Laurence Mesirow
The Problem Of Bullying In Modern Technological Society
Bullying is a problem that has drawn increasing attention in recent years around the world. It’s a problem that is considered to have negative effects not only for the victims but also for the...
The Ferocious Competition Among Modern Students To Reach The Top
The pressures today to get into a good college or university in the U.S. are enormous. In order to achieve this goal, many high school students not only work super hard to get a...
Eating Disorders And Modern Technological Society
A growing problem in modern technological society is that of eating disorders. Compulsive eating (also sometimes identified as binge-eating disorder), anorexia nervosa, and bulimia are the ones that we hear the most about. People...
Trying To Hold On To So Little
One of the most interesting social phenomena today in modern technological society is the tendency of people, particularly young people, to use their purchasing power to buy experiences rather than things. A lot of...
Experiencing Empathy Through A Screen
There have been a lot of articles over the last ten years about the decline of empathy among American college students. As empathy would be considered to be a positive trait to have in...
Trying To Use Animation To Animate Ourselves
How many times when we were kids did we see characters in cartoons and cartoon series and think about how much fun it would be to interact with some of these characters in the...
Mechanizing A Field Of Fragrance
Smell stands in the middle of the five senses in terms of the degree of immediacy to humans. We can see things far away as a result of the transmission of electromagnetic waves. Sound...
The Transformation In The Way People Hurt One Another
Recently, I published another article on the relationship between the configuration of criminal expression in a society, on the one hand, and the configuration of different kinds of stimuli in the living environment on...
Mechanical Solutions to Mechanical Bad Habits
Do you have problems with trichotillomania, dermatillomania or onychophagia? Can you pronounce them properly? All kidding aside, these are just fancy names for hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting. If you have problems...
Revisiting Human Crimes And Their Living Environments
A recurring theme in this column has been concerning how the nature of the configuration of crime changes according to the configuration of living environments. More specifically, we humans start out in more natural...
