Wings Over Scotland

And for readers in Northern Ireland, a fleg is colloquial for a small scare or surprise. 😉

I thought a fleg was a Union Jeck…

“Time for bed”, said Zebedee…

Thepnr,

Ha,ha. Yep, it is top of the BBC to-do list.

Brian,

Oi, you casting asparagus at oor Cactus? Fine upstanding young gent he is.

“Imagine” Playing For Change, Song Around The World;
link to youtube.com
🙂

Great stuff, Smallaxe. These videos must get up the racists’ noses.

Wish I’d stuck in at the triangle when I was at school….

@Paul Sinclair

Re. consistency, with regard to politics and power.

Studies in Public Opinion
ATTITUDES, NONATTITUDES, MEASUREMENT ERROR, AND CHANGE

CHAPTER 12

A Consistency Theory of Public Opinion and Political Choice: The Hypothesis of Menu Dependence

….The spine of this account is the concept of consistency. As with many social science terms, the concept of consistency is inconsistently used. In the context of research on public opinion and political choice, a trio of meanings can be distinguished. Consistency can be a synonym for constraint. Construed as constraint, consistency indexes the predictability of citizens’ position on one issue given their positions on another.1 Then again, consistency can be a synonym for stability. Construed as stability, consistency indexes the predictability of citizens’ positions on an issue at one point in time given their positions on the same issue at an earlier point in time. Finally, consistency can be a synonym for congruence. Construed as congruence, consistency indexes the predictability of positions citizens take on specific issues given their general political orientations.2

Empirically, this trio-constraint, stability, congruence-is broadly related. The more tightly constrained citizens’ positions across issues, the more stable their positions are likely to be over time; and the more stable and tightly constrained their positions, the more likely they are to be congruent with underlying basic orientations. The premise of the theory we present is thus that the first two senses of consistency are causally parasitic on the third. Positions tend to be constrained across issues or stable over time to the extent they are congruent with basic political orientations. And just so far as citizens possess basic political orientations together with the competence to call them into play, a consistency theory of public opinion has a causal leg to stand on….

link to johnbullock.org

Attitude Consistency
link to sk.sagepub.com

Attitude–Behavior Consistency
link to sk.sagepub.com

I’m getting ready to settle in for the World Cup final. I’m a big supporter of Croatia, I worked with a team of Croatians in Turkmenistan more than 20 years ago and have always admired them as a people.

Visited Zagreb, Split and Zadar a couple of years ago, great places, very friendly people and great value as well as nice weather even in October. Highly recommended.

I’d love to be there today. C’mon the Croats!

Meant to add Croatia is a beautiful country with a number of fantastic National Parks and probably the best preserved Roman architecture outside of Italy (take note Tinto) 🙂

Some might say it’s like Scotland with lots of Sun 🙂

You’re welcome, Pnr.

Hi Cameron, this one is for you;
link to youtube.com
😉

Re. Archibald Maule Ramsay. With regard to consistency of political opinion, antisemitism is closely linked to racism and authoritarianism. Both common character traits of your common-all-garden Tory.

Nazi indoctrination and anti-Semitic beliefs in Germany

Significance

Attempts at modifying public opinions, attitudes, and beliefs range from advertising and schooling to “brainwashing.” Their effectiveness is highly controversial. We demonstrate that Nazi indoctrination––with its singular focus on fostering racial hatred––was highly effective. Germans who grew up under the Nazi regime are much more anti-Semitic today than those born before or after that period. These findings demonstrate that beliefs can be modified massively through policy intervention. We also show that it was probably Nazi schooling that was most effective, and not radio or cinema propaganda. Where schooling could tap into preexisting prejudices, indoctrination was particularly strong. This suggests that confirmation bias may play an important role in intensifying attitudes toward minorities.

Keywords: cultural transmission, indoctrination, persistence, anti-Semitism

Abstract

Attempts at modifying public opinions, attitudes, and beliefs range from advertising and schooling to “brainwashing.” Their effectiveness is highly controversial. In this paper, we use survey data on anti-Semitic beliefs and attitudes in a representative sample of Germans surveyed in 1996 and 2006 to show that Nazi indoctrination––with its singular focus on fostering racial hatred––was highly effective. Between 1933 and 1945, young Germans were exposed to anti-Semitic ideology in schools, in the (extracurricular) Hitler Youth, and through radio, print, and film. As a result, Germans who grew up under the Nazi regime are much more anti-Semitic than those born before or after that period: the share of committed anti-Semites, who answer a host of questions about attitudes toward Jews in an extreme fashion, is 2–3 times higher than in the population as a whole. Results also hold for average beliefs, and not just the share of extremists; average views of Jews are much more negative among those born in the 1920s and 1930s. Nazi indoctrination was most effective where it could tap into preexisting prejudices; those born in districts that supported anti-Semitic parties before 1914 show the greatest increases in anti-Jewish attitudes. These findings demonstrate the extent to which beliefs can be modified through policy intervention. We also identify parameters amplifying the effectiveness of such measures, such as preexisting prejudices.

link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The Evolutionary Psychology of Anti-Semitism
Hate has deep roots
link to psychologytoday.com

The Radical Right and Antisemitism
link to oxfordhandbooks.com

Smallaxe
Perhaps one day. 😉

Leroy Sibbles – Express Yourself
link to youtube.com

Good day. That’s the Trumps away and Croatia are taking on France at the footy, aye understand it’s currently 1-1.

Mon the blacks.

“Football is ‘better together’ at the co-op”

Listen out in the second half.

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Ah’ve heard commentators/adverts say that statement throughout the World Cup… have you?

We’re in unofficial indyref2 campaign mode, apparently.

Amazing, that’s the end of that dream for Croatia who have played better than France. Still no bad for a wee country in getting there in the first place.

I know nothing about football, I don’t even own a football bat but did I not hear a lot of people saying that It’s coming home?

We are the Champions;
link to youtube.com

It’s staying in the EU.
😉

Smallaxe
That’s what Scotland voted for and I hope Westminster doesn’t consider me a second class human. 😉

Foo Fighters – All My Life
link to youtube.com

Cactus,

A wee bit of the French National Anthem;
link to youtube.com

And four other guys.
🙂

Cameron,

There is only one class of human, the others are dancer (puppets);
link to youtube.com
😉

@Tinto Chiel

I think that’s the main difference between Scottish and Croatian people, their 100% self belief in Croatia’s ability to be a nation is evident everywhere in that small country.

We’re only half way there due to all the baggage too many have collected due to 300 years of English subjugation.

The cringe doesn’t exist in Croatia, just enormous pride in their country. It even shows in their football as they never give in.

Thepnr
I think the subjugation eased off at the start of the 20th century, before morphing into a more socially acceptable, outwardly benign, form of ethnic oppression. Where’s ma tomahawk? 🙂

Tinto,

You walked into this;
link to youtube.com
😉

Indeed, Smallaxe, indeed.

I’m too pure for this world, but there’s always Gowkthrapple.

It wasn’t Sorley, it was Derick:

Steel?

“Culloden, the Disruption,
and the breaking up of the tack-farms –
two thirds of our power is violence;
it is cunning we need.
When the tempered steel near the edge of the scythe-blade is worn
throw away the whetstone;
you have nothing left but soft iron
unless your intellect has a steel edge that will cut clean.

And throw away soft words,
for soon you will have no words left;
the Tuatha Dè Danann* are underground,
the Land of the Ever-young is in France,
and when you reach the Promised Land,
unless you are on your toes,
a bland Englishman will meet you,
and say to you that God, his uncle, has given him a title to the land.”

* Tuatha Dè Danann, a supernatural race in Ireland, sometimes said to
be the progenitors of the fairies.

translated by Derick Thomson

“Did ye luv thon?”

I pure done, Smallaxe, flaneur extraordinaire, but youse hiv omitted the trendy brasseries and boites de nuits wot are to be found all over this trendy nook a ce moment.

I may expatiate later, should the Muse move me.

Loved thon tree music, Smallaxe. Trees are to be hugged to embrace the life force/Great Spirit but “Elm hateth Man and waiteth.”

Ya bass.

I fear hammers, on account of the peom I hiv posted.

Night, all! *retreats to bosky bower*

I think this post rounds up a lot of what I’ve been posting recently. Sorry for all the science.

Critical Cultural Approaches to Gender and Sex

Summary and Keywords

Within the field of communication studies, critical cultural scholarship examines the interarticulation of power and culture. Drawing from critical theory and cultural studies, this research offers analysis of texts, artifacts, practices, and institutions in order to understand their potential to promote or preempt equality and social justice. Critical theory, which has Marxist origins, uses theory as a basis for critiquing and challenging systems of domination or oppression. The field of cultural studies focuses on social formations with a particular emphasis on media texts and the reception practices of audiences. Both critical theory and cultural studies emphasize the important interrelationship between ideology, or structures of belief, and the material conditions in which people live. Critical cultural research examines discourse and representation, including language and visual culture, as well as social relations, institutional structures, material practices, economic forces, and various forms of embodiment.

Central to critical cultural scholarship is attention to the construction, regulation, and contestation of categories of identity, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, and class. A significant branch of critical cultural studies examines how ideas about gender and sex develop and circulate, asking how and why some constructions of gender and sex become normative and gain hegemony—or, cultural privilege—in a particular context. For example, such scholarship might critique the idealization of certain performances of masculinity and the attendant devaluation of femininity or other subordinated masculinities; or, this research might consider how particular iterations of masculinity or femininity may be counter-hegemonic, operating in opposition to prevailing ideologies of gender and sex. Critical cultural approaches also emphasize the intersectionality of gender and sex with other categories of identity. For instance, ideas about masculinity or femininity can rarely be separated from assumptions about race and/or sexuality; as such, prevailing ideologies of gender and sex often reflect the presumed normativity of whiteness and heterosexuality.

Keywords: gender, sex, culture, power, subjectivity, hegemony, ideology, intersectionality, heteronormativity, feminism, feminist, critical theory

link to communication.oxfordre.com

Ideology, Identity, and Intercultural Communication: An Analysis of Differing Academic Conceptions of Cultural Identity
link to tandfonline.com

A non-essentialist model of culture: Implications of identity, agency and structure within multinational/multicultural organizations
link to researchgate.net

A tribute to all the men and officers of the 51st, my wife’s grandfather (KOSB) was taken prisoner with them after being wounded and spent the rest of the war as a POW.
link to youtube.com

universal unique

Culture is in constant flux, reinterpreting and remaking itself. Westminster and British nationalism do not represent my values, nor the rest of Scotland, with specific regard to Brexit. Personally, I don’t fancy the culture that will result from Westminster policy and wish to access inalienable human rights I am currently prevented from accessing, such as the “Right to Development”.

Grace Jones – Slave To The Rhythm (Remix By Medicine Head)
link to youtube.com

Good night;
link to youtube.com
🙂

Conservatives are not the same as Tories, who tend to struggle with non-British identities. I doubt folk will have failed to notice that some of them are, in fact, stupendously racist (see the Prime Minister, for example). This is a product of English culture and one that Scotland could do well to distance itself from. 😉

Faith in history: memory, multiculturalism and the legacies of Empire in postwar England

Abstract

This article employs a broad concept of memory in order to examine the reconstruction of the past in various migrant religious and educational settings in the period after 1970. In educational projects designed to promote good community relations, and in attempts to develop non-dogmatic forms of religious belief, British history became the subject of extensive discussion and debate. A small space opened up in which the legacies of British imperial history, so often a matter of visceral feeling, could be publicised, explored and taken seriously. Using case studies from London and Birmingham the article argues that religious groups played a small but important role in enabling new, more inclusive and more critical historical narratives to enter metropolitan British society.

Keywords: ethnicity, religion, history, identity

link to tandfonline.com

1968—Too Little and Too Late? The Communist Party and Race Relations in the Late 1960s
link to tandfonline.com

‘The other day I met a constituent of mine’: a theory of anecdotal racism
link to tandfonline.com

Good Morning!
link to youtube.com
🙂

Upon Yes, Wales and England will be iScotland’s continuing neighbours…

Politically: Scotland will be independent.
Geographically: Unchanged, remains the same.

Independent Scotland is a European and international country.

And now we’re about to launch into Space too! 🙂

Hi, Smallaxe. I went to bed early for my beauty sleep (so important at my age) and so missed your Weird Al. What a seer the man is! If he were World President there would be a New Dawn.

I obvs didn’t see the programme about the Highland Division BDTT typed about but my handler and I visited St Valery en Caux a few years ago. The harbour is a bit like one of those small East Neuk ones and it’s surrounded by high cliffs where the Germans could have mounted their 88mm guns so I don’t think there was any real possibility of any evacuation.

The monuments to the HD on the cliff are very impressive and I took quite a few photos but they were taken with a film camera.

At least de Gaulle didn’t forget the sacrifice of the division, however cynical Churchill may have been:

“I can tell you that the comradeship in arms experienced on the battlefield of Abbeville in May and June 1940 between the French armoured division which I had the honour to command and the valiant 51st Highland Division under General Fortune played its part in the decision which I took to continue fighting on the side of the Allies unto the end, no matter what the course of events.”

I used to be able to Google a much longer speech by him where he praised the Scottish soldiers and made reference to the historic links and alliances between Scotland and France but I’ve been unable to find it again *adjusts tin foil hat to rakish angle*.

It’s a funny old game, Saint.

@Smallaxe

If you got a weird “robotic voice” phone call last night then it was my fault, I sent a text message to your home phone by mistake. Eeeek!

Thepnr,

I meant to leave you this;
link to youtube.com
🙂

Thepnr,

You find out who your friends are;
link to youtube.com
😉

@Smallaxe 1018: thanks, I haven’t seen that site before. Had internet probs this morning so late in replying.

Soffisticates on here might also be interested in “Churchill’s Sacrifice of the Highland Division” by Saul David and “St Valery: The Impossible Odds” by Bil Innes, which recounts the exloits of two Gaelic-speaking sodgers who escaped and made their way back to Scotland via Spain and North Africa.

Meanwhile, in other news, I’m feeding grated cheese to a baby robin which has appeared in the garden and the sun is shining, so things are fine, apart from the fact that Scotland is still fastened to the dying animal of the UK.

Yeats, ya bass.

Have I got a treat for all you lovely friends of Off Topic or what?

So being at a lose end I’ve spent most of the day extracting every youtube link ever posted on Off Topic from day one, a grand total of 9458. Though many have been played more than once so it is not 9458 individual clips.

I did this because I was very interested in finding out what were the 10 most played songs and how often they had been played.

Turns out that it’s actually going to be the top 11 because two songs were tied at number 10. See if any of your own favourites are here 🙂

So here is the top eleven countdown, 10th equal played 9 times. I remember it well on the run up to the referendum, so will Ian B as he played it first 🙂

link to youtube.com

Tinto Chiel
I’m afraid he might have been talking about academia and public life. Agreed, British nationalists are often ‘culturally chauvanistic’, subjectively defining themselves against the different “other”, who they wish to obscure and exclude. It’s just a pity that racism gets such a culturally approved platform in Britain.

Comparing British and American conservatisms through the prism of African development

ABSTRACT

Conservatism and conservative party politics in Britain and America is associated with neo-colonial attitudes, including pursuit of national interests ahead of post-colonial development. Based on interviews conducted in Washington and London with actors involved with African development, this article examines comparative shifts in conservatives’ engagements from the late Cold War era to the G. W. Bush and Cameron governments. Greater ideological heterogeneity and distinctiveness among American conservative interests groups, combined with a bureaucratic environment in the US allowing more direct channels for ideological input into policy, results in a more clearly conservative stamp on Africa policy in the US than in Britain where ideological lines on development have become more blurred since the 1997 New Labour election victory and the creation of the Department for International Development.

KEYWORDS: Conservatism, ideology, political parties, Britain, US, development, Africa

link to tandfonline.com

Thepnr
That’s a big effort there Alex, I hope you don’t think it inapropriate of me to follow up with one for the “Hairy Plumber” a.k.a. POTUS. 😉

Alex Puddu – Bad Love
link to youtube.com

At number 9 in the most played tunes on Off Topic we have a Country & Western number from Paula Rose back in May 2014 and followed up by Smallaxe in March last year.

link to youtube.com

At number 7 it’s pure pop. Played by Paula Rose, Ian Brotherhood, myself and Lucia Daines (who she?)

link to youtube.com

This next song at number 4 has been played a total of 10 times but it has been played by the most number of different posters.

They were Paula Rose, Oneironaut, BDTT, YesIndyref2, Macart, Tinto and Lucia Daines. I’m sure I’ve played this too but must have been a different link.

Anyhow number 4 is a catchy tune from 1966, sexy video too 🙂

link to youtube.com

Number 2 was one I liked, played a total of 15 times the first was in March 2014 by Paula Rose and again by Ian Brotherhood after the referendum in September 2014.

A classic song from the 70’s showcased by a couple of clowns 🙂

link to youtube.com

OK here it is the most linked to song ever on Off Topic first played by guess who? Yes Paula Rose and also Ian Brotherhood.

The song is good but I love the video, bit of nostalgia when hankering after my youth 🙂

link to youtube.com

Hi Thepnr (again!).

I have a hunch this could be right up your farmtrack…

link to youtube.com

OMG Paula and I are pogoing round the room – so very happy.

@Lucia Daines

I love to make people happy enjoy Lucia, I see you got a couple in the top ten as well 🙂

I promised Smallaxe months, nay M-O-N-T-H-S, ago, that once I had uploaded a particular track to YouTube, I would stick a link in ‘off-topic’, in advance of 25th January.

I knew I had the single in my hovelhold but couldn’t find it.

Onnyhoo, around a month ago, I found the bag it was in but, unfortunately, it was in a bag that I had fallen against, when I tripped on a cable trailing over my drawing room floor and was in many pieces.

Therefore, I consulted t’interweb. I think I was able to buy the only 7″ version on the web but, as a bonus, was able to purchase what appeared to be the only 12″ version (on blue vinyl) available on the web.

I’ve just checked; it’s still not on YouTube. It’s by a Scottish artiste and I will try to put a video together before 25th January next year.

What a tease eh um, umma?

“On 25th of Jan each year, Scotsmen remember full of cheer…”

@Brian Doonthetoon

Northern Soul wasn’t really my thing, I was just crap at the dancing though I did try to look the part at the few occasions I went to an all nighter at the Marryat Hall even bought a pair of “spoons” hoping to fit in LOL.

Teezers was more my thing and it’s where I met my wife 🙂

Hi Thepnr.

I DJ’d in Teasers from January 1980 to September 1980, on Sunday evenings. I was interviewed by Tayside Police about the Templeton Woods murder, which happened the week before my first gig.

“Spirit Of Radio” by Rush always reminds me of those nights – that and “Let’s Make Love” by The Nolans.

Willie Rasche was a cheapskate and because I could earn more doing The Bowlin’ Alley, I gave it up for Weds, Fris and Sats in the BA.

link to youtube.com

link to youtube.com

(I did play a rather catholic choice of music on those Sunday nights…)

Can I just squeeze this one in as well, ta.

Re. Anna Soubry, “private conversations” and Tory MPs “have said that the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs will be worth it to regain our country’s sovereignty”.

That’s what you get if you allow a bunch of social Darwinists anywhere near political power. Especially in an age of global, neo-liberal, consumerism.

Social Darwinism

Introduction

Social Darwinism is a complex and controversial topic, a package of ideologies supposedly inspired by biological evolutionism that is of interest to scholars of both the life and the social sciences. In principle it includes any political system inspired by the view that human nature and social activity are driven by our biological nature, especially as defined by the process of evolution. The complexity of the topic derives from the fact that the term social Darwinism has been applied to a number of different (and to some extent incompatible) ideologies. The key feature is supposed to be the influence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, in which the “struggle for existence” determines the “survival of the fittest,” thereby ensuring that the species adapts to new conditions—although it is widely assumed that the process also guarantees progress toward higher levels of complexity.

The classic image is of the proponents of unrestrained free-enterprise capitalism justifying their policy by appealing to the “survival of the fittest.” But the term has also been applied to justifications of militarism and imperialism (national or racial struggle) and to the eugenics movement’s efforts to replace natural selection with a process of artificial selection by restricting the reproduction of the “unfit.” The term has also been applied to more or less any claim that human nature is fixed by hereditary factors, especially those linked to social class or race….

link to oxfordbibliographies.com

The intensification of neoliberalism and the commodification of human need – a social work perspective
link to curve.coventry.ac.uk

Culture of Cruelty: the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
link to counterpunch.org

Hearing on the lbc wireless that Vote Leave have been fined.

Sounds fine tae me, congratulations.

Whip crack away CJ.

Comic Opera for today
link to youtube.com

@BDTT

Cheers Brian, I really enjoyed reading that and all the other posts.

Irma link to youtube.com

Re. the inner Trump we all apparently have inside us.

Authoritarianism, Dominance, and Social Behavior: A Perspective from Evolutionary Personality Psychology

Abstract

The concept of authoritarianism has been widely misunderstood because of both confusion about values and science and disagreement about a definition of the concept within different areas of psychology. Research in cognitive and social psychology has focused on linking scores on authoritarianism scales with social behavior or information processing, but these efforts have not been very successful at either defining the concept or predicting behavior. In developmental research, authoritarian parenting refers to an emphasis on parental control and decision making. Organizational authoritarianism has been linked to higher productivity and, in some cases, with lower job satisfaction. One way of making sense of the variety of definitions of authoritarianism is in terms of evolutionary personality theory and the concepts of dominance and submission. These biological concepts are relevant to both human and animal behavior, and they can be used to explain authoritarianism in scientific, rather than pejorative, terms.

Keywords authoritarianism, evolutionary personality psychology, dominance, group behavior

Can evolutionary psychology and personality theory explain Trump’s popular appeal?
link to digest.bps.org.uk

In Pursuit of Three Theories: Authoritarianism, Relative Deprivation, and Intergroup Contact
link to annualreviews.org

Trump is a narcissistic, authoritarian, mysogynist, it is more than a little unfortunate for the world that the “Hairy Plumber” has managed to game his way to so much agency.

Discursive psychology, rhetoric and the issue of agency

Abstract

Recent years have seen the growth of a movement which has aimed to reorientate the discipline of psychology around the study of discourse. Generally known as discursive psychology, this movement has had a large effect on social psychology, particularly in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Scandinavia and South America. Its effect in the United States has been less marked. Discursive psychology is part of the general movement of critical psychology, which has been reacting against mainstream social psychology, especially the sort of experimental psychology that remains dominant in the United States (see, for instance, Gough and McFadden, 2001; Gergen, 2001; Hepburn, 2003; Sloan, 2000).

Discursive psychologists have not been content merely to criticise mainstream psychology. They have proposed alternative ways of conducting psychological research, shifting the balance from the quantitative methodologies to qualitative ones, together with a commitment to studying human psychology through the use of language. Discursive psychology, however, represents more than a methodological alternative to conventional psychology. It rests upon an attempt to establish new, theoretical principles. At its heart lies a very different conception of language than that which is accepted by most mainstream psychologists, especially cognitive psychologists.

In this paper, I will outline some of the principles of discursive psychology, especially in relation to its reaction against cognitive psychology. I will seek to show why philosophically the position of discursive psychology entails a critique of cognitivism, and I will describe attempts to use discursive principles to reformulate psychoanalytic theory. In addition, I will discuss the problem of agency, especially how it applies to discursive psychology. I will suggest that the problem of agency is essentially a rhetorical issue rather than a theoretical or methodological one. Calling it a rhetorical problem does not imply that it is a lesser problem – as if it were ‘mere rhetoric’, and, thereby, of lesser significance than theory or methodology. To suggest this would contradict the very basis of discursive psychology, which recognizes the importance of rhetoric in social life. By calling the issue a rhetorical one, I hope to draw attention to the importance of the way that psychologists, including discursive psychologists, use language to write about the phenomena that they are studying.

link to journals.openedition.org

Agency-Structure Dualism – Critical Social Psychology
link to youtube.com

The Discursive Psychological Perspective – Critical Social Psychology
link to youtube.com

Authoritarianism, Dominance, and Social Behavior: A Perspective from Evolutionary Personality Psychology link
link to journals.sagepub.com

Re. Kezia. With an MA in Social Policy(?), there really is no excuses for her political stance, IMHO.

Critical Consciousness: An Alternative Pathway for Positive Personal and Social Development

Abstract

This paper presents a conceptual model of the integrative psychological construct of critical consciousness (CC), defined as a moral awareness which propels individuals to disembed from their cultural, social, and political environment, and engage in a responsible critical moral dialogue with it, making active efforts to construct their own place in social reality and to develop internal consistency in their ways of being. The ontogeny of CC is analyzed in terms of the synergistic interaction between its two main components, structural developmental and moral motivation. The paper describes the cross-cultural interview research which allowed the elaboration of the CC developmental pathway. It posits the dimension of moral motivation as distinguishing the CC pathway, and illustrates the continuum between predominantly moral and expediency motivation through brief case vignettes. The paper differentiates three developmental macrolevels of CC, and illustrates through case vignettes two alternatives of social consciousness at the level of conventional morality—CC and non-CC. Some possible sources of moral motivation in personal history and biography are discussed.

Moral development, social consciousness, social responsibility, critical thought, Freire

link to link.springer.com

Understanding Internalized Oppression: A Theoretical Conceptualization of Internalized Subordination
link to scholarworks.umass.edu

Frantz Fanon, Steve Biko,‘psychopolitics’ and critical psychology
link to eprints.lse.ac.uk

Oh what a Scottish Summer 1976 / 2018!

This is like the Westminster Tory politicians current political reality like:
link to youtube.com

iScotland announcement very soon now.

Yes 2 for one and all of us.

Here’s Doogie and the guys (a double-play):
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com

I got it on the original on tape cassette. 🙂

Theresa May, politician… ahhhhh hahahahaha!

Whose next…?

42 years.

To learn.

@Kezia Dugdale
Have a gander at these, then come and join those who seek effective political representation. Or are you a British nationalist?

A Pedagogy of Social Justice Education:
Social Identity Theory, Intersectionality, and Empowerment

This article explores a theoretical and practical understanding of social justice education through an examination of a US-based intergroup educational organization running conflict transformation programs since 2005. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with and surveys completed by administrators, educators, and student participants of the organization’s programs, this article analyzes a case example of social justice education that integrates Freirean thought, social identity theory, intersectionality, and experiential education, including empowerment and responsibility education. Offering different programs aimed at distinct constituencies yet all based in the same pedagogy, the organization’s primary goal is to empower participants to engage in social justice activism.

link to abrahamsvision.org

From Charity Towards a Social Justice Paradigm: Critical Consciousness Through Service-Learning
link to medium.com

A Social Justice Lens
A Teaching Resource Guide
link to bctf.ca

Thepnr,

It’s still;
link to youtube.com

Goodnight, guys.
🙂

@Smallaxe

Another new one for me, just had my daughter watch the two of them and isn’t it funny how there faces can change. Jeezo I wish I had the power to give everybody more information.

Anyway have a good kip, tomorrow is another day where we will have to fight the good fight. Armageddon isn’t going away unless we force it to by the power in all of us.

That is the power of persuasion and we really need to use it.

Re. the fundamentalist faith promoted by the New Right and which causes Septicemic Brexititis. It sold well with Anglicans, especially the non-practicing variety. Brexit is an expression of English culturalism that has gotten out of hand, it does not respect the Scottish vote.

Sacred Politics—Trump, Brexit and Civil Religion

British Civil Religion?

November’s Armistice Day commemorates the sacrifice of troops in Britain. Faith and political leaders arrive at the Cenotaph, laying wreaths. In November 2015, tabloid headlines accused leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn of failing to show due reverence due to not bowing deeply enough. Later, he faced the scorn of the then Prime Minister David Cameron for not singing the national anthem. This year, the story was that Corbyn “danced a jig” prior to the memorial service, once again, failing to reflect the sombre mood of the event.

It is clear that Britain has a civil religion too – different though from the United States. The accusations and criticisms of Corbyn are that of impiety. He is not reverent enough, he does not commit to the rituals, he is an infidel, a hypocrite who doesn’t believe in the national religion at all.

The argument of impiety in civil religion will largely fall flat for those on the left, but for the British right, who value traditional institutions, it is a significant charge.

Britain’s civil religion is currently up for debate. While Britain was once an undeniably Christian country, the public role of religion has increasingly diminished, prompting the former Archbishop Rowan Williams to observe Britain is a “post-Christian” country….

link to brin.ac.uk

How religious groups voted in the 2016 referendum on Britain’s EU membership

Recent research has shed light on the voting preferences of the British electorate at last year’s Brexit referendum, looking at how support for remain or leave was distributed across a range of socio-demographic groups, as well as showing how it varied based on party support, policy preferences and ideological beliefs. How did religious groups in wider society vote? Were some more likely than others to have voted to leave the EU or vice versa? Data from wave 9 of the British Election Study Internet Panel Study, undertaken after the referendum (with fieldwork conducted by YouGov between 24 June-6 July 2016), allow a comparison of voting behaviour based on religious affiliation. The core sample for wave 9 is used, which enables cross-sectional analysis of the data.

The figure below shows the proportions voting remain and leave within different religious groups. Some groups showed an even split between the two options on the ballot (Methodists and Baptists) and some showed a slight preference for one side or the other (Catholics and Church of Scotland / Presbyterian for remain; Jews and other Christian for leave); but more distinct voting patterns are also evident. Those who identify themselves as Anglican or Church of England were clearly in the leave camp – 60% backed Britain leaving the EU and 40% supported staying. Muslims were clearly in the remain camp, with 69% choosing this option and 31% in favour of leaving the EU. Those with no religion (a group with a younger age profile) were in the ‘remain camp’, by 57% to 43%, as were those belonging to other non-Christian faiths (55% to 45%) and those who preferred not to disclose their religious affiliation (55% to 45%)….

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The Social Consequences of Brexit for the UK and Europe: Euroscepticism, Populism, Nationalism, and Societal Division

Abstract

This article examines the 2016 Referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union and draws on initial research into the reasons that the UK voted to leave and demographics of the leave vote. This initial analysis suggests that the Brexit (British Exit) vote reveals wider and deeper societal tensions along the lines of age, class, income, and education (Goodwin and Heath 2016). By providing an account of the background and events of the referendum, this article asserts that the vote was a case study in populist right-wing Eurosceptic discourse (Leconte 2010; Taggart 2004), but it also reveals strong elements of English nationalism (including British exceptionalism and social conservatism) in parts of British society (Henderson et al. 2016; Wellings 2010). Given this, the article begins to make sense of Brexit from a social quality perspective and outlines a possible social quality approach to the UK and Europe post-Brexit.

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Rasta Children feat. Nattali Rize: Playing For Change/Song Around The World;
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The far-right have stroked post-colonial England’s need for for a tangible sense of direction after empire, with the eager support of the corporate media and the BBC. The politic class is now powerless to avert Brexit, which represents the adoption of an authoritarian totalitarianism as the articulation of British nationalism and culture. The far-right will destroy any potential for hope in Scotland, if we let them.

Leroy Sibbles – Garden Of Life
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Is it just me or is there a strong resemblance between Man A in this:

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And Man B in this?

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Spooky is wot I say.

This post is about a da pizza pie.

Cookery serving suggestion #458…

Overoil and try sprinkling some granulated brown demerara sugar over your a da pizza pie with extra lots of sugar in the centre, think of the flan ‘gumars‘.

Sweet bites.

@Fred: unfortunately for Mr Eardley, Stanley still makes more sense. What a maroon, as old Bugs used to say.

😉

Btw, the breeks are more terra cotta…

Everything on BBC is a spoof, Thepnr.

I tried to verify your claim that Baxter is more like Ross Thomson but the latter’s head is so far up Bojo’s arse, it is impossible to tell at the mo. He’s the kind of wee sook at school who got taken round the back of the bicycle sheds to show him the error of his ways in a firm yet supportive, caring and inclusive environment.

Dweeb.

A beautiful day here in South Central North Britain. The BRITISH Greek basil our daughter brought us from S________’s is still doing fine. My baby robin likes grated cheddar cheese and I have seeded the back grass with AP mines to deter that bloody ginger cat that sneaks about the garden.

Problem solved!

Morning, Smallaxe: you have been a busy boy since Nana went on undercover border patrol.

Your robin-based question was deep, mon vieux haricot (as deep as the well of my Brexit apprehension).

I’m going to plump for a theoretical “cheesy” at the mo.

In other news: I may be just imagining this but I think my BRITISH Greek basil is tasting a bit gammon now.

BRITISH Greek basil?
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That’s even deeper, old mole, and requires much musing.

Deeply depressed by GMK’s timetable.

Off to erect a Keep Off The Grass sign.

Not that kind of grass, you silly sossage.

Have just been informed by my carer I am going shopping for a new item for her Inverness wardrobe (and I don’t mean a handle).

This could take some time……

Anent Carlisle & Wardrobes, came across Archbishop Gavin Dunbar of Glasgow’s magnificent curse on Borderers & thought of Mundell,

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An ex of Fatty Soames once described sex with Churchill’s grandson as lying under a double wardrobe in which somebody had left a small key!

‘Fatty’ Soames pops up frequently in Alan Clark’s diaries, seems they were very close.

Just thought I’d throw that in there to help momentarily dispel the image of him, naked, lying on top of someone else. You wouldn’t wish that on anyone, unless, of course, it’s another Tory (which it probably was).

Ach, I would say ‘Fuck Them All’ but they’re doing it for themselves these days…

Evening, gentlemen.

Good to know these Establishment scum-balls think they are superior to us all. The more genteel of my grannies used to say Tories had the morals of alley-cats. As for the Irish side, you don’t want to know.

When it comes to imagining their absurd horizontal joggings and sexual couplings in various deviant combinations (including “Poppers” Blunt), I always adhere to the Singing Detective’s dictum: ” Quick, think of Malcolm Muggeridge, think of Malcolm Muggeridge!”

Saves a lot on mental health counselling and analysts’ bills in the long run.

Well, this is all deeply unsettling, with no deal becoming more likely I think it’s hit home in a personal way for the first time. Too busy before considering the ins and outs for Indy, deciding what to post carefully elsewhere, but now the reality of crashing out of the EU hits home. In spite of the armour Indy supporters have because of our hope for a different path for Scotland. I guess as TC says above, GMK’s “timetable” doesn’t help in the slightest. It just doesn’t have any urgency about it. Seems more like “hey, that’s an iceberg ahead, hold my pink gin while I go below and get the camera”.

I got nearly nothing done today, and I have masses to do. But on the other hand, if I with all my armour am feeling this, and it seems others are too, then what about the punters in the street? Is it starting to get through to them? Perhaps it is. I doubt it.