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	Closure (sociology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the study of human social interaction, closure is the perception of a conclusion to a relationship.
		It is often used in the contemporary United States to refer to the conclusion of a non-continuing romantic relationship, particularly in popular culture.
		Closure here refers to the end of the process of social construction, meaning that the artifact no longer goes through dramatic changes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Closure_(sociology) (159 words)

	Closure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For closure in computer science, see closure (computer science).
		For closure in music, see resolution (music) and consonance.
		For closure in personal relationships, see closure (sociology).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Closure (106 words)

	Sociology
		Sociology Sociology is the study of social rules and institutions.
		Sociology of fatherhood The Sociology of fatherhood is a subbranch of gender role in society, with particular reference...
		Sociology of Rulership and Religion Sociology of Rulership and Religion is a sociologist.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/sociology.html (529 words)

	Closure Medical -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In mathematics, an algebraic closure of a field ''K'' is an algebraic extension of ''K'' that is algebraically closed.
		The algebraic closure of the field of rational numbers is the field of algebraic numbers.
		The integral closure of Z in the complex numbers C is the set of all algebraic integers.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/33/closure-medical.html (1330 words)

	Smith, Mike
		This closure at the level of society (ontology) is supported by and reflected in the (epistemological) closure of post-Durkheimian sociology as a disciplinary field which allows only 'social' explanations of social phenomena.
		Sociology is given the role of articulating and judging possible changes from one state to another.
		Although the rationale for this ontological and epistemological closure is re-drawn in terms of a procedural humanism rather than a methodological positivism, the effect for nature, and the radical environmentalism which would speak of it, remains the same.
	www.geog.ubc.ca /iiccg/papers/smith_m.html (6787 words)

	University of Wollongong - Faculty of Arts - STS Research
		The conceptual tools of closure studies are historical and sociological analysis refracted through the aims of identifying the different forms of controversy within a given debate, identifying the appropriate forms of closure and speculating on the reasons for the absence of closure.
		Closure studies, then, encounter difficulties fulfilling one of their stated aims which is to contribute to building a detailed image of the nature of science.
		One potential strength of closure style studies, nevertheless, is that the idea of exploring broad sound argument closure (involving the use of historical, contextually sound arguments) can be a useful heuristic device to explore differences between the stated values of participants and their actual behaviour.
	www.uow.edu.au /arts/sts/research/STPPapers/Occpaper-1.html (11214 words)

	Closure Theory and Citizenship: The Northern Ireland Experience
		From the standpoint of closure theory, the idea of a simple and trouble-free accomplishment of the interests of dominant groups must be rejected as long as counter strategies of excluded groups are not systematically considered.
		Closure and usurpation are rather seen as reciprocal strategies, which in combination constitute a conflict, the outcomes of which is open in principle.
		I argue that, on the one hand, citizenship rights are an important research object for closure theorists and researchers in the field of stratification in general and, on the other hand, that the explanatory power of closure theory gains with the incorporation of issues raised in the debate on citizenship.
	www.sociology.org /content/vol7.4/koch.ixml (6841 words)

	Reading Guide to
		Closure theory points to domination, which is an inherent possibility even where stratification is apparently necessary.
		However, this reduces closure theory to a concern for entry to positions and a concern for types of exclusion, such as collectivist and individualist, from those positions.
		Closure is a dynamic process which determines the positional picture as well.
	www.arasite.org /murphy.htm (1229 words)

	Waste Age: How to Own a Landfill - and sleep at night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Closure and post-closure care requires owners to address the engineering, financing and risk transfer issues when a landfill's life ends, as well as the following 30 years.
		Generally, the amount required for closure is the cost to close the largest cell, and the post-closure care costs are the amounts required to maintain the integrity and operate all pollution control equipment for the entire facility for 30 years.
		Adjustments also may be made as closure and post-closure cost estimates are revised to reflect recent engineering data available for the remaining landfill areas.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CYQ/is_11_34/ai_110415873 (1337 words)

	Scientific Knowledge, Controversy, and Public Decision-Making, by Brian Martin and Evelleen Richards
		For positivists, closure of the scientific dispute is straightforward: in the absence of outside pressures, the scientifically correct side, as determined by rational analysis and investigation of the facts, will be readily acknowledged within the scientific community.
		From this perspective, closure is not of special theoretical interest, since it is the struggle that is the center of attention.
		The sociology of the fluoridation controversy: a reexamination.
	www.uow.edu.au /arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95handbook.html (7500 words)

	Ethnic Differences in Associations Between Social Network Closure and Child Competence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Closure can be conceptualized as the extent to which meaningful relationships exist between parents and their children's friends, and between parents whose children are friends, averaged across the families of all of a child's identified peer associates.
		Higher levels of social network closure are hypothesized to benefit children indirectly by enabling parents to more effectively monitor and supervise children's activities, communicate with other parents about children's behavior and childrearing ideals, and feel supported in their own parenting.
		The purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which social network closure existed among, and was beneficial to, fourth grade children.
	www.asn.csus.edu /em-ncfr/down99/fletchernewsome.htm (805 words)

	Closure -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For closure in (The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures) computer science, see (Click link for more info and facts about closure (computer science)) closure (computer science).
		For closure in (A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement) mathematics, see (Click link for more info and facts about closure (mathematics)) closure (mathematics).
		For closure in (A body of rules followed by an assembly) parliamentary procedure, see (A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body) cloture.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/closure.htm (221 words)

	End of needle exchange heightens risk, study says - January 25, 1999
		In Windham's case, closure of the needle-exchange program followed 10 months of tumultuous public debate, with opponents blaming the program for the community's ongoing drug scene.
		Heckathorn, also a professor of sociology, and Yael Van Hulst, a graduate student, will release the results of the study at a colloquium sponsored by the Yale AIDS Program on January 28.
		Before closure, 14 percent of Windham's drug injectors reported that their primary source of syringes was from unsafe sources, such as family or friends.
	www.advance.uconn.edu /1999/990125/01259907.htm (724 words)

	EASST Review
		Closure is what is in progress when the interpretative flexibility of an artifact is diminishing.
		Closure, the reduction of interpretative flexibility, comes about as an outcome of heterogeneous micropolitical actions to fix meanings and is a first step in making semiotic power.
		True, closure and stabilization are now distinguished from one another; the relationships between technological frame, relevant social group and artifact are fleshed out a little; and we get the mapping of semiotic and micropolitical power onto the framework.
	www.easst.net /easst961.html (3747 words)

	Travers: The Decomposition of Sociology
		The state of sociology as an academic discipline, at a time when student numbers are falling or stagnating, and outsiders rudely question its relevance to current social problems, continues to generate discussion and debate on both sides of the Atlantic.
		Part of the rhetorical force of Horowitz's book stems from the connection he makes between sociology as a discipline in intellectual decline, and the much talked about institutional crisis of American sociology, which is evident from falling enrolment figures in undergraduate degrees, and the threat of closure or cuts hanging over a number of departments.
		This is something of a mirror-image of Horowitz's complaint that sociology is out of step with America, and ends with a call for integrity, and simple language (with the implication that convoluted styles of radicalism are a response to a hostile cultural environment).
	www.socresonline.org.uk /2/4/travers.html (3022 words)

	BJS - Abstracts 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rather, they rest upon closure strategies of various occupational groups and their organizations; moreover, they also result from the differential capacity to represent appropriate value orientations, to recognize legitimate standards, and to stage distinctive life styles.
		Strategies of social closure and the monopolization of resources constitute a principle of social structuration, which cannot be derived from the concept of functional differentiation.
		As is widely known, Robert Ezra Park, the "head" of the Chicago School of Sociology, began his career as a reporter and editor, took a crack at being a writer, and used novels as sources in his sociological work.
	www2.rz.hu-berlin.de /bjs/en/archive/a2000.htm (3886 words)

	U (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One difficulty in achieving the closure of a scientific dispute is that there is a tension between closure and good science.
		The difference between the sort of closure that is possible before there is sufficient evidence to make the choice between different theories clear, and that which is achievable afterwards- in the continental drift debate around 1965-illustrates *1034 another important point about scientific disagreement.
		Closure of this particular dispute was, at first, achieved with little difficulty when the jury's verdict indicated that it preferred the evidence of the prosecution experts to that of the defense.
	www.law-forensic.com /scientific_disagreement.htm (15883 words)

	Doors on the Bridge...
		A less static and less formal-legal notion of closure would open two analytical dimensions: one for the intensity and type of attraction through the bridge; another for the inclusionary/exclusionary-i.e., opening/shutting-movement of the door, and would do so in a historical-comparative way.
		Citizenship is, of course, only one manifestation of the general principle of social closure (Parkin 1974, Murphy 1988)-that elementary form of social inequality which combines hierarchical and network-principles into effective practices of social exclusion and inclusion.
		Sociology and Director of Hungarian Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5072, currently on sabbatical leave in Budapest until the end of 1997.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~jborocz/border.htm (4099 words)

	Sociology Professor Kate Slevin receives state’s top award \|
		Slevin, the Chancellor Professor of Sociology, was selected as one of a dozen statewide recipients of the 2005 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award sponsored by Dominion.
		Since joining the sociology department, Slevin has taught at all levels of the curriculum, including graduate seminars in social theory and graduate public policy seminars on race and gender.
		She regularly teaches undergraduate courses focusing on the principles of sociology and the sociology of aging or work.
	www.wm.edu /news/index.php?id=4290 (1162 words)

	Closure in John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman.
		Closure in John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Closure in John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman.".
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	Working Paper No. 61
		William Vélez is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
		This intergenerational closure (Carbonaro, 1998; Muller and Ellison, 2001), marked by social and informational networks comprised of Daniel’s friends and their parents, was valuable for Daniel because he felt this information was necessary to be successful in college, get a job after graduation, and obtains a middle class lifestyle.
		This high degree of intergenerational closure (Carbonaro, 1998) was valuable because it facilitated these students’ access to important resources like adult and peer mentorship and other positive help-seeking behaviors (Stanton-Salazar, 2001) and encouraged them to pursue a school kid identity (Flores-González, 2002) that valued high academic achievement.
	www.jsri.msu.edu /RandS/research/wps/wp61.html (5436 words)

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		Curricular Objectives: In the study of the sociology, students will learn how to use education as a technique for prevention by studying social skills and developing an educational program to teach them to fourth graders.
		Each student explained his/her lesson plan to the other five students in the sociology class so that they would be prepared when they taught the lesson to the elementary school students.
		Student lesson plans must contain a ten minute introduction of the skill to be learned, a forty minute project that allowed the students to practice the social skill they were learning, and a ten minute period of closure.
	www.slc.k12.ut.us /sites/horizonte/SOCIO.HTM (1076 words)

	School seminars - School of Sociology and Anthropology - University of Canterbury
		She is a recent postgraduate of the Department of Sociology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, where she is currently working in applied social research.
		Dr. Coulter was born in New Zealand and holds degrees in sociology from the University of Canterbury (B.A., M.A. Honors) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D.).
		A deconstructive analysis of visual and narrative texts produced by people living with hepatitis C is used to demonstrate links between a predisposition towards Western biomedical practice, discomfort with uncertainty, a desire to reassert control, and adoption of conflict metaphors associated with the tropes of invasion and eradication.
	www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz /resources/seminars.shtml (3709 words)

	Bill Carbonaro - publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Coleman's theory of social capital predicts that students who have high levels of "intergenerational closure" - that is, whose parents know more of their children's friends' parents - will have better educational outcomes than will students with low levels of intergenerational closure.
		This study uses data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to test whether intergenerational closure affects children's educational outcomes.
		The main findings were that closure was positively associated with mathematics achievement, but not significantly associated with achievement in any other subject, closure was not significantly associated with 12th-grade grade point averages, and students with more closure were less likely to drop out of high school by the 12th grade.
	www.nd.edu /~wcarbona/publications.htm (917 words)

	SURVIVING CLOSURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If the new claims are rejected outright by the majority, the winners write their `told-you-so' books and papers and go back to their previous scientific lives; for them, there is a resumption of business as usual.
		Thus, and this is now a commonplace in the sociology of scientific knowledge, the same sets of theoretical and experimental tools can lead to more than one conclusion.
		An alternative approach is to study the mechanisms by which groups of scientists become defined as insiders or outsiders (Gieryn 1983; 1999), or to stress the haziness of such boundaries (Simon, 1998).
	www1.cardiff.ac.uk /socsi/gravwave/text6.html (12265 words)

	Sociology@Brown - so164 (Sem 2, '99-00) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Examples: "Social Closure at Exclusive Social Clubs", "Declining Unionization and Rising Income Inequality," "When Do Whites Vote for Black Candidates?" or "Globalization and the End of Nationalism?" Papers are due in class on March 21.
		Social Closure: The Theory of Monopolization and Exclusion.
		Georg Simmel, "The Stranger", in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, ed.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Sociology/classes/sem2_99-00/so164.html (1110 words)

	Competition in the Informal Sector of the Economy: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Exclusionary closure is the closure of social and economic opportunities to outsiders whereas solidaristic closure is a closure attempt by excluded groups.
		He relates the concept of closure to social classes: "Exclusionary social closure is an aspect of conflicts and cleavage within social classes as well as between them" (1979, p.
		Furthermore, he argues that exclusionary social closure necessarily entails the creation of a group, class or stratum.
	www.openair.org /pub/IJSSP/varcin2000.htm (8298 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 43, No. 1 - April 1986 - BOOK REVIEW - Rediscovering Paul: Philemon and the Sociology of Paul's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After transforming the letter into a story, Petersen shows how the story's action and plot serve the rhetorical design of the letter leading to closure, that is, Philemon's acceptance of the runaway slave and recent convert, Onesimus, as a brother.
		In his sociology of the narrative world, Petersen offers an inventory of roles, roles played, hierarchical structures, domains and modes of reference, showing how Onesimus' escape threatened the social structures underlying social relations in the world.
		Petersen's insistence on narrative "closure," or the manumission of Onesimus, as the only action consistent with Philemon's continued participation in Christ may tell us more about the sociology of Petersen's narrative world than it does about Paul's.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /apr1986/v43-1-bookreview17.htm (1271 words)

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