bell hooks

(noun)

Born Gloria Jean Watkins (1952 - ); an American author, feminist, and social activist; known for her focus on the interconnectivity of race, capitalism, and gender and their ability to perpetuate systems of oppression.

Related Terms

Examples of bell hooks in the following topics:

  • Race and Ethnicity in Postmodernism

    • The author bell hooks is widely known for her writing focused on the connection of race, capitalism, and gender and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination.
    • Primarily through a postmodern perspective, hooks has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.
    • The author bell hooks is widely known for her postmodern writing focused on the connection of race, capitalism, and gender.

  • Objective vs. Critical vs. Subjective

    • Specifically, they - along with critical theorists like Michel Foucault, bell hooks, and Patricia Hill Collins - argued that since all science was conducted and all data was interpreted by human beings and all human beings have beliefs, values, and biases that they are often unaware of and that shape their perception of reality (see The Social Construction of Reality), objectivity only existed within the beliefs and values of the people that claimed it.

  • Feminist Theory

    • Smith, Joan Acker, Myra Marx Ferree, Patricia Yancey Martin, and bell hooks were all pioneers in Sociology who developed insights and empirical findings that challenged much of existing sociological practice, knowledge, and methods.

  • Angsiosperm Fruit

    • Eggplants, zucchini, string beans, and bell peppers are all technically fruit because they contain seeds and are derived from the thick ovary tissue.
    • Other fruits have burs and hooks to cling to fur and hitch rides on animals.

  • Graphing the Normal Distribution

    • The graph of a normal distribution is a bell curve, as shown below.
    • Bell curve visualizing a normal distribution with a relatively large standard deviation.
    • The graph of a normal distribution is known as a bell curve.
    • Bell curve visualizing a normal distribution with a relatively small standard deviation.
    • Evaluate a bell curve in order to picture the value of the standard deviation in a distribution

  • Bell's Palsy

    • However, if no specific cause can be identified, the condition is known as Bell's palsy.
    • Bell's palsy is defined as an idiopathic unilateral facial nerve paralysis, usually self-limiting.
    • Bell's palsy affects each individual differently.
    • Even without any treatment, Bell's palsy tends to carry a good prognosis.
    • Describe the condition of Bell's palsy and its effects on the face

  • Introduction

    • Its graph is bell-shaped.
    • You see the bell curve in almost all disciplines.

  • Basic Principles of Classical Conditioning

    • The conditioned stimulus was the ringing of the bell.
    • During conditioning, every time the animal was given food, the bell was rung.
    • After some time, the dog learned to associate the ringing of the bell with food and to respond by salivating.
    • After the conditioning period was finished, the dog would respond by salivating when the bell was rung, even when the unconditioned stimulus (the food) was absent.
    • The conditioned response, therefore, was the salivation of the dogs in response to the conditioned stimulus (the ringing of the bell) .

  • Conditioned Behavior

    • The conditioning stimulus that researchers associated with the unconditioned response was the ringing of a bell.
    • During conditioning, every time the animal was given food, the bell was rung.
    • After some time, the dog learned to associate the ringing of the bell with food and to respond by salivating.
    • Thus, the ringing of the bell became the conditioned stimulus and the salivation became the conditioned response.
    • In the classic Pavlovian response, the dog becomes conditioned to associate the ringing of the bell with food.

  • Behaviorism Advocates

    • To determine whether external stimuli had an affect on this process, Pavlov rang a bell when he gave food to the experimental dogs.
    • He discovered that when the bell was rung at repeated feedings, the sound of the bell alone (a conditioned stimulus) would cause the dogs to salivate (a conditioned response).
    • Pavlov also found that the conditioned reflex was repressed if the stimulus proved "wrong" too frequently; if the bell rang and no food appeared, the dog eventually ceased to salivate at the sound of the bell.