The Sprewell/Carlesimo Episode: Unacceptable Violence or Unacceptable Victim?

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Walton
Keyword(s):  
Media Representations ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Normalization Of Violence

NBA player Latrell Sprewell’s attack on his coach, P.J. Carlesimo, in 1997, received extraordinary attention in the media. The coverage of the incident and subsequent trial revealed the media’s attitude toward violence within cultural representations of sport. This paper focuses on the way that violence associated with sport can be understood in relationship to the normalization of violence against women in American culture. Specifically, I focus on how the violent acts of athletes and coaches elicit different social responses depending on the social status of the victim. I argue that media representations, framed within narratives that construct their importance around gendered ideas of private and public spheres, work to support current race, class, and gender hierarchies. I also offer alternative ways of understanding the incident given the peculiar work setting of professional sport.

scholarly journals Moral Money? LETS and the Social Construction of Local Economic Geographies in Southeast England

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1377-1394 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Exchange ◽  
Trading Systems ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Formal Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Moral Economic

Local exchange employment and trading systems (LETS) have spread rapidly throughout the United Kingdom during the 1990s. Like all economic geographies, they are socially constructed and are more than a simple response to social exclusion. The economic activity generated by and conducted through LETS is based upon direct forms of social relations and a local currency which facilitate locally defined systems of value formation and distinctive moral economic geographies. Nevertheless, LETS take on some of the class and gender characteristics of the wider economy. Furthermore, the ways in which LETS are represented—not least in the media—may serve to stereotype them as exclusionary and marginal to the needs of those most in need and so to distance them from those excluded from the formal economy.

scholarly journals PRESENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY IN THE SERBIAN PRESS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-107
Author(s):  
Samir Ljajić ◽  
Nikola Dojčinović
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Media Presentation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Historical Origin ◽  
The Media

One’s attention is directed to the events, phenomena, personalities and social groups present in the media. How they are perceived depends on media presentation and representation, which implies media representations of events, phenomena, identities, social groups. Through them, the media can shape public opinion, refer to or restrict stereotypical and discriminatory attitudes in society. One of the fundamental conditions for combating discrimination is equal participation of women in the media world, i.e. the equal presence of women and men in the media. The paper investigates the presence of women in the following daily newspapers: Politika, Danas, Blic, and Večernje novosti on International Women’s Day, with special reference to the method of reporting on this holiday. The theoretical part of the paper includes a chapter on the social status of women throughout history, outlining some of the factors for the inferior position of women that contributed to the creation of stereotypes about women. Then, attention is paid to stereotypes about women, dominant patterns of reporting on women in the media, as well as the importance of the holiday and its historical origin. The interpretation of previous research in published scientific papers can also be found in the theoretical part. The second part of the paper includes the quantitative and qualitative research results. Finally, the results are summarized, which leads to the conclusion.

scholarly journals Mediated Representations of Violence Against Women

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Viktorija Car ◽  
Barbara Ravbar
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social System ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
Women And Girls

Violence against women and girls in the 21st century remains a common and profoundly consequential violation of women’s human rights. It is part of gender inequality, an integral part of the social system, and linked to other aspects of human and economic development. When reporting about it, the media produce additional damage by continuously highlighting the hostile and violent treatment of women. Representations of gender and sexuality in the news reinforce the common perception that women are sexual objects and therefore disadvantage women, continuously reinforcing imbalances of power between women and men. This study explores media representations in Croatian online media articles about violence against women. The results of analysis show how violence against women is framed as a private problem, how women are addressed as unfaithful wives and prostitutes which gives excuses for the perpetrator while the blame for the violence is partly shifted to the woman. Also, results show how the secondary victimization is manifested in articles, and how violence against women as a topic is exploited to attract the readers’ attention.

scholarly journals Gender-sensitive approach to adolescent women’s overcoming of bullying violence in social media

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosramadhana Rosramadhana ◽  
Sudirman Sudirman ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
And Gender

This research reveals and develops a theoretical study of cultural values, which are needed ??to understand the distinct differences between humans and gender-sensitive approaches. It examines issues that lead to a new system of understanding the importance of respecting different human beings and avoiding violent acts of bullying through the social media. This research finds a new model in gender-sensitive approach to adolescent girls’ ability to overcome bullying violence in social media. The research method used was qualitative research method with a virtual ethnographic approach. Research data was collected by searching for techniques on the internet in a bid to gather virtual-based data, since data analysis was practically needed to compile, review and submit questions to the online community, so that a gender-sensitive approach model to introduce the nature of women, especially for adolescents, can be implemented. The application of a gender-sensitive approach model was carried out on young girls, especially students, and activities were oriented towards forming multicultural-based groups of young women. The introduction of ethnic characteristics becomes the base for strengthening gender identity and in applying a gender-sensitive approach model.

scholarly journals Speaking with Migrant Women Health Care Aides: On Marketing and Making Sense of Caregiving in Canada

Refuge ◽  
1998 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Gail McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Health Care Aides ◽  
Care Aides ◽  
And Gender

The objective of this research was to explore the life-world of migrant women health care-aides, focusing on their on their own subjective understandings of caregiving and the market for care in Canada. Qualitative interviews ranging in length from one to three hours produced snapshots of the social and cultural fractures endemic to the migration and settlement process. I argue that women's caregiving practice is an aspect of an ethics of care that allows for moments of empowerment and resistance to an oppressive social context shaped by a matrix of race, class and gender hierarchies.

Biopolitics of Beauty

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Jarrín
Keyword(s):  
Public Health System ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Patients Experience

Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, this book shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement. From here, the book explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of beauty, using it to gain the backing of the Brazilian state. Beauty can be understood as an immaterial form of value that the book calls “affective capital,” which maps onto and intensifies the social hierarchies of Brazilian society. Patients experience beauty as central to national belonging and to gendered aspirations of upward mobility, and they become entangled in biopolitical rationalities that complicate their ability to consent to the risks of surgery. This book explores not only the biopolitical regime that made beauty a desirable national project, but also the subtle ways in which beauty is laden with affective value within everyday social practices—thus becoming the terrain upon which race, class, and gender hierarchies are reproduced and contested in Brazil.

„We Don’t Learn Democracy in a Workshop!“

Sociologus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Judith Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Gender Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
Innere Sicherheit ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Revolutionary Situation ◽  
The Revolution

Zusammenfassung Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der neuen Frauenbewegung in Benghazi, den Chancen und Grenzen, die sie in der gesellschaftlichen Neuorganisation des Landes erfährt, und wirft einen ethnographischen Blick auf den postrevolutionären Kontext und die Rolle der Frauen als Akteurinnen im Kontext politischer Umbrüche. Während bei der Revolution weibliche Unterstützung in vielen Bereichen genutzt wurde, sehen sich Frauen, die aktiv an der Revolution partizipierten, damit konfrontiert ihre Rolle als politische und religiöse Akteurinnen in der Öffentlichkeit wieder zu verlieren. Der bislang unvollendete institutionelle Umbau des politischen Systems in Libyen hat Rückwirkungen auf die innere Sicherheit. Vor allem Frauen sind von dem anhaltenden Sicherheitsvakuum betroffen. Die Grenzen zwischen Privatem und Öffentlichem erfahren eine Umdeutung und werden rigider gezogen. Diese stehen in direkter Verbindung mit einer religiös fundamentalistischen Interpretation von Geschlechterrollen. An das Bild der wahlweise verschleierten oder unverschleierten Frau werden konkrete politische Vorstellungen geknüpft. In dem Artikel wird daher der Verbindung von Politik und Geschlechterrollen nachgegangen. Schlagworte: Libyen, Revolution, Gender, Konflikt Abstract This article focuses on the new women’s movement in Benghazi, the opportunities and limitations it is facing, and addresses the post-revolutionary situation in Libya, specifically the social positions of women during this period of radical political change. While the revolution drew on the support and activities of women in a variety of different spheres, social barriers are currently being re-imposed, and women who actively participated in the revolution find themselves facing the possibility that they may once again loose their role as political and religious protagonists in the public realm. Women are affected by the ongoing violence and lack of security. The borders between the private and public realms are being reinterpreted and rigidly redrawn. Both this reinterpretation and the re-imposition of social barriers are directly related to an understanding of gender roles based on a fundamentalist interpretation of religion. This means that the image of a woman who may choose to go veiled or unveiled has become a political one, upon which distinct positions have been taken. The article investigates the degree to which a connection between politics and gender roles in Libya can be drawn. Keywords: Libya, revolution, gender, conflict

scholarly journals Negotiating Love and Gender Stereotypes among Youn People: Prevalence of “Amor Ludens” and Television Preferences Rooted in Hegemonic Masculinity

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maddalena Fedele ◽  
Maria-Jose Masanet ◽  
Rafael Ventura
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
First Year ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Year University

This study was carried out in three Iberian-American countries, Colombia, Spain and Venezuela, to identify the stereotypes of love and gender professed among youth and compare them to those they prefer in television fiction series, i.e., those able to influence their identities and values. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the study involved a survey of 485 first-year university students, and a qualitative analysis of the media representations preferred by them. The results showed a preference for "amor ludens", based on enjoyment and the present moment, and a gap between the cognitive and emotional spheres of some youth who consider themselves distant from stereotypical, heteronormative and patriarchal models, but who choose media representations that match these models and the traditional gender portrayals.

scholarly journals Qualitative Study of Socio-Cultural Challenges in the Nursing Profession in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidra Abbas ◽  
Rubeena Zakar ◽  
Florian Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Gender Integration ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nurses Perceptions ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Background In a patriarchal social system, a women-dominated profession like nursing is mostly seen as a disempowered group due to its stereotypical image and negative connotations. The low social prestige of this profession is based on the roles typically assigned to men and women to maintain gender identity according to their performance and embodiment. The aim of this study was to explore the social and cultural challenges faced by nurses while creating their professional image within the regional context of Lahore (Punjab) in Pakistan.Methods A qualitative research design was chosen to conduct one-to-one, in-depth interviews with twelve nurses. Recruitment was based on purposive sampling from three large public hospitals in Lahore to learn about nurses’ perceptions of social and cultural challenges in the nursing profession. A thematic analysis was conducted using the data analysis software package NVIVO 12 Plus.Results Certain social and cultural stigmas attached to the nursing profession affect its status and changing perceptions of nurses, who either do not choose to remain or do not recommend nursing as a career option. This is still a major barrier that perpetuates the shortage of nurses in the healthcare system. Four major themes relating to the social and cultural challenges facing the nursing profession were identified: 1) it is a gender-segregated profession with less acceptance of male nurses; 2) inappropriate portrayal as low-profile professionals having little visibility in the media; 3) issues around finding a marriage partner or being refused when introduced as a nursing professional; 4) nurses’ identity from a religious perspective with the label of being impure due to touching male patients during caring work.Conclusion The present study solely highlights nurses’ perspectives on redefining gender roles and gender integration within the nursing profession. It argues that there is a need for positive portrayals in the media for the removal of public misperceptions related to nursing. This would reduce the shortage of nurses along with increasing retention and improving the quality of healthcare delivered to the public.

Golden Dawn, Media Representation and the Neoliberal Restructuring of Social Welfare: On the Greek Crisis and the Mobilization of Disidentifications

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-276
Author(s):  
Ioannis Prinos
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Advantageous Position ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring

Due to the economic crisis in 2008, processes of restructuring and dissolution of the social welfare state have been accelerated in the European Union, especially in the context of severe austerity measures imposed in countries with sovereign debt problems such as Greece. These neoliberal policies have increasingly sought their ‘legitimizing basis’ in discourses concerning a corrupt, ineffective and oversized public realm, while simultaneously promoting the notion of ‘welfare dependency’, insinuating an absence of moral values and proper ‘work ethic’ for the poor and disadvantaged, who are the most affected by the social state's withdrawal. Additionally, such narratives seem to have benefitted from the creation of ‘moral panic’ and the associated cultural representations of underprivileged social groups through mainstream mass media. The current article focuses on the nuances of this phenomenon in Greece, arguing that the catalyst has been the popularity of the extremist, nationalistic and anti-immigrant party of ‘Golden Dawn’. It contends that the representation of Golden Dawn's rhetoric and activism by the media, triggered processes of disidentification with poverty and the underprivileged in the mind of the average Greek; processes rooted in highly emotive sentiments of patriotism, religion and national identity, while linking such groups with the supposed deviant behaviour and ‘inferior’ traits of immigrants. Furthermore, it argues that this discourse enabled the government to ‘assault’ the ideological stance and arguments of the advocates of robust public social interventions from an advantageous position, enhancing the acceptance of its neoliberal agenda regarding public social policy in the Greek populace.

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