The social construction of ARVs in South Africa* *This article is based on a longer study that was developed in collaboration with Sexuality Policy Watch, with funding provided by the Ford Foundation. For an extended discussion of the issues examined in this article, see “Constitutional authority and its limitations: The politics of sexuality in South Africa”, which is available as part of the e-book,SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines, edited by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky, and Robert Sember, 2007. This e-book includes a series of case studies, as well as a crosscutting analysis, focused on the politics of sexual health and rights in eight countries and two institutional contexts.SexPoliticscan be found online at .

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (sup2) ◽  
pp. 58-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Sember
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexuality Policy ◽  
Extended Discussion ◽  
Policy Watch

scholarly journals The social construction of HIV/AIDS

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Goldstein ◽  
H G Pretorius ◽  
A D Stuart
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Hiv Aids

An in-depth look is taken at the specific discourses surrounding the debilitating HIV/AIDS epidemic sweeping South Africa and the world. Opsomming Hierdie artikel poog om ‘n indiepte ondersoek te loods na die spesifieke diskoerse rondom die MIV/VIGS epidemie in Suid-Afrika en die wêreld. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.

Talking Heads vs. Virtual Workspaces: A Comparison of Design across Cultures

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Heaton
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Talking Heads ◽  
Cscw Design ◽  
The Social

The past decade has seen the development of a perspective holding that technology is socially constructed. This paper examines the social construction of one group of technologies, systems for computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). It compares the design of systems for computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) in Scandinavia and Japan with particular attention to the influence of culture on the resulting products. Two case studies are presented to illustrate the argument that culture is an important factor in technology design, despite commonly held assumptions about the neutrality and objectivity of science and technology. The paper further proposes an explanation for why, despite similar technical backgrounds and research interests, CSCW design is conducted differently and produces different results in Denmark and Japan. It argues that, by looking at CSCW systems as texts which reflect the context of their production and the society from which they come, we may be better able to understand the transformations that operate when these texts are ‘read’ in the contexts of their implementation.

The Social Construction and Conceptualization of Sexual Health Among Mexican American Women

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda R. Davila
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Mexican American Women ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual Health Behaviors ◽  
Depth Interviews

Research on the social construction and contextualization of sexual health among Latina women is sparse. This ethnographic study was aimed to bridge this gap by exploring sexual health experiences and behaviors of a Latina subgroup, Mexican American women. A series of individual semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 Mexican American women from a sexual and reproductive health clinic in a large Southwestern city with a predominantly Mexican American population. Through thematic analysis, sacrificing of self, sexual silence, and taking control of self emerged as themes. These themes reflect the context within which construction of sexual health occurs and sexual health behaviors are influenced. Study findings are discussed within a socio-cultural framework for sexual health promotion intervention for both adolescent and adult Mexican American women.

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