Who is the typical resident of a nursing home? She is over age 85, European American, recently admitted to a hospital, lives in a retirment home rather than being a homeowner, is congitively impaired, has problems with IADLs, is probably widowed or divorced, and has no siblings or children living nearby (Davis & Lapane, 2004). […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Structure and Structural Analysis
The concept of‘social structure’, though fundamental to the social sciences, is ambiguous. Its usages range from the tight and sophisticated models of Piaget, Levi-Strauss and Althusser to the much more numerous cases where anything that shows a detectable pattern at all is called a ‘structure’. Most writing about gender is well towards the latter end […]
Types of Nursing Homes
Nursing homes house the largest number of older residents of long-term care facilities. They are governed by state and federal regulations that establish minimum standards of care. Two levels of care in nursing homes are defined in U. S. federal regulations (Ebersole et al., 2004). Skilled nursing care consists of 24-hour care including skilled medical […]
School textbooks, readers and songs
School readers for girls, which began to appear several years before the Qing government’s formal sanction of public education for women in 1907, reinforced the idea that girls were the future ‘mothers of the nation’ (guomin zhi mu) responsible for the cultivation of patriotic sons.172 Furthermore, as a reader published in 1905 insisted, women’s principal […]
Derrida and feminism
Derrida’s destabilisation of logocentrism and binary logic challenged many of the same targets as feminism. His deconstructive techniques make it clear that if feminist theory is to succeed in its challenge to phallocentric discourses it cannot do so from a position outside of phallocentrism. As Grosz (1990a: 100) notes, ‘to remain outside a (logocentric, phallocentric) […]
Living in Nursing Homes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the major types of nursing homes? • Who is most likely to live in nursing homes? • What are the key characteristics of nursing homes? • What are special care units? • How can a nursing home be a home? • How should people communicate with nursing home residents? • […]
Assisted Living
Given that maintaining a sense of place, a home, is very important to older adults, it should not come as a surprise that they would prefer living options that help foster that desire. That is how the option of assisted living came into being (Scheidt & Schwarz, in press). Assisted living facilities are housing options […]
Main Structures:. Labour, Power, Gathexis
The argument so far has traced the domain of the social theory of gender and its gradual emergence in Western social thought. I have argued that this theory is autonomous: it cannot derive its logic from a source outside itself, whether natural difference, biological reproduction, the functional needs of society or the imperatives of social […]
Capitalism and Motherhood: Does It Pay to Have Children?
B efore looking into the influence of capitalism on motherhood, let us begin with an age-old question: Can capitalism survive? Karl Marx, as we all know, thought not. He claimed that ever-increasing competition and the drive for profit would intensify the exploitation of labor, sharpening class conflict and triggering the inevitable downfall of capitalism.1 Responding […]
Capitalism and Motherhood: Does It Pay to Have Children?
B efore looking into the influence of capitalism on motherhood, let us begin with an age-old question: Can capitalism survive? Karl Marx, as we all know, thought not. He claimed that ever-increasing competition and the drive for profit would intensify the exploitation of labor, sharpening class conflict and triggering the inevitable downfall of capitalism.1 Responding […]