# Dominant group/Journals

The two-word term dominant group appears to occur most often in articles within periodicals (or journals), conference proceedings, and least often in books. Although the earliest occurrence so far is within a book published in 1826. Relative synonyms for the term have been discovered as far back as 1780: "For the impression of the commercial arts is often conspicuous in the upper departments of life, before it reaches those of inferior condition; but the circle gradually widens." Bold added. And, another, “die Dominanten Religionen von ganz Europa” occurs in 1726. Bold added.
This learning resource focuses on those most recent periodicals that include the term in an article, possibly discuss the term in some way, or directly focus research on the term. Initially, discovering at least one use of the term places the journal on the list, but including those that do not, perhaps versus impact factor, may be important.
The objective is to determine through research the category of periodicals most likely to publish or desire to publish an article about the term dominant group.
As the answer to the search is unknown, this learning resource is an exploratory research effort. It is conceded from the beginning that there is in all likelihood at least one expert somewhere who probably knows from experience the best journal within which to publish such an article on dominant group and in fact the funding agency most able to provide publication costs, at the minimum.
Ultimately, interviews with authors who have used and continue to use the term dominant group in their articles may be necessary.

## Synonyms

The term patrician class seems to be the earliest relative synonym for dominant group.
"According to Livy, the first 100 men appointed as senators by Romulus were referred to as "fathers" (patres), and the descendants of those men became the Patrician class. The patricians were distinct from the plebeians because they had wider political influence, at least in the times of the Republic."
Romulus may not have been a human, but something in the sky used by a group of humans to make themselves into a ruling class, or by using religion to reinforce their dominance over others.

## Onomantics

That dominant group occurs in at least one journal has been demonstrated. That dominant group occurs at least once in almost every journal is possible with about 71,550 occurrences of the two-word term in the scholarly literature. Although its frequency in any subject is low (usually less than 3 % of the articles), its frequency across subjects is not a constant, and it may be picked up by data mining search engines looking for relevant terms.
Def. "the science and practice of term evaluation" is called onometrics.
"Since onometrics adds rationality to the evaluation of terms, we can eliminate much of the same subjectivity (in the form of personal taste, personal connotations, ego, etc.) which all science seeks to avoid."
"In formal metrics, as in any scientific approach, clear and precise definitions are crucial."
"The ... field ... is the scientific or technological field of the object. ... [F]or onometrics it is terminology science' and ultimately language science or linguistics."
Def. "a terminological approach in which first a concept is given and then its name or names are sought" is called onomantics.
Def. "anything artificially produced (by man), including not only tangible objects and substances but intangibles such as services, procedures, programs, plans, and ideas" is called an artifact.
Here is the key question: Is dominant group in context "selecting and using good terminology."
Term-evaluating criteria:
* Accuracy
* Precision - Semantics
* Descriptiveness
* Unequivocalness
* Mononymy
* Appropriate Register - Vocality
* Precedent
* Conciseness - Efficiency
* Appropriate Simplicity
* Form Correctness - Morphology
* Etymological Purity
* Derivability
* Inflectability - Uniformity
* Series Uniformity
* Acceptability - Diction
* Euphony - Phonetics
* Pronounceability.
"[N]aming often involves finding a satisfactory balance among conflicting criteria."

## Communications

Discourse & Society
"Negative emotions in the dominant group, such as anger and guilt, were neither central nor salient in justifying the apology."
"Racist assaults characteristically involve members of a dominant group speaking or acting against members of ethnic or religious minority groups."
"The first form of stigmatization is poverty, which occurs when the dominant group is able to monopolize the highest social positions in terms of power, social prestige and material advantage."
"The majority population was the dominant group, responsible for the process of doing and saying as actors and sayers."
Technical Communication Quarterly

## Culture

International Journal of Intercultural Relations
"This strategy attempts to achieve the goals of empowering of members of the minority group and helping the dominant group develop new insights into their ambivalence and power orientation (Maoz & Bar-On, 2000)."
Sexuality & Culture
Citizenship Studies
"The same pattern also persisted in Rome from its founding until the sixth century BC (753-510 BC), when the king was overthrown and driven out of the city. This upheaval was apparently related to the rise of a patrician class which owned the means of warfare."
The Slavonic and East European Review
"The dervish sees the treatment of his brother as an insult to his honour and position and manages to topple the local officialdom, but he cannot overcome the solidarity of the patrician class. First he is disgraced by a campaign of rumours and then he is crushed."

## Ecology

Applied Soil Ecology
Aquatic Toxicology
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
Desalination
Ecological Modelling
Environmental Pollution
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Journal of Environmental Management
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Journal of Marine Systems
Journal of Microbiological Methods
Limnologica - Ecology and Management of Inland Waters
Marine Pollution Bulletin
Nematology
"All nematode trophic groups were present in the investigated birch forests, with bacteriovores being the dominant group, followed by plant-parasitic nematodes, fungal feeders, root-fungal feeders, omnivores and predators."
Pedobiologia
Remote Sensing of Environment
Research in Microbiology
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Water Research

## Economics

International Business Review
Journal of Banking & Finance
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Journal of Macroeconomics
Journal of Public Economics
Labour Economics

## Education

International Journal of Educational Development
The Journal of Negro Education
Journal of Teacher Education
Teaching and Teacher Education
"Today's “mugwumps” are not defending a declining patrician class, but are pushing an orthodoxy that is fundamentally anti-intellectual, in the name, of course, of educational improvement."

## Ethnicity

Ethnicities
Journal of Asian and African Studies
Journal of Black Studies

## Evolution

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Human Development

## Food

Acta Agrophysica
"All the species were in the eudominant group and the most numerously collected was Dalopius marginatus (D = 50.0%)."
Anaerobe
Food Chemistry
Food Control
Scientia Horticulturae

## Geography

Journal of Transport Geography

## Geology

Chemical Geology
Geomorphology
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
Marine Geology
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

## Health care

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease
European Journal of Radiology
FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology
Journal de Mycologie Médicale / Journal of Medical Mycology
Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
Social Science & Medicine

## History

The American Historical Review
"This allows him to address the culture of these two institutions, which for him represent the competing approaches to medicine in the period. As with his earlier work, Lawrence asserts the influence of elite hospital physicians—or a patrician class—on the faculty and hospital."

## Humanities

Computers and the Humanities
"However, for reasons not clear to me, they are not uncomfortable sharing the company of people who have yet to publish a grand synthesis or to edit an important text, or otherwise establish themselves in the dominant group."
Human Development
"Berry and his colleagues suggest that the assimilation strategy occurs when the individual decides not to maintain his or her cultural identity by seeking contact in his/her daily interaction with the dominant group."
International Critical Thought
"The effect of this structure was that executive power in Rome was always held by a member of the slave-owning patrician class."
Journal of Medical Humanities
"It is often the group that is being assailed through medical categorization that makes the point that they are oppressed, subjected to the violence of the dominant group."
Medical Humanities
"But more often, difference is identified as a negative deviation from the norms of a dominant group."

## Language

Applied Psycholinguistics
Brain and Language
Clinical linguistics & phonetics
International Journal of Bilingualism
Journal of Language Contact
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Journal of Sociolinguistics
Philosophical Perspectives

## Materials science

International Journal of Multiphase Flow
Materials Chemistry and Physics

## Metagenome

Journal of Proteomics

## Paleontology

Cretaceous Research
Gondwana Research
Quaternary International

## Philosophy

Philosophical Perspectives

## Political science

Political Studies (2012)
Scandinavian Political Studies

## Psychology

The psychology of groups as well as meaning often includes discussions of a dominant group.
Acta Psychologica (1997)
Adolescence
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (2005)
American Behavioral Scientist (1984)
American Journal of Community Psychology
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
American Psychologist (2001)
Animal Behaviour (2012)
Antipode (2012)
Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Applied and Preventive Psychology (1994)
Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2012)
"[T]he dominant group of Malay had higher in-group indispensability, more strongly endorsed an inclusive national representation, had stronger ethnic and national identification, and a stronger association between both identifications."
Australian Journal of Psychology (1986)
Brain and Language (1978)
British Journal of Management (2012)
British Journal of Social Psychology (2006)
Children and Youth Services Review (2007)
Cognitive Psychology (1992)
Culture & Psychology
Current Directions in Psychological Science (2007)
European Economic Review (2011)
European Journal of Social Psychology (2005)
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2003)
International Journal of Intercultural Relations (2011)
International Journal of Psychology (2000)
International Migration
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
Journal of Applied Social Psychology (2012)
Journal of Business and Psychology
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Consumer Psychology (1995)
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2012)
Journal of Humanistic Psychology (1989)
"When an illiterate peasant claims to be powerless, Freire wants to know how this was learned and whether it is really true or merely an untested myth promoted by the dominant group, which the peasant has incorporated."
Journal of Organizational Behavior (2012)
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2008)
Journal of Research in Personality
Journal of Social Psychology (2002)
Journal of Vocational Behavior (2012)
Mis Quarterly (1996)
Negotiation Journal (2002)
Nursing Inquiry (2012)
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Personality and Individual Differences (2005)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2004)
Political Psychology (2012)
Psychological Review (2008)
Psychological Science (2000)
Social Psychology of Education (2001)
Social Psychology Quarterly (1980)
Social Science & Medicine (2011)
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (2010)
Theory and Psychology (1999)
Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2008)
Women's Studies International Forum (2007)

## Regions

Journal of Rural Studies

## Semantics

Journals and periodicals are included under semantics when an article is published dealing with semantics and dominant group. These include possible publication of an article about the term dominant group.
Aphasiology
Brain
Cognition
Cognitive Brain Research
Cognitive psychology
European Journal of International Relations
History and Memory
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
Journal of Semantics: according to a Google scholar search this journal has never published any article containing the term dominant group.
Journal of Web Semantics: none.
Linguistics and Philosophy
Natural Language Semantics: none.
Nature
Qualitative Inquiry
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

## Sociology

American Journal of Economics and Sociology (2012)
American Journal of Sociology
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (2012)
Children and Youth Services Review
Disability, Handicap & Society
European Journal of Political Research
International Sociology
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Journal of Social Issues (2012)
Journal of Urban Affairs (2012)
Law and Social Inquiry (2012)
Peace Review
Social Identities
Society
Sociological Perspectives
Sociology Compass (2012)
Tourism Management
Transforming Anthropology (2012)

## Technology

Information Sciences
New Biotechnology
Telecommunications Policy
Telematics and Informatics

## Terminology

Terminology - zero articles contain the two-word term dominant group.

## Data summaries

Journals Publishing and about dominant group :
| Subject Area | Journal | Synonym for dominant group | Number of occurrences | Impact factor | Open access (Y,N) |
| Culture | International Journal of Intercultural Relations | dominant group | ~400 | 1.054 | Y |
| Education | The Journal of Negro Education | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Education | The Journal of Teacher Education | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | Adolescence | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | American Journal of Community Psychology | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | British Journal of Social Psychology | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | Group Processes & Intergroup Relations | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | International Journal of Psychology | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | International Migration | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Psychology | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology | dominant group | ~800 | | |
| Psychology | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | dominant group | ~800 | | |
| Semantics | Nature | dominant group | ~1000 | | |
| Semantics, Psychology | Cognitive psychology | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Sociology | American journal of Sociology | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Sociology | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | dominant group | ~400 | | |
| Sociology | Journal of Social Issues | dominant group | ~800 | | |
| Sociology | The Sociological Quarterly | dominant group | ~400 | | |

## Hypotheses

* Finding an appropriate journal for an article about dominant group may be harder than finding out what dominant group is.