The study of media industries may be relatively new to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), but focus on this area has a long history and, in the United States, has included research on the interconnected industries of telephony, radio, film, journalism, and television. Much of this work can be divided into two perspectives: the first celebrates the individuals, working cohorts, com…
As the geopolitical importance of the Caucasus region increases, the need for sound analysis of its political, social and economic frameworks rises. With their book "The Central Caucasus- Problems of Geopolitical Economy" Eldar Ismailov and Vladimer Papava want to alter the view of the Caucasus as an economic region. Based on the thesis that economic integration is a necessity, particularly in …
Current typologies of event structures usually involve a distinction between verbframed, satellite-framed and equipollent systems (e.g. Bohnemeyer and Pederson 2010). This paper investigates directional marking on verbs in three unrelated language families, Afroasiatic, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan, and shows that an additional sub-type occurs for so-called verb-framed languages. This sub-type,…
Inter-firm relationships vary greatly between capitalist economies as a result of institutional differences, especially in forms of trust and prevalent mechanisms of ensuring that commercial agreements are kept. The transformation of the command economies of Eastern Europe since 1989 and the intensification of competition in their major markets might be expected to destroy previous connections …
THIS article is intended to demonstrate the relevance of historical sociology of state formation and market building in order to understand the extraordinary proliferation of private violence in Russia that accompanied the series of reforms initiated in 1987. In just a few years, a multiplicity of previously unknown violent groups appeared on the scene as the Soviet state moved toward collapse.…
Using data from the 1993 Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine housework-related service consumption, the author finds that spending on housekeeping services and meals out -- which helps relieve women's housework burden -- is affected by dynamics within marriages as well as by family class and race-ethnicity. Other things equal, families in which women have more relative power as reflected in …
Piracy culture as a concept is organized around a series of widely accepted facts: for example, that copyright infringements are widespread, that the entertainment industries have to do something about this, and that ordinary users wanting a share of "remix" culture are getting caught up in this. This article accepts that "Read/Write" culture is a useful formulation and then seeks to remap the …
This article analyzes the structural contradictions in the professional lives of social workers and counselors ("psychotherapists") that give rise to a set of rationalizing discourses that align billing practices with notions of therapeutic appropriateness. I propose that, bound by a normative professional trajectory that prescribes upward mobility on one hand and the performance of a commitmen…
Languages have various devices that ensure the principle of linguistic economy since they provide a way of avoiding duplication and of following the maxim of "Be concise". Such devices include: reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. Ellipsis is a kind of reduction and it is used to avoid repetition. Therefore, it can be defined as a device of leaving out a word or…
At the very moment when Freud, still a student, initiated his first works, three economists from different countries--the Englishman Stanley Jevons, the Frenchman Leon Walras and the Austrian Carl Menger--revolutionised economic thought, breaking with the 'objectivism' of the classical economists (Smith, Ricardo, Marx) and introducing 'a psychological, individual and subjective explanation' of …