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Generationen in Familie und Gesellschaft (Lebenslauf - Alter - Generation #3)
by Martin Kohli Marc SzydlikDas Generationenthema ist gleichermaßen populär wie kontrovers. Seine Popularität zeigt sich an der Generationenetikettierungswut, von der auch manche Soziologen ergriffen sind. Wie kontrovers das Thema ist, wird daran deutlich, daß von der einen Seite ein "Krieg der Generationen" heraufbeschworen wird, während andernorts von einer "neuen Solidarität zwischen den Generationen" die Rede ist. In diesem Buch erläutern die führenden Vertreter der Generationenforschung den Stand der Diskussion und zeigen, was die Generationenforschung für die Analyse von Familie und Gesellschaft leisten kann.
Generationenbeziehungen im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Lebensbedingungen und Einstellungen von Altersgruppen im internationalen Vergleich
by Agnes Blome Wolfgang Keck Jens AlberVorwort Die Alterung der Bevölkerung gehört zu den größten Herausforderungen Deutschlands in den nächsten Jahrzehnten. Viele der vorhergesagten Szenarien wie die unzureichende Nachhaltigkeit der Rentenversicherung, nachlassende Innovationspotenziale oder die Verkleinerung und Überlastung der Familien zeichnen ein düsteres Bild der Zukunft und beschwören einen sich anbahnenden Generationenkonflikt herauf. Ist es wirklich so schlecht bestellt um die Zukunft Deutschlands? Welche Maßnahmen wurden eingeleitet, um den demografischen Änderungen und seinen Folgen zu begegnen? Diese beiden Fragen standen im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsprojektes „Generationenbeziehungen im Wohlfahr- staat“, das von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung gefördert wurde. Die AutorInnen dieses Buches haben sich zum Ziel gesetzt, das Zusamm- spiel zwischen den Generationen eingehend zu untersuchen. Ihr Ansatz ist s- thetischer Natur. Es geht darum, die Austauschbeziehungen zwischen Generat- nen im Sozialstaat und in der Familie zu betrachten. Wodurch werden die - bensbedingungen und sozialpolitischen Einstellungen von Altersgruppen - prägt? Mit diesem Ansatz beschreiten sie einen bisher selten gewählten Weg.
Generationenbeziehungen in Stieffamilien: Der Einfluss leiblicher und sozialer Elternschaft auf die Ausgestaltung von Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen im Erwachsenenalter
by Anja SteinbachDas Thema der Ausgestaltung und Entwicklung von familialen Generationen- ziehungen hat in den letzten Jahren – vor dem Hintergrund veränderter de- grafischer Bedingungen – national wie international sehr viel wissenschaftliche und auch öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Dabei wurden die Arrangements zwischen den Generationen in verschiedenen (auch groß angelegten) Studien untersucht und die dringendsten Fragen hinsichtlich des Zusammenhaltes der Familienmitglieder geklärt. Die gefundenen empirischen Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die Angehörigen verschiedener Generationen einer Familie in der Regel bei Bedarf gegenseitig unterstützen, dass sie zumeist in regelmäßigem Kontakt stehen und dass die Beziehungsqualität überwiegend auf einem hohen Niveau liegt. Trotz dieser ersten Klärung der Frage nach dem Generationen- sammenhalt unter veränderten demografischen Bedingungen in modernen - sellschaften und dem Verwerfen der These eines Verfalls der Familie sind d- noch viele Fragen offen. Das betrifft beispielsweise Fragen der Genese dieses offensichtlich relativ stabilen und starken Zusammenhalts von Familienmitgl- dern wie auch Veränderungen in intergenerationalen Arrangements, die nur durch die Betrachtung von Beziehungsverläufen im Längsschnitt geklärt werden können. Ein weiterer Bereich, in dem große Defizite hinsichtlich des Wisse- standes zu verzeichnen sind, betrifft die Diversifikation familialer Strukturen und deren Auswirkungen auf intergenerationale Arrangements. Unter die Diversifizierung familialer Strukturen fallen eine Reihe von P- nomenen, wie die Abnahme der Kinder- und damit der Geschwisterzahlen, die Zunahme von alternativen Lebensformen wie Nichteheliche Lebensgeme- schaften und Living-Apart-Together-Beziehungen, aber auch Lebens- und - milienformen, die sich aufgrund der Auflösung partnerschaftlicher Beziehungen ergeben. Hierzu zählen insbesondere Alleinerziehende und Stieffamilien.
Generationing Development: A Relational Approach to Children, Youth and Development (Palgrave Studies on Children and Development)
by Roy HuijsmansThis ground-breaking book weaves together insights from the children and youth studies literature and critical development studies. Debunking the idea of childhood and youth as self-evident social categories, the author unravels how these generational constructs are (re)constituted and experienced in relational terms in development contexts spanning both the Global South and the Global North. Running through these chapters is a fundamental concern with age, gender and generation as key principles of social differentiation. This is developed in Part 1 at a theoretical level, and applied to everyday contexts, including school, work, migration and the street in Part 2. Part 3 zooms in on the generational dynamics of development by exploring how prominent development interventions (conditional cash transfers, schooling) problems (gender discrimination) and questions (the generational question of farming) shape the (gendered) experience of being young and growing up.
Generations: Does When You’re Born Shape Who You Are?
by Bobby DuffyAre we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled 'snowflakes'? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children's futures? Are Generation X the saddest generation? Will Generation Z fix the climate crisis?In this original and deeply researched book, Professor Bobby Duffy explores whether when we're born determines our attitudes to money, sex, religion, politics and much else. Informed by unique analysis of hundreds of studies, Duffy reveals that many of our preconceptions are just that: tired stereotypes. Revealing and informative, Generations provides a bold new framework for understanding the most divisive issues raging today: from culture wars to climate change and mental health to housing. Including data from all over the globe, and with powerful implications for humanity's future, this big-thinking book will transform how you view the world.
Generations and Collective Memory
by Amy Corning Howard SchumanWhen discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative experiences, and how understanding the way those memories form and change can help us understand society and history. Their key finding—built on historical research and interviews in the United States and seven other countries (including China, Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine)—is that our most powerful generational memories are of shared experiences in adolescence and early adulthood, like the 1963 Kennedy assassination for those born in the 1950s or the fall of the Berlin Wall for young people in 1989. But there are exceptions to that rule, and they're significant: Corning and Schuman find that epochal events in a country, like revolutions, override the expected effects of age, affecting citizens of all ages with a similar power and lasting intensity. The picture Corning and Schuman paint of collective memory and its formation is fascinating on its face, but it also offers intriguing new ways to think about the rise and fall of historical reputations and attitudes toward political issues.
Generations and Collective Memory
by Amy Corning Howard SchumanWhen discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative experiences, and how understanding the way those memories form and change can help us understand society and history. Their key finding—built on historical research and interviews in the United States and seven other countries (including China, Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine)—is that our most powerful generational memories are of shared experiences in adolescence and early adulthood, like the 1963 Kennedy assassination for those born in the 1950s or the fall of the Berlin Wall for young people in 1989. But there are exceptions to that rule, and they're significant: Corning and Schuman find that epochal events in a country, like revolutions, override the expected effects of age, affecting citizens of all ages with a similar power and lasting intensity. The picture Corning and Schuman paint of collective memory and its formation is fascinating on its face, but it also offers intriguing new ways to think about the rise and fall of historical reputations and attitudes toward political issues.
Generations and Collective Memory
by Amy Corning Howard SchumanWhen discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative experiences, and how understanding the way those memories form and change can help us understand society and history. Their key finding—built on historical research and interviews in the United States and seven other countries (including China, Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine)—is that our most powerful generational memories are of shared experiences in adolescence and early adulthood, like the 1963 Kennedy assassination for those born in the 1950s or the fall of the Berlin Wall for young people in 1989. But there are exceptions to that rule, and they're significant: Corning and Schuman find that epochal events in a country, like revolutions, override the expected effects of age, affecting citizens of all ages with a similar power and lasting intensity. The picture Corning and Schuman paint of collective memory and its formation is fascinating on its face, but it also offers intriguing new ways to think about the rise and fall of historical reputations and attitudes toward political issues.
Generations and Collective Memory
by Amy Corning Howard SchumanWhen discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative experiences, and how understanding the way those memories form and change can help us understand society and history. Their key finding—built on historical research and interviews in the United States and seven other countries (including China, Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine)—is that our most powerful generational memories are of shared experiences in adolescence and early adulthood, like the 1963 Kennedy assassination for those born in the 1950s or the fall of the Berlin Wall for young people in 1989. But there are exceptions to that rule, and they're significant: Corning and Schuman find that epochal events in a country, like revolutions, override the expected effects of age, affecting citizens of all ages with a similar power and lasting intensity. The picture Corning and Schuman paint of collective memory and its formation is fascinating on its face, but it also offers intriguing new ways to think about the rise and fall of historical reputations and attitudes toward political issues.
Generations and Collective Memory
by Amy Corning Howard SchumanWhen discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative experiences, and how understanding the way those memories form and change can help us understand society and history. Their key finding—built on historical research and interviews in the United States and seven other countries (including China, Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine)—is that our most powerful generational memories are of shared experiences in adolescence and early adulthood, like the 1963 Kennedy assassination for those born in the 1950s or the fall of the Berlin Wall for young people in 1989. But there are exceptions to that rule, and they're significant: Corning and Schuman find that epochal events in a country, like revolutions, override the expected effects of age, affecting citizens of all ages with a similar power and lasting intensity. The picture Corning and Schuman paint of collective memory and its formation is fascinating on its face, but it also offers intriguing new ways to think about the rise and fall of historical reputations and attitudes toward political issues.
Generations and Collective Memory
by Amy Corning Howard SchumanWhen discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative experiences, and how understanding the way those memories form and change can help us understand society and history. Their key finding—built on historical research and interviews in the United States and seven other countries (including China, Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine)—is that our most powerful generational memories are of shared experiences in adolescence and early adulthood, like the 1963 Kennedy assassination for those born in the 1950s or the fall of the Berlin Wall for young people in 1989. But there are exceptions to that rule, and they're significant: Corning and Schuman find that epochal events in a country, like revolutions, override the expected effects of age, affecting citizens of all ages with a similar power and lasting intensity. The picture Corning and Schuman paint of collective memory and its formation is fascinating on its face, but it also offers intriguing new ways to think about the rise and fall of historical reputations and attitudes toward political issues.
Generations of Social Movements: The Left and Historical Memory in the USA and France
by Hélène Le Dantec Lowry Ambre IvolFrench political culture has long been seen as a model of leftist militancy, while the left in the United States is often perceived in terms of organizational discontinuity. Yet, the crisis of social democracy today suggests that at a time when the archetypal European welfare state is in danger, critics and citizens interested in understanding or reviving progressive politics are invited to consider the United States, where modes of creative activism recurrently demonstrate potentialities for a renewed leftist culture. Using a transatlantic perspective, this volume identifies activist influence through the designation or rejection of specific intellectual and militant figures across generations, and it examines various narrative modes used by militants to write their own history.
Generations of Social Movements: The Left and Historical Memory in the USA and France
by Hélène Le Dantec Lowry Ambre IvolFrench political culture has long been seen as a model of leftist militancy, while the left in the United States is often perceived in terms of organizational discontinuity. Yet, the crisis of social democracy today suggests that at a time when the archetypal European welfare state is in danger, critics and citizens interested in understanding or reviving progressive politics are invited to consider the United States, where modes of creative activism recurrently demonstrate potentialities for a renewed leftist culture. Using a transatlantic perspective, this volume identifies activist influence through the designation or rejection of specific intellectual and militant figures across generations, and it examines various narrative modes used by militants to write their own history.
Generations Through Prison: Experiences of Intergenerational Incarceration (Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family)
by Mark Halsey Melissa de Vel-PalumboAround one in five prisoners report the previous or current incarceration of a parent. Many such prisoners attest to the long-term negative effects of parental incarceration on one’s own sense of self and on the range and quality of opportunities for building a conventional life. And yet, the problem of intergenerational incarceration has received only passing attention from academics, and virtually little if any consideration from policy makers and correctional officials. This book – the first of its kind – offers an in-depth examination of the causes, experiences and consequences of intergenerational incarceration. It draws extensively from surveys and interviews with second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-generation prisoners to explicate the personal, familial and socio-economic contexts typically associated with incarceration across generations. The book examines 1) the emergence of the prison as a dominant if not life-defining institution for some families, 2) the link between intergenerational trauma, crime and intergenerational incarceration, 3) the role of police, courts, and corrections in amplifying or ameliorating such problems, and 4) the possible means for preventing intergenerational incarceration. This is undeniably a book that bears witness to many tragic and traumatic stories. But it is also a work premised on the idea that knowing these stories – knowing that they often resist alignment with pre-conceived ideas about who prisoners are or who they might become – is part and parcel of advancing critical debate and, more importantly, of creating real change. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about more about families in prison.
Generations Through Prison: Experiences of Intergenerational Incarceration (Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family)
by Mark Halsey Melissa de Vel-PalumboAround one in five prisoners report the previous or current incarceration of a parent. Many such prisoners attest to the long-term negative effects of parental incarceration on one’s own sense of self and on the range and quality of opportunities for building a conventional life. And yet, the problem of intergenerational incarceration has received only passing attention from academics, and virtually little if any consideration from policy makers and correctional officials. This book – the first of its kind – offers an in-depth examination of the causes, experiences and consequences of intergenerational incarceration. It draws extensively from surveys and interviews with second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-generation prisoners to explicate the personal, familial and socio-economic contexts typically associated with incarceration across generations. The book examines 1) the emergence of the prison as a dominant if not life-defining institution for some families, 2) the link between intergenerational trauma, crime and intergenerational incarceration, 3) the role of police, courts, and corrections in amplifying or ameliorating such problems, and 4) the possible means for preventing intergenerational incarceration. This is undeniably a book that bears witness to many tragic and traumatic stories. But it is also a work premised on the idea that knowing these stories – knowing that they often resist alignment with pre-conceived ideas about who prisoners are or who they might become – is part and parcel of advancing critical debate and, more importantly, of creating real change. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about more about families in prison.
Generationscapes: Empirie und Theorie einer globalen Generation (Global Studies)
by Katrin UllmannReisen, Arbeiten, Abenteuer - Welche Erfahrungen machen Backpacker, wie erleben sie den globalen Raum und wie wirkt sich dies auf ihre Biographien aus? Katrin Ullmann bietet mit den »Generationscapes« ein mehrdimensionales Modell für die Analyse globaler Generationalität, das sowohl zeitliche als auch räumliche Dimensionen analytisch neu für die Generationentheorie erschließt und die Komplexität gegenwärtiger Biographien in Bewegung abbildet: Am Beispiel der Backpacker, einer besonders mobilen sozialen Gruppe, offenbaren sich individuelle Erfahrungen und kollektive Schlüsselerlebnisse als Teil einer ambivalenten Globalisierung.
Generative Emergence: A New Discipline of Organizational, Entrepreneurial, and Social Innovation
by Benyamin LichtensteinHow do organizations become created? Entrepreneurship scholars have debated this question for decades, but only recently have they been able to gain insights into the non-linear dynamics that lead to organizational emergence, through the use of the complexity sciences. Written for social science researchers, Generative Emergence summarizes these literatures, including the first comprehensive review of each of the 15 complexity science disciplines. In doing so, the book makes a bold proposal for a discipline of Emergence, and explores one of its proposed fields, namely Generative Emergence. The book begins with a detailed summary of its underlying science, dissipative structures theory, and rigorously maps the processes of order creation discovered by that science to identify a 5-phase model of order creation in entrepreneurial ventures. The second half of the book presents the findings from an experimental study that tested the model in four fast-growth ventures through a year-long, week-by-week longitudinal analysis of their processes, based on over 750 interviews and 1000 hours of on-site observation. These data, combined with reports from over a dozen other studies, confirm the dynamics of the 5-phase model in multiple contexts. By way of conclusion, the book explores how the model of Generative Emergence could be applied to enact emergence within and across organizations.
Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order (Social Morphogenesis)
by Margaret S. ArcherThis volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be called Morphogenic Society? This volume clarifies what a ‘generative mechanism’ is, to achieve a better understanding of their social origins, and to delineate in what way such mechanisms exert effects within a current social formation, either stabilizing it or leading to changes potentially replacing it . The book explores questions about conjuncture, convergence and countervailing effects of morphogenetic mechanisms in order to assess their impact. Simultaneously, it looks at how products of positive feedback intertwine with the results of (morphostatic) negative feedback. This process also requires clarification, especially about the conditions under which morphostasis prevails over morphogenesis and vice versa. It raises the issue as to whether their co-existence can be other than short-lived. The volume addresses whether or not there also is a process of ‘morpho-necrosis’, i.e. the ultimate demise of certain morphostatic mechanisms, such that they cannot ‘recover’. The book concludes that not only are generative mechanisms required to explain associations between variables involved in the replacement of Late Modernity by Morphogenic Society, but they are also robust enough to account for cases and times when such variables show no significant correlations.
Generatives Verhalten und Generationenbeziehungen: Festschrift für Bernhard Nauck zum 60. Geburtstag
by Anja SteinbachDie Beiträge in diesem Band zeigen, wie gesellschaftliche Kontextbedingungen und individuelle Erfahrungen im Lebensverlauf ineinander greifen und wie sie sowohl die Entscheidung für beziehungsweise gegen Kinder als auch die Ausgestaltung von Generationenbeziehungen beeinflussen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren setzen sich dabei kritisch und konstruktiv mit vorliegenden Ansätzen der Familiensoziologie auseinander.
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University
by Kathleen FitzpatrickHigher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities;¢;‚¬;€?the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation;¢;‚¬;€?are at odds with the very publics they are intended to serve. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick asserts, it is imperative that we re-center the mission of the university to rebuild that lost trust. In Generous Thinking, Fitzpatrick roots this crisis in the work of scholars. Critical thinking;¢;‚¬;€?the heart of what academics do;¢;‚¬;€?can today often negate, refuse, and reject new ideas. In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Fitzpatrick charges the academy with thinking constructively rather than competitively, building new ideas rather than tearing old ones down. She urges us to rethink how we teach the humanities and to refocus our attention on the very human ends;¢;‚¬;€?the desire for community and connection;¢;‚¬;€?that the humanities can best serve. One key aspect of that transformation involves fostering an atmosphere of what Fitzpatrick dubs "generous thinking," a mode of engagement that emphasizes listening over speaking, community over individualism, and collaboration over competition.Fitzpatrick proposes ways that anyone who cares about the future of higher education can work to build better relationships between our colleges and universities and the public, thereby transforming the way our society functions. She encourages interested stakeholders to listen to and engage openly with one another's concerns by reading and exploring ideas together; by creating collective projects focused around common interests; and by ensuring that our institutions of higher education are structured to support and promote work toward the public good. Meditating on how and why we teach the humanities, Generous Thinking is an audacious book that privileges the ability to empathize and build rather than simply tear apart.
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University
by Kathleen FitzpatrickHigher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities;¢;‚¬;€?the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation;¢;‚¬;€?are at odds with the very publics they are intended to serve. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick asserts, it is imperative that we re-center the mission of the university to rebuild that lost trust. In Generous Thinking, Fitzpatrick roots this crisis in the work of scholars. Critical thinking;¢;‚¬;€?the heart of what academics do;¢;‚¬;€?can today often negate, refuse, and reject new ideas. In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Fitzpatrick charges the academy with thinking constructively rather than competitively, building new ideas rather than tearing old ones down. She urges us to rethink how we teach the humanities and to refocus our attention on the very human ends;¢;‚¬;€?the desire for community and connection;¢;‚¬;€?that the humanities can best serve. One key aspect of that transformation involves fostering an atmosphere of what Fitzpatrick dubs "generous thinking," a mode of engagement that emphasizes listening over speaking, community over individualism, and collaboration over competition.Fitzpatrick proposes ways that anyone who cares about the future of higher education can work to build better relationships between our colleges and universities and the public, thereby transforming the way our society functions. She encourages interested stakeholders to listen to and engage openly with one another's concerns by reading and exploring ideas together; by creating collective projects focused around common interests; and by ensuring that our institutions of higher education are structured to support and promote work toward the public good. Meditating on how and why we teach the humanities, Generous Thinking is an audacious book that privileges the ability to empathize and build rather than simply tear apart.
Genes and the Bioimaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture
by Deborah Lynn SteinbergGenes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'. The book traces not only the genetification of modern life but is also a journey through the complex relationship between science and culture. At the heart of this book are three interlinked questions. The first concerns the paradigmatic transformations of the 'genetics revolution': how can we understand the impact of genes on social arenas as diverse as law and agriculture, politics and medicine, genealogy and jurisprudence? Second, how has the language of genes come to pervade public discourse - as much a trope of personal narrative as of the popular imaginary? And third, how can we gain critical purchase not only on the conditions and consequences of a particular science, but on its projective seductions, the terms of its persuasion, and the dilemmas and anxieties provoked in its wake? Through a series of illuminating case studies ranging from 'gay genes' to 'Jew genes', to genes for crime; from CSI to the Innocence Project, from genetics (post)racial imaginary to its phantasies of redemption, the book examines the emergence of the gene as a pre-eminent locus of both scientific and social explanation, and as a powerful object of spectacle, projective phantasy and attachment. Genes and the Bioimaginary makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of how knowledge comes to be not only powerful, but plausible.
Genes and the Bioimaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture
by Deborah Lynn SteinbergGenes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'. The book traces not only the genetification of modern life but is also a journey through the complex relationship between science and culture. At the heart of this book are three interlinked questions. The first concerns the paradigmatic transformations of the 'genetics revolution': how can we understand the impact of genes on social arenas as diverse as law and agriculture, politics and medicine, genealogy and jurisprudence? Second, how has the language of genes come to pervade public discourse - as much a trope of personal narrative as of the popular imaginary? And third, how can we gain critical purchase not only on the conditions and consequences of a particular science, but on its projective seductions, the terms of its persuasion, and the dilemmas and anxieties provoked in its wake? Through a series of illuminating case studies ranging from 'gay genes' to 'Jew genes', to genes for crime; from CSI to the Innocence Project, from genetics (post)racial imaginary to its phantasies of redemption, the book examines the emergence of the gene as a pre-eminent locus of both scientific and social explanation, and as a powerful object of spectacle, projective phantasy and attachment. Genes and the Bioimaginary makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of how knowledge comes to be not only powerful, but plausible.
Genes, Culture, and Personality: An Empirical Approach
by Author UnknownThe diversity of human behavior is one of the most fascinating aspects of human biology. What makes our individual attitudes, lifestyle and personalities different has been the subject of many physiological and psychological theories. In this book the emphasis is on understanding the genetic and environmental causes of these differences. Genes, Culture, and Personality is an expansive account of the state of current knowledge about the causes of individual differences in personality and social attitudes. Based on almost two decades of empirical research, the authors have made a significant contribution to the debate on genetic and cultural inheritance in human behavior. The book should be required reading for psychologists, psychiatrists, sociobiologists, and geneticists.
Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model
by Hoyle LeighWhat produces mental illness: genes, environment, both,neither? The answer can be found in memes—replicable units of information linking genes and environment in the memory and in culture—whose effects on individual brain development can be benign or toxic. This book reconceptualizes mental disorders as products of stressful gene-meme interactions and introduces a biopsychosocial template for meme-based diagnosis and treatment. A range of therapeutic modalities, both broad-spectrum (meditation) and specific(cognitive-behavioral), for countering negative memes and their replication are considered, as are possibilities for memetic prevention strategies. In this book, the author outlines the roles of genes and memes in the evolution of the human brain; elucidates the creation, storage, and evolution of memes within individual brains; examines culture as a carrier and supplier of memes to the individual; provides examples of gene-meme interactions that can result in anxiety, depression, and other disorders; proposes a multiaxial gene-meme model for diagnosing mental illness; identifies areas of meme-based prevention for at-risk children; and defines specific syndromes in terms of memetic symptoms, genetic/ memetic development, and meme-based treatment.