scholarly journals The Meaning of Honorary Whiteness for Asian Americans: Boundary Expansion or Something Else?

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 788-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiannbin Lee Shiao
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Interracial Dating ◽  
Ethnic Boundaries ◽  
Wide Range

AbstractResearch on interracial intimacy divides between quantitative comparisons of interracial and same-race marriages and qualitative studies of existing interracial unions. This article bridges the divide by examining how interracial dating histories differ from same-race dating histories among Asian Americans, a group that sociologists consistently regard as potentially having attained a racial status as “honorary whites.” Synthesizing the literatures on ethnic boundaries, homogamy, and interracial intimacy, the author examines the role of boundary processes in differentiating same-race and interracial dating histories. What does becoming honorary whites, as indicated by participation in racial exogamy, actually mean for Asian Americans? Using a unique sample of 83 Asian Americans with a wide range of dating histories, the author finds that social networks are a crucial mechanism for differentiating racial endogamy and exogamy. In addition, my results show that becoming honorary whites has critically involved boundary repositioning, rather than boundary transcendence, blurring, or expansion.

scholarly journals ROLE OF RELIGIOUSNESS AND SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN DETERMINING DEPRESSION AMONG OLDER KOREAN AMERICANS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S518-S518
Author(s):  
Soonhee Roh ◽  
Yeon-Shim Lee ◽  
So-Young Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Korean Americans ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Korean Americans (KAs) are one of the fastest growing minority populations in the U.S. Depression is the most common psychological problem among older KAs. While the relationship between religiousness/spirituality (R/S) and well-being in later life is an important health concern, older KAs are often affiliated with a protestant church and have the highest church participation. This study assessed the role of R/S and social networks in determining depressive symptoms and identified the best predictors of depressive symptoms. Data were drawn from a cross-sectional survey with 200 older KAs residing in New York. Best-subsets regressions were used to evaluate the best predictors of depression. Findings indicated that nearly 30% of older KAs reported experiencing mild or severe depressive symptoms. The best model fit for depression involved physical health, R/S coping skills, social networks, and annual household income. Social networks and R/S coping skills were found to be a protective factor against depressive symptoms and may be an effective tool for health care strategies in the management of depression and health-promoting behaviors. Careful assessment of R/S and social networks among older KAs may provide a more comprehensive approach to traditional, biomedically derived clinical practices by focusing on the whole person in early identification of risk factors, prognosis, and intervention for depression. Health education and intervention could be framed in ways that strengthen such psychosocial coping resources for older KAs. Facilitating social participation and mobilizing R/S resources in a wide range of personally meaningful activities may mitigate psychological distress and enhance life satisfaction.

scholarly journals Scalar effects of social networks on language variation

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devyani Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
General Effect ◽  
Personal Network ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
British Asians

AbstractThe role of social networks in language variation has been studied using a wide range of metrics. This study critically examines the effect of different dimensions of networks on different aspects of language variation. Three dimensions of personal network (ethnicity, nationality, diversity) are evaluated in relation to three levels of language structure (phonetic form, accent range, language choice) over three generations of British Asians. The results indicate a scaling of network influences. The two metrics relating to qualities of an individual's ties are more historically and culturally specific, whereas the network metric that relates to the structure of an individual's social world appears to exert a more general effect on accent repertoires across generations. This two-tier typology—network qualities (more culturally contingent) and network structures (more general)—facilitates an integrated understanding of previous studies and a more structured methodology for studying the effect of social networks on language.

Towards strategic flexibility: social networks, climate and uncertainty

2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (6) ◽  
pp. 858-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Fernández-Pérez ◽  
Francisco Javier Llorens Montes ◽  
Víctor Jesús García-Morales
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Strategic Flexibility ◽  
Uncertain Environments ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Option ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
External Sources ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how the size of social networks and the strength of their ties can help CEOs acquire understanding and information from external sources to enable their firms to achieve greater strategic flexibility and the moderating role of organizational climate and uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses were tested using the data provided by 203 managers of medium-sized and large Spanish firms using regression analysis. Findings – The paper shows that firms have higher levels of strategic flexibility when their CEOs’ social networks are larger. Furthermore, CEOs have more incentives to use strong social-networking ties to develop strategic flexibility when there exists a positive organizational climate and a high degree of environmental uncertainty. Practical implications – An understanding of these issues offers opportunities to assist CEOs embarking on a new strategic option or to become more effective in building and utilizing their networking activities or organizational climate. Originality/value – This study explores the paradox over the role of social networks regarding strategic flexibility in uncertain environments. Prior research has presented arguments that uncertainty may be addressed through a wide range of responses, from the promotion of entrepreneurial activities to the adoption of conservative attitudes. The multisector sample reveals evidence of both types of behavior, with each playing a different role with respect to strategic flexibility.

Cultural Management 2.0

2014 ◽  
pp. 1330-1338
Author(s):  
Margarita Cabrera Méndez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Communication Culture ◽  
Fast Evolution

The Internet has become the essential media for daily work of cultural management professionals. Its richness of contents and the fast evolution of technologies do even exceed the capacity of adaptation and decision of the professionals due to the wide range of possibilities that the Internet offers. It is in this new context where technologies and cultures get mixed up as cultural institutions cannot play the same roles as they did in the analogic world. Not only the classical functions of conservation, research, commission or exhibition have to be valued, but also in the role of broadcasting, doors to communication 2.0 should be opened, getting into the social networks, not only sharing but also listening what the users have to say. This new step has to be managed by institutions that are able to understand and add the new philosophy 2.0 in their corporative and communication culture. It is not longer one-way communication as the role of the users is essential. The author will analyse the strategies and models of some institutions that have incorporated digital practices and culture in their organizations and communication and therefore, the way they connect with their different audiences (Creators/artists, users and other organizations.) have changed.

scholarly journals Role of Social Networks in the Spread of the Arabic Revolutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (SE) ◽  
pp. 309-317
Author(s):  
Ehsan Madmalil ◽  
Hamed Mohagheghnia
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
New Media ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Recent political developments in the Middle East and North Africa have been occurred in the globalization era. With the advent of globalization and the information revolution, human relations have been greatly altered. The impact of these developments is in such a way that the policy can be analyzed and classified into the periods of before and after the advent of the information technology. Accommodating a wide range of social and political actors in cyberspace, internet and social networks are means to advertise and promote political, social and cultural entities on the one hand and provide a source of political and social awareness on the other hand. They link the political activists to people, and finally provoke the actions of protest and mobilize protests. Hence, the role of the new social media such as the internet and social networks in the acceleration and continuity and expansion of the revolutionary developments in the Middle East and North Africa cannot be ignored. The role of the internet and new media in these revolutions has been so strong that some of them are called revolutions of Facebook and Twitter. Thus, in order to access the right results, you should understand the features and functions of social media, analyze their role in the development of revolutionary upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa. The current study is trying to explain the effect of social networks in the context of globalization on the formation and expansion of recent political developments in the Middle East and North Africa, for instance, in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain.

The Problem of Identifying and Modeling the Relationship between Monetary Factor and Inflation in the Russian Economy

2008 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
A. Porshakov ◽  
A. Ponomarenko
Keyword(s):  
Money Supply ◽  
Money Demand ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Supply Side Factors

The role of monetary factor in generating inflationary processes in Russia has stimulated various debates in social and scientific circles for a relatively long time. The authors show that identification of the specificity of relationship between money and inflation requires a complex approach based on statistical modeling and involving a wide range of indicators relevant for the price changes in the economy. As a result a model of inflation for Russia implying the decomposition of inflation dynamics into demand-side and supply-side factors is suggested. The main conclusion drawn is that during the recent years the volume of inflationary pressures in the Russian economy has been determined by the deviation of money supply from money demand, rather than by money supply alone. At the same time, monetary factor has a long-run spread over time impact on inflation.

Introduction: Emotion, History and the Arts

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Sullivan ◽  
Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild
Keyword(s):  
Historical Change ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Review Section ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
War Correspondents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Johan Huizinga

This introduction surveys the rise of the history of emotions as a field and the role of the arts in such developments. Reflecting on the foundational role of the arts in the early emotion-oriented histories of Johan Huizinga and Jacob Burkhardt, as well as the concerns about methodological impressionism that have sometimes arisen in response to such studies, the introduction considers how intensive engagements with the arts can open up new insights into past emotions while still being historically and theoretically rigorous. Drawing on a wide range of emotionally charged art works from different times and places—including the novels of Carson McCullers and Harriet Beecher-Stowe, the private poetry of neo-Confucian Chinese civil servants, the photojournalism of twentieth-century war correspondents, and music from Igor Stravinsky to the Beatles—the introduction proposes five ways in which art in all its forms contributes to emotional life and consequently to emotional histories: first, by incubating deep emotional experiences that contribute to formations of identity; second, by acting as a place for the expression of private or deviant emotions; third, by functioning as a barometer of wider cultural and attitudinal change; fourth, by serving as an engine of momentous historical change; and fifth, by working as a tool for emotional connection across communities, both within specific time periods but also across them. The introduction finishes by outlining how the special issue's five articles and review section address each of these categories, while also illustrating new methodological possibilities for the field.

Short Films from a Small Nation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Public Information ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Art And Architecture

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.The book combines close textual analysis of a broad range of films with detailed accounts of their commissioning, production, distribution and reception in Denmark and abroad, drawing on Actor-Network Theory to emphasise the role of a wide range of entities in these processes. It considers a broad range of genres and sub-genres, including industrial process films, public information films, art films, the city symphony, the essay film, and many more. It also maps international networks of informational and documentary films in the post-war period, and explores the role of informational film in Danish cultural and political history.

Choosing to be the Hero, the Joker, the Villain: An Interview with Arthur Dong

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Oliver Wang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
West Hollywood

Oliver Wang interviews documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong. Originally from San Francisco, Dong began his career as a student filmmaker in the 1970s before releasing the Oscar-nominated short film, Sewing Woman in 1982. Since then, his films have focused on the role of Chinese and Asian Americans in entertainment industries as well as on anti-LGBQ discrimination. In the interview, Wang and Dong discuss Dong's beginnings as a high school filmmaker, his decision to turn the story of his seamstress mother into Sewing Woman, his struggle to bring together the Asian American and queer film communities and his recent experience in staging a “Hollywood Chinese” exhibit inside a renovated bar in West Hollywood.

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