Because we are considered polite only when we say what we are expected to say or when we stay silent. Parents have always told us not to lie, but at the same time think what we say. Have you...

The offered options are neither mutually exclusive, nor collectively exhaustive. Even more importantly, there is no reason whatsoever that attitudes would spring from a single source, and they...

During and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States diagnosed the world of their times as increasingly interconnected. Many of them also described the war...

Integration tests for migrants initially started as language tests. Many countries across the world that have a large migrant intake (mostly "Western" countries) introduced these in 2004-2005....

First and foremost, let us define separatism. This word is commonly used in order to refer to regions and movements claiming independence, but actually this term is much broader. A separatist...

This is a pertinent question today. March 26 saw a wave of anti-corruption demonstrations sweep across Russia. The protests were organised by Alexei Navalny, an opposition politician and...

I have taken a couple of courses on Computer-aided qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS), and have used it in my research. Once I used the program Dedoose for a paper with a co-author, and...

Google Scholar (GS) does not show what websites or databases it covers. As a consequence, we cannot be sure that the search is deep. Neither can we be sure that all the results are from reliable...

Yes, states have a stake in the development of fashion industry. States influence this industry through the regulation of investments and technological modernisation and through control of the...

I would say that reality is more complex, for a number of reasons. First, we should reflect on how the term “feminism” is interpreted in the post-Soviet world. I do not believe that most women in...

Technological developments of the 19th and 21st centuries have certainly made more and more information available to humans. The telegraph was the first ever medium that didn’t need a human in...

Does the US accept relatively more or fewer refugees than other Western countries?My answer looks at the number of refugees accepted by the US in relation to all other countries, not only those in...

It would probably be incorrect to say that today we are witnessing some unprecedented interest in conspiracy theories. Studies have shown that in the USA, for example, people have been searching...

In order to make sense of the terrible destruction that has overtaken Syria and Iraq, one must understand the fighting in the context of nation building - a process that has swept the globe since...

(1) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND THE BOOK BY THOMAS MANN ABOUT LIBRARY RESEARCHLibrary of Congress Electronic Catalogue. You will be surprised to learn how much LOC can offer. See this book for...

At the London women’s march last Saturday there were hundreds (if not thousands) of signs that celebrated being a "nasty woman". Women and men wore T-shirts that said "The future is nasty!" and...