We argue that the global digital divide, as measured by cross-national differences in Internet use, is the result of the economic, regulatory and sociopolitical characteristics of countries and their evolution over time. We predict Internet use to increase with world-system status, privatization and competition in the telecommunications sector, democracy and cosmopolitanism. Using data on 118 countries from 1997 through 2001, we find relatively robust support for each of our hypotheses. We conclude by exploring the implications of this new, powerful communication medium for the global political economy and for the spread of democracy around the world. The Internet has developed unevenly throughout the world, creating what has become known

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topography of this institutional transition becomes clearer. From a theological stance, the notion of modern secular reality underpinning liberal humanism and neo-liberalism is exposed and questioned. Then, premised on the work of John Milbank, a post-secular approach to sociology is employed exploring

areas of collective behavior and military sociology. STUDENTS OF OCCUPATIONS have tended to empha-size the structural or interactional rather than the experiential aspects of work. Where experience is focused upon, alienation or boredom tend often to be the foci. The world of work is draped

accounting for economic, demographic, and sociological influences on return-migration, I find no race-based differences in return-migration patterns. Adding political trust to the analysis thus allows me to show that race does not have a direct effect on return migration in the US, but that race works

Abstract Although considerable attention has been given to the criminality of repeat drunk drivers About the author The author is an Associate Professor of Justice Administration at the University of Hawai'iWest O'ahu. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University

Abstract—In this paper, the influence of traffic ethics on driving violations is investigated and modeled from sociological perspective. The driving violation of male and female drivers is separately analyzed in this research. The models are developed based on the survey results of 215 drivers who

into the consumer mind, this paper focuses on the application of ethnography, a qualitative research method frequently used in sociology and cultural anthropology to analyze the drivers of personal grooming product consumption. This paper first presents a debate on both quantitative and qualitative approaches

drivers of disease transmission in the U.S., inhibiting information-based prevention efforts. The relative weights of these distal factors vary over time and by HIV risk group. Our