Master Identity Research Articles

Self‐Structure, Identity, and Commitment: Promise Keepers’ Godly Man Project

We address current debates related to identity theory and the organization of the self by examining how a sample of men involved in the Promise Keepers movement construct, maintain, and organize their identities. Our qualitative analysis shows that these men have undertaken a continuous project of gender identity work to become godly men. We find that the Promise Keepers movement provides these men with both the ideological and the organizational resources that enable them to sustain their godly man identity. This “master identity” becomes enmeshed with other identities and is used to modify and reorganize those identities, restricting potential identity conflicts. The result is a relatively harmonious self structure. More generally, we identify several criteria for defining the master identity concept and highlight its potential for advancing identity theory.

Dimensionally dependent tensor identities by double antisymmetrization

Some years ago, Lovelock showed that a number of apparently unrelated familiar tensor identities had a common structure, and could all be considered consequences in n-dimensional space of a pair of fundamental identities involving trace-free (p,p)-forms where 2p⩾n. We generalize Lovelock’s results, and by using the fact that associated with any tensor in n-dimensional space there is associated a fundamental tensor identity obtained by antisymmetrizing over n+1 indices, we establish a very general “master” identity for all trace-free (k,l)-forms. We then show how various other special identities are direct and simple consequences of this master identity; in particular we give direct application to Maxwell, Lanczos, Ricci, Bel, and Bel-Robinson tensors, and also demonstrate how relationships between scalar invariants of the Riemann tensor can be investigated in a systematic manner.

Multibraces on the Hochschild space

We generalize the coupled braces { x}{ y} of Gerstenhaber and { x}{ y 1,…, y n } of Gerstenhaber and Getzler depicting compositions of multilinear maps in the Hochschild space C •( A)=Hom( T • A; A) of a graded vector space A to expressions of the form { x 1 (1),…, x i 1 (1)}⋯{ x 1 ( m) ,…, x i m ( m) } on the extended space C •,•( A)=Hom( T • A; T • A). We apply multibraces to study associative and Lie algebras, Batalin–Vilkovisky algebras, and A ∞ and L ∞ algebras: most importantly, we introduce a new variant of the master identity for L ∞ algebras in the form { m ̃ ∘ m ̃ } {sa 1} {sa 2}⋯{sa n}=0 . Using the new language, we also explain the significance of this notation for bialgebras (coassociativity is simply Δ∘ Δ=0), comment on the bialgebra cohomology differential of Gerstenhaber and Schack, and define multilinear higher-order differential operators with respect to multilinear maps.

Beyond the Master Letters: A Computerized Word Content Analysis of Emily Dickinson Correspondence with Samuel Bowles and Susan Gilbert

Much of the personal life of one of America's greatest poets, Emily Dick inson, remains shrouded in mystery. She was relatively unknown during her lifetime, spending most of her adult years voluntarily confined to her father's house in Amherst, Massachusetts. Following her death, almost 1,800 poems, as well as drafts of correspondence she had maintained with friends and relatives, were discovered in her room. They are the principal source materials for her biographers. Among these letters were three drafts addressed between 1858 and 1863 to an unknown recipient, with the salutation Dear Master. Dickinson biographers have generally agreed that these so-called Master Letters were part of a larger correspondence describing different stages of an intense emo tional experience: the story of a deeply frustrating love relationship, full of passion and anguish over separation and lack of response from the other person.1 The importance of these letters, scholars agree, lies in their unique emotional style, signaling the beginning of Dickinson's most creative peri od as a poet, perhaps even first igniting her poetic imagination and enor mous creative powers. Indeed, biographer Cynthia Griffin Wolff notes that when Dickinson tries to give form to her feelings in the three Master Let ters, the language of poetry floods into the prose and overtakes ordinary epistolary style (406—412). Because of this connection with the emergence of her creativity, the identity of Master has been a matter of much speculation and sharp dis agreement among Dickinson scholars. Several important figures in her life

A Master Identity for Homotopy Gerstenhaber Algebras

We produce a master identity for a certain type of homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras, in particular suitable for the prototype, namely the Hochschild complex of an associative algebra. This algebraic master identity was inspired by the work of Getzler–Jones and Kimura–Voronov–Zuckerman in the context of topological conformal field theories. To this end, we introduce the notion of a “partitioned multilinear map” and explain the mechanics of composing such maps. In addition, many new examples of pre-Lie algebras and homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras are given.

Loving Paradoxes: A Feminist Reclamation of the Goddess Kali

The feminist significance of the Goddess Kali lies in an indigenous worshipful attitude of “Kali-bhakti” rather than in the mere image of the Goddess. The peculiar mother-child motif at the core of the poet Ramprasad Sen's Kali-bhakti represents, I argue, not only a dramatic reconstruction of femininity but of selfhood in general. The spiritual goal of a devotee here involves a deconstruction of “master identity” necessary also for ethico-political struggles for justice.

An exterior product identity for Schur functions

Let A be a matrix in Mat n ( k), where k is a commutative ring. Let Λ n Mat n ( k) be the nth exterior power of Mat n ( k) as an n 2-dimensional free k-module. We present a coordinate-free characterisation of the Schur functions of (eigenvalues of) A, s λ ( A), with λ = ( λ 1,…, λ n ) ϵ Z n : A λ 1 + n − 1 Λ … Λ A λ n + n − n = s λ ( A) A n − 1 Λ … Λ A Λ I. This becomes the usual definition of the Schur functions when A = diag( x 1,…, x n ). A coordinate version of this identity was found earlier by A. Kilikauskas. We show how the “master identity” above may be used to derive new identities, and simplify the proofs of old identities involving Schur functions and linear recurrent sequences. We also discuss its place in algebra and Lie theory.

Integration into professional nursing by graduates of an innovative entry-level MSN program.

Recently, nursing programs that admit nonnurse college graduates to graduate study in nursing have emerged around the country. The University of Texas at Austin has such a program called the Alternate Entry Master of Science in Nursing (AEMSN) program. Using a grounded theory approach, 13 telephone interviews were conducted with alumni of the AEMSN program to examine the socialization of these nontraditional graduates into the profession of nursing. Participants reported some anxiety as they approached graduation. They were particularly aware of a disconnection between their academic credentials and their limited professional nursing experience. To manage others' and their own expectations of them, the participants chose various strategies, such as using positive self-talk and seeking a manager who understood and favored the AEMSN program. Eventually the graduates found places where they felt comfortable and where they could hone their skills. As they began to function in roles that they believed were consistent with master's level nursing, the AEMSN graduates began to embrace the identity of master's-prepared nurses.

Three Perspectives on Induction and a Normative Order for Physical Education

In the dominant perspective, induction occurs in schools after teachers have been employed, and induction programs provide systematic and planned assistance to beginning teachers. In a second perspective, induction is a two-stage process, beginning in preservice education and ending in the workplace, with the intent of developing each teacher's master identity. A third perspective on induction accommodates the contributions of the first two. It differs in viewing induction as a three-stage process. Induction requires the mastery and internalization of an occupational culture, some of which is organization specific. An essential part of this culture is an identifiable, integrated set of professional norms that guide work practices.

On Conversation: The Conversation Analytic Perspective

Conversation is an interactional activity exhibiting stable, orderly properties that are the analyzable achievements of the conversants. Conversational analysis is a set of qualitative procedures based on detailed observation to capture the discernible features of conversational exchange. This article discusses the underlying principles of these procedures and considers the nature of conversations governed by institutional membership and master identities.

Puritanism and Science: A Reinterpretation

Compared to the rather large corpus of modern writing on puritan political and socio-economic opinions, very little has reached print concerning early-seventeenth-century puritan views on the intellect and the proper uses of reason. Much of what does exist is concerned primarily with the question of a connexion between puritanism and the ‘rise of science’ or the development of a learned mentality more interested in discovery than in repetition. Debate over the connexion has centred on the role of puritanism as a catalytic philosophy which drove men to cast off the bonds of ancient (classical) wisdom and search God's handiwork for further clues to the identity of the Master himself and his providence for the world. Most argument has relied on parading puritans who were, or were not, supporters of scientific endeavour. The evidence has, in the main, been highly selective. There has been very little consideration of the intellectual background of puritanism as a school of thought. Most of the evidence, too, has been taken from the years of the Revolution, when the meaning of the term ‘puritan’ was very different from what it had been eighty, or even thirty, years earlier. This article seeks to correct both these problems of methodology and interpretation by considering puritanism as a set of ideas which could lead to but one intellectual conclusion. It is the contention here that the argument that puritanism offered incentive and support to the ‘new learning’ cannot be supported from the evidence drawn from an examination of early-seventeenth-century puritan writers.

Twenty-Four Master Identities

Twenty-Four Master Identities