“We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Heroes and Role Models in Germany and Israel

Yair, Gad; Girsh, Yaron; Alayan, Samira; Hues, Henning; Or, Elad

doi:10.1086/675379

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“…The project included an analysis of textbooks in history and civic studies, as well as interviews with a total of 226 high school students and 86 teachers from 22 schools. Its main results were published separately (Yair et al, 2014). The present study focusses on the group interviews with Israeli students.…”

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Negotiating the Uniform: Youth Attitudes towards Military Service in Israel

Girsh

2018

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Military service is one of the key milestones in Jewish Israelis’ transition to adulthood. Given the dominant role of the military in Israeli society, an understanding of young adults’ attitude towards the importance of the military and the nature of their service is needed. Based on 44 group interviews with 132 Jewish Israeli high school students, the study follows the differential attitude of youths towards compulsory military service, along socioeconomic lines. It concludes that (a) despite changes in Israeli society, young people still consider soldiers as the ultimate models of heroism, and view military service as a necessary component of normative citizenship and (b) they negotiate the nature and content of their military service based on its expected contribution to future mobility opportunities. The findings indicate that within the shared cultural script of the military’s importance, alternative paths play out without directly challenging the dominant consensus within Israeli society.

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Negotiating the Uniform: Youth Attitudes towards Military Service in Israel

Girsh

2018

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“…The limited studies focusing on adults diverge from and parallel studies on youth. In contrast to children, adults regularly indicate that they either do not have a hero or express reservations about identifying one ( Danilova and Kolpinskaya, 2020 ; Porpora, 1996 ; Yair et al, 2014 ). Nevertheless, laboratory studies show that popular depictions of heroes can influence adults’ understandings of themselves ( Pennell and Behm-Morawitz, 2015 ) and whether men or women can be heroic ( Rankin and Eagly, 2008 ).…”

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“…Reflective of some adults’ hesitancy to venerate others through attributions of heroism ( Yair et al, 2014 ), makers also sometimes expressed ambivalence about labelling anyone a hero because lauding individuals distracted from the need for collective responses to the pandemic. A Midwestern man’s sentiment is notable: ‘Heroes’ is a hard word for me.…”

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Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022

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The gendered features of adults’ attributions of heroism to themselves and others has received substantially less scholarly attention than the gendered dynamics of media representations of (super)heroes. Utilizing 78 interviews and 569 self-administered questionnaires completed by adults in the United States who were voluntarily making personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, we show how respondents effectively deployed popularized assessments of the relative value of gendered labour in the private and public spheres to shift attributions of heroism from themselves to others. Though media portrayals at the outset of the pandemic depicted these volunteers working in their homes as heroes, respondents insisted that the real heroes were those working in the public sphere. Even if media representations increasingly frame women as heroes, these results suggest that the long-standing associations between men and heroism will likely remain in place if feminized labour associated with the private sphere of households remains devalued.

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“…15 years later, another study by Bromnick and Swallow (1999) found that the majority of those polled were happy to be themselves, and those who did admire a hero did not see that hero to represent their ideal self. Although the studies of "self-modeling" are scarce, it seems that recently the views that time of role models is over or that even role modeling is potentially dangerous for democracy, have received wide international recognition (Yair et al, 2014).…”

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Music Cognition from Birth to Adolescence: A Structuralist Approach

Nikolsky¹

2022

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This book draws a new perspective on music as a special form of cognition that provides growing children with the means to mediate their emotional state and attitude to suit their physical and social environment. My conclusions are based on new evidence coming from: 1) musicological analysis of the original and spontaneous vocalizations by children, selected to represent the milestones in the development of music cognition; 2) comprehensive research on "ear development" throughout early childhood, systematically conducted in the USSR/Russia on a large pool of subjects during the 1920-1980s; 3) data on music perception by people habituated to non-Western forms of music, including timbre-oriented music traditions of northeast Eurasia; and 4) research coming from Vygotskian school on sociogenesis and objectivization of musical sound in early childhood (published in Russian only). The principal objective of this book is to arm researchers and students with tools to analyze, interpret, and evaluate the patterns of tonal organization in children musicking - and to inter-relate these patterns to cross-cultural patterns of early verbal, social, and emotional development. Children’s musical cognition needs a thorough revision because of the old erroneous belief, still widespread amongst developmental psychologists, that the principles of Western tonality constitute a universal modus operandi, intuitively sought by children from birth. According to this view, early children’s musicking constitutes a “defective” implementation of adult’s music due to children’s deficiencies in vocal control and its coordination with hearing. In reality, early childhood musicking constitutes a peculiar type of music, different from adult’s music – very much like children’s early speech that follows its own principles, different from adult’s speech. The principles of children’s musicking ought to be inferred from the structural organization of their non-imitative attempts to make music - bottom-to-top (as opposed to the current "a priori" top-to-bottom method of describing children's music in terms of Western tonality). Some other important issues covered in this book are the goals of musical development in childhood, the issues of musical attrition, bimusicality, and normalcy of musical abilities, the modularity of musical hearing, and the relation between musical and real-life emotions.

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“We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Heroes and Role Models in Germany and Israel

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Negotiating the Uniform: Youth Attitudes towards Military Service in Israel

Negotiating the Uniform: Youth Attitudes towards Military Service in Israel

Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Music Cognition from Birth to Adolescence: A Structuralist Approach

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