insight that rape law and discourse mirror the offence itself by treating the victim of rape as an object rather than a subject, a designation which militates against their proper recognition before the court as a legal person. The operation of sexual history evidence in the rape trial further complicates this designation, disrupting the linearity of the story of violation a prosecutor might be trying to tell and often investing a complainant with a complex and contradictory form of agency. In this chapter, we consider the construction of subjectivities in rape law
81 4 Poverty as an attack on subjectivity: the case of shame Holger Schoneville A social work perspective Poverty has always been an important topic for social work and social policy and its relevance cannot be overestimated. The question therefore does not seem to be whether an analysis of poverty is necessary for social policy as a whole or social work in particular, but on what such an analysis is actually focused and through which theoretical framework it is informed. While the term poverty might seem self-explanatory and associations of what it
important, and often those we think should be seen as more important in the historical record than they are. Our hope to spotlight lives that are in some way currently oblique is a hope born of empathy, care, and often a particular political stance. For historians interested in the more private aspects of social life, in our practice of working with those intimate moments comes a relationship, a subjective and an emotional relationship. With our own families, this is often an impulse borne of love, too. Interviewing my 97-year-old maternal grandfather, for example, was a
Introduction Key questions for qualitative researchers seeking to reduce negative impacts of their subjectivity might be traditionally formulated as: How can we strive to reduce prejudices that may be contaminating your would-be objectivity? In presenting this case, how can you alert us to the threats to your own objectivity to which you think we should be attentive? Here, the term ‘objective’ is used in the sense that it is generally defined, to denote being unbiased and distancing oneself from thoughts and feelings in one’s own mind. ‘Subjective
39 Achieving high subjective well-being THREE Achieving high subjective well-being A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Act I) There is currently a revitalised interest in the study of happiness and positive mood; arguably this is a period when the ‘concept of Gross National Happiness is coming of age’ (Stehlik, 1999, p 52). Academics, professionals and politicians are all working towards a new generation of measurements of social progress that value quality of life
329 14 Subjective Europeanisation DEFINITION Subjective Europeanisation refers to Europe’s growing role in the cognitive, affective and normative perceptions and orientations of people, and the weakening of the fixation on the nation-state. Europe appears as an additional frame of reference, superimposed on the level of the nation-state but without necessarily replacing it. Research into social stratification and societal change deals not only with objective living conditions and the unequal distribution of jobs and resources but also with the attitudes
Policy and Politics, Vol. 7 No.3 (1979),299-309 Subjective Social Indicators and Urban Social Policy: A Review Paul L. Knox 299 Social indicators, because they apparently manage to combine the somewhat conflicting attributes of relevance, objectivity and convenience, have slotted comfortably into the paradigm of contemporary socio-economic planning in Europe, Australia and North America. They have, indeed, become one of the central descriptive tools of normative policy analysis, and their use is now widespread at all levels of administration and control. Both the
assumptions and intentions they contain to be relevant and necessary. Nevertheless, I also think it is important to draw attention to some blind spots and problems associated with them. These are not deduced from the concepts themselves, but from a more precise analysis of the social contexts and situations in which children find themselves, and in which the concepts have specific meanings. As the concepts of subject and subjectivity are central to this, I will focus on examining their various contexts, justifications and meanings in relation to children and their rights
This chapter first provides an overview of the diffusion of the various dimensions of objective and subjective job insecurity across European countries for young and adult workers. The analysis presented in this chapter is comparative across European member states and is based on data from several sources, including all 28 member states across relevant years (UK included). As regards objective job insecurity, cross-sectional data from OECD and Eurostat are employed, while for subjective job insecurity the source of data used is the European Quality of Life
