Psychiatry Res. 1990 Dec;34(3):281-92.

Relationship between DSM-III avoidant and dependent personality disorders.

Reich J.

Harvard Medical School, (Massachusetts Mental Health Center), Brookline.

Avoidant personality disorder was added to the nomenclature in DSM-III without a clinical tradition or empirical findings. This report reviews four attempts to validate empirical personality disorders and presents new data. No empirical study has been successful in differentiating avoidant from dependent personality disorders. The current study replicates this overlap, finding only minor differences (dependent personality disorder had more females, avoidant personality disorder had more self-defeating traits). Avoidant and dependent personality disorders should be merged into an enlarged category of dependent personality disorder, which would have three subtypes: avoidant, dependent, and mixed.
posted by Lloyd at 8:19 AM

Michael H. Kernis and Stefanie B. Waschull, 'The Roles of Stability and Level of Self-Esteem in Self-Enhancement and Self-Protective Strategies" in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 27 (1995).
posted by Lloyd at 8:08 AM

In Millon's discussion of personality disorders (New Personology, 109-110) he distinguishes personalities that are "deficient" versus "unbalanced" on the three-fold scale of Pain-Pleasure, active-passive, self-other, and says that a well-developed personality might be strong in BOTH polarities, balancing a strong sense of self-worth with a strong commitment to others. This is a very different spin than the Reputation vs. Self-Worth polarity inherent in Wyatt-Brown's work on Southern Honor, and might explain the emergence of David Reisman style "other-directed" pathologies of mass corporate society. Millon claims to have coined the idea of an "avoidant" personality type who has very little interest from either self or others.
posted by Lloyd at 7:45 AM

International Review of Social History (2001), 46:1:1-27 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2001 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
doi:10.1017/S0020859001000013


The Geography of Time and Labor in the Late Antebellum American Rural South: Fin-de-Servitude Time Consciousness, Contested Labor, and Plantation Capitalism 1
Keumsoo Hong


Abstract

Over the past few decades the conceptual metaphors of time, space, and labor have been an organizing focus of the geohistorical discourse of social change. This essay explores the involvement of contested time and labor in shaping the fragmented social geographies of the late antebellum American South. The examination is focused on the intraregional differentiation of time and labor systems and on their ramifications for the development of agrarian capitalism in the context of southern plantations. The descriptive and analytical evidence supports the new staple theory. The physical character of staple crops such as cotton, sugar, tobacco and rice made determinant influences on cultivation methods, seasonal routines, labor organizations, mentalite, and the development of plantation capitalism.
posted by Lloyd at 8:53 PM

Tolbert, Lisa C. Constructing Townscapes: Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
posted by Lloyd at 8:46 PM

Practices and Actions A Wittgensteinian Critique of Bourdieu and Giddens
Theodore R. Schatzki

University of Kentucky

This article criticizes Bourdieu's and Giddens's overintellectualizing accounts of human activity on the basis of Wittgenstein's insights into practical under standing. Part 1 describes these two theorists' conceptions of a homology between the organization of practices (spatial-temporal manifolds of action) and the governance of individual actions. Part 2 draws on Wittgenstein's discussions of linguistic definition and following a rule to criticize these conceptions for ascribing content to the practical understanding they claim governs action. Part 3 then suggests an alternative, Wittgensteinian account of the homology between practices and actions that avoids this pitfall.

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 3, 283-308 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/004839319702700301
posted by Lloyd at 11:05 AM

The BLM has the original surveys and notes, by twp!!!!!!

For example: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=69190&Index=1&QryID=40821.46&DetailTab=3
posted by Lloyd at 8:13 AM

reading Bourdieu on marriage strategies (where he emphasizes a sort of multiple agent-based negotiation based on the "means available" and the "structure of power relations within the domestic unit," (Outline, 58-59), and emphasizing the importance of the social networks and communities of women (informal networking, proxy negotiations ("semi-official" "without the risk of rebuff") and male (official) versus our Indiana and Mississippi families where a sort of "Turnerian" absence of geneological generational control allows more direct and open choices. This is a question for chapter two, of course.
posted by Lloyd at 7:48 AM