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Reimagining the World
No full textAnthony Weston, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Elon University, reflects on his recently completed, two week course in which students engaged in a fast-forward exploration of some of philosophy’s farther possibilities. Its central goal was to offer forming young philosophers a vision of an urgent, venturesome, thoroughly engaged, and reconstructive kind of philosophical work and life; to expand and enliven their sense of what philosophical study and practice could be for them personally and in the culture at large. In doing so, the course aimed to systematically and repeatedly leapfrog the imaginative and other limits of the usual pedagogies and disciplinary conceptions of the field and its possibilities.
This presentation was given on July 11, 2022, for the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy held in Clinton, New York
First in the West: The Shaker Experience of Visionary Malcham Worley and His Family
Get PDFA biographical essay on visionary Shaker Malcham Worley. Having recently completed Richard McNemar: Frontier Heretic and Shaker Apostle (forthcoming from Indiana University Press), I decided to keep going and complete a smaller look at the life of his longtime companion. The primary sources for the two were intertwined, so it was a natural by-product of the process. I hope my essay sheds further life on the inspired and complicated life of the first Shaker convert west of the Appalachians
Emotion Regulation Socialization: Toward a Cohesive Family Model
No full textAs early as infancy, the family plays a crucial role in emotion socialization, the process by which children are taught the skills for understanding, expressing, and managing emotions. Because this process extends throughout adolescence, people reach adulthood with emotion regulation strategies that have been, to a large extent, socially influenced by their family. Within the family, several dimensions, such as interparental, parent-child, and whole-family, have been recognized as primary influences on emotion regulation outcomes. However, previous literature fails to consider how these subsystems may interact with one another to hinder or promote people’s ability to effectively regulate their emotions. Implementing a quantitative approach, the current study aims to address this gap by examining a direct effects model against an indirect effects model among a sample of undergraduates (n = 101). The results lend support to both models. Each dimension of family functioning had direct effects on emotion regulation outcomes. At the same time, multiple linear regression analyses indicated that destructive interparental conflict had indirect effects on difficulties with emotion regulation through parents’ use of unsupportive emotion socialization practices and greater family-wide negativity. The findings have practical implications on potential parenting interventions targeted at improving conflict resolution strategies and bringing awareness to the unintended consequences of destructive conflict on children’s outcomes
A. J. MacDonald’s Visits to the Shakers
No full textWe are pleased to present here for the first time in print MacDonald’s previously unpublished accounts of his visits to Union Village, Ohio (1844) and Watervliet, New York (1847). Both are remarkably rich in detail and offer particularly striking descriptions of Shaker worship and singing. Yale’s excellent collections landing page for the A. J. MacDonald writings on American Utopian Communities (GEN MSS 1394) provides a thorough overview of MacDonald and his collection. We have reprinted it here as a preface to the accounts
Back Cover
Get PDFBack cover illustration: “Main House at Shaker Village, KY,” in Collins’ Historical Sketches, 1847
Cross-Sectoral Climate Change Modeling
Get PDFAlthough climate data originates from various integrated sectors, it continues to be evaluated in isolation. By using cross-sectoral modeling, climate change modeling can more effectively represent data, and the possible consequences of misjudging future models.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/posters/1005/thumbnail.jp
How Does FICO Score Discriminates People?
Get PDFThe FICO Score, the standard credit score, is used as a weapon of mathematical destruction as its algorithm creates a systematic discrimination against a disadvantaged racial group.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/posters/1004/thumbnail.jp
What Does it Mean to Shop “Green”? Exploring the Impact that Eco-Consumption has on College Students’ Self-Perceptions
No full textThis study investigates why students engage with green consumption and how it affects their attitudes towards sustainability and their perception of self. Using in-depth interviews (n=12) with a theoretical sample of students at an elite liberal arts college, the study found that the consumption of perceived environmentally sustainable products (i.e. eco-labeled products) may not be as conscious of a decision as the literature theorizes. The sample was split into four consumer groups along an eco-conscious buyer spectrum organized according to the frequency with which students purchased eco-labeled products and why. The lowest consumers on the spectrum rarely or never purchase eco-labeled products because they are disinterested in them (n=3). The lower-middle consumer group is composed of students who sometimes purchase eco-labeled products due to unintentional overlap with their individual needs, but they explicitly refute the efficacy of shopping to be sustainable (n=2). The upper-middle consumer group sometimes purchases eco-labeled products not because of a lack of desire, but because they have developed other pro-environmental behaviors that are more affordable for them (n=5). The highest consumers on the spectrum frequently purchase eco-labeled products but they do so more as an unintentional byproduct of their individual tastes (n=2). This study contributes to the scarce literature on whether green consumers perceive their purchases as efficacious in mitigating the climate crisis and presents a notable finding: students across the board are disbelieving of the impact that eco-labeled products have on the larger climate change movement. However, over half of the students also believe that if they stopped purchasing eco-labeled products, their self-perception of their moral character and identity would change. These findings suggest that future research should investigate the relationship between the perceived lack of efficacy that green consumers have about their purchases and the profound impact that these products have on some people’s perceptions of their morality and identity coherence. More broadly, this study also demonstrates that trying to mitigate climate change from the lens of changing individuals’ consumption behaviors is not an effective approach and distracts from the responsibility that should be on corporations with systemic power
Same Organization, Different Worlds: Exploring the Process of Organizational Change in DEI Initiative Implementation at a Small Liberal Arts College
No full textWhile ample literature has discussed either the factors that lead to organizational change or organizational and cultural dynamics that contribute to change resistance, few case studies have examined both within the same change process. This study seeks to investigate the reasons why diversity, equity, and inclusion policies were implemented at a small eastern liberal arts college, and it also assesses the resistance to these initiatives that arose from various constituencies. Drawing on interview data collected from twenty key actors in the College’s DEI implementation process, as well as the analysis of public documents, I find that normative and mimetic isomorphic pressures influenced administrative efforts towards organizational change. Additionally, I discover that sensemaking processes and moral beliefs held by leaders of student and faculty groups contributed to perceptions of the College and its administration as “racist,” thus leading to mistrust and actions to counter official efforts towards change. The data also allow me to note that organizational politics contributed to change resistance, as students and faculty leaders and administrators possessed opposing views on who should hold organizational power. Ultimately, this study provides a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in organizational change, which are not only attributed to structural factors, but cultural and interactional differences between organizational actors