Dalit Environmental Visions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukul Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter attempts to broaden the definitions of environmental thought by adopting a Dalit lens. It conceptualizes environmental thought as ideas and actions encompassing the relationship between humans and nature, including the social norms that govern this conjunction. In contrast to the model of Sulabh, Dalits question some of the major premises of eco-casteism—caste system as an ecological model, laws of nature as guiding principles of society, uniqueness and specificity of an ecosystem, and sanctity of a supposedly given, natural order—by underlying their environmental knowledge and experiences. Issues of labour, space, past, memory, sacrifice, bondage, and differential access to nature and its resources, provide a distinguishing focus to Dalit ecological insights.

Taboos and Ideological Values of Ndebele Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanelisiwe Sayi
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Scientific Education ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Scientific

This article critically examines taboos and the role they play in Ndebele society. Taboos represent that which is prohibited by a particular society. A taboo is a social sanction that inhibits society from adopting certain behavioural traits. Taboos come as a stern warning against unwanted behaviour and are an important part of any social identity. Adopting an identity implies accepting the taboos and the social norms associated with that identity. This article argues that taboos are legitimate sources of information and knowledge against the background of negative ideologies that have devalued African modes of knowing. Information for this article was gathered through interviews conducted with Ndebele speakers and through intuition, since the researcher is a native speaker of Ndebele. Several taboos will be discussed that pertain to environmental knowledge, general scientific education, environmental health, preservation and conservation and social behavioural patterns. The article upholds the need to put taboos at the centre of discourse on the ideological values of a particular society, as they create and validate the worldview of a particular society.

Gossip: a channel for the development of personal reputation

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 516-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Zinko ◽  
Charles Tuchtan ◽  
James Hunt ◽  
James Meurs ◽  
Christopher Furner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Integrate Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically test the extent to which gossip plays a role in individual reputation development in the context of contemporary organizations. This study answers the continuous calls to integrate theory across fields by exploring the theoretical links between these two constructs. Design/methodology/approach This study provides a conceptual analysis and general review of the literature on gossip and reputation. The relationship between these two constructs is investigated through a two-study package (lab and field) yielding convergent results. Findings The findings of this study are that gossip contributes to organizational identity in that it reinforces the social norms of groups and that gossip serves as an important enabler of reputational development. This study provides empirical evidence that gossip serves a more significant role in the development of personal reputation than more formal methods of communication. Practical implications As organizations and individuals attempt to develop and capitalize on the effects of individuals’ reputations, this study provides practical insights into the knowledge that needs to be built regarding the method by which this development can occur. This study points to the practical value of gossip in the creation of personal reputation. Originality/value The theoretical framework in this study highlights the centrality of gossip as a primary enabler of reputation development in contemporary organizations. Reputation theory is advanced by studying a segment of the construct that has, until now, been excluded from consideration in this field.

Abstract P185: Investigation of Community and Home Factors in Child Physical Activity Levels

Circulation ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 125 (suppl_10) ◽  
Author(s):  
MIchael Graham ◽  
Vanessa Shannon ◽  
Christa Ice ◽  
Lesley Cottrell
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Screening Program ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Environments ◽  
The Relationship

It is known that physical activity (PA) behavior is influenced by many factors within the social ecological model. Using results from parent surveys distributed after their children’s completion of a cardiovascular risk screening program, we explored the relationship between home and community environments on the amount of PA in which children engaged. Our hypothesis was that more immediate factors such as parent activity would have a greater impact on child activity than factors in their community environments. A large sample (n=450) of children (ages 5-10 years) were examined. Children’s physical activity was assessed by adding the total minutes of active time weekly. Parent physical activity was measured with two self report items regarding the number of days per week they were active . Two scales were constructed to evaluate to effects of the home (9 items; α = .829) and community (16 items; α = .868). The home environment scale measured elements related to activity opportunities and home schedules; the community scale assessed presence of playgrounds, or safe sidewalks, for example. To assess associations between factors and children’s PA, we conducted a linear stepwise regression with child age, parent PA, Home scale, and Community scale as predictors and the log transformed total weekly activity time as the dependent variable. Sixteen percent of children’s PA was explained by the tested model. Figure 1 provides specific information about each variable. The home scale had the greatest weight (β=0.360, p<.001), and proved to have a larger predictive effect than parent PA. These findings are significant for identifying which aspects of a child’s surrounding to intervene for maximum impact on physical activity. Figure 1. R² Change between model levels

Attitudes and Responses to Vagrancy in Ireland in the Long Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Crossman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Criminal Offence ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Special Category

This essay focuses on a special category of Irish crime: vagrancy. While vagrancy was a criminal offence in its own right, it was often its association with other forms of criminality and immorality that ensured ‘tramps’ could be viewed with fear and contempt in the Irish countryside. The relationship between crime and poverty has been a subject of considerable debate in numerous scholarly fields. This essay makes the important point that tramps were viewed with suspicion, not on account of their poverty intrinsically, but rather because they consciously rejected social norms in favour of an itinerant lifestyle. The ‘tramp problem’ occupied the attentions of the public and the administrators alike at the turn of the century: the former sometimes startled by the arrival at their door of a ‘big lazy fellow’ demanding relief, and the latter busily issuing circulars to magistrates and police imploring them to clamp down on the offenders. In the end, however, an unsatisfactory justice system predicated on punishment merely reinforced existing prejudices and did little to alleviate the social inequality that gave rise to vagrancy in the first place.

scholarly journals Human Hubris, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and an Environmental Ethic of Humility

2021 ◽  
pp. 108602662110390
Author(s):  
Eugene Sadler-Smith ◽  
Vita Akstinaite
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Environmental Ethic ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education Accountability ◽  
The Relationship

This article is about how hubris, individually and collectively, has contributed to the climate emergency and how an environmental ethic of humility could play an ameliorating role in the crisis. It focuses on the relationship between virtue ethics and the natural environment, and it argues that a collective “human hubris” (“The Problem”) has contributed significantly to anthropogenic climate change and that a “humility-based approach” toward the environment that entails an appreciation of humanity’s proper place in the natural order (“A Solution”). In it, we combine theories from the social and environmental sciences to propose an environmental ethic of humility as an “antidote” to human hubris by which leaders and other stakeholders could steer institutions, organisations, and behaviour towards environmental virtuousness. We also suggest the environmental ethic of humility as a benchmark against which stakeholders could be held to account for the environmental impacts of their actions. The article discusses the implications of hubris and humility in the areas governance, consumer behaviour, reputation, learning and education, accountability, and critical reflexivity.

scholarly journals Taking research with its roots: restructuring schools in the Brazilian landless workers' movement upon the principles of a political ecology of education

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 410 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Meek
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
The Social ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

How does education mediate the relationship between the co-production of environmental knowledge, and the social reproduction of an alternative society? This article draws upon a political ecology of education framework to analyze how schools advance alternative land management strategies and forms of environmental knowledge. Schools catering to grassroots movements can actualize their emancipatory objectives by institutionalizing hybridized conceptions of educational space-time. This article focuses on a vocational high school in a settlement of the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement. It analyzes a document known as a 'political pedagogical project' (PPP) which details the identity of the school and how it sees itself as a tool for social and environmental justice. Through an analysis of this PPP, my article explores how the school seeks to educate students to critically reflect upon the relationships between political economic processes and landscape change. The PPP also encourages students to be active participants in the development of a regional agroecological science, and cooperative material relations. From a political ecology of education perspective, activist schools are important sites for the coproduction of environmental knowledge and material relations. They have the potential to help students learn critically about the linkages between power, political economy, and land management.Keywords: Landless Workers Movement; political ecology of education; hybridity, political pedagogical project, agroecology

Impact of Religion-Based Caste System on the Dynamics of Indian Trade Unions: Evidence From Two State-Owned Organizations in North India

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 995-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jatin Pandey ◽  
Biju Varkkey
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Caste System ◽  
North India ◽  
The Social ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

Religion and its envisaged structures have both macro- and micro-level implications for business. Of the many stratification schemas prevalent in India, two macro-social stratification schemas are important at the workplace: caste, which has been an age-old, religion-mandated, closed social stratification prevalent in Hinduism that had led to inequality in the society, and trade union, which is a relatively new and optional open workplace stratification that empowers workers and fosters equality. This study tries to decipher whether these two structures influence each other; if yes how and why do they influence each other (the tensions and contradictions that may happen between them), and whether the influence is uniform for all members. We conducted in-depth interviews with 43 trade union members, three trade union leaders of two state-owned organizations in North India. Initially, we found that caste does not have any superficial effect on the relationship between union members. However, a deeper analysis reveals that roots of this social reality reflect in the social and workplace exchanges between union members, and affect their social identity and loyalty. In the discussion we present a model of twin loyalties between union and caste. From the institutional logic perspective, we also delineate the caste and trade union perspective, and show how there is a change in trade union identity because of the influence of caste-based logic. Our findings have implications for industrial democracy, worker representation, and union effectiveness.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Sellers’ Social Capital at Kota Teluk Kuantan Traditional Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-175
Author(s):  
Andri Meiriki ◽  
Rika Ramadhanti
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Transaction Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Market ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was aimed at: (1) finding out and understanding the forms of social capital presenting among sellers at Kota Teluk Kuantan Traditional Market; (2) Analyzing the social capital within the interaction and transaction process among the sellers at Kota Teluk Kuantan Traditional Market. The present study was conducted at Kota Teluk Kuantan traditional market, Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau. To this end, descriptive qualitative method was applied. This study revealed that: (1) Social capital established in Kota Teluk Kuantan traditional market comprised networks, social norms, trust from each market actors, (2) the trading culture makes the sellers adjust themselves to the relationship and social interactions that occur in the market. (3) The presence of social capital in the market reflects a significant role in promoting the sustainability of the traditional market in the midst of the continuous development of social and economic life in Teluk Kuantan.

Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education

1970 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Rist
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Reading Groups ◽  
Class System ◽  
Class Composition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children's Achievement ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The Relationship

Many studies have shown that academic achievement is highly correlated with social class. Few, however, have attempted to explain exactly how the school helps to reinforce the class structure of the society. In this article Dr. Rist reports the results of an observational study of one class of ghetto children during their kindergarten,first- and second-grade years. He shows how the kindergarten teacher placed the children in reading groups which reflected the social class composition of the class,and how these groups persisted throughout the first several years of elementary school. The way in which the teacher behaved toward the different groups became an important influence on the children's achievement. Dr. Rist concludes by examining the relationship between the "caste" system of the classroom and the class system of the larger society.

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