Weedon maintains that Derrida, like Saussure, claims that meaning in language is a product of relations of difference, whereas Saussure argues for a fixed network of meaning. As Weedon notes (1987:24-25), the ‘post-structuralist answer to the problem of the plurality of meaning and change is to question the location of social meaning in fixed signs. […]
День: 16.09.2015
THINKING ABOUT FEELING
We need a sociological way of understanding emotion. The thinking we need is scattered around the social sciences and tucked into various approaches to the links between social structure and emotion." In the first approach (associated with the image of the conscious, cognitive self), the social context and thinking about emotion are linked, but a […]
THINKING ABOUT FEELING
We need a sociological way of understanding emotion. The thinking we need is scattered around the social sciences and tucked into various approaches to the links between social structure and emotion." In the first approach (associated with the image of the conscious, cognitive self), the social context and thinking about emotion are linked, but a […]
Deciding on the Best Option
One of the most difficult decisions individuals and families have to make is where an older member should live. Such decisions are never easy, and can be quite wrenching. Figuring out the optimal “fit” where the individual’s competence and the environmental press are in the best balance rests on the ability of all concerned to […]
THREE IMAGES OF SELF
Much of social science seems to be based on two images of the self, which, like all such images, focus attention on certain aspects of life and away from others. The first image is of the conscious, cognitive self. According to this image, we consciously want something (e. g., money or status) and consciously calculate […]
THREE IMAGES OF SELF
Much of social science seems to be based on two images of the self, which, like all such images, focus attention on certain aspects of life and away from others. The first image is of the conscious, cognitive self. According to this image, we consciously want something (e. g., money or status) and consciously calculate […]
Aging in Place
Imagine you are an older adult who has difficulty cooking meals and getting around. If you had a choice of where you wanted to live, where would it be? Maybe some of your family members are urging you to move to a place where your meals are provided and you can be driven where you […]
The UNHCR’s response
As a Somali woman it was clear to me that the recovery of women who had survived rape attacks depended on the reconstruction of their social and economic networks, that is, reconnecting them to their social environment and rebuilding their status in society. I believed that anything which the UNHCR could deliver to improve their […]
Interstitial Spaces and Irreducible Difference
In her article Marks emphasizes the potential volatility of both the fetish and fossil (a quality of all forms of representation). Their initial appearances are deceiving as they “carry within them histories that, once unravelled, make the fixity of the present untenable” (Marks 1999,229). On the surface, these objects may give some clue to the […]
The “kill-a-boy” fund
In the recent I ran-Iraq War, Iran — and later Iraq — put "human waves’’ of boys as young as 6 in the front lines. The boys were throwing grenades and shotting, which ultimately forced the Iraqis to fire back and kill the young boys. However, many Iraqi soldiers reported that the moment they killed […]