Advanced capitalism

About: Advanced capitalism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 348 publications have been published within this topic receiving 10707 citations.

Deconstructing Developmental Psychology

Abstract: What is childhood and why, and how, did psychology come to be the arbiter of 'correct'or 'normal' development? How do actual lived childhoods connect with theories about child development? In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice. In the decade since the first edition was published, there have been many major changes. The role accorded childcare experts and the power of the 'psy complex' have, if anything, intensified. This book addresses how shifts in advanced capitalism have produced new understandings of children, and a new (and more punitive) range of institutional responses to children. It engages with the paradoxes of childhood in an era when young adults are increasingly economically dependent on their families, and in a political context of heightened insecurity. The new edition includes an updated review of developments in psychological theory (in attachment, evolutionary psychology, theory of mind, cultural-historical approaches), as well as updating and reflecting upon the changed focus on fathers and fathering. It offers new perspectives on the connections between Piaget and Vygotsky and now connects much more closely with discussions from the sociology of childhood and critical educational research. Coverage has been expanded to include more material on child rights debates, and a new chapter addresses practice dilemmas around child protection, which engages even more with the "raced" and gendered effects of current policies involving children.

Deconstructing Developmental Psychology

Abstract: What is childhood and why, and how, did psychology come to be the arbiter of 'correct'or 'normal' development? How do actual lived childhoods connect with theories about child development? In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice. In the decade since the first edition was published, there have been many major changes. The role accorded childcare experts and the power of the 'psy complex' have, if anything, intensified. This book addresses how shifts in advanced capitalism have produced new understandings of children, and a new (and more punitive) range of institutional responses to children. It engages with the paradoxes of childhood in an era when young adults are increasingly economically dependent on their families, and in a political context of heightened insecurity. The new edition includes an updated review of developments in psychological theory (in attachment, evolutionary psychology, theory of mind, cultural-historical approaches), as well as updating and reflecting upon the changed focus on fathers and fathering. It offers new perspectives on the connections between Piaget and Vygotsky and now connects much more closely with discussions from the sociology of childhood and critical educational research. Coverage has been expanded to include more material on child rights debates, and a new chapter addresses practice dilemmas around child protection, which engages even more with the "raced" and gendered effects of current policies involving children.

The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities

Abstract: TWENTY YEARS AGO THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST Antonio Gramsci was rarely discussed outside his native land; now he has become an intellectual cause celebre and in some quarters a cult hero. Scholars continue to pore over his political journalism and his prison notebooks, reassembling the fragments in hopes of theoretical illumination. Articles and monographs continue to multiply. One historian on the Right has conjured up the vision of interdisciplinary programs in Gramsci studies, replete with unreadable journals and reverent textual exegesis. Already, on some European campuses, one poster of the Sardinian hunchback will fetch a whole wall full of Trotskies.1 Part of this furor involves the effort of young intellectuals on the Left to locate a moral inspiration. Gramsci's resistance to Mussolini, his stress on the role of individual action and thought in history, his desire that workers create their own cultural institutions through devices like factory councils-all this makes him an appealing figure. For many he also seems to explain why workers under advanced capitalism have not behaved the way Marx said they would and to offer a more successful revolutionary strategy. Yet his work has analytical uses as well, and those are my concern in this essay. I do not mean to turn Gramsci into "the Marxist you can take home to mother."2 One cannot ignore his revolutionary vision. But one does not have to embrace it uncritically to recognize that Gramsci's social thought contains some remarkably suggestive insights into the question of dominance and subordination in modern capitalist societies. There are intellectual as well as moral and political reasons for the rediscovery of Gramsci.

Advanced capitalism and black /white race relations in the united states: a split labor market interpretation

Abstract: A distinguishing feature of the black position in advanced capitalism lies in relatively high unemployment and underemployment, a phenomenon that emerged in the 1930s and became firmly entrenched in the mid-1950s. To explain this we examined the black/white split labor market between World War I and the New Deal, showing how blacks were used to undermine white workers and their unions. The conflict was resolved with New Deal Labor legislation, protecting the unions and outlawing undercutting. This permitted a coalition to emerge between black and white workers. But in the long run the rising cost of labor drove capital to seek cheaper labor overseas, to make use of internal pockets of unprotected labor or to automate. All three processes hurt black industrial workers disproportionately, leaving a group of hardcore unemployed in the ghettos.

Modes of regulation in advanced capitalism: Locating accountancy in four countries

Abstract: The paper presents a framework for examining how accounting practices are regulated within advanced capitalist societies. Through the critical use of Streeck & Schmitter's (Private Interest Government and Public Policy, Sage, London, 1985) exploration of models of social order, regulation is theorised as an expression of the combination of the organising principles of Market, State and Community. The analytical framework is then applied to compare modes of accounting regulation in the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and the United States of America. The paper highlights the significance of contradictions within and between the organizing principles of advanced capitalism and seeks to display the regulation of accounting as a medium and outcome of the articulation of these contradictions.