Since the 1980s, feminist critique of essentialist assumptions
about gender increasingly has employed an intersectionality
perspective to understand gender in relation to
other social identities, such as race, class, ethnicity and
sexual orientation. In contrast to models that suggest for
each minority status there is a simple accumulation of
disadvantage, such that the Black woman is doubly
disadvantaged compared to the Black man, the intersectionality
framework emphasizes the qualitative differences
among different intersectional positions. For example, “the
very meaning of manhood may vary when applied to one’s
own racial group as compared to another group; similarly
the meaning of a given racial category may vary for men
and women” (Mullings and Schulz 2006, p. 5).


In sum, the construct of intersectionality has assumed a
significant position in thinking about gender. As the
foundation for theory it promised a more accurate and
tractable way of dealing with two issues. First, it promised
a solution, or at least a language for the glaring fact that it is

impossible to talk about gender without considering other
dimensions of social structure/social identity that play a
formative role in gender’s operation and meaning. In the
U.S., the most obvious, pervasive, and seemingly unalterable
are race and social class. Second, intersectionality
seemed a generally applicable descriptive solution to the
multiplying features that create and define social identities.
It is not race-class-gender, but also age, ableness, sexual

orientation, to name the most salient.


In Europe, religion and ethnicity are the most obvious, pervasive and seemingly unalterable social dimensions which play a role in gender's operation and meaning.

The very meaning of Muslim varies for women and men.

Identity is experienced by the individual themself. -> ingroup distancing is a mechanism that Muslim women associate personal meaning to their disadvantaged categories and 

Beyond Subordination vs. Resistance: An Intersectional Approach to the Agency of Veiled Muslim Women

Engaging with a figure that came to operate as a powerful cultural signifier of otherness in debates over migrant/Muslim integration across the West, the ‘veiled woman’; the paper questions the idea of agency that inheres in the contemporary feminist discourses on Muslim veil. After showing the shortcomings and adverse effects of two dominant readings of the Muslim veil, as a symbol of women's subordination to men, or as an act of resistance to Western hegemony, it explores an alternative avenue drawing on both the poststructuralist critique of the humanist subject and feminist intersectional theorising to answer the question of what kind of conception of agency can help us to think about the agency of the veiled woman without binding a priori the meaning of her veiling to the teleology of emancipation, whether feminist or anti-imperialist.

Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective

This paper serves as a “best practices guide” for researchers interested in applying intersectionality theory to psychological research. Intersectionality, the mutually constitutive relations among social identities, presents several issues to researchers interested in applying it to research. I highlight three central issues and provide guidelines for how to address them. First, I discuss the constraints in the number of identities that researchers are able to test in an empirical study, and highlight relevant decision rules. Second, I discuss when to focus on “master” identities (e.g., gender) versus “emergent” identities (i.e., White lesbian). Third, I argue that treating identity as a process situated within social structural contexts facilitates the research process. I end with a brief discussion of the implications for the study of intersectionality.

nice choice of words

Diaspora, as a venerated concept, has a strong placement in our political and intellectual discourses. My article questions the deployment of diaspora as an analytical category in explaining the contemporary immigration experience. Focusing peculiarly on the ethnic axis of homelands and abroad, theories of diaspora overlook the transgressions of the national and lose sight of the new dynamics and topography of membership. I suggest that a more productive perspective is achieved by focusing our analytical providence on the proliferating sites of making and enacting citizenship. I do this by elaborating two paradoxes underlying the contemporary formations of citizenship: a) the increasing decoupling of rights and identities, the two main components of citizenship; b) the tendency towards particularistic claims in public spheres and their legitimation through universalistic discourses of personhood. These paradoxes warrant that we have new forms of making claims, mobilizing identity and practising citizenship, which lie beyond the limiting dominion of ethnically informed diasporic arrangements, transactions and belongings.

study on career decision-making

Career Decision-Making Skills of High School Students in The Bahamas

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the confidence level in career decision-making of Bahamian adolescents in the high schools in Nassau, Bahamas, investigating factors that influence one's level of confidence in career decision-making. The Career Decision Scale along with a demographic survey were administered to 385 11th and 12th graders to examine six factors which measured the effects and/or interaction effects of influences on confidence in career decision-making. Two MANOVAs and the appropriate follow-up statistics (Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference post hoc tests) were used to determine differences and interaction effects among the variables measuring the level of career decision-making skills. Based on the findings of the study the researcher concluded that for Bahamian adolescents, the type of school, the grade level, and a visit to the school guidance office were significant factors that influenced one's level of confidence in career decision-making.

Nice PhD offers in EU!

http://www.easp.eu/themes/job_offers.htm

https://www.jacobs-university.de/directory/ccohrs

Nice - This is exactly it:

Collective Action in the Digital Age: Social identities and the influence of online and offline behaviour
The College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Exeter is pleased to offer a PhD studentship funded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl) under their National UK PhD programme scheme (https://www.dstl.gov.uk/pages/204). The student will be based at University of Exeter's Streatham Campus in Psychology, and will be supervised by Professor Mark Levine.

Project description:
The protest movements in Egypt, the summer 2011 riots in English towns and cities and the events of the London student fee protests show the importance of understanding synchronised collective actions driven by online interactions. The question of how people from various walks of life, with a range of social networks, can emerge onto the street and engage in coordinated action is a complex but important one. Any understanding of this phenomenon requires analysis of both the psychological processes that allow people to embrace a common identity such that they become willing to face great risk or danger - and the emergent technologies that facilitate such connectedness and coordination.

This PhD will explore the interactions of social identity processes and cyber technologies in understanding contemporary collective action. It will conduct empirical work on the role of multiple identities in online and offline behaviour; on whether and how collective behaviour online can be similar to that carried out by co-present collectivities; on group regulation of pro and anti-social behaviour. The empirical work in this thesis will combine quantitative and qualitative methods - and triangulate research findings as appropriate. Much of the research work will involve laboratory experiments that manipulate identities in online and offline environments and measure different dependent variables. However, it will also analyse interactions in online digital media for evidence of social identity processes in the promotion or inhibition of antisocial or anti-normative behaviour.
The PhD project will benefit from - and add value to - the recent EPSRC award to the supervisor (Professor Mark Levine, Psychology, Exeter) entitled "Identi-Scope: Multiple identities as a resource for understanding and impacting behaviours in the digital world". The EPSRC grant was a one-year scoping study that brought together expertise in computer science (Professor Awais Rashid, Lancaster University) and social psychology (Dr Ilka Gleibs, LSE).

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Some more abstracts

de Munck, V. C., Korotayev, A., de Munck, J., & Khaltourina, D. (2011). Cross-Cultural Analysis of Models of Romantic Love Among US Residents, Russians, and Lithuanians. Cross-Cultural Research, 45(2), 128-154.

Our goal was to detect and describe a common “core” structure of romantic love and to also discover and explain variations due to cultural or gender differences between three national cultures: the United States, Russia, and Lithuania. Our sample consisted of 262 American males, 362 American females, 166 Russian males, 130 females, 102 Lithuanian males, and 135 Lithuanian females—a total of 1,157 people. Our analysis was derived from (a) a 14-item questionnaire; (b) freelist responses to the question “What do you associate with romantic love?” and (c) interview and focus group data. The questionnaire was devised by employing well-known quotations about romantic love that cover a range of feelings and perceptions of love. Our results showed that there is no overall consensus but there was cross-cultural consensus on five variables: intrusive thinking, happiness; passion; altruism; and improve well-being of partner. In the freelist portion, we also found some significant similarities—particularly the desire to be together was ranked first across all three cultures. However key cultural differences were found. Friendship and comfort love were critical features of romantic love for the U.S. sample, but nonexistent for the Lithuanian and Russian samples. Conversely, the latter two samples saw love as “unreal,” “temporary,” and “a fairytale.” These cultural differences were explored through interviews and shown to serve as different cultural frames used to interpret similar emotional complexes. We suggest that the differences do not affect the evolutionary functions of romantic love and are adaptations to different types of social organizations. The etic-emic approach used in this cross-cultural research provides for a more nuanced, ethnographically sound, and cross-culturally valid description and analysis of the form and function of romantic love cross culturally than does either approach by itself.

Kirschenbaum, R. J., & Reis, S. M. (1997). Conflicts in creativity: Talented female artists. Creativity Research Journal, 10(2-3), 251-263.
A comparative case study approach was used to investigate the development of artistic talent among female artists who also raise families. intensive interviews with 10 female artists who had children were conducted. The artists revealed that their priority in life was their family but that their art also was essential for creative self-expression. Artistic productivity was dependent on a number of factors, including self-discipline; financial support and security; spousal encouragement and support; childrearing responsibilities; job demands; access to artistic materiddequipment; and workspace availability. The female artists in this study indicated they often faced dtficult choices related to
creative expression and development because their relationships
with their husbands and, especially, their
children open diverted their attention from their art.
However, they all persevered and continued with their
art. Ironically, the obstacles they encountered-such as
the absence of supportfrom spouses andparents, financial
difiulties, and time necessary to raise their children-
were perceived by these women as contributing
in some ways to their creative process and the development

of their identities as artists.

New PhD Research Area for Me: Love & Politics Combined!

http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/henrietta-l-moore/protest-politics-and-ethical-imagination

what an inspiring person:
http://www.henriettalmoore.com/

also look:
Tchalova, K. & MacDonald, G. (in press). The interpersonal is the political: The role of social belongingness in emotional experience and political orientation. In R. Kingston (Ed.), Emotions in Context. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press.