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Social Support and Mental Health: Where Do We Stand?
No full textThe topic of mental health is emerging as significant concern amongst college students, and social support is one of the resources that students are utilizing in order to manage their mental health. While ample research has examined and theorized about the role of social support in stress mediation, minimal literature has addressed the specific ways in which providers and forms of social support are differentially perceived by college students, more specifically by students with and without mental illness. This study collected quantitative survey data from the Hamilton College student body regarding student demographics and perceptions of social support and mental health on campus. Although perceptions of social support were not found to vary between students with and without mental illness, social support and mental illness prevalence was found to vary by race, gender, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation. Furthermore, increased number of mental health discussants, especially discussants with similar mental health experience, was found to positively affect social support. The findings of this study build upon previous literature regarding the role of social support in mental health management and serve to expand our understanding of social support and mental illness so that support initiatives at Hamilton can be formulated and improved. Continued research into this topic is crucial to the betterment of mental health amongst college students and has implications for Hamilton College and beyond
A Letter of Love: And the Return of White Backlash
No full textIn this talk I will explore what it means to deploy love in the process of critically engaging whiteness. Love will be discussed as a site of vulnerability, courageous listening, and the capacity to be what I call un-suturing. I will then explore some of the graphic white racist vitriol that I received as a result of asking white America to face its whiteness/racism. I explore this hatred as a response grounded partly in the arrogance of whiteness and its failure to tarry with the fact that the innocence of whiteness no longer exists. I will conclude with a brief discussion about what it involves for whiteness to be in crisis, which I argue is a positive way of beginning to undo whiteness.
George Yancy is among the most prominent and important philosophers of race in America today. He is a professor of philosophy at Emory University and the Philosophy of Race book series editor for Lexington Books. Among Yancy\u27s many books written and edited are Black Bodies, White Gazes and Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections. He came to international public prominence after he published “Dear White America” in The New York Times. His Backlash describes the harrowing subsequent events and continues the essential discussion. Professor Yancy\u27s talk was delivered on July 3, 2019, for the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy held in Clinton, New York
Anne Bradstreet
No full textAnne Dudley Bradstreet (b. c. 1612–d. 1672) emigrated from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her extended family in 1630 and remained there until her death. In 1650 a volume of her poems appeared in England under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America and attributed to “a Gentlewoman of those parts.” An expanded edition, Several Poems, was published in Boston, Massachusetts, six years after her death. Because she was the first published “American” poet, Bradstreet’s work has always been in the public eye, although assessments of its quality and ideas about which pieces merit attention have fluctuated over time
Lithic Technological Organization and Hafting in Early Villages
No full textHafting is an important part of lithic technology that can increase our understanding of socioeconomic behavior in the past. In this article, we develop a holistic approach to studying hafting by using the concept of curation within a broader assessment of lithic technological organization in early villages. Early villages were loci of socioeconomic transformation as part of the shift from mobile foraging to more sedentary cultivation lifeways. We suggest that an examination of hafting can provide new insights into how early villagers negotiated technological requirements, economic decision making, and social interactions in these novel contexts. As a case study, we develop a curation index and apply it to an archaeological context of hafted and unhafted pointed tools from the early Neolithic village of Dhra’, Jordan. This curation index allows for a discussion of the technological, economic, and social dimensions of hafting strategies at Dhra’. The presence of multiple hafting traditions within early Neolithic villages of Southwest Asia is evidence of persistent social segmentation despite food storage and ritual practices that emphasized communal integration. Through the lens of lithic technological organization, we demonstrate that hafting and curation patterns can increase our understanding of technological, economic, and social strategies in early villages
Understanding the Sources of Anti-Americanism in the Russian Elite
No full textThis paper applies the model of opinion formation developed by John Zaller to the study of anti-American attitudes in the Russian elite. It examines the relative weight of political predispositions (interests, values, and experiences) versus immediately accessible “considerations” that depend on the flow of information in elite discourse. Based on survey data from 1995–2016, we find that two key political predispositions (identification as a Westernizer or Slavophile and service in the military and security agencies) are highly significant in the Yel’tsin period, when debates about Western intentions toward Russia were robust and the Kremlin’s messaging was diverse. By contrast, anti-American sentiment in the elite has become more uniform in the Putin era, which we attribute to an increasingly fervent anti-American narrative on state-controlled television. In a period of clear and unequivocal messaging emanating from Kremlin-controlled media, these signals have surpassed civilizational identity and service in the force structures in importance
Along the Margins? The Later Bronze Age Seascapes of Western Ireland
No full textThis article presents the results of multi-scalar investigations into the Later Bronze Age (LBA; 1500–600 bc) landscape of Inishark in County Galway, Ireland. The European LBA along the Atlantic coast was characterized by the development of long-distance maritime exchange systems that transformed environmentally marginal seascapes into a corridor of human interaction and movement of goods and people. Archaeological survey, test excavation, and radiocarbon analysis documented the LBA occupation on Inishark. The communities living on Inishark and other small islands on the western Irish coast were on the periphery of both the European continent and of the elite spheres of influence at hillforts in Ireland; yet they were connected to the Atlantic maritime exchange routes. A focus on small coastal islands contributes to a better understanding of LBA socioeconomic systems and the development of social complexity in Bronze Age societies
From Wuerttemberg to Zoar: Origins of a Separatist Community
Get PDFIn Ohio, the members of the Zoar community regarded their village as a sanctuary, a safe haven separated from an otherwise evil, sinful world. The community’s chosen name implies they felt they had escaped from Wuerttemberg. Most of the Separatist groups they belonged to had been established in the years after 1801. Thus, we know two dates for certain, but if you research the story of the founders of Zoar there remain many mysteries.
George Rapp and his followers laid the foundation of the Separatist movement in the late eighteenth century, and the founders of Zoar followed the example of the Harmonists in many ways. Therefore it is very important to outline and understand Rapp’s activities and principles. We must see the Harmonists’ and the Zoarites’ history as one story, an ongoing movement of Radical Pietism or Separatism. Of course, as the times changed, that movement also underwent changes; however, the basic ideas are the same. After Rapp had left for America, leadership shifted to the Separatists of Rottenacker and their followers in villages like Dettingen unter Teck, Boll, Unterhausen, Schlaitdorf, Nordheim, and Horrheim, to name only the most prominent ones