privatism
privatism The tendency for people in advanced
industrial societies to spend their lives less in the public domain and more within the confines of the
nuclear family. In other words, increasing ‘home-centredness’ and ‘nuclear family-centredness’, and withdrawal from the public realm of community organizations and activities, such as those associated with the church, union, pub, or political party. A forceful statement of the argument is Richard Sennett's
The Fall of Public Man (1977). Sennett's main theme is that of the dissolution of the ‘public culture’ (the street life and social intercourse of the café and local marketplace) and the rise of privatism. The extent of this phenomenon, and the allegedly secular trend towards it, are both contested by the majority of sociologists. The most useful contemporary assessment is Fiona Devine's
Affluent Workers Revisited (1992). The process of privatism should not be confused with that of
privatization.
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Through measurement to knowledge: the inaugural lecture of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1882).
Magazine article from: Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of the inaugural speech of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on the occasion of his appointment...look with envy at men like Kamerlingh Onnes, who discovered a field like...Why did Feynman refer to Kamerlingh Onnes first? Perhaps because Kamerlingh...
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BROOKHAVEN PHYSICISTS WIN ONNES PRIZE FOR SUPERCONDUCTIVITY EXPERIMENTS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...University, have been named the recipients of the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for outstanding superconductivity experiments...discovery of superconductivity and related research, the Onnes Prize is awarded every three years for outstanding...
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Studies from Leiden University yield new data on condensed matter.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 5/12/2009; 641 words
; "On the 10 July 1908 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes succeeded in the first liquefaction...the large hydrogen liquefier of Onnes was ready for use. The main part...Ouboter, Leiden University, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, NL-2300 RA Leiden...
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William F. Giauque-Nobel Prize for Low-Temperature Research
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...reached in 1910 by the 1913 Nobel laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926). Kamerlingh Onnes pumped away the vapors of liquid helium...pressure. Giauque was not satisfied with Kamerlingh Onnes' method and proposed a new method, which...
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Superconductors ready to ramp up for the real world.(FEATURES)(PLANET)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 12/23/2004; 700+ words
; ...Energizer bunny has nothing on Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Nearly a century ago, the Dutch...businesses. Superconductors - as Onnes' discovery is known - are being...get his superconductor to work, Onnes used liquid helium at 4 Kelvin...
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Research from Leiden University provides new data about condensed matter.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 5/12/2009; 691 words
; ...first of such chairs in the world. A few years later Heike Kamerlingh Onnes became his experimental colleague, after vehement...Netherlands report. "Lorentz strongly supported Kamerlingh Onnes then, and proved subsequently to be an ideal colleague...
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SCIENCE NEWS - NOVEDADES DE LAS CIENCIAS
Magazine article from: Journal of Science Education; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...resistencia, fenmeno conocido como superconductividad y que fue descubierto en 1911 por el fsico holands HEIKE KAMERLINGH ONNES (KAMERLINGH ONNES, 1911). l encontr que cuando un metal es enfriado por medio de helio lquide a temperaturas por debajo...
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Current affairs
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 12/31/2006; 620 words
; ...consumption and environmental damage. Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity in 1908 while experimenting...stops) - and is usually referred to as '4 Kelvin'. Onnes used liquid helium to study the effects of cryogenic...
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New material could help cut future energy losses.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health; 4/12/2009; 697 words
; ...important role in medical technology. In 1911, as part of an experiment with solid mercury, Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, discovered that when mercury was cooled to low temperatures, electricity could pass through it in a steady...
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Nobel laureates praise Brown U. professor's superconductivity theory
News Wire article from: University Wire; 4/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...freezing in order to exhibit their special characteristics, allow current to flow unimpeded. Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes first observed superconductivity in mercury in 1911, but explaining the phenomenon stumped scientists. Even...
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work with liquefied helium. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch experimental physicist distinguished for his work in the field of low-temperature...
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Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh See Kamerlingh-Onnes, Heike
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Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike ( b . Groningen, Netherlands, 21 September 1853; d . Leiden, Netherlands, 21 February 1926) physics . Kamerlingh Onnes was the son of a well-known manufacturer in Groningen. After...
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Kamerlingh-Onnes, Heike
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Kamerlingh-Onnes, Heike (1853–1926) Dutch physicist. In 1908, using a liquid...achieved a temperature within one degree of absolute zero . In 1911, Onnes discovered the property of superconductivity in some metals. He received...
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Superconductor
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853 – 1926) in...x2212; 459 ° F), Kamerlingh Onnes found that some materials lose...matter at very high energies. Kamerlingh Onnes's discovery was, for more...
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