Reviews for Self-conscious emotions

The average rating for Self-conscious emotions based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-09-19 00:00:00 Bryan Morgan "If we are to find a direction forward that can truly improve the lives of millions of people who are presently hungry and without adequate housing and health care, we need to initiate a discussion that is grounded in the experience of real people. Summarizing that experience with numbers is important . . . But change comes about when people are able to bring their experiences together and connect them to the bigger picture (Ranney 2003:6-7)." "through dialogue, rather than "education," it is possible to get people to articulate contradictions in their own lives and to link these to the bigger picture...Yet, despite its time-consuming nature, this approach can be the basis for building a movement that can effectively challenge the new world order. It is a very time-consuming and labor-intensive process. Organizers would have to hold discussions with social, economic, and environmental justice groups, community-based organizations, and local labor unions throughout the nation. These discussions would be designed to promote the educational campaign and to develop jointly workshops designed to generate critical reflection, while linking their particular situation to the larger picture of the new world order. . .And because the content and boundaries of organizing campaigns are the result of critical reflection, the people/students are the subjects of their own liberation (232-234)."

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-05 00:00:00 Allison Edmund Interesting perspectives on the global cities in the world and their role in it. Still, I felt like the book was a bit hard to follow the resoning of, like she approaches a bit too many destinations and don't really manage to reach them all. An example is the explaination of the growing economic inequality that felt a bit thin to me.