Why becoming a national treasure matters: Elite celebrity status and inequality in the United Kingdom

This article presents the first analysis of ?national treasure?as a status designation for an elitecategory of British celebritieswho holda unique position in the Great British hall of fame.The emergence of this status designationis situated in the context of two intersecting processes of cultural changein the post-War period ?the rise of celebrity culture and the popularisationof the state honourssystem. It is proposedthat national treasure status results from the accumulation of three interlocking forms of validation: peer, state and media. After reviewing these underpinning forms of validation, we consider one of Britain?s most celebrated national treasures?Dame Judi Dench. The aim is toillustrate empirically the status elevation and sedimentation processes through which particular elite celebrities become national treasures, and the various ways in which they might respond to thisstatus designation. Though the term ?national treasure?for many ?including those so-designated ?may seema trite term of endearment,we arguethat it is in factan ideological assemblageinvestedwithsignificance.On the one hand, national treasures help revalidate the notion of the authentic celebrity within an apparently meritocratic system that recognises and rewards talent, hard workand dedication. In a context of a relentlesslybleak newscycle, they are a wholly virtuousexpression of the national identity, signifying all that is great about Britain.On the other hand, although national treasures are constructed as being ?of the people?, by authenticatingthe underpinning institutional forms of validation, their status transformation contributes to the legitimation and reproduction ofstatus hierarchies,cultural authorityand inequality in the UK

«Julgamento pelos media»: policiamento, ambiente mediático das notícias 24/7 e a «política da indignação»

This article analyses the changing nature of news media-police chief relations. Building on previous research (Greer and McLaughlin, 2010), we use the concepts of “inferential structure” (Lang and Lang, 1955) and “hierarchy of credibility” (Becker, 1967) to examine former Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Commissioner Sir Ian Blair’s “trial by media”. We focus on the collective and overwhelmingly hostile journalistic reaction to Blair’s declaration in 2005 that: (a) the news media are guilty of “institutional racism” in their coverage of murders; and (b) the murders of two 10-year-olds in Soham, 2001, received undue levels of media attention. A sustained period of symbolic media annihilation in the British mainstream press established a dominant “inferential structure” that defined Blair as the “gaffeprone Commissioner”: his position in the “hierarchy of credibility” was shredded, and his Commissionership de-legitimized. The unprecedented resignation of an MPS Commissioner is situated within the wider context of “attack journalism” and the rising news media “politics of outrage”.Este artigo analisa a natureza em mudança das relações entre os meios de comunicação social e a chefia da polícia. Com base em estudos prévios (Greer & McLaughlin, 2010), usamos os conceitos de «estrutura inferencial» (Lang & Lang, 1955 e «hierarquia da credibilidade» (Becker, 1967) para analisar o «julgamento pelos media» do antigo comissário do Serviço da Polícia Metropolitana (MPS), Sir Ian Blair. Centramo-nos na reação coletiva e fundamentalmente hostil por parte dos media à declaração de Blair em 2005, que afirmara que: (a) os media são culpados de «racismo institucional» na sua cobertura dos homicídios; e (b) que os homicídios de duas crianças de 10 anos em Soham, 2001, receberam níveis desproporcionados de atenção por parte dos media. Um longo período de aniquilação simbólica na imprensa britânica generalista estabeleceria uma «estrutura inferencial» que definiu Blair como comissário «dado a gafes»: a sua posição na «hierarquia da credibilidade» foi destruída e foi-lhe retirada a legitimidade no cargo. A demissão sem precedentes de um comissário da MPS insere-se num contexto mais abrangente de «jornalismo de ataque» e na crescente «política da indignação» nos meios de comunicação social

The Effects of Onlooker Gender and Restrictive Emotionality on Help-Seeking Behavior

Endorsing traits associated with masculinity, such as restrictive emotionality (RE), may have negative implications for the health and well-being of both male and female individuals, specifically in terms of help-seeking. The current work examines whether gender of an onlooker (i.e., a coworker) impacts participants’ self-reported likelihood to seek help for a physical ailment or injury in the workplace. We also investigate if RE moderated the relationship between onlooker gender and intent to seek help. We hypothesize that participants would be more likely to seek help from a female (vs. male) coworker and this anticipated effect would be exacerbated for those relatively high in endorsement of RE. Participants (n = 129) were recruited online to engage in a study where they self-reported likelihood to seek help from a male or female coworker when experiencing various injury symptoms at work and their RE. Our results provided support for only one of our primary hypotheses: as RE increased, intent to seek help decreased. Auxiliary analyses revealed female participants were significantly more likely to seek help from a female onlooker than a male onlooker, whereas male participants were equally likely to seek help from females and males. These results suggest RE may be associated with maladaptive help-seeking behavior and participant gender and onlooker gender may interact to inform help-seeking with practical implications for developing interventions to encourage help-seeking

Getting to the Finish Line: College Enrollment and Graduation

Presents data from a longitudinal study of the Boston public school system's class of 2000 -- how many had enrolled in college, had graduated, and remained enrolled as of 2007, by gender, race/ethnicity, and types of college and high school attended

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Use of partial-wave decomposition to identify resonant interference effects in the photoionization–excitation of argon

We have studied simultaneous photoionization and excitation of Ar in the range of incident photon energies between 36.00 and 36.36 eV, where the resonant production of doubly excited neutral Ar states imbedded in the ionization continuum is dominant. By measuring the relative Stokes parameters of the fluorescence from residual Ar+∗ (3p4 [3P] 4p) ions (2P1/2, 465.8 nm transition; 2P3/2, 476.5 nm; 2D3/2, 472.7 nm; 2D5/2, 488.0 nm; 4P5/2, 480.6 nm; 4D5/2, 514.5 nm) we demonstrate a technique for determining individual partial-wave cross sections in photoionizing collisions. This procedure is shown to be important in sorting out competing dynamical ionization mechanisms, particularly with regard to resonant production of intermediate doubly excited autoionizing states. Comparison with theoretical photoionization cross sections demonstrates that spin–orbit coupling between different states of Ar II needs to be accounted for in the calculations

Exile Vol. XXV No. 1

PROSE Friend by John Marshall Visiting Relatives by Cynthia Lanning Hahn The Mud Lane by Eloise Haveman The Petrification of a Wild Sweet William Blossom by Melissa Simmons ART Three views of Granville by Scott Tryon (front cover) untitled photos by Bogart and Jerry Brown Landscape by Scott Tryon Submissive Defiance by Bogart Three things that Remain by Jerry Brown back cover by Lindy Davies POETRY A Photographer Documents Her Death by Chris Gjessing three Haiku by Eloise Haveman Morning by Melissa Simmons Granite Travel by Lisa Minacci did you year? by Bob McLaughlin he\u27s coming home again by Bob McLaughlin David by Betsy Bates Le Cafe de \u27lUnivers by Ann Leopard untitled by John Marshall The Last Ramona Poem (fat chance) by Lindy Davies Mother Told Me not to Play Next Door by Ellen Cox Poems of the Inconsequentials by Eloise Havema