The Culture of Connection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Ghanaian Immigrants ◽  
Trust Networks ◽  
Personal Trust ◽  
Potential Basis ◽  
Past Experiences

This chapter moves to Chicago to examine membership in Evangelical Charismatic congregations in the context of migration. Using examples from a particular Ghanaian Charismatic congregation in Chicago, and personal narratives about past experiences in different kinds of congregations, the chapter argues that certain congregations exhibit practices and principles that support intensified sociability among members, and thus have a culture of connection. In such congregations, members often express and enact lots of personal trust in each other, which makes membership in such congregations a potential basis for the formation of trust networks. Ghanaian immigrants are particularly prone to define “a good church” as one that has such a culture of connection. Moreover, although many of them would ideally like to attend a diverse, non-Ghanaian congregation, it is more difficult for them to find a culture of connection in such places, which leads many of them “back” to the ethnic church.

The Effect of Frames on Personal Narratives of Bullying Memories

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110063
Author(s):  
Abigail M. Stark ◽  
Olivia H. Tousignant ◽  
Gary D. Fireman
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Psychosocial Effects ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Bullying Experiences ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Past Experiences

Research demonstrates the malleability of memory; a dynamic process that occurs across development and can be influenced by internal and external frames. Narratives of past experiences represent one modality of understanding how memories are influenced by these frames. The present experimental study examines how memories of bullying are affected by two distinct yet common cultural frames. College students ( n = 92) were randomly assigned to one of two groups; one with a definition of bullying framing the experience in terms of resilience and one framing it in terms of negative psychosocial effects. Participants then wrote about a remembered experience with bullying. The researchers coded the narratives for coping strategies used in response to bullying as well as for positive or negative emotion words and story endings. The results demonstrated statistically significant differences between groups in the ways bullying experiences were remembered and described. Participants in the Resiliency Group more often had positive endings to their bullying narratives and used more coping skills and positive emotion words overall. The implications of a subtle frame influencing memories of bullying and its relation to development, identity, social order, peer relationships, and resilience are discussed.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Opposite Conclusion ◽  
Trust Networks ◽  
Personal Trust ◽  
Religious Membership ◽  
Made In

This chapter summarizes the argument made in the preceding chapters and discusses what it means for religious membership to serve as a basis of social trust, and specifically personal trust enacted within social relationships. It then takes on the question of whether religious membership is ultimately helpful for immigrant integration, a major long-running debate among sociologists. It argues that while there is some evidence that religious membership in an ethnic church can detract from integration, ultimately there is much more evidence to support the opposite conclusion. Furthermore, many of the processes that seem to fuel segregation are in fact the result of inequality and the racial order, which challenge the ability of religious membership to realize its integrative potential. As a result, for transnational Ghanaians, religious memberships and their associated trust networks are generally helpful for the integration process; but not even as much as they could be, or as much as these particular immigrants would like.

Building Trust

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-210
Keyword(s):  
Late Qing Dynasty ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Trust Networks ◽  
Private Charity ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Personal Trust ◽  
Chinese Overseas ◽  
Charitable Activities ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter traces the parallel development of charitable practices and forms of civic association in the Cantonese Pacific over the century to 1949 with a view to exploring ways in which Chinese overseas employed charity to build trust within their own communities and with their host societies in Australia and North America. Business activities and social transactions among Chinese diaspora communities are said to be embedded in personal trust, and to extend to larger trust networks. The chapter argues that the evolution of charitable practices and associational forms among Cantonese diaspora communities of the Pacific largely conform to this pattern. By drawing attention to some of the connections linking civic associations and their charitable activities to a range of trust-building strategies over time, the chapter highlights points of continuity in the work of Chinese community organizations overseas during a period of rapid institutional change from the late Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People’s Republic – specifically the relationship between engaging in private charity and working for the public benefit to build community trust.

scholarly journals Social Trust Formation and Credit Accessibility—Evidence from Rural Households in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Zhang ◽  
Huiting Liu ◽  
Pinghan Liang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Trust Networks ◽  
Trust Formation ◽  
Personal Trust ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Community Trust

Trust as a form of social capital plays an important role in improving the cooperation between agents, especially in credit lending activities. Trust building has attracted significant research interest, and gift giving has been shown to be one of its main drivers. Nonetheless, the mechanism of gift giving in the formation of trust networks and the channels through which gift giving and trust affect cooperation require further investigation. In this paper, we first separate social trust into community trust and personal trust, and we examine how gift giving affects the formation of each level of trust. We then explore how trust and gift giving affect rural households’ access to formal and informal sources of credit. Our results show that gift giving mainly helps in forming trust at the personal level rather than the community level. In turn, personal and community trust can facilitate access to informal and formal sources of credit, respectively. In addition, personal trust facilitates access to informal loans for consumption and medical expenses but not production. Overall, our findings show that gift giving is mainly used to build personal trust which facilitates access to informal lending for risk-sharing purposes.

The Role and Structure of Personal Narratives

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul van den Broek ◽  
Richard Thurlow
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Developmental Differences ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Structural And Functional Properties ◽  
Subsequent Behavior ◽  
Causal Nature ◽  
Past Experiences

A commonly held view in psychotherapy is that people’s past experiences, their present feelings and knowledge, and their expectations about the future, exert a powerful influence on their actions. What is usually left unspecified is the cognitive process by which these influences take place. Findings in experimental research, reviewed in the present article, suggest that a central component of this process is the construction of complex and partly subjective mental representations of one’s experiences, feelings, and goals. These representations form the basis for subsequent behavior and therefore are, implicitly or explicitly, targets of therapeutic intervention. This article describes structural and functional properties of people’s mental representations of real-life events, emphasizing their narrative and causal nature, as well as the conditions under which deliberate intervention is most likely to change people’s representations. Developmental differences are considered with respect to both topics. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for adult and child psychotherapy.

The Nature of Faith

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber
Keyword(s):  
Religious Community ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Trust Networks ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Personal Trust ◽  
Central Argument

This final empirical chapter shows how becoming embedded in religious-based relationships of personal trust can effect changes in migrants’ personal trajectories. In other words, new religious memberships and their associated trust networks can lead transnational Ghanaians to revise their aspirations and negotiate their identities in ways they otherwise wouldn’t. One example is how dedicated members and leaders in the congregation often retrospectively attach new meanings to their migrations, coming to believe that they came abroad to serve the religious community, even if they were not aware of it at the time of their initial moves. Another example is how members base their identities in religion in order to transcend the significance of ethnic, racial, and national identities. These effects reinforce the central argument that religious memberships indeed serve as a basis of trust networks, which are the relations in which people answer questions about meaning, identity, and desires for the future.

Do People’s Motives Influence Their Susceptibility to Imagination Inflation?

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie J. Sharman ◽  
Samantha Calacouris
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Source Monitoring ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
Explicit Motives ◽  
Imagination Inflation ◽  
Motivational Model ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Affiliation Motives

People are motivated to remember past autobiographical experiences related to their current goals; we investigated whether people are also motivated to remember false past experiences related to those goals. In Session 1, we measured subjects’ implicit and explicit achievement and affiliation motives. Subjects then rated their confidence about, and memory for, childhood events containing achievement and affiliation themes. Two weeks later in Session 2, subjects received a “computer-generated profile” based on their Session 1 ratings. This profile suggested that one false achievement event and one false affiliation event had happened in childhood. After imagining and describing the suggested false events, subjects made confidence and memory ratings a second time. For achievement events, subjects’ explicit motives predicted their false beliefs and memories. The results are explained using source monitoring and a motivational model of autobiographical memory.

Policy perspectives of Turkey towards return migration: From permissive indifference to selective difference

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özge Bilgili ◽  
Melissa Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Development Initiatives ◽  
Past Experiences

This is the first paper of its kind to look at policy perspectives on return migration in Turkey, based on an analysis of official documents and a series of interviews with Turkish authorities, government officials and academics. We identify several perspectives which range from the absence of a specific legislation to control return migration, to the concrete attempts to regulate the return of a selected group of migrants, namely the highly skilled. Subsequently, we show that these perspectives are built on a series of sometimes paradoxical arguments regarding economic development, past experiences about development initiatives and the country’s international objectives.

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