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Legitimacy
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined children's concepts of authority with regard to the age of persons giving commands, their position in a social context, and the type of command given, and found that children accepted the legitimacy of both peer and adult authorities and were able to conceptualize the social organizational role of authority.
Abstract: LAUPA, MARTA, and TURIEL, ELLIOT. Children's Conceptions of Adult and Peer Authority. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1986, 57, 405-412. This study examines children's concepts of authority with regard to the age of persons giving commands, their position in a social context, and the type of command given. The study was conducted at a school with a program that places children in positions of authority. Subjects (24 female, 24 male) from the first, third, and fifth grades were interviewed to assess their evaluations of peer and adult authority commands and rationale for obedience. Subjects also made choices between different individuals who gave opposing commands; age (peer/adult) and social position (with or without an official school authority position) were varied. Subjects at all ages accepted the legitimacy of both peer and adult authorities and were able to conceptualize the social organizational role of authority. However, the boundaries of authority justification did not extend to commands that failed to prevent harm. In addition, children gave priority to adult authority over peer authority and to peer authority over adult nonauthority. The findings indicate that children do not have a unitary orientation toward authority and that they take into consideration the age and social position of authority as well as the type of command given.
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01 Apr 2008
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TL;DR: This article argued that global imbalances had too important a role to ignore, in contrast to a mainstream view that focuses on mistakes in monetary policy and financial regulation, and argued that in light of global dynamics, the crisis is likely to become worse by early 2010, which makes significant reorganisations of capitalism more likely.
Abstract: The world feels itself to be in transition, but to what is unclear. Will the liberal
market model retain its normative primacy once some semblance of normality is
restored, or will other varieties of capitalism, with a bigger role of the state, acquire
more legitimacy? The answer depends partly on one’s explanation for the current
crisis. This essay argues, first, that global imbalances had too important a role to
ignore, in contrast to a mainstream view that focuses on mistakes in monetary policy
and financial regulation. It argues, second, that in light of global dynamics, the crisis
is likely to become worse by early 2010—which, on the face of it, makes significant
reorganisations of capitalism more likely. The third section lays out what should be
done to reconfigure capitalism at national and international levels. The final section
discusses the political economy of policy reforms in terms of the difficult translation
from what should be done to what can be done. The broad conclusion is that in five
years from now the liberal market model will have been restored to normative
primacy and ‘we must have more globalization’ will again be the elite rallying cry;
but the crisis will have left behind sufficient doubts about factual propositions and
value priorities that political parties and economists advocating alternatives will have
more scope than they have had for the past three decades.
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TL;DR: Foucault's polemics against systematizing, universalizing theories and their will to truth are clearly directed in part at scientific Marxism and its economism as well as to the "laws" of psychoanalysis; and his History of Sexuality challenges various 20thcentury sexual liberationists' attempts to combine those two theories as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In a lecture given onJanuary 6, 1976 and later published in a collection of interviews entitled Power/Knowledge, Michel Foucault discusses his own work in terms of the discovery over the past fifteen years of"a certain fragility in the bedrock of existence even, and perhaps above all, in those aspects of it that are most familiar, most solid, and most intimately related to our bodies and our everyday behavior."' And he relates this "vulnerability to criticism" of aspects of knowledge and power that have long been obscured to a recognition of the inhibiting effects of"global, totalitarian theories."' His polemics against systematizing, universalizing theories and their will to truth are clearly directed in part at scientific Marxism and its economism as well as to the "laws" of psychoanalysis; and his History of Sexuality challenges various 20thcentury sexual liberationists' attempts to combine those two theories.s Certainly, both his polemics and his methodological breaks with traditional social theory make him interesting for feminists, whose political and theoretical projects converge at important points with the provocations of Foucault. Feminist theory and political strategies have effected a profound shift in conceptions of "politics" and in assumptions about the location and exercise of power. Having identified the ideological construction of the sexed subject as a crucial place to situate the question of sexual difference and the struggle against women's oppression, radical and lesbian feminists in particular have consistently refused to privilege the economic over the ideological conditions of oppression and change; they have legitimized the struggle over the production, distribution and transformation of meaning as a focus for political intervention and opposition. Of course, American radical and lesbian feminist literature and political strategies have been and continue to be criticized with varying degrees of legitimacy by Marxists and Marxist-feminists
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