Rejection Of Authority Research Articles

Идеи гуманизма в европейской и иранской культурных традициях (на примере иранского кинематографа)

Cinema as a means of communication does not have sufficient direct interactivity, bright audiovisual means of cinema have a suggestive effect on the viewer, making cinema an influential means of promoting ideas and values. Postmodern culture is characterized by the rejection of authority, the denial of cultural norms and traditions. The problem of preserving traditional spiritual and moral values becomes relevant in the context of the global civilizational crisis. The article deals with insufficiently studied issues of the embodiment and evolution of the idea of humanism in the European and Iranian cultural traditions. It is shown that the Islamic concept of humanism, humanity is based on religiosity. The content and value aspects of the movies of the leading directors of modern Iranian cinema (M. Majidi, A. Farhadi, R. Mirkarimi) are analyzed in this context. The connection between the state policy in the field of culture and the vector direction in the development of Iranian cinematography, which is the dissemination of ideas and values of humanism, is traced. The article may be of interest to researchers of the history of cinema, culturologists, managers in the field of culture.

“Trust No One But Yourself”: William Gilbert’s Use of Experiment and Rejection of Authority, Reconsidered

Abstract One of the most important components of early modern science was the experiment. Advocates of the “new sciences” used experiments as indisputable evidence in controversies with their opponents and as powerful arguments against authoritative texts. Among the first early modern scientific works to systematically and successfully use experiments as parts of the central argumentation is William Gilbert’s treatise De magnete (1600), in which the author sought to present a completely new theory of magnetism as an explanation of phenomena on earth as well as of the movements of heavenly bodies. Gilbert goes to great lengths to persuade his readers of the innovation of his nova et inaudita physiologia. For this, however, it did not suffice to present a startling number of experiments and advocate empirical investigation. This contribution will shed light on the surprising literary and rhetorical tools employed in the De magnete in questions of authority, which aided Gilbert in presenting his powerful and highly successful “New Physiology.”

Motivations for adolescent offending and truancy from school: retrospective interviews with adults recently released from a custodial prison sentence in England

This qualitative study considers the development of adolescent offending and examines a range of potential causes rooted in the issues of truancy, peer pressure, and educational and parental disengagement. Ten adult offenders recently released from prison were accessed through a probation service in the North West of England. Participants (M age = 35.2, S.D = 8.51) were interviewed about the indictable offences that they perpetrated between the ages of 12–16. Thematic analysis uncovered several key themes related to substance misuse and broader enjoyment of risk-taking behaviours, financial gain and the desire to develop a recognised criminal status, alongside fear and rejection of authority. In general, educational disengagement led to stronger associations with anti-social peers from whom acceptance was sought and offending identities were constructed around. Longer-term consequences of time spent with anti-social peers included substance abuse, more serious criminality, and increased risk-taking behaviour. The implications of the findings are discussed in the context of early interventions.

К вопросу о психологических особенностях развития личности актера: опыт типологического анализа

We present the results of the study of the actors’ personality development psychological characteristics. It was hypothesized that the analysis of the similarities between individual profiles of student-actors can reveal personal typological features at the stage of selection and training in theatrical college. Sample: students of the theatre college, 129 students at the beginning and 117 — at the end of the 1st year, 64 — second year, 54 — third year, and 41 — fourth year students. Methods: R. Cattell’s 16 Personality Factors Test. Results: we identified personal characteristics that manifested themselves at the stage of admission to college and inhibited successful professional development: rejection of authorities, desire to dominate, refusal to cooperate and work together. Cluster analysis revealed four personal types of student-actors related to theatrical roles. The following strategies of pedagogical influence manifested in the process of work with college students: individualization of training, transfer of professional knowledge through senior students. Conclusions: the study proved the efficiency and feasibility of using the method of cluster analysis and typological approach in the study of acting talent.

MALEFICENT: REIMAGINING “THE SLEEPING BEAUTY” WITH A POST-MODERNIST PERSPECTIVE

The goal of the present project is to highlight the postmodernist perspective of the fairy tale themes in the movie Maleficent (2014) through Intertextuality. The present study aims to highlight the rejection of authority by the Contemporary American Fairy Tale movie makers. Postmodernism is an era where “Meta-Narratives” are challenged and everything is being observed through a lens different from the past. Movie creators of postmodern era have reinterpreted the original fairy tales in ways that fit contemporary norms and circumstances. Movie creators represent the old texts of fairy tales but have changed the title, plot and role of characters, e.g. in Maleficent , the antagonist of “Sleeping Beauty” now owns the title of the story, and she also shares her part of the s tory , which was previously unknown. The researcher used the eight elements that Kevin Paul Smith has mentioned in his book Post Modern Fairy tales, Folk Loric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction . The fifth element particularly, i.e. “revision”, makes the claim of the researcher valid that Postmodernists have rejected totality and grand narratives, they have opened new dimensions to the old stories. The story here is given a new spin and the changes made in the story of “Sleeping Beauty” are according to the norms of today, e.g. the women in the movie i.e. “Aurora”, the Princess and Maleficent the Witch are given a prominent position and a voice to speak their point of view, previously they were known through the eyes of other characters only. These results show a change in perspectives and in the way things are now being looked at. Fairy tales are the movies that are easily accessible to our children, further study on this theme can help understand the society of today, the postmodernist society.

"I Believe in Nothing If Not in Action": African American Humanism and (Embodied) Agency

This article explores African American humanism and reflects on its relationship with Enlightenment humanism, anti-, and posthumanism. It regards African American humanism as an alternative to these philosophies based on an analysis of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and explores how the novel conceptualizes agency. It does so in focusing on three elements: (1) the rejection of authorities, (2) (dis)embodiment, and (3) relationality and concrete action.

Use of complementary and alternative medicine and self-tests by coronary heart disease patients

BackgroundCoronary heart disease patients have to learn to manage their condition to maximise quality of life and prevent recurrence or deterioration. They may develop their own informal methods of self-management in addition to the advice they receive as part of formal cardiac rehabilitation programmes. This study aimed to explore the use of complementary and alternative medicines and therapies (CAM), self-test kits and attitudes towards health of UK patients one year after referral to cardiac rehabilitation.MethodQuestionnaire given to 463 patients attending an assessment clinic for 12 month follow up in four West Midlands hospitals.Results91.1% completed a questionnaire. 29.1% of patients used CAM and/or self-test kits for self-management but few (8.9%) used both methods. CAM was more often used for treating other illnesses than for CHD management. Self-test kit use (77.2%,) was more common than CAM (31.7%,) with BP monitors being the most prevalent (80.0%). Patients obtained self-test kits from a wide range of sources, for the most part (89.5%) purchased entirely on their own initiative. Predictors of self-management were post revascularisation status and higher scores on 'holism', 'rejection of authority' and 'individual responsibility'. Predictors of self-test kit use were higher 'holism' and 'individual responsibility' scores.ConclusionPatients are independently using new technologies to monitor their cardiovascular health, a role formerly carried out only by healthcare practitioners. Post-rehabilitation patients reported using CAM for self-management less frequently than they reported using self-test kits. Reports of CAM use were less frequent than in previous surveys of similar patient groups. Automatic assumptions cannot be made by clinicians about which CHD patients are most likely to self-manage. In order to increase trust and compliance it is important for doctors to encourage all CHD patients to disclose their self-management practices and to continue to address this in follow up consultations.

Mary Frith at the Fortune

Much ink has been spilt on the significance of the representation of gender and gender politics in The Roaring Girl (1611), Middleton and Dekker’s play about Mary Frith, a figure well known to playgoers at the Fortune playhouse and beyond. Yet scholars have paid surprisingly little attention to the evidence that Frith herself attended, and participated in, the Prince Henry’s Men play. Whatever the nature of this ‘role’ (if it was such), arguably it is central to the issues critics have aired, and raises important questions about the play’s reception in 1611. This essay examines the surviving evidence of this tantalisingly suggestive episode, speculates about its precise circumstances, and explores its implications for our understanding of The Roaring Girl in performance. It will be proposed that whatever textual strategies the playwrights used in the quarto published in 1611 to account for Frith’s appearance, Frith was unlikely to have been a wholly comfortable collaborator. Indeed, to those well-documented accounts of Frith’s rejection of authority may be added this intervention at the Fortune, which represents a specific act of resistance to the playhouse’s attempt to contain and redefine her. Thus it is Mary Frith, rather than the actor playing ‘Moll Cutpurse’, who, in taking to the stage, plays out current critical concerns.

Patient recruitment in paediatric clinical trials

Trials in young people with diabetes are commonly perceived to be problematic because of participants' rejection of authority and issues with adherence. Attitudes were examined in patients aged 6–17 years (from the UK and Ireland) who had participated in a trial comparing insulin detemir (Levemir, Novo Nordisk, Denmark) with NPH in a multi-injection therapy for type 1 diabetes. Most patients needed to increase injection frequency (by at least one per day — usually at lunchtime, often at school), clinic attendance and glucose monitoring, and make multiple diary entries. A bespoke, 23-item, child-friendly questionnaire, which gave patients the option to remain anonymous to encourage honesty, was distributed to 44 patients. Of these, 36 completed the questionnaire: 58% aged 12–14, 25% aged 15–17, and 17% aged 6–11 years. The most popular reasons for trial entry were desire to improve glycaemic control (30%), ‘interesting prospect’ (21%) and a desire to help others (19%). Only 9% entered because of parental persuasion; 86% scored increased injection frequency and frequent visits positively, and 81% reported that they would participate in another trial if asked. Notwithstanding the possible self-selecting nature of this small cohort, experience of trial involvement was positive, implying that patients of all ages can be motivated to participate in trials to learn and help others, and they appreciate the inclusion of new technology, information supplied and additional support given by site staff. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Gender and Predisposing Attributes as Predictors of Smoking Onset: Implications for Theory and Practice

Abstract The typically modest and short-lived outcomes for social influences smoking prevention programs might improve if programs were tailored to needs of high-risk youth. Longitudinal data from the Waterloo Smoking Prevention Project, Study 3 (WSPP3), were used to study degree of risk for the transition from nonsmoking to smoking during three transition periods: grade six to seven, seven to eight, and eight to nine, as a function of gender, predisposing attributes, and participation in a social influences program. Four dispositional factors were studied: rebelliousness, rejection of adult authority, personal dissatisfaction, and peer approval. Annual survey data from 3,566 youth were used in a proportional hazards model survival analysis to determine relative risk. All four dispositions significantly predicted transition for females, but only rebelliousness and rejection of authority did so for males. The degree of increased dispositional risk was consistently greater for females. Social influences pro...

Violence and the Rejection of Authority in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Case of the Swabian Mutinies in 1757

Violence and the Rejection of Authority in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Case of the Swabian Mutinies in 1757

Violence and the Rejection of Authority in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Case of the Swabian Mutinies in 1757

Violence and the Rejection of Authority in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Case of the Swabian Mutinies in 1757

Practising what we preach: Teaching teachers about self-directed learning through the integrated use of self-access environments in the teacher training course

The author suggests that many teacher training courses merely encourage lip-service to methodological developments because they fail to provide participants with an opportunity to actually experience the methodology—to see it from the inside as it were. By failing to practise what we preach we may be sending a different ‘message’ from the one we think we are sending. The paper illustrates one way of setting up and running a self-access centre, by describing a specific situation, and contains examples of some of the materials used. “Teachers, like parents, need to find a way of fostering independence, but an independence based on the development of internalized criteria, not simply on the rejection of authority...” (Allwright 1978).

Hospital cadet schemes—a study In the Manchester region

BRITAIN is in revolt. Everybody who would be somebody must join a movement of protest. The most popular television programme yet mounted, in that it once attracted the greatest ever number of viewers, was a piece of undergraduate satire in which the juvenile lead, Master David Frost, became better knolvn than were either Napoleon or Al Capone at the same age; at a recent Convocation of Canterbury an eminent lay member has dismissed parts of the O ld Testament as “spiritual junk” and a Canon of the Church of England has described the 39 Articles of Religion as “fossilized” ; one bishop has written a best-selling book throwing doubt upon the existence of Almighty God Himself; Ihe Baptist Times went even further and suggested that it was time that the nation got rid of its Prime Minister. English soldiers known to foreign visitors by their red coats and bearskin headgear have, more than once in the last year, openly defied their officers and, what is more, on court martial, were not punished. There are some who regard this as an inevitable decay of English morals, particularly among the young; the Sunday Telegraph, a staunchly right-wing Conservative journal, in a recent leading article, suggested that the present British Government, Conservative for twelve years, may now be failing to give the moral leadership that the country expects. But in the writer’s view this explanation in terms of morality is too simple. The world is changing very rapidly, largely under the impact of science and technology, and values are changing, too. Technology introduces new possibilities for human freedom and the pompous authoritarianism of an ageing generation, that grandfather knows best, no longer convinces an infancy with one foot upon the threshold of the space age. Young people, as a university professor may be entitled to state, particularly resent the notion that their seniors know what is good for them; young people see themselves as threatened on all sides by the selfish follies of their parents, and will not take their moralising discourses as more than insult added to injury. However much the elders may deplore this, however much they may shake their heads over a youth that is morally corrupt, the simple fact is that young people everywhere are turning from the sermons of their elders with a sharp gesture of impatience. Their rejection of authority is not

Hospital cadet schemes—A study in the Manchester region

BRITAIN is in revolt. Everybody who would be somebody must join a movement of protest. The most popular television programme yet mounted, in that it once attracted the greatest ever number of viewers, was a piece of undergraduate satire in which the juvenile lead, Master David Frost, became better knolvn than were either Napoleon or Al Capone at the same age; at a recent Convocation of Canterbury an eminent lay member has dismissed parts of the O ld Testament as “spiritual junk” and a Canon of the Church of England has described the 39 Articles of Religion as “fossilized” ; one bishop has written a best-selling book throwing doubt upon the existence of Almighty God Himself; Ihe Baptist Times went even further and suggested that it was time that the nation got rid of its Prime Minister. English soldiers known to foreign visitors by their red coats and bearskin headgear have, more than once in the last year, openly defied their officers and, what is more, on court martial, were not punished. There are some who regard this as an inevitable decay of English morals, particularly among the young; the Sunday Telegraph, a staunchly right-wing Conservative journal, in a recent leading article, suggested that the present British Government, Conservative for twelve years, may now be failing to give the moral leadership that the country expects. But in the writer’s view this explanation in terms of morality is too simple. The world is changing very rapidly, largely under the impact of science and technology, and values are changing, too. Technology introduces new possibilities for human freedom and the pompous authoritarianism of an ageing generation, that grandfather knows best, no longer convinces an infancy with one foot upon the threshold of the space age. Young people, as a university professor may be entitled to state, particularly resent the notion that their seniors know what is good for them; young people see themselves as threatened on all sides by the selfish follies of their parents, and will not take their moralising discourses as more than insult added to injury. However much the elders may deplore this, however much they may shake their heads over a youth that is morally corrupt, the simple fact is that young people everywhere are turning from the sermons of their elders with a sharp gesture of impatience. Their rejection of authority is not

A Gold Medal for Delinquency

If delinquency can be thought of as, in part, the violent and unreasoning rejection of authority, then to some degree it is present in every society, democratic or dictatorial. Paradoxically, it may serve some purpose in democratic constitutional develop ment, although it could hardly be encouraged for this purpose. The failure to eradicate delinquency is more significant in a dictatorship than in a democracy. In the democratic community rejection is fragmental and carries few ideological implications. But to the degree that a dictatorial society is totalitarian, the rejection is one of society, of an ideological way of life. Soviet delinquents reject not only the transient authority that bothers them, but the very ideological taproots of communism as well. The authoritarian state possesses instruments of coercion that are hardly acceptable to a democracy. But in spite of the use of such instruments and, in the case of the Soviet Union, in the face of a generation of trial at remolding man to a Marxian image, the delinquent remains the unassimilated antisocial ele ment. The very existence of delinquency there is a measure of the failure of communist society to substitute its will for that of the individual and, in spite of its tragic details, remains a bulwark against totalitarianism.