The purchase of intimacy Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman
2005., 20090209, 2009, 2005, 2005-01-01, 20050101
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In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different ...from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties—especially intimate ties—to other people. In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner's death as a result of 9/11? Through a host of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals; and household economics. She draws both on research and materials ranging from reports on compensation to survivors of 9/11 victims to financial management Web sites and advice books for same-sex couples. From the bedroom to the courtroom, The Purchase of Intimacy opens a fascinating new window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives.
This article explores the topic of co-housing from a gender perspective, considering that inhabiting is not a neutral, but a strongly gendered practice. The aim of the study is to describe some ...co-housing practices in order to observe how the design of spaces and the organisation of daily life can influence the distribution of care and reproductive labour. To this end, four experiences are analysed, with the aim of illustrating the multiplicity of configurations that co-housing can have: two outside (La Borda and Sargfabrik) and two inside Italy (Borgo Ponte Canale and Co- housing Le Torri) focusing on aspects such as the origin, the occurrence of participatory processes, the flexibility of spaces, and the forms of ownership and use of the property. It points out how feminist movements have played an essential role in the housing debate, bringing out the central role of collective spaces and interpersonal relations as fundamental elements for an equal sharing of care work. This insight into the practice of co-housing, given its characteristics and intrinsic potential, may thus represent a fertile ground for interdisciplinary experimentation and investigation, capable of driving us towards housing scenarios generating a greater equity. Keywords: co-housing; gender perspective; collective spaces; reproductive labour; women genealogies. Il presente articolo esplora il tema del co-housing secondo una prospettiva di genere, considerando che l'abitare non e una pratica neutra, ma fortemente sessuata. L'obiettivo dello studio e illustrare alcune pratiche di abitazione collettiva, al fine di osservare come il design degli spazi e l'organizzazione della vita quotidiana possano influenzare la condivisione del lavoro di cura e riproduttivo. A tal fine, sono state discusse quattro esperienze, esemplificative della molteplicita di configurazioni che il co-housing puo assumere: due straniere (La Borda e Sargfabrik) e due italiane (Borgo Ponte Canale e Cohousing Le Torri), con particolare attenzione ad aspetti quali la genesi, l'esistenza di processi partecipativi, la flessibilita degli spazi e le forme di proprieta e d'uso dell'immobile. Si evidenzia come i movimenti femministi abbiano avuto un ruolo essenziale nel dibattito sull'abitare, facendo emergere la centralita degli spazi collettivi e delle relazioni interpersonali come elementi fondamentali per una condivisione equa del lavoro di cura. Questo sguardo alla pratica del co-housing, date le sue caratteristiche e potenzialita intrinseche, puo dunque costituire un terreno fertile per sperimentazioni e indagini interdisciplinari, in grado di proiettarci verso scenari abitativi generatori di maggior equita. Parole-chiave: co-housing; prospettiva di genere; spazi collettivi; lavoro riproduttivo; genealogie femminili.
Trust is a crucial element of education that can be understood as an important precondition of the grow. Furthermore, contextual conditions are important for the development of trust. In spite of ...this, the role of trust in education system has been scarcely investigated. Research on trust in education is based on varying notions of the term and focuses on different facets and levels of analysis. This includes, first, a distinction between particularised and generalised trust and, secondly, between interpersonal, interorganisational and institutional trust (Faggioli 2018; Lancini, 2020, Muraglia, 2009). This paper introduces a reflection on issues relating to the feeling of trust established in educational contexts, offering possible interconnections with affective, emotional, and interpersonal relationship aspects.
There is limited knowledge about ways of life beyond the logic of independence, formal equality and autonomy. There is, also, certain objection to more expressive protection mechanisms in the legal ...treatment of people who find themselves in these other ways of life. It seems that de act of unequalize and safeguard people is still unfamiliar to the independence, formal equality and autonomy legally and materially intended among all the legal subjects. The question is, people are unequal. In particular, persons with aggravated mental disabilities are unequal in that they may require a certain amount of dependence, protection and care. This study intends to demonstrate why it is necessary to preserve protective and unequal guardianship for the person with aggravated mental disability, and how care can be the legitimate foundation of such protection. It is intended to go beyond the negative representations of dependency and difference in order to understand care obligations as part of an ethical and natural panorama of human relationships themselves. The approach method was the deductive-hypothetical, as well documentary research techniques. Keywords: Care. Mental Disability. Protection. Equality. Autonomy. Ha pouco conhecimento sobre os modos de vida que estao alem da logica da independencia, da igualdade formal e da autonomia. Ha, tambem, certa objecao a mecanismos de protecao mais expressivos na tutela juridica de pessoas que nesses outros modos de vida se encontram. Parece que o ato de desigualar e proteger certas pessoas causa estranheza a independencia, a igualdade e a autonomia juridica e materialmente pretendida entre os sujeitos de direito. A grande questao e, as pessoas sao desiguais. Particularmente, pessoas com deficiencias mentais agravadas sao desiguais na medida em que podem demandar certa dependencia, protecao e cuidado. Este estudo pretende demonstrar o porque da necessidade de se preservar tutelas protetivas e desiguais a pessoa com deficiencia mental agravada, e como o cuidado pode ser o legitimo fundamento dessa protecao. Pretende-se ir alem das representacoes negativas da dependencia e das diferencas, a fim de compreender obrigacoes de cuidar como integrantes de um panorama etico e natural das proprias relacoes humanas. A abordagem ocorre pelo metodo dedutivo-hipotetico, e foram utilizadas as tecnicas de pesquisa bibliografica e documental. Palavras-chave: Cuidado. Deficiencia Mental. Protecao. Igualdade. Autonomia. SUMARIO: Introducao. 1 Tutelas de segregacao e tutelas de pertencimento. 2 A Lei no. 13.146/2015 e as subjetivas deficiencias mentais. 3 Entre valores protetivos e igualitarios. 4 Criacoes dogmaticas e qualidades humanas. 5 O cuidado contextualizado. Conclusao. Referencias Bibliograficas.
Networked Rainie, Lee; Wellman, Barry
MIT Press,
2012, 20120427, 2012-04-00, 2014-02-14, 2019-06-20, 20120101
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Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and ...videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked , Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of "networked individualism" liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the "triple revolution" that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals.
Successful leadership requires leaders to make their followers aware of expectations regarding the goals to achieve, norms to follow, and task responsibilities to take over. This awareness is often ...achieved through leader-follower communication. In times of economic globalization and digitalization, however, leader-follower communication has become both more digitalized (virtual, rather than face-to-face) and less frequent, making successful leader-follower-communication more challenging. The current research tested in four studies (three preregistered) whether digitalization and frequency of interaction predict task-related leadership success. In one cross-sectional (Study 1, N = 200), one longitudinal (Study 2, N = 305), and one quasi-experimental study (Study 3, N = 178), as predicted, a higher frequency (but not a lower level of digitalization) of leader-follower interactions predicted better task-related leadership outcomes (i.e., stronger goal clarity, norm clarity, and task responsibility among followers). Via mediation and a causal chain approach, Study 3 and Study 4 (N = 261) further targeted the mechanism; results showed that the relationship between (higher) interaction frequency and these outcomes is due to followers perceiving more opportunities to share work-related information with the leaders. These results improve our understanding of contextual factors contributing to leadership success in collaborations across hierarchies. They highlight that it is not the digitalization but rather the frequency of interacting with their leader that predicts whether followers gain clarity about the relevant goals and norms to follow and the task responsibilities to assume.
