Good Effects on the Poorer Classes of the Insane of Frequent Visits by Relatives

1876 ◽  
Vol 22 (99) ◽  
pp. 446-447
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ready Access

We are in this peculiar and almost unique position in Scotland, that while our number of yearly admissions increase, our numbers left at the end of the year have diminished for the past three years. There are several causes for this. Our recoveries are very numerous, and a large number of unrecovered but quiet cases are removed, at my advice, by their Mends. Our proximity to town, and the extraordinarily ready access provided by the tramways, are circumstances which most people, and among them many high authorities in lunacy matters, would consider great disadvantages. Their effect is to bring the relatives of our poorer patients out to the Asylum to visit them to an extent quite unknown in country Asylums. In this way an interest in them is kept up, and very few of them indeed are forgotten and neglected by their kith and kin. This is an influence which often saves them from falling into incurable insanity, it gives many of them unbounded pleasure, it keeps alive home feelings and associations, and it brings a direct public opinion of the most unsleeping and critical kind to bear on the officers and attendants of the institution—all matters of incalculable importance, and much difficulty of attainment. When the relatives of patients see that the acute symptoms have passed off, they are often disposed to take them out for a day to see how they get on. If this succeeds, they try them at their usual employment, and if they do well, are often anxious to have them home altogether. It is by this most natural of all means that any undue accumulation of the incurably insane has been avoided for the past three years, and the problem of how to provide for such, which is so urgent in many parts of the kingdom, has been solved for us at no cost to the rates whatever. I find from the Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, that Edinburgh is the only county in Scotland, the majority of whose population is urban, where the numbers of the registered insane, whether in Asylums or not, have absolutely diminished for the last three years.—Report of Royal Edinburgh Asylum for 1875.

Narrative conventions: What contribute to competitive prime time television News Discussions?

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1758-1769
Author(s):  
Vidisha Madonna D’Souza
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Television News ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Indian English ◽  
The Past ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Narrative Conventions

Television News has been a resorted platform for Indian viewers over the past decades. A majority of Indian viewers are known to trust this platform for its highly expected one-stop, credible, professionally opinionated sense of reporting.  News channels have become platforms for celebrity journalists and anchors to exercise their authority. News organisations have become backbones of information and public opinion and journalists and their organisational agenda have taken this forward.  With bold and competitive strategies used to enable news presentations, it is essential to examine and recognize existing Television news narrative conventions and practices that have gained momentum in recent years. Through a qualitative analytical approach taken for this research study, it is clear that narrative conventions exist and modify, thus producing fashionable and modernized forms of presentation techniques during prime time. With a clear organisational norm and genre of discourse shared by Indian English television channels today, the paper highlights persisting organisational norms, unconventional discourses, rhetoric (audio and visual) and music – a contributing element as existing contributors of narrative conventions. 

Recruitment Policies of Non-EU/EEA Nurses and Ethical Issues

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angèle Flora Mendy
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Ethical Argument ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Legacies

By examining policies of recruiting non-EU/EEA health workers and how ethical considerations are taken into account when employing non-EU/EEA nurses in the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland, this chapter intends to show that the use of the so-called ‘ethical’ argument to convince national public opinion of the relevance of restrictive recruitment policies is recent (since the 1990s). The analysis highlights the fact that in addition to the institutional legacies, qualification and skills—through the process of their recognition—play an important role in the opening or restriction of the labour market to health professionals from the Global South. The legacy of the past also largely determines the place offered to non-EU/EEA health professionals in the different health systems of host countries.

Chapter 5 - Urban cuisine in Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo)

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Yolande Berton-Ofouémé
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
African Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Catering Industry ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Ready Access

This chapter highlights the results of a baseline survey conducted in Brazzaville in 1992-1993 and a follow-up survey in 2018 on changes in food consumption patterns based on meal monitoring and interviews with food consumers, caterers and food processing companies. Trends regarding meals created by city dwellers, meals from other African cities disseminated by immigrants and by the catering industry are also analysed. Urban catering has undergone major changes over the past 25 years, and Congolese city dwellers now have ready access to international meals as well as new locally invented dishes.

Secular Evolution in Ireland

2017 ◽  
pp. 62-83
Author(s):  
David T. Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Secular Evolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Muslim Minority

How has Irish benevolent secularism withstood challenges brought on by rapid decline in Catholic influence over the past quarter century? This chapter documents the role of religious-secular and interfaith partnerships in steering institutional change in Ireland during this period. Benevolent secularism has evolved without changing into a more assertive form of secularism. The chapter traces secular evolution in areas like education policy and accommodating the growing Muslim minority. It traces elite alliances through field interviews, and then documents similar consensus in public opinion data.

scholarly journals Public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-320
Author(s):  
Lynsey Black ◽  
Lizzie Seal ◽  
Florence Seemungal
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Global North ◽  
New Perspective

The bulk of extant research on public opinion on crime and punishment is focused on Global North nations. This article contributes a new perspective to the literature on punitivism by examining public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados. The article presents insights from exploratory focus group research conducted in Barbados in 2017. These findings are particularly relevant as Barbadian lawmakers navigate reform of the nation’s death penalty law. While the focus groups reveal anxieties that echo those identified in other jurisdictions, related to nostalgia for the past and concern regarding social order for instance, they also demonstrate the specific relevance of time and place. Using approaches from Caribbean Criminology and drawing on post-colonial perspectives, the article examines the context of views on punishment in Barbados, including perceptions of ‘neo-colonial’ interference and concerns about what can be lost in the process of ‘progress’.

scholarly journals The Origins of the British Welfare State

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-433
Author(s):  
Pat Thane
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Precise Quantification ◽  
British State ◽  
The Welfare State

George Boyer’s The Winding Road to the Welfare State, which traces the shift in Britain from the early nineteenth-century Poor Law to the post-1945 welfare state, is strongest and most useful in its analysis of the labor market in relation to poverty and insecurity and in its precise quantification of wages, poverty, insecurity, and public relief. It is much weaker when discussing how politics and public opinion shaped social policies; overlooking important areas of British state welfare, the book focuses upon unemployment and old-age policies. Nor is the book really about “Britain.” Most of the statistics and analyses refer to England and occasionally Wales. Scotland, with its different economic, administrative, and legal structures, though constitutionally in Britain, is barely mentioned. Notwithstanding Boyer’s contributions to the picture of how the British welfare state emerged, his version of Britain’s “winding road” falls short of the descriptions and analyses that many British publications have already provided within the past thirty years.

Archaeology of Everyday Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 373-390
Author(s):  
Cynthia Robin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
The Past ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
How People Learn ◽  
New Literature ◽  
The Impact

Everyday life is critical in the constitution of selves and societies alike. Archaeology, with its attention to material and spatial remains, is in a unique position to further studies of everyday life, as ordinary materials and spaces formalize how people learn about themselves and their world. This review defines an archaeology of everyday life, examines its historical roots, synthesizes new literature on the topic, and outlines future directions. Although there is no established subfield called “everyday archaeology,” a rich and ever-growing body of recent research illustrates the impact of everyday life studies on archaeological interpretations and practice. Research on everyday life peoples the past in a way that few other paradigms do.

scholarly journals The raced constitution of Europe: The Eurobarometer and the statistical imagination of European racism

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Slootweg ◽  
Rogier van Reekum ◽  
Willem Schinkel
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
Public Opinion Survey ◽  
Opinion Polling ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Public ◽  
Shed Light

Centering upon the first Europe-wide public opinion survey of racism, carried out by the Eurobarometer in 1988, this article explores how studying European public opinion research can shed light on what we call the raced constitution of Europe. Based on an analysis of this Eurobarometer survey, we scrutinize how Eurobarometer opinion polling involves a constant scale-switching through which ‘Europe’ and ‘racism’ are co-produced. As we argue, techniques of European opinion polling contributed to the imagination of a ‘European’ ideological whole, from which stabilized categories of ‘non-European others’ were excluded. By creating an opposition between ‘democratic Europe’ and ‘individualized xenophobia’, racism was enacted as a lower class attitude ‘not of Europe’ and as a permanent rem(a)inder of the past that serves to legitimate the project of European integration.

scholarly journals India's New Public Diplomacy

Asian Survey ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1089-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hall
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
New Public

Abstract Over the past decade, India has invested significant resources in public diplomacy, using traditional and new approaches to build and leverage its soft power. This article examines the reasons for this investment, the various forms of public diplomacy India employs, and the effectiveness of its efforts to shape public opinion. It finds that Indian investment in public diplomacy is partly a response to concerns about the perceived growth of Chinese soft power and partly a function of changed beliefs in the foreign policy-making elite about the uses of new social media. It also finds that India's new public diplomacy seems to have met with some––albeit patchy––success in augmenting its soft power.

The Japanese Mandate Naval Base Question

1935 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-487
Author(s):  
Luther H. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Naval Base

Public opinion in support of the efficacy of collective efforts for the preservation of peace has been considerably weakened by the events of the past three or four years. While it is exceedingly doubtful whether much success will attend whatever other courses of action nations may adopt to secure themselves against the world's turmoil, students of international affairs must accept the fact that we are now in an eddy of the current of progress. But there is slight justification for despair. Indeed, much has come through the wreckage of the sanctions failure almost undamaged. In certain large fields of action, there has been success in the attempts of the League and allied institutions to create a better world of international relations. Among other successes, the mandates system stands unchallenged as a large advance in the supervision of colonial administration.

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