Response Paper #1. Due: 2/8
P.1. Eisler, Riane and David Loye, (1998)."Partnership and Dominator Models: How to Recognize Them..."
"...while a basic difference between a dominator and a partnership society is that the first is held together primarily by fear and the second by trust, this is not to say that even in a society that approaches very closely the partnership model, we would never be afraid or mistrustful. The difference- and it is major- is that in a dominator society, fear is systematically inculcated in us and trust (beginning with the trust between the female and male halves of humanity) is systematically undermined through dominator cultural myths and social institutions." (p.168)
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There always are some values that does the job of glue to stick societies together and in the dominator society that glue is the fear. In contrast, partnership societies are held by mutual trust. However, mutual respect in the partnership society does not guarantee a problem free society, even the societies that are held together by the value of trust can sometimes have problems. Conflict between the individuals, between the family, or between the society is something that is expected to happen, it is normal to have conflicts, and problems. The important thing is to find right ways to handle possible conflicts. To solve the conflict properly; first, problems should be recognized and next, problems should be solved in a fair way to make both sides to happy as partnership method suggests. It is very important that both sides learn from that. In contrast, dominator society does not recognize the problem in society and solve to favor the one in control. Family is the smallest part of society and in a family environment, partnership model works best. If both husband and wife trust each other try to solve their problems because they trust each other and this is the idealistic way to solve the conflict. We all know that men are the dominant one in a family and when there is a conflict sometimes wife can do what husband says just because the fear fact and that is not the idealistic …show more content…
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