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General points about the accounts

Alf Gabrielsson

in Strong Experiences with Music: Music is much more than just music

This chapter presents some general points about the accounts provided by participants in the study. The accounts comprise strong experiences with music that took place during a period of almost 100 ... More

This chapter presents some general points about the accounts provided by participants in the study. The accounts comprise strong experiences with music that took place during a period of almost 100 years: the earliest in 1908, the latest in 2004. Of the more than 1,300 experiences, approximately 13% took place before 1950 and just over 42% before 1980. In general, it can be said that every account has a unique content and a unique character. In a few instances, there are accounts from two different participants of the same or almost the same occasion with the same music, but even in these cases there are differences in how the experience is described. The book contains more than 500 accounts. They have been selected specifically to reflect: experiences of people of different genders and ages; experiences of listeners and music makers; experiences associated with various types of music; experiences in various physical and social situations; and experiences at different times.Less

Frontiers on the Interface between Behavioral Syndromes and Social Behavioral Ecology

Andrew Sih

in Animal Personalities: Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

This chapter discusses how behavioral syndromes relate to mating and cooperation. It also examines the social ecology of behavioral syndromes by considering the following issues: (1) key aspects of ... More

This chapter discusses how behavioral syndromes relate to mating and cooperation. It also examines the social ecology of behavioral syndromes by considering the following issues: (1) key aspects of social situation and quantifying variation in social situation; (2) the effects of social situation on fitness of different behavioral types; (3) variations in social plasticity and sensitivity; (4) adaptive social plasticity or social skill; and (5) the effects of the mix of behavioral types on group dynamics and population fitness.Less

Struggles for Justice in Latin America

Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley

in What Justice? Whose Justice?: Fighting for Fairness in Latin America

This chapter delineates the overarching thematic orientation of the text, and in doing so, establishes the predominant theoretical nature of the book as well. The contemporary frustration over ... More

This chapter delineates the overarching thematic orientation of the text, and in doing so, establishes the predominant theoretical nature of the book as well. The contemporary frustration over dictatorship, and the repositioning of the global perspective to human rights has evoked a renewal of democratic spirit. It has been followed by a renewed focus on the gamut of justice. This has posed three questions in the directions of whom, what, and why. Transhistorical deliberation on social justice has yet to infer a discernable consensus on the meaning and bases of social justice. It is posited that if people define social situations as unjust, then such perceived injustices are real in their consequences. This theory is the guiding beacon of the text, which is designed to launch a much-needed, long overdue interdisciplinary concern with injustices and how they might be mitigated.Less

The Myth of Intelligence: Smartness Isn’t Like Height

Gregory M. Walton

in Education, Justice, and Democracy

This chapter, which draws on recent work in psychology to demonstrate the socially situated nature of human intelligence, shows that intellectual performance is not simply lodged within individuals' ... More

This chapter, which draws on recent work in psychology to demonstrate the socially situated nature of human intelligence, shows that intellectual performance is not simply lodged within individuals' high test scores, straight As are not owned by a person alone, and poor scores or bad grades are not only the student's responsibility. Rather, intellectual performance is an emergent property of persons and social situations—an interaction between the two. These findings suggest that conceptualizing “intelligence” as a stable property of individuals and a reliable way of distinguishing between them may be inappropriate.Less

Shamira Cook: “Who Am I?”

David Barnard, Patricia Boston R.N., Anna Towers, and Yanna Lambrinidou

in Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care

This chapter examines the case of Shamira Cook, a 34-year-old African American woman who was not only terminally ill with cancer but also a single parent with a history of heroin addiction. In a ... More

This chapter examines the case of Shamira Cook, a 34-year-old African American woman who was not only terminally ill with cancer but also a single parent with a history of heroin addiction. In a society in which hospice institutions were dominated by white members of the middle class, even in communities with an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse population, several African Americans mistrusted the hospice approach. Ms. Cook was among these people. Her social situation, attitudes toward her cancer, and life history posed a great challenge to her hospice team. Ms. Cook's insistent desire to fight her disease at all costs struck a discord with her hospice team and aggravated a long-standing disagreement with her daughter. However, despite the tension within her hospice team and her inevitable death, Ms. Cook felt she was on an urgent mission, which made it impossible for her to accept and give in to her cancer, despite its physical and mental toll.Less

A Chancer (1985)

Simon Kővesi

in James Kelman

This chapter examines A Chancer, whose protagonist is a habitual gambler with a tendency to leave social situations, noting that this novel is considered as Kelman's puritanical text and is at the ... More

This chapter examines A Chancer, whose protagonist is a habitual gambler with a tendency to leave social situations, noting that this novel is considered as Kelman's puritanical text and is at the extreme end of the spectrum of Kelman's realist project in its goal to present an unrestricted ‘facticity’. It explains why Kelman chooses to allow extended access to Tammas' mind only during gambling episodes. The chapter also considers the protagonist's departure from Glasgow, which was not previously presented in The Busconductor Hines.Less

Conclusion

Adrian Parr

in Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory and the Politics of Trauma

This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on contemporary forms of public remembrance or memorial culture, and explains that memory can be used by the social field in a ... More

This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on contemporary forms of public remembrance or memorial culture, and explains that memory can be used by the social field in a distinctively non-Oedipal way so that the past is not a blueprint for the future. It argues that in so far as desire is social and collective memory presupposes a social situation, the phenomenon of memorial culture is a configuration and investment of desire. What this means is that collective memory is used to reinforce the past as different to the present, and, in so doing, past, present and future are codified according to their difference from one another, or the distinction between the past and present is confounded.Less

From Gangsta Parties to the Postracial Promised Land: A Year of Race Stories

in What Can You Say?: America's National Conversation on Race

This chapter starts off with the case of the Clemson party incident, which helps show that the pop-cultural arena is where most Americans prefer to think about race. It looks at the two main ways to ... More

This chapter starts off with the case of the Clemson party incident, which helps show that the pop-cultural arena is where most Americans prefer to think about race. It looks at the two main ways to evaluate the importance of race and how media stories on race are a constant starting point for what can be considered as racial. This chapter also takes a look at the “national conversation on race,” which are events where assumptions on race are taken out of cultural conventions and help people navigate through social situations. Finally, it studies a cultural perspective on race, as it exists in the country.Less