How are adults assessed? In terms of cognitive, psychological, and social assessments, there are six primary methods (Edelstein & Kalish, 1999): interview, self-report, report by others, psychophysiological assessment, direct observation, and performance-based assessment. Clinical interviews are the most widely used assessment method (Stoner et al., 2009). They are useful because they provide both direct information […]
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THE SEARCH. FOR AUTHENTICITY
In a social system animated by competition for property, the human personality was metamorphosed into a form of capital. Here it was rational to invest oneself only in properties that would produce the highest return. Personal feeling was a handicap since it distracted the individualfrom calculating his best interest and might pull him along economically […]
Partners in crime, not in doing time Pf«o bargain as famala bargain
In plea bargaining with a married couple, often we say, “Well, let’s get the man." We re satisfied with getting the husband to plead guilty and dropping the charges against the woman. Of course, then he has a criminal record, she doesn’t. If they both repeat the crime, he can "legitimately" receive a longer sentence. […]
Factors Influencing Assessment
Health care professionals’ preconceived ideas about the people they assess may have negative effects on
The Mystery in Broad. Daylight
Gender Formation and Psychoanalysis How are the structures of personal life discussed in the last chapter formed? There are two main approaches to this question that are compatible with a social analysis of gender. Socialization theory treats gender formation as. jthe acquisition and internalization of social^ norms_. It stresses continuity between social context and personality, […]
POSTMODERNISM, POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
The intersection of postmodernism with popular culture, which some have dismissed as trivialising serious political debate, is profoundly political—if by ‘political’ it is meant an engagement with the ‘politics of everyday life’. The terrain of popular culture articulated in a range of cultural forms and expressed in a range of cultural styles is fundamentally about […]
Money, gender and power revisited
It is tempting to read the working of power into these relationships based on the arrangements the couples made for their financial affairs. For example, one female couple had an arrangement where the flat they lived in was in just one person’s name and where the incoming partner also paid her wages into an account […]
Areas of Multidimensional Assessment
What does it mean to assess someone? Assessment makes it possible to describe the behavior or other characteristics of people in meaningful ways (Stoner, O’Riley, & Edelstein, 2009). Assessment is a formal process of measuring, understanding, and predicting behavior. It involves gathering medical, psychological, and sociocultural information about people through various means, such as interviews, […]
Discourses
In the early twentieth century, highly educated women such as Miriam Van Waters might have been exposed to published literature that clearly named both male and female homosexuality. Only a generation earlier, even romantic female friends and women who passed as men perceived their experiences within frameworks largely devoid of sexual references. The “female world […]
How the System Protects Women, Or. . . . Two Different Laws We Live In
Unequal time for equal crime ITEM A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty.’ ITEM No woman who has kiled only men has been executed m the United States smce I9S4.2 ITEM Smce the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty. 120 men […]