Colonial Impact on Family and Inuuqatigiingniq/Relatedness

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-81
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kral
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Change ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
Impact On Family ◽  
Identity Changes ◽  
Past Half

This chapter discusses several major changes in Inuit society during the past half-century. These changes are all related to inuuqatigiingniq, which translates as “being with others,” or relatedness, in Inuit culture. The most negative change is that in Inuit relationships, especially the family. It is the thesis of this book that the effects of colonialism are seen most vividly in relationships, especially in the family, and that these changes among Inuit are the cause of their current social problems, including suicide. Well-being was strongly based on the maintenance of close and loving interpersonal relationships, especially among Inuit in the family. Traditional Inuit family history is presented, showing how family was the basis of social organization and identity. Changes in marital relatedness, as well as traditional Inuit relatedness, are discussed.

scholarly journals Climate warming has led to the degradation of permafrost stability in the past half century over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youhua Ran ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Guodong Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Climate Warming ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Area Index ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Past Half

Abstract. Temperature increases cause a unique type of damage to permafrost. This damage is often expressed as the degradation of permafrost thermal stability, which is very important for engineering design, resource development, and environmental protection in cold regions. This study evaluates the degradation of permafrost stability over the QTP from the 1960s to the 2000s using estimated decadal mean annual air temperatures (MAATs) by integrating remote sensing-based estimates of mean annual land surface temperatures (MASTs), leaf area index (LAI) and fractional snow cover values, and decadal mean MAATs taken at 152 weather stations using geographically weighted regression (GWR). The results reflect a continuous rise of approximately 0.04 °C/a in the decadal mean MAAT values over the past half century. Climate warming has led to a reduction in permafrost stability in the past half century. The total degraded area of stability is approximately 153.76 x 104 km2, which corresponds to 87.98 % of the permafrost area in the 1960s. The stability of 75.24 % of the extremely stable permafrost, 89.56 % of the stable permafrost, 90.3 % of the sub-stable permafrost, 92.31 % of the transitional permafrost, and 32.8 % of the unstable permafrost has been reduced to lower levels of stability. Approximately 49.4 % of the unstable permafrost and 95.95 % of the extremely unstable permafrost has degraded to seasonally frozen ground. The sensitivity of the permafrost to climate is dependent on its stability level. The mean elevations of the extremely stable, stable, sub-stable, transitional, unstable, and extremely unstable permafrost areas increased by 88 m, 97 m, 155 m, 185 m, 161 m and 250 m, respectively. The degradation mainly occurred from the 1960s to the 1970s and from the 1990s to the 2000s. This degradation has led to increases in risks to infrastructure, increased flood risks, reductions in ecosystem resilience, and positive climate feedback effects. It therefore affects the well-being of millions of people and sustainable development at the Third Pole.

scholarly journals The Study of Awareness of the Family History: Psychological Well-being and Deviant Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Y.A. Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Correlation Level

This article presents the results of a study on correlation level of psychological wellbeing of the person with the degree of awareness of adolescence of his own family history. The analysis and comparison of existing concepts proposes a new understanding and definition of the phenomenon of family history. Family history is represented as a resource person, the relevance of which is due to occurring socioculture changes. It has been developed and modified by special questionnaire aimed at the study of the level of awareness. In the present study we took 121 people participated. 73 adolescence group of norm, and 48 with deviant behavior. It was found that adolescents knowledgeable in the history of the family history, to maintain contact with the extended family, for which it is studying and maintaining meaningful, characterized by high levels of psychological well-being.

scholarly journals Time as an integrating factor in a family in foreign researches

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
M.V. Gorodilina
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Routines ◽  
Family Time ◽  
Integrating Factor ◽  
Family Narratives ◽  
History Texts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Generational Relationships

The article provides an overview of foreign researches examining family relationships as presented in the family members’ memory. The researches regard the family as a social group represented by the nuclear family’s interpersonal relationships, as well as inter-generational relationships, which determines the mechanism and the establishment of its identity. The family is considered a complex unity of "systems in time". The article describes foreign experience of studying the concepts of family time by analyzing family narratives and autobiographical material. The methods professionals use to study the family time and the involvement of everyone in active construction of family history texts, family practices and rituals of socio-psychological value, are explained in the article. The methodologies of the following questionnaires were analyzed: “The family routines inventory” by E.W. Jensen, S.A. James, W.T. Boyce and S.A. Hartnett; “The family ritual questionnaire” by B.H. Fiesea and C.A. Kline; “Family time questionnaire” by A.S. Ellington.

Toward a Biblical Framework for Family Therapy

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Salinger
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
The Family

The development of family therapy has brought a major change in the way many people in the helping professions view behavioral problems. This paper presents some of the central concepts of family dynamics and therapy, followed by a consideration of biblical concepts of the family and its functioning. The two models have large areas of congruency, particularly in considering the structure of the family, the proper conduct of interpersonal relationships, individual responsibility, and the importance of the concept of family to individual well-being. Proper application of biblical guidelines will bring about change in family members in psychologically and spiritually healthy ways.

A WELL-TEMPERED LIBERALISM: MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND POLITICAL THEORY

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-682
Author(s):  
JAMES T. KLOPPENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similar Materials ◽  
Past Half

Intellectual history and the history of political thought are siblings, perhaps even twins. They have similar origins and use similar materials. They attract many of the same friends and make some of the same enemies. Yet like most siblings, they have different temperaments and ambitions. This essay explores the family resemblances and draws out the contrasts by examining two major works by one of the most prominent political theorists of the past half-century, Alan Ryan, who has recently published two big books that intellectual historians will find rewarding and provocative.

Individuals and their families

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Malcolm Torry
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Past Half

This chapter examines the changing family patterns in the UK and argues that a benefits system containing a Citizen's Basic Income would go a long way towards meeting the needs of families and households, now and in the future. It first considers the ways in which households and the family have changed during the past half century, citing the ‘flexible employment market’ which gives rise to ‘whole communities in which it is very difficult to establish and maintain families’, and how a Citizen's Basic Income would enable households to benefit from the economies of scale that they generate. It then discusses the changing role of women and asks what kind of benefits system will most benefit women and enhance individual dignity. Finally, it describes the ways in which women are affected by the current tax and benefits structure and the ways they might be affected by a Citizen's Basic Income.

scholarly journals Awareness of the Family History as a Factor in Psychological Well-being in Adolescence

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-105
Author(s):  
T.V. Yakimova ◽  
Y.A. Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Supporting Effect ◽  
The Individual

We present the results of the study of connection of psychological well-being of adolescents with their awareness of their own family history. We briefly overview the main trends and individual empirical studies on the influence of family history of psychological well-being of the individual. In the present study, we focuses not on pathological influence of family history, but on its resource and supporting effect during the difficulties of adolescence. The study involved 32 teenagers. The empirical study is based on data obtained using a questionnaire designed to examine the links of teenager with extended family members and his awareness of family history. We found that adolescents who know their family history, have an interest in it and keep in touch with the extended family, are characterized by high values of the level of psychological well-being.

scholarly journals Socio-pedagogical factors of family relationships within the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1 (134)) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Berezovska
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The Family ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on family relationships. It is noted that any family has been in a difficult position for more than a year, which has adversely affected all areas of its livelihoods and led to an increase in the number of divorces, and, as a result, of incomplete families. Therefore, it is not surprising that family problems, family relationships, attract scientists’ particular attention. Taking into account the importance and relevance of the outlined problems, we have analysed the factors of interpersonal interaction which negatively affect family well-being; they are: conflict relations between spouses, increased emotional tension, lack of communication, the authority of one of spouses, misunderstanding and imposing of inadequate social roles, low level of culture in family relationships. To determine the impact of quarantine on family relationships, a questionnaire was developed on the on-line platform of Google-Forms. 84 married couples were involved into a survey. The analysis of the results testified that in a third of the polled families who took part in the study, significant problems associated with the organisation of family life under conditions of the quarantine arose. This is the evidence that members of the family are not able to spend time together, they lack joint topics and interests, lacking respect and mutual understanding or tolerance towards each other. Working with various types of families (prosperous, non-social, those with low-income, large families), it is necessary for a social worker to take into account the peculiarities of working with different families and, on this basis, to use adequate forms and methods of work. In order to prevent destructive consequences caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, social workers need to strengthen advisory work in on-line and offline formats for the importance of communication within interpersonal relationships, demonstrating openness and trust in relations, adequate behavioural models in conflict situations. Socio-pedagogical work with the family within a quarantine should be aimed at restoring lost trust, harmonisation of married couples’ relationships, creating a favourable microclimate in the family. An important step in raising the culture-related level of family relationships is the creation of innovative complexes of programs by social service centres intended for families, children and youth on the on-line platforms.

Antithrombin III Alger: A New Homozygous AT III Variant

1986 ◽  
Vol 55 (02) ◽  
pp. 218-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
A M Fischer ◽  
P Cornu ◽  
C Sternberg ◽  
F Mériane ◽  
M D Dautzenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Antithrombin Iii ◽  
Antigen Concentration ◽  
Crossed Immunoelectrophoresis ◽  
The Family ◽  
At Iii ◽  
Molecular Abnormality ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
Cofactor Activity ◽  
Plasma Heparin

SummaryA qualitative abnormality of antithrombin III (AT III) was found in the plasma of a 41-year old patient. The plasmatic AT III antigen concentration was 130% and the progressive anti-F IIa and anti-F Xa activities were normal (105% and 137%). The plasma heparin cofactor activity was less than 10%, when measured by F Ila or F Xa inhibition. Crossed immunoelectrophoresis of AT III in the presence of heparin revealed in the plasma an abnormal slow-moving peak. When tested by affinity chromatography on heparin Sepharose, this abnormal AT III did not bind to heparin. Among the investigated relatives, 5 subjects had normal AT III levels, whatever the test used, the nine others having reduced levels of antithrombin heparin cofactor activity (45-61%) but normal levels of immunoreactive AT III (97-122%). Consanguinity was found in the family history. We therefore considered our patient as homozygous for an AT III molecular abnormality affecting the binding site for heparin.

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