MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
Sexuality is a fundamental characteristic of people that influences their thoughts and behaviors, their orientations toward others, and life in general.
Freud may have overstated his claim that everything people do can be linked to sexual motivations, but his ideas have had profound impact in the development of theories and research models about sex and consumption patterns/ influencing studies about what people drive, what they wear, and what fragrances they use. Scholars from different research traditions vary in terms of the levels of meaning they analyze and the concerns they address with regard to sex in advertising. For example, marketers are primarily concerned with micro-level effects; they want to know how sexual
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In addition, because sex is wrapped up in issues of power, sexuality/ gender, and culture, it is important to talk about these appeals from multiple perspectives. Assessing the marketing perspective, for example, would only provide a very narrow outlook with regard to sex in advertising. Combining perspectives allows for diversity of perspectives to be represented in one area. As a result, anyone, no matter what her or his methodological predilection or specialty, may find familiar and useful views represented. More important/ readers are likely to be exposed to new ideas from other viewpoints that can stimulate robust research questions in their own areas of expertise.
A benefit of this book is that it does not focus on only quantitative or qualitative research, but presents both research approaches. It includes chapters across disciplines from scholars who explore erotic appeals through a range of methods including empiricism, theory, interpretive analysis, and some of what lies among these perspectives. The more quantitative perspectives include studies of audience effects and individual difference variables, integrative reviews of past research, and new studies that build on past research using theory not yet applied to understanding the
...ible, even though the book is relatively short. Denmark Vesey gives a good foundation of information on the subject, but is lacking in certain areas.
According the sweeping introduction of the book, I am already able to envision a number of entry points for the investigation of this
" Responding to the Literature. Ed. Judith A. Stanford, Ph.D. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1996. 555-567.
...figure out their importance. It is a slightly tough read for this reason, but it is very informational and has important ideas that people should be aware of. I would recommend that professors assign this book to students when teaching this specific topic, but I wouldn’t recommend it further.
must also look to authors like Orenstein, Fordham, and Ogbu because they also explain how other
There is a lot of information presented in the text. This is why McNeill has to be careful with the organization of concepts in his book. M...
Point of view is an essential element to a reader's comprehension of a story. The point of view shows how the narrator thinks, speaks, and feels about any particular situation. In Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson," the events are told through the eyes of a young, mischievous girl named Sylvia who lives in a lower class neighborhood. The reader gets a limited point of view of view because the events are told strictly by Sylvia. This fact can influence the reader to see things just as she does. The strong language gives an unfamiliar reader an illustration of how people in the city speak. Bambara does this to show the reader that kids from lower class neighborhoods are affected by their environment due to lack of education and discipline, that how different one part of society is from another, and that kids learn from experience. We also get an insight of Sylvia’s feisty, rebellious nature and her lack of respect towards people with an education.
Stereotypes and stigmas promote a dangerous, single-minded perspective. These incomplete or half-truths are often far more duplicitous than lies, as they are more difficult to detect. When these perspectives remain unchecked, they can result in far-reaching, adverse consequences. It is the individual’s duty to refuse to perpetuate this single story perspective. Due to misinformation presented by the media, the stigma surrounding mental illness has created a discriminatory single story perspective; however, through honest and open dialogue, particularly with those suffering from these diseases, these stereotypes can be abolished.
The first framework that would be beneficial when working with this population is the Dual Perspective Framework. The Dual Perspective Framework is a model that charges the social worker with assessing and understanding the client’s world. While doing so, one must take into account the client’s relationship to not only their immediate family and community, but also to the larger societal system while considering and comparing values, attitudes, and behaviors (Prigoff, 2003, p. 80). Another way to explain the Dual Perspective was presented by Dr. Nimmagadda as part of the diversity section of this course (2015). The contrasting views are also known as the “Nurturing Environment” versus the “Sustaining Environment.” The “Nurturing Environment” can be identified as the individual’s family or immediate extended family, while the “Sustaining Environment” can be identified as how an individual feels other’s view them in the social environment (Nimmagadda, 2015). An individual can evolve and change according to their experiences and interactions in both environments.
Over the years, discrimination has slowly, but surely become an inevitable product of human nature because inequalities in social and economic status occur and thus, humans have become predisposed to discriminate and be discriminated against.
Here are some of the main points that I gathered from each chapter of this book:
Today’s society consists of many worldviews. Most people tend to pull beliefs from different religions, but often stick to one main worldview. A worldview to me is the gathering of beliefs that shape what we do on a daily basis and forms our overall view on life. When I look at my beliefs critically, I am able to see my worldview and see how it compares to different worldviews, but also how it compares mainly to the Christian Worldview.
According to Google, perspective is an attitude toward, or way of regarding something. This definition means that perspective is all about how you look at something. When I think about perspective, it means your point of view. For example, you can have a perspective drawing, or a perspective on life, but you are not limited to just those two. Also, perspectives can change. They can change in as little as a day or over a certain period. A perspective as a child is tremendously different than a perspective of an adult. As a mother you must try to protect your child while giving them the best life that you can. You want to buy the nicest clothes for your children, and teach them to always say yes ma’am, yes sir, no ma’am, and no sir. You want
I found it difficult to find information in books that was directly applicable to the learning objectives, as it is not possible to refine a search for these in the same way a search can be refined for very specific, relevant phrases when using references online.
Erikson, E. H., & Coles, R. (2001). The Erik Erikson Reader. New York: W.W. Norton.