The doctrine that emotions are products of natural mechanisms is critiqued from a social constructionist perspective. Evidence marshalled in support of the naturalistic theory is also subjected to ...

Like a t-shirt that used to say something you can’t quite read anymore, a piece of terminology will sometimes grow so faded, or be worn so thin, that retiring it seems long overdue. The threadbare ...

Dr. Press discussed behavioral genetics through the lens of social constructionism. She also discussed the phenomenon of medicalization, focusing on the example of smoking as a behavior.To watch Dr.

Pakistan has been on the crossroads of its social, political and economic destiny since the day. It remains trapped in the quagmire of economic stagnation, crumbling public faith on state institutions ...

Sexologist John Money claimed he had discovered, through his " theory of gender neutrality," that gender was a complete social construct, created entirely through social learning. Emboldened, the ...

Social constructionist and positivist approaches to the sociology of emotions differ in three respects: (1) social constructionists generally reject the importance of the biological and physiological ...

What would we do without experts? Specifically the question today concerns those holders of academic credentials who are the most ideological members of medical associations and public-health ...

In Standpoint, Andrew Doyle writes that the mark of an educated mind is the ability to “entertain the possibility that we might be wrong”: Many years ago I gave a talk at the London Metropolitan ...

Source: De Figuris Veneris by Édouard-Henri Avril (1849-1928), labeled for reuse Wikipedia Imagine it is the year 1965, in frozen Winnipeg, Manitoba. Two twin boys are scheduled for routine ...