Universiteit Humanistiek (UVH)

Summary of all exam material for the course Introduction to Social Science Research.

5: Whitehouse & Lanman (2014) The ties that bind us: Ritual, Fusion and Identification. Subject 4: Memory errors 7: Newman & Lindsay (2009) false memories: What the hell are they for? 8: Sharman et al. (2008) false memories for end-of-life decisions Subject 6: A Humanistic perspective on Neuroscience 11: Duque et al. (2010) Neuroanthropology: a humanistic science for the study of the culture-brain nexus 12: Taylor (2010) William James and the humanistic implications of the neuroscience...

Assignment 1 out of 5

We get stuck in pep-talking and positive ideas, instead of taking collective action. This leads us to the following question: To what extent could the social imaginaries of Western countries around the growing climate crisis expand and how can humanistic professionals encourage these (new) social imaginaries? To answer this question, we will first elaborate on the concept of social imaginaries. Secondly, the predominant social imaginaries of Western countries concerning the climate crisis wi...

This leads me to the main question of this paper: To what extent would Honneth argue that an embodied or ideological representation of feminism in the 2nd chamber in the Netherlands is needed as a way towards moral progress? I will answer this question in two parts. In the first part, I will sketch a general historical overview of the different waves of feminism from 1870 till now. Furthermore, I will describe how these waves of feminism took form in the Netherlands. It will not be a th...

The main question will be: What must be taken into account if you are creating an educational design concerning morality and citizenship for secondary school students in the Netherlands? To answer this question we will start with a discussion of what citizenship education is and how it connects to moral education, to give a general idea of these concepts. Then, four approaches of moral education will be discussed: cognitive development, care ethics, values education, and last but not leas...

Throughout the years of mankind, all kinds of religious practices have surfaced the earth. Each of these religions has his own view on the world around, and likewise each of them has his own view on life, on death, and on dying. In this short essay three of these views will be elaborated. We will start off with the Puritans around 1618 in America. Then we jump two hundred years forwards in time to the Second Great Awakening in 1818. Thereafter we skip another two hundred years to discuss present...

Short 'email' on your observations of ageism and suggestions to set up some sort of training to address the topic of ageism in a residential centre

An explorative paper of the cultural dimension of sexuality and its effect on the meaning in life in the Third and Fourth age.