Stone talks about Security in terms of need. There is absolute need, defined by the bare standard to live, and the relative need, which puts us about our peers in terms of value. There's also direct v. instrumental need and safety, which prevents us needing things in the future because of "potential risk". Finally, she mentions relational needs, which involve community interaction.
It seems that most of the needs she describes are relative.
1)What would you define as needs in your life? Which category would most go under?
2) How does your policy project utilize security/how could it?
3) What do you think of the idea of an Security-efficiency trade off, where the more secure people feel, the less efficient they become? Where did this idea come from? Using the chart on page 107 if you need help finalizing your thoughts.
3) What else struck you from this chapter?
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Annalisa comments....
ReplyDeleteOn your last question, one of the topics that struck me in this chapter was the misleading arithmetic of security and productivity. I thought the nursing home example made this starkly clear.
On a different topic, I'm thinking this online discussion as a way of holding one another accountable for doing the reading isn't working. Even with this easier-to-use blog, people aren't taking part--including one of the discussion leaders for today. Even though it is more work for me and seems punitive, I do think I will have to resort to using quizzes to gauge reading.
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ReplyDeleteOkay so I just wrote out this rambling post about how my policy project connects to this idea of need and security, and I clicked 'post' and it said there was an error, so it didn't post. Anyway, I am glad you asked this question, Hannah, because I was thinking about education the whole time I was reading this.
My Policy project is about the No Child Left Behind act and how it requires even more testing as a means of assesment in public schools. Success as a student is ultimately measured by whether people can meet a 'needed' requirement that says 'you passed this test, so you are successful.' and 'If you did not pass this test, then you are not a successful student.' This absoluteness drives me crazy because schools teach us that it's okay to be different but the system does not follow through with that notion when it tells people they are not successful because they are deficient and did not meet a requirement. There definitley needs to be forms of measurement, but more testing in public schools is not the way to go. Students might feel like they will never pass these tests and that puts a bad taste in their mouths about learning, school, etc. so they may never want to even try anymore. All because a stupid test told them they were not good enough.