Black Rage: The Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression

Integrating the story of a young Freud’s racial trauma with a novel application of the concept of moral injury has led to a realization and conceptual formulation during the pandemic uprisings of the mental construct of Black Rage as an adaptation to oppression trauma. As formulated here, Black Rage exists in a specific dynamic equilibrium as a compromise formation that is a functional adaptation for oppressed people of color who suffer racial trauma and racial degradation, an adaptation that can be mobilized for the purpose of defense or psychic growth. Black Rage operates as a mental construct in a way analogous to the topographical model, in which mental agencies carry psychic functions. The concept of Black Rage is crucial to constructing a theoretical framework for a psychology of oppression and transgenerational transmission of trauma. Additionally, in the psychoanalytic theory on oppression suggested here, a developmental line is formulated for the adaptive function of Black Rage in promoting resilience in the face of oppression trauma for marginalized people.

Model of process of processing rapid telemetrated parameters in real tim

The paper considers the generalized problem of processing telemetry data. The solution of this problem in real time is due to the requirement of the operational stage of processing telemetry information in the form of a report on the flight of rocket and space technology. At the operational stage, 10% of the total number of telemetry parameters is processed. The consequence is that the results obtained are insufficient for an operational and reliable analysis of the technical condition of on-Board systems of rocket and space technology. To eliminate the insufficiency, it is necessary to increase the completeness of the results of processing telemetry information. A conceptual formulation of the problem of processing rapidly changing telemetry parameters is formulated, taking into account the requirement to include rapidly changing parameters in the processing of telemetry information at the operational stage. A model of the processing rapidly changing parameters in real time is constructed, which is based on the method of discrete linear mathematical programming. Restrictions on processing time, processing nodes, and completeness of the processing result are defined. Taking into account the constraints, the Pareto optimal set of acceptable solutions is determined. A narrowing of the set of acceptable solutions based on the use of nonlinear partial quality indicators is described. Conclusions are made about the expected results of the decision, as well as about the course of further research.

The Cross in Spirituality

Spirituality may be based on an explicit conceptual theology; or it may be relatively unreflective on the conceptual level. It operates primarily not on the conceptual but on the aesthetic or imaginative level. It symbolically mediates and expresses a relation to God and to the world, and implies a certain intellectual (but not necessarily conceptual) formulation and certain modes of acting, both religious and secular. The traditional spirituality of the cross, involving appropriating Christ’s sacrifice and joining with his suffering, was strongly represented in a number of twentieth-century figures, including several stigmatics, people who showed the signs of Christ’s crucifixion on their bodies. At the same time, liberation theologies stress, solidarity with those who suffer “the cross” in our own times, and include a spirituality of social reform.

A Personal Salutation to a Dear Friend, Robert F. Lusch

This manuscript is a personal tribute to a dear friend, a leading marketing researcher, theorist, scholar and educator of our time, Robert F. Lusch. For many, professionalism, leadership, conceptual formulation and service define Bob’s career. But, for those who knew Bob well, these traits were an extension of his more private personal persona. I am among those colleagues who had a strong personal friendship with Bob for more than forty plus years. For us, Bob was supportive, loyal, caring, etc., but also adventurous, inquisitive and intellectually challenging. It is these traits that made him an intriguing and enduring friend. This is my reflection of a life-long friendship.

Disfluency patterns in the language production system

Within the language system, several of the language production levels may be involved in the production of disfluencies. Here, we conducted network task experiments to tackle disfluencies occurring during lexical selection, grammatical selection, and conceptual formulation. We showed that each difficulty induced a different pattern of disfluency. Additionally, multivariate pattern analyses demonstrated that difficulty is predictable from disfluency data patterns.

Class, Caste, and Social Stratification in India

Max Weber’s distinction between class and status, identifying caste as the latter, is the single most important influence on the mainstream sociology of caste. There is ambiguity in Weber’s conceptualization in the sense that the contrast between class and status is marked by precarity in the long run when stabilization of economic power serves as a condition for the predominance of status usurpations. This ambiguity remains unresolved in Weber’s conceptual formulation. Mainstream sociology of caste owing allegiance to Weber reifies the contrast between caste as status and class. In Weber, caste is part of global-historical enquiry. In mainstream sociology, caste is uniquely Indian. It is argued that a critical scrutiny separating the rational and historically verifiable from the irrational empirically-historically unverifiable elements in Weber’s conceptual and theoretical formulations will enrich the Weberian legacy. Similarly, historical, cross-cultural comparative study will liberate caste from the myth of Indian exceptionalism.

Development of Internal Audit

The internal audit service is not just a world trend, but an extreme necessity in the face of actively developing and more complicated economic relations. The purpose of this article is to identify the main problems of internal audit in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is argued that the notion of the correctness of internal audit provides conceptual tools for the study of internal audit as a disciplinary mechanism in the conditions of corporate governance of modern organizations. The article develops the initial conceptual formulation and internal audit, audits and controls to improve the rationality of economic activity and related control measures.

The role of internal auditing in corporate governance: a Foucauldian analysis

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to articulate the conceptual foundations of the role of internal auditing in corporate governance by drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a literature-based analysis of the role of internal auditing from a Foucauldian perspective. Findings It is argued that Foucault’s notion of governmentality provides conceptual tools for researching internal auditing as a disciplinary mechanism in the corporate governance setting of contemporary organizations. The paper develops an initial conceptual formulation of internal auditing as: ex post assurance about the execution of economic activities within management’s preconceived frameworks and ex ante advisory services to enhance the rationality of economic activities and accompanying controls. Research limitations/implications The paper is expected to initiate debate on the choice of theory and method in internal auditing research. The propositions and research agenda discussed can be used to address research questions of an interpretive nature that could enrich the current understanding of internal auditing. Originality/value This paper extends the Foucauldian analysis of accounting to incorporate internal auditing. It offers original propositions as a research agenda and discusses ontological and epistemic considerations associated with adopting the Foucauldian framework for internal auditing research.

Multicultural Education Practices at Religiously-Based Schools in Malang

This study began with an assumption that multicultural education model is practiced in schools in a very limited scope. Therefore, through the subject of PPKN (Civics Education) in schools, multicultural education can be developed. In addition, the school as a laboratory of diversity at the scope of educational institutions is an important medium in the discourse of multicultural education. As a conceptual formulation that was built through the 2013curriculum, the instructional model of Civics education-based on multiculturalism was found to be able to stimulate students’ character building in a more effective, quick and strategic manner. The school, in addition to being an important laboratory of diversity, should also provide multicultural instruction in Civics education with the materials that aid the vision of Civics education instruction with a content of multicultural education in a productive, creative, innovative, and affective way as well as having an effect on the students so as to contribute to the social, civic life and more importantly to the process of building the character and attitude of tolerance among students in schools. Through multicultural education in schools, students learn to accept and understand the cultural differences that affect the differences in usage (how people behave); folkways (habits in the community), mores (code of conduct in the community), and customs (tradition of a community). With multicultural education, learners will be able to accept differences, criticism, and have a sense of empathy, tolerance for others regardless of class, status, gender, ehnic, religion and academic skills.