603 research outputs found
Attitudes to age in Britain 2010/11
No full textDWP In-House Research No 7. Note - the report reported findings from ONS Survey designed by Abrams et al, and members of Eurage also guided the report
When bad becomes good (and vice versa): Why social exclusion is not based on difference.
No full text"Com s'estimen les coses marcescibles"
No full textEn el número 10 de la revista L'Espill trobaràs un dossier monogràfic sobre “Joan Fuster (1922-1992)", amb contribucions d'Antoni Furió, Josep-Maria Terricabras, Jacobo Muñoz, Antoni Seva, Eva Serra, Josep Palàcios, Antoni Martí, Enric Sòria, Adolf Beltran, Sam Abrams, Dominic Keown, Xavier Antich, Vicent J. Escartí i Miquel Nicolás. Així com un document de Montserrat Roig i correspondència inèdita de Joan Fuster
Wherein Lies Children’s Intergroup Bias? Egocentrism, Social Understanding, and Social Projection
No full textDoes children’s bias toward their own groups reflect egocentrism or social understanding? After being categorized as belonging to 1 of 2 fictitious groups, 157 six- to ten-year-olds evaluated group members and expressed preferences among neutral items. Children who expected the in-group to share their item preferences (egocentric social projection) showed intergroup bias. However, most bias was expressed by children who expected their in-group to share, but the out-group to oppose, their own evaluations of members. These oppositional expectations were associated with better social perspective taking, and better understanding that groups expect loyalty from their members. Consistent with the developmental model of subjective group dynamics (D. Abrams, A. Rutland, J. Pelletier, & J. M. Ferrell, 2009), social understanding, rather than egocentrism, provides a more parsimonious explanation of children’s intergroup bias
L'excentrisme friccional de Joan Fuster
No full textEn el número 10 de la revista L'Espill trobaràs un dossier monogràfic sobre “Joan Fuster (1922-1992)", amb contribucions d'Antoni Furió, Josep-Maria Terricabras, Jacobo Muñoz, Antoni Seva, Eva Serra, Josep Palàcios, Antoni Martí, Enric Sòria, Adolf Beltran, Sam Abrams, Dominic Keown, Xavier Antich, Vicent J. Escartí i Miquel Nicolás. Així com un document de Montserrat Roig i correspondència inèdita de Joan Fuster
Storytelling, women's authority and the 'Old-Wife's Tale': 'The Story of the Bottle of Medicine'
No full textThe focus of this article is a single personal narrative – a Shetland woman’s telling of a story about two girls on a journey to fetch a cure for a sick relative from a wise woman. The story is treated as a cultural document which offers the historian a conduit to a past that is respectful of indigenous woman-centred interpretations of how that past was experienced and understood. The ‘story of the bottle of medicine’ is more than a skilful telling of a local tale; it is a memory practice that provides a path to a deeper and more nuanced understanding of a culture. Applying perspectives from anthropology, oral history and narrative analysis, three sets of questions are addressed: the issue of authenticity; the significance of the narrative structure and storytelling strategies employed; and the nature of the female performance. Ultimately the article asks what this story can tell us about women’s interpretation of their own history
'Gringos' in Mexico: Cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of language school-promoted contact on intergroup bias.
No full textAbstract: A longitudinal field study examined Pettigrew's (1998) intergroup contact theory and Gaertner et al.'s (2000) Common Ingroup Identity Model (CIIM). In Pettigrew's model, the contact-prejudice relation is mediated by changing behavior, ingroup reappraisal, generating affective ties, and learning about the outgroup. Pettigrew's integration of the three chief models of contact generalization into a time-sequence holds that contact first elicits decategorization, then salient categorization, and finally recategorization. In CIIM, these three levels of categorization-plus a fourth, dual identity-are thought to be mediators in the contact-prejudice relation. Results underline the crucial mediating role of behavior modification in Pettigrew's model and interpersonal and superordinate levels in CIIM. An attempt to partially integrate the two models is presented
The Philosophy of J. J. Abrams
No full textAmerican auteur Jeffrey Jacob “J. J.” Abrams’s genius for creating densely plotted scripts has won him broad commercial and critical success in TV shows such as Felicity (1998–2002), Emmy-nominated Alias (2001–2006), Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Lost (2004–2010), and the critically acclaimed Fringe (2008–2013). In addition, his direction in films such as Cloverfield (2008), Super 8 (2011), and the new Mission Impossible and Star Trek films has left fans eagerly awaiting his revival of the Star Wars franchise. As a writer, director, producer, and composer, Abrams seamlessly combines geek appeal with blockbuster intuition, leaving a distinctive stamp on all of his work and establishing him as one of Tinsel Town’s most influential visionaries.
In The Philosophy of J.J. Abrams, editors Patricia L. Brace and Robert Arp assemble the first collection of essays to highlight the philosophical insights of the Hollywood giant’s successful career. The filmmaker addresses a diverse range of themes in his onscreen pursuits, including such issues as personal identity in an increasingly impersonal digitized world, the morality of terrorism, bioethics, friendship, family obligation, and free will.
Utilizing Abrams’s scope of work as a touchstone, this comprehensive volume is a guide for fans as well as students of film, media, and culture. The Philosophy of J.J. Abrams is a significant contribution to popular culture scholarship, drawing attention to the mind behind some of the most provocative television and movie plots of our day.
Patricia L. Brace is professor of art history at Southwest Minnesota State University. She has contributed to many philosophy and popular culture volumes, including Lost and Philosophy: The Island Has its Reasons, The Philosophy of Joss Whedon, and The Philosophy of David Lynch.
Robert Arp is the editor of a number of books, including The Philosophy of Ang Lee and South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today, and coeditor of Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology.
“This work is a significant contribution to pop culture scholarship that draws attention to the mind behind some of the most provocative television and movie plots of our day.” – Sharon Kaye, author of Philosophy, A Complete Introduction
“This well designed book opens up the works of J.J. Abrams like a Lamborghini on beautiful boundless freeway. With essays ranging from the metaphysics of time and self, to emerging issues in ethics as technology advances, this book is great for any class in Introductory Philosophy. Students will encounter essays that focus on everything from existential dread in the vast infinity of Star Trek space (Piven & Stephenson) to the nature of love in Super 8 (Auxier). Abrams forces us to shift our understanding out of automatic when we view his many creative works; he drives us in many philosophical directions. This book is a V6 thrill-ride that makes thinking in high gear fun.”-- Sara Waller, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Montana State Universityhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_american_popular_culture/1016/thumbnail.jp
When Do Children Dislike Ingroup Members? Resource Allocation from Individual and Group Perspectives
No full textDo children like ingroup members who challenge group norms about resource allocation? Further, do children evaluate from their own individual perspective? Participants (N = 381), aged 9.5 and 13.5 years, evaluated members of their own group who deviated from group norms about resource allocation by either: (1) advocating for equal allocation in contrast to the group norm of inequality; or (2) advocating for inequality when the group norm was to divide equally. With age, participants differentiated their own individual favorability from the group's favorability of deviant members of the ingroup. Further, when deciding between group loyalty and equal allocation, children and adolescents gave priority to equality, rejecting group decisions to dislike ingroup members who advocated for equality
A new social-cognitive developmental perspective on prejudice: The interplay between morality and group identity.
No full textWe argue that prejudice should be investigated in the context of social-cognitive development and the interplay between morality and group identity. Our new perspective examines how children consider group identity (and group norms) along with their developing moral beliefs about fairness and justice. This is achieved by developing an integrated framework drawing on developmental and social psychological theories of prejudice. This synthesis results in a perspective which provides a more contextualized analysis of prejudice development than previously offered by developmental theories. We describe research which supports our view that social norms, intergroup contact and perceived out-group threat affect the relative weight children place on moral and group-based criteria during the development of prejudice
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