Social science findings and the “Family wars”

Society ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norval D. Glenn
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
The Family

Alternative Models of Peasant Families : A Critique of the New Home Economics

1984 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Ellen Wiegandt ◽  
Urs Luterbacher
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Home Economics ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Neoclassical Analysis

In presenting some ideas about the organization of families, this paper includes an explicit criticism of « economistic » theories of the family and social institutions. Broadly conceived, « economism », or the explanation of societal forms and phenomena through economic and productive processes, has become one of the dominant paradigms in modem social science. Two powerful currents of thought have largely contributed to the development of this perspective – Marxism on the one hand and, more recently, the Chicago school of economics which applies so-called neoclassical analysis to all kinds of institutions ranging from slavery (Fogel and Engerman 1974), to feudalism (North and Thomas 1971), to the family (Becker 1981), and to legal organizations (Posner 1981).

Exile and Social Science

2018 ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Seyla Benhabib
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Real World ◽  
The State ◽  
Competitive System ◽  
Albert Hirschman ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Quality Of Products

This chapter focuses on how Albert Hirschman presented that the image of the economy as a fully competitive system where changes in the fortunes of individual firms are exclusively caused by basic shifts of comparative advantage is certainly an inaccurate representation of the real world. In associations such as the family, the state, and religious, civic, and professional institutions, loyalty dominates and often trumps exit in favor of voice. “Exit” means leaving behind a product, a service, a firm, or a country to seek others, whereas “voice” refers to the choice to seek influence and have a say in determining the future quality of products or institutions. The chapter shows how Hirschman knew about exit, the search for voice, and the conflicts of loyalties first-hand through his eventful life and travels.

Fair Process: Striving for Justice in Family Business

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludo Van der Heyden ◽  
Christine Blondel ◽  
Randel S. Carlock
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Fair Process ◽  
Business System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

The social science and business literatures on procedural justice or fair process attest that improvements in procedural fairness can be expected to improve both a firm's performance and the commitment and trust of the individuals involved with it. This article examines the relevance of procedural justice for family business. When a family is an influential component of a particular business system, the application of justice is typically rendered more complex than might be the case for nonfamily firms. Different criteria (need, merit, and equality) guide the application of distributive justice among families, firms, and shareholders. This divergence in criterion also lies at the heart of many conflicts inside the family business. In this article, we argue that the application of procedural justice reduces occurrences of conflict and, in some cases, may eliminate conflict altogether. We propose a definition of fair process that extends and enriches the one existing in the literature. We offer five fundamental criteria essential to the effectiveness of fair process in family firms. We conclude with a series of case studies that illustrate typical questions faced inside family businesses. We show that a lack of fairness in the decision and managerial processes governing these businesses and their associated families is a source of conflict. We describe how increasing fair process practices improves the performance of these businesses while also increasing the satisfaction of those associated with them.

scholarly journals Unearthing Truth: Forensic Anthropology, Translocal Memory, and “Provention” in Guatemala

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Colette G. Mazzucelli ◽  
Dylan Heyden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Forensic Anthropology ◽  
Concept Map ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Unit ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Family ◽  
Story Maps

This article deliberately examines the search for truth after decades of conflict in Guatemala. Excavations of mass gravesites and the painstaking exhumation processes carried out by professional forensic anthropology teams continue to allow families to locate lost relatives—reclaiming truth and supporting calls for justice. For Guatemalans, the search for truth now transcends national borders, especially among migrant communities in the United States. The family remains the central unit through which the work of Guatemalan forensic anthropologists is undertaken. In an effort to engender deeper insights about these exhumation processes from a social science perspective, this analysis promotes the use of specific “tools” in Guatemalan forensic anthropology investigations. The first is an exhumations concept map, which yields important questions meant to stimulate meaningful analysis. The second, Story Maps, is a technology application with the potential to mediate digital access to the emerging Guatemalan translocal space. The research in this analysis suggests that these “tools” strengthen Burton’s notion of “provention” in Guatemala.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN PEMBENTUKAN KARAKTER DI KELUARGA DAN DI SEKOLAH DENGAN PRESTASI BELAJAR ANAK DI SEKOLAH DASAR BERBASIS AGAMA ISLAM DAN BUDHA SEKOTA MADYA MEDAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
SUTRISKA SIANTURI
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
School Based ◽  
Sampling Process ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Family ◽  
Character Building ◽  
The City

This research is aimed to know the correlation of the Character Building in Family and School to the Child’s Learning Achievement at the Elementary School Based on the Muslims and Budha Religion in the City of Medan. This is a correlation research using quantitative approach. The population used in this research are grades four and five pupils of the elementary school based on Muslim and Budha religion in the city of Medan with the total of six hundred pupils. The sampling quota was used in sampling process. Datas in this research were obtained by using character building questionnaire in families and school. The analysis technique in this research is using Statistic Program For Social Science (SPSS). The calculation result showed that the answer of the respondents about the five aspects; religion, honesty, dicipline, social solidarity and responsibility proved that the character building of pupils in the family and school correlates to pupils learning achievement.

Genetic Theorizing and Schizophrenia

1973 ◽  
Vol 122 (566) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving I. Gottesman ◽  
James Shields
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Dementia Praecox ◽  
The Family ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Behavioural Sciences ◽  
Easy Solution

Schizophrenia research embodies a microcosm of the vexing problems that confront the behavioural sciences, but particularly those disciplines concerned with psychopathology. We are ignorant of the means to prevent schizophrenia because we continue to be ignorant about its aetiology. Despite recognizable descriptions of the syndrome in ancient Hindu treatises (c. 1400 b.c.) and 76 years after its designation as dementia praecox by Kraepelin (1896), we are still grappling with such basic issues as when and how to diagnose Eugen Bleuler's (1911) ‘group of schizophrenias' (cf. Katz, Cole, and Barton, 1968). Despite brilliant advances in molecular biology, neurochemistry, and brain-behaviour phenomena generally, we cannot pinpoint any necessary biological defect in all or most schizophrenics. Despite selfless expenditures of time and energy by gifted psychotherapists and sophisticated social science efforts, we cannot specify any necessary life experience, either at the level of the family or of a culture, common to all or most schizophrenics. While there is obvious merit in casting the problem in an interactionist framework, aetiology still defies an easy solution because we must then isolate what element(s) in the genotype interact with what element(s) in the internal and/or external environment (as well as when and how) to produce the phenotype we recognize as a schizophrenic one.

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