5.1 DESCRIBING PERSON-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS Competence and Environmental Press • Discovering Development: What’s Your Adaptation Level? • The Congruence Model • Stress and Coping Framework • Common Theoretical Themes and Everyday Competence 5.2 THE ECOLOGY OF AGING: COMMUNITY OPTIONS Aging in Place • Deciding on the Best Option • Home Modification • Adult Day Care • […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Jacques Derrida: The Play of Presence and Absence
Various scholars have written on this notion of presence. Michel Foucault wrote about truth. Jean Baudrillard (1999) talks about the real. Derrida (1996, 438) relates his use of the word “presence” to a string of synonyms—essence, existence, consciousness, the transcendental signified, God, Man—all standing for this fundamental principle, which, he argues, animates traditional Western thinking.7 […]
How to achieve equality without damaging military strength
The fear of the services is that if women and men are held to equal standards in combat training that either the standards will have to be lowered or. conversely, the standards kept the same and about 80 percent of women won’t be able to hack it. Fortunately, though, there is a way of making […]
Market regulation
Their ability and willingness to buy the goods on offer in a market define viewers as consumers rather than citizens. This allows us to conceive of the market itself as a form of regulation, in the Foucauldian sense, as companies adapt their production output in response to the values and tastes of its potential viewers […]
Situating stories: marriages in lives
Hanna and Tammy (108a and 108b) Hanna is a 26-year-old white woman who works in social care and has a low income. She is in a partnership with Tammy, aged 29, a white woman who also works in social care and earns an average income. They ‘married’ ten months before the interview. Neither use ‘lesbian’ […]
Lacan and feminism
Lacan’s work is highly obscure and the ambiguity of his style reinforces the ambiguity of much of the content of his writing and strengthens his claim that unambiguous meaning in language is an illusion. Lacan’s style, as well as the content of his writing, has had a great influence on French feminist writing. By repositioning […]
THE MARCH’S SIGNIFICANCE: BLACK POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
If the March evidenced the inherent limits of modern-day marching and the rhetoric of pessimism, it also signaled a significant shift in African American political culture. The significance of the shift is this: at least hundreds of thousands of black Americans determined that conditions in this country were sufficiently disturbing that they were motivated to […]
Combat: the pro-choice woman and the no-choice man
1 predict that women will increasingly be allowed to volunteer for any combat situation. But, by giving women more options in combat while still requiring only men to go to combat should a war erupt, we will be increasingly reinforcing the era of the pro-choice woman and the no-choice man. It will mean that during […]
Combat for the disposable sex versus combat for the protected sex
… 1 think women are too valuable to be in combat. Caspar Weinberger, US. Secretary of Defense (under Reagan/* It is not appropriate for women to engage in combat… to be captured or to be shot, as opposed to pushing a button someplace in a missile silo. Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme Court Justices Men get […]
Traditional responses to rape
Within traditional Somali society it is the duty of a woman’s family to protect her honour and status. In cases of sexual assault or abuse her family or clansmen are charged with seeking redress. The social ramifications of the assault, and thus the type and amount of compensation sought, vary according to the woman’s marital […]