Intimacy,sport and young refugee men

This article is about research with a group of young refugee men from Sudan and their relationship to football (soccer) as they resettle in Australia. It provides evidence of the resilience, independence and autonomy that such young refugees possess and what these young men's intimate knowledge of these qualities can teach us. In other words, how can we as researchers learn from these young refugees about how they perform these qualities and how may we accommodate this during ethnographic research and in sports-based intervention programs aimed at empowering such young people? Further, the article explores the role of intimacy in this process by accounting for the role of affective connections on and off the sporting field. The argument is that intimacy can help those involved negotiate the power inequities present in sports-based intervention programs and in associated research.     

On the conditions necessary for obtaining argument structure complexity effects.

Schmauder (1991), studying eye movements during reading, cross-modal naming, and cross-modal lexical decision (CMLD) tasks, failed to find evidence of verb argument structure complexity as Shapiro, Zurif, and Grimshaw (1987) had reported for the CMLD task. Shapiro, Brookins, Gordon, and Nagel (1991) suggested that Schmauder did not detect the effect in the CMLD task because the monosyllabic secondary lexical decision (LD) probes she used did not produce enough processing load to detect an effect of argument structure complexity. The present experiment compared the LD probes used by Schmauder with the LD probes used by Shapiro et al. (1987) and failed to find any evidence for the argument structure complexity effect for either type of probe.     

Book reviews

Commons, M. L., Herrnstein, R. J. and Wagner, A. R. (Eds.). Quantitative analyses of behavior. Vol. 3: Acquisition. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1983. Pp. xxiii + 468. ISBN 0-88410-740-X. $55.00.

Keehn, J. D. Animal models for psychiatry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1985. Pp. 251. ISBN 0-7102-0562-7. £20.00.

Le Magnen, J. Hunger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. 157. ISBN 0-521-26450-2. £20.00 (Hardback). ISBN 0-521-31122-5. £7.95 (Paperback).     

Book reviews

Balsam, P. D. and Tomie, A. (Eds.) Context and learning. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1985. Pp. xi+ 419. ISBN 0-89859-442-1. £39.95.

Greenberg, G. and Tobach, E. (Eds.). Behavioral evolution and integrative levels: The T. C. Schneirla Conference Series. Hillsdale, N. J., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1984. Pp. 307. ISBN 0-89859-363-8. $34.50. £28.75.

Commons, M. L. and Nevin, J. A. (Eds.). Quantitative analyses of behavior. Vol. 1: Discriminative properties of reinforcement schedules. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger. 1981. Pp. xxvii + 437. ISBN 0-88410-377-3 (v.1). Hardback. $42.50.

Lynch, G., McGaugh, J. L. and Weinberger, N. M. (Eds.). The neurobiology of learning and memory. New York: The Guilford Press. 1984. Pp. 528. ISBN 0-89862-645-5. £65.00.

Toates, F. M. Motivational systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. ISBN 0-521-26854-0 (Hardback) £22.50; ISBN 0-521-31894-7 (Paperback) £7.95.