LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is aging in place? • How do people decide the best option? • How can a home be modified to provide a supportive environment? • What options and services are provided in adult day care? • What is congregate housing? • What are the characteristics of assisted living? M ark was […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “EVERY DAY, IN every way, we are getting meta and meta," the philosopher John Wisdom used to say, venturing a cultural counterpart to Emile Coue’s famous mantra of self-improvement. So it makes sense that, in the aftermath of the Simpson trial, the focus of attention has been swiftly displaced from the […]
Common Theoretical Themes and Everyday Competence
The three theories we have considered have much in common. Most important, all agree that the focus must be on the interaction between the person and the environment, not on one or the other. Another important common theme is that no one environment meets everyone’s needs. Rather, a range of potential environments may be optimal. […]
The more male chauvinist the country, the more it
The more chauvinist the country, the more it protects women. And therefore the more it limits women. Italy and Spain protea women completely from military service by not permitting them to join. Denmark gives women more options (to join and to be in combat) but still protects women from the draft.35 Like the United States, […]
Answering the Question “Who Is Your Father?”
The choice of route to motherhood is also a decision about how women, and consequently their children, will answer to society. With the question “Who is your father?” so inescapable, women and children rehearse an answer. Those women least likely to break the rules of reproduction are the most likely to have a man to […]
Theories of language: difference/diffimnce
Weedon maintains that the basis of much poststructuralist thought can be traced back to a number of theoretical strands, including those of structural linguistics, particularly those of Ferdinand de Saussure. She (1987:23) notes that ‘An understanding of Saussure’s theory of the “sign” is fundamental to all poststructuralism. It is Saussure’s insistence on a pre-given fixed […]
MISFITTING FEELINGS
A feeling itself, and not simply the way it is displayed on face and body, can be experienced as misfitting a situation in a surprising number of ways. We can suggest a few of them by considering how one might feel at a funeral. A funeral, like a wedding, symbolizes a passage in relationships and […]
Psychoanalysis and French feminism
Lacan’s reinterpretation of Freud has had enormous influence on French intellectuals. While many French feminists are critical of Lacanian analysis, even those who are critical of Lacan have tended to locate their criticisms within his framework. Particular criticisms concern his position regarding the inevitability of paternal law and the way in which he links the […]
I Stand Here Teaching
Tillie Olsen and Maternity in the Classroom julia lisella “I Stand Here Ironing,” written in 1961, is Tillie Olsen’s landmark story about the conflicted feelings of a mother who works outside the home and wonders, as she stands ironing her daughter’s dress, what effect her crowded, overburdened life of scrambling to put food on the […]
Stress and Coping Framework
As you know from your own experience, sometimes your interaction with the environment is stressful. Schooler (1982) has applied Lazarus and Folkman’s cognitive theory of stress and coping, described in Chapter 4, to the understanding of the older person’s interaction with the environment. The basic premise of Lazarus’s theory is that people evaluate situations to […]