Re-production at Stake: Experiences of Family Planning and Fertility among Amdo Tibetan Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Schrempf
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Clinics

Abstract Biographical interviews with Tibetan women in rural Amdo (Qinghai Province, China) indicate that many women above 40 years of age experienced family planning as a threat to their reproductive health, social status and economic production. Even though family planning, implemented since 1980, was experienced differently among the targeted women, they nevertheless addressed the same social pressure of having to reconcile normative birth control administered by the Chinese state with Tibetan socio-cultural norms and values of fertility focused upon preferences for sons. Renowned female Tibetan doctors in private and public clinics and hospitals were Tibetan women’s preferred and trusted addressees for voluntary birth control and reproductive health. I argue therefore, that in order to understand the effects of family planning on targeted Tibetan women, socio-cultural values of fertility need to be taken into account as they are expressed in women’s narratives of their bio-psycho-social, gendered and ethnic selves.

scholarly journals Pride in Education: A Narrative Study of Five Finnish Schoolteachers

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401984548
Author(s):  
Matthew Etherington
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Positive Feature

This narrative inquiry explores how Finnish schoolteachers perceived the emotion of pride as a feature of teaching and learning. The study consists of face-to-face interviews with Finnish schoolteachers between 30 and 62 years of age. The results reveal perceptions of teaching and learning that are shaped by a culture of social equality, modesty, group achievement, and tenacity, that is, Sisu. Although the teachers understand achievement pride as a positive feature of learning, in association with cultural norms and values, pride is not a significant emotional response to promote in the classroom. The results are important for understanding how teachers exploit larger cultural values to judge the worth of particular emotions in the classroom.

Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Services in Bindura Urban of Zimbabwe

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kurebwa
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Service Utilisation ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Moral Framework ◽  
Sexual Reproductive Health ◽  
Norms And Values

This study seeks to understand the capacity of adolescent-friendly reproductive health services (AFRHS) in promoting sexual reproductive health (SRP) among adolescents in Bindura Urban of Zimbabwe. The data collection methods used allowed the researcher to get insight on adolescents' experience and the factors associated with their accessing SRH services from AFRHS, the meaning of AFRHS for adolescents, healthcare providers' attitudes towards adolescents seeking SRH services, and community perceptions and readiness to accept AFRHS. The findings showed that both socio-cultural and health facility factors influence utilisation of SRH services. Many of these factors stem from the moral framework encapsulated in socio-cultural norms and values related to the sexual health of adolescents and healthcare providers' poor value clarification. This study provides an empirical understanding of the reasons and factors associated with SRH service utilisation, which goes much deeper than program provision of AFRHS in Zimbabwe.

India’s Accommodation in the Emerging International Order: Challenges and Prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-437
Author(s):  
Vikash Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Interest ◽  
International Order ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Rising Powers ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Rising China ◽  
Sphere Of Influence

This article has two-fold goals: to develop a coherent concept of accommodation and explicate variable shaping the process of accommodation; and to analyse and evaluate the challenges and prospects of India’s accommodation in the emerging international order. It defines accommodation as a ‘state strategy’ and ‘process’. It figures out six determinants viz. the sphere of influence, structural variables, convergence/divergence of national interest, perception and intention towards the international order, political and socio-cultural values, and costs of non- accommodation. Instead of addressing the process of accommodation from accommodation-seekers’ perspective, the article investigates the issue from accommodators’ perspective. Therefore, rather than describing traditional foundations of India’s claim of accommodation, i.e. population, territory, military, and democracy, it illustrates conditions under which the established power accommodate rising powers. By comparing and contrasting India’s interests, principles, and values vis-à-vis the USA and China, it demonstrates how differing strategic calculations, economic and commercial interests and divergence in political socio-cultural norms and values, China is posing or may pose challenges to India’s accommodation. It suggests that India needs to strike a balance between the declining America and rising China. It will have to learn how not to turn China from an adversary to an enemy. A prudent strategy for India will be to balance China, however, in the non-military, i.e. diplomatic, political and economic realms. Nevertheless, the engagement dimension should not be marginalised, actual or even perceived.

scholarly journals Cultural Norm Configurations in Acehnese Lullaby

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-186
Author(s):  
Devi Pratiwy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Cultural Script ◽  
Cultural Discourse Analysis

This study is aimed to provide an overview of the cultural reality of lullaby, doda idi from Acehnese family habit.  This study describes the cultural norms and values configuration viewed from an ethno-pragmatic perspective and the local wisdom identified from the discourse. This study presents the cultural script approach. This approach is a descriptive technique that has grown out of the cross-cultural semantic theory proposed.  The cultural discourse analysis of norms and values on natural semantic meta-language theory.  It is considering that cultural norms and values constituted rules and regulations in social communication interaction practices. This lullaby linked to particular ways of speaking in the family's private domain, in this case, from mother and her child. Generally speaking, most cross-cultural communication styles assume that within a particular speech community, there are certain shared understandings about how it is appropriate to speak in a particular and cultural situation. A certain methodological technique is adopted to describe speech patterns and identify the relevant cultural values of this speech pattern. The proposed Acehnese cultural script is linked with (1) Showing high respect, (2) patriotic spirit, and (3) giving advice. The configuration of these cultural norms and values is the understanding of knowledge and wisdom in terms of the lullaby system. The configuration is constructed in low-level scripts with lexicons in semantic primes.

scholarly journals Effect of Motivational Interviewing on Using Intrauterine Device in Women at High Risk for Pregnancy

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1305-1309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katayoon Vakilian ◽  
Sajedeh Molavi ◽  
Ahmad Reza Zamani ◽  
Masoumeh Goodarzi
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Motivational Interviewing ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Intrauterine Device ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
T Test

BACKGROUND: Reproductive health programs help women live healthier. Family planning consultation is an important component of reproductive health. A good family planning consultation can increase the use of effective birth control methods and improve the life quality of people, specifically of those at high risk. One of the most effective birth control techniques is an intrauterine device (IUD).AIM: This study was done to investigate the effect of motivational interviewing (MI) on the use of IUD in women at high risk for pregnancy.METHODS: This random educational trial was conducted in Isfahan on 44 women at high risk for pregnancy in 2015. Subjects were selected through random sampling. First, written informed consent of all samples was gathered, and then the intervention was made in five 45-minute motivational interviewing sessions by the researcher. For this study, a questionnaire was created to measure knowledge, attitude, acceptance, and performance. All the subjects filled this instrument prior and one month after the intervention. Data were then analysed using SPSS 20. The employed statistical tests included dependent t-test, independent t-test, Mann-Whitney, Fischer’s exact test, and McNemar's test.RESULTS: Results suggested that MI significantly improved the use of IUD in the intervention group (p < 0.001). Also, the mean knowledge (p < 0.001) and attitude (p < 0.001) scores significantly increased in the intervention group.CONCLUSION: Due to the role of MI in increasing the use of IUD, embedding this type of consultation in specific programs for changing health behaviours during pregnancy can be beneficial.

Social Science's Need for a Cultural Symbols Paradigm

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Science Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Cultural Components

The thesis of this paper is that human beings are remarkably dis­tinct from other living beings (animals, birds, insects, etc.) and Artificial Jntelligence (Al) machines (computers, robots, etc.) by what we would like to call cultural symbols. The latter refers to such cultural components as language, science, knowledge, reli­gious beliefs, thought, myths, cultural norms and values.

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