Television drama, in many of its genres, picks up on and dramatizes contemporary social and political issues in order to maintain relevance and credibility in a medium whose appeal is founded on immediacy (Ellis 2000). This chapter identifies the political discourses that have regulated the ways in which homosexuality has been represented on television over […]
День: 02.10.2015
What do we call violence against an infant boy?
I saw them strap my son spread-eagle and put this steel thing on his penis. As soon as 1 heard my boy scream, I knew it was very wrong. I’ve never heard a kid cry like that before. I’ll never forget it.25 When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; […]
Personal Concerns and Qualitative Stages in Adulthood
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are personal concerns? • What are the main elements of Jung’s theory? • What are the stages in Erikson’s theory? What types of clarifications and extensions of it have been offered? What research evidence is there to support his stages? • What are the stages in Loevinger’s theory? What evidence is […]
TWO WAYS TO SEE LOVE
All of the nineteenth-century founders of sociology touched on the topic of emotion and some did more. Max Weber elucidated the anxious “spirit of capitalism,” the magnetic draw of charisma, and questioned—though not from this viewpoint—“rationality.” Emile Durkheim focused on the experience of “solidarity.” Karl Marx explored alienation and, in his analysis of class conflict, […]
TWO WAYS TO SEE LOVE
All of the nineteenth-century founders of sociology touched on the topic of emotion and some did more. Max Weber elucidated the anxious “spirit of capitalism,” the magnetic draw of charisma, and questioned—though not from this viewpoint—“rationality.” Emile Durkheim focused on the experience of “solidarity.” Karl Marx explored alienation and, in his analysis of class conflict, […]
Intraindividual Change and. the Stability of Traits
The controversy continues today as to whether personality remains stable across the life span or whether it changes. Given that personality traits have been shown to be important predictors of mental and physical health as well as psychological well-being, potential changes in personality can have important implications for gains and declines in such life outcomes. […]
(OR ERASING RACE)
Gay rights proponents sought to legitimize a sexual identity antidiscrimination norm by analogizing to historical race discrimination: the military’s discriminatory practices against gays and lesbians is the same as, or at the very least similar to, the military’s discriminatory practices against Blacks. Thus, the argument runs, because it is illegal and immoral for the military […]
The Berbera conflict, 1992
In March 1992 a major clan war erupted between two neighbouring clan groups of the same clan family in Berbera (the conflict mentioned by Noreen Michael Mariano, above). The conflict was further complicated by the involvement of the recently established national army, composed of ex-combatants but which the majority of the population saw as being […]
MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM AND POPULAR. CULTURE
One of the now classic texts which charts the positioning of mass culture or popular culture within the nexus of the modernism/postmodernism debate is Andreas Huyssen’s After the Great Divide (1986), in which he draws attention to ‘the structuralist preference for the works of high modernism, especially the writing of James Joyce or Mallarme’ (McRobbie […]
Additional Studies of Dispositional Traits
Despite the impressive collection of research findings for personality stability using the five-factor model, as we can see from the previous discussion there is growing evidence for personality change. Ursula Staudinger and colleagues have a perspective that reconciles these differences (Staudinger & Kunzman, 2005; Staudinger & Kessler, 2008). They suggest that personality takes on two […]