Rebecca Thompson I remember one clay where I was running along the river and thinking, “My God, this could he ten years ago. It’s like everything is the same in my life except that I’m older.” I wanted a change. I wanted to move on. I wanted to do something. I had tried to get […]
День: 01.10.2015
Dispositional Traits across Adulthood
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is the five-factor model of dispositional traits? • What evidence is there for long-term stability in dispositional traits? • What criticisms have been leveled at the five-factor model? • What can we conclude from theory and research on dispositional traits? A bby was attending her high school reunion. She hadn’t seen […]
Research topics
One of the reasons for the exclusion of women from the history of the Chicago School may be related to focus of their research. Topics which are currently part of sociology, and were legitimate topics in the 1890-1920 period, were not regarded as sociological between 1920 and 1980. For example, Annie Marion McLean (1899/1998) studied, […]
Qualitative versus quantitative methods
Black Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights
The Deployment of Race/Sexual Orientation Analogies in the Debates about the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy Devon W. Carbado IN THE CONTEXT of the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" controversy, gay rights proponents argued that the military’s historical discriminatory policies against Blacks is like the military’s current discriminatory policy against gays and lesbians; that the rhetoric […]
Levels of Analysis and Personality Research
The debate over the degree to which personality in adulthood remains stable or changes is one that has generated numerous studies and theoretical perspectives. Consequently, sorting out the various approaches helps us understand what aspects of personality the various researchers are describing. Drawing on the work of several theorists and researchers, McAdams (1999) describes three […]
Personality
Levels of Analysis and Personality Research 9.1 DISPOSITIONAL TRAITS ACROSS ADULTHOOD The Case for Stability: The Five-Factor Model • Additional Studies of Dispositional Traits • Critiques of the Five-Factor Model • Current Controversies: Intraindividual Change and the Stability of Traits • Conclusions about Dispositional Traits 9.2 PERSONAL CONCERNS AND QUALITATIVE STAGES IN ADULTHOOD What’s Different […]
WOMEN AT WORK
With the growth of large organizations calling for skills in personal relations, the womanly art of status enhancement and the emotion work that it requires has been made more public, more systematized, and more standardized. It is performed by largely middle-class women in largely public — contact jobs. As indicated in Chapter Seven (and Appendix […]
SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS
The research on social cognition and aging further accentuates why it is important to consider social factors to explain cognitive functioning in older adulthood. Factors such as the social context in which we communicate, the emotions we are feeling, and the strength of our beliefs and values drive our decisions and social judgments in important […]
The Invisible sexual abuse
When we think of sexual abuse of children, most of us think of girl children as the victim about nine out of fen times. In reality, it is one boy to 1.7 girls.18 We usually think of the sexual abuser as a man. In reality, girls’ abusers are usually men, boys’ abusers are usually women […]