of self-reliance, Woodson’s book shows how a radical paradigm shift is necessary in order to redefine social hierarchies. The book was also published at a time when social critiques constituted controversial discourse. Taken in context, Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro can be considered alongside other classics of American sociology and race relations such as the works of W.E.B. DuBois.
One of the most salient themes of Woodson’s book is evident in its title: the education system transmits racism in overt and covert ways. At the time
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and philosophical applications. Like Newirth (2015) and Johannsson (2007), Kluners (2014) demonstrates the way Freudian theory was a paradigm shift that helps understand global patterns in human behavior. Collective human trauma, such as the repressed memories of genocide or war, can lead to similar ego defense mechanisms among an entire culture. Applying Freudian concepts of the unconscious, dreams, and ego defense mechanisms to societies can help illuminate pathways to healing, just as with individual psychotherapy. The collective dreams of a culture are manifest in legends, myths, and folklore. Newirth (2015) discusses cultural symbols and icons, particularly with regard to heroic agency. Thus, Perera’s (2013) Jungian approach to dream… Continue Reading...
Counseling Theory: Postmodern Approaches
Counseling orientation has experienced paradigm shifts over the decades from traditional pioneering theories such as cognitive theory, psychoanalysis, and humanism to the postmodernist theory. The rationale for the progression to postmodernism has been the evolving notion of a multiplicity of reality, a shift from modernist empiricism to constructivism (Shurts, 2015). The traditional counseling theorist considered counseling as a true mapping of the psychic phenomena depicting an accurate depiction of human psychological processes (Hansen, 2015). Contrasting with the modernistic approach that assumes a knowable reality, postmodernism assumes that observers create realities. Hansen (2015) notes postmodernism… Continue Reading...
justice systems. This paradigm shift poses a challenge to conventional techniques that hamper chances of solutions expressing novel goals and values in a bid to contest, review, and re-concentrate existing methods, structures and approaches. There is a need for novel measures which assess restorative justice's effects and legitimacy, besides implications for this sort of critical discourse. Efforts at reform have accompanied an interest in restorative justice in the form of a transitional approach to change and advancement (Pavelka, 2016).
Video two: Police Role Conflict Following Hurricane Katrina
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and Industrial Revolutions, culminating in the Information Age, environmental awareness and globalisation. It is during this period that a paradigm shift from faith (religion) to reason as the principal source of legitimacy and authority occurred (Badger). The shift occurred against the backdrop of ideals such as science, tolerance, liberty, democracy, secularism, free will and humanism. However, the period is also scared with false starts and failures, violent schisms, world wars, imperialism, terrorism, irrational nationalism, extreme religious war, information overload, pollution and the threat of nuclear annihilation that indicate failure of the rational model promised by the Enlightenment. On the premise of this dichotomy of hope and failure, this essay… Continue Reading...
Introduction
The 911 attacks in New York City triggered a paradigm shift in how acts of violence as well as catastrophes were viewed in the US. It became apparent that dealing with these vices is relevant and should not be taken lightly. One year following the assaults, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 initiated the central Department of Homeland Security. This led to a ripple effect in numerous regions which developed individual divisions focused on safe keeping the motherland as well as handling crisis. There was complete overhaul in the already existing divisions in order to meet the novel standards… Continue Reading...
both the learner and the university to the local area hospitals. As such, there is need for a paradigm shift in regards to how nursing leaders in practice and academia work together and with the rest of the leaders in clinical practice and higher education. Such a shift is the only way to realize the full benefits of academic nursing, especially in this age where collaborations are mandatory for success. (Sebastian et al., 2018) Freshly graduated nurses are most times not skillful enough to get into leadership. After graduation, and while in the workforce, these nurses need some time for self-discovery, where they analyze themselves critically to know… Continue Reading...
interest me most in the article, since I feel there needs to be a realistic paradigm shift in our thought process and socialization.
This article is very relevant to our contemporary socialization process since it directly castigates our hypocritical ways and the open bias against women with babies of breastfeeding age. This act is likely to cause such women to shun public breastfeeding and in effect lead to malnutrition of the babies.
References
Kelly Wallace, (2014). Why are we still so squeamish about breastfeeding? Retrieved 28 September 2018 from https://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/29/living/breastfeeding-attitudes-parents/index.html
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the paradigm shift is appropriate when addressing transformative mediation. Through the process of transformative mediation, the parties involved develop additional skills they can apply to future conflicts, making this an essential skill to have in organizations or situations where conflict is inevitable. From a Biblical perspective,… Continue Reading...
paradigm shift and demonstrated that women could be valuable members of society who contributed directly to the economy. This directly challenged the perspective of the typical woman. Hence, during the war, women responded to their circumstances by taking the jobs of their husbands, not merely to make money, but as a means of breaking free from social constraints. [1: Dorothy May King quoted in Linda Goyette and Carolina Jakeway Roemmich, eds. Edmonton: In Our Own Words, (Edmonton,… Continue Reading...
in the men's and women's leadership styles. In the recent past, however, a paradigm shift has taken root and different leadership characteristics are being labeled as either feminine or masculine and so giving either gender the opportunity to exhibit either of the characteristics. A results-oriented and rigid approach to leadership whose sole focus is the end result is deemed as masculine. (Syed Akif Hasan, Irma Zahid, & Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani, 2011) argue that men tend to be more argumentative, share their point-of-view and opinions and generally don't share personal information. Men's decision-making process is more direct and can be viewed as autocratic as… Continue Reading...
