Reflections On Johnson, Murungi, and Pugh’s Naming our reality, Fine and Torre’s Re-membering exclusions, Kidd and Kral’s Practicing participatory action research, and Lykes,, Mcdonald, and Box’ The post-deportation human rights project 6 November 2013 (This is it folks. I may have found the research method of choice to write thesis and dissertation in social psychology and media studies respectively. It’s Participatory Action Research. Everyone teaches and everyone learns, including the study participants. Stay tuned.) Participatory action and the research that it entails give me hope for the future. … Read More
Content Analysis Hypothesis Development 6 November 2013 (And so the saga continues as I wrassle with determining a proper hypothesis. The below is an indication of how far I have come and ow far I need to go. But I am getting closer.) Original Hypothesis: Individuals and small groups are influenced by intentional sexist propaganda embedded in media texts that influence unintentional… Read More
Summary of The Cultural Context of Cognition: What the Implicit Association Test Tells Us About How Culture Works by Hana Shepherd 29 October 2013 N.B. This summary is a “follow up” on my reaction to the Implicit Associations Test that I wrote of earlier. I wanted to summarize a journal article that presented a different perspective than mine even though I am still in disagreement with the intention and what I feel is a bias in the tests that… Read More
Reflections On Hacker & Roberts’ Transformational leadership Chapters 7 and 8, Participatory Feminism, and Selected Writings on Feminism and Liberation Psychology 29 October 2013 I know there are” ideal” companies to work for, not because I have worked for them (because I haven’t), but because very few friends have mentioned their work environments and their ideal supervisors and because I have read about them occasionally in the news pages. But now that I have read Hacker and Robert’s analysis… Read More
Reflections on I Need Feminism Because… Becoming A Woman 2: Puberty and Adolescence 24 October 2013 Growing up, I had enough struggles to keep out of the way, to understand what was going on around me, and to navigate my own way through puberty in junior high and high school. As it was for everyone else, it wasn’t easy for me. I had no conversation with my parents about any of… Read More
Reflections On Diaz’ A psychological framework for social justice praxis, Teo et al’ Philosophical reflexivity in social justice work, and Hacker & Roberts’ Transformational leadership Chapters 5 and 6 23 October 2013 I see the potential for perpetual personal evolution and perhaps personal revolution within Diaz’s summary, “. . . a relational/empathy based concept of social justice provides us with an interpretation of social justice as the perpetual process of creating and recreating relationships of awareness, empathy, and empowerment.” I see this either as the direction that… Read More
Survey Hypothesis Development Worksheet: The Propaganda Of Sexism 23 October 2013 (This is more or less a brainstorming session to begin fleshing out these thesis ideas and, and, and, to satisfy the assignment requirements for Social Psychology. Bear with me folks. It’s getting interesting. And if anyone at all has any suggestions to improve this, please let me know.) Original hypothesis: Individuals and small groups… Read More
Reflections On Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Martin-Baro’s Role of the Psychologist, Prillitensky’s Value-based praxis in community psychology (And Personal Reflections On Things I Consider Important) 16 October 2013 While much has been said and much has been written about scientific objectivity and, in the case of my experience in local television journalism, much has been said regarding journalistic objectivity, sometimes quite passionately to the detriment of the local issues being discussed. Both have their place, but I have never really understood why there… Read More
Outline of a Social Psychology Paper 16 October 2013 (The beginnings of one….) I. Title. Unintentional Propaganda as Sexism: How Embedded is Prejudice within English Grammar? II. Abstract. The subject of this paper begins to analyze unintentional propaganda that occurs in small groups, the propaganda that is inherent in the grammar and language that perpetuates sexism. For purposes of this study, the language in… Read More