Walking the Way Together

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen E. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Medium ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

In Walking the Way Together, Kathleen E. Jenkins offers an in-depth ethnographic study of parents and their adult children who walk the Camino de Santiago. A Catholic visitation site of medieval origins with walking paths across Europe, the Camino culminates at the shrine of St. James in the city of Santiago de Compostela, the capital of Galicia, an autonomous region of Spain. It has become a popular point of religious tourism for Catholics, spiritual seekers, scholars, adventurers, and cultural tourists. In 2019, 347,578 people arrived at the Pilgrim’s Office seeking a certificate of completion; they had walked anywhere from 100 to over 800 kilometers. Like other sites of pilgrimage and tourism, the Camino has been deeply altered by media and digital technologies. The book brings alive family stories of investing in pilgrimage as a practice for strengthening kin relationships and becoming a part of each other’s emotional and spiritual understandings. The social and spiritual encounters that supported and inhibited these relational goals emerge as fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters describe walking for six hours or more each day through mountain, rural, and urban paths. They are stories of pleasant surprises, disappointments, lessons learned, and the far-reaching emotional power that the memory of ritual failures and successes can carry. Ultimately, they present the potential for pilgrimage to foster and maintain intimate ties in today’s fragile world, to build an engaged social consciousness, and to encourage reflection of digital devices and social medium platforms in the pursuit of spirituality.

scholarly journals Análisis del perfil sociodemográfico de senderistas y ciclistas que recorren el Camino de Santiago (Analysis of socio-demographic profile of trails and riders walking through the way of Saint James)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 56-59
Author(s):  
Antonio Granero Gallegos ◽  
Francisco Ruiz-Juan ◽  
Mª Elena García Montes ◽  
Antonio Baena Extremera ◽  
Manuel Gómez López
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Sampling Error ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
El Alto ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Way

El fenómeno social en que se ha convertido el Camino de Santiago, su legado cultural y la íntima relación con la actividad físico-deportiva de tiempo libre, ha supuesto que nos plantearnos como objetivo analizar las características de los viajeros jacobeos actuales mediante un análisis sociodemográfico de los senderistas y ciclistas mayores de 15 años que recorren el Camino de Santiago. La investigación se ha desarrollado mediante la aplicación de un cuestionario autoadministrado en Santiago de Compostela a una muestra de 1.091 sujetos, utilizando el procedimiento de muestreo estratificado polietápico con afijación proporcional, con un margen de error muestral del ±3 % y un nivel de confianza del 95,5%. Los resultados han permitido elaborar el perfil del viajero jacobeo actual, poniéndose de manifiesto el alto grado de formación académica del mismo; asimismo, se produce una gran mezcla de nacionalidades y diversidad cultural en este itinerario, lo que procura, no sólo el enriquecimiento personal y espiritual, sino también las relaciones sociales y la interculturalidad.Abstract: The social phenomenon inwhich has become the Way of Saint James, its cultural heritage and close relationship with physical activity and sports leisure, has meant that we plan to analyze the characteristics of current Jacobean travellers current through an analysis of socio-demographic walkers and cyclists over 15 years travelling the Camino de Santiago. The research was developed by applying a self-administered questionnaire in Santiago de Compostela on a sample of 1091 subjects, using multistage stratified sampling procedure with proportional affixation, with a margin of sampling error of ± 3% and a level of with confidence 95.5%. The results have helped develop the profile of the current Jacobean travellers shown by the high level of academic training, similarly, there is a great mix of nationalities and cultural diversity in this route, which seeks not only personal enrichment and spiritual but also social relations and multiculturalism.

New Way – resocialization on the Camino de Santiago

2019 ◽  
Vol 585 (10) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Franciszek Mróz ◽  
Jacek Matuszczak
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Innovative Project ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
The Way

Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, is a pilgrimage route which has existed for more than 1,000 years and leads to the Shrine of St. James in Santiago de Compostela. Currently, it is the best-known pilgrimage and cultural route in Europe. It is often referred to as the “most beautiful road in the world” or the “main street in Europe”. The Way of St. James has been used in prisoner resocialization schemes for many years in Western Europe and since 2013 also in Poland. “New Way” is an innovative project consisting of a two-week pilgrimage of a prisoner who straight from the penitentiary sets out along with the guardian on the Way of St. Jakub from Lublin to Krakow. The aim of the program is to change a young person who, while walking for more than 400 km along Camino de Santiago, has a lot of time to think about his previous life. The task of the guardian is to offer assistance and individual work with the prisoner. Great importance in the project is attributed to the meetings of the prisoner with residents and pastors, who often help on the pilgrimage. An important element of the „New Way” is also to provide young person, after completing the Camino, study of professional competence, referral to an internship and then help in finding a job.

Match or Mismatch: Teachers' Conceptions of Culture and Multicultural Education Policy

1989 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judyth Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

The concept of culture is central within the social sciences in general and multicultural education in particular. In this paper, the argument is made that the term ‘culture’ will generate a surplus of meaning by teachers and policy document writers alike. It might be expected that there will be variation in the way the concept of culture is perceived and talked about by teachers and policy writers. The results of an ethnographic study of the concepts of culture from a group of 27 primary school teachers suggest that differences between the two groups are of appearance rather than content.

scholarly journals Local Responses to a Global Pandemic: Women Mayors Lead the Way

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 968-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall D. Funk
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women Mayors ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Way

AbstractEven before the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, was declared a pandemic, prominent women mayors in the United States enacted proactive and innovative policies to prevent local outbreaks and soften the social and economic repercussions. Several Black women mayors, in particular, have led the way in local pandemic response efforts. This article identifies four major features of these and other women mayors’ early responses. First, women mayors demonstrated proactive leadership even when faced with pushback. Second, these mayors advocated for transparent and evidence-based decision-making at all levels of government. Third, they enacted measures to protect vulnerable communities and reduce disparities. Fourth, they actively shared advice on best practices and lessons learned, and provided examples for other local leaders to follow. The article concludes by situating these responses in the larger research on gender and leadership and asks whether these women's actions are unique or part of a systematic trend of gendered responses to the pandemic.

scholarly journals Pilgrimage and religious tourism on the Way of St. James - the first European cultural route

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (43) ◽  
pp. 366-379
Author(s):  
F. Mróz ◽  
Ł. Mróz
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Cultural Routes ◽  
Transportation Route ◽  
Intensive Growth ◽  
The Way

Since last two decades we notice an intensive growth of the pilgrimage movement along the Way os St. James. This route connecting furthests places in Europe and ending in Santiago de Compostela is based on a medieval transportation route called The Royal Route – Via Regia. The route exists for over 1000 years and is constantly developed thanks to actions taken by the authorities of the Catholic Church, governments and non-government organizations, as well as numerous enthusiastics of the Way of St. James. Keywords: The Way of St. James - Camino de Santiago, the route Via Regia, European Cultural Routes, pilgrimage, religious tourism, cultural tourism.

Our Most Troubling Madness

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Defeat ◽  
Social World ◽  
Epidemiological Evidence ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brain Alteration ◽  
Benign Course ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

This book examines the way schizophrenia is shaped by its social context: how life is lived with this madness in different settings, and what it is about those settings that alters the course of the illness, its outcome, and even the structure of its symptoms. Until recently, schizophrenia was perhaps our best example—our poster child—for the “bio-bio-bio” model of psychiatric illness: genetic cause, brain alteration, pharmacologic treatment. We now have direct epidemiological evidence that people are more likely to fall ill with schizophrenia in some social settings than in others, and more likely to recover in some social settings than in others. Something about the social world gets under the skin. This book presents twelve case studies written by psychiatric anthropologists that help to illustrate some of the variability in the social experience of schizophrenia and that illustrate the main hypotheses about the different experience of schizophrenia in the west and outside the west--and in particular, why schizophrenia seems to have a more benign course and outcome in India. We argue that above all it is the experience of “social defeat” that increases the risk and burden of schizophrenia, and that opportunities for social defeat are more abundant in the modern west. There is a new role for anthropology in the science of schizophrenia. Psychiatric science has learned—epidemiologically, empirically, quantitatively—that our social world makes a difference. But the highly structured, specific-variable analytic methods of standard psychiatric science cannot tell us what it is about culture that has that impact. The careful observation enabled by rich ethnography allows us to see in more detail what kinds of social and cultural features may make a difference to a life lived with schizophrenia. And if we understand culture’s impact more deeply, we believe that we may improve the way we reach out to help those who struggle with our most troubling madness.

Cross-space Consumption among Undocumented Chinese Immigrants in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou ◽  
Xiangyi Li
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Currency Exchange ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Migrants

We consider cross-space consumption as a form of transnational practice among international migrants. In this paper, we develop the idea of the social value of consumption and use it to explain this particular form of transnationalism. We consider the act of consumption to have not only functional value that satisfies material needs but also a set of nonfunctional values, social value included, that confer symbolic meanings and social status. We argue that cross-space consumption enables international migrants to take advantage of differences in economic development, currency exchange rates, and social structures between countries of destination and origin to maximize their expression of social status and to perform or regain social status. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic study of consumption patterns in migrant hometowns in Fuzhou, China, and in-depth interviews with undocumented Chinese immigrants in New York and their left-behind family members, we find that, despite the vulnerabilities and precarious circumstances associated with the lack of citizenship rights in the host society, undocumented immigrants manage to realize the social value of consumption across national borders and do so through conspicuous consumption, reciprocal consumption, and vicarious consumption in their hometowns even without being physically present there. We conclude that, while cross-space consumption benefits individual migrants, left-behind families, and their hometowns, it serves to revive tradition in ways that fuel extravagant rituals, drive up costs of living, reinforce existing social inequality, and create pressure for continual emigration.

Attention Sustainability Impact on Social Status in the Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Stanislava Varadinova
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way ◽  
Positive Environment

The attention sustainability and its impact of social status in the class are current issues concerning the field of education are the reasons for delay in assimilating the learning material and early school dropout. Behind both of those problems stand psychological causes such as low attention sustainability, poor communication skills and lack of positive environment. The presented article aims to prove that sustainability of attention directly influences the social status of students in the class, and hence their overall development and the way they feel in the group. Making efforts to increase students’ attention sustainability could lead to an increase in the social status of the student and hence the creation of a favorable and positive environment for the overall development of the individual.

Overcoming the Civilizational Crisis - On the Way of Spiritual and Cultural Self Identification. On the Social and Philosophical Heritage of I.A. Ilyin

2013 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Alexander M. Sharipov
Keyword(s):  
Great Scientist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Self ◽  
The Way

On the activity of the International Ilyin Committee (IIC) on preparation and celebration of 130-th Anniversary of I.A.Ilyin, the great scientist and patriot of Russia.

Das Ende der Kultur: Wie Georg Simmel den Begriff der Kultur soziologisch dekonstruiert

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Fellmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Way

In this paper I claim that the metaphysical concept of culture has come to an end. Among the European authors Georg Simmel is the foremost who has deconstructed the myth of culture as a substantial totality beyond relations or prior to them. Two tenets of research have prepared the end of all-inclusive culture: First, Simmel’s formal access that considers society as the modality of interactions and relations between individuals, thus overcoming the social evolutionism of Auguste Comte; second, his critical exegesis of idealistic philosophy of history, thus leaving behind the Hegelian tradition. Although Simmel adheres in some statements to the out-dated idea of morphological unity, his sociological and epistemological thinking paved the way for the concept of social identity as a network of series connected loosely by contiguity. This type of connection is confirmed by the present feeling of life as individual self-invention according to changing situations.

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