Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual among Former White Supremacists

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 1167-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pete Simi ◽  
Kathleen Blee ◽  
Matthew DeMichele ◽  
Steven Windisch
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Sociology ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
White Supremacists ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Desire To Change

The process of leaving deeply meaningful and embodied identities can be experienced as a struggle against addiction, with continuing cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses that are involuntary, unwanted, and triggered by environmental factors. Using data derived from a unique set of in-depth life history interviews with 89 former U.S. white supremacists, as well as theories derived from recent advances in cognitive sociology, we examine how a rejected identity can persist despite a desire to change. Disengagement from white supremacy is characterized by substantial lingering effects that subjects describe as addiction. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of identity residual for understanding how people leave and for theories of the self.

Social Mindscapes and the Self

2019 ◽  
pp. 387-402
Author(s):  
Jamie L. Mullaney
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Sociology ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Culture And Cognition ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
The Relationship

While the relationship between culture and cognition has long-standing roots in sociological thought, scholars face the issue regarding how to “do” cognitive sociology. This chapter discusses the methodological approach of social pattern analysis (SPA) from Zerubavel’s social mindscapes tradition or culturalist cognitive sociology (SM/CCS), which encourages researchers to move away from content-driven inquiries toward those that explore processes across time, context, and even disciplinary boundaries. Using the specific example of virginity studies, the chapter then demonstrates how the flexible nature of SPA may serve as an asset in understanding generic identity processes more broadly.

scholarly journals Measuring Historical Urban Neighborhood Sustainability: America’s Grand Avenues

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1358
Author(s):  
Michael R. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
The Us ◽  
Education Medical ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Us Cities

From 1850 through approximately 1920, wealthy entrepreneurs and elected officials created “grand avenues” lined by mansions in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, and other developing US cities. This paper examines the birthplaces of grand avenues to determine whether they have remained sustainable as magnets for healthy and wealthy people. Using data from the US EPA’s EJSCREEN system and the CDC’s 500 cities study across 11 cities, the research finds that almost every place where a grand avenue began has healthier and wealthier people than their host cities. Ward Parkway in Kansas City and New York’s Fifth Avenue have continued to be grand. Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C., Richmond’s Monument Avenue, St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, and Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard are national and regional symbols of political power, culture and entertainment, leading to sustainable urban grand avenues, albeit several are challenged by their identification with white supremacy. Among Midwest industrial cities, Chicago’s Prairie Avenue birthplace has been the most successful, whereas the grand avenues of St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, and Buffalo have struggled, trying to use higher education, medical care, and entertainment to try to rebirth their once pre-eminent roles in their cities.

Narrative constructions and the life history issue in brain–emotions relations

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
Zsolt Unoka ◽  
Eszter Berán ◽  
Csaba Pléh
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotion Development ◽  
Constructivist View ◽  
Pathological Conditions ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
Contextual Dependency

AbstractEmotional reactions are rather flexible, due to the schema-like organization of complex socio-emotional situations. Some data on emotion development, and on certain pathological conditions such as alexithymia, give further support for the psychological constructivist view put forward by Lindquist et al. Narrative organization is a key component of this schematic organization. The self-related nature of narrative organization provides scaffolding to the contextual dependency of emotions.

‘This is not who we are’: Gendered bordering practices, ontological insecurity, and lines of continuity under the Trump presidency

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Christine Agius
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
The Us ◽  
Democratic Nation ◽  
Gender Lens ◽  
Policies And Practices

Abstract The Trump presidency ushered in a heightened sense of ontological insecurity in the US, based on a national self-narrative that portrayed an emasculated America. Trump promised a return the US to primacy by pursuing policies and practices that focused on border protection, militarisation, and the vilification of external others, while amplifying racial tensions within the country. From caging immigrant children at the border, to an enabling of white supremacy and the Capitol riots, Trump's presidency was broadly seen as aberration in the self-narrative of America as a tolerant, democratic nation. In this article, I am interested in how gendered bordering practices inform ontological (in)security in Trump's narrative of the nation, domestic and external policy, and discourses. While Trump's electoral loss to Biden in 2020 has been described as a ‘return to normal’, this article instead considers how Trump's presidency exhibited lines of continuity when examined through a gender lens. Understanding how masculinism informs ideas of ontological security reveals how notions of gendered bordering, hierarchy, and ordering have been persistent threads in US politics, rather than simply an anomaly under Trump. This suggests greater potential to read ontological security in more complex terms through gendered bordering practices.

Autobiographical Memory and the Self-Concept

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-212
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Grilli ◽  
Lee Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Core Self ◽  
Insight Into

Autobiographical memory plays a central role in one’s conceptualization of the self. It does so not only by storing the content of one’s life history, but also by providing the memories that are used to construct who we are and what we hope to become. Based on theories and evidence from cognitive neuroscience, the authors of this chapter discuss the contents and organization of autobiographical memory and the neural mechanisms that support the retrieval of autobiographical memories. They also cover core self-related functions served by this type of memory. The chapter closes by considering how the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory and its self-related functions can provide insight into mechanisms of enduring change.

scholarly journals Chemical toolbox for ‘live’ biochemistry to understand enzymatic functions in living systems

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Komatsu ◽  
Yasuteru Urano
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Protein Interactions ◽  
Posttranslational Modifications ◽  
Live Cell ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Protein Protein Interactions ◽  
Redox States ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Protein Functions ◽  
Research Tools

Abstract In this review, we present an overview of the recent advances in chemical toolboxes that are used to provide insights into ‘live’ protein functions in living systems. Protein functions are mediated by various factors inside of cells, such as protein−protein interactions, posttranslational modifications, and they are also subject to environmental factors such as pH, redox states and crowding conditions. Obtaining a true understanding of protein functions in living systems is therefore a considerably difficult task. Recent advances in research tools have allowed us to consider ‘live’ biochemistry as a valid approach to precisely understand how proteins function in a live cell context.

scholarly journals Variability of pikeperch Sander lucioperca (L. 1758) cohorts in early life history

2019 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Petr Blabolil ◽  
Martin Čech ◽  
Tomáš Jůza ◽  
Jiří Peterka
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Early Life History ◽  
Zooplankton Abundance ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Sander Lucioperca ◽  
Fish Cohort ◽  
Slow Growing ◽  
Study Development

Year to year fluctuations in 0+ fish cohort strength are a common phenomenon. Many factors can affect cohort strength during the fish's early life period. In this study, development of a 0+ pikeperch Sander lucioperca cohort in the pelagic zone was studied by trawling for 50 days from first larvae hatching, in two consecutive years. In 2007, an abundant S. lucioperca cohort collapsed suddenly soon after hatching. After the incident, slow-growing S. lucioperca prevailed in the catch. In 2008, the catch gradually increased during the whole study period because of prolonged hatching. Environmental factors differed mainly in a slower temperature increase, higher water level and higher zooplankton abundance in 2008 compared to 2007. Our study revealed that a strong 0+ S. lucioperca cohort at the time of hatching might not result in a strong S. lucioperca cohort in general.

scholarly journals The association of cellulitis incidence and meteorological factors in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren-Jun Hsu ◽  
Chia-Cheng Chou ◽  
Jui-Ming Liu ◽  
See-Tong Pang ◽  
Chien-Yu Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Meteorological Factors ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Total Rainfall ◽  
The Public ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Central Weather Bureau

AbstractCellulitis is a common infection of the skin and soft tissue. Susceptibility to cellulitis is related to microorganism virulence, the host immunity status and environmental factors. This retrospective study from 2001 to 2013 investigated relationships between the monthly incidence rate of cellulitis and meteorological factors using data from the Taiwanese Health Insurance Dataset and the Taiwanese Central Weather Bureau. Meteorological data included temperature, hours of sunshine, relative humidity, total rainfall and total number of rainy days. In otal, 195 841 patients were diagnosed with cellulitis and the incidence rate was strongly correlated with temperature (γS = 0.84, P < 0.001), total sunshine hours (γS = 0.65, P < 0.001) and total rainfall (γS = 0.53, P < 0.001). The incidence rate of cellulitis increased by 3.47/100 000 cases for every 1° elevation in environmental temperature. Our results may assist clinicians in educating the public of the increased risk of cellulitis during warm seasons and possible predisposing environmental factors for infection.

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