In most of these women’s narratives, anonymous donors have not rejected their offspring but have instead given the mothers the most awesome gift of their lives. The anonymous donor is not the “bad dad” who walked out (e. g., divorced fathers or birth fathers), but a “good man” who helped the mother and child become […]
День: 21.09.2015
The Family
Conservative ideology speaks of the family as the ‘foundation of society’ and traditional sociology has often seen it as the simplest of institutions, the building-block of more elaborate structures. Far from being the basis of society, the family is one of its most complex products. There is nothing simple about it. The interior of the […]
High School Graduation
From 1970 to 1991, high school graduation rates for African American males rose from 668,000 to 1,174,000. This represented an increase in completion rates from 55 percent to 72 percent. Among African American females, high school graduation rates actually rose more slowly than those for African American males. For this period, the number of 18-24-year-old […]
Changing Roles and. Responsibilities in the Family
Introduction by Judith Gardner In Hargeisa in 1992 three elders were talking. One was well dressed and prosperous and other two — one of whom was ill — were quite poor. The sick elder said: ‘Can anyone change my sons into one girl?’ When asked why he wanted this he replied: ‘Because the well-dressed elder […]
CONTROVERSIES
How Do We Explain False Memories? Larry Jacoby (1999) asks the question: What causes the effect in the "I-told-you" claim? Does the claim create a false memory? From this perspective, exposure to misleading questions about an event can result in a permanent loss from memory of details of the actual experience (Loftus, 1975). In other […]
Why has boys’ rate of suicide been increasing so much more quickly than girls’ recently?
Girls are preparing for a world that increasingly allows them to be whatever they wish to be — homemakers, mothers, secretaries, executives. Girls can perform outside the home, nurture inside the home, or do some combina tion, depending on their personalities. Boys must still perform outside the home, no matter what their personalities. For some […]
Misinformation and Memory
The fact that older adults exhibit the false-fame effect to a greater degree than younger adults suggests that although familiarity is intact, conscious recollection is not, thus allowing familiarity to misinform the older adult’s performance. Two other recent areas of research have further explored older adults’ susceptibility to misinformation due to memory deficits: source memory […]
Why boys commit more suicide as their sex roles become apparent
ITEM When a Trukese boy (л the western Pacific islands) has a troubled relationship, he is expected to respond by displaying amwunumwvn, a kind of emotional withdrawal. Trukese males commit suKide 25 times more often than their American male counterparts.8 /’Headolescent boys and girls express emotions equally and commit suicide at about the same rate. […]
Sexist research questions
MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM AND THE ACADEMY. DOMINANT ‘VOICES’ IN THE EMERGENCE OF. POSTMODERNISM
Seyla Benhabib (1992, 1994), in her essay ‘Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism’, maintains that ‘no other text has marked the contemporary discussion concerning the complex cultural, intellectual, artistic, social and political phenomena which we have come to designate as “postmodernism” as much as Jean Francois Lyotard’s (1984) short treatise on The Postmodern Condition: A […]