The Imaginary Questionnaire

1950 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Whitfield
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Choice Response ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Statistical Concept ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Alternative Meaning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Statistical Problems

The experiment was designed to throw some light on the statistical problems in the analysis of questionnaire data. Previous work (unpublished) suggested that a simple choice response was partially determined by previous responses; and also that the nature of the determination was changed with changing length of series. A “null” experiment was devised in the form of a questionnaire without any questions, and the distribution of responses was studied with respect to the problems formulated. The observations are discussed in three sections. In the statistical discussion an alternative meaning to overall association or dissociation is advanced. This: relates association or dissociation to human behaviour in the serial response situation, rather than to qualities of the questionnaire. It is further suggested that association between specific, questions should be tested against the association in the whole questionnaire, and an appropriate treatment is indicated. The observations depart from statistical randomness in certain ways. Answers made up almost entirely of one form of response are given less often than would be expected. Long sequences of the same type of response are relatively infrequent, and sequences of alternation of response are also rare. As the material is “null” it implies that the human concept of randomness differs from the statistical concept. An attempt is made to define the human concept of randomness. It appears that a series of responses which has a pattern, or for which the subject can postulate a simple “cause” will not be accepted as random by the human subject. This raises problems of a perceptual and cognitive nature. It also has a bearing on the design of questionnaires. or experiments involving serial responses.

Madness, virtue, and ecology: A classical Indian approach to psychiatric disturbance

2021 ◽  
pp. 095269512098224
Author(s):  
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbance ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Moral Relationship

The Caraka Saṃhitā (ca. first century BCE–third century CE), the first classical Indian medical compendium, covers a wide variety of pharmacological and therapeutic treatment, while also sketching out a philosophical anthropology of the human subject who is the patient of the physicians for whom this text was composed. In this article, I outline some of the relevant aspects of this anthropology – in particular, its understanding of ‘mind’ and other elements that constitute the subject – before exploring two ways in which it approaches ‘psychiatric’ disorder: one as ‘mental illness’ ( mānasa-roga), the other as ‘madness’ ( unmāda). I focus on two aspects of this approach. One concerns the moral relationship between the virtuous and the well life, or the moral and the medical dimensions of a patient’s subjectivity. The other is about the phenomenological relationship between the patient and the ecology within which the patient’s disturbance occurs. The aetiology of and responses to such disturbances helps us think more carefully about the very contours of subjectivity, about who we are and how we should understand ourselves. I locate this interpretation within a larger programme on the interpretation of the whole human being, which I have elsewhere called ‘ecological phenomenology’.

Responsibility before the World: Cinema, Perspectivism and a Nonhuman Ethics of Individuation

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-410
Author(s):  
Andrew Lapworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

The recent ‘nonhuman turn’ in the theoretical humanities and social sciences has highlighted the need to develop more ontological modes of theorising the ethical ‘responsibility’ of the human in its relational encounters with nonhuman bodies and materialities. However, there is a lingering sense in this literature that such an ethics remains centred on a transcendent subject that would pre-exist the encounters on which it is called to respond. In this essay, I explore how Gilles Deleuze's philosophy offers potential opening for a more ontogenetic thinking of a ‘nonhuman ethics’. Specifically, I focus on how his theory of ‘individuation’ – conceived as a creative event of emergence in response to immanent ontological problems – informs his rethinking of ethics beyond the subject, opening thought to nonhuman forces and relations. I argue that if cinema becomes a focus of Deleuze's ethical discussions in his later work it is because the images and signs it produces are expressive of these nonhuman forces and processes of individuation, generating modes of perception and duration without ontological mooring in the human subject. Through a discussion of Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's experimental film –  Leviathan (2012)  – I explore how the cinematic encounter dramatises different ethical worlds in which a multiplicity of nonhuman ‘points of view’ coexist without being reduced to a hierarchical or orienting centre that would unify and identify them. To conclude, I suggest that it is through the lens of an ethics of individuation that we can grasp the different sense of ‘responsibility’ alive in Deleuze's philosophy, one oriented not to the terms of the already-existing but rather to the nonhuman potential of what might yet come into being.

scholarly journals Critical agency in education: a Foucauldian perspective

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Postma
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
The Self ◽  
Alternative Mode ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mode Of Being

While the neoliberal order is associated with the economy, government and globalisation, as a form of governmentality it effects a particular subjectivity. The subject is the terrain where the contest of control plays out. The subject is drawn into the seductive power of performativity which dictates its agency, desires and satisfactions and from which escape is difficult to imagine. Neoliberalism is particularly interested in an education which provides it with the much needed powers of production and consumption. This dependency of the neoliberal order on a particular kind of agential subjectivity is also its weakness because of the indeterminacy of the self. Within this openness of the human subject lies the possibility to be different and to escape any form of subjectification. Foucault’s account of the critical agent portrays a form of difference that opposes and transcends neoliberal ordering. Foucault finds the principle of practices of freedom in the Greco-Roman ethics of the care for the self. It is an ethics where the subject gains control of itself through the ascetic and reflective attention in relation to available ethical codes and with the guidance of a ‘master’. Such as strong sense of the self is the basis for personal and social transformation against neoliberal colonisation. The development of critical agency in education is subsequently investigated in the light of Foucault’s notions of agency and freedom. The contest of the subject is of particular importance to education interested in the development of critical agency. The critical agent is not only one who could identify and analyse regimes of power, but also one who could imagine different modes of being, and who could practice freedom in the enactment of an alternative mode of being. The educational implications are explored in relation to the role of the teacher and pedagogical processes.

scholarly journals Life, Birth and Death in Democritus. Atomistic Reflections Between Physics and Ethics

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-154
Author(s):  
Miriam Campolina Diniz Peixoto
Keyword(s):  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Birth Death

The subject of life, birth and death constitutes one of the main topics in Democritus’ reflection on human questions. He seeks to understand what men think about the processes of birth and death and how they, accordingly, determine their behavior and attitudes. His reflections comprise a wide range of perspectives and aspects that include examining human behaviour and investigating how it reveals a certain temperament or inclination, inquiring about the nature of these processes and extending the analyses of the processes of birth and death to whole beings through the couple generation-corruption. In the present paper, I intend to examine the main theses and arguments which appear in the testimonies and fragments through which Democritus’ thought was transmitted from antiquity. Furthermore, I will also discuss the hypotheses that for Democritus the most important opposition was not life-death, but rather birth-death and that, at the same time, his idea of nature and life comprises both processes in the perspective of atomistic philosophy. I shall show that corruption has to be considered in two different ways, that is, in the context of physical processes that keep the kosmos in its persistence and in the context of the existence of natural beings, both living and lifeless.

scholarly journals Lunacy, insanity, and the purpose of psychiatry

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 663-665
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Universal Theory ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Within psychiatry there are two distinct tendencies. On the one hand there is the tendency for the subject to expand beyond its concern with psychological medicine and encroach upon diverse aspects of society. “The psychiatrist who believes that the phenomena of mental illness can be explained on the basis of a universal theory … finds little difficulty in inflating his theory to explain not only mental disease but also normal human behaviour, interpersonal relations, and ultimately human affairs” (Miller, 1970)

scholarly journals Dolanan bocah caruban nagari sebagai upaya pembinaan nilai antikorupsi siswa sekolah dasar

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Auliya Aenul Hayati ◽  
Dede Trie Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
School Students ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Subject

Tingginya ketergantungan manusia akan tekhnologi turut menggeser popularitas permainan tradisonal. Sementara pemahaman terhadap kekayaan nilai budaya lokal pada setiap permainan berperan penting dalam upaya pembinaan nilai antikorupsi sejak usia dini. Peneliti meneliti bagaimana dolanan bocah Caruban Nagari mampu berperan sebagai upaya pembinaan antikorupsi pada siswa Sekolah Dasar. Yaitu bertujuan untuk menganalisis karakteristik permainan, mengkaji jenis-jenis permainan sebagai pendidikan antikorupsi, dan mengembangkan kecerdasan nilai-nilai kebajikan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan serangkaian metode deskriptif analisis. Pengumpulan data dengan cara observasi, wawancara, dan kuesioner. Teknik pengolahan dan analisis data menggunakan statistik deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: (1). Karakteristik pendidikan antikorupsi melalui permainan tradisional beracuan pada materi pelajaran, guru, proses pembelajaran, dan nilai-nilai, yang berkesinambungan menanamkan perilaku antikorupsi. (2). Nilai antikorupsi Dolanan Bocah Caruban Nagari yaitu nilai jujur, disiplin, tanggung jawab, kerja keras, mandiri, sederhana, adil, berani, dan peduli dengan tingkat perubahan sikap siswa tertinggi pada nilai kejujuran dan terendah pada nilai kemandirian.-----The high human dependence on technology has helped to shift the popularity of traditional games. While understanding the richness of local cultural values in each game plays a vital role in efforts to foster anti-corruption values from an early age. Researchers examine how the child caruban Nagari can play a role as an effort to foster anti-corruption in elementary school students. It aims to analyze the characteristics of the game, examine the types of games as anti-corruption education, and develop the intelligence of virtue values. This research uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive analysis methods Data collection by observation, interview, and questionnaire. Data processing and analysis techniques use descriptive statistics. The results showed: (1). The characteristics of anti-corruption education through traditional games refer to the subject matter, the teacher, the learning process, and values, which continuously instill anti-corruption behavior. (2). The anti-corruption value of kid caruban nagari is honest, discipline, responsibility, hard work, independent, simple, fair, brave, and caring with the highest level of change in student attitudes on honesty values and the lowest on self-sustained values.

scholarly journals V. On the chemical analysis of the contents of the thoracic duct the human sub­ject

1842 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 81-85 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Thoracic Duct ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
The Body ◽  
Old Bailey ◽  
The Subject

The contents of the thoracic duct in the human subject having never been obtained in sufficient quantity for the purposes of chemical analysis, I resolved to avail myself of an opportunity which lately presented itself in the execution of a criminal at the Old Bailey. Through the kindness of Messrs. Macmurdo and Holding, the medical officers of Newgate, and with the assistance of my friends Mr. Hilton and Mr. Samuel Lane, I was enabled to commence operating upon the body one hour and a quarter after death, and before it had become cold, although the thermometer stood considerably below 32° Fahr., and the body had been exposed on the scaffold during one hour. The subject was muscular and of the middle height, and the prisoner had not become emaciated during his confinement in jail. On the evening preceding his execution, he had partaken of some supper, consisting of about 2 oz. of bread and 4 oz. of meat; and the next morning, he drank two cups of tea, and ate a piece of toast made from the quarter of a round of a quartern loaf, and about a quarter of an inch in thick­ness. This breakfast was taken at seven o’clock A. M., one hour before death. He swallowed a glass of wine just before mounting the scaffold.

Understanding You and Your Interviewers

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Watkin ◽  
Andrew Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Interview Situation ◽  
The Subject

This chapter seeks to demystify the complex area of human behaviour and motivation in a manner that makes it not only accessible but also useful to someone facing an interview situation. Far from being filled with complex, interrelated behavioural constructs, we have simplified a genuinely complex area sufficiently to allow practical application in the form of conscious competence. A thorough understanding of what makes people tick is a significant competitive advantage in an interview. This section is in sufficient depth to give you the edge, but if you would like to understand more about behaviour, difference and influencing, then we’d strongly recommend attending a good course on the subject. It will benefit your interview and indeed the rest of your working life. . . . Can and should we consider ‘classifying’ individuals? . . . Some might consider that delving into human psychology in interviews represents a risky departure from the factual and predictable into a less ‘tangible’ field. We see it differently. An otherwise good candidate who ignores interpersonal difference at interview runs the risk of being inadvertently declined, not because he/she is not worthy of appointment but because he/she is simply a poor behavioural match to the decision makers. It is vital that we appreciate the decision to appoint is as much an emotional one as a logical one, however much we would like to kid ourselves otherwise. Interviewers hold a mandate to assess candidates for ‘fit’ to the department they will join. After all, you may well work with your new colleagues for many years and those years could seem long for everyone if the fit is not good. Fit is very much an emotional judgement, rather than an objectively detached one. Whereas many inputs will form the ultimate decision to appoint or not, likely fit with fellow department members will be an important consideration, with roots firmly in ‘gut feeling’ rather than rational assessment. What is important is that you adopt a simple and easily manageable framework for behaviour that allows you to adequately and smoothly adapt your approach with confidence.

Endovenous Management of Varicose Veins

Angiology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 388-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amjad Belramman ◽  
Roshan Bootun ◽  
Tristan R. A. Lane ◽  
Alun H. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Ablation ◽  
Varicose Veins ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Superficial Vein ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Endovenous Treatment ◽  
Treatment Profile

Varicose veins are a very common condition and have been the subject of a recent proliferation of treatment modalities. The advent of the endovenous treatment era has led to a confusing array of different techniques that can be daunting when making the transition from traditional surgery. All modalities offer excellent results in the right situation, and each has its own treatment profile. Thermal ablation techniques have matured and have a reassuring and reliable outcome, but the arrival of nonthermal techniques has delivered further options for both patient and surgeon. This article provides an overview of the different treatment devices and modalities available to the modern superficial vein surgeon and details the currently available evidence and summation analysis to help surgeons to make an appropriate treatment choice for their patients.

Political ecology III: Who are ‘the people’?

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 981-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Loftus
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject

Since its inception, political ecology has marshalled a variety of different understandings of the human subject. Confronted with the challenges of authoritarian populism, as well as the provocations of the Anthropocene, being explicit about such conceptualisations is increasingly necessary. In this third report, I review recent conceptualisations of the subject, beginning with how ‘the people’ have been invoked in authoritarian populist discourses. I then contrast such a perspective with the situated social subjects of everyday political ecology before considering the challenges posed to notions of a sovereign human subject. I conclude with a discussion of political ecological persons in praxis.

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