Life throws everything at you bar the kitchen sink, then the kitchen sink is thrown at you as well. (Andre Agassi)httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXK0Iuqm8s
26 January 2012
Strength
The Hand the rocks the Cradle Rules the World
The Hand the rocks the Cradle Rules the World This is a common saying that I think everyone knows but really do not know the full import of the saying. Children enter the world with complete ignorance of the social complexities of world the parents live in. The child is an alien to the world we live in, and need to know the pitfalls before they fall into them. as the child grows the learning becomes challenging for the parents, as the parenting style will govern the socialization and moral code the child will live with. The child will not know what is maladaptive (bad) for them and what is beneficial (good) for them, all this is taught by the parents. The Hand the rocks the Cradle controles: - The types of shows they watch on TV
- The quality of friends the child has
- The values that the child has
- The principals that the child will take to the grave with them
- The morals that they act by
- The ethics that they base their decisions on
- The child will distinguish as Normal behaviour
- The type of education that the child gets
- The habits of the child
To those it may warrant to think its there concern or business..... The choices my children choose to make are totally their decisions. And as for MYSELF, their DAD & their STEP-MUM we strongly support their decision to be their own individuals & learn from their own knocks & falls.... WE ARE THEIR PARENTS AND DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT OPINION OTHERS MAY CHOOSE TOO HAVE .... TAKE YOUR OPINIONS AND PUT THEM TOO USE IN YOUR OWN AFFAIRS NOT OURS !!!!!!!Granted this is not an original concept by those that may have misinterpreted Benjamin Spock's method of parenting. Children need to guided, not let loos on the world without gudence. Thus everything you do as a parent will be reflected in the child. for you are the bench mark that the child judges the world around them.
24 January 2012
Ordinary world: In the Hero's Journey
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[/caption] This is the first step in the Hero's Journey and where we all start from. Just as I have heard somewhere, when the unusual becomes the usual it is accepted to be normal and part of the ordinary world we all live in. So, you have gone through the Hero's Journey just to create another ordinary world. Much like the journey I have take, I was once an Auctioneer and needed to change vocation, I took the hero's journey to go through University, now to be a Therapist, now therapy is my ordinary world. We all live in a maze of our own making, just like rats in a maze finding the cheese, we too have our own maze to fine our own cheese. If you like, get the town map out and mark out the routes you take every day. You are at home, then to work, to the shop, perhaps to the club, pub, bowling ally, then back home. The streets we travel are the habituated roads in the maze we stick to. Going to a new supermarket is out of the question unless they are cheaper or have something that others don't, that's why they fight with advertising for your dollar. In psychology when tackling clients that seeking change, the clients have what is known as a resistance to change, because it takes them out of their comfort zone. This is the same for every one, when dealing with a big change. This happens so often with people facing retirement, or a person that needs to change their life style because of medical reasons, depression is soon to follow. To read the entire Posting please pay $8.00 Via PayPay. Add to cart and then you will see the Shopping cart on the top of the Left hand Menu. Then I will email the password to you for the entire posting. [wp_cart:Ordinary world In the Hero's Journey:price:8.00:end] Baron, R. A., & Byrne, D. (2003). In Social psychology (10 ed.). USA: Pearson Education, Inc. Bessant, J. & Watts, R. (2002). Sociology Australia (2nd Ed.). Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest N.S.W., Australia. Elliott, R., & Engebretson, K. (2001). Chaos or clarity: encountering ethics (3rd ed.). (T. Macnaught, Ed.) Southbank Victoria: Social Science Press. Emmison, M. & Western, M. (1991). The structure of social identities. in J. Baxter et al. (Eds) Ch. 13, pp. 279-305. Groopman, J. (2007). How Doctors Think. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Scribe. Marshall, G. (1998). Oxford Dictionary of sociology. New York: Oxford university press. Williamson, C. M. (1993). The doctrine of the Church. In A guest in the house of Israel: Post-holocaust Church theology (pp. 233-265). Kentucky: Westminster/Joh Knox press: Louisville.
[/caption] This is the first step in the Hero's Journey and where we all start from. Just as I have heard somewhere, when the unusual becomes the usual it is accepted to be normal and part of the ordinary world we all live in. So, you have gone through the Hero's Journey just to create another ordinary world. Much like the journey I have take, I was once an Auctioneer and needed to change vocation, I took the hero's journey to go through University, now to be a Therapist, now therapy is my ordinary world. We all live in a maze of our own making, just like rats in a maze finding the cheese, we too have our own maze to fine our own cheese. If you like, get the town map out and mark out the routes you take every day. You are at home, then to work, to the shop, perhaps to the club, pub, bowling ally, then back home. The streets we travel are the habituated roads in the maze we stick to. Going to a new supermarket is out of the question unless they are cheaper or have something that others don't, that's why they fight with advertising for your dollar. In psychology when tackling clients that seeking change, the clients have what is known as a resistance to change, because it takes them out of their comfort zone. This is the same for every one, when dealing with a big change. This happens so often with people facing retirement, or a person that needs to change their life style because of medical reasons, depression is soon to follow. To read the entire Posting please pay $8.00 Via PayPay. Add to cart and then you will see the Shopping cart on the top of the Left hand Menu. Then I will email the password to you for the entire posting. [wp_cart:Ordinary world In the Hero's Journey:price:8.00:end] Baron, R. A., & Byrne, D. (2003). In Social psychology (10 ed.). USA: Pearson Education, Inc. Bessant, J. & Watts, R. (2002). Sociology Australia (2nd Ed.). Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest N.S.W., Australia. Elliott, R., & Engebretson, K. (2001). Chaos or clarity: encountering ethics (3rd ed.). (T. Macnaught, Ed.) Southbank Victoria: Social Science Press. Emmison, M. & Western, M. (1991). The structure of social identities. in J. Baxter et al. (Eds) Ch. 13, pp. 279-305. Groopman, J. (2007). How Doctors Think. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Scribe. Marshall, G. (1998). Oxford Dictionary of sociology. New York: Oxford university press. Williamson, C. M. (1993). The doctrine of the Church. In A guest in the house of Israel: Post-holocaust Church theology (pp. 233-265). Kentucky: Westminster/Joh Knox press: Louisville. Ordinary world: In the Hero's Journey
[caption id="attachment_1503" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Same old Grind"][/caption] This is the first step in the Hero's Journey and where we all start from. Just as I have heard somewhere, when the unusual becomes the usual it is accepted to be normal and part of the ordinary world we all live in. So, you have gone through the Hero's Journey just to create another ordinary world. Much like the journey I have take, I was once an Auctioneer and needed to change vocation, I took the hero's journey to go through University, now to be a Therapist, now therapy is my ordinary world. We all live in a maze of our own making, just like rats in a maze finding the cheese, we too have our own maze to fine our own cheese. If you like, get the town map out and mark out the routes you take every day. You are at home, then to work, to the shop, perhaps to the club, pub, bowling ally, then back home. The streets we travel are the habituated roads in the maze we stick to. Going to a new supermarket is out of the question unless they are cheaper or have something that others don't, that's why they fight with advertising for your dollar. In psychology when tackling clients that seeking change, the clients have what is known as a resistance to change, because it takes them out of their comfort zone. This is the same for every one, when dealing with a big change. This happens so often with people facing retirement, or a person that needs to change their life style because of medical reasons, depression is soon to follow. When I was an auctioneer, I identified my self as an auctioneer, and loved that profession. I know everything there is to know about being an auctioneer. I remember once I went to another auction house that used a computer system to do their paperwork during the auction. Well on that day I was there, their computer system crashed, all the staff were in a panic. As it turned out there were only two people in there that knew how to do the same thing as the computer, but by hand. I was one of the people that knew how to do it and one of the older staff on site. I have now been out of the auction game since 2001 and people still talk about the auction and want me to start the auction up again. In the city I live there is still no regular auctions being held. Well I left that business, went to University, got my degree, and it was not until I was acting as a therapist for 3 years that I stoped viewing my self as an auctioneer and started seeing my self as a therapist. Now that I am a therapist, I treat people with drug and alcohol addiction. These people have the self view and label themselves accordingly as Junkies, addicts, users, crack heads, piss pots, pot heads, and speed freaks. This is the same story as me identifying myself as a therapist and not as an auctioneer, but a lot harder. It is harder because the substances my clients use have a stronger affect on there chemical reliance, and the labels they call themselves gives them licence to act the way they do. Furthermore, think of the drug addict's life, they know everything there is to know about the drug and how to use it and where to get it from. They are connoisseurs of drugs knowing the quality, and what they are cut with. The drug addict are masters of the distribution chain and in evading the police, just as the Predator (Police) get smarter the Prey (Addict) get smarter in evasion. Then in the life of the addict, all their friends are addicts, their social life revolves around addiction. The criminal activity that is practiced is no different to a job. I was proud and still am proud of being a good, if not great auctioneer, this is no different for the addict. The addict has pride in their criminal activity and is a source of self esteem, also the better they get the more they will be known for their skills as a criminal. Before too long the best criminals become teachers of other criminals that want to be better. Now we are asking them to give this all up overnight if not earlier if possible, it's not going to happen. Just as I am still be asked to start another auction up, the addict will have people ask them to get back into the drug lifestyle. Self identity is what we do and how we label our self, in short self identity is in the being. Being in the ordinary world is where we are, but is it where we want to be? Can I escape the ordinary world? I want more out of life, but will it be more of the same? What is the road less travelled? And where is it? We will leave that for another chapter… Psychologists look at the ordinary world, describe it in detail, test it, and then look at each individual variable in it, measure it, and then change the variables a bit, not to change the ordinary world but to see if people respond for the better or worse. And the best payed psychologists help companies get the most amount of money out of the people. I heard that psychologists designed the chairs in a big fast food chain so that they are just the right amount of uncomfortable so customers do not stay in the shop and linger. The customer eats and leaves, just to come back again. The ordinary world is not out there, it is in the last place you would look, inside your self. In the ordinary world we all use judgment calls on all types of issues and when labelling behaviour of others and our selves. These are often moral judgments we use to describe behaviour, such as calling ones self or others judgment based labels. You will find the many label them selves and others by what you or others do. I worked as an Auctioneer for a large chunk of my working life and that is where I put my energy and thus I labelled my self as an auctioneer for a long time after I stoped being an auctioneer. Now I work with people with addiction and I find that these people do the same, they label themselves accordingly with highly judgmental labels, such as junkies, pot-heads, addicts, rehab hoppers, and users. So to they think that they are good for nothing ells than the labels that they have put on them selves. You may find the same, you label your self around your job, profession, possession, or what ever you place all your energy into. These are value judgments that we think are fixed based on our ethical mind set. For judgment calls like this to become an ethical issue, these judgments need to have two or more different opinions and have debatable terms set on them, such at good and bad, right and wrong, worthy and unworthy (Elliott & Engebretson, 2001, p. 17). Many labels have a stigma about them that also brings about a status of worth, labels that set a persons status in society. You will find that stigma has had and for many still have a great impact on their life. Just think of a person that has a physical or mental disability, that try to have a life of worth, but the stigma or labels others place on them stop them from getting ahead. Like wise job labels have been changed to builds the esteem of the workers. Jobs such as the garbage men have been changed to sanitation workers to place greater importance on the job and to build esteem in the workers. In the ordinary world we stick to the labels that know, and act according to those labels because they the labels are like security blankets that we hang onto. This is called by several names in different professions, thus some call it perceptual inertia, while call it mind trap. Either we find a label through out job or through the family that we grow up in and find it extremely difficult to escape that label or too comfortable being in that label. Likewise we do the things that that label dictates so well that we are scared to do anything ells or think we are incapable of doing anything ells. It is here in the ordinary world that we may want to change what we do or grow in our selves but to fearful doing so. Furthermore we may think that the skills we have are not transferable to other careers. All constructions of our-selves are defined by language, this is extensively discussed by Marshall (1998. p.294) and further suggests that it is our primary form of communication. With symbolic guttural utterances also known as 'symbolic interactionism' for concrete and abstract constructs, and it is in this realm that we describe ourselves and the world around us. Marshall (1998. p.294) further argues that language, or the meanings that are implied by words, are governed by the cultural setting in which the individual resides. As words have constructed meaning, cultural values are given distinction by words. Thus identity is constructed by socially accepted and constructed words and concepts that describe values, customs, and behavioural norms. The Swiss structural linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (cited in Marshall, 1998. p.294) suggests that it is by way of words, meanings and values that we define our-selves and the world around us, including our place in it being given meaning/made meaningful, through human constructs of labels such as "good" or "bad". What is seen in one culture as virtuous (good) can be viewed as a crime (bad) in another (Bessant & Watts, 2002. p. 138). Practising within human services "labels can be shattering" for the parents of people suffering either a physical or mental ailments and should be investigated in-depth before a label is placed on a person (Groopman, 2007, p. 85). It is these labels that enable a person to create a self-fulfilling prophesy or an excuse for their behaviour. By fixing a label onto a person, that person is seen to be changed forever in the eyes of others (Groopman, 2007, p. 84). The feeling of being trapped by the labels that you place on you-self or from others, is the strength of influence peers, co-workers, family, the community, print media, television, and talk radio has guiding ones beliefs, opinions, and ethics is great. All of these forms of influences re-enforce the labels that we base our self beliefs and self image. Thus with the labels we live, the self image we have of our self, and the beliefs that guide us, dictate the decisions we make along with the repetition of those same decisions. Shared thoughts and heuristics build stereotypical categorizations of groups and their behaviours (e.g. Young people, Uni students and older people, etc.). This prospective of identity is subject to where one has the vantage point, social identity, for example, can be viewed to come from within a group (in-group), as being heterogeneous when identifying individual identity markers, of individuals, within the in-group. When viewing a group from the outside (out-group), as homogeneous, claiming that all the individuals in the out-group are the same (Baron & Byrne, 2003, pp. 161-162). Thus the observation and perspective of identity is subject to the observer, and his/her memories at that time, and therefore is difficult to be known as anything ells but a subjective observation. The perceptions of reality that we have, as suggested by Emmison & Western (1991. pp. 279-281) is our subjectivity that can be seen in the Marxist tradition, as being the socialization of the young to hold intact economic class positioning and class consciousness. Thus identity, is essential to keep the function and production of society stable, this is an indicator that groups of individuals use identity markers in relation to their class position including their social and economic capital position. Not surprisingly Emmison & Western's (1991. pp. 289-293) study has indicated that being a "family group member," or having a nationality such as being "Australian," or the fact of having an "Occupation" are strong identity markers. Emmison & Western (1991. p. 301) suggest that class distinction is not an important identity marker for individuals, but is salient in the formation of collective identities. The manifestations of these markers consist of, choosing the appropriate location of residence acceptable for the resident and his/her class, also the ownership of material goods along with acquired social capital, all of this shapes cognition and thus shapes subjectivity. Social capital as being suggested by Coleman (cited in Marshall, 1998. p. 608) is the knowledge of social norms and close networks of persons living in a close-knit community. Another way to expand the gulf between the in-group and the out-group is by the demonization of the out-group and emphatically stating the presence of God within the in-group. In the first century Tertullian made a clear distinction, that God adopts Christians, while the Jews are rejected by God (Williamson, 1993, p. 237). Tertullian continued this degradation of the Jewish people and legitimacy of the gentile Christian people in an ecclesiocentric manner continues by declaring that Christians are; superior, more honourable, more obedient, have new ceremonies, "more ready to accept God's discipline", and morally superior with a better religion and better God (Williamson, 1993, pp. 238,250). Tertullian use of religious language with his emotional display within language was used to separate Christian from Jews. The Jewish rebuke is likewise controversial with a, emphatic "no" to the Christian use of ideology displacement for the purpose of converting people, the spiritualization and de-historical perception of redemption, and that salvation is first and foremost in the possession of Gentiles (Williamson, 1993, p. 234). The Jewish rejection of a Gentile church with its distortion of the rabbinical gospel, the refusal of the Jewish people to consent to a world now redeemed through Jesus Christ, the Jews strive to hold true to God that liberated Israel and God's promise in the redemption for the world (Williamson, 1993, p. 234). Baron, R. A., & Byrne, D. (2003). In Social psychology (10 ed.). USA: Pearson Education, Inc. Bessant, J. & Watts, R. (2002). Sociology Australia (2nd Ed.). Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest N.S.W., Australia. Elliott, R., & Engebretson, K. (2001). Chaos or clarity: encountering ethics (3rd ed.). (T. Macnaught, Ed.) Southbank Victoria: Social Science Press. Emmison, M. & Western, M. (1991). The structure of social identities. in J. Baxter et al. (Eds) Ch. 13, pp. 279-305. Groopman, J. (2007). How Doctors Think. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Scribe. Marshall, G. (1998). Oxford Dictionary of sociology. New York: Oxford university press. Williamson, C. M. (1993). The doctrine of the Church. In A guest in the house of Israel: Post-holocaust Church theology (pp. 233-265). Kentucky: Westminster/Joh Knox press: Louisville.
[/caption] This is the first step in the Hero's Journey and where we all start from. Just as I have heard somewhere, when the unusual becomes the usual it is accepted to be normal and part of the ordinary world we all live in. So, you have gone through the Hero's Journey just to create another ordinary world. Much like the journey I have take, I was once an Auctioneer and needed to change vocation, I took the hero's journey to go through University, now to be a Therapist, now therapy is my ordinary world. We all live in a maze of our own making, just like rats in a maze finding the cheese, we too have our own maze to fine our own cheese. If you like, get the town map out and mark out the routes you take every day. You are at home, then to work, to the shop, perhaps to the club, pub, bowling ally, then back home. The streets we travel are the habituated roads in the maze we stick to. Going to a new supermarket is out of the question unless they are cheaper or have something that others don't, that's why they fight with advertising for your dollar. In psychology when tackling clients that seeking change, the clients have what is known as a resistance to change, because it takes them out of their comfort zone. This is the same for every one, when dealing with a big change. This happens so often with people facing retirement, or a person that needs to change their life style because of medical reasons, depression is soon to follow. When I was an auctioneer, I identified my self as an auctioneer, and loved that profession. I know everything there is to know about being an auctioneer. I remember once I went to another auction house that used a computer system to do their paperwork during the auction. Well on that day I was there, their computer system crashed, all the staff were in a panic. As it turned out there were only two people in there that knew how to do the same thing as the computer, but by hand. I was one of the people that knew how to do it and one of the older staff on site. I have now been out of the auction game since 2001 and people still talk about the auction and want me to start the auction up again. In the city I live there is still no regular auctions being held. Well I left that business, went to University, got my degree, and it was not until I was acting as a therapist for 3 years that I stoped viewing my self as an auctioneer and started seeing my self as a therapist. Now that I am a therapist, I treat people with drug and alcohol addiction. These people have the self view and label themselves accordingly as Junkies, addicts, users, crack heads, piss pots, pot heads, and speed freaks. This is the same story as me identifying myself as a therapist and not as an auctioneer, but a lot harder. It is harder because the substances my clients use have a stronger affect on there chemical reliance, and the labels they call themselves gives them licence to act the way they do. Furthermore, think of the drug addict's life, they know everything there is to know about the drug and how to use it and where to get it from. They are connoisseurs of drugs knowing the quality, and what they are cut with. The drug addict are masters of the distribution chain and in evading the police, just as the Predator (Police) get smarter the Prey (Addict) get smarter in evasion. Then in the life of the addict, all their friends are addicts, their social life revolves around addiction. The criminal activity that is practiced is no different to a job. I was proud and still am proud of being a good, if not great auctioneer, this is no different for the addict. The addict has pride in their criminal activity and is a source of self esteem, also the better they get the more they will be known for their skills as a criminal. Before too long the best criminals become teachers of other criminals that want to be better. Now we are asking them to give this all up overnight if not earlier if possible, it's not going to happen. Just as I am still be asked to start another auction up, the addict will have people ask them to get back into the drug lifestyle. Self identity is what we do and how we label our self, in short self identity is in the being. Being in the ordinary world is where we are, but is it where we want to be? Can I escape the ordinary world? I want more out of life, but will it be more of the same? What is the road less travelled? And where is it? We will leave that for another chapter… Psychologists look at the ordinary world, describe it in detail, test it, and then look at each individual variable in it, measure it, and then change the variables a bit, not to change the ordinary world but to see if people respond for the better or worse. And the best payed psychologists help companies get the most amount of money out of the people. I heard that psychologists designed the chairs in a big fast food chain so that they are just the right amount of uncomfortable so customers do not stay in the shop and linger. The customer eats and leaves, just to come back again. The ordinary world is not out there, it is in the last place you would look, inside your self. In the ordinary world we all use judgment calls on all types of issues and when labelling behaviour of others and our selves. These are often moral judgments we use to describe behaviour, such as calling ones self or others judgment based labels. You will find the many label them selves and others by what you or others do. I worked as an Auctioneer for a large chunk of my working life and that is where I put my energy and thus I labelled my self as an auctioneer for a long time after I stoped being an auctioneer. Now I work with people with addiction and I find that these people do the same, they label themselves accordingly with highly judgmental labels, such as junkies, pot-heads, addicts, rehab hoppers, and users. So to they think that they are good for nothing ells than the labels that they have put on them selves. You may find the same, you label your self around your job, profession, possession, or what ever you place all your energy into. These are value judgments that we think are fixed based on our ethical mind set. For judgment calls like this to become an ethical issue, these judgments need to have two or more different opinions and have debatable terms set on them, such at good and bad, right and wrong, worthy and unworthy (Elliott & Engebretson, 2001, p. 17). Many labels have a stigma about them that also brings about a status of worth, labels that set a persons status in society. You will find that stigma has had and for many still have a great impact on their life. Just think of a person that has a physical or mental disability, that try to have a life of worth, but the stigma or labels others place on them stop them from getting ahead. Like wise job labels have been changed to builds the esteem of the workers. Jobs such as the garbage men have been changed to sanitation workers to place greater importance on the job and to build esteem in the workers. In the ordinary world we stick to the labels that know, and act according to those labels because they the labels are like security blankets that we hang onto. This is called by several names in different professions, thus some call it perceptual inertia, while call it mind trap. Either we find a label through out job or through the family that we grow up in and find it extremely difficult to escape that label or too comfortable being in that label. Likewise we do the things that that label dictates so well that we are scared to do anything ells or think we are incapable of doing anything ells. It is here in the ordinary world that we may want to change what we do or grow in our selves but to fearful doing so. Furthermore we may think that the skills we have are not transferable to other careers. All constructions of our-selves are defined by language, this is extensively discussed by Marshall (1998. p.294) and further suggests that it is our primary form of communication. With symbolic guttural utterances also known as 'symbolic interactionism' for concrete and abstract constructs, and it is in this realm that we describe ourselves and the world around us. Marshall (1998. p.294) further argues that language, or the meanings that are implied by words, are governed by the cultural setting in which the individual resides. As words have constructed meaning, cultural values are given distinction by words. Thus identity is constructed by socially accepted and constructed words and concepts that describe values, customs, and behavioural norms. The Swiss structural linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (cited in Marshall, 1998. p.294) suggests that it is by way of words, meanings and values that we define our-selves and the world around us, including our place in it being given meaning/made meaningful, through human constructs of labels such as "good" or "bad". What is seen in one culture as virtuous (good) can be viewed as a crime (bad) in another (Bessant & Watts, 2002. p. 138). Practising within human services "labels can be shattering" for the parents of people suffering either a physical or mental ailments and should be investigated in-depth before a label is placed on a person (Groopman, 2007, p. 85). It is these labels that enable a person to create a self-fulfilling prophesy or an excuse for their behaviour. By fixing a label onto a person, that person is seen to be changed forever in the eyes of others (Groopman, 2007, p. 84). The feeling of being trapped by the labels that you place on you-self or from others, is the strength of influence peers, co-workers, family, the community, print media, television, and talk radio has guiding ones beliefs, opinions, and ethics is great. All of these forms of influences re-enforce the labels that we base our self beliefs and self image. Thus with the labels we live, the self image we have of our self, and the beliefs that guide us, dictate the decisions we make along with the repetition of those same decisions. Shared thoughts and heuristics build stereotypical categorizations of groups and their behaviours (e.g. Young people, Uni students and older people, etc.). This prospective of identity is subject to where one has the vantage point, social identity, for example, can be viewed to come from within a group (in-group), as being heterogeneous when identifying individual identity markers, of individuals, within the in-group. When viewing a group from the outside (out-group), as homogeneous, claiming that all the individuals in the out-group are the same (Baron & Byrne, 2003, pp. 161-162). Thus the observation and perspective of identity is subject to the observer, and his/her memories at that time, and therefore is difficult to be known as anything ells but a subjective observation. The perceptions of reality that we have, as suggested by Emmison & Western (1991. pp. 279-281) is our subjectivity that can be seen in the Marxist tradition, as being the socialization of the young to hold intact economic class positioning and class consciousness. Thus identity, is essential to keep the function and production of society stable, this is an indicator that groups of individuals use identity markers in relation to their class position including their social and economic capital position. Not surprisingly Emmison & Western's (1991. pp. 289-293) study has indicated that being a "family group member," or having a nationality such as being "Australian," or the fact of having an "Occupation" are strong identity markers. Emmison & Western (1991. p. 301) suggest that class distinction is not an important identity marker for individuals, but is salient in the formation of collective identities. The manifestations of these markers consist of, choosing the appropriate location of residence acceptable for the resident and his/her class, also the ownership of material goods along with acquired social capital, all of this shapes cognition and thus shapes subjectivity. Social capital as being suggested by Coleman (cited in Marshall, 1998. p. 608) is the knowledge of social norms and close networks of persons living in a close-knit community. Another way to expand the gulf between the in-group and the out-group is by the demonization of the out-group and emphatically stating the presence of God within the in-group. In the first century Tertullian made a clear distinction, that God adopts Christians, while the Jews are rejected by God (Williamson, 1993, p. 237). Tertullian continued this degradation of the Jewish people and legitimacy of the gentile Christian people in an ecclesiocentric manner continues by declaring that Christians are; superior, more honourable, more obedient, have new ceremonies, "more ready to accept God's discipline", and morally superior with a better religion and better God (Williamson, 1993, pp. 238,250). Tertullian use of religious language with his emotional display within language was used to separate Christian from Jews. The Jewish rebuke is likewise controversial with a, emphatic "no" to the Christian use of ideology displacement for the purpose of converting people, the spiritualization and de-historical perception of redemption, and that salvation is first and foremost in the possession of Gentiles (Williamson, 1993, p. 234). The Jewish rejection of a Gentile church with its distortion of the rabbinical gospel, the refusal of the Jewish people to consent to a world now redeemed through Jesus Christ, the Jews strive to hold true to God that liberated Israel and God's promise in the redemption for the world (Williamson, 1993, p. 234). Baron, R. A., & Byrne, D. (2003). In Social psychology (10 ed.). USA: Pearson Education, Inc. Bessant, J. & Watts, R. (2002). Sociology Australia (2nd Ed.). Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest N.S.W., Australia. Elliott, R., & Engebretson, K. (2001). Chaos or clarity: encountering ethics (3rd ed.). (T. Macnaught, Ed.) Southbank Victoria: Social Science Press. Emmison, M. & Western, M. (1991). The structure of social identities. in J. Baxter et al. (Eds) Ch. 13, pp. 279-305. Groopman, J. (2007). How Doctors Think. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Scribe. Marshall, G. (1998). Oxford Dictionary of sociology. New York: Oxford university press. Williamson, C. M. (1993). The doctrine of the Church. In A guest in the house of Israel: Post-holocaust Church theology (pp. 233-265). Kentucky: Westminster/Joh Knox press: Louisville. Kim Clijsters: Definition of Clijsterphobia
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[/caption] Definition of Clijsterphobia :- The fear experienced by a
tennis player in close vicinity to Clijsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjXz1dzdJWgDefinition of Clijsterphilia :-The obsessive experience that fans have of Clijsters.
14 January 2012
Rabbit out of a hat
I was looking at my Horoscope the other day and this is what it stated. If a stage magician wants to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he (or she) must first get a hat... and a rabbit! The art of creating the illusion may be hard to master (or mistress) but it is still secondary to the acquisition of those two key components. With that in mind, let's look at your ability to produce an impressive result from out of thin air. The real question is not, do you know how to do something? It is, do you have access to the basic resources that might be required if you were to attempt such a feat?I found this really good because it can be for any one.. If you replace the word "rabbit" with skills, and the word Hat with the word "passion" you will see that this is a great metaphor, or parable.
04 January 2012
Warning to all
I am astounded by the number of people that post comments on this blog with privet and sensitive information about either them-selves or others. Remember this is a BLOG ..... not a place to track down clients (your friends) at a centre. Furthermore, This blog is not associated with the Drug and alcohol centres on this blog, I only have the information available here for you, so that you can rate the services and find the information.
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