Pointing to the experiences of Black people in the segregated American South, for example, Fricker (2016) has argued that by keeping some knowledge within their community, marginalised groups protect it from the distorting influence that the prejudiced conceptions of dominant groups may have. This ...
The profound disconnect between this idea and the fact that wealth comes from humans and that of course most of the planet was barely populated at all outside large cities never registered. Instead, the whole planet bought into the polemic and fell headlong into the hysteria of “too many hum...
In defeat, diagnosis proliferates. In victory, triumphalism conceals. Myriad pundits from right to left are all explaining what transpired on November 5th and all sharing the one dominant quality of our information ecosystem — certainty. It feels like the most valuable response ought to be self-...
The have demonstrated that the inhibition of survivin expre- negative control scrambled sequence 5'-GAC TTC ssion by antisense oligonucleotides,[6, 7] dominant negative ATA AGG CGC ATG C-3', which has no significant mutation,[8] or ribozymes[9-11] reduces the growth of homology to mouse ...
prevailing dominant opinion. Although our perception of the majority view may or may not be true, it alters our own opinions and behaviors so we at leastappearto share the majority view and ‘fit in’. In the end, all we want to do is avoid being isolated for not having the “right”...
The texts were excerpted into units of meaning (words, sentences or paragraphs). Emergent themes and recurring ideas were identified and classified in terms of the concepts arising from it. The code structure was discussed and revised and applied to the next subset of transcripts in an iterative...
Mass media is seen to play a major role in determining what the dominant opinion is, since our observation is limited to a small percentage of the population. Neumann describes the spiral of silence as a dynamic process, where public opinion becomes a fact as mass media’s coverage of the ...
The long-term care sector is characterized by dominant narratives and recurring societal debates around the health and wellbeing of care workers, often focusing on psychosocial working conditions. We aspired to move beyond such well-known narratives and capture new realities, literally, that would ...
Currently, approximately 2400 citizens in Denmark have a self-appointed helper—the vast majority of them are elderly immigrants from countries where Islam is the dominant religion. Emin, a 92-year-old man, is one of them. Emin came to Denmark from Turkey in the late 1960s. He suffers from...
efforts to address silence around gender-based violence. We conclude that shared beliefs among the leadership about the reputation and prestige of the university facilitate the endurance of silence in universities. Our findings indicate reasons why universities fail to create spaces that are safe from ...