Two interesting developmental questions arise with respect to social knowledge structures. First, does the content of our social knowledge and beliefs change as we grow older? And second, how do our knowledge structures and beliefs affect our social judgments, memory, problem solving, and more? There are many types of belief systems, which differ in content […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
The New World of Men and. Women
The men will complain of your reserve. They will assure youthat a franker behaviour would make you more amiable. Buttrust me, they are not sincere when they tell you so. John Gregory, A Father’s Legacy to his Daughters(2nd edn, 1774), 36 In the various nations [of the world] we find men, in gradations from brutality […]
THE CULTURE OF ROMANCE
So far we have not distinguished “romance” from love. For there are no two kinds of love, one healthy (dull) and one not (painful) (“My dear, what you need is a mature love relationship. Get over this romantic nonsense.”), but only less-than-love or daily agony. When love takes place in a power context, everyone’s “love […]
Social Knowledge Structures and Beliefs
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are social knowledge structures? • What are social beliefs, and how do they change with age? A nna is going on her first date since the death of her husband one year ago. She is 62 years of age and was married for 30 years, so she is extremely nervous about […]
Sandra Harding’s trivium
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ITEM The Japanese call it karoshi — death from overwork. In the past twenty years m japan, sudden deaths among top executives have increased 1.400 percent16 A survey by the Japanese government found that executives average seventy hours per week: twelve-hour workdays, six days per week.17 It is not unusual for these executives to go […]
The intelligible body: machines and cartographies
In the opening of ‘An Everyday Miracle’, part 2 of The Human Body, a voice-over tells us, ‘Professor Winston continues his remarkable journey inside the human body.’ Then we are told, over a pulsating red fleshy wall in a white circle: You ’re looking at a baby’s heart. It’s beating 120 times a minute. But […]
The Insanity Track
A male said to me once after years of standing on the platform of the subway, "I die alittle bit down there every day. but I know I am doing so for my family." BHI Moyers, cooutbor, The Power of Myth’ I’ve never done a single thing I’ve wanted to in my whole life. Sinclair […]
NOVEL ATTITUDES
This is why the first great novelists of the English language were so obsessed with seduction. Foremost amongst them was Samuel Richardson, whose Pamela (1740), Clarissa (1747-8), and Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4) were the most sensationally popular and influential fictions of the eighteenth century. His was a classic instance of the growing power of female […]
SOCIAL CLASS AND EMOTIONAL LABOR
There are jobs at every socioeconomic level that place emotional burdens on the worker, but these burdens may have little to do with the performance of emotional labor. Among the lower classes, where work is often deskilled and boring and the work process beyond the worker’s control, the emotional task is often to suppress feelings […]