scholarly journals Disaster linguicism: Linguistic minorities in disasters

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinya Uekusa
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Language Barriers ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Linguistic Minorities ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Linguistic Minority ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Multiple Levels

AbstractLanguage is a means of communication but it functions as much more than this in social life. In emergencies and disasters, it can also be a matter of life and death. Language barriers and effective communication in disaster contexts (i.e. distributing critical disaster information and warnings) are the central concern in current disaster research, practice, and policy. However, based on the data drawn from qualitative interviews with linguistic minority immigrants and refugees in Canterbury, New Zealand and Miyagi, Japan, I argue that linguistic minorities confront unique disaster vulnerability partly due to linguicism—language-based discrimination at multiple levels. As linguicism is often compounded by racism, it is not properly addressed and analyzed, using the framework of language ideology and power. This article therefore introduces the concept of disaster linguicism, employing Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, to explore linguistic minorities’ complex disaster experiences in the 2010–2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters. (Disaster linguicism, language barriers, language ideologies)*

Graffiti als Version und Subversion–Praxen kultureller Re-Regulierung und die Möglichkeit von Gratiforschung

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Dollinger
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Wird Eine ◽  
Multiple Perspectives

Der Beitrag geht von Versuchen aus, integrative Perspektiven einer überaus heterogenen Graffitiforschung zu bestimmen. In Auseinandersetzung insbesondere mit Bruno Latours Ansatz des »Iconoclash« wird eine kulturtheoretische Referenz bestimmt, die Graffiti als Version identifiziert, d. h. als semiotisch orientierte Veränderung räumlich situierter Ordnungs- und Regulierungspraxen. Ihnen kann, wenn auch nicht zwingend, eine subversive Qualität zukommen. Durch die Ausrichtung am Konzept einer Version wird beansprucht, Forderungen einer normativ weitgehend abstinenten, nicht-essentialistischen und für komplexe Fragen der Identitäts- und Raumpolitik offenen Forschungspraxis einzulösen.<br><br>The contribution attempts to integrate multiple perspectives of current largely heterogeneous graffiti scholarship. Referring to Bruno Latour’s concept »iconoclash«, we discuss graffiti from a cultural-theoretical point of view as a »version«. It appears as a semiotically oriented modification of spatially situated practices that regulate social life. Often, but not necessarily, these practices involve subversive qualities. The concept of »version« facilitates a non-normative and non-essentialist strategy of research. This enables an explorative research practice in which the complex matters of identity and space politics that are associated with graffiti can be addressed.

Symbolic violence against a person with intellectual disability in a nursing home care

2021 ◽  
Vol LXXXII (4) ◽  
pp. 269-279
Author(s):  
Iwona Myśliwczyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Nursing Home Care ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Specific Change ◽  
Narrative Interview ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Empirical Material

The system of institutional support should be tailored to the needs and capabilities of the persons using it, ensuring full social development. However, institutional care involves tearing the individual out of real social life, isolating him or her and imposing actions that lead to a specific change. The approach of professionals focuses on restoring a state of normality to people with disabilities at all costs or takes the form of neglecting the needs of the individual through an infantile approach to them. The aim of this paper is to present the results of research on the reconstruction of experiences and interpretations of the experience of symbolic violence by people with intellectual disabilities residing in social welfare homes. The research presented in this paper is set in the interpretative paradigm, which consequently allowed the application of the biographical method with the use of autobiographical narrative interview. The analysis of the empirical material reveals various forms of symbolic violence. Some are the result of imposed assistance, i.e., the system of social policy, which in its essence does not take into account the individual needs and possibilities of the individual. Systemic assumptions condemn narrators to certain actions and behaviours. Symbolic violence is also evident in the relationships between the staff of the institutions and the residents, which results, among other things, in anxiety, a sense of being inferior and insecurity.

scholarly journals Endogamous Marriage Of Jamaah Tarbiyah: A Sociological Study Of The Jamaah Tarbiyah In Salatiga

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilyya Muhsin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Endogamous Marriage

This article discusses the endogamous marriage of Jamaah Tarbiyah in Salatiga, Central Java based on a sociological perspective. The framework of Bourdiue theory, particularly capital and habitus concept, was applied to analyze the case. Jamaah Tarbiyah was able to force the cadre to get married in endogamous system based on ‘its own capital’. But, when the system was on process sometime it run in coercive way and there was a symbolic violence. As result, the coercive way raised a habitual action (habitus). The habitus resulted a doxa as well as a heterodoxa (counter doxa) when doxa opposed topersonal interest. Dialectic of the habitus, doxa, and hetrodoxa influenced on the member’s social life when endogamous marriage was practiced. DOI: 10.15408/ajis.v17i1.6226

scholarly journals “You’re just there, alone in your room with your thoughts” A qualitative study about the impact of lockdown among young people during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison R. McKinlay ◽  
Tom May ◽  
Joanna Dawes ◽  
Daisy Fancourt ◽  
Alexandra Burton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractBackgroundAdolescents and young adults have been greatly affected by quarantine measures during the coronavirus-19 pandemic. Quantitative evidence suggests that many young people have struggled with their mental health throughout “lockdown”, but little is understood about the qualitative impact of social distancing restrictions on mental health, wellbeing and social life. We therefore sought to elicit the views and experiences of adolescents and young adults living in the UK during the pandemic.MethodsSemi-structured qualitative interviews were undertaken with 37 participants aged 13-24.ResultsWe identified 4 superordinate themes most commonly described by participants about their experiences during the pandemic, including: a) missing social contact during lockdown, b) disruption to education, c) changes to social relationships, and d) improved wellbeing during lockdown. Although we identified some positive experiences during the pandemic, including an increased awareness of mental health and stronger relationship ties, many said they struggled with loneliness, a decline in mental health, and anxiety about socialising after the pandemic.ConclusionsFindings suggest that some young people may have felt less stigma talking about their mental health now compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many are worried about how the pandemic has affected their education and social connections and may require additional psychological, practical and social support. Our findings highlight the important role that education providers play in providing a source of information and support to adolescents and young adults during times of uncertainty.

Political Sociology and the People's Health

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Beckfield ◽  
Nancy Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Population Health ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
And Gender

Health, illness, and death are distributed unequally around the world. Babies born in Japan can expect to live to age 80 or over, while babies born in Malawi can expect to die before the age of 50. As important, birth into one race, class, and gender within one society vs. another also matters enormously for one’s health. To answer such questions about social inequalities in health, Political Sociology and the People’s Health responds to two research trends that are motivating scholarship at the leading edge of inquiry into population health. First, social epidemiology is turning toward policy and politics to explain the unequal global distribution of population health. Second, social stratification research is turning toward new conceptualizations and theorizations of how institutions—the “rules of the game” that organize power in social life—distribute social goods, including health. Political Sociology and the People’s Health advances these two turns by developing new hypotheses that integrate insights from political sociology and social epidemiology. Political sociology offers a rich array of concepts, measures, and data that help social epidemiologists develop new hypotheses about how macroscopic factors like social policy, labor markets, and the racialized and gendered state shape the distribution of population health. Social epidemiology offers innovative approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of population, etiologic period, and distribution that can advance research on the relationships between institutions and inequalities. Developing the conversation between these fields, Political Sociology and the People’s Health describes how human institutional arrangements distribute life and death.

scholarly journals Street talk and Bourdieusian criminology: Bringing narrative to field theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sveinung Sandberg ◽  
Jennifer Fleetwood
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Creative Role ◽  
Structural Aspects

The work of Bourdieu has increasingly gained interest in criminology. His theoretical framework is rich and arguably the most sophisticated approach to social inequality and difference in sociology. It has however, been criticized for bias towards the structural aspects of social life, and for leaving little space for the constitutive, and creative role of language. We argue for the inclusion of narrative for understanding street fields. Based on qualitative interviews with 40 incarcerated drug dealers in Norway, we describe the narrative repertoire of the street field, including stories of crime business, violence, drugs and the ‘hard life’. The narrative repertoire is constituted by street capital, but also upholds and produces this form of capital. Street talk is embedded in objective social and economic structures and displayed in the actors’ habitus. Narratives bind the street field together: producing social practices and social structure.

Restless Feelings: Desiring Direct Contact After Postmortem Organ Donation

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-62
Author(s):  
Sophie H. Bolt ◽  
Marloes Witjes ◽  
Barbara van den Ende
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Organ Donation ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Organ Donor ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Insight Into

This article investigates the emergence of a growing demand in the Netherlands: the wish of organ donor families and organ recipients to establish contact. Such direct contact transgresses both the anonymity and privacy long considered by many to be fundamental to organ donation. Legislation prescribes that privacy should be safeguarded, but the parties involved increasingly manage to find each other. Research is needed to provide insight into the ramifications of direct contact, which may inform mourning counseling and psychosocial support. Drawing on qualitative interviews with donor’s relatives, we analyze the reasons for the desire to have direct contact. We seek to understand how meanings are constructed and contested through organs at the margins of life and death in the individualized and secularized society of the Netherlands. We find that relatives struggle with persistent restless feelings after postmortem organ donation and may develop a level of personal attachment and assign inalienability to human body parts.

scholarly journals Doing research in peoples’ homes: fieldwork, ethics and safety – on the practical challenges of researching and representing life on the margins

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 638-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Bashir
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Drug Dependency ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Housing Research ◽  
Potential Impact

Drawing on the author’s experiences and reflections of researching vulnerable people for a housing research project, this article explores the ethical dilemmas, and the health and safety challenges, of conducting in-depth, qualitative interviews with ‘vulnerable’ research participants in their own homes. Vulnerability, in a housing research context, takes account of: living in poverty; insecure housing/employment situations; poor health and/or mental ill health; alcohol and /or drug dependency, etc. Diary notes are used to illustrate the challenging situations that can unfold when working alone in the field in disadvantaged areas, with vulnerable people, which can present physical and emotional risk. Concern with risk and the potential impact on individuals is two-fold: that on the participant; and that on the researcher. Through reflexivity and revisiting of experiences in the field, this paper explains the difficulties and negotiations, and it provides some suggestions for better research practice.

Linguistic Minorities of Yugoslavia and Adjacent Areas During the Interwar Period: An Economic Perspective∗

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Toussaint Hočevar
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
Linguistic Minorities ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Linguistic Minority ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Subsequent Discussion ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Linguistic Groups

In attempting to provide a framework for the study of linguistic minorities within Yugoslavia and peripheral areas, I shall proceed along conceptual lines suggested by economic theory. Although the terms “ethnic minority” and “linguistic minority” are often used interchangeably, the focus is on linguistic minorities since in terms of economic significance the linguistic attribute generally outweighs other attributes which define ethnic groups. After all, communications involve substantial costs, and it is precisely the distribution of these costs between linguistic groups which gives the minority status its economic dimension. The subsequent discussion hinges in part on these costs.

scholarly journals Can Institutions of Autonomy Become Potentially “Subversive Institutions”?

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (76) ◽  
pp. 52-84
Author(s):  
Hrvoje Ćurko
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Minorities ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
Linguistic Minority ◽  
Central State ◽  
Western Democracies

Abstract Institutions of autonomy3 in ethnically heterogeneous states have been conceived as a compromise between a desire to safeguard state unity and to partially accommodate the grievances of ethno-linguistic minorities. However, in practice, the institutions of autonomy often turn into a nucleus of a proto state of the ethno-linguistic minority. Instead of resolving the minority issue and stabilising the central state, they strengthen the local nationalism and secessionism, acting as centrifugal forces, or “subversive institutions”. Recently these processes have been noticed in several ethnically heterogeneous, developed Western democracies. The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether, and how, the institutions of autonomy influence the rise of peripheral nationalism and secessionism.

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