Essays on Gilligan

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Companies in different industries are adopting marketing strategies that aid them achieve uniqueness and difference from their competitors. At an age where companies experience stiff intra-industry competition, it is imperative that their marketing managers be regularly involved in the development of distinct strategies that help them acquire a comparative advantage over their competitors. The whole process of adopting unique marketing strategies to attract a certain target market is called strategic marketing. According to Wilson & Galligan (2012), strategic marketing refers to all activities undertaken by a company to differentiate itself from other players in the same industry in the marketplace. ...

In the article, Carol Gilligan highlights a couple of arguments that can justify the fact some of the researchers do not include female sample in their studies of justice reasoning. First, females are blamed for lower level of justice reasoning. Second, women create a potential error in care reasoning by creating a tendency to enter into another's perspective. And finally, research shows females have a problem understanding “morality” in general (Gilligan 1987). Yet, these findings are compared merely to men’s view on morality and development of justice. As the matter of fact, being different from men’s views ...

Starbucks is a coffee corporation in America that was founded in 1971 and has turned out to be the largest coffeehouse company in the world. It offers the highest quality Arabica coffee as the base for her espresso drinks. This essay considers the case of Howard Schulz and the Starbucks coffee company, Harvard business school, case N9-803-361, revised September 30, 2005, by Nancy F. Koehn. Economist Nancy has researched about Starbucks Company under the leadership of Howard Schulz. She explains economic, management and marketing strategies that Howard Schulz has used to rescue Starbucks from collapsing. The case investigates the ...

Vince Gilligan’s crime/family drama Breaking Bad (2008-2013) is often cited as one of the greatest television shows ever made, one of the best examples of the era of prestige cable drama. Telling the story of science teacher-turned-meth-cook Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and his burnout assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Breaking Bad’s serialized narrative, layered performances and dedication to dynamic visual storytelling elevate it in ways not enjoyed by most cable dramas. Perhaps one of the most presentational and ambitious episodes of the series is the tenth episode of season three, “Fly,” directed by Rian Johnson. A classic ...

1. Introduction Child sexual abuse is both a global problem and a crime to which there are seldom any witnesses and which more often than not remains undetected. Disclosure by sexually abused children is the most effective method by which assistance and intervention can be provided in a timely fashion. However, there are several barriers to such disclosure. The purpose of this paper is to review and describe the major barriers to disclosure of child sexual abuse and explore the methods to overcome these barriers. The paper reviews literature about child sexual abuse and disclosure with a key focus ...

Tourism

2016-04-13

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This paper is devoted to the issue about the hospitality industry in the United Kingdom and the impact of the customers (especially, women). Nowadays, the hotel business is one of the most promising and, at the same time, growing industries, which bring considerable profits worldwide. The hotel industry as an economic activity includes the provision of hotel services and the organization of paid short-term accommodation in hotels, campgrounds, motels. The hospitality as a component of the tourism industry differs by high potential for the UK market. It is able to generate a steady income to the budget of ...

Criminal instinction is on the rise especially in the current world. This is perpetuated by the influence of media in the society. What people do not understand is that what is acted in the movies is mostly fiction or fictitious and cannot be done physically. The great impact of digitalization of the world has brought about so many injustices on the real world. Most people now try to relate what they see in the fiction world and at the end; they find their goal plummeted and the repercussions for that becomes very nasty. Media has brought about social injustices ...

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Moral development for male and female has been argued from different perspectives by different theorists in psychology. This includes Kohlberg’s theories (Kohlberg to whom Gilligan was a student) and Erikson’s theory who was also a lecturer with Gilligan at Harvard. Kohlberg had at several times called Gilligan where they shared in lecturing together). Gilligan’s ideas however go contrary to the two bringing about several arguments on the topic. In her book ‘in a different voice’, carol Gilligan writes in disagreement with Kohlberg’s theory on the issue of female gender having a lower level of moral development compared to ...

Empathy and Equality: Assessing Traditional Notions of Gender Identity

EMPATHY AND EQUALITY

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Carol Gilligan’s contention that male gender identity is threatened by intimacy while female identity is marginalized by separation has its basis in the generally accepted view that men approach morality from a justice perspective in contrast to women, who adopt a care-focused outlook. Gilligan’s view of this sociology of gender identity is quite plausible given her contention that care is a viable agent of moral development for women and that separation and individuation are profoundly rooted in complex, mother-child relationships. While Gilligan essentially concurs with Lawrence Kohlberg as to the universality of the male-justice/female-caring construct, she disagrees ...

Human development entails a complex process characterized by multidimensional, multi-determined, multi-directional, and other life-long processes. Majority of these factors influencing human development experience both continuous and change qualitative and quantitative aspects of functioning and behavior. Similarly, the current environment plays a key role in influencing the process of human development and factors such as mental illness, minority status, and social upbringing are examples of such factors (Sameroff 1998). Worse still, human development process is impinged when several factors act on a single infant. Majority of research has been undertaken to make individuals understand the factors that hinder the development of children. Findings ...