Showing papers on "Face (sociological concept) published in 1982"

Teleconferencing, Concern for Face, and Organizational Culture

Abstract: (1982). Teleconferencing, Concern for Face, and Organizational Culture. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 874-904.

Children With Disabilities and Their Families: A Review of Research

Abstract: A summary, review and critique of research on physically disabled children and the social and emotional difficulties which they and their families face.

Borrowed Words: problems of vocabulary in eighteenth-century geology

Abstract: Every science has its technical vocabulary, consisting in part of terms coined for explicit purposes and in part of words borrowed from ordinary discourse and used with greater or lesser degrees of precision. Words of the latter sort pose curious problems, some of them familiar to those historians of science concerned with, for example, what Galileo meant by forza and Newton by attraction. Indeed, analogous problems face any historian seeking to understand the older meanings of terms still in use today.

Changing Roles, Goals, and Self-Conceptions: Process and Results in a Program for Women’s Employment

Abstract: Displaced homemakers experience a relatively new form of role loss. This loss can result from divorce, desertion, separation, or the disability or death of a spouse on whom the displaced homemaker previously had been dependent. Alternatively, the loss may be due to economic necessity. From whichever source, the loss of the homemaker role involves reduction of the financial and emotional security that derived from previously relatively well-defined roles as wife and mother. Such loss forces the displaced homemaker into a job market that is accurately characterized in terms of both agism and sexism, and also may involve the burden of racism. Although some men may face the circumstance of suddenly losing a relationship that had provided economic as well as emotional support, men face much less discrimination even as they move into their middle years. For this reason, the present chapter will restrict the phrase “displaced homemaker” to women.

Democratic Perspectives on the Training of Headteachers

Abstract: staff, heads need at least some kind of 'management training' to cope with the administrative, financial and personnel problems they are likely to face. In secondary schools time-tabling alone poses considerable problems. Should one use a computer? If so, how much can one rely on it to do? If it cannot do the whole job and leaves loose ends to be tied up by the head, is it worth using it at all? Clearly there is a case for saying that heads need courses to help them with such problems. But I want to claim that they need something more. All too often the assumption of 'management training' courses for heads-the kind of short courses run by LEAs-is that the head needs to be helped to develop skills and techniques to run a good, harmonious school with few staff or pupil problems. To this end courses concentrate on interviewing techniques, time-tabling, ways of delegating routine work to leave oneself free to cope with major trouble-shooting, and even perhaps the latest group dynamics theories so that one can get one's 'body-talk' right. This however tends to

Effectiveness of face–name learning strategies.

Abstract: An investigation of face-name learning strategies was done to determine if a visual-feature analysis and a word-coding strategy would improve the face-name learning process. The visual-feature analysis and the word-coding strategy did not produce higher recognition accuracy for faces but did result in significantly higher face-name recall scores shown by a control group and an incidental learning group. Data were interpreted within the level-of-processing approach to memory.

A Categorical Imperative for Social Scientific Policy Evaluation

Abstract: When social scientists are hired as consultants, they face several ethical dilemmas. This article presents a logical argument for an ethical principle regarding the behavior of social scientists conducting policy evaluation research for a client. Given the isolated nature of evaluation research and the lack of scientific consensus within social science, the article argues that an ethical social scientist should avoid the most common types of consultant work in policy evaluations. Because a social scientist's responsibilities as a scientist may' conflict with his or her responsibilities as a citizen some ethical compromises are necessary and two such compromises are presented. Both of these compromises involve social scientists acting as teachers rather than as contracted researchers.

The Return Journey: Some theses on the Ontological Imagination

Abstract: Every age has code words, words that are for a time used tentatively, then boldly and glibly, their meanings suggested by their use, meanings that are not apparently parts of any explicit or organized view of reality. Existential, tragic, nostalgia, insecurity, identity have been-and for some still are-code words. Today presence is such a word. The word presence has many precedents in religious thought, especially the Old Testament ("shekinah", "kabod", face, glory) and in Christian mystical theology and the psychology of mysticism. In the middle of the present century a number of European philosophers have used this word in crucial places in their speculations. Such apostles of presence as Buber, Marcel, and Heidegger never referred to the religious history of the word. They set a poor example for the following generation of theologians, philosophers, and art critics who have continued to take the word for granted without taking the trouble to set it within any theory of reality. The theses that follow here should be seen as an attempt, long overdue, not only to collect disparate uses of the word but to sketch a theory of presence that can handle the meanings already implicit.

The Public Faces of Harold Nicolson: The Thirties

Abstract: Harold Nicolson's diverse entanglements with British party politics in the 1930's were characterized by a peculiar vacillation. Despite Vita Sackville-West's advocacy of the superiority of "private life," Nicolson was driven into the political arena by his ambition to become a "public face," and his ambivalence sheds light on the political complexities of the decade.