Folklore and Folklife of American Family and Friends

Author(s):  
Caren Neile

The folklore of family and friends is a primary social frame of traditional knowledge, promoting distinctive values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Their associated narratives share certain characteristics. They have long been mined by folklorists as popular forms of personal experience narrative, and their transmission is somewhat gender dependent. Unlike friendship narrative, however, family narrative is widely studied in its own right. This chapter argues for a deeper study of friendship narrative, given (1) its role as a performative utterance, reflecting agency that helps form and maintain the group; (2) its horizontal, egalitarian mode of transmission; (3) the effect of the relative ephemerality of friendships; and (4) the role of gossip. The tension between tradition and innovation in American society and the growing importance of friendship groups in the culture, particularly through social media, make friendship narrative an increasingly compelling area of folklore scholarship and a potential means for countering intergroup hostilities.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Puspita Plehanku

Abstract Public Diplomacy as a part of soft power has been the main principle of Indonesia’s diplomacy under President Yudhoyono. Due to the ineffectiveness of Track 1 Diplomacy, Government-to-Government (G2G) relations, in promoting the positive image of Indonesia, the role of public diplomacy becomes important. Thus, public diplomacy practice which involves all aspects of society; Government to Government (G2G), Government to People Contact (G2P), and People to People Contact (P2P), is relevant in order to promote Indonesia to American society and strengthening its bilateral relations as well. This research, therefore, is trying to discuss the role of public diplomacy in strengthening the RI-US bilateral relations and its benefits to Indonesia’s foreign policy. The findings show that public diplomacy contributes in strengthening RI-US bilateral relations by the use of public diplomacy instruments such as cultural and educational exchanges, official visits and social media. Keywords: Soft Power, Public Diplomacy, RI-US Bilateral Relations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (121) ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Olga V. Lazareva ◽  

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of modern education – pedagogical parenting education, which is a part of the social policy of modern society. The parenting education is aimed at personal development. Both the subject and the object can be the person himself there. The education of parents, in contrast to the family education, is more aimed at helping them to become a full-fledged healthy personality of the child. The main task of the article is to analyze the role of the father in the family on the example of the United States, the views of representatives of various areas of psychology and pedagogy on the role of the father are given. Two aspects of the role of the father are highlighted-traditional and new. The presence of a tendency to change the role of men in the family is shown. The role of the father is one of the most important roles that affect both the development of the new generation and the development of the father's personality. The role of the father has deep historical roots. With the advent of the new century, the traditional composition of the American family-mother, father and children – remains predominant. However, over the past decades, American society has witnessed a variety of changes in the composition of the family and its daily life. A few decades ago, the very question of the role of men in the family would have been simply inappropriate. But lately everything is different. Fatherhood has recently aroused increasing interest among researchers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Umi Masruroh

Artikel ini merupakan sebuah penelitian partisipatoris yang dilakukan oleh penulis sebagai salah satu peserta pelatihan penulisan media sosial moderat bagi kader Fatayat NU DIY melalui program Pena Tasamuh kerja sama PW Fatayat NU DI Yogyakarta dengan AFSC. Media sosial dan media literasi online sebagai salah satu alat strategis dalam penyebaran paham radikalisme juga harus dimanfaatkan sebaik mungkin untuk mencegah penyebaran paham ini dengan mengcounter penggunakan konten moderat yang berisi narasi perdamaian dan penghormatan terhadap perbedaan. Di sisi lain, kader perempuan organisasi Islam moderat seperti Fatayat NU selama ini belum memaksimalkan media sosial dan literasi online untuk melawan gerakan kelompok radikal tersebut. Mengingat pentingnya gerakan Islam Moderat melalui media sosial dan literasi online ini, Fatayat NU DIY merancang program Pena Tasamuh yang fokus terhadap peningkatan kapasitas kader perempuannya dalam bidang literasi terutama untuk mengkampanyekan Islam yang ramah sebagai upaya pencegahan penyebaran paham radikal dalam masyarakat. Program Pena Tasamuh memberikan pelatihan bagi kader Fatayat NU di 5 Kabupaten Kota (Bantul, Kulon Progo, Gunung Kidul, Sleman, dan Kota Yogyakarta) untuk membuat konten media sosial dan literasi online yang bertujuan untuk mengimbangi maraknya konten media sosial dan literasi online Islam yang didominasi oleh kelompok radikal. Perempuan muda menjadi aktor penting dalam program ini karena peran perempuan dalam sebuah keluarga maupun Vol. 6 Nomor 2, Juli-Desember 2021 164 komunitas sangat besar termasuk dalam konteks penyebaran konten Islam Moderat. Tulisan ini berupaya memaparkan keberhasilan upaya pencegahan radikalisme melalui program Pena Tasamuh berdasarkan pada pengalaman pribadi penulis sebagai peserta dalam program.[This article is a participatory research conducted by the author as one of the participants in training on moderate social media writing for Fatayat NU DIY cadres through the Pena Tasamuh program in collaboration with PW Fatayat NU DI Yogyakarta and AFSC. Social media and online literacy media as one of the strategic tools in the spread of radicalism must also be utilized as well as possible to prevent the spread of this understanding by countering the use of moderate content containing narratives of peace and respect for differences. On the other hand, female cadres of moderate Islamic organizations such as Fatayat NU have so far not maximized social media and online literacy to fight the movement of these radical groups. Given the importance of the Moderate Islamic movement through social media and online literacy, Fatayat NU DIY designed the Pena Tasamuh program that focuses on increasing the capacity of itsfemale cadresin the literacy field, especially to campaign for friendly Islam as an effort to prevent the spread of radicalism in society. The Pena Tasamuh program providestraining for Fatayat NU cadres in 5 City Districts (Bantul, Kulon Progo, Gunung Kidul, Sleman, and Yogyakarta City) to create social media content and online literacy that aims to balance the rise of social media content and Islamic online literacy which is dominated by by radical groups. Young women are important actors in this program because the role of women in a family or community is very large, including in the context of spreading moderate Islamic content. This paper seeks to describe the success of effortsto prevent radicalism through the Pena Tasamuh program based on the author’s personal experience as a participant in the program.]


Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith

Chapter four turns to a more intimate form of affiliation than either nation or community: family. The period from the 1970s onward has produced the greatest concentration of cycles since modernism, because writers embraced the cycle to express the contingency of being ethnic and American. Family, rather than community or time, is the dominant linking structure for many of these cycles, reflecting how immigration laws placed family and education above country of origin. This chapter focuses on the role of family in the production and reception of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989), Julie Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth (2008). These cycles argue that subjectivity—and by extension gender and ethnic attachments—derives not only from biological relationships but also from “formative kinship,” which originates in shared experiences that the characters choose to value.


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