Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler Review by: Mary McIntosh Feminist Review‚ No. 38 (Summer‚ 1991)‚ pp. 113-114 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1395391 . Accessed: 20/03/2012 23:44 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers
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significant in fostering the development of personality‚ and strongly proposed that social rather than biological forces are more influential on personality development. Based on my reading and understanding of all the personality theories ‚ the Horney Psychoanalytic Social Theory has broaden my knowledge in explaining the factors that have influence the development of my personality. Horney emphasises that culture plays a major role in the development of one’s personality type‚ not excluding the contribution
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MODERNIZATION THEORY Introduction: Modernization is an inherently optimistic concept for it assumes that all countries eventually experience economic growth. This optimistic must be understood in the historical context of post war prosperity and growth in the north and independence of many southern colonies along with the growth of national markets and trades. The theory of modernization turns out into the high mass consumption and urbanization. The theory of economic growth is an alternative
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What do visual hallucinations tell us about the nature of consciousness? The term ‘hallucination’ is difficult to define. There is a fine line between a ‘hallucination’ and an ‘illusion’. A hallucination differs from an illusion in that illusions are a product of misinterpretations of external stimuli whereas hallucinations need no such requirement making them an entirely internal process. A true hallucination can also be distinguished from a pseudo-hallucination in which the individual can recognise
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Solomon Asch‚ a social psychologist had a hypothesis and he decided to test an experiment based on his hypothesis. Asch’s hypothesis theory was... Would people still conform to the group if the group opinion was clearly wrong? Well‚ to test his theory he chose a simple and objective task with an obvious answer. A group of people sat at a table and viewed a series of cards‚ on one side of each of the card was a standard line and on the other side were three comparison lines. Now‚ the individual’s
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French born but Chilean based‚ Nelly Richard is an influential figure within contemporary Latin American cultural studies‚ though she has often taken issue with the use of this term to describe her work. A leading proponent of psychoanalytical and feminist understandings of the social‚ Richard‚ editor of the Revista de Crítica Cultural between 1990 and 2008‚ is an innovative thinker responsible for creating a way of approaching cultural analysis which has been dubbed crítica cultural. Her conceptual
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not accept private events such as thinking‚ perceptions‚ and unobservable emotions in a causal account of an organism’s behavior: The position can be stated as follows: what is felt or introspectively observed is not some nonphysical world of consciousness‚ mind‚ or mental life but the observer’s own body. This does not mean‚ as I shall show later‚ that introspection is a kind of psychological research‚ nor does it mean (and this is the heart of the argument) that what are felt or introspectively
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/fem-stan/ Feminist Standpoint Theory Feminist standpoint theorists make three principal claims: (1) Knowledge is socially situated. (2) Marginalized groups are socially situated in ways that make it more possible for them to be aware of things and ask questions than it is for the non-marginalized. (3) Research‚ particularly that focused on power relations‚ should begin with the lives of the marginalized. Feminist standpoint theory‚ then‚ makes a contribution to epistemology‚ to
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Theory of Emotion Name Institutional Affiliation Theories of Emotion One of the most outstanding theories of learning in the field of psychology is the cognitive theory. This theory attempts to explain the behavior of human beings through an evaluation and recognition of their thought process. According to cognitive theorists‚ the thoughts of an individual are the single most crucial determinants of the behaviors and emotions of an individual. Consequently‚ these thoughts are responsible for the
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RASA THEORY: Rasa is said to arise when the sthāyībhāva in the individual is awakened by his perception of the vibhāvas‚ anubhāvas‚ vyabhicāribhāvas‚ and sāttvic bhāvas.. Vibhāvas are the stimuli such as the story‚ the stage and the actors responsible for the awakening of the sthāyi‚ i.e. the latent sentiment in the spectator. The vibhāvas are of two kinds: ālambana vibhāva is the basic stimulus capable of arousing the sentiment‚ whereas uddipana vibhāva is the enhancing stimuli‚ the environment
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