From birth all males will be members of a diya group. For men it is at this level that collective action takes place and the political and social implications of clan membership are most clearly defined. A man’s security, and that of his property, depends on his diya group membership. A single diya group may […]
День: 06.10.2015
Popular drama: sexuality as a social issue
The processes of regulation set limits to ensure that mainstream drama conforms to normative assumptions about sexual behaviour. If broadcast before the 9.00 p. m. watershed, it must be deemed suitable for family viewing. For drama this has meant an almost exclusive focus on heterosexual relationships as a result of the expressions of disgust and […]
IDENTITIES
Race and ethnicity: black formations and representations Lawrence Grossberg (1993:23), in identifying ‘formations of cultural studies’, identifies ‘a specific [cultural] formation around the biographical figure of Stuart Hall and intellectual and political commitments of Marxism’. Hall’s role in the development of cultural studies can be seen in terms of Gramsci’s ‘organic intellectual’ or Foucault’s ‘specific […]
POPULAR CULTURE AS A ‘SITE OF RESISTANCE’: SOCIAL. MOVEMENTS, RESISTANCE AND SUBCULTURAL. IDENTITIES
The distinctions between high/low culture and serious/popular culture within a modernist frame of reference have been increasingly broken down by the emergence of cultural studies. Sheridan (1995:89) describes cultural studies as a wide-ranging area of enquiry which includes media studies and popular culture, and which incorporates ‘everyday practices and cultural habits as well as texts […]
Sex and Security
As discussed in Chapter 3, young formalised same-sex relationships need to be understood within the context of the enduring privileging of the couple as an adult relational ideal. Also, as noted in Chapter 2, partners viewed stability as central to a ‘good’ and fulfilling relationship or marriage. In this chapter we consider how the privileging […]
Socialization
In both academic social science and the popular literature on gender in the last two decades the commonest approach has been through concepts of social moulding or ‘socialization’. Schematically, the main argument runs like this. The new-born child has a biological sex but no social gender. As it grows older society provides a string of […]
Durkheim
The majority of feminist sociologists, unlike feminist anthropologists, have been unable to draw analytic concepts from Durkheim as they have from Marx and Weber. Liberal sociologists have de facto used the approach to official statistics that Durkheim pioneered, but there are no feminists harnessing anomie or conscious collective as there are feminists using ideology or […]
Developmental Issues in Therapy
Assuming that Juan is assessed properly and is found to have a mental disorder, what next? How can he be helped? Therapy for mental disorders generally involves two approaches (Qualls & Layton, 2009): medical treatment and psychotherapy. Medical treatment most often involves the use of various medications, which are based on the underlying physiological causes […]
Flight
For as long as I can remember, martial artists in the movies have been defying the laws of physics, breaking boulders with their fists, knocking down giant trees with their feet, and slicing through steel with their swords, battling on—for good or for evil—until some slight advantage that the virtuous possesses reveals itself to triumph […]
How the System Protects Women, Or. . . 175 Capital punishment: the male-only death penalty
(The executioner! found it difficult to reconcile himself to the task of destroying the life of a member of the sex which his whole upbringing had taught him was deserving of respect and tenderness as the giver of life.1′ ITEM Twenty-three Americans have been executed and later found innocent. All twenty-three were men.’6 ITEM Approximately […]