Cancer and Imputed Infection: Images of ‘The Disease’ among Patients' Relatives

A description of the social construction of cancer is offered from the cancer patient's relatives' point of view, focusing on the linkage made between contamination and cancer. The ethnography brings together four detailed observations of cancer patients found in a transient stage of remission, who are perceived by their relatives as paradoxically being at one and the same time very good-looking and also very sick. A semiotic explanation to the phenomenon of imputed infection with regard to cancer patients of ‘doubtful appearance’ is discussed, arguing that such imputation can be seen as one of several mechanisms intended to force the disease ‘into the open’ and thus re-align the lost congruence between internal and external.

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Construção social da moradia de risco: a experiência de Juiz de Fora (MG)

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais ◽

10.22296/2317-1529.2006v8n1p59 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 59

Author(s):

Maria Auxiliadora Ramos Vargas

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Urban Poverty ◽

Social Representations ◽

Point Of View ◽

Social Intervention ◽

Technical Approach ◽

Socially Constructed ◽

The Social ◽

Social Construction Of Risk ◽

Precarious Situation

A problemática da moradia de risco tem ganhado ênfase no debate contemporâneo sobre políticas públicas urbanas. As diversas iniciativas observadas se enquadram, de maneira geral, na perspectiva objetivista do risco, que traz como principal decorrência a demanda pela mensuração e quantificação do fenômeno. Resulta daí uma visão técnica do risco que se apresenta dominante, e que promove não só a noção de que as situações precárias envolvendo grupos específicos são decorrentes de decisões imprevidentes, como também intervenções de remoção que afetam as condições de vida desses grupos. Problematizando esse argumento, a literatura sociológica da construção social do risco sustenta que este é objeto de uma elaboração socialmente diferenciada. Utilizando-se da análise das trajetórias de moradia de famílias removidas de áreas condenadas tecnicamente no município de Juiz de Fora (MG), este artigo aponta discursos e práticas que conformam a resistência da população à noção técnica dominante do risco. Palavras-chave: construção social do risco; desigualdade ambiental; periferia urbana. Abstract: The social problem of risk is increasingly relevant to contemporary debates, especially on public policies and urban affairs. In general, most of the initiatives come from an objectivist perspective of risks, based on quantification and mensuration of phenomena. From this technical approach emerges a dominant conception of risk, which spreads out the reckoning that precarious situation involving specific urban poverty groups are due to ‘irrational consumption options’; influenced by this point of view, social intervention comes out disqualifying those groups practices and interfering deeply in their lives. Discussing this argument, recent sociological literature presents the social construction of risk, structured on the idea that the notion of ‘risk’ is socially constructed by differentiated groups, that bring upon different symbolic references, social representations and material practices. Using as empiric reference the trajectories of families removed from their home places – characterized by municipality engineering as ‘technically condemned’ – in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, this article stresses the discursive elements and material practices that express the resistance of there moved people to the dominant technical conception of risk. Keywords: social construction of risk; environmental inequality; urban periphery.

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The Research of the Gender Component in Word Formation and the Structuring of Phraseological Units of Contemporary English

Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University ◽

10.12958/2227-2844-2021-7(345)-60-67 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 60-67

Author(s):

I. V. Kozubai ◽

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A. Yu. Khadzhy ◽

U. R. Shemet ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Word Formation ◽

Point Of View ◽

Self Identity ◽

The Social ◽

Mental Abilities ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Asymmetry ◽

Descriptive Method

In the context of the scientific paradigm-changing in social science linguistic studies of different language levels occupy a special place. The article deals with the linguistic phenomena from an anthropocentric point of view. The need to determine the self-identity of a human being, his social conditionality and the social construction of the article is manifested in the formation and application of gender terminology. Using the methods of linguistic and cultural analysis, observation and generalization, and the descriptive method, the authors of the article highlight the features of the representation of the gender component. Much attention is paid to the description of new (word-forming) means of gender representation, in particular the affix method, the word-forming model he-friend / she-friend, gender-labelled and gender-unlabelled model. Regarding the identification of the gender component in phraseological units, gender asymmetry is emphasised – the dominance of representations of idioms of masculine professions and those that emphasize the physical and mental abilities of men.

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Triple Social Nutrition Construction

Discourse ◽

10.32603/2412-8562-2020-6-1-83-95 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 83-95

Author(s):

Junkai Jin

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Institutional Design ◽

Social Process ◽

Social Engineering ◽

Point Of View ◽

Material Objects ◽

Environment Interaction ◽

Social Constructions ◽

Social Construction Of Reality ◽

The Social

Introduction. The purpose of the paper is analysis of the humanity perception of material objects that are used as food, from the point of view of sociology, and analysis of material relations of entry-level (people and material objects recognized as the food), in which the social construction and impact of social engineering to limit the actions of people in public life. The novelty of the author’s approach is to allocate reverse the effects of nutrition on human behavior as a factor of social process.Methodology and sources. In this paper, for the analysis of social practices of nutrition as a social process used to conceptual design of “social construction” from the point of view of the sociology of things the sociology of knowledge and sociology of nutrition. The analysis of the authors’ works that address issues of social construction (Durkheim, Latour, Berger, Luckmann, Schütz, etc.).Results and discussion. According to the study author proposes a classification, according to which the social construction of power is divided into three types (levels). Nominative type is elementary awareness of the substances. Measurement type is further systematization of knowledge about food and the actions relating thereto (the distinction between substances on the basis of edibility, the establishment of various foundations products or their social attributes, defining the main ways of making food). Institutional type is determining in what form to carry out actions with the products and everything associated with them (the emergence of order meals and nutrition, the overcoming of primitive naturalism in power).The hypothesis is expressed and investigated that each level of the design is conditioned by the social and structural environment interaction of the actors.Conclusion. It is stated that in the modern system of nominative power, and measuring the types of institutional design are in a state of complex interdependence, since over time a system of knowledge, constructed by the forerunners, turned into a “cash knowledge” with the result that subsequent generations gradually ceased to distinguish between the complexity of multilevel social constructions of reality.Formulated thesis is that the analysis of the social construction of reality should help to better understand the social nature of food, in particular, to answer the question: how do food products are social constructions, as they are created by our consciousness under the influence of the existing “cash” system of knowledge as constructed, their properties (their tastes), which, as it turns out, are not so much biological, but also socio-cultural properties.

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Nuovi consumatori? Identitŕ etnica e rappresentazioni visuali del gusto in un gruppo di giovani immigrati di seconda generazione

MONDI MIGRANTI ◽

10.3280/mm2008-003005 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 81-100

Author(s):

Lorenzo Domaneschi

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Social Construction ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Visual Culture ◽

Material Culture ◽

Visual Representations ◽

Point Of View ◽

Culture Material ◽

Consumption Culture ◽

The Social

- Drawing on a recent work by Massey and Sanchez (2007), this paper deal with the analysis of visual representations of taste from the point of view of the social construction of ethnic identity. We decide to give to each of our interviewees a couple of cameras, marked with the very simple signs "I like"/"I don't like", and we asked them to take picture of every kind of things, places or people who surround them in their everyday lives. Going in depth with the analysis of this particular "photographic book" created by the interviewees, we become able to hopefully show the ambivalent side of the social construction of ethnic identity through the means of consumption culture. On one hand, we can confirm the Massey and Sanchez's distinction between things and people in the construction of, respectively, host and family national identity. Yet, on the other hand, we can also explain the mixing and overlapping use of these two material and human means as they both contributes to the structuring of a particular form - though always changing - of ibrid cultural identity.Keywords ethnic identity; visual culture; material culture; taste; hybridization; second generations

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Sobre la mirada de género en la salud reproductiva y la construcción social de la maternidad

Cuestiones de género de la igualdad y la diferencia ◽

10.18002/cg.v0i5.3782 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 89

Author(s):

Esther Castellanos Torres ◽

Isabel Soriano Villarroel

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Social Reproduction ◽

Gender Relations ◽

Reproductive Rights ◽

Point Of View ◽

Human Reproduction ◽

Constructivist Approach ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

The Social ◽

Sexual And Reproductive Rights

El presente artículo contempla tres objetivos: 1) explicitar que la sexualidad engloba la reproducción humana; 2) reflexionar sobre la maternidad como construcción social y 3) entender la reproducción social como sustentadora del orden económico y social patriarcal. A partir de la lectura de fuentes secundarias de diferentes autoras que han abordado estas cuestiones desde un planteamiento constructivista de la maternidad y las relaciones de género, se ha reflexionado y estructurado el artículo en tres apartados que dan respuesta a los objetivos. Por último, se plantean conclusiones encaminadas a posibilitar el ejercicio pleno de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos. This article seeks three objectives: 1) to clarify that sexuality includes also human reproduction, 2) to reflect on motherhood as a social construction and 3) to understand the social reproduction as a supporter of the patriarchal, social and economic order. The article answers the objectives in three sections from a point of view of a constructivist approach to the motherhood and the gender relations through the reading of secondary sources of several authoresses. Finally, the article sets some conclusions out in order to make possible the full exercise of sexual and reproductive rights.

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In/dependencia de hombres y mujeres en cuatro producciones de Disney y su impacto social

Comunitania Revista Internacional de Trabajo Social y Ciencias Sociales ◽

10.5944/comunitania.21.5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 109

Author(s):

Rocío López-García-Torres ◽

Elia Saneleuterio

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Point Of View ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Social ◽

Gender Perspectives ◽

People Development ◽

Social Repercussion ◽

The Impact

Considerando el impacto socioeducativo de ciertos contenidos culturales, concretamente de los personajes de ficción, así como de la música dentro del discurso narrativo audiovisual, se analizan, desde la perspectiva de género, cuatro películas de animación infantil de gran repercusión social, mediante una metodología analítico-interpretativa, de carácter sociocrítico. Los resultados muestran una imagen del hombre como independiente, pero generalmente negligente. Respecto de la mujer, se la representa con rasgos tanto de dependencia como de independencia, al tiempo que se mantienen, desde la visión masculina, estereotipos femeninos reduccionistas, especialmente de sentimentalismo o fragilidad. El estudio concluye que deben cuidarse estos aspectos si se quiere promover la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres en la construcción social de las comunidades futuras. Considering the impact, both in society and in people development, of certain cultural contents seen from gender perspectives and specifically fiction characters and musical narratives, four children’s animation films with great social repercussion are analyzed through an analytical-interpretative methodology, with a sociocritical nature. The results show an image of man as independent, but generally negligent, and of women with traits of both dependence and independence, and at the same time, from the male point of view, reductionist feminine stereotypes, especially of sentimentality or fragility. The study concludes that these aspects should be taken care of if promoting equality between men and women in the social construction of future communities.

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