Making History: Multiple Contingencies in Societal Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Societal Change

Can the “internal couple” be our faithful lifelong partner?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Molly Ludlam
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Couple Relationships ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Internal Object ◽  
Lifelong Partner ◽  
And Gender

For over fifty years the concept of the “internal couple”, as a composite internal object co-constructed in intimate relationships, has been fundamental to a psycho-analytic understanding of couple relationships and their contribution to family dynamics. Considerable societal change, however, necessitates review of how effectively and ethically the concept meets practitioners’ and couples’ current needs. Does the concept of an internal couple help psychotherapists to describe and consider all contemporary adult couples, whether same-sex or heterosexual, monogamous, or polyamorous? How does it accommodate online dating, relating via avatars, and use of pornography? Is it sufficiently inclusive of those experimenting in terms of sexual and gender identity, or in partnerships that challenge family arrangement norms? Can it usefully support thinking about families in which parents choose to parent alone, or are absent at their children’s conception thanks to surrogacy, adoption, and IVF? These and other questions prompt re-examination of this central concept’s nature and value.

Party and Democracy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Ignazi
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The State ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Post War ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes

The book integrates philosophical, historical, and empirical analyses in order to highlight the profound roots of the limited legitimation of parties in contemporary society. Political parties’ long attempts to gain legitimacy are analysed from a philosophical–historical perspective pinpointing crucial passages in their theoretical and empirical acceptance. The book illustrates the process through which parties first emerged and then achieved full legitimacy in the early twentieth century. It shows how, paradoxically, their role became absolute in the totalitarian regimes of the interwar period when the party became hyper-powerful. In the post-war period, parties shifted from a golden age of positive reception and organizational development towards a more difficult relationship with society as it moved into post-industrialism. Parties were unable to master societal change and favoured the state to recover resources they were no longer able to extract from their constituencies. Parties have become richer and more powerful, but they have ‘paid’ for their pervasive presence in society and the state with a declining legitimacy. The party today is caught in a dramatic contradiction. It has become a sort of Leviathan with clay feet: very powerful thanks to the resources it gets from the state and to its control of societal and state spheres due to an extension of clientelistic and patronage practices; but very weak in terms of legitimacy and confidence in the eyes of the mass public. However, it is argued that there is still no alternative to the party, and some hypotheses to enhance party democracy are advanced.

Contributions to Psychohistory: III. Measuring Value Systems as Related to Societal Change

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Krus ◽  
Patricia H. Krus
Keyword(s):  
Value Orientations ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Questionnaire Form

Sentences from Pirsig's book, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, were converted into a questionnaire form and analysed with scales derived from Reich's book Greening of America and scales indexing Apollonian and Dionysian value orientations. The resulting structures were discussed in terms of polarity of Western ideological thought and Russell's theory pertaining to dynamics of historical trends. This study illustrates extension of psychohistorical techniques (Ammons, 1978) by inclusion of results from use of objectively developed scales to measure values and attitudes.

Eye Banks: Future Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 238 (06) ◽  
pp. 674-678
Author(s):  
Johannes Menzel-Severing ◽  
Sabine Salla ◽  
Gerd Geerling
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Requirements Management ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Corneal Disease ◽  
Eye Banks ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Quality Material ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractTechnological progress and societal change are transforming medicine, and cornea banks are no exception. New infectiological factors, statutory requirements, management concepts, globalisation and digitalisation are also influencing how such facilities will operate in the future. The goal of providing high quality material to patients with corneal disease remains unaltered. The present article seeks to shed light on the type of material this will involve and under what circumstances it is to be obtained.

A post-intentional phenomenological investigation of inclusivity in a therapeutic theatre production

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-191
Author(s):  
Angelle Cook
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Inclusive Production ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Theatre Production ◽  
Therapeutic Theatre

This article presents a dissertation study that investigated the lived experiences of participants engaged in an inclusive therapeutic theatre production through a post-intentional phenomenological lens, informed by critical dis/ability theory. The study included ten participants aged 14–26 with a variety of dis/abilities. The data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and a focus group and analysed using thematic analysis. The qualitative findings included six themes and fifteen subthemes. These findings suggested that the participants experienced belonging and community, personal growth and insight, feelings of empowerment and the desire to make societal change by being a part of the inclusive production.

scholarly journals Rape in Finnish criminal law and process - A discussion on, and beyond, consent

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Daniela Alaattinoğlu ◽  
Heini Kainulainen ◽  
Johanna Niemi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Criminal Process ◽  
The University

Chapter 20 of the Finnish Criminal Code, which regulates sexual offences, is currently undergoing structural changes. Focusing on the section of rape, this article investigates the amendments proposed by the Ministry of Justice in 2020 in the light of the current Finnish legislation, legal practice, supranational normative developments and societal change. Lessons are drawn from a recent research project about the attrition of sexual violence in the Finnish criminal process by a research team at the University of Turku. The article welcomes the increased emphasis on voluntariness, contextuality, power imbalances and communication in the suggested draft law. It also criticises some weaknesses of the draft legislation. Conclusively, it proposes further action to improve legal clarity and strengthen the enforcement of a new legal conceptualisation of sexual violence.

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