Dirty Money

Many states have significantly reduced their support for higher education in the last decade, increasing the importance of securing external funding for research and academic centers at colleges and universities. This paper addresses issues that have been raised by critics of funding from "morally tainted" sources like tobacco companies, pharmaceutical companies, and oil and gas companies and attempts to develop plausible criteria for "morally acceptable" funding in light of criticisms that focus on issues such as transparency, conflicts of interests, academic and scientific integrity, and coercion. A further discussion of whether special or unique criteria are necessary for ethicists and ethics centers is also included.     

Money,Money, Money: Gift Exchange and Credit Giving in Coastal Kerala

For Kerala’s Latin Catholics, financial expenses related to life-cycle events like weddings, baptisms, funerals, and paying for children’s education or for medical treatment are customary expenditures. Yet, many Malayali Latin Catholics in the coastal region are craftsmen and fishermen, and their incomes tend to be unsteady. When they cannot afford these costs using their own resources, borrowing money and accruing debt is a common solution. Besides loans from banks and other institutions, credit is given among relatives, friends, neighbors, and acquaintances. This type of credit is known as ka?a? (“debt”). The article argues that ka?a? can be interpreted as a kind of gift exchange, since it is inseparable from the people involved and the (kind of) relationship that exists between them. Interdependence is the necessary basis of ka?a?, and like gift exchange, credit giving among relatives and friends serves to confirm and strengthen existing relationships.     

Show Me the Money: Cybershrews and on-line Money Masochists

This article documents the existence of a novel form of deviant behavior, called money slavery, which utilizes the Internet. This practice involves males (called “money slaves”) making monetary payments to women (called “money mistresses”) they contact on-line in exchange for being humiliated, degraded, and even blackmailed. The data for this study were gathered over a four-year period from Web pages, newsgroups, message boards, and discussion forums. The results indicate that participants utilize various social control strategies in an attempt to prevent the ample opportunities for fraud associated with this practice. Moreover, participants sometimes offer accounts (Scott and Lyman 1968 Scott , Marvin B. and Stanford Lyman . 1968 . “ Accounts .” American Sociological Review 31 : 46 – 62 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) in an apparent attempt to manage stigma. These findings are considered in the framework of postmodern culture, and social learning theory is offered as a possible explanation of this behavior. The significance of this phenomenon is also examined, and the possible real-life ramifications of these men's behavior are also considered.     

Time and Money

This article analyzes the simultaneous determination of economic satisfaction and leisure satisfaction, separately for women and for men. Different hypotheses are tested; including the hypothesis that leisure satisfaction depends on both the quantity and quality of leisure—where quality is proxied by good intensiveness and social intensiveness. Evidence suggests that gender matters, such that good intensiveness is more important for men (e.g. housing conditions), whereas social intensiveness is more important for women (e.g. the presence of children and participation in leisure-time activities). Conversely, concerning economic satisfaction men appear more directly affected by income levels than women. In addition, we find that intra-household effects and especially individual characteristics are more pronounced for women than for men for both domain satisfactions.     

Furnham's Money Attitude Scale

An item-analysis of responses from 186 undergraduates to the Money Attitude Scale developed by Furnham did not replicate the factor pattern which he derived.     

Money for the church

Pastoral Psychology -     

Beyond Hopelessness

Abstract

The researchers conducted a needs assessment survey of practicing school-based occupational therapists to determine the incidence of grief within existing caseloads, current awareness of the issue, related concerns, and willingness or resistance to address grief in the intervention environment. The survey was administered to a representative sample of 150 school-based therapists throughout the state of Ohio. Fifty-six therapists responded with usable data.

The results suggest that the students who are currently on occupational therapy (OT) caseloads face a large number of grief issues. Although a majority of therapists reported addressing grief issues, only a small percentage typically do so for a variety of reasons. The school therapists offered a number of explanations for the limited follow-through on this issue. These findings support the profession's recent efforts to further establish occupational therapy as a well-recognized and respected provider of interventions to address the mental health and psychosocial needs of children in school settings.     

Beyond Role-Playing

Abstract

Approaches utilized in preparing actors are similar to developing empathy. This article defines empathy as a state and a trait and examines the use of theater exercises in the development of empathy. Theoretical, practical, and research bases for utilizing theater exercises are presented. A small study using theater exercises designed to develop empathy is described. While quantitative analysis did not reveal significant results, qualitative results indicated high salience for a participating counselor education class and need for further research.     

Beyond Homophobia

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