Mammon’s Chain: The Destructive and Redemptive Potentials of Material Wealth: Ninth Sunday after Trinity (BWV 105, 94, 168)

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-114
Keyword(s):  
Material Wealth

EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF MOTHERS IN A PROVINCIAL SOVIET CITY IN THE 1950–60S

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
Irina V. Bogdashina
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
The Real ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Diffi Cult ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right

The article reveals the measures undertaken by the Soviet state during the “thaw” in the fi eld of reproductive behaviour, the protection of motherhood and childhood. Compilations, manuals and magazines intended for women were the most important regulators of behaviour, determining acceptable norms and rules. Materials from sources of personal origin and oral history make it possible to clearly demonstrate the real feelings of women. The study of women’s everyday and daily life in the aspect related to pregnancy planning, bearing and raising children will allow us to compare the real situation and the course of implementation of tasks in the fi eld of maternal and child health. The demographic surge in the conditions of the economy reviving after the war, the lack of preschool institutions, as well as the low material wealth of most families, forced women to adapt to the situation. In the conditions of combining the roles of mother, wife and female worker, women entrusted themselves with almost overwork, which affected the health and well-being of the family. The procedure for legalising abortion gave women not only the right to decide the issue of motherhood themselves, but also made open the already necessary, but harmful to health, habitual way of birth control. Maternal care in diffi cult material and housing conditions became the concern of women and the older generation, who helped young women to combine the role of a working mother, which the country’s leadership confi dently assigned to women.

Inheritance and the Inequality of Material Wealth. John A. Brittain

1980 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 428-429
Author(s):  
Robert J. Lampman
Keyword(s):  
Material Wealth

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of sports consumption habits in Hungary, Poland and Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dávid Paár ◽  
Antal Kovács ◽  
Miklós Stocker ◽  
Márk Hoffbauer ◽  
Attila Fazekas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Sports Consumption ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Sports Venues ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background The so-called sports consumption models are looking for the factors that influence the sports spending of households. This paper aims to examine the Hungarian, Polish and German households’ sports expenditures which can be an important indicator of physical activity and sporty lifestyle. Methods Surveying of households in three countries (Hungary, Poland and Germany) has been conducted with a self-designed questionnaire. We have used descriptive and bivariate non-parametric and parametric statistical methods: (1) χ2 test, Mann-Whitney test and Kruskal-Wallis test for checking the relationship between sociodemographic and physical activity variables and (2) independent sample t-test and ANOVA for checking the differences in sports expenditures. Results Our research concluded that men, especially previous athletes, exercise more than women and those who have no history as registered athletes. The choice of sports venues is obviously different between the countries in the sample. Members of the study population spend the most on sports services while they spend the least on sports equipment. German households have the highest spending rates compared to the other two countries. Conclusions Results are in line with our previous research findings and with other literatures. The difference in preferences of sports venues could have the reason of different supply of sports clubs or the different living standards too. It needs further researches to clear it. Material wealth, income level and sport socialisation can be a determining factor regarding the level of sports spending.

scholarly journals Understanding the nature of wealth and its effects on human fitness

2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1563) ◽  
pp. 344-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder ◽  
Bret A. Beheim
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Traits ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Fitness Consequences ◽  
Model Selection Approach ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Selection Approach ◽  
Household Assets ◽  
Selective Forces ◽  
Specific Contribution

Studying fitness consequences of variable behavioural, physiological and cognitive traits in contemporary populations constitutes the specific contribution of human behavioural ecology to the study of human diversity. Yet, despite 30 years of evolutionary anthropological interest in the determinants of fitness, there exist few principled investigations of the diverse sources of wealth that might reveal selective forces during recent human history. To develop a more holistic understanding of how selection shapes human phenotypic traits, be these transmitted by genetic or cultural means, we expand the conventional focus on associations between socioeconomic status and fitness to three distinct types of wealth—embodied, material and relational. Using a model selection approach to the study of women's success in raising offspring in an African horticultural population (the Tanzanian Pimbwe), we find that the top performing models consistently include relational and material wealth, with embodied wealth as a less reliable predictor. Specifically, child mortality risk is increased with few household assets, parent nonresidency, child legitimacy, and one or more parents having been accused of witchcraft. The use of multiple models to test various hypotheses greatly facilitates systematic comparative analyses of human behavioural diversity in wealth accrual and investment across different kinds of societies.

Economic Aspects of the Finnish Occupation of Karelia (1941—1944)

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7 (105)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Sergey Verigin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Occupied Territory

The article is devoted to an insufficiently studied problem in Russian and Finnish historiography — the economic policy of the Finnish regime in the occupied territory of Soviet (Eastern) Karelia in 1941—1944. Taking into account that this territory was to become an integral part of Greater Finland, the occupation administration in the first period of occupation set the task of economic restoration and development of the occupied regions of Karelia. But during this period, first of all, industrial and economic facilities were restored, which met the needs of the Finnish army. The central place in the economic policy of the Finnish occupation regime was occupied by the plans of intensive harvesting of Karelian timber and its export to Finland. Economic policy has been changing since 1943, when Finland realized that Germany would be defeated by the USSR. A direct plunder of the natural and material wealth of Karelia begins, the destruction of industrial facilities and the export of equipment to Finland. After Finland's withdrawal from the war in September 1944, the Finnish government partially compensated for the damage caused to the economy of Karelia.

DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT STAFF OF THE ORGANIZATION IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

2021 ◽  
Vol 296 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Mykhailo VEDERNIKOV ◽  
◽  
Nataliya BAZALIYSKA ◽  
Lesia VOLIANSKA-SAVCHUK ◽  
Maria ZELENA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Managerial Work ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Management Staff

Features of labor management in modern conditions are re-searched in the article. Directions of improving management system activities are determined. Methodological approaches to the formation of the system of development of management personnel of the organization in the conditions of knowledge economy are considered. The stages of development of the information society in connection with the innovative phase of development of the knowledge economy are described. Theoretical approaches to the definition of “knowledge economy” are formed. The characteristic features of the “knowledge economy” are highlighted. The stages of implementation of the process of increasing the efficiency of development of the management staff of the organization in the conditions of knowledge economy are offered. An organizational model of the process of increasing the development of management staff of the organization in a knowledge economy. This paper improved theoretical and methodological basis of the system of administrative personnel. In the context of globalization and integration of the domestic labor market, the managerial staff of the organization acts as a valuable socio-economic resource, the cost of professional qualities and competencies of which is steadily growing due to the acquisition of new knowledge by employees. The effectiveness of the managerial work of an organization, in contrast to the labor productivity of direct participants in the creation of material wealth, is not measured directly, but by the performance indicators of the work of business entities over a certain period of time. An important role in increasing the efficiency of the organization’s managerial work belongs to the organization of labor of the employees of the management apparatus on a scientific basis, which means a system of sound technical, organizational and economic measures aimed at directly improving the organization and management methods using scientific and technical achievements, the widespread introduction of mechanization, automation and computerization of all functions of the management process.

REASONS AND VALUE MOTIVATIONS OF MIGRANTS FROM MOLDOVA TO RUSSIA AND EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Rusu ◽  
◽  
Sergey V. Ryazantsev ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
State Level ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
Gain Material ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic

In the article, the authors consider the main reasons and value motivations of migrants from Moldova to the Russian Federation and European Union countries. It is noted that today in the world, countries are classified into two types: «peripheral states», with an undeveloped economy and culture, to which the Republic of Moldova belongs, and «leading states» or countries where migrants try to move. Among the main causes of migration, the authors highlight such problems in the country as poverty, lack of jobs in the country of origin of migrants, unstable political situation and corruption at the state level, the desire to improve the quality and standard of living, the will of migrants to move to their relatives or to study in another country. The values of people directly depend of the economy of the country in which they live. Only when they gain material wealth, migrants begin to think about spiritual values.

The Education of Aboriginal Children

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
P. egens
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Value System ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Balance Of Nature ◽  
Delicate Balance ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Australian Climate ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
Aboriginal Children

I feel rather diffident in opening this topic as there are some of you who are far more experienced in this field than I am.I think that, in talking about the Aboriginal people, some basic premises should be stated first. The Aboriginal people had a highly developed tribal system and a much higher ethical structure than the white man has. By contrast, an excellent study of Australian values is contained in a book by Ronald Conway, a Melbourne Psychologist, called The Great Australian Stupor. His equation of the Australian value system is as follows:Material Wealth = Pleasure = Happiness= Reason for Living.He writes –Whereas the Aboriginal trod his enchanted earth for centuries on tip-toe, leaving the delicate balance of nature of a tired continent intact, the white settler preferred to greet the touchiness of Australian climate and soil with a murderous impatience.When the white man came to this continent he took the best land for agricultural purposes. He broke up the tribal system so that the Aboriginal people were left leaderless and landless. Now we expect, in our schools and other aspects of our society, that the Aboriginal people will bridge the gap to a super-industrial civilization (with its questionable value system) in two or three generations.

scholarly journals Parentification and Grandparents’ Support from the Perspective of Grandchildren from Families of Various Structures

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Napora
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Support Scale ◽  
Original Family ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to determine the strength of the relationship between a retrospective evaluation of the experienced social support given by grandparents and the material status of the family with the quality of life of the grown-up grandchildren in families of different structures. The formulated expectations have been verified with the Social Support Scale (SSS), Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS) and an individual personal survey. The obtained results show that in families of single mothers, the emotional and informative support offered by grandparents was a significant factor improving the quality of the life of the grandchildren. In a complete family, however, the significant forms of support from grandparents were esteem support and its other forms, except for informative support. Moreover, the material wealth of the original family was shown to be an important predictor of the evaluation of the quality of life of the grandchildren; it was judged more negatively by adolescent children of single mothers.

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