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Submitted by akay1999 on April 27, 2006
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There is a dual nature to nuclear weapons; they are new and different from all other
weapons, but also are instruments of annihilation/genocide. At the same time they are seen as part
of our every day life and seen by leaders as not so different from conventional weapons.
I’ve written about the imagery of extinction, that we could extinguish ourselves as a
species by our own hand. our own technology and for no purpose. What is new is the imagery has
been taken into religious hands. The very threat is the fear of human futurelessness. This affects
for and against our policies toward nuclear weapons. We can see the government becoming more
belligerent or aggressive in order to deny that threat.
Nuclearism is the exaggerated embrace of the weapons – the weapons become near
deities.
In outlining their developmental, or “life course,” approach, Sampson and Laub critique
sociological criminology’s research tradition of privileging the adolescent and adult
experiences of their subjects arguing
“ that antisocial and delinquent behavior in childhood – measured by both official and
unofficial sources – is linked to later adult deviance. And criminality in a variety of
settings (for example, family violence, military offences, “street crime,” and alcohol
abuse). Moreover, we argue that these outcomes occur independent of traditional
sociological and psychological variables such as class background, ethnicity, and IQ.”
Consequently they argue for a methodological approach that assesses the individual’s
experiences and quality of “informal social ties and bonds to society at all ages across
the life course.” The life course perspective attempts to assess the patterns of “change
and continuity between childhood behavior and later adulthood outcomes.” This
approach is also interested in studying...
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