Stasis and Change

Understanding the DSM-5: stasis and change.

This paper aims to understand the DSM-5 through situating it within the context of the historical development of the DSM series. When one looks at the sets of diagnostic criteria, the DSM-5 is strikingly similar to the DSM-IV. I argue that at this level the DSM has become 'locked-in' and difficult to change. At the same time, at the structural, or conceptual, level there have been radical chang...

Stasis and change: social psychological insights into social-ecological resilience

Ecologists have used the concept of resilience since the 1970s. Resilience also features in many of the social and economic sciences, though in a less central role and with a variety of interpretations. Developing a fuller understanding of the concept of socialecological resilience promises advances in how science can contribute to achieving better environmental outcomes, locally and globally. ...

Climate change, carbon dependency and narratives of transition and stasis in four English rural communities

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.10.011 0016-7185/ 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Phillips), j.a...

Repetition & Stasis

Stasis and Change: Trends in Individuals’ Earnings and Inequality in Canada, 1982-92

There has been, in Canada as elsewhere, a recent resurgence of interest in the distribution of earnings. One reason is that trends in real earnings have been diverging and earnings inequality has been on the rise. Many related questions emerge. Which particular groups – women as compared to men, younger versus older workers, and so on – have been doing better or worse than others? Where has ine...