As indicated by the Adams research placing memory in a social context, in many situations, older adults perform quite well at memory tasks. In addition, a number of cognitive reserve factors, such as IQ, educational level, occupation, and activity levels, may enhance cognitive functioning as we grow older (Scarmeas & Stern, 2003; Valenzuela & Sachdev, […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM AND FEMINISM
Waugh (1992) argues unequivocally that feminism clearly emerged from Enlightenment modernity, with its conceptions ofjustice and subjectivity as being ‘universal’ categories. However, she notes that, in articulating issues of sexual difference, feminist discourses weaken the extremes of universalism in Enlightenment thought. It is in this sense of articulating difference that Waugh argues feminism can be […]
Why is “the sex who can’t love” so devastated when they lose love?
The most respected feminist therapists, such as Carol Gilligan and jean Baker Miller, claim that a relationship loss is more pervasive for women than for men H If it is, though, why do husbands whose wives die commit suicide ten times more often than wives whose husbands die?,s A woman friend of mine speculated that […]
Prospective Memory
One area that has received increasing attention is prospective memory. Prospective memory involves remembering to perform a planned action in the future (Henry et al., 2004; Zacks et al., 2000), such as remembering to take medication. The study of prospective memory is a good illustration of how performance on everyday memory tests stacks up to […]
COMMODIFICATION OF FEELING
In the beginning I asked how reeling rules might vary in salience across social classes. One possible approach to this question is via the connections among social exchange, commodification of feeling, and the premium, in many middle-class jobs, on the capacity to manage meanings. Conventionalized feeling may come to assume the properties of a commodity. […]
COMMODIFICATION OF FEELING
In the beginning I asked how reeling rules might vary in salience across social classes. One possible approach to this question is via the connections among social exchange, commodification of feeling, and the premium, in many middle-class jobs, on the capacity to manage meanings. Conventionalized feeling may come to assume the properties of a commodity. […]
Women’s rights as human rights
In addition to addressing the particular needs of women, international feminisms have insisted that human rights be understood from women’s perspective. In a sense, this strategic move helps to resolve the Western tension between universal and particularist claims by redefining the universal as the female. In some cases, the impact on world and local politics […]
Memory in Context
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What age differences are there in prospective memory? • What are some factors that help preserve memory as we grow older? T yler, an elderly man of 80, has been exercising his memory abilities since he reached his 60th birthday. He has made sure to read voraciously, has done his crossword puzzles […]
Enrollment Trends
From 1980 to 1991, Black male college enrollment increased by 11 percent to 517,000 from 464,000 (+53,000). Black female college enrollment grew by 27 percent (+175,000) for the same period (from 643.0 to 818,000). Overall Black college enrollment increased to 1.335.0 by 1991, representing a 21 percent increase for the twenty — one-year period. By […]
Women and the gendering of pornography
Jane Juffer’s (1998) book At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex and Everyday Life considers the democratizing effects of the commodification of sexually explicit materials, especially as it relates to women’s access to and engagement with erotic genres. Where she differs from McNair is in the way that she demonstrates the continuing influence of ‘quality’ and […]