Category: 論文; papers
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Acculturated Equilibrious Strain Adaptation (i.e., Adults)
This was written for Washington State University’s SOC-352 course on Youth & Society. Thinking about contemporary U.S. society, what bases do we use for understanding whether someone is an adult? Introduction I grew up in suburban then rural Virginia on the edges of Spotsylvania County and Culpepper in the 1980s and early 1990s—children, teen, and […]
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When And-Becomes-Or: Motivational Saliency of Humanity as Drugs of Industry, Science, and…
This was written for Washington State University’s SOC-368 course. There are minor edits post submission here for readability. Introduction During several sociology courses here at WSU, I had been introduced to Sykes & Matza’s (1932) techniques of neutralization, Scott & Lyman’s (1968) accounts, Stokes & Hewitt’s (1976) aligning actions and many other sociological theories. What, at periphery, became saliently […]
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Drug-Expectancy Induced Benchmark Feedback: Measuring Distress and Disability Under the Influence
This was written for Washington State University’s SOC-368 course. There are minor edits post submission here for readability. Introduction Being unable to focus on class, fidgety, and inability to sit still, might garner a diagnosis or overdiagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Yet the American Psychiatric Association, not to be confused with the American Psychological […]
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Leaving It Better Than We Found It: Moral Disengagement in Moving Goalposts of ADHD Over-diagnosis
This was written for Washington State University’s PSYCH-368. This is a big post, again saved till later in the evening… ADHD topic is huge, and touches many… it is integrated heavily with several large issues, and it is basically at a nexus of economics, mental health, and ethics/morality. This takes into context Bandura’s (1999) concept of […]
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The Self-Enjoyment Paradox:
In Search of Csikszentmihalyi’s Radical Remedy
… Unfortunately, the profit of destruction is in re-construction…