Home alone: Why people believe others’ social lives are richer than their own.

This article was developed based on the qualitative literature research with the intention of exploring the field of social psychology and its interface with psychosocial counselling. Social psychology seeks to understand how each person’s social behaviour is influenced by the culture, situation and environment in which it takes place; whereas psychosocial counselling aims to enhance the client’s psychological and social functioning in the context of his environment and circumstance. Social psychology and psychosocial counselling have both tended to focus more on managing specific human problems and social issues. The long established partnership between these two perspectives has resulted in the development of scientific theory and practical interventions over several decades. This implies that social psychology provides a framework of resources from which psychosocial counselling draws when dealing with the diverse problem situations that affect people in their social lives. The research question was: What elements in social psychology can interface with psychosocial counselling? The focus of the research was on three key elements in social psychology: self-concept, social attitudes and social prejudice. This article illustrates how these elements interface with psychosocial counselling. Therefore, social psychology and psychosocial counselling both have a significant role to play in the wider spectrum of social-welfare and human-relation services offered to needy people at all levels of contact.

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Formacja prawnika wyzwaniem czasów

Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne ◽

10.25167/osap.1285 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 267-286

Author(s):

Stanisław Leszek Stadniczeńko

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Human Capital ◽

Young People ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Point Of View ◽

Job Market ◽

Social Lives ◽

New Vision ◽

Political Disputes

The author considers the questions relating to the formation of lawyers’ professional traits from the point of view of the significance which human capital and investment in this capital hold in contemporary times. It follows from the analyses, which were carried out, that the dire need for taking up actions with the aim to shape lawyers appears one of the most vital tasks. This requires taking into account visible trends in the changing job market. Another aspect results from the need for multilevel qualifications and conditions behind lawyers’ actions and their decisions. Thus, colleges of higher education which educate prospective lawyers, as well as lawyers’ corporations, are confronted by challenges of forming, in young people, features that are indispensable for them to be valuable lawyers and not only executors of simple activities. The author points to the fact that lawyers need shaping because, among others, during their whole social lives and realization of professional tasks their personality traits and potential related to communication will constantly manifest through accepting and following or rejecting and opposing values, principles, reflexions, empathy, sensitivity, the farthest-fetched imagination, objectivism, cooperation, dialogue, distancing themselves from political disputes, etc. Students of the art of law should be characterized by a changed mentality, new vision of law – service to man, and realization of standards of law, as well as perception of the importance of knowledge, skills, attitudes and competences.

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The Secret Social Lives of Microorganisms

Microbe Magazine ◽

10.1128/microbe.6.183.1 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 183-186

Author(s):

Kevin R. Foster

Keyword(s):

Social Lives

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Overdoing Democracy

10.1093/oso/9780190924195.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Robert B. Talisse

Keyword(s):

Social Contexts ◽

Good Thing ◽

Democratic Legitimacy ◽

The Political ◽

Crowding Out ◽

Social Spaces ◽

Democratic Ideal ◽

Empirical Results ◽

Social Lives ◽

Social Goods

Democracy is an extremely important social political good. Nonetheless, there is such a thing as having too much of a good thing. When we overdo democracy, we allow the categories, allegiances, and struggles of politics to overwhelm our social lives. This has the effect of undermining and crowding out many of the most important correlated social goods that democracy is meant to deliver. What’s more, in overdoing democracy, we spoil certain social goods that democracy needs in order to flourish. Thus overdoing democracy is democracy’s undoing. A thriving democracy needs citizens to reserve space in their shared social lives for collective activities and cooperative projects that are not structured by political allegiances; they must work together in social contexts where political affiliations and party loyalties are not merely suppressed, but utterly beside the point. Combining conceptual analyses of democratic legitimacy and responsible citizenship with empirical results regarding the political infiltration of social spaces and citizens’ vulnerabilities to polarization, this book provides a diagnosis of current democratic ills and a novel prescription for addressing them. Arguing that overdoing democracy is the result of certain tendencies internal to the democratic ideal itself, the book demonstrates that even in a democracy, politics must be put in its place.

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Fluid Multilingual Practices among Youth in Cameroon and Mozambique

The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190930028.013.30 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Torun Reite ◽

Francis Badiang Oloko ◽

Manuel Armando Guissemo

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Urban Youth ◽

Social Space ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Theoretical Discussion ◽

The South ◽

African Cities ◽

Social Lives ◽

The Social

Inspired by recent epistemological and ontological debates aimed at unsettling and reshaping conceptions of language, this essay discusses how mainstream sociolinguistics offers notions meaningful for studying contexts of the South. Based on empirical studies of youth in two African cities, Yaoundé in Cameroon and Maputo in Mozambique, the essay engages with “fluid modernity” and “enregisterment” to unravel the role that fluid multilingual practices play in the social lives of urban youth. The empirically grounded theoretical discussion shows how recent epistemologies and ontologies offer inroads to more pluriversal knowledge production. The essay foregrounds: i) the role of language in the sociopolitical battles of control over resources, and ii) speakers’ reflexivity and metapragmatic awareness of register formations of fluid multilingual practices. Moreover, it shows how bundles of localized meanings construct belongings and counterhegemonic discourses, as well as demonstrating speakers’ differential valuations and perceptions of boundaries and transgressions across social space.

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Young Adults’ Perspectives of Childhood Food Allergies: Implications for School Nurses

The Journal of School Nursing ◽

10.1177/10598405211019030 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 105984052110190

Author(s):

Abigail Anderson ◽

Elizabeth M. Combs ◽

Sheila Hurst ◽

Cynthia F. Corbett

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

South Carolina ◽

School Nurses ◽

Food Allergies ◽

School Age Children ◽

School Age ◽

University Of South Carolina ◽

Social Lives ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

The University

The primary goal of this study was to examine young adults’ perspectives about the effects of their food allergies (FAs) on their social lives from school-age to young adulthood. Young adults aged 18–21 ( n = 10) at the University of South Carolina were interviewed. A qualitative descriptive method to find themes and commonalities from transcribed interviews was used for data analysis. Identified themes were (1) feeling different and being isolated, (2) strategies for managing feeling different and being isolated, (3) strategies for managing safety, and (4) acceptance of myself and by others. School-age children attributed the school lunch allergy table as contributing to social isolation. Additionally, participants described feeling different and concerns about safety. Strategies to mitigate those experiences were identified by participants. Implications for children with FAs, their parents, school nurses, and other education and health professionals who work with children are presented.

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“I Spent Most of Freshers in my Room”—A Qualitative Study of the Social Experiences of University Students on the Autistic Spectrum

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders ◽

10.1007/s10803-021-05125-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Helen Goddard ◽

Anna Cook

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Social Isolation ◽

Social Life ◽

Social Experiences ◽

Mental Wellbeing ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Social Lives ◽

Social Events ◽

University Life ◽

The Impact

AbstractAutistic university students face extra challenges in both their academic and social life. Barriers to socialising appear to be less well understood and supported by universities than academic requirements. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten autistic university students to explore their social experiences. Questions explored their social experiences, satisfaction with social life, disclosure of ASD to others, and the impact of mental wellbeing on university life. Thematic analysis indicated most participants were unsatisfied with their social lives and experienced mental health issues. Factors exacerbating social isolation included lack of suitable social events, lack of social support and feeling unable to disclose to peers. Factors which reduced social isolation included joining an autism or special interest society and receiving social mentoring.

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US Rural Surgeons Leading During COVID-19: Where Are They Now?

The American Surgeon ◽

10.1177/0003134820960057 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 000313482096005

Author(s):

Michael Sarap ◽

Julie Conyers ◽

Crystal Cunningham ◽

Adam Deutchman ◽

Glenn Levine ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Social Lives ◽

The Individual

Rural surgeons from disparate areas of the United States report on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in their communities as the virus has spread across the country. The pandemic has brought significant changes to the professional, economic, and social lives of the individual surgeons and their communities.

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