jamie warner Well, we finally had The Conversation. It was planned for August 15, but I, of course, forced it six weeks early at an unbelievably inopportune moment. Yes, I know, I know. It’s rather pathetic to have to plan a conversation. And, yes, we, or rather I, had planned this particular conversation over a […]
День: 01.09.2015
People and livelihoods
Somalia is often misrepresented as a country with a homogeneous population, culture and language. Its total population in 2001 was estimated to be 6.3 million. (UNDP 2001) The vast majority are ethnic Somalis (of Hamitic origin) which comprise two distinct groups associated with one of two livelihood systems: nomadic pas — toralists, who are the […]
Research Methods
What approaches do scientists use to measure behavior in adult development and aging research? • Measures used in research must be reliable (measure things consistently) and valid (measure what they are supposed to measure). • Systematic observation involves watching people and carefully recording what they say or do. Two forms are common: naturalistic observation (observing […]
Pleasure and risk: researching television and sexuality
Before we go any further, I need to clarify my conceptual approach to these questions and the ‘disciplinary discourses’ from which they are derived. This is a complex task because of the diversity of disciplinary influences on the study of television (see Miller 2002 for discussion of this fact). Moreover, there is an equally diverse […]
THE MEDIEVAL BACKGROUND
The further back in time we go, the more fragmentary the record becomes. Most of it has been lost, and what survives is often sparse and abbreviated, so that we can gain only intermittent glimpses of the law in action. Yet its general thrust is clear: the principle that illicit sex was a public crime […]
A message to men. .. mostly
It will be tempting to discuss this book with a feminist because that’s probably the person you know who’s most interested in sex roles. But this is like a man bringing a book that questions the Bible to a born-again Christian because that’s the person you know who’s most interested in religion. The person who […]
Am I a men’s liberationist? A feminist? Both? Or neither?
Like everyone else, I prefer to be listened to rather than labeled. But labels do give us a foothold in a complex world. And any movement that has impact develops an identity — or label — in the public mind. So. . . I am a men’s liberal ion ist (or “masculist") when men’s liberation […]
The digital revolution
There is a widespread agreement that we have entered into a third era in television (Ellis 2000). The first era was based on a very small number of networks addressing a relatively undifferentiated, mass audience within national boundaries. The second was an era of expanded ‘choice’, with multichannel systems from the mid-1970s in the USA […]
Issues in Studying Adult Development and Aging
What four main forces shape development? • Development is shaped by four forces. Biological forces include all genetic and health-related factors. Psychological forces include all internal perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and personality factors. Sociocultural forces include interpersonal, societal, cultural, and ethnic factors. Life-cycle forces reflect differences in how the same event or combination of biological, psychological, […]
FUNCTIONAL AND INTENTIONAL SEXISM
Why, then, do Black men occupy a privileged victim status in antiracist discourse? How has this come to pass? The dual effect of intentional sexism and functional sexism provides a partial explanation. Intentional sexism here refers to political or legal efforts within Black liberation movements that are intended to subordinate Black women’s experiences or that […]