This paper describes how the Culture and Personality School, an important anthropological approach that arose in the 1920s, has developed over the years. In order to do this, the birth of the school, its distinctive features, ...

Since Philippe Ariès published his Centuries of Childhood in 1960, a lot has changed in historical pedagogy. There have been supporters of Ariès' work, which led to a change in the paradigm of historical pedagogy. But also ...

Parapsychology has not only a long history, but also its enthusiastic proponents and detractors within the scientific community. With the professionalization of parapsychology in 1927, criticism of the discipline soon began ...

This article will present a brief overview of the history of homosexuality. First, homosexuality was seen as a sin and the emergence of psychiatry turned it into a mental illness. Two important theories of Krafft-Ebing and ...

Neuroimaging has become increasingly important for psychology, especially in the studies of cognitive functions, and the past two decades have seen an enormous increase in functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) research. fMRI ...

During the last few decades a new approach in sociology has been developed, analytical sociology (AS). In the several descriptions from different authors, there are a couple of common core concepts. Analytical sociologists ...

This article discusses the Western transition from Information Societies to Knowledge Societies, and the implications of this transition for academic education. Attention is given to the characteristic features of both ...

This study examines whether the well-established principle that "birds of a feather flock together" holds true for online interactions, specifically in the context of Facebook networks. Using a sample of 1640 college ...

This study examines the relationship between parenting practices and problem behavior in 11 and 12 year-old boys and girls. It is important to investigate this relationship because problem behavior has negative effects on ...