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Author : Sharon Lamb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674910117
This work looks at the topic of victimisation and blame as a pathology for our time, and its consequences for personal responsibility.
Author : Stephen Fineman
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780234588
Whenever anything goes wrong our first instinct is often to find someone to blame. Blame infuses our society in myriad ways, seeding rancor and revenge, dividing lovers, coworkers, communities, and nations. Yet blame, appropriately placed and managed, safeguards moral order and legal culpability. In this book, Stephen Fineman explores this duality inherent in blame, taking us on a fascinating journey across blame’s sometimes bitter—sometimes just—landscape. Fineman focuses on blame’s roots and enduring manifestations, from the witch hunts of the past to today’s more buttoned-up scapegoating and stigmatization; from an individual’s righteous anger to entire cultures shaped by its power. Addressing our era of increasing unease about governance in public and private enterprises, he delves behind the scenes of organizations infected with blame, profiling the people who keep its plates spinning. With a critical eye, he examines the vexing issue of public accountability and the political circus that so often characterizes our politicians and corporations lost in their “blame games.” Ultimately, Fineman raises the challenging question of how we might mitigate blame’s corrosive effects, asking crucial and timely questions about the limits of remorse and forgiveness, the role of state apologies for historical wrongdoings, whether restorative justice can work, and many other topics. An absorbing look at something we all know intimately, this book deepens our understanding of blame and how it shapes our lives.
Author : Jessica Taylor
Publisher : Constable
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472135466
Author : Michelle Huneven
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429989893
Michelle Huneven, Richard Russo once wrote, is "a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent." That talent explodes with her third book, Blame, a spellbinding novel of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and the lack of it, and the moral ambiguities that ensnare us all. The story: Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties with a brand-new Ph.D. from Berkeley and a wild streak, wakes up in jail—yet again—after another epic alcoholic blackout. "Okay, what'd I do?" she asks her lawyer and jailers. "I really don't remember." She adds, jokingly: "Did I kill someone?" In fact, two Jehovah's Witnesses, a mother and daughter, are dead, run over in Patsy's driveway. Patsy, who was driving with a revoked license, will spend the rest of her life—in prison, getting sober, finding a new community (and a husband) in AA—trying to atone for this unpardonable act. Then, decades later, another unimaginable piece of information turns up. For the reader, it is an electrifying moment, a joyous, fall-off-the-couch-with-surprise moment. For Patsy, it is more complicated. Blame must be reapportioned, her life reassessed. What does it mean that her life has been based on wrong assumptions? What can she cleave to? What must be relinquished? When Huneven's first novel, Round Rock, was published, Valerie Miner, in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, celebrated Huneven's "moral nerve, sharp wit and uncommon generosity." The same spirit electrifies Blame. The novel crackles with life—and, like life, can leave you breathless.
Author : Carmen Renee Berry,Mark W. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0891099158
Giving readers the handle they need on the dynamics of victimization, blame and healing, this book enable them to see beyond the guilt, anger, fear, or grief to the sense of powerlessness victims feel. And they'll be given tools to set appropriate boundaries for their relatinships with victims.
Author : Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830823948
Wrestling with the question, Is God to blame?, Gregory A. Boyd offers a hopeful picture of a sovereign God who is relentlessly opposed to evil, who knows our sufferings and who can be trusted to bring us through them to renewed life.
Author : Andreas Brekke Carlsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009179256
New essays by leading moral philosophers on the nature and ethics of self-blame, and its connections to moral responsibility.
Author : Steven P. Jones
Publisher : IAP
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681232201
There is a story going around about the public schools and the people who teach in them—a story about how awful our nation’s teachers are and why we should blame teachers for the poor state of our public schools. But is the story about teachers right or fair? Why do so many people point fingers at teachers and seem to resent them so much? Blame Teachers: The Emotional Reasons for Educational Reform examines why many people blame teachers for what they understand to be the poor state of our schools. Blame comes easily to many people when they read about poor student performance and how “protected” teachers are by teachers’ unions and tenure policies. And with blame comes resentment, and with resentment comes demands for all kinds of educational reform—calls for more standardized testing, merit pay, charter schools, and all the rest. And we expect teachers to like and accept all the reforms being proposed. Conceiving educational reform out of blame and resentment aimed at teachers does no good for teachers, students, or schools. Blame Teachers outlines many of the strange and unacceptable assumptions about teaching and the purposes of education contained in these educational reforms. Intended for teachers, teacher education students, policymakers and the larger public, Blame Teachers suggests much better and more productive conversations we can have with teachers—conversations much more likely to improve teaching and learning in classrooms. The book argues for conversations with teachers that don’t begin or end with blame and resentment. In this lively, personal meditation on what it means to be a teacher, Steven Jones demonstrates how an emotional, unreasoned ‘blame game’ directed at teachers by educational reformers today is undercutting the future of the nation’s children. It is doing so by threatening to deprive them of teachers as contrasted with by?the?numbers technicians. Today’s reformers neglect the philosopher Spinoza’s time honored insight, that a person in the grip of emotion is “in human bondage” and simply cannot see the truth of things. Can educators themselves, in tandem with knowledgeable members of the public, transform the reformers’ dogmatic, harmful narrative about our teachers? Jones’ thoughtful study will surely help in this much?needed effort. ~ David T. Hansen, Weinberg Professor in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education, Teachers College
Author : Paula Caplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135958947
In 1990, Paula Caplan, a nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women, wrote the groundbreaking Don'tBlame Mother. Now, almost ten years later, she finds that we are still blaming mothers. Fully revised, updated with a new introduction, this second edition proposes new ways of mending the mother-daughter relationship. The NewDon't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-DaughterRelationship shows us that dangerous myths about mothers pervade our culture and have created or aggravated many of the problems between mothers and daughters. Myths of the Perfect Mother give rise to impossible expectations and set mothers up for failure--good mothers don't get angry, good mothers are endlessly giving--and myths of the Bad Mother exaggerate mothers' failings and create a monster figure in her image--mothers are too needy, mothers can't let go. Caplan shows that if women can identify these myths then they can take concrete steps to build a strong and loving relationship with their mothers. The New Don't Blame Mother shows how the anger and agony of the mother-daughter relationship can be replaced with a new bond based on understanding and respect. The New Don't Blame Mother is a must-read for all mothers and daughters. Caplan, drawing on over twenty-five years of research, clinical practice, and the experience of workshop participants, will show you how to stop blaming mother and, instead, start loving her.
Author : Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780679887430
This classic Berenstain Bears story is a perfect way to teach children about taking responsibility for their actions! Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Papa and Mama have had it with Brother and Sister constantly blaming each other for everything. Will the cubs ever learn to accept responsibility, or will they just keep playing the blame game? Includes over 50 bonus stickers!
Author : Ted Roudelle
Publisher : ShieldCrest
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781910176498
TED ROUDELLE is a 60-year-old Property Developer from Richmond-upon-Thames in Surrey. When a long-standing relationship hit the buffers he found himself isolated. Prompted by his grandson Alfie, he decided to "Go Online" in the search for love and romance. "I Blame Alfie" became the title of his first book. Online Dating introduced Ted to an unforgettable, magical, mystery tour which embraced every emotion and to a world of sexual passion, intrigue and fantasy. In this, his second book, he takes you on another roller-coaster-ride of emotional drama. This time he blames his daughter-in-law, Sophie, for the trouble he gets himself into but, typical Ted, he loved every minute of the experience! He is now convinced that it was "My destiny, my fate" to get involved in the world of online dating. You will laugh, you will cringe. You will feel sad. But, most significantly, your eyes will be opened once again to the shocking world of Online Dating! And...There is a happy ending which proves that it does work. ENJOY!
Author : George Sher
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195187427
Blame is an unpopular & neglected notion that goes against the grain of a therapeutically-orientated culture & has received relatively little philosophical attention. George Sher discusses questions about the nature, normative status & the relation to character of blame, arguing that it is inseparable from morality itself.
Author : Maureen Sie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004493421
This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary, everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra-ordinary, “morally monstrous-like” crimes and weak-willed actions of some.
Author : April Michelle Herndon
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700619658
A four year old Mexican American girl is taken away from her parents because she is obese and experiencing health problems related to her weight. Such a measure, once seen as extreme, quickly comes to be seen as a logical means of addressing a problem viewed as nothing short of child abuse. And yet, for all the purported concern for these children’s welfare, little if any mention is ever made of the psychological ramifications of removing children from their families. They are simply the latest victims of the war on obesity—a war declared on a “disease” but conducted, April Herndon contends in this book, along cultural lines. Fat Blame is a book about how the war on obesity is, in many ways, shaping up to be a battle against women and children, especially women and children who are marginalized via class and race. While conceding that fatness can be linked to certain conditions, or that some populations might be heavier than others, Herndon is more interested in the ways women and children are blamed for obesity and the ways interventions aimed at preventing obesity are problematic in and of themselves. From bariatric surgeries being performed on children to women being positioned as responsible for carrying to term a generation of thin children, her book looks closely at the stories of real people whose lives are drastically altered by interventions that are supposedly for their own good. As with so many practices surrounding bodies and health, like dieting, people are often simultaneously blamed and empowered through policies and interventions, especially those that seem to offer them choices. What Herndon reveals is how such choices only offer the illusion of being empowering. Rather, she shows how woman and children are pushed, pulled, and sometimes victimized by interventions such as bariatric surgeries, limits on reproductive technologies, and having their families broken up by the courts. Only by identifying members of this group as victims of discrimination, she argues, can we hope to return them to a fuller and richer kind of agency. In declaring a war on obesity, the United States has said that fat is one of the most serious enemies it faces. Fat Blame asks us to confront the real enemy—the moral, political, and ideological significance of our every move in this “war.”
Author : Mark Hickson,Larry Powell
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498545464
They Started It! looks at the forces that have developed over the past 50-plus years and created a dysfunctional political system in the United States. It argues that the current level of partisan polarization is actually the culmination of a number of forces at work during the past few decades. These include a perception by each party that the other is using unfair political tactics, the subsequent creation of a culture of blame with each party blaming the other for the dysfunction, a decline in political norms leading to childlike behavior by politicians and political candidates, and a culture of payback in which the opposition argue their opponents are responsible for the decline. These four factors culminated in the 2016 presidential campaign, where they were exemplified by the campaign of Donald Trump, and they have continued to have a significant ongoing impact on the political landscape of the United States.
