The Self and its Development in an African Society A Preliminary Analysis

1982 ◽  
pp. 43-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. LeVine
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
African Society

scholarly journals Valuation of Morality and Mind: Morality as a Metacognitive Byproduct

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Moral Worth ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Inanimate Object ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
High Valuation ◽  
Mental Properties

The organism has evolved to view itself as a sentient being. It is theorised that morality is a byproduct of the high valuation of mental properties (the nature of its theory of mind). Five studies were conducted with 2675 participants. A positive association was confirmed between valuation of explicit morality, neutral (general) mind as measured by sentience, and significance of (specific) mind as measured by integrity (1). The moral worth ratings of a protagonist were affected by manipulating perceived significance of mind as expressed by scope and intensity of thought (2). 50% of participants thought morality applies exclusively to creatures with minds (3). A positive association was found between the self-awareness and moral worth ratings of a variety of creatures and human characters (4). Furthermore, the moral worth ratings of a human being and `philosophical phantom' (sentient inanimate object) were greater than those of a philosophical zombie and rock (5). Like H. Gray et al. [1], this research suggests that morality is based on the belief in mind (1-5). Specifically, the results suggest that valuation of experience (sentience) and agency (significance of mind) are not independent, as assignment of morality appears preconditioned upon the perception of (or assumption of) sentience (5). Furthermore, contrary to dyadic models [2], preliminary analysis supported the prediction of self and other-directed morality (1).

scholarly journals Large column densities and [12CII] 158 μm self-absorption in Orion B

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S292) ◽  
pp. 57-58
Author(s):  
J. Stutzki ◽  
U. U. Graf ◽  
R. Simon ◽  
S. W. J. Colgan ◽  
X. Guan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Molecular Cloud ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Self ◽  
Absorption Component ◽  
Warm Core ◽  
High Column

AbstractWe present a preliminary analysis of the self-absorbed [CII]-spectra observed with SOFIA/GREAT towards NGC 2024. Together with the detected [13CII] hyperfine satellites, the observed spectra require surprisingly high column densities of C+, both in the warm core and the foreground absorption component. Such high column densities are a challenge to explain with present state-of-the-art PDR models of the UV/molecular cloud interaction.

Differential Effects of Rural and Urban Upbringing on Nigerian Adolescents' Self-Concepts

1985 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Olowu
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
African Society ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Concept Study ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Sample

A review of pertinent literature on the effects of westernization/urbanization on traditional African society was made. A self-concept study of 133 urban and 110 rural male and female Nigerian adolescents showed that the younger urban sample had significantly more negative self-concepts than their older rural counterparts. Suggestions were made for enhancing the self-concepts of young urbanites.

The Continued Impact of Black Consciousness in South Africa

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kogila Moodley
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
World View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
African Society ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
South African Society

The idea of Black Consciousness heralded an era of alternative political awareness in the late 1960s. A self-empowering, vibrant, reconstructionist world-view emphasised the potential rôle of black initiatives and responsibility in articulating the power of the powerless. Between 1968–76, the Black Consciousness Movement (B.C.M.), as it became known, was one of the most important developments in South Africa, not only as the result of the self-confident protest and rebellion that it unleashed, but also ‘because of the questions it posed about the nature of oppositional politics in South Africa and its relation to the nature of South African society’.1

scholarly journals Reescribiendo Casa de muñecas como respuesta crítica a la desigualdad de las mujeres durante el franquismo

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Iris Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Contemporary Spain ◽  
A Doll's House

A Doll’s House [Et Dukkehjem, 1879] is Henrik Ibsen’s best known and most widely performed play. In Spain, it was Ibsen’s first translated play, in 1892, and it has been translated, published, staged and rewritten multiple times since then. The objective of this article is to do a preliminary analysis of the reception of three stage rewritings by Ana Diosdado (1938-2015) and Lucía Miranda (1982- ) that have as a common element their Francoist references that were used to make the plot more relatable for the Spanish audience. Therefore this article studies how the reception and interpretation of A Doll’s House in contemporary Spain has been influenced by the self-perception of the backwardness of the country in relation to women’s emancipation during Francoism, which made the situation of women in that period comparable to that of Nora in 1870s Norway.

Problem behavior in autism spectrum disorders: A paradigmatic self-organized perspective of network structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Tonello ◽  
Luca Giacobbi ◽  
Alberto Pettenon ◽  
Alessandro Scuotto ◽  
Massimo Cocchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Critical Equilibrium ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Acute Agitation ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.

FeXIV Line Emission Polarization of the July 11, 1991 Solar Corona

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 541-547
Author(s):  
J. Sýkora ◽  
J. Rybák ◽  
P. Ambrož
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Solar Corona ◽  
Emission Line ◽  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
White Light ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Line Emission ◽  
Total Solar Eclipse ◽  
Degree Of Polarization ◽  
High Resolution Images

AbstractHigh resolution images, obtained during July 11, 1991 total solar eclipse, allowed us to estimate the degree of solar corona polarization in the light of FeXIV 530.3 nm emission line and in the white light, as well. Very preliminary analysis reveals remarkable differences in the degree of polarization for both sets of data, particularly as for level of polarization and its distribution around the Sun’s limb.

The Nature of Rapidly Extracted Phycocyanin from the Blue-Green Alga Plectonema Boryanum

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
M. Kessel ◽  
R. MacColl
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Analytical Ultracentrifugation ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Subunit Structure ◽  
Blue Green Alga ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Blue Green Algae ◽  
Cacodylate Buffer

The major protein of the blue-green algae is the biliprotein, C-phycocyanin (Amax = 620 nm), which is presumed to exist in the cell in the form of distinct aggregates called phycobilisomes. The self-assembly of C-phycocyanin from monomer to hexamer has been extensively studied, but the proposed next step in the assembly of a phycobilisome, the formation of 19s subunits, is completely unknown. We have used electron microscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation in combination with a method for rapid and gentle extraction of phycocyanin to study its subunit structure and assembly.To establish the existence of phycobilisomes, cells of P. boryanum in the log phase of growth, growing at a light intensity of 200 foot candles, were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.0, for 3 hours at 4°C. The cells were post-fixed in 1% OsO4 in the same buffer overnight. Material was stained for 1 hour in uranyl acetate (1%), dehydrated and embedded in araldite and examined in thin sections.

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