Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Our possessions are a major contributor to and reflection of our identities A variety of evidence is presented supporting this simple and compelling premise Related streams of research are identified and drawn upon in developing this concept and implications are derived for consumer behavior Because the construct of extended self involves consumer behavior rather than buyer behavior, it appears to be a much richer construct than previous formulations positing a relationship between self-concept and consumer brand choice

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2489522.pdf

Possessions and the extended self.

Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/201/4359/899.2.full.pdf

Phenomenology of perception.

We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The archaeology of knowledge

The reward-punishment model of moral conformity was directed initially at subordinate social groups-slaves, peasants or workers. It was essentially an aspect of social control. Alongside this system, dominant social classes experimented with medical practices (elixirs of life) to gain immortal life. In modern societies, recent medical advances in therapeutic stem-cell research have led some radical gerontologists to argue that in principle human beings could live forever. This chapter is concerned with the moral, psychological and theological implications of the proposition that humans could live for indefinitely long periods, that is, enjoy the benefits of prolongevity. The author argue that there is in one sense little change from the past. Life extension will be enjoyed by the rich not the poor, and by the north and not the south. Prolongevity, if it is achieved, will also prolong the social divisions of this world. Keywords: elixirs; prolongevity; reward-punishment model

Piety, Prolongevity and Perpetuity: The Consequences of Living Forever

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Animals for the coffee table and student

While Max Weber wrote extensively on a range of religions—Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and most extensively Protestantism—there is no fully developed sociology of Catholicism. This chapter attempts to construct Max Weber’s missing sociology of Catholicism from the various scattered comments across his works. While Weber saw Protestantism influencing the growth of capitalism (and more broadly modernization), his view of Catholicism was largely negative: it was ritualistic, magical, bureaucratic, and traditional. What would Weber have made of Catholicism in the twentieth century and twenty-first century? This chapter first examines developments in nineteenth-century Catholicism that lay behind Weber’s critical commentary. The second half asks how changes in Catholicism after the Second Vatican Council (informally known as Vatican II, 1962–1965) have brought about a modernization of Catholicism. The chapter argues for the relevance of Weber’s views today by considering the impact of Vatican II on Catholic teaching and practice, arguing that it represents the political modernization of Catholicism. Vatican II represented a radical departure from the political conservatism of the nineteenth century. In principle, the church was no longer critical of secular democracy, pluralism, the party system, and state sovereignty. This modernization, however, began to undermine the universalism of the church and pushed Catholicism toward denominationalism. However, the church did not modernize its teaching on contraception, abortion, marriage, divorce, and family life. This tension between political modernization and what we might simply call “familial conservatism” still haunts the church today.

Bryan S. Turner

Papers

Piety, Prolongevity and Perpetuity: The Consequences of Living Forever

Animals for the coffee table and student

Max Weber and the Late Modernization of Catholicism

Medicine as social drama

Review of Alessandra L. González, Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes