Not only did it define an area of cultural enquiry that had hitherto barely existed; it also established a context that no discussion of the new wave of late-1950s northern writers - John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin - could ignore.
In developing countries, research on the impact of women in local government is an emerging area of enquiry.
Sexual dimorphism – the actual difference between the appearances of the male and the female – is a separate area of enquiry.
Accordingly, benchmarks may be different in primary care, and this is a pressing area of enquiry.
Understanding the relationship between mission statements and good governance, and exploring the components constructing mission statements is currently an area of concern and enquiry globally (Gill 2005).
Past primary care patient safety research often has a tightly focused area of enquiry such as general practice computer systems or E-prescribing, 4 6 incident reporting 7 and safety culture.
Philosophical problems arise in all areas of enquiry and new philosophical problems arise in response to changing global conditions.
The special issue brings together review articles, reports of original research studies and concept papers that reflect current developments within a range of social science disciplines contributing to this area of enquiry.
This fertile area of enquiry combines the sociolinguistic theory of linguistic landscape with research into multilingual service encounters describing what happens in the retail servicescape before the service encounter which sets up expectations for what happens during the service encounter.
Investigation of religious responses as correlated with various personality types is another area of enquiry; and developmental psychology of religion, largely under the influence of the French psychologist Jean Piaget (1896 1980), has played a prominent part in educational theory in the teaching of religion.
This area of enquiry is being developed by LTB in Global Campaign studies in Russia [3], China [4], India [5], Pakistan [6], Saudi Arabia, Zambia, Ethiopia, Nepal and Guatemala (not yet published).
