In addition to the focus on women’s reproduction, there has been a preoccupation in the biological and medical sciences with the question of sexual difference. In medical textbooks prior to the nineteenth century, drawings of male and female anatomy, based on the dissection of dead bodies, had emphasized the degree to which women’s sexual organs […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
HISTORICAL CHALLENGES
I want to acknowledge in closing that while I emphasize momentum, I am not ignoring the unfinished feminist agendas concerning sexuality, the body, and violence, as well as economic and political rights. I recognize, for example, that as market economies expand globally, they draw women from rural areas into the world of urban sexual commerce […]
Liz Stanley
(MALE) CULTURE
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth, Simone de Beauvoir The relation of women to culture has been indirect. We have discussed how the present psychical organization of the two sexes dictates that most […]
THE FAMILY: TRAINING GROUND. FOR THE TRANSMUTATION
What a person does at work may bear an uncanny resemblance to the “job description” of being the child of such a worker at home. Big emotion workers tend to raise little ones. Mothers and fathers teach children letters and numbers and manners and a world view, but they also teach them which zone of […]
REFERENCE POINTS FOR GRATITUDE
We may trace gratitude to three sources: to current ideas about honor that derive from a moral frame of reference, to ideas about current realities that derive from a pragmatic frame of reference, and to precedents that derive from a historical ftше of reference. In describing how gender codes have a ripple effect on marriage, […]
REFERENCE POINTS FOR GRATITUDE
We may trace gratitude to three sources: to current ideas about honor that derive from a moral frame of reference, to ideas about current realities that derive from a pragmatic frame of reference, and to precedents that derive from a historical ftше of reference. In describing how gender codes have a ripple effect on marriage, […]
Attributional Biases
For many years, we have known that college students typically produce informational distortions when making causal attributions about problem solving (e. g., Gilbert & Malone, 1995). This is typically called correspondence bias. In this case, youth rely more on dispositional information in explaining behavior and ignore compelling situational information such as extenuating circumstances. For example, […]
Saving the paper warrior from himself
The paper warrior is a prisoner of approval He rarely changes until his marriage fails or his career fails. The moment his career fails, he is dumped back out into a job market which demands he work even harder to prove himself again (after all, he has just failed). The moment his marriage fails, he […]
Social Judgments and Causal Attributions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are causal attributions? • What is the correspondence bias? • How does the nature of our causal attributions change with age? • What alternative explanations are there for the dispositional bias found in older adults? E rin is cleaning up after her son, who spilled his dinner all over the table […]