Theoretical and Ap

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-201
Author(s):  
Valentin G. Nemirovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Trauma Society ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This review evaluates the monograph which follows up the cycle of seminal works on the controversial issues of social changes written by the prominent Russian sociologist — Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences RAS Zh.T. Toshchenko. His focus is on understudied aspects of the concept of a “trauma society”. This concept characterizes the situation of a specific modality, an intermediate option between the evolutionary and revolutionary paths of development. The concept of “sociology of life”, which has been repeatedly used by the author, is advantageous in terms of the theoretical understanding of this situation. Using solid statistical data, the monograph shows the apparent insufficiency of such concepts as “democratic and authoritarian path of development” when it comes to describing the evolution of any country. It is difficult to disagree with the author’s opinion, which states that these are ineffective as criteria for social progress or regression. Of undoubted interest for specialists is the typology of modern societies of trauma that is given in the work. This typology is based on the factors that have generated a socially traumatic situation. The monograph pays special attention to the manifestations of trauma in Russian society. The author’s extensive use of the results of representative empirical studies is an important advantage of the work. The monograph reveals the precise contours of an innovative academic project, which serves as a fundamental basis for further researching the complicated and poorly studied phenomenon of “society of trauma”.

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