Family, Sexuality, and Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 522-542
Author(s):  
Rebekah Miles
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

Contrary to established wisdom, Niebuhr’s reflections on intimate relationships of family and sexual partnerships reveal as much about his anthropology as do his reflections on large social groups. As Niebuhr’s thought matured, we find not a bifurcation of public and private, as is often argued, but a continuum, with similar problems facing all human groups from the smallest to the largest. Niebuhr reflections on intimate relationships also illustrate the way he came to affirm a fully social model of the self and a balance between realism and idealism in all communities. Niebuhr’s thought, especially his understanding of the social and free self in society, is a springboard to a visionary Christian Realism, relevant for ethical reflection on many current topics including same-gender marriage, gender fluidity, and gender roles within families.

scholarly journals The Social Oikos

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Michael Lee Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Core Points

In one of the foundational articles of persona studies, Marshall and Barbour (2015) look to Hannah Arendt for development of a key concept within the larger persona framework: “Arendt saw the need to construct clear and separate public and private identities. What can be discerned from this understanding of the public and the private is a nuanced sense of the significance of persona: the presentation of the self for public comportment and expression” (2015, p. 3). But as far back as the ancient world from which Arendt draws her insights, the affordance of persona was not evenly distributed. As Gines (2014) argues, the realm of the household, oikos, was a space of subjugation of those who were forced to be “private,” tending to the necessities of life, while others were privileged with life in the public at their expense. To demonstrate the core points of this essay, I use textual analysis of a YouTube family vlog, featuring a Black mother in the United States, whose persona rapidly changed after she and her White husband divorced. By critically examining Arendt’s concepts around public, private, and social, a more nuanced understanding of how personas are formed in unjust cultures can help us theorize persona studies in more egalitarian and robust ways.

scholarly journals Illicit Motherhood: Recrafting Postcolonial Feminist Resistance in Edna O’Brien’s The Love Object and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Hell-Heaven

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Dibyadyuti Roy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Literary Output ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

Cultural constructions of passive motherhood, especially within domestic spaces, gained currency in India and Ireland due to their shared colonial history, as well as the influence of anti-colonial masculinist nationalism on the social imaginary of these two nations. However, beginning from the latter half of the nineteenth century, postcolonial literary voices have not only challenged the traditional gendering of public and private spaces but also interrogated docile constructions of womanhood, particularly essentialized representations of maternity. Domestic spaces have been critical narrative motifs in these postcolonial texts through simultaneously embodying patriarchal domination but also as sites where feminist resistance can be actualized by “transgress(ing) traditional views of … the home, as a static immobile place of oppression”. This paper, through a comparative analysis of maternal characters in Edna O’Brien’s The Love Object and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Hell-Heaven, argues that socially disapproved/illicit relationships in these two representative postcolonial Irish and Indian narratives function as matricentric feminist tactics that subvert limiting notions of both domestic spaces and gendered liminal postcolonial subjectivities. I highlight that within the context of male-centered colonial and nationalist literature, the trope of maternity configures the domestic-space as the “rightful place” for the existence of the feminine entity. Thus, when postcolonial feminist fiction reverses this tradition through constructing the “home and the female-body” as sites of possible resistance, it is a counter against dual oppression: both colonialism and patriarchy. My intervention further underscores the need for sustained conversations between the literary output of India and Ireland, within Postcolonial Literary Studies, with a particular acknowledgement for space and gender as pivotal categories in the “cultural analysis of empire”.

scholarly journals Self-care of people with intestinal ostomy: beyond the procedural towards rehabilitation

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Damiana Menis Sasaki ◽  
André Aparecido da Silva Teles ◽  
Natália Michelato Silva ◽  
Tatiana Mara da Silva Russo ◽  
Lorena Alves Pantoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Neoplasia ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Care Experience ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACT Objectives: to interpret the self-care experience of people with intestinal ostomy registered in an ostomy program, based on the framework of the Social Model of Disability. Methods: qualitative exploratory research, with the participation of nine people with intestinal ostomy, based on the Social Model of Disability. Results: majority were elderly, married, male with colostomy due to colorectal neoplasia. The self-care of these people was analyzed in two thematic groups: “Interdisciplinary assistance needed for people with intestinal ostomy” and “Self-care for the rehabilitation of the person with intestinal ostomy”. It was proved that there was a need for a specialized health team, offering information on disabilities, teaching self-care and perioperative follow-up. Final Considerations: when the social barriers of physical disabilities are overcome in the context of assistance for health and life, self-care will go beyond the reductionist vision of procedural care, towards comprehensive care, favoring the achievement of rehabilitation and the quality of survival.

SELF-PRESERVING ATTITUDES AND ITS PHENOMENA DURING THE PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Simaeva I.N. ◽  
Budarina A.O. ◽  
Shatokhina V.A.
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Structure Functions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Mental Structure ◽  
The Social

The aim of this work is an analysis of the funda-mental structure, functions and self-preservation attitude and manifestations in the behavior of the population under conditions of a threat to health and survival. The article presents the results of an empirical study of the cognitive, emotionally-evaluative, and stimulating components of the self-preservation attitudes of adolescents and youth. The results of the study make it possible to assess risks and develop preventive measures for correcting the social orientation towards main-taining health among individuals and social groups.

Shyness, Egocentricity, and Psychopathology: Their Relationships among Nonhospitalized Individuals and Mental Hospital Patients

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 995-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
The Self ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

To investigate the relationship between shyness and egocentricity in both psychiatric (hospitalized) and nonhospitalized groups, 162 adult men and women diagnosed as paranoid or undifferentiated schizophrenic, and a control group of 162 nonhospitalized individuals matched for age and gender were studied. Shyness was assessed on the Social Reticence Scale and egocentricity by the Self-focus Sentence Completion. Analysis indicated that the patients were more shy than nonhospitalized individuals. Paranoid schizophrenics were not different from undifferentiated schizophrenics on egocentricity and the Self-focus Sentence Completion subscales. Nonhospitalized individuals and the mental hospital patients were egocentric on the Self-focus Sentence Completion. For this reason, relationships among shyness, egocentricity, and psychopathology could not be demonstrated.

STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF THE SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF AGGRESSION

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Graña Gómez ◽  
Jose Manuel Andreu ◽  
Heather Lynn Rogers ◽  
Juan Carlos Arango Lasprilla
Keyword(s):  
Social Representation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structural Dimensions ◽  
Valid Test ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Attribution Styles ◽  
Effect Of Age

The principal aim of this study was to analyze the structural dimensions of social representation of aggression through the Expressive Representations of Aggression Scale – EXPAGG (Campbell, Muncer, & Coyle, 1992). This scale is used in many studies of aggressive behavior among youth and in adolescent populations. Moreover, the EXPAGG is one of the self-report techniques most commonly used in the field of aggression research to measure expressive and instrumental attributions. This study uses various statistical procedures to analyze the data from a representative sample of adolescents in the community of Madrid to conclude that the EXPAGG is a reliable and valid test to measure different attribution styles of aggression in youth and adolescents. In addition, a tridimensional structure of social representation of aggression and a significant effect of age and gender were found.

scholarly journals Persisting Prejudice: Measuring Attitudes and Outcomes by Caste and Gender

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Amit Thorat ◽  
Nazar Khalid ◽  
Nikhil Shrivastav ◽  
Payal Hathi ◽  
Dean Spears ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Family Health ◽  
National Family Health Survey ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Family ◽  
And Gender

We present results from a new representative telephonic survey, which confirms persistence of conservative gender and caste attitudes. In particular, we find that high proportions of men and women in all of the social groups we study disapprove of women working outside the home, say that it is acceptable for husbands to beat their wives, and would object to relatives marrying a Dalit person. By analyzing data from the National Family Health Survey and the India Human Development Survey, we see that the outcomes associated with these attitudes are even more conservative: a smaller fraction of women work than those who say it is acceptable, a larger fraction of women experience violence in marriage than men who say it is acceptable, and an even smaller fraction of people have intercaste marriages than people who say they would not oppose. With a few exceptions, the attitudes and outcomes we study vary surprisingly little by respondent gender, caste, and religion. Dr. Amdebkar’s legacy is indeed unfinished – people from all backgrounds must continue to work for the equality and dignity of women and Dalits.

scholarly journals Cartography of Critical Legal Theories: Notes for a Reflection on the Relation between Law and Power

2021 ◽  
pp. 242-262
Author(s):  
Victor Merino-Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Asylum Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

This paper proposes an identification of the main arguments suggested by certain critical theories concerning the relationship between law and power. In order to (re)think the function of law as an instrument not only of power, but as an element of social transformation, we promote here a reflection on aspects raised by these theories; among others, the same notion of power, oppression, intersectionality or decoloniality. These categories are relevant to examine how law regulates the experiences of discrimination of specific social groups, highlighting the intimate relationship between the social contexts, the premises and the legal answers. To do so, we examine in particular how asylum law responds to claims grounded on sexual orientation and gender identity. Finally, this reasoning suggests a conception of law oriented to action and the social change.

scholarly journals Production of Gender: A Study on Performativity in Female-To-Male Transsexuals

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Tanu Priya ◽  
Dhishna Panniko
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

Gender identity is critical to every individual; it is self-defined and yet affected by culture and society at large. Gender identities are formed through public and private spaces. Of the two traditions of thinking (essentialist and constructionist) about sex and gender, constructionist formulations are based on performance theory. It believes that sex and gender are viewed as not residing in the individual but are found in “those interactions that are socially constructed as gendered as opposed to essentialist tradition. Within performative theory, gender is a process rather than something naturally possessed. This study explores the process of formation of gender or social role in female-to-male (FTM) transsexual.  It will do so by exploring the factors that add to the formation of a gender role as seen through sartorial style, mannerisms, body language, and other aspects that influence one’s presentation of self. It includes the process of construction of FTM transsexual’s corporeality through performative attributes in order to approximate masculinity and come in accord with the social role of a man. The themes that are discussed in the analysis emerged after a careful reading of FTM autobiographical narratives. The instances are extracted from FTM autobiographical narratives; Becoming a Visible Man, The Testosterone Files, Both Sides now and the publication of these narratives range from 2005-2006.

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