Abuse and trauma in women: Broadening the social context.

This chapter examines the social functions of speaker-oriented attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It analyzes these datives as perspectivizers used by a speaker to instruct her hearer to view her as a form of authority in relation to him, to the content of her utterance, and to the activity they are both involved in. The nature of this authority depends on the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context, including the speaker’s and hearer’s shared values and beliefs, their respective identities, and the social acts employed in interaction. The chapter analyzes specific instances of speaker-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts (e.g., commands, complaints) and in different types of settings (e.g., family talk, gossip). It also examines how these datives interact with facework, politeness, and rapport management.

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Intuitions and Arguments: Cognitive Foundations of Argumentation in Natural Theology

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion ◽

10.24204/ejpr.v9i2.1934 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 57-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Helen De Cruz ◽

Johan De Smedt

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Natural Theology ◽

The Social ◽

Social Theories ◽

Cognitive Foundations

This paper examines the cognitive foundations of natural theology: the intuitions that provide the raw materials for religious arguments, and the social context in which they are defended or challenged. We show that the premises on which natural theological arguments are based rely on intuitions that emerge early in development, and that underlie our expectations for everyday situations, e.g., about how causation works, or how design is recognized. In spite of the universality of these intuitions, the cogency of natural theological arguments remains a matter of continued debate. To understand why they are controversial, we draw on social theories of reasoning and argumentation.

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Negotiating Boundaries Between Gender and Social Identities in the Principality of Samos: The Case of Divorces (1902–1911)

European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research ◽

10.26417/ejser.v8i1.p90-103 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 90

Author(s):

Vasilios Gialamas ◽

Sofia Iliadou Tachou ◽

Alexia Orfanou

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Gender Identity ◽

Social Roles ◽

Cultural Construction ◽

Social Identities ◽

Gender Ratio ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Social ◽

The Government ◽

Qualitative Characteristics

This study focuses on divorces in the Principality of Samos, which existed from 1834 to 1912. The process of divorce is described according to the laws of the rincipality, and divorces are examined among those published in the Newspaper of the Government of the Principality of Samos from the last decade of the Principality from 1902 to 1911. Issues linked to divorce are investigated, like the differences between husbands and wives regarding the initiation and reasons for requesting a divorce. These differences are integrated in the specific social context of the Principality, and the qualitative characteristics are determined in regard to the gender ratio of women and men that is articulated by the invocation of divorce. The aim is to determine the boundaries of social identities of gender with focus on the prevailing perceptions of the social roles of men and women. Gender is used as a social and cultural construction. It is argued that the social gender identity is formed through a process of “performativity”, that is, through adaptation to the dominant social ideals.

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