Mark Horowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 136189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Horowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Horowitz |
| SIGNATURE | HOROWITZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brownsville Public Library |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1318-2029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is the chemical imbalance an ‘urban legend’? An exploration of the status of the serotonin theory of depression in the scientific literature
The theory that depression is caused by a serotonin abnormality or other chemical imbalance has become widely accepted by the public and is one prominent justification for the use of antidepressants. However, it has been increasingly questioned and there is little evidence it has empirical support. In response, leading psychiatrists suggested it was an ‘urban legend’ that was never taken seriously by the psychiatric profession. To interrogate the…
Higher education’s influence on social networks and entrepreneurship in Brazil
Anthropology's Science Wars
In recent decades the field of anthropology has been characterized as sharply divided between proscience and antiscience factions. The aim of this study is to empirically evaluate that characterization. We survey anthropologists in graduate programs in the United States regarding their views of science and advocacy, moral and epistemic relativism, and the merits of evolutionary biological explanations. We examine anthropologists' views in concert…
Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge
Whither the Blank Slate? A Report on the Reception of Evolutionary Biological Ideas among Sociological Theorists
Sociologists have drawn considerable criticism over the years for their failure to integrate evolutionary biological principles in their work. Critics such as Stephen Pinker (Citation2002) have popularized the notion that sociologists adhere dogmatically to a "blank slate" or cultural determinist view of the human mind and social behavior. This report assesses whether sociologists indeed ascribe to such a blank slate view. Drawing from a survey o…
Maquiladora Production, Rising Expectations, and Alterglobalization Strategy
Hailed by advocates as engines of job growth, the export factories in Mexico's maquiladora zone often spur severe criticism in activist circles for worker exploitation and abuses. Yet how do workers themselves perceive their wages and working conditions? In this essay I draw from several years of cross-border advocacy and 130 interviews with maquiladora workers in Reynosa and Juarez, Mexico to describe workers' perceptions. I demonstrate that wor…
In the eye of the beholder
This essay examines the implications of the growing cross‐border justice movement along the Mexico‐U.S. border. As corporate reorganization in North America threatens “downward harmonization” in wages and working conditions, cross‐border activists are responding by attempting to construct “upward harmonization” in wage and workplace expectations among maquiladora workers. Activists do so by utilizing an array of innovative framing practices in th…
Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge
Anthropology's Science Wars
In recent decades the field of anthropology has been characterized as sharply divided between proscience and antiscience factions. The aim of this study is to empirically evaluate that characterization. We survey anthropologists in graduate programs in the United States regarding their views of science and advocacy, moral and epistemic relativism, and the merits of evolutionary biological explanations. We examine anthropologists' views in concert…
Whither the Blank Slate? A Report on the Reception of Evolutionary Biological Ideas among Sociological Theorists
Sociologists have drawn considerable criticism over the years for their failure to integrate evolutionary biological principles in their work. Critics such as Stephen Pinker (Citation2002) have popularized the notion that sociologists adhere dogmatically to a "blank slate" or cultural determinist view of the human mind and social behavior. This report assesses whether sociologists indeed ascribe to such a blank slate view. Drawing from a survey o…
Maquiladora Production, Rising Expectations, and Alterglobalization Strategy
Hailed by advocates as engines of job growth, the export factories in Mexico's maquiladora zone often spur severe criticism in activist circles for worker exploitation and abuses. Yet how do workers themselves perceive their wages and working conditions? In this essay I draw from several years of cross-border advocacy and 130 interviews with maquiladora workers in Reynosa and Juarez, Mexico to describe workers' perceptions. I demonstrate that wor…
In the eye of the beholder
This essay examines the implications of the growing cross‐border justice movement along the Mexico‐U.S. border. As corporate reorganization in North America threatens “downward harmonization” in wages and working conditions, cross‐border activists are responding by attempting to construct “upward harmonization” in wage and workplace expectations among maquiladora workers. Activists do so by utilizing an array of innovative framing practices in th…
In the eye of the beholder
This essay examines the implications of the growing cross‐border justice movement along the Mexico‐U.S. border. As corporate reorganization in North America threatens “downward harmonization” in wages and working conditions, cross‐border activists are responding by attempting to construct “upward harmonization” in wage and workplace expectations among maquiladora workers. Activists do so by utilizing an array of innovative framing practices in th…
Maquiladora Production, Rising Expectations, and Alterglobalization Strategy
Hailed by advocates as engines of job growth, the export factories in Mexico's maquiladora zone often spur severe criticism in activist circles for worker exploitation and abuses. Yet how do workers themselves perceive their wages and working conditions? In this essay I draw from several years of cross-border advocacy and 130 interviews with maquiladora workers in Reynosa and Juarez, Mexico to describe workers' perceptions. I demonstrate that wor…
Whither the Blank Slate? A Report on the Reception of Evolutionary Biological Ideas among Sociological Theorists
Sociologists have drawn considerable criticism over the years for their failure to integrate evolutionary biological principles in their work. Critics such as Stephen Pinker (Citation2002) have popularized the notion that sociologists adhere dogmatically to a "blank slate" or cultural determinist view of the human mind and social behavior. This report assesses whether sociologists indeed ascribe to such a blank slate view. Drawing from a survey o…
Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge
Anthropology's Science Wars
In recent decades the field of anthropology has been characterized as sharply divided between proscience and antiscience factions. The aim of this study is to empirically evaluate that characterization. We survey anthropologists in graduate programs in the United States regarding their views of science and advocacy, moral and epistemic relativism, and the merits of evolutionary biological explanations. We examine anthropologists' views in concert…
Is the chemical imbalance an ‘urban legend’? An exploration of the status of the serotonin theory of depression in the scientific literature
The theory that depression is caused by a serotonin abnormality or other chemical imbalance has become widely accepted by the public and is one prominent justification for the use of antidepressants. However, it has been increasingly questioned and there is little evidence it has empirical support. In response, leading psychiatrists suggested it was an ‘urban legend’ that was never taken seriously by the psychiatric profession. To interrogate the…
Higher education’s influence on social networks and entrepreneurship in Brazil
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Criticism (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)