Thesis (Ph. L.)--Catholic University of America, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-79).

Universities in South Africa are currently undergoing mergers. Intended for commercial gain, mergers rarely accommodate the psychological milieu of staff. Similarly, the majority of studies conducted with respect to university mergers adopt a quantitative approach. This study adopts a qualitative approach and locates the researcher within the epicentre of the research, using a case study, with the researcher as unit of analysis. The lack of merger studies that focus on the experiences of minority groups, including women, prompted me, as researcher, to adopt a feminist approach to conduct this study in the context of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University merger. A Jungian gendered view, which endorses the personal experiences of minority groups, explored the connection between organisational change and concomitant opportunities for psychic growth. The primary purpose of this study was to explore the presence of the Wild Woman archetype during a university merger. The data that made up this study were contained in my field notes, research journal and a wall montage. An analysis of the qualitative data and a comparison of Jung’s archetypal theory and Pinkola Estés’ theory of the Wild Woman archetype, enabled the researcher to find evidence of the presence of the Wild Woman archetype during the university merger. The secondary purpose of the study was to document the findings which could act as a spoor which other women could follow on their journey towards connecting with their own Wild Woman archetype. The limitations of this study, and recommendations for future research are also offered.

Moral judgments have tended to be made through the application of certain moral principles and it seems we think we need principles in order to make sound moral judgments. However, the theory of moral particularism, as put forward by Jonathan Dancy (2004), calls this into question and challenges the traditional principled approaches to moral reasoning. This challenge naturally began a debate between those who adhere to principled accounts of moral rationality, and those who advocate a particularist approach. The aim of this thesis is thus to assess the theory of moral particularism as recently put forward by Jonathan Dancy. In pursuing this project I initially set up a survey of the field of environmental ethics within which to explore traditional approaches to applied ethics. This survey suggests that applied ethical problems have traditionally been solved using various principled approaches and if we are inclined to take the particularist challenge seriously, this suggests a philosophical conundrum. On the one hand, increasingly important and pressing applied environmental ethical concerns suggest there is a practical need for ethical principles, whilst on the other hand, the particularist claim is that we do not need principles in order to make sound moral judgments. The survey of environmental ethics then establishes the first side of the philosophical conundrum. I then move to explore the second side of the conundrum; the theory of moral particularism, looking at why the challenge it presents to traditional principled approaches needs to be taken seriously. I then move to explore theoretical challenges to moral particularism; this is done to establish the current state of the theoretical debate between the particularist and the generalist. I conclude from this that the theoretical debate between the two has currently reached a stalemate; it is, at present, simply not clear which account is correct. As the main goal of this study is to evaluate particularism, this apparent stalemate led me to explore certain practical challenges to particularist theory as a means of advancing the debate. As particularism is a theory that challenges our traditional conception of how to make moral judgments, there will be important implications for applied ethics if particularism turns out to be correct, and 1 thus finally apply particularism to a practical environmental problem in order to assess the validity of practical challenges to particularism. In order to do this, a particularist ethic is applied to the question of whether or not to allow mining in Kakadu National Park in Australia. This provides a means of seeing what an applied particularist ethic could look like, as well as providing something of an answer to the practical challenge to particularism and achieving the goal of evaluating it within the applied context of environmental ethics. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-213). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2004. / Advisor: Jay R. Lampert. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-186).

This study examined separation—individuation developmental issues for young adult women, from the perspective of object-relations theory. Its purpose was to explore a woman's perception of her relationship with mother as it is affected by age and request for psychotherapy as well as the relationship between the mother-daughter bond and selfreported personality characteristics. Ninety-six women from 17 to 40 years of age volunteered to participate, and they were grouped into two age ranges. Life Stage 1 women were 17-22 years of age, while Life Stage 2 women ranged from 23-40. Within each Life Stage, the women were further categorized into clinical and non-clinical groups. All of the participants were college students and/or working women from clerical, managerial, and professional occupations who were recruited from their respective schools, jobs and outpatient clinics. Each woman completed the test packet which included a demographic data questionnare; the Identity vis-a-vis Mother Questionnaie (IVM-20) developed by Crastnopol (1980); the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire (CAQ) and Rotter1s Locus of Control Scale. The IVM-20 contains four scales, each designed to measure a unique mother-daughter relationship: Individuated (Ind), Symbiosis (Syra), Practicing (Prac) and Distancing (Dist). Ind is supposed to reflect a healthy autonomy with a loving mother-daughter bond, while Prac should represent ambivalence toward mother. Sym represents an overly dependent relationship and Dist was designed to measure an angry rejection of mother.

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The present research investigated the relationship between separation-individuation issues and the motoric activity of running in adult female development. Literature on sex roles and sociocultural factors was presented. Previous research on physical activity and mental health was reviewed. Psychodynamic formulations provided the framework for exploring and understanding a woman's involvement in running. Measuring instruments tapped concepts related to independence and separateness.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-05-07T12:55:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Renato de Lima da Costa.pdf: 2402166 bytes, checksum: 9ab9deff98cf4f86dd51c6e93e3a7099 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-07T12:55:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renato de Lima da Costa.pdf: 2402166 bytes, checksum: 9ab9deff98cf4f86dd51c6e93e3a7099 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / The spirituality of consumption and consumption of spirituality, by Renato de Lima da Costa, is a study of contemporary consumer culture based on the thinking of Gilles Lipovetsky, a French philosopher who proposes to study more specific contemporary issues such as fashion, luxury, consumption habits, morality, among other subjects. The analysis of the author provides elements that allow us to verify the presence of a spirituality of consumption by surrounding the most varied relationships that occur in the universe of multiple offers for purchases conveyed always with promises of comfort, well-being and perpetuation of happiness, as well as motivations and purposes for the consumption in the constant engagements for the purchases of the individuals. This latter aspect is an element of fundamental importance for the understanding of the movements that take place within contemporary consumer markets, as well as the peculiarities of this consumer culture, thus a historical rescue in search of the roots of consumer spirituality is also presented in scope of this text in order to demonstrate in what context a first intuition was given in relation to an element beyond the own functionalities present in the most varied commodities. Finally, after this course, the research also deals with an analysis of a process of consumption of spirituality as a reflection of consumer culture in contemporary times. Thus, it will be possible to realize that individualized religious conduct, post-moralistic ethical values, motivations for religious transit through the dissatisfaction of subjective longings, as well as the emergence of new possibilities of religious experiences, all of them centered on the individual as client to be served, are current trends that reflect the imposition of the new imperatives of consumption life as also present in this sphere of life of individuals / A espiritualidade do consumo e o consumo da espiritualidade, de autoria de Renato de Lima da Costa, é um estudo da cultura de consumo na contemporaneidade a partir do pensamento de Gilles Lipovetsky, filósofo francês que se propõe a estudar questões contemporâneas mais específicas, como a moda, o luxo, os hábitos de consumo, a moral, entre outros temas. As análises do autor fornecem elementos que permitem constatar a presença de uma espiritualidade do consumo circundando as mais variadas relações que se dão no universo das múltiplas ofertas para as compras veiculadas sempre com promessas de conforto, bem-estar e perpetuação da felicidade, bem como das motivações e finalidades para o consumo nos constantes engajamentos para as compras dos indivíduos. Sendo este último aspecto um elemento de fundamental importância para a compreensão dos movimentos que se dão no âmbito dos mercados de consumo na contemporaneidade, bem como das particularidades desta cultura de consumo, um recuo histórico em busca das raízes da espiritualidade do consumo é também apresentado no escopo deste texto a fim de demonstrar em que contexto se deu uma primeira intuição em relação a um elemento para além das próprias funcionalidades presente nas mais variadas mercadorias. Por fim, após este percurso, a pesquisa trata também de uma análise de um processo de consumo da própria espiritualidade como mais um reflexo da cultura de consumo na contemporaneidade. Assim, será possível perceber que condutas religiosas individualizadas, valores éticos pós-moralistas, motivações para o trânsito religioso pela insatisfação de anseios subjetivos, bem como o aparecimento de novas possibilidades de experiências religiosas, todas elas centradas no indivíduo como cliente a ser servido, são tendências atuais que refletem a imposição dos novos imperativos de vida do consumo se fazendo presentes também nesta esfera de vida dos indivíduos