2.1 THE NEUROSCIENCE APPROACH Implications of the Developmental Forces • Neuroscience Tools • Neuroscience Perspectives • Discovering Development: What Do People Believe about Brain Fitness? 2.2 NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITIVE AGING Structure of the Brain • Age-Related Changes in Neurochemical Properties Age-Related Changes in Brain Activity • Functional Consequences of Brain Deterioration • Culture, Neuroimaging, and […]
День: 02.09.2015
Or again, concerning an independent women’s movement
They lose sight of the Primary Struggle. Some special organizing of women’s groups is possible, perhaps, but dangerous: ід terms of turning in on themselves, in terms of becoming petit bourgeois little cliques where they just talk about taking can of the kids all the time, or become a gripe session. (Italics mine) We have […]
THE HETEROSEXIST CONSTRUCTION OF BLACK RACIAL VICTIMHOOD
By and large, Black gay and lesbian experiences are marginalized in or excluded from antiracist discourse. The marginalization is achieved—wittingly or unwittingly—through the heterosexualized nature of some, though certainly not all, Black political engagements. Consider the Black civil rights intervention into the military’s "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy. The intervention was not to support gay […]
Key Terms
age effects One of the three fundamental effects examined in developmental research, along with cohort and time-of-measurement effects, which reflects the influence of time-dependent processes on development. ageism The untrue assumption that chronological age is the main determinant of human characteristics and that one age is better than another. biological forces One of four basic […]
New experiences
This book analyses younger same-sex partners’ accounts of their formalised relationships. It considers couple and individual narratives of being formally partnered or ‘married’, and situates these with respect to partners’ relational biographies, the meaning and practices they attach to money and finances, sexual and intimate commitments and to being coupled. These are important new stories […]
THE FIFTY-YEAR RIDICULE
by the late feminist attack. But the convalescence didn’t last long: women were soon reprivatized, their new class solidarity diffused. The conservative feminists, who at least had viewed their problems as social, had been coopted, while the radical feminists were openly and effectively ridiculed; eventually even the innocuous committee- women of other movements came to […]
The power of life
ITEM In 1920 women in the United States lived one year longer than men.3 Today women live seven years longer.4 The male-female life-span gap increased 600 percent We acknowledge that blacks dying six years sooner than whites reflects the powerlessness of blacks in American society.5 Yet men dying seven years sooner than women is rarely […]
VARIETIES OF FEMINIST SOCIOLOGY. a caveat
The account which follows is an oversimplified one, and is also contested. The material in the following seven chapters will subvert the simple schema which follows. Maynard (1995) proposed, several years ago, that the ‘three schools’ model which follows was not an accurate characterisation of feminist sociology in the 1990s. Paula England (1999: 263) argues […]
The Tacit Agreement That Fell Apart: Marriage Post-Employment
Joy and Claudia represent the two-thirds of women in this study who are middle — class. These women grew up imagining white picket fences and perfect children. They worked hard in school with the goal of going to college, even though they did not necessarily anticipate lifelong careers. Everyone assumed they would settle down and […]
MANAGING FEELING
He who always wears the mask of a friendly man must at last gain a power over friendliness of disposition, without which the expression itself of friendliness is not to be gained—and finally friendliness of disposition gains the ascendancy over him—he is benevolent. —Nietzsche “Sincerity” is detrimental to one’s job, until the rules of salesmanship […]