When an industry speed-up drastically shortens the time available for contact between flight attendants and passengers, it can become virtually impossible to deliver emotional labor. In that event, the transmutation of emotion work, feeling rules, and social exchange will fail. Company claims about offering a smile “from the inside out” (Delta) will become untenable. The […]
День: 24.09.2015
Intelligence
7.1 DEFINING INTELLIGENCE Intelligence in Everyday Life • The Big Picture: A Life-Span View • Research Approaches to Intelligence • Discovering Development: How Do People Show Intelligence? 7.2 DEVELOPMENTAL TRENDS IN PSYCHOMETRIC INTELLIGENCE The Measurement of Intelligence • Age-Related Changes in Primary Abilities • Secondary Mental Abilities • Moderators of Intellectual Change • Current Controversies: […]
FEMINISM
The relationship between feminism, postmodernism and epistemology is a complex one. Yeatman (1994:15) maintains that ‘what can be argued is that a postmodern feminism, or one which is refracted through the politics of difference, is a feminism committed to a specific epistemological polities’. She identifies a number of dimensions which characterise such an orientation. These […]
Gender Performatives and Discursive Clashes
Further reasons for the persistent exclusion of cases like those of Karla Homolka from a feminist construction of violent female subjectivity lie in their unsettling of pretheorized notions of femininity. Her transgression rendered overt the constructed nature of both mainstream and feminist performatives of femininity. For when dominant legal and media “scripts” called for complete […]
Affairs of the state on confessional television
The contribution of the confessional television interview can be seen as an important corrective for women caught up in sex scandals. It is a place where they can exercise some control over the presentation of the story as it circulates in the public sphere. Certainly, this appears to have been the case in recent scandals […]
The Message of the Verdict
A Three-Act Morality Play Starring Clarence Thomas, Willie Smith, and Mike Tyson Charles R. Lawrence III Americans are obsessed with sex and fearful of black sexuality. The obsession has to do with a search for stimulation and meaning in a fast-paced, market-driven culture; the fear is rooted in visceral feelings about black bodies fueled by […]
The Deconstructed Father: Ghostly but Present
The known donor becomes a more complicated figure once the child is born. The mother, through her talk, can help her child navigate the challenge of the “looking-glass self.” However, when a physical person enters and leaves their lives, certain contradictions arise and have to be dealt with by the mothers. These include terms or […]
SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS
With the graying of America we will see more and more older adults with memory-related problems. Thus, one important implication of this demographic trend is to meet the needs of this growing issue. The number of funded outreach memory and aging centers is growing in the United States (e. g., the center partnered by Auburn […]
Normal versus Abnormal Memory Aging
Many normative changes take place in memory as people grow old, such as those in working memory and secondary memory. Still, many aspects of memory functioning do not change, such as the ability to remember the gist of a story. Increasingly forgetting names or what one needs at the supermarket, though annoying, appears to be […]
Families in conflict
Somali mothers, particularly single mothers, must cope daily with doing the household chores, disciplining and raising children and, as is the case for other women, they often they have to take low — paying unskilled jobs to help support family members, both in Canada and in Somalia. Once they enter the system, however, they quickly […]