Linguistic Relativity in Fiji: A Preliminary Study

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
The Other ◽  
Relativity Theory ◽  
Linguistic Relativity ◽  
Extended Study ◽  
Experimental Support ◽  
The Family ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Group Reading ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThere is a lack of experimental support for Linguistic Relativity Theory (LRT), which has not been tested in a South Pacific context. Fifty-two bilingual male (n = 26) and female Fijians read, and answered survey questions on the family dilemma, “An Unwanted Child?” - one group functioning in English and the other in Fijian. The group reading and answering in Fijian tended to place more emphasis on the rights of the extended family, whereas the group reading and responding in English placed more emphasis on the rights of the individual. These preliminary findings are consistent with LRT theory, and form the basis for more extended study, including perhaps a wider range of dilemmas and linguistic abilities (e.g., Fijians living in Australia).

Family influence on career decisions: perceptions of Latin American CEOs

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Blanco ◽  
Mariela N. Golik
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Literature

PurposeThe career is a space where family and work lives amalgamate. The role of work for the individual, and the meaning of work within the culture, will determine the relevance of family. This study investigates CEOs' perception about conjugal family influence on career decisions, and it examines family factors.Design/methodology/approachThrough a qualitative study, 22 Latin American CEOs who work for multinational firms were interviewed in a semi-structured way.FindingsNot all career decisions were influenced by conjugal family. CEOs varied in the extent to which they considered their families when reflecting on their career decisions. Expatriation, joining or quitting an organization and change of area of work were found as those decisions perceived to be influenced by conjugal family. Family support, family structure and family demands and responsibilities were identified as the family factors involved. In spite of the role salience, family factors influenced some of CEOs' career decisions, in part, due to the cultural characteristics of the Latin American environment. The instrumental support of the extended family, as part of collectivist societies, was also evidenced.Practical implicationsA better understanding of the family influenced decisions and family factors involved may enhance individual career decision-making as well as organizational career management processes and public initiatives.Originality/valueThis study contributes to family and career literature, being the first one to explore the conjugal family influence upon CEOs' career decisions.

scholarly journals Perceptions de pères vivant avec un fils ou une fille adulte ayant une déficience intellectuelle sur la transition de l’après-parents

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-480
Author(s):  
Zoé Faubert ◽  
Georgette Goupil
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Individual Interview ◽  
Déficience Intellectuelle ◽  
The Family ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Housing Options ◽  
Do So

ABSTRACTWith the increase in life expectancy, many people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are living in the family home with their parents. This research focuses on the experience of 17 fathers of adults with ID. These fathers answered a questionnaire including open and closed questions. During the individual interview, fathers described their motivations to cohabit with their son or daughter, cohabitation benefits and constraints, housing options considered and planning for the future. Results indicate that fathers chose this cohabitation. However, they experience anxiety because they do not know who will support the adult with ID when they can no longer do so. Postparental planning considerations include legal concerns and informal discussions with siblings or the extended family. These results describe a complex parental situation in which there is interaction between their emotions, their attachment to the adult with ID and their previous experiences with residential, social or rehabilitation services.

scholarly journals The Integrated Use of Individual and Family Psychotherapy

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.D. Steinhauer ◽  
G.W. Tisdall
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Individual Therapy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Concurrent Use ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Clinician

For almost thirty years after the development of family therapy, the concurrent use of family and individual psychotherapy was seen as incompatible by leading proponents of each modality. Although recently the literature has revealed an increased willingness to utilize family and individual therapies concurrently, the decision for or against any such combination has been left largely to the intuition or bias of the individual clinician. This paper suggests the concurrent use of family and individual psychotherapies when disturbances of family structure and interaction co-exist with, reinforce, and are maintained by largely ego-syntonic internalized psychopathology (that is, the character defences of individual family members). It provides a rationale for integrating the concurrent therapies, and uses clinical examples to illustrate how each can potentiate the other. There is a discussion of indications and contraindications for the integrated use of concurrent family and individual therapy. From their attempts to apply these principles, the authors conclude that the experience for the family, the individual and the therapists is that the selective and integrated use of concurrent family and individual therapies can achieve more than can either therapy alone — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Towards homogeneity in homes languages

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 11.1-11.22
Author(s):  
Su-Hie Ting ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
School System ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
Parental Communication ◽  
Instrumental Value ◽  
Ethnic Language ◽  
The Family ◽  
Preliminary Study

This preliminary study examines the languages used by parents with their children in Malay, Chinese Foochow and Indian Tamil families to find out how the similarity or dissimilarity in parents’ ethnic language influenced the choice of language transmitted to children and how far standard languages have permeated the family domain in Kuching City in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Standard languages refer to the three main written languages taught in the school system, namely, English, Bahasa Malaysia (Malay language) and Chinese Mandarin. Interviews were conducted with 17 families (6 Malay, 6 Chinese Foochow, 5 Indian Tamil). The results showed that the ethnic language is mostly still retained in the Malay and Indian Tamil families but has been pushed out by English and Mandarin Chinese in Chinese Foochow families. English has emerged in parental communication with children to different extents across ethnic group. Bahasa Malaysia, on the other hand, is spoken in Malay families with parents from West Malaysia. Factors found to be influencing the parental decision on language to use with their children include similarity/dissimilarity of the couple’s ethnic languages, their educational background, family and social linguistic environment, instrumental value of languages and ethnic identity.

Towards homogeneity in homes languages

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 11.1-11.22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su-Hie Ting ◽  
Mahanita Mahadhir
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
School System ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
Parental Communication ◽  
Instrumental Value ◽  
Ethnic Language ◽  
The Family ◽  
Preliminary Study

This preliminary study examines the languages used by parents with their children in Malay, Chinese Foochow and Indian Tamil families to find out how the similarity or dissimilarity in parents’ ethnic language influenced the choice of language transmitted to children and how far standard languages have permeated the family domain in Kuching City in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Standard languages refer to the three main written languages taught in the school system, namely, English, Bahasa Malaysia (Malay language) and Chinese Mandarin. Interviews were conducted with 17 families (6 Malay, 6 Chinese Foochow, 5 Indian Tamil). The results showed that the ethnic language is mostly still retained in the Malay and Indian Tamil families but has been pushed out by English and Mandarin Chinese in Chinese Foochow families. English has emerged in parental communication with children to different extents across ethnic group. Bahasa Malaysia, on the other hand, is spoken in Malay families with parents from West Malaysia. Factors found to be influencing the parental decision on language to use with their children include similarity/dissimilarity of the couple’s ethnic languages, their educational background, family and social linguistic environment, instrumental value of languages and ethnic identity.

eng „Przemoc w wychowaniu”: Prawne oraz pedagogiczne uwagi na temat Monitoringu Rzecznika Praw Dziecka w Polsce

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Błażej Juliusz Kmieciak
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Parental Authority ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Violence In Education

Law and education are phenomena that constantly intermingle. On the one hand, in the educational process we use the concepts of rights, freedoms and autonomy. Education must result in shaping a pupils fully mature personality. One of its elements is to build awareness of their rights, taking into account respect for the rights of others. On the other hand, the right is continuously working on society and the individual. It works by: informing, motivating, and educating. The areas of action are related to the relationship that exists between parents and child. This relationship is unique. It refers to the value that family institution has in a society. In the family reveals the crucial role of parental authority. On the other perspective as important it seems to be the problem of respect for the rights of the child which is under the care of their parents. Analyzing the information media and the results of scientific studies more often can be seen the emergence of a particular thread, which is violence. This applies above of violence, which is observed in the educational process. This subject for many years, meets with interest of the Polish, constitutional authority responsible for protecting the child rights, which is the Children Ombudsman. At the end of 2015., on behalf of the above Ombudsman, has been developed an extensive report entitled. “Violence in education. Between the legal ban, and public acceptance. Monitoring of the Children Ombudsman”. Analysis of this document indicates that i society existence a clear and disturbing phenomenon of violence in education. At this point, there are several important questions. In the first place it is worth considering: What is the relationship between the rights of the child and parental authority? Is similar institutions can work together, and "co-exist"? It is also worth to considering: Is education of a child can exist without the element of coercion? Is this compulsion can have a positive face? At the end it is justified to stop the on the socio - legal context of domestic violence formulation. Is the existence of the Polish legal system similar phrases, effectively defends the rights of the family, or may result in the violation of?

Between Two Poles: Barukh Mitrani between Moderate Haskalah and Jewish Nationalism

Zutot ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Tamir Karkason
Keyword(s):  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
The Other ◽  
Golden Mean ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Barukh Mitrani was an Ottoman maskil who wandered between the Balkans, Istanbul and Palestine. While living in Edirne, Mitrani established his first periodical, Carmi (Pressburg 1881). Carmi’s issues were an ongoing maskilic sermon, drawing on a deep acquaintance with the Jewish bookshelf. This paper examines selections from the fifth article in Carmi, ‘Our Nationhood.’ Influenced by the moderate Haskalah, Mitrani idealized a ‘Golden Mean,’ which sought to balance the agendas of ‘the two poles’: insular Ultra-Orthodox Jews on the one hand, and secularized ‘Westernizers’ on the other. Mitrani also espoused a Jewish nationalism which had affinities with the Hebrew ‘republic of letters’ and the national resurgence in the Balkans. He perceived every Jew as part of three circles: the individual, the family, and the nation. Yet his nationalism was not separatist; he obliged Jews to remain loyal Ottoman citizens and promote the Sultanate while also settling in Palestine.

scholarly journals Awareness of the Family History as a Factor in Psychological Well-being in Adolescence

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-105
Author(s):  
T.V. Yakimova ◽  
Y.A. Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Supporting Effect ◽  
The Individual

We present the results of the study of connection of psychological well-being of adolescents with their awareness of their own family history. We briefly overview the main trends and individual empirical studies on the influence of family history of psychological well-being of the individual. In the present study, we focuses not on pathological influence of family history, but on its resource and supporting effect during the difficulties of adolescence. The study involved 32 teenagers. The empirical study is based on data obtained using a questionnaire designed to examine the links of teenager with extended family members and his awareness of family history. We found that adolescents who know their family history, have an interest in it and keep in touch with the extended family, are characterized by high values of the level of psychological well-being.

The Asphalt Jungle

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-181
Author(s):  
Robert Miklitsch
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Production Code ◽  
The Family ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual

If the syndicate picture privileges the system while the rogue cop film valorizes the individual, the “big caper” movie represents something of a synthesis. On one hand, the heist picture reposits the gang not in the alienated form of the syndicate but of the family, a tightly knit team that’s reminiscent of the army unit in the “combat film.” The sympathetic presentation of the crew in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) is one of the semantic elements, together with the ethos of professionalism, that distinguishes the classic heist picture from its ’40s predecessors. On the other hand, if the gang in the classic heist film is split between the individual criminal’s desire and a crew that demands the subsumption of that same desire in the interests of the greater good, fragmentation in the form of individual desire inevitably reasserts itself. In this sense, the law of desire understood as fate is inscribed in the very idea of a “big score,” a fatality endorsed, if not mandated, by the Production Code Administration and eloquently demonstrated by the dénouement of The Asphalt Jungle.

scholarly journals La relazione educativa in epoca di Covid-19. Una riflessione pedagogica sul ruolo della famiglia e sul senso di cittadinanza

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-242
Author(s):  
Vito Balzano
Keyword(s):  
Educational Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Educational Condition ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Global Growth ◽  
Deep Crisis

The educational relationship, being humanly determined, becomes a privileged instrument of education because it accepts the difference and recognizes the limit of the individual in the wealth of the other by himself during a time, not too short but not too long, in which he identifies as useful and fundamental, not only to promote the intentional and global growth of the educating, but also to favor mutual involvement within the community. This contribution aims to investigate the role of the family today in the society affected by the coronavirus emergency. The sense of citizenship, in such a context, tends to change transforming and adapting to the sociocultural changes that characterize the evolution of the community. Hence, we are talking of not only a health issue, but a problem of immediate educational interest, which embraces the most authentic diversity and human relationships. The family, the most relevant educational environment for the development of relationships and parenthood, today is put to the test, by a socio-educational condition in deep crisis, caused by the pandemic situation of Covid-19. 

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