Sources of Information and Norms Regarding Sexual Issues Among Indian Male Young Adults

Honors (Bachelor's)PsychologyUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91874/1/nhhakim.pd

Not Quite White: Arab Americans and the Boundaries of Racial/Ethnic Similarity

Across four studies, we examined the implications of shifting racial designation of Arab Americans. The studies primarily concerned multiple factors influencing the ways that Arab and European Americans respond to categorization of Arabs as White (or not). Study 1 (N = 1,001) showed that Arab Americans were more likely to identify as Other (vs. White, their legal racial category) the more they reported discrimination, the darker their skin, and if they were Muslim (vs. Christian). Study 2 (N = 90), with an Arab American college student sample, showed that higher American identification predicted perceived subgroup respect when participants could self-categorize as “Middle Eastern or North African” (vs. when such an option was unavailable). Studies 3 and 4 addressed the question of ambiguous Arab racial categorization among White participants. Study 3 showed that cultural and biological definitions of race moderated participants’ likelihood of considering an Arab as similar to their own group: cultural essentialism negatively predicted Whites’ perception of Arabs as similar, particularly when told that Arabs are categorized as White (vs. categorized as MENA); in contrast, biological essentialism positively predicted perceived similarity when Arabs were categorized as White and negatively when Arabs were categorized as MENA. In Study 4, participants generally supported categorizing Arabs as MENA rather than White, and perceived similarity qualified this effect: similarity was positively related to support for a policy that categorized Arabs as White, but negatively related to support for a policy that categorized Arabs as MENA. Beyond perceptions of outgroups and racism per se, this investigation of race and racial categories benefits from a dialectic study of how the constructed nature of racial categories influences perceptions of self and (negotiable) others

Charles Demolombe y la invención jurídica de la naturaleza

El objetivo de esta contribución es releer algunos pasajes del Cours de Code Napoléon de Charles Demolombe relativos al derecho de los bienes,1 interrogándonos sobre lo que “naturaleza” quiere decir bajo la pluma del civilista de Caen. En el proceso, esta excursión en la doctrina jurídica del siglo XIX nos permite plantear la cuestión de la invención por los juristas de la “naturaleza” en el discurso jurídico

Le miroir de l’autorité : l’instrumentalisation de l’autorité dans la doctrine contemporaine

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Droit naturel et histoire chez François Gény

La présente étude entend examiner la relation qu'entretient François Gény à l'histoire du droit. Une lecture contextuelle de son oeuvre conduit à remettre en question l'ouverture du doyen de Nancy aux sciences dites auxiliaires du droit et à recentrer le regard sur le coeur d'une pensée fermement arrimée à un droit naturel immuable et universel. L'histoire finit ainsi par être réduite à la tradition et à l'autorité ou, autrement dit, à une méthode dogmatique et axiologique

Continuità o rottura nella storia del pensiero giuridico ? Esegesi, transtestualità e positivismo legalistico del Cours de Code Napoléon di Charles Demolombe

From the example of the Cours de Code Napoléon of Charles Demolombe (1804-1887), the present study intends to examine the continuity or the discontinuity of the legal thought in France between the 18th and the 19th century. The use of a literary analysis of the legal speech (intertextuality and Metatextuality) allows to show that, in spite of the number and the importance of the formers references, the legal thought knows a break in the first half of the 19th century

Ethnic Inconsistency in an Anticipated Interaction Partner

Racial and ethnic categorization has important behavioral consequences in diverse contexts. But how are these consequences shaped if a person’s ethnic group membership is unclear or ambiguous—that is, when a person is perceived as belonging to more than one ethnic group, or carrying markers of two ethnic groups? Building from several literatures, I attempt to examine how undergraduates perceive a target whose ethnicity cues appear inconsistent by measuring distancing and questioning behavior. In study 1 (n = 110), participants, expecting to interact with a person with either a European American or Arab appearance and either an English or Arabic name, wrote questions, reported expectations, and set up chairs for the anticipated conversation. Participants distanced themselves least from and asked the most questions to a consistent outgroup member. In contrast, those targets with inconsistent cues—those who had both Arab and European American identity cues--were distanced from significantly more, but not as much as from consistent ingroup members. In study 2 (n = 63), resolving the inconsistency between name and appearance did not affect distancing, but participants did spend more time writing questions for these targets. Results are inconsistent with both outgroup bias and cognitive fluency explanations. The absence of threat and potential interest to be taken in outgroup members may explain why participants did not exhibit the expected higher discomfort or uncertainty in meeting a person with an ethnic outgroup marker

Histoire de la pensée juridique et analyse bibliométrique : l’exemple de la circulation des idées entre la France et l’Italie à la Belle Époque

La présente étude entend appliquer une méthode quantitative pour comprendre l’histoire de la pensée juridique et la circulation des idées juridiques entre la France et l’Italie à la Belle Époque. Il s’agit d’une recherche pilote combinant l’étude bibliométrique des citations et références de revues juridiques et l’analyse de réseaux. Deux exemples sont discutés : les comptes rendus et l’assurance sur la vie. L’objectif est de cartographier les réseaux pour mieux comprendre la circulation des savoirs juridiques