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by A swedish kind of death on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:07:40 PM EST
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'Critically analyse how the issue of sex education is constituted as a personal and social policy issue for the different constituencies of people in at least four of the six newspaper articles listed below...'

Articles include the mother trying to find a girlfriend for her son with Down's Syndrome, increasing rate of STIs in people 45 plus, trebling of HIV levels in Swindon, the new sex education curriculum (don't let children be withdrawn or taught by religious fanatics and don't let children be brainwashed by gays).

How is sex education and the different constituencies of people represented as a social policy issue and what discourses are being employed etc etc...?

All contributions welcome!

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:21:01 PM EST
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me knows you won't read this comment, what with being so busy writing, but me must point out a very hopeful sign in the data you've posted.


increasing rate of STIs in people 45 plus

A further data point PROVING that there is still a small hope for civilization (assuming that STI means Standardized Tumescent Insertion), that old folk can enjoy life's pleasures somewhat unabated.

We now return you to your writing.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:32:41 PM EST
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Yes CH, that's absolutely right.  The 45+ cache is constructed as a bunch of risk-taking rompers.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:40:20 PM EST
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False assumption, I'm afraid, CH. STI means Substandard Tumescence Incidents.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:53:53 PM EST
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Risk taking rompers, substandard tumescence incidents, my primitive brain is whirling with dichotomy?  In Wales data shows general exuberance in old folk, while your data seems skeweddd to a rather small subset.

Looks like we'll have to rerun the experimerriment.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:59:49 PM EST
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Experiments?  Her sources are newspapers for god's sakes.  

Any counter-evidence to her thesis from the sources® can be adequately countered by, "A bloke in a pub told me ..."

by ATinNM on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:06:12 PM EST
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The source of that particular quote that CH is so excited about is the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

So further examination of the subject matter could well be lined up, in the pub or elsewhere.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:12:35 PM EST
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Normal experimental procedure (in such matters) begins in a pub, i was teached. Which leads to newspaper articules, quite normal. Following on the research papers are published, leading to constructive dissertation in a pub.

or my kitchen. end arbiturae xochimilco.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:13:08 PM EST
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Sounds, to me, like the techniques and methods of social research from that well-known Eastern European philosopher Carol Ila.

;-)

by ATinNM on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:46:05 PM EST
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Tonight it's Karol Grappa, but we won't quibble. (wish it were Caol Ila)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:59:58 PM EST
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You could go article by article and note where sex education is mentioned, and note if it is personal (a rich sexlife, avoiding pregnancies and STDs) or social policy (happy, healthy population that reproduces in desired way). And then note how those social policy issues are constructed and what that construction says about the population studied.

Something like:

"In the article X, sex education is mention as personal when it comes to the sons [] but as social policy when it comes to []. If we contrast the indivualistic discourse of the sons life with the collective discourse in the social policy setting, we can clearly see that the author employs a [] discourse. This is problematic with the subject at hand as []

On the other hand in article Y...

And then in Z...

And ZZ...

When we lok at these together we can see that while the RED is used when dealing with group A, the MUD is reserved for group B. Interestingly enough the SID  does not appear in any of the compared articles. One would have thought that it would have been a useful approach, especially in article Y!"

(Given the topic at hand my stab in the dark would be to use these a lot:
RED - the re-distributionist discourse
MUD - the moral-underclass discourse
SID - the social-integrationist discourse)

And then when you are finished at 03:45, set your computers clock to 23:57 and email away. If the receiver is anything like my professors they will think it was sent that time as that is the timestamp your computer will give it.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:45:02 PM EST
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Without reading the source material ... can't directly help.

Can suggest the following procedure:

  1.  Abstract a commonality in your sources

  2.  State why this commonality IS a commonality

  3.  State why this commonality is important

  4.  Offer a social/political resolution of the commonality based on the professor's or lecturer's biases

The first 3 steps can, in my experience, be "jibber, jabber, drool, gibber" AS LONG AS Step 4 is rigorously obeyed.

;-)

by ATinNM on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:48:00 PM EST
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What is these "constituencies of people" stuff? Do you also deal with constituencies of horses and cows?

And if there's a constituency, doesn't there have to be an MP? Say, "the Hono(u)rable Member for 45+ STIs"?

... That wasn't by any chance the constituency in which you were hoping to be nominated, was it?


The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 03:56:05 PM EST
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Constituencies according to people's constructed identities.  Cows and horses may appear there if people construct themselves as such but I doubt that social policy constructs them in that way.  They could resist the categorisation, I suppose and perhaps start a new rights movement.  But most likely they'd be constructed as a problem to be controlled or ignored.  

I wasn't after the 45+ STIs constituency to be honest, it wouldn't be honourable surely?

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:10:07 PM EST
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In Wales:
trebling of HIV levels in Swindon

That one's easy.

Have you ever been to Swindon?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:54:59 PM EST
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That's Swingdom - different place.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:58:27 PM EST
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