Contemporary techniques, at the top of which is artificial intelligence, indicate the well-being of contemporary society. But this well-being perhaps should be written with a negative sign. The loss of the innate technical abilities that make up the essence of an individual means the...
Infantilization is a form of abuse in which a competent adult or young adult is treated like a child (Garber,2011; Koops,2012; Levy,1943; Sharlin & Polansky,1972). Viewed narrowly in the context of parenting, infantilization has been defined as a “parent’s inability to tolerate a child...
This article assesses Bernard Stiegler's critique of infantilization. Contemporary education—and society in general—would no longer develop children into adults, but would keep them in their childish state. Stiegler's critique is explicitly inspired by Enlightenment ideals, characterized by a positive ...
Forget what society gets wrong about you, all the time. No matter what the Buds face outside of those walls, their music prevails. The band is everything to them, bigger than all of them. Because when they are playing together, there’s no time for losers. article...
This article delves into the analysis of political communication between two Croatian political leaders, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi and President Zoran Milanovi, through the prism of the infantilization of politics as part of the broader context of the infantilization of soc...
To sensitize undergraduate students to the phenomenon of infantilization, the childlike treatment of older adults, the instructor of a psychology of aging course designed an exercise simulating an activity in a nursing home. The instructor required students to color within the lines of a drawing, ...
While the classic paradigms of adulthood and maturation could interpret such infantile behavior as a symptom of deviance, such behavior has become a model to follow, an ideal of fun and being carefree, present in a wide variety of contexts of society. The contemporary adult follows a sort of ...
It appears, then, that an overarching assumption underpinning press reports of suicide is that it is a destabilising force in liberal democratic society. As such, journalists play a significant role in maintaining balance and replicating acceptable discourses around the issue of ...
The arrival of migrant children at the US鈥揗exico border has prompted vigorous debates about how to handle their admission and manage their access to resources. Portrayals of child migrants often draw on dominant conventional notions of childhood, creating binary representations that simultaneously ...
To explore their sociocultural experiences in Indian society, fan responses to three questions – posted on Quora, an online question and answer (Q&A) platform – were critically analyzed using Fairclough's three-dimensional model of Critical Discourse Analysis. The three Quora questions ...