scholarly journals Redemptive Stories and Those Who Tell Them are Preferred in the U.S

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate C. McLean ◽  
Brianna C. Delker ◽  
William L. Dunlop ◽  
Rowan Salton ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Just World ◽  
Theoretical Assumption ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
The Common ◽  
Growth Promoting ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Reliable Preference

The present studies examined the common, but untested, theoretical assumption that those in the United States prefer negative past experiences, such as trauma, to be redeemed, to be resolved in some positive or growth-promoting fashion. Narratives of six types of traumatic events were rated by U.S adults (n = 1872) across six samples and two studies. Confirming pre-registered hypotheses, there was a reliable preference for stories that were redeemed compared to stories that ended negatively, as well as for the narrators of redemptive stories, who were judged as likable and to have desirable personality traits. There was no support for the hypothesis that redemptive stories would be viewed as more common than non-redemptive stories, or that the relation between story type and preference would be mediated by Belief in a Just World. Implications include the compulsory nature of storying trauma and potential risks of these cultural expectations.

scholarly journals Redemptive Stories and Those Who Tell Them are Preferred in the U.S.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate C. McLean ◽  
Brianna C Delker ◽  
William Lewis Dunlop ◽  
Rowan Salton ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Just World ◽  
Theoretical Assumption ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
The Common ◽  
Growth Promoting ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Reliable Preference

The present studies examined the common, but untested, theoretical assumption that those in the United States prefer negative past experiences, such as trauma, to be redeemed, to be resolved in some positive or growth-promoting fashion. Narratives of six types of traumatic events that were rated by U.S adults (n = 1872) across six samples and two studies. Confirming pre-registered hypotheses, there was a reliable preference for stories that were redeemed compared to stories that ended negatively, as well as for the narrators of redemptive stories, who were judged as likable and to have desirable personality traits. There was no support for the hypothesis that redemptive stories would be viewed as more common than non-redemptive stories, or that the relation between story type and preference would be mediated by Belief in a Just World. Implications include the compulsory nature of storying trauma and potential risks of these cultural expectations.

Rethinking Market Regulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John N. Drobak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
The Past ◽  
United States Today ◽  
The Common ◽  
The U.S

Rethinking Market Regulation: Helping Labor by Overcoming Economic Myths tackles the plight of workers who lose their jobs from mergers and outsourcing by examining two economic “principles,” or narratives that have shaped the perception of the economic system in the United States today: (1) the notion that the U.S. economy is competitive, making government market regulation unnecessary, and (2) the claim that corporations exist for the benefit of their shareholders but not for other stakeholders. Contrary to popular belief, this book demonstrates that many markets are not competitive but rather are oligopolistic. This conclusion undercuts the common refrain that government market regulation is unnecessary because competition already provides sufficient constraints on business. Part of the lack of competition has resulted from the large mergers over the past few years, many of which have resulted in massive layoffs. The second narrative has justified the outsourcing of millions of jobs of U.S. workers this century, made possible by globalization. The book argues that this narrative is not an economic principle but rather a normative position. In effect, both narratives are myths, although they are accepted as truisms by many people. The book ties together a concern for the problems of using economic principles as a justification for the lack of government intervention with the harm that has been caused to workers. The book’s recommendations for a new regulatory regime are a prescription for helping labor by limiting job losses from mergers and outsourcing.

Primacy of Reality

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-92
Author(s):  
Gamonal C. Sergio ◽  
César F. Rosado Marzán
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
The Common ◽  
Employment Tests ◽  
The U.S

Chapter 3 describes the principle of primacy of reality in Latin America, namely, in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. The principle is also contained in the International Labor Organization’s Recommendation 198. The principle posits that facts must be given preference over what parties, particularly employers, state in legal texts, documents, and agreements. It is particularly important when determining threshold questions in labor law, such as employee and employer status. While employers might deny an employment relationship given a formal agreement to hire workers as independent contractors, the facts might show otherwise. However, the chapter also argues that primacy of reality depends on the principle of protection and in dubio pro operario to resolve questions when the facts are not dispositive given vague or missing rules. The chapter then searches primacy of reality in the United States and finds it in various employment tests, such as the common law control test. It is also finds it in employer tests of joint employer status. However, many of those tests remain vague, requiring supplementation with the U.S. versions of in dubio pro operario, i.e., liberal construction of the statutes that derogate the common law, and with legislative purpose. Primacy of reality makes it even more important for legal operators to be cognizant of labor law principles and, principally, the protective principle.

The incidence and outcome of adolescent pregnancy in the United States

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (S5) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy G. Dryfoos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
The Common ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancies ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S

The publication in 1976 of a 64-page pamphlet with the unlikely title 11 Million Teenagers: What Can Be Done About the Epidemic of Adolescent Pregnancies in the U.S. (AGI, 1976) precipitated a dialogue quite new to the American public. For the first time, attention was centred on the fact that pregnancy among teenagers was almost as prevalent as the common cold and that those who were getting pregnant increasingly were younger, and more of them were white and middle class. The figure of one million pregnancies experienced by women aged 15–19 showed that one in ten female adolescents and one out of four sexually active teenagers are conceiving each year.

Disaster Relief, “Do Anything” Spending Powers, and the New Deal

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-450
Author(s):  
Howard Gillman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Funds ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
Local Manufacturing ◽  
General Power ◽  
The Common ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
The U.S

Less than two years after Justice Harlan Fiske Stone reportedly advised Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of labor that “You can do anything under the taxing power,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Butler that Congress had no authority to create a system whereby farmers would receive subsidies for limiting production, with the funds coming from a tax on basic commodities. While Stone, along with Brandeis and Cardozo, voted to uphold this feature of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, a majority led by Justice Owen J. Roberts declared that this particular scheme of taxing and spending interfered with the reserve powers of the states to control local manufacturing and agriculture. Roberts cited the great nationalist Joseph Story for the proposition that “the Constitution was, from its very origin, contemplated to be a frame of a national government, of special and enumerated powers, and not of general and unlimited powers.… A power to lay taxes for the common defence and general welfare of the United States is not in common sense a general power. It is limited to those objects. It cannot constitutionally transcend them.” The AAA was “a scheme for purchasing with federal funds submission to federal regulation of a subject reserved to the states. … If the Act before us is a proper exercise of the federal taxing power, evidently the regulation of all industry throughout the United States may be accomplished by similar exercise of the same power.”

September 11

Meridians ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. 127-130
Author(s):  
Amrita Basu ◽  
Paula Giddings ◽  
Inderpal Grewal ◽  
Kamala Visweswaran
Keyword(s):  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Just World ◽  
South West ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The links among feminism, race, and transnationalism, which are key to the Meridians project, are also crucial to understanding the events of 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan. Some pieces in this archive provide feminist perspectives on the impact of war and fundamentalism on women’s lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other pieces analyze the ways in which racist representations of Muslim women and of Islam have come to play a key part in colonial and neocolonial “great games” being played in South, West, and Central Asia. Yet others link the U.S.-sponsored war in Afghanistan to the repression of the media and the attacks on civil liberties within the U.S. itself. In constructing an archive of these courageous testimonies, Meridians honors the courage and integrity of women in the United States and around the world who aspire to a better, more just world.

Official English: A False Policy Issue

1990 ◽  
Vol 508 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTURO MADRID
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Language ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
High Level ◽  
The U.S

Making English the official language of the United States is a false policy issue. The evidence does not support arguments that the use of English is declining or that the use of other languages debilitates the social fabric of the United States. On the contrary, attempts to impose English on the U.S. population have served historically to divide the nation. The facts do not support linguistic or social fragmentation. English is the language of state and the common language of the U.S. population. Immigrants continue to enter the United States because of the protections and opportunities it offers, and they give highest priority to learning English. The real language-policy issues have to do with literacy and high-level multilingual skills. A sane national language policy would give primacy to literacy and would promote multilingualism. The nation's energies must be directed at language policies that empower all citizens rather than punish some.

scholarly journals The Governance of Kosovo: Security Council Resolution 1244 and the Establishment and Functioning of eulex

2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika de Wet
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The Common ◽  
The U.S

On February 4,2008, shortly before Kosovo's controversial unilateral secession from Serbia on February 17 of that year, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted a Joint Action creating the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo/EULEX (hereinafter EULEX), the largest and most important mission thus far undertaken within the common European foreign and defense policy. Although EULEX is first and foremost a European undertaking, it is also strongly backed by the United States, which agreed to shoulder 25 percent of the operating costs while the remaining costs would be shared by European and other states. In October 2008, the U.S. Department of State further agreed to provide EULEX with eighty police officers and up to eight judges and prosecutors.

scholarly journals Markt-Religion

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (182) ◽  
pp. 35-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingar Solty
Keyword(s):  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Type ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Christian Democracy ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
The Common ◽  
The U.S

The paper starts with a critique of the common notion of a fundamental divide between right-wing evangelicals and libertarians,“ i.e. „value“ and „business conservatives.” It also problematizes the underlying return of Lukacs’ian/Frankfurt School type of theories of „false consciousness,“ which fall behind the achievements of Gramscian and post-Althusserian theorizations of ideology and points towards the lack of a religious/Christian Democracy cleavage in the U.S. and, as a consequence, the specifically particularistic nature of the U.S. welfare state. The article then proceeds by linking the regional specifics of right-wing evangelicalism in the South and bordering Mid-West to U.S. capital’s domestic spatial fixes during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Finally, challenging right-wing populism in the United States would necessitate a break with the neoliberal anti-discrimination approach professed by the liberal Democrats.

Regional Incidence of Collision

1965 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. Fricker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
The North ◽  
Common Causes ◽  
The Common ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
The U.S

In this paper, which is a revised and up-dated version of an article which appeared on the back of the United States Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean for May 1964, Mr. Fricker, a member of the Maritime Safety Division of the United States Naval Oceanographic Office, first of all analyses world-wide statistics of collision at sea on a geographical basis. He highlights the results of an investigation conducted by the U.S. Coast Guard into the conditions surrounding marine collisions; taking into account the results of this enquiry the author then goes into the common causes of collision. The paper then reviews the whole subject of radar and collision and the interpretation of the Collision Regulations in relation to the use of that aid. Certain collision counter-measures such as particular radar displays, improved lights and sound signals, bridge to bridge communication, &c. are then discussed.

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