PubMed · 11658780
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1986-07-03. Fertile ground.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11658780/
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PURPOSE: The effects of media coverage of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study on the attitudes and behavior of women regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were studied. METHODS: This cross-sectional observational study took place in 12 counties in western North Carolina from 1997 to 1999. Participants were recruited from among women who participated in a previous study, which examined the effects of osteoporosis education on adherence to prevention guidelines. Women in the current study were limited to those previously reporting postmenopausal status and use of HRT. Participants were interviewed by telephone with a 41-item scripted survey. Main outcomes included primary sources of information regarding HRT, perception of the accuracy of information from various sources, and changes in HRT use. RESULTS: Every woman in the study (n = 97) reported having heard about the WHI study, and 52% reported that it had affected their use of HRT. Women using estrogen alone were as likely as women using an estrogen-plus-progestin combination to have had their use affected (48% versus 59%, respectively). Women making a change after hearing about the WHI study results were significantly less likely to trust information from their physicians regarding HRT. CONCLUSION: A survey of women who had received HRT found that media reports on the WHI study had a significant influence on their use of HRT.
In his Tree of Knowledge (ToK) System, Henriques (2003) posits that the human ego or "self" has evolved because human beings are the only animals that have had to justify their behavior to others. This essay provides evidence for this Justification Hypothesis (JH) from everyday life sociology, starting with the work of George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley, and focuses on research related to the concept of the "looking-glass self." Special emphasis is given to the pragmatics of speech acts, the presentation of self in interaction rituals, the accounts given by actors in justification of their actions, and the role of social norms and conformity in the large-scale justification systems commonly called "culture."
The thesis that the self is a story unfolding in prescriptive space is typically embraced by social constructionists as a radical alternative to naturalistic accounts of human development. Yet, the Tree of Knowledge (ToK) System proposed by Henriques (2003) implies that events at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., matter, life, mind, and culture) can be considered as conditions of possibility for the emergence of meaningful personal narratives. Thus, the ToK System represents an opportunity to recast the work of naturalists and social constructionists in a framework that is at once scientific and humanistic.