A Longitudinal Study of Relational Aggression and Victimisation in Early Adolescence: Gender Differences in the Moderating Effects of Social Status

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Ferguson ◽  
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck ◽  
Amanda L. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Social Preference ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Bidirectional Associations

Relational aggression is defined as behaviours intended to harm others by damaging their relationships. Drawing from two theoretical perspectives, the social process model and the peer socialisation model, we tested how relational aggression and victimisation could influence each other over time, and examined peer status and gender as moderators of these bidirectional associations. We hypothesised that aggression would lead to increasing victimisation and victimisation to increasing aggression, and that the association from aggression to later victimisation would be weaker for more popular and preferred youth, especially girls. Participants were 328 Australian early adolescents (172 boys, 156 girls) in Grades 5, 6 or 7, who nominated classmates who were aggressive, victimised, popular, and preferred. Results showed support for the role of status and gender in the bidirectional associations between aggression and victimisation. Relational aggression was associated with more T2 relational victimisation only among adolescents who were low in popularity and among girls with low social preference. Victimisation was associated with T2 aggressive behaviour among more popular girls. Relational victimisation was also associated with less T2 aggression among popular boys. Findings highlight the complexities introduced by gender and social status for the unfolding of early adolescent relational aggression and victimisation.

The role of norm salience in aggression socialization among friends: Distinctions between physical and relational aggression

2019 ◽  
pp. 016502541985413
Author(s):  
Stephanie Correia ◽  
Mara Brendgen ◽  
Frank Vitaro
Keyword(s):  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Social Preference ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Relationally Aggressive ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peer Nomination ◽  
Aggressive Youth ◽  
Academic Year

Socialization among aggressive friends is believed to play a critical role in the development of aggressive behavior. This study examined the moderating effect of norm salience in the classroom on the association between reciprocal friends’ and children’s own physical, relational, and general aggression. A total of 713 children ( M = 10.32 years, SD = 0.99) in grades 4 to 6 completed a peer nomination inventory in the fall and spring of the same academic year. Norm salience was operationalized as the class- and sex-specific correlation between each form of aggression and social preference. Norm salience moderated relational aggression socialization among friends only for highly relationally aggressive girls. Specifically, socialization was exacerbated when norm salience was favorable and attenuated when norm salience was unfavorable, suggesting that highly relationally aggressive girls may possess skills allowing them to adapt to the social context in which they and their friends interact. In contrast, boys’ general aggression socialization was exacerbated when norm salience was neutral or unfavorable, suggesting that boys who affiliate with aggressive friends may be more susceptible to aggressive friends’ influence in general and especially in the context of potential peer rejection. No moderating effect of norm salience was found in regards to physical aggression socialization. Results suggest that interventions aimed at changing acceptability of aggression in the classroom may only be effective in specific subgroups of aggressive youth.

scholarly journals Communication strategies of failure Ukrainian-language dialog artistic discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Oksana Maximyuk ◽  
Natalia Maximyuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Partners ◽  
Gender Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Aspect

The purpose of the article analyzes the problem of choosing tactics and strategies of refusal, which is largely predetermined by the social and gender status of the participants in the communication. Separately, the peculiarities of the functioning of such structures of refusal in the plane of directives are characterized, since the directive acts most fully discover the peculiarities of structuring the communicative acts of refusal utterances taking into account the social role of the participants in communication. The influence of gender aspect on the course of interaction in communicative acts is traced as well. The novelty of scientific reseach. The choice of tactics for refusal are determined by pragmatic factors, as well as by the social and gender status of the participants in the communication, are predetermined by the choice of tactics in communicative acts of the refusal utterances. Most often, refusal producents (persons with lower social status) in the directive act of the order use the following tactics of the strategy of refusal: they refer to the inability to execute the order, requirement or instruction because of the important reasons (with motivation); impersonate an incompetent person; indicate the groundlessness of the order or claim; refuse due to the inability to perform the action at this time; occasionally, refusal is a manifestation of protest. In communicative situations with the downward vector, the most frequent is the tactics of refusal with motivation (to refer to the impossibility of performing because of the important reason (in the opinion of the producer of the refusal)); less often the tactics of impersonating an incompetent person. In the directive acts of the claim with the ascending vector, the stimulus producer's reply contains a compulsory motivation and may be accompanied by expression. Conclusions. Communication tactics that women choose as refusal producent are aimed at harmonizing relationships between communication partners. Formation of refusal discourses of with the emphasis on the disharmony of relationships is peculiar to men.

A Phenomenology of Rhythm

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lexi Eikelboom
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analytical Importance ◽  
Jazz Performance

This chapter proposes a framework for approaching the theological significance of rhythm through phenomenology, prosody, and the social sciences. In accordance with the general categories of phenomenology established by Merleau-Ponty and the “rhythmanalysis” of Henri Lefebvre, the chapter investigates two experiences of rhythm: approaches to analysing the human encounter with rhythm in the reading of poetry and the role of rhythm in social interactions introduced through commonalities between rhythm in conversation and in jazz performance. These explorations establish two features of rhythm that are of analytical importance for the chapters that follow: (1) the synchronic and the diachronic as two necessary but distinct theoretical perspectives on rhythm, each of which emphasizes different features of rhythm and (2) the importance of interruption for understanding rhythm’s significance.

scholarly journals Paradox of integration — mean field approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1750133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Kułakowski ◽  
Piotr Gronek ◽  
Alfio Borzì
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Computational Approach ◽  
Transient Time ◽  
Field Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mean ◽  
High Social Status

Recently, a computational model has been proposed of the social integration, as described in sociological terms by Blau. In this model, actors praise or critique each other, and these actions influence their social status and raise negative or positive emotions. The role of a self-deprecating strategy of actors with high social status has also been discussed there. Here, we develop a mean field approach, where the active and passive roles (praising and being praised, etc.) are decoupled. The phase transition from friendly to hostile emotions has been reproduced, similarly to the previously applied purely computational approach. For both phases, we investigate the time dependence of the distribution of social status. There we observe a diffusive spread, which — after some transient time — appears to be limited from below or from above, depending on the phase. As a consequence, the mean status flows.

Bullying, defending, and outsider behaviors: The moderating role of social status and gender in their relationship with empathy

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Lucas-Molina ◽  
Alicia Pérez-Albéniz ◽  
Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero ◽  
Marta Giménez-Dasí
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Moderating Role

The “Relatives and Friends Effect:” Migration Networks of Transatlantic Migrants From the Late Habsburg Monarchy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemarie Steidl
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Migrant Networks ◽  
Migration Networks ◽  
The Social

This essay examines the effectiveness of the network of relatives and friends in providing support and information to Austrian transatlantic migrants under the Habsburg Monarchy, in attempt to broaden the historical study of migrant networks. It claims that these networks determined migrant movement collectively rather than individually, and sprung up in order to minimise the risk to migrants crossing the Atlantic. It analyses passenger shipping records, particularly data relating to the ports of Bremen and Hamburg in 1910, in order to draw the conclusion that social networks of migration under the Habsburg Empire did not solely rely on family ties, but also the established conventions of the migration process and the social status of the migrants themselves. It calls for further research into the role of families in migrant networks.

Diversity and Relationships

2020 ◽  
pp. 114-150
Author(s):  
Mona Sue Weissmark
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Clinical Consequences ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
And Gender

This chapter outlines key issues in scientific literature concerning how evolutionary processes have shaped the human mind. To that end, psychologists have drawn on Charles Darwin’s sexual selection hypothesis, or how males compete for reproduction and the role of female choice in the process. Darwin argued that evolution hinged on the diversity resulting from sexual reproduction. Evolutionary psychologists posit that heterosexual men and women evolved powerful, highly patterned, and universal desires for particular characteristics in a mate. Critics, however, contend that Darwin’s theory of sexual selection was erroneous, in part because his ideas about sexual identity and gender were influenced by the social mores of his elite Victorian upper class. Despite this critique, some researchers argue similarly to Darwin that love is part of human biological makeup. According to their hypotheses, cooperation is the centerpiece of human daily life and social relations. This makes the emotion of love, both romantic and maternal love, a requirement not just for cooperation, but also for the preservation and perpetuation of the species. That said, researchers speculate that encounters with unfamiliar people, coincident with activated neural mechanisms associated with negative judgments, likely inspire avoidance behavior and contribute to emotional barriers. This suggests the need to further study the social, psychological, and clinical consequences of the link between positive and negative emotions.

Ageing and gender

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-68
Author(s):  
Chris Gilleard ◽  
Paul Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Bonding Capital

This chapter begins by considering the distinction between sex and gender. The latter constitutes the source of the social division between men and women considered as social beings. It serves as both a reflection of division and inequality and a source of difference and identity. The chapter then explores the framing of this division in terms of patriarchy and the inequalities that are organised by and structured within the relations of work and of social reproduction. It focuses next upon the consequences of such a division, first in terms of both financial assets and resources and then in terms of social relational capital, drawing upon Putnam’s distinction between bridging and bonding capital. It then considers other sources of difference that become more salient in later life, in terms of health illness and longevity. The chapter ends with the role of gender in representing later life, and the role of later life in representing gender. It concludes by distinguishing between gender as a structure shaping third age culture, and gender as a constituent in the social imaginary of the fourth age.

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