Slurs, roles and power

Canadian health care slurs dismissed as "rhetoric".

The impact of racial slurs and racism on the perceptions and punishment of violent crime.

When a crime is committed by an individual of one race against an individual of another race, there is the possibility that the crime is a hate crime. Legislation often mandates harsher penalties for perpetrators convicted of crimes determined to be hate crimes, yet this determination is difficult to make. This study used vignettes of violent crimes to examine how the races of the perpetrators ...

Challenge Your Stigma: How to Reframe and Revalue Negative Stereotypes and Slurs

Stigma devalues individuals and groups, producing social and economic disadvantages through two distinct but reinforcing processes: direct discrimination (e.g., a White person not hiring a Black person based on race) and stigma internalization (e.g., women believing men are more qualified for leadership positions). We review strategies that individuals can use to not only cope with but also cha...

Public Library Directors: Hierarchical Roles and Proximity to Power

THISARTICLE EXAMINES THE CURRENT experience and trends in the roles, functions, and activities of today’s directors of large libraries or library systems. Directors assume an extensive range of complex responsibilities in their unique positions, foremost of which is accountability for internal organization, operations, and management. A shift in roles, functions, and activities is occurring, ho...

Norms, Institutional Power and Roles: Towards a Logical Framework

In the design of the organisation of a multiagent system the concept of role is fundamental. We informally analyse this concept through examples. Then we propose a more formal definition that can be decomposed into: the conditions that have to be satisfied to hold a role, the norms and institutional powers that apply to a role holder. Finally, we present a modal logical framework to represent t...