he concedes, their orientations are nevertheless radically divergent, since only conservatism is exclusively defined by its desire to arrest change.
I very much agree with the argument made here. Liberalism is essential simply based on its allowance to change. There may not need to be change, but at least it leaves that door open. I lean conservative economically and I do appreciate that about liberals and their mindsets.
As tuition fees have skyrocketed and safer loan options fail to keep up, many more students have been compelled to share their debt burden with parents and other family members.
I have always thought about the tuition skyrocketing issue as an issue of the school itself, and I hope Cooper gets into neoliberalism reforming the price of college, as many would agree it is overpriced.
The role of the poor-law tradition in shaping recent welfare reform highlights some of the interpretive failures of popular accounts of neoliberalism. Most of these accounts focus on neoliberalism’s overriding investment in the notion of personal responsibility.
Cooper if nothing else examines the role of the poor law tradition, which reminds me greatly of high tax policies and how Democrats generally want such policies for society. They try to bring the middle class up, the "private family," I believe.
Both agreed, however, that the private family (rather than the state) should serve as the primary source of economic security.Cooper, Melinda. Family Values : Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, Zone Books, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/davidson/detail.action?docID=4873381.Created from davidson on 2021-05-08 18:07:06.
Am I understanding this correctly? She wants to revive the "Old Poor Laws?"
For the investment class, the sense of crisis was exacerbated by the fact that the labor unions of the 1970s were able to hold their own against any attempt to push down wages in response to inflation.Cooper, Melinda. Family Values : Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, Zone Books, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/davidson/detail.action?docID=4873381.Created from davidson on 2021-05-08 18:06:09.
From my interest in politics, I was actually thinking it might be difficult to lower wages as I was reading.
I wish Shapiro went more in depth as to why military spending like this is bad. I agree it might be way too much, but I would not know for sure unless I heard the statistics. That is the main problem here, not expanding on the statistics leaves readers unsure as to whether or not this military spending is bad at all.
Cindy's story already makes me feel bad for all those strruggling with a similar issue, and it is important to note (I think) that Shapiro employs the use of pathos.
I notice that Shapiro uses lower level-language throughout his work. This make sense because a) he is trying to reach a certain audience and b) he is not trying to use academic language when discussing a serious issue. It is better to get straight to the point.
The disappearance of public executions marks therefore the decline of the spectacle; but it also marks a slackening of the hold on the body.
A lot of high level language used here which reflects the audience Foucault intends to reach; in other words, punishing the body was not the priority in general punishment anymore.
In the perfect camp, all power would be exercised solely through exact observation; each gaze would form a part of the overall functioning of power. The old, traditional square plan was considerably refined in innumerable new projects. The geometry of the paths, the number and distribution of the tents, the orientation of their entrances, the disposition of files and ranks were exactly defined;
I believe Alcatraz and all major prisons were made this way.. this must be the use of the word "panopticon" we have discussed in class in which one person stands in the middle and the prisoners sit in cells along the edges of the facility, mentally tortured.
'A prolonged succession of painful priva-tions, sparing mankind the horror of torture, has much more effect on the guilty party than a passing moment of pain
I am confused on exactly what this selectiuon means but the way I understand it, it is Foucault's arugment for a more effective punishment than simmply punishing the body.
The execution was accompanied by a whole ceremonial of triumph; but it also included, as a dramatic nucleus in its monotonous progress, a scene of confrontation:
Reminds me of movie scenes where someone is executed at the gallows; the public humiliation allows for more power over the individual prior to their death through punishment.
power produces knowledge
One significant thing to take away from Foucault's argument. Punishing the body apparently gives less power over the individual and it is not done anymore because more power can arise from diffetent forms of punishment.
if he is unlovable, which at the moment I be-lieve, then I don't love him.
Hocschild makes the argument that people can manage their emotions to the point where they train their minds to think one thing that they don't actually need to think. Somewhat like Heath Ledger getting too much into his character of the joker, which arguably led to his death.
People sometimes talk as much about their efforts to feel (even if these efforts fail) as they do about having feelings.
It sounds like it can be very difficult to tell when someone is surface acting versus when they are deep acting. This is scary in a way. We have many people in our society who, hypothetically, are good at lying.
He did it in a cold, impersonal way, indicating the outer form of the scene without any attempt to put life or depth into it.
This almost reminds me of a white lie but in performance form. It is interesting how many times we do this in daily life (or at least I do). This is another central argument to Hcschild's work, the importance of surface acting
The central argument as I understand it is that emotion management is super important in a capitalist society when it comes to labor. Emotional labor is super prevalent.
I believe that when we try to feel, we apply latent feel-ing rules, which are the subject of Chapter Four. We say, "I shouldn't feel so angry at what she did;' or "given our agree-ment, I have no right to feel jealous:'
The central argument as I understand it is that emotion management is super important in a capitalist society when it comes to labor. Emotional labor is super prevalent.
Obvious use of pathos to start off text. Exceptional use of it and might even expect to see more of it later on. Hocschild is potentially against capitalism or just explaining its consequences.
In the personal control system, what matters far more than formal status is the feelings ofparent and child. Parents back up their appeals by such statements as “because it would mean alot to me” or “because I’m very tired.” Appeals are also aimed at the child’s feelings. Amother using personal control in the situation above might say: “Why do you want to play withthe doll? They’re so boring. Why not play with the drum?” In positional families, controlworks against the child’s will. In personal families, control works through that will. Thus achild who says “I don’t want to kiss grandpa—why must I kiss him always?” will be answeredin different ways. Positional: “Children kiss their grandpa,” and “He’s not well—I don’t wantany of your nonsense.” Person
I wish my parents had been more positional with me growing up. Positional very much reminds me of just saying "because you can't" when asked why a child cannot d something. While the reasons may be fictitious in the personal approach, it certainly would help for the child to see reasons.
f payment is not securely arranged after two or three calls, the collector may get rough. Thedebtor’s “excuse for not paying” may now be called “a lie,” a deception that the collector hadknown about all along but had pretended not to see out of politeness. As one collectordescribed the process
"A Christmas Carol" connection
“If I’m doing deep acting for an audience from whom I’mdisconnected, how can I maintain my self-esteem without becoming cynical?
What does disconnected mean in this context and why would one lose their self-esteem or become cynical if they were disconnected?
The worker’s rightto anger is correspondingly reduced; as an adult he must work to inhibit and suppress anger atchildren
This passage makes me gain lots of respect for flight attendants. I cannot imagine how difficult it must be to keep pressing on without being angry at some idiotic adults (the troublemakers, that is).
It should be made clear that dramatic and directive dominance are dramaturgical terms and that performers who enjoy such dominance may not have other types of power and authority.
Goffman uses the word "Dramaturgical" society is not homogenous at all and different situations make for different acts by actors. Interesting how Goffman uses a phrase such as "directive dominance" even though, in reality, the person may have very little power and authority, yet in this scenario specifically, they do.
It is apparent that if performers are concerned with maintaining a line they will select as team-mates those who can be trusted to perform properly. Thus children of the house are often excluded from performances given for guests of a domestic establishment because often cnil iren cannot be trusted to 'behave* themselves, i.e., to refrain from acting in a way inconsistent with the impr'ession that is being fostered. 6
This quote from Goffman resonates with me immensely. Goffman compares children to the teammates who have stepped "out of line" and disrupted the entire act that the rest of the team (parents, siblings, etc.) put on for the guests.
As suggested, the cycle of disbelief-to-belief can be followed in the other direction, starting with conviction or insecure aspiration and ending in cynicism
Goffman argues in "Presentation of Self in Everyday Life," that there are extremes in a way a person acts about their own behavior. Each extreme overlaps each other at some point, but are polar opposites in the way one thinks about their act.
An interaction may be defined as all the interaction which occurs throughout any one occasion when a given set of individuals are in one another’s continuous presence; the term 'a n encounter’ would do as well.
In service occupations, on the other hand, the specialist often maintains an image of disinterested involve- ment in the problem of the client
I disagree; I find that quite often, specialists act very interested in the problem of the client so as to prove to them how much the client's problem means to them (even if it doesn't).
Sometimes the individual will be calculating in his activity but be relatively unaware that this is the case.
How much more often than not does this specific case happen? Are individuals mostly consciously calculating their activity or is done more so without knowledge of their doing so?
lthough some of this information seems to be sought almost as an end in itself, there are usually quite practical reasons for acquiring it.
This helps me to understand better why, for example, people can act completely differently when around one group of people versus another. The definition of each in their minds is vastly different and allows them to know "how best to act."