In some ways the jobs of the bill collector and the flight attendant are similar. Each represents an opposite pole of emotional labor. In a work-a-day sense, each job expands and contracts in response to economic conditions, though inversely: when times are bad the flight attendant has fewer passengers to cope with, but the bill […]
День: 25.09.2015
Piaget’s Theory
According to Piaget (1970, 1980), intellectual development is adaptation through activity. We create the very ways in which our knowledge is organized and, ultimately, how we think. Piaget believed that the development of intelligence stems from the emergence of increasingly complex cognitive structures. He organized his ideas into a theory of cognitive development that changed […]
THE ‘POLITICAL AMBITIONS’ OF POSTFEMINISM AND. POST-COLONIALISM
Postfeminism and post-colonialism have both theorised the politics of oppression and repression. As Ashcroft etal. (1995:249) note, ‘women, like colonised subjects, have been relegated to the position of “Other”, “colonised” by various forms of patriarchal domination’. They go on to note that, despite the similarities in feminist and post-colonial theoretical discourses, there have been few […]
Escalating Relationships: The Donor as Dad
Despite contractual agreements, the relationship between the known donor and the child may escalate. These known donors become “bio dads.” That is to say, fatherhood grows out of their genetic contribution to the child; being a dad, the social part of fatherhood, is an afterthought. They set out to become not dads but fathers in […]
Nontraditional Academics
At Home with Children and a PhD susan bassow, dana Campbell, and liz stockwell Every year, PhDs leave academia to raise their children; many, perhaps even most, find fulfilling, nontraditional ways to remain intellectually productive. It is difficult to track those who leave for family reasons, since most lose any formal institutional affiliation. Social scientists […]
Melodrama and the carnivalesque
Sensationalist moral discourses dominate the tabloids’ approach to celebrity scandals and emerge on television in the more popular styles of factual programming, such as daytime talk shows or primetime news and current affairs programmes, in which the intermittent potential for scandal afforded by celebrities is supplemented by the exposure of ordinary people’s deviant behaviour. The […]
THE “HOUSE SLAVE” REMINDS THE MASTER OF THEIR DEAL
When Judge Clarence Thomas called the Judiciary Committee’s inquiry into Professor Anita Hill’s charges of sexual harassment a "high-tech lynching of an uppity black man," declaring himself the victim of "racial attitudes about black men and their views of sex," he invoked the most vivid symbol of racial oppression, the lynch mob.23 Thomas spoke to […]
Qualitative Differences in Adults’ Thinking
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the main points in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development? • What evidence is there for continued cognitive development beyond formal operations? • What is the role of both emotion and cognition in cognitive maturity? E ddie, a student at a local university, thought the test he had just taken in […]
THE ECONOMY OF GRATITUDE
A person is usually grateful to receive a gift* But what is a gift? The question has two answers. In the conventional sense, a gift is an object or service freely given, even if it’s expected—a Christmas present, for example. But in the emotional sense on which I focus here a gift must seem extra—something […]
THE ECONOMY OF GRATITUDE
A person is usually grateful to receive a gift* But what is a gift? The question has two answers. In the conventional sense, a gift is an object or service freely given, even if it’s expected—a Christmas present, for example. But in the emotional sense on which I focus here a gift must seem extra—something […]