Women's personal and political identities in selected Middle East countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S692-S692
Author(s):  
S.F. Lu
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Research ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Middle East Countries ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

IntroductionWomen's personal and political identities are significant in defining their roles and eventual contribution to society in contemporary society both in the private and public spheres.ObjectivesThis research study focuses on the effect of Islam on women's personal and political identities.AimsThis research aims to highlight the existing ideology relating to women's treatment in regards their identities and public roles, and hence to contribute to women's emancipation.MethodsThis study utilizes quantitative and qualitative methods in analysing women in eight Muslim-majority countries, namely, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Cyprus and Kuwait, in the Middle East. For the quantitative data, statistical dataset was culled from Inter-university consortium for political and social research of the university of Michigan.ResultsThe overall results show that historical constructions of gender spheres are still palpable in the Islamic landscape. Woman's question is identified as a complex personal and social problem, and cannot be rejected as a valid search for gender sameness or equality. This study also shows the interpolation of Islam with other factors such as patriarchy, modernization, and state formations. Some Muslim scholars argue that Quran's fundamental mooring is geared towards equality between men and women, and women's enhanced status, and it is patriarchy that has confined women to the domestic sphere.ConclusionGender is embedded within culture, and structures of power in families, communities, and states, which have gender in itself, as an organizing principle.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals CF GLOBAL CARE: Collaboration Between Two CF Centers; University of Michigan, USA and Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samya Nasr ◽  
Yasemin Gokdemir ◽  
Ela Erdem Eralp ◽  
Fazilet Karakoc ◽  
Almala Ergenekon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Middle East Countries ◽  
The University

Solving the world’s health challenges requires multidisciplinary collaborations that bring together the talents, experiences, resources, and ideas from multiple sectors in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) and high -income countries (HIC). Cystic Fibrosis (CF) was thought to be a disease of Caucasian populations from European decent. However, it has been shown to affect people from all ethnic backgrounds. CF care varies significantly for people with CF (pw CF) from HIC with median survival approaching 50 years of age, to LMIC with pw CF dying in infancy or early childhood. To address the discrepancy in quality of care and outcomes, we report on a collaboration between our team at the University of Michigan cystic fibrosis center (UoM CFC), through support from the Middle East CF Association (MECFA) and the CF Foundation (CFF), and a CF center in Turkey (Marmara University CF Center, Istanbul) to address deficiencies and improve quality of care in that center. The collaboration has been successful in improving Ma CFC data and patient care. This partnership can be viewed as a model of collaboration to be duplicated in other Middle East Countries and LMIC to deliver optimal CF care.

Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century. By Christine E. Bose. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 257. $22.95, paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1146-1147
Author(s):  
Ann Harper Fender
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Public ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

Economic historians have to respond favorably when sociologist–feminist scholar Christine Bose early in her text writes, “This book is intended to provide a historical perspective on contemporary issues that all too often are analyzed only in terms of the present” (p. 3). She returns frequently to this theme, stressing that female participation in the labor force began long before the late 1960s. Of course, numerous economic historians have noted that such participation began long before 1900 and their work, unsurprisingly, exhibits stronger understanding of historical economic conditions than does Women in 1900. Bose's intent, however, is not to study women throughout U.S. history; rather, she analyzes data on 29,673 women included in the Public Use Sample of the 1900 census to re-estimate female labor-force participation, and determine the effect of gender, race, ethnicity, and class on that participation. Her most valuable contribution comes through matching her sample observations with county economic data obtained through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. She uses these data to generate what she calls contextual variables, basically regional and urban or rural location of the sample respondent, and average female manufacturing wage and population characteristics of the respondent's county.

scholarly journals Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 313-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Gatz ◽  
Nancy L. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Social Research ◽  
National Archive ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Extensive Information ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

The Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins is a study of dementia in a defined population of twins. The goals included estimating heritability of Alzheimer's disease and identifying risk and protective factors in twin pairs discordant for the disease. The data, including not only diagnoses and age of onset but also extensive information about potential environmental risk factors, are now archived as Study ICPSR 25963 at National Archive for Computerized Data on Aging, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, at the University of Michigan, and available for researchers to use. Up to the time of archiving, 215 cases of dementia have been identified from a base sample of 2,394 individuals.

Why they shared: recovering early arguments for sharing social scientific data

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Emily Hauptmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

ArgumentMost social scientists today think of data sharing as an ethical imperative essential to making social science more transparent, verifiable, and replicable. But what moved the architects of some of the U.S.’s first university-based social scientific research institutions, the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR), and its spin-off, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), to share their data? Relying primarily on archived records, unpublished personal papers, and oral histories, I show that Angus Campbell, Warren Miller, Philip Converse, and others understood sharing data not as an ethical imperative intrinsic to social science but as a useful means to the diverse ends of financial stability, scholarly and institutional autonomy, and epistemological reproduction. I conclude that data sharing must be evaluated not only on the basis of the scientific ideals its supporters affirm, but also on the professional objectives it serves.

Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting (Summary)

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-48
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Chicago Circle ◽  
The University ◽  
Middle East Studies

The Board of Directors met for its fourteenth meeting at New York on 16 February 1973. The Board approved the Association’s co-sponsorship of Hamline University’s summer project on the Middle East as an encouragement to small institutions and new programs to undertake the kind of activity proposed by the Image Committee and Center Directors. The Board decided to hold the 1974 annual meeting in Boston under the sponsorship of universities in the area, coordinated by Harvard, and also to look into the possibilities of Madrid and New York City for later meetings. The Board approved a proposal to Be submitted by the University of Michigan to the National Science Foundation for an automated data project on the Middle East, as originally envisaged by the Library Committee. The Board also approved the proposal for a translation project submitted jointly by MESA, the University of Texas and AUC to the Office of Education. In accordance with the current Ford grant, the Board designated visiting scholars and alternates to be invited to attend the 1973 annual meeting and to remain in the country for 3 to 6 weeks travelling and lecturing at American and Canadian institutions. The Board reviewed the matters of federal funding of non-academic markets for graduates in Middle East studies and of the State of the Art Conference. It appointed the following Nominating Committee: Professor John Masson Smith, University of California, Berkeley, Chairman, and Professors Frank Tachau, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Carolyn Killean, University of Chicago, Michael Lorraine, University of Washington and President Issawi.

The JOBS Program: Impact on Job Seeker Motivation, Reemployment, and Mental Health

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Price ◽  
Amiram D. Vinokur
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Social Research ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Jobs Program ◽  
New Applications ◽  
The University

JOBS is a research-based program delivered in a group format and designed to aid unemployed job seekers in their search for employment. The program has demonstrated positive impacts on job-search skills, motivation, reemployment rates, and mental health. The JOBS program was designed and tested in large-scale randomized trials at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The positive effect of JOBS has been replicated in a number of national and international settings. Research, theory, and principles for best practice in the implementation of JOBS are discussed, as well as future directions for research and new applications.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Shisha Smoking among University students in Palestine, Jordan and Turkey

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Hawash ◽  
Rami Mosleh ◽  
Ahmad Hanani ◽  
Yazun Jarar ◽  
Yousef Hajyousef
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Middle East ◽  
University Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Once Daily ◽  
Middle East Countries ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The University ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Abstract Background: Smoking is one of the main causes that is related to lung cancer. It was estimated that tobacco smoking may kill 10 million people annually in the next 20–30 years, and Shisha smoking was very common habit worldwide during the last 20 years, especially in the Middle East. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of shisha smoking and make a comparison between three different countries in the Middle East, and establishing factors associated with shisha smoking among students in universities in Palestine, Jordan and Turkey. Methods: An online cross-sectional study was carried out among university students from 3 different Middle East countries; Palestine, Jordan, and Turkey. A total of 812 students were selected for the study. They were asked to answer an online structured questionnaire consisted of questions concerning prevalence and patterns of Shisha smoking, and associated factors. Data was analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Results: The overall prevalence of Shisha smoking was 31.77%. Less than quarter of university students (21.67%) had smoked shisha before. The highest percentage of current Shisha smokers were Palestinians (36.11%), and lowest percentage was from Turkey (20.23%). Approximately 43% of Shisha smokers believe that they will be addicted to Shisha smoking and almost half of them smoke Shisha daily. Approximately, 66% of Jordanian students’ current Shisha smokers were smoking shisha at least once daily while the 44% of Turkish students’ current shisha smokers were smoking shisha once monthly. The highest percentage of Shisha smokers were university students aged 25 years old and above. However, highest percentages of university students who are Shisha smokers were low monthly income’s students. The university students living with their families were smoking Shisha less frequently than students’ living in private residencies. Conclusions: There was a high prevalence of Shisha smoking among university students. The highest percentage of university students smoking Shisha were Palestinians. High percentage of smokers between the students believes that they will be addicted to Shisha smoking. The majority of current Shisha smokers was smoking Shisha daily; especially in Jordan and followed by Palestine. The monthly income was affecting the prevalence of Shisha smoking.

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