Isha Sarah Snow pandemicnova@gmail.comFebruary 12, 2025 Abstract Autism, often framed as a disorder in Western psychiatric models, may instead be an evolutionarily adaptive mechanism that serves both individual and cultural functions. Applying Edward Hagen’s evolutionary model of mental illness as a response to adversity (Hagen, 2011), along with Brown’s assertion that self-destructive behaviors function asContinue reading “Autism as an Evolutionary and Cultural Mechanism: A Functional-Conflict Perspective”
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Western Parenting Impacts on Human Development and Behavior: America’s Hidden Health Crisis
Isha Sarah SnowLower Columbia College pandemicnova@gmail.com 17997 total word count PowerPoint Presentation ABSTRACT: Using punitive discipline methods results in lower levels of cognitive complexity, which is how well people perceive things. Low cognitive complexity results in difficulties with self control and emotional self regulation, which show up in adulthood as deviant behavior, such as impulsivityContinue reading “Western Parenting Impacts on Human Development and Behavior: America’s Hidden Health Crisis”
How Lateral Organizational Frameworks Optimize Productivity and Workplace Culture by Supporting Affirmative Action in Hiring Veterans and the Disabled
Written by Kaven Winters, Karisma Vega, Sarah Flowers, Trevor Melton, Isabella RichLower Columbia CollegeBUS144/Management of Human Relations Tim Allwine, Instructor, Business ManagementNovember 26, 2023 Affirmative Action in Hiring Veterans/Disabled Table of Contents Cover pageTitle pageTable of ContentsExecutive SummaryThesis StatementMain BodyRebuttalConclusionReferencesAppendix Executive Summary The different ways that brains process information results in two distinct communication styles.Continue reading “How Lateral Organizational Frameworks Optimize Productivity and Workplace Culture by Supporting Affirmative Action in Hiring Veterans and the Disabled”
The Functional Conflict Perspective (FCP): An Integrated Framework for Social Cohesion, Governance, and Knowledge Production
Conflict as a Path to Integration FCP integrates multiple academic disciplines into a unified framework that maps conflict across different levels of analysis. Below is the structural breakdown: Each of these elements interacts dynamically, meaning that conflict in one domain (e.g., economic oppression) often mirrors unresolved tensions in another (e.g., individual trauma, historical narratives, orContinue reading “The Functional Conflict Perspective (FCP): An Integrated Framework for Social Cohesion, Governance, and Knowledge Production”
Mirror Integration Theory (MIT): A Framework for Individual and Collective Healing
The Self as a Mirror of Society The traditional understanding of psychology and social theory treats personal dysfunction and societal dysfunction as separate domains. Individuals are expected to heal in isolation, while social structures are reformed through external policy changes. However, this division overlooks a fundamental truth: the individual and the collective exist in aContinue reading “Mirror Integration Theory (MIT): A Framework for Individual and Collective Healing”
Curiosity-Driven Knowledge Production: A Framework for Transforming Education and Social Structures
The dominant model of knowledge production in academia and public discourse is adversarial—rooted in competition, debate, and the defense of fixed positions. This approach, while effective in certain contexts, often stifles intellectual curiosity, reinforces rigid hierarchies, and prioritizes rhetorical dominance over genuine discovery. Traditional academia, influenced by historical structures of power and exclusion, has createdContinue reading “Curiosity-Driven Knowledge Production: A Framework for Transforming Education and Social Structures”
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