“I still dream of the Padma”

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
Anindya Raychaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Relationships

One of the features that links the two regions most directly affected by partition, Punjab and Bengal, is that they are both topographically defined by rivers. As a result, many of the partition narratives help construct emotional relationships with rivers which assume particular significance during the trauma of partition. This chapter examines the complex constructions of rivers that can be seen in the various representations of partition in Bengal and Punjab. Riverscapes become spaces in which the events of partition are enacted, in the process changing how the rivers are perceived and remembered. Rivers survive in memory as both places of comforting familiarity, and horrifying sites of violence. Through the act of narration, rivers manage to signify both continuities and discontinuities, both the homely and the unhomely.

Features in Families and Family Relationships

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1105-1108
Author(s):  
H. Niederhofer ◽  
W. Staffen ◽  
A. Mair
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Psychological Disorders ◽  
Test System ◽  
Standardized Assessment ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
The Family

Standardized assessment of family features is not used routinely, although these factors may play an important role in the course of children's psychological disorders. The present study investigated the association among relationships within the families of 115 healthy children ( M = 8.2 yr., SD = 2.13; 70 boys, 45 girls). 115 mothers and fathers were asked to complete a standardized questionnaire assessing the family features (Familienklima-Testsystem by Schneewind, et al.) and another asking for their estimation of emotional relationships of the members of the family (Subjektives Familianbild-Test System by Mattejat). Analysis showed that the parents’ ratings indicated significantly more empathic fathers as well as significantly more autonomous mothers in well-organized, conflict-free families. Our results indicate an association between families’ organization and measured scores for fathers’ empathy and mothers’ autonomy. Sufficient intrafamilial communication is associated with roles of the parents within the family. Psychotherapeutic interventions might focus on the families’ organization.

The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen R. Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Cultural Adaptations ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Emotional Relationships

Humans have a prolonged childhood, which begins with an immature developmental state at birth. We take care of these helpless infants through a variety of cultural adaptations, including material culture, provisioning of food, and shared child care. Our species has long been characterized as having secondary altriciality, but an examination of human life history shows that we are fundamentally precocial, despite seeming helpless at birth. Human babies are also relatively large and overall require substantial attention and energy from caregivers. Previous work has focused on how culture permits us to give birth to helpless young and how our cultural adaptation solves problems stemming from encephalization. The birth of these dependent, costly creatures poses challenges but also creates opportunities by enhancing the development of social and emotional relationships with caregivers as well as language acquisition and enculturation. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 50 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

scholarly journals Change of perceptions of the image of the future among youth

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Natalia Petrovna Shilova ◽  
Pavel Petrovich Brudanov
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
The Future

This article describes the results of research carried out among youth for determining the perceptions of the image of the future. The image of the future is a dynamic psychological state that sets a vector of life and self-organization of individuals, and serves as the basis for projecting the development of personality and resources, essential for realization of its life path. Leaning on the analysis of existing perceptions of the image of the future suitable for youth, it was established that it relates to the perception of life as a dependent on the subject of activity, which correlates with independence, self-control, acceptance of social roles and emotional self-esteem. The author assumes that there are three key strategies in description of the image of the future for young men and women: planning, description of emotional relationships, and self-determination. The research involved total of 1,538 respondents (610 male and 928 female, aged 14-28. The classical methodology developed by I. S. Kon “Me in 5 Years” served as the main method for this study. Images of the future for young men and women contain both, different and similar strategies. Young women receiving vocational education see their future through planning, and the ones studying in high school and universities – through self-determination. Young men who study in high school and universities see their future through emotional relationships, and students of vocational education – through self-determination. This implies that namely the level of educational institution (school, university, vocational education) allows forming certain gender differences in the image of the future.

scholarly journals Loving Nature in João Guimarães Rosa: The Non-human as 'amável'

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Ashley Brock
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
Joao Guimaraes Rosa ◽  
Human World ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Cost

In the present article, I locate an implicit environmentalism JoãoGuimarães Rosa’s writing from the 1950s and 1960s. This sensibility is easy tomiss, in part because it transposes political debates on damage inflicted in thename of development and progress onto the affective-ethical plane; however, itdoes so in a way that resists sentimentality or projecting a misplaced innocenceonto the non-human world. Focusing on emotional relationships between humansand non-humans, I read “As margens da alegria” and “Os cimos” as expressingan eco-critical discourse that was already latent in Grande sertão: veredas.Recasting the natural world as a site of both unfathomable otherness and relationsof tenderness, Guimarães Rosa presents the emotional hold that nature has onhumans and the cost of cleaving oneself from it—a cost that includes diminishingthe human capacity for delight, wonder, and eros.

scholarly journals Teachers’s attachments to their place of work and their working locality. A case study of geography teachers in the Silesian Voivodeship (Poland)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Dacy-Ignatiuk ◽  
Adam Hibszer
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
Almost All ◽  
School Heads ◽  
Range Of Influence

Abstract The authors of the article sought to answer the questions: do geography teachers feel a tie with their place of work, what is the strength of this relationship and what factors influence these declared ties with the place. A step towards knowing the answers is the declared subjective assessment of emotional relationships with such a place. To this end, surveys were conducted among geography teachers. Due to their profession, they are a social group having a wide range of influence on young people and their attitudes towards their local geographical environment. Organizational reasons (the ability to reach teachers of all schools through the information exchange platform between Board of Education and school heads – so-called the headmasters panel) decided to examine a selected group of respondents – geography teachers of the Silesian Voivodeship. Google questionnaire was used as an electronic form of data collection. The research was quantitative and only partly qualitative. The analysis of the obtained results gave an interesting view of the perception of teachers' relations with the place where their school is located – their place of work. Almost all respondents declared the existence of a territorial bond with their place of work. The workplace itself is an important factor in the formation and strength of these ties. The length of residence in a given place was also important, and its type (town or a village) and size were less important. For half of the surveyed teachers, it was difficult for them to indicate the distinguishing feature (symbol) of their place of work, regardless of whether they were inhabitants or commuters from elsewhere.

Quantum Understanding

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Doostdar
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Emotional Relationships

This chapter narrates a woman's spiritual journey that set the stage for her embrace of Cosmic Mysticism. The woman, Arezu Khanum, experienced two dramatic visions that had been crucial in forming her mystical sensibility, including her orientation toward Cosmic Mysticism. The first vision, of two glowing angels, stoked Arezu Khanum's interest in books about religion and metaphysics. The second came at a time when she was having a troubled relationship with her older son. The chapter examines how Arezu Khanum's visions opened her mind to scientific truths, particularly in the realm of quantum physics, and how all of her physical and psychological ailments were miraculously cured through metatherapy. Her emotional relationships, particularly with her sons and other family members, improved significantly. Furthermore, Arezu Khanum's account of her metaphysical adventures opens up a window onto multiple trends within the landscape of contemporary Iranian spirituality.

A Closer Look at the Culture of Infidelity

2020 ◽  
pp. 180-200
Author(s):  
Steven M. Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Professional Sports ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Road ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The One ◽  
Communication Methods

This chapter takes a deeper look at the culture of infidelity that pervades the world of professional sports, why wives share a universal fear that their husbands will be unfaithful, and how they are affected by the possibility or actuality that their husbands will engage in sexual or emotional relationships with other women. Three patterns of infidelity are identified in the context of the sport marriage: the one-time encounter, the short-term affair, and the long-term affair. The concept of suspicion work is introduced to examine how wives try to manage the fear that their husbands may succumb to temptation and to specify how denial can be part of this process. The chapter discusses re-entry routines and communication methods some couples use when husbands return from travel, and the boundaries of fidelity and forgiveness wives establish as they attempt to cope with the realities of their husbands’ lives on the road.

Identity within Fosterage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom C. O’Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Relationships

Foster bonds are created within family units, but they are also expressed in other settings. This chapter examines the use of fosterage language to describe, define and create emotional relationships within monasteries and the warrior bands of the fían. Outside of the monastery the language of fosterage was used to express care responsibilities, power and affection among other corporate bodies, including the fían. When seniority was in question among supposed equals, the language of fosterage could be used to express subtle power differences. Among the fían, status was shifting so the changing vocabulary of fosterage was best placed to describe their bonds.

Gender and Networks in Virtual Worlds

2018 ◽  
pp. 193-212
Author(s):  
Grace Benefield ◽  
Cuihua Shen
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Massively Multiplayer Online Game ◽  
Social Network Dynamics ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
Emotional Relationships

Virtual worlds are two- or three-dimensional spaces with multiple modalities in which users can engage in mediated interactions with other users. In virtual worlds, users have the freedom to craft and assume identities that are unburdened by offline biases based on gender, race, and other sociodemographic characteristics. How do men and women build collaborative and socio-emotional relationships in these worlds? Does gender influence social network dynamics online, consistent with offline gender norms? This chapter first offers an overview of gender disparities and social relationships in virtual worlds, followed by a review of the challenges and benefits of the current approaches to studying gender and virtual worlds. Then it provides an empirical research example, situated in the massively multiplayer online game EverQuest II (EQII), focusing on gender and networks of collaboration. It concludes by identifying a few limitations to current approaches and suggesting future directions with digital trace data.

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