Adultery, Criminality, and the Myth of English Sovereignty

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-530
Author(s):  
Erin Sheley
Keyword(s):  
Social Process ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Private Wrongs

This article argues that in England over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the understanding of adultery as a tort was complicated by an accompanying discourse of what I will call “quasi-criminality.” Specifically – while formally trivialized – adultery remained linked to a threat to English kingship. The tension between the weight of relevant monarchical history and the absence of contemporary criminal enforcement created a new cultural narrative about adultery which attempted, itself, to serve a penal function. Examining the development of this discourse alongside the relevant law illuminates the complex social process through which public and private wrongs become distinguished – or conflated.

scholarly journals Disinfectants: Use of Different Types of Sanitization Techniques in 18th and 19th Centuries Britain and India

Substantia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
Chetan Chetan
Keyword(s):  
Germ Theory ◽  
Multiple Methods ◽  
Common People ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Common ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Antiseptic Solutions

The article focuses on the use of different kinds of disinfectants used for sanitization and cleaning of public and private places for curbing the spread of diseases from one place to another. Multiple methods were employed for disinfection; some of which are easily accessible to the common people while others were particularly used in infirmaries and hospitals at the time of treatment. The article also shows that disinfectants were supplement to medicine and they target limiting of the contagion to a space whereas medicines were given for the treatment of patients. Historically, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed unprecedented development in the field of chemistry which led to the discoveries of different types of antiseptic solutions and disinfectants apparently endorsed by the germ theory.   Image Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images [email protected] http://wellcomeimages.org

Revealing the hidden facets of normative assessments: improving the management of major infrastructure projects through engaged scholarship

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maude Brunet ◽  
Sofiane Baba ◽  
Monique Aubry ◽  
Sanaa El Boukri ◽  
Marie-Douce Primeau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Situated Learning ◽  
Organizational Transformation ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Context Specific

PurposeThis study focuses on the dynamic relationship between organizational actors and engaged scholars involved in a normative assessment conducted in a public organization managing major projects.Design/methodology/approachWe build on a 15-month engaged scholarship experience carried out in the Ministry of Transport of Quebec. We explain and analyze the normative assessment process, using a storytelling approach and vignettes to explore four situated learning moments.FindingsThis study offers a deeper understanding of how normative assessment is conducted, and how situated and collective learning occur throughout. We find that both organizational actors and researchers learn through this process and synchronize their mutual learning such that researchers actually participate in a larger organizational transformation.Research limitations/implicationsLike any qualitative endeavor, this research is context-specific. We offer several research avenues to extend the applicability of findings.Practical implicationsThis article could inspire organizations and scholars to collaborate on normative assessment during organizational transformation. This approach is of particular interest in the context of a worldwide pandemic where public and private organizations all have to adapt to new sanitary, economic, technological and social realities.Social implicationsIn a context marked by growing concern for the research-practice gap and the relevance of scholarship, our study illustrates the development of a mutually beneficial collaboration between practitioners and researchers that enhances understanding of complex organizational phenomena and issues.Originality/valueThis research highlights the relevance of engaged scholarship and supports normative assessment as a social process to generate mutual learning.

scholarly journals Development networks and urban growth in small cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgiana Varna ◽  
David Adams ◽  
Iain Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Local Network ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Real estate development is an intensely social process dependent on rich networks of relations between public and private sector actors. Previous work has explored how far such relations are formalised in large cities through shared coalitions of interest intended to promote urban growth. Relatively little attention has been given to networks in smaller cities, which is the concern of this paper. Drawing on detailed research in a small Scottish city, the paper explores how its local network was characterised by strong reliance on network construction and reproduction through trust and reputation. Significantly, within such local networks, competition and collaboration can exist side by side, without subsuming normal tensions into consistent agendas or formally defined ‘partnerships’. Controlling land for urban expansion provides a particular focus for these tensions, since it can allow certain interests to gain network dominance. These findings raise important concerns around whether small cities should rely on informal networks to promote growth instead of constructing formal coalitions that may attract more externally based actors. Such choices have profound implications for the capacity and transparency of development networks, and thus for the accountability of the urban development process.

Preface

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Visual Studies ◽  
Short Summary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Mode ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Providing a survey of critical approaches to maps adopted by historians, bibliographers, and art historians, the preface emphasizes that, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, cartographic literacy was anything but a common competence. It was a skill and habit that had to be learned and practiced in order to become a major mode of communication. Because maps were also commercial goods, much of their value—be it informational, symbolic, or restorative—emerged during the social process of exchange. After describing the book’s method of inquiry adapted from visual studies, material culture, historical phenomenology, and economic history, the preface provides a short summary of the book’s main parts and chapters.

Renilla Bioluminescence: A Morphologic Approach to the Location of Photocytes

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 208-209
Author(s):  
Ben O. Spurlock ◽  
Milton J. Cormier
Keyword(s):  
Excited State ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Light Emission ◽  
Chemical Basis ◽  
Electronic Excited State ◽  
Colonial Form ◽  
The Common ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Catalyzed Oxidation

The phenomenon of bioluminescence has fascinated layman and scientist alike for many centuries. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a number of observations were reported on the physiology of bioluminescence in Renilla, the common sea pansy. More recently biochemists have directed their attention to the molecular basis of luminosity in this colonial form. These studies have centered primarily on defining the chemical basis for bioluminescence and its control. It is now established that bioluminescence in Renilla arises due to the luciferase-catalyzed oxidation of luciferin. This results in the creation of a product (oxyluciferin) in an electronic excited state. The transition of oxyluciferin from its excited state to the ground state leads to light emission.

Doctoral Studies in Psychology in Spain

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Yolanda García Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Critical Phase ◽  
The Individual

In Spain doctoral studies underwent a major legal reform in 1998. The new legislation has brought together the criteria, norms, rules, and study certificates in universities throughout the country, both public and private. A brief description is presented here of the planning and structuring of doctoral programs, which have two clearly differentiated periods: teaching and research. At the end of the 2-year teaching program, the individual and personal phase of preparing one's doctoral thesis commences. However, despite efforts by the state to regulate these studies and to achieve greater efficiency, critical judgment is in order as to whether the envisioned aims are being achieved, namely, that students successfully complete their doctoral studies. After this analysis, we make proposals for the future aimed mainly at the individual period during which the thesis is written, a critical phase in obtaining the doctor's degree. Not enough attention has been given to this in the existing legislation.

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