The Shift in Power with Age

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariella Friedman ◽  
Yael Tzukerman ◽  
Hana Wienberg ◽  
Judith Todd
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Interpersonal Power ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
Apparent Shift ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Israeli Kibbutz

Previous research has described an apparent shift in perceived interpersonal power towards equality between men and women later in life. This study investigated (a) whether the “shift in power with age” would appear in the Israeli kibbutz, (b) the role of the “parental emergency” in the shift, and (c) whether changes in behaviors or attitudes best account for the shift. One hundred twenty younger and older Israeli women and men, half from the city and half from the kibbutz, wrote TAT stories, which were then rated for overall power of the female and male characters, their power strategies, and their motives. A shift in perceived power with age was found in both the city and the kibbutz. Parental status reduced the power of the woman and increased the power of the man only in the city, whereas the reverse was true in the kibbutz. These results counter the “parental emergency” explanation for the shift in power with age. Furthermore, older women used traditionally feminine power strategies, but their behavior was evaluated as more powerful than the same behavior in younger women. Thus, it is not the behaviors but rather people's evaluation of the behaviors that changes across the life span of the individual.

Mediating Structures and Constitutional Liberty

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
William Bentley Ball
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Association ◽  
American Enterprise Institute ◽  
American Constitution ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Ethnic Subgroups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Mediating Structures

There are those of us whose job seems always to be immediate problem-solving. We are like people frantically busy piling up rocks with the fleeting notion that perhaps they are building something. To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy by Peter Berger and Richard Neuhaus (American Enterprise Institute, 1977) offers a portrait in which resemblances can be seen between the haphazard rock pile and the city of good “mediating structures” there portrayed.Approaching the subject as a lawyer, the question at once comes to mind: Do we need mediating structures (family, church, voluntary association, neighborhood, racial and ethnic subgroups) in a society governed by the American Constitution? If the “mediating structures“ are thought to be necessary to protect the individual from the state, is that not precisely the function of the Constitution?

scholarly journals THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE: CUBISM AND MODERNISM. FIGURES AND ICONS IN JOSEF GOČÁR’S WORK

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Domenico Giuseppe CHIZZONITI
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

This research paper relates to a number of works by Josef Gočár, a Bohemian architect who was active in a time period between “Cubist” vanguardism and “Rationalist” modernism. The theme regards the search for a general method which evaluates the key elements of the structure of space in architectural design. The main asset of architectural composition has traditionally been the close association between the syntactic order of the elements and a semantic perception of space. The aim of this essay is to explore the relation between the role of the experimental design regarding the multiple and changeable architectural experience and the creative process of architectural work. The methodological experience hereby demonstrated refers to a specific case study that belongs to the scientific research carried out by Gočár and his researchers’ group at the Prague Fine Arts Academy (AVU). His work is hereby re-interpreted in an effort to explore the experiential contribution to the architectural design discipline, and the figurative aspect, by reexamining various characteristics of his practical experience as an architect involved in the civic priorities of the city, from the scale of urban settlement to the individual design work.

scholarly journals EP.TH.275The role of amino acid transporters SLC1A5 and SLC3A2 in primary breast cancer in older women

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (Supplement_7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Parks ◽  
Lutfi Alfarsi ◽  
Andrew Green ◽  
Kwok-Leung Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Primary Breast Cancer ◽  
Tumour Size ◽  
Glutamine Metabolism ◽  
Amino Acid Transporters ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Er Status

Abstract Aims Breast cancer in older women has more favourable biology, compared to younger women. Increased glutamine metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. The prognostic role of amino acid transporters involved with glutamine flux, SLC1A5 and SLC3A2, has been shown in breast cancer in younger women. This study aimed to investigate the role of SLC1A5 and SLC3A2 in breast cancer in older women as possible prognostic markers. Methods Surgical specimens were obtained from an existing series of 1,758 older women (≥70 years) with primary breast cancer, treated in a single institution with long-term (37+ years) follow-up. Of this cohort, 813 had primary surgical treatment. As part of previous work, it was possible to construct good quality tissue microarrays (TMAs) in 575 cases. Immunohistochemical staining for SLC1A5 and SLC3A2 was performed. H-score was considered as a continuous variable as well as using positivity cut-offs of ≥ 45 for SLC1A5 and ≥15 for SLC3A2, using X-tile software. Association between H-score and tumour size, grade, ER status, local-recurrence-free-survival (LRFS), overall survival (OS) and breast-cancer-specific-survival (BCSS) was investigated. Results No correlation was seen between neither marker and LRFS, OS, or BCSS in older women with breast cancer. Both markers were associated with high tumour grade and negative ER status (both p < 0.001). Conclusions These findings are contrary to those found in younger women, where these amino acid transporters are associated with shorter BCSS. This may suggest that breast cancer in older women is less reliant on glutamine metabolism, which is consistent with an overall less aggressive phenotype.

scholarly journals LEONID SOLOVYOV AS A RESEARCHER OF THE HISTORY OF KHERSON IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

2017 ◽  
pp. 221-229
Author(s):  
Valeriya Kibets
Keyword(s):  
Special Kind ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Creative People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Working People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Modern Ukrainian historical science faces many challenges that require a scientific solution. Exploring the life and work of famous people and the history of individual regions of Ukraine are among them. The end of 19th - the beginning of 20th centuries in the history of Ukraine is characterized by a general revolutionary exaltation that was caused by sharp contradictions, national oppression, political disenfranchisement of the population. It is a time when new creators of history enter the political scene.  Nowadays, the critical task is to rethink the role of the individual in history, to explore creative people, to fill the historical process with energetic, working people, to make this process anthropocentric. It is necessary not only to revive the forgotten names but to determine a place for each personality in the history of Ukraine. The article aims to show the features of the pre-revolutionary past of Kherson city from the perspective of Leonid Solovyov, indigenous inhabitant, engineer, the qualified worker of Kherson seaport and brilliant memoirist. In his memoirs, he described the city in pre-revolutionary times and showed the changes of Kherson during Soviet power. Memoirs (memories) are a special kind of written historical sources that reflect the author’s understanding of past reality and historical consciousness of the personality of their creator. They are about the past based mostly on a personal the memory of the author and his own impressions of those events in which he participated or which he watched by himself. In his memoirs, we see the dualistic nature of historical sources, because, on the one hand, they record information about the past and, therefore, it is its reflection. On the other hand, memoirs are part of the period in which they came on. Today Mr Solovyov’s memoirs are unexplored, and this article is the first attempt to show the role of this personality. Pre-revolutionary Kherson had a number of its features. It was a small, quiet, calm, provincial town. Mr Solovyov remembers the city since 1914. He was always interested in the history of his native city. The comparison of pre-revolutionary and Soviet Kherson from the perspective of an ordinary citizen of Kherson is particularly useful. Most of Kherson citizens worked as merchants, officials, entrepreneurs and small haggler. The workers were a minority, lived mainly in the suburbs and had their property, farm. It was a typical and traditional demonstration of the usual Ukrainian way of life. The result of long and hard work of Mr. Solovyov as an ethnographer is a significant number of photo albums, including “Kherson seaport”, “Flood in Kherson”, extracts from books, magazines, newspapers about ports of Kherson, Skadovsk, Khorly, and, of course, memoirs about his native city and the port which contains unvalued layer of interesting information about the history of our city. It is shown the role of the individual in history and the impact of circumstances and the environment in the formation of his worldview and future activities from Mr Solovyov example. It is the first time when the researcher is depicted as a citizen whose life was dedicated to the service of society. The results of his work played a significant role in today’s economic and cultural potential of our city. Mr Solovyov’s great experience in the organization of productive work in the port, the realization of his interests in studying historical characteristics of the land has not lost its practical value and is useful today.

scholarly journals Educação ambiental: o papel dos gestores escolares / Environmental education: the role of school managers

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Vitor Viana da Costa ◽  
André Accioly Nogueira Machado ◽  
Nielpson Dias Carvalho ◽  
Juliana Simões Bolfe
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

Compreendamos a Educação Ambiental como sendo um bloco de ensinamentos teórico-práticos que objetiva fazer com que o indivíduo atente para as ações promovidas por ele mesmo e perceba a importância destas para a preservação e conservação do meio ambiente, visando o bem-estar e a saúde de todos os seres vivos. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi fazer um levantamento do perfil dos gestores escolares entrevistados, além de analisar as contribuições dos gestores para a promoção do conhecimento acerca dos temas “Sustentabilidade” e “Meio Ambiente”, contribuindo para a Educação Ambiental nas escolas e na sociedade. Esta é uma pesquisa de campo e apresentou uma abordagem qualitativa, sendo realizada em sete escolas de ensino público municipal da Regional V, na cidade de Fortaleza. Participaram desta pesquisa sete gestores escolares, das sete escolas que foram o cenário desta pesquisa. Utilizou-se um questionário e uma entrevista semi-estruturada para a coleta de dados. Sobre o exercício da função de gestor, percebeu-se que 71,4% dos entrevistados gerem apenas uma escola, enquanto apenas 28,56% gerem duas ou mais. Notou-se, também, que, sobre o tempo total de experiência na função, 28,56% dos entrevistados informaram que têm entre 16 – 20 anos como gestor e, sobre o tempo de gestão nas escolas atuais, 42,84% estão entre três e cinco anos na função. Conclui-se que, na comunidade escolar, todos os integrantes têm o seu devido papel, mas, diante da sua função, o gestor é a pessoa responsável por incentivar, apoiar e se mostrar disponível para ações desta natureza.AbstractWe understand Environmental Education as being a block of theoretical-practical teachings that aims to make the individual attentive to the actions promoted by himself and realize the importance of these for the preservation and conservation of the environment, aiming at the well-being and health of all living things. The objective of this research was to survey the profile of school managers interviewed, as well as to analyze the contributions of managers to the promotion of knowledge about "Sustainability" and "Environment", contributing to Environmental Education in schools and society. This is a field research and presented a qualitative approach, being carried out in seven municipal public schools of the Regional V, in the city of Fortaleza. Seven school managers participated in this research, from the seven schools that were the scene of this research. A questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were used to collect data. Regarding the role of manager, 71.4% of respondents managed only one school, while only 28.56% managed two or more. It was also noted that 28.56% of the respondents reported that they had between 16 and 20 years of age as manager, and 42.84% of their three and five years in office. It is concluded that, in the school community, all the members have their proper role, but, given their role, the manager is the person responsible for encouraging, supporting and showing himself available for actions of this nature.

scholarly journals Defining the dystopian chronotope: Space, time and genre in George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-39
Author(s):  
Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Relation ◽  
Structural Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The City

The paper examines George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as a canonical example of the dystopian novel in an attempt to define the principal features of the dystopian chronotope. Following Mikhail Bakhtin, it treats the chronotope as the structural pivot of the narrative, which integrates and determines other aspects of the text. Dystopia, the paper argues, is a particularly appropriate genre to consider the structural role of the chronotope for two reasons. Firstly, due to utopianism’s special relation with space and secondly, due to the structural importance of world-building in the expression of dystopia’s philosophical, political and social ideas. The paper identifies the principal features of dystopian spatiality, among which crucial are the oppositions between the individual and the state, the mind and the body, the high and the low, the central and the peripheral, the past and the present, the city and the natural world, false and true signs.

Embeddedness and locational choices: A study of creative workers in a dance organisation

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1121-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Montanari ◽  
Annachiara Scapolan ◽  
Lorenzo Mizzau
Keyword(s):  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Creative Workers ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Organisational Factors ◽  
Attraction And Retention ◽  
Locational Choices ◽  
The City

Locational choices of creative workers have been a matter of heated debate over the last decade. This study proposes a micro perspective aimed at disentangling how the individual decision-making process behind locational choices is activated and develops over time. To this aim, we combine previous geographic research on the issue with research on the role of organisational factors in workers’ attraction and retention. Empirically, we carried out an exploratory case study of dancers in a renowned contemporary ballet company based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. With this study, we highlight how matching professional quests and organisation-specific job opportunities activates locational choices, and we extend geographical approaches to embeddedness by considering the role of organisations as crucial mediating entities between the city context and creative workers.

Family formation patterns among migrant women in Sydney

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhat Yusuf ◽  
Stefania Siedlecky
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Vietnamese Women ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
The Individual

SummaryA demographic survey among a probability sample of 980 married migrant women was carried out in Sydney in 1988. The sample included 507 Lebanese, 250 Turkish and 223 Vietnamese women. The study revealed differences in family formation patterns within and between the three groups and between them and the general population. Family size had declined among all three groups compared with their family of origin, and it was clear that the younger women would not achieve the same family sizes as the older women. Migrant women tended to marry earlier than the general population and to start their families earlier. While they showed a strong preference for their children to marry within their own ethnic and religious group, nearly one-third said it was up to the choice of the individual. Overall, the future family size of younger migrant women is expected to converge towards the Australian norm. Migrant families are in a state of transition between two cultures which needs to be recognised by health and family planning service providers.

scholarly journals Exploring the Antecedents of Cruisers’ Destination Loyalty: Cognitive Destination Image and Cruisers’ Satisfaction

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1218
Author(s):  
María Dolores Benítez-Márquez ◽  
Guillermo Bermúdez-González ◽  
Eva María Sánchez-Teba ◽  
Elena Cruz-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Destination Loyalty ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

This study is one of the few of its kind that explores the individual impact of each of the cognitive attributes of a tourist destination’s image on cruisers’ destination loyalty and overall satisfaction. It also analyzes the mediating role of satisfaction between each of the attributes and loyalty. Variance-based structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used for this analysis, based on a survey of 457 cruisers visiting the city of Malaga. The results confirm that three of the five attributes, the destination’s environment image, the perceived value image of services and the accessibility image have a direct influence on cruisers’ overall satisfaction, where environment image has the most significant impact. Moreover, the results support the mediating role of satisfaction in certain cases. There is total mediation between perceived value and loyalty, as well as between accessibility image and loyalty while there is only partial complementary mediation between environment image and loyalty. The confirmation that overall satisfaction influences loyalty enables management organizations to develop more efficient loyalty strategies for their respective destinations.

scholarly journals Invisibility of Female Street Names in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Tania Sebastian
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Population Census ◽  
History Of ◽  
Disproportionate Number ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Indian Cities

The aim of this article is to offer an analysis of the invisibility of women street names in select Indian cities. This study is comprised of four Indian cities, each one representing the northern (Delhi), southern(Chennai), eastern (Kolkata) and western (Mumbai) parts of India based on the highest population (Census of India, 2011). These cities have a background of different historical circumstances, diverse political influences, skewed sex ratios and varied population characteristics that make them a good representative sample for analyzing street names. The role of law and law-making surrounding the naming of streets is examined through this lens of political, social and historic divisions of these cities in India. This paper then proceeds to examine the guidelines issued by these cites that provide specifications for change of name of the street. The process for naming and renaming in these cities is as easy as moving a proposal with the state government stating the suggested name of the street accompanied by a brief write up about the accomplishments of the individual whose name is proposed- and the disproportionate number of street names of femalesvsends out the message of the non-recognition of their achievements. The naming of streets as a political choice with traces of the legal history of the city is explored from the ancient background upto the twentieth century spur of ‘reclaiming’ India by renaming streets. When read together with the denial of public spaces to women leads to the conclusion that the exclusion and bias of leaving out female names is symbolic of the visual aspects of the roles that women play in society. The present article is probably one of the first such attempts in scholarly literature that looks at female street names in India

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