From Grandmother to Grandson—Judeo-Spanish Anecdotes in Israel Today: Emigration, Cultural Accommodation and Language Preservation

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Pinto-Abecasis
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Language Preservation ◽  
Marginal Group ◽  
Cultural Accommodation

I examine processes of cultural accommodation and maintenance of the Sephardic tradition as reflected in anecdotes of the generation who immigrated to Israel. The anecdotes reflect traditions and beliefs of Ladino speakers; I study their folkloric and linguistic aspects, while exposing the elements that create humor and reflect dominant social norms. The anecdotes present the obvious and the concealed tensions in Israeli society, yet they have a universal dimension: social conflicts in contacts between cultures, between ethnic groups, between the generation of the parents and that of the children and grandchildren, between next-door neighbors and between diasporas which converge in one social habitat. The article examines elements of performance, including the place of the storyteller in the storytelling situation and the techniques that generate laughter and identification with a marginal group: the group of Ladino speakers in Israel, as they clash with the hegemonic power in the Israeli society.

scholarly journals Pro-Environmental Behaviours and Value-Belief-Norm Theory: Assessing Unobserved Heterogeneity of Two Ethnic Groups

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezlika M. Ghazali ◽  
Bang Nguyen ◽  
Dilip S. Mutum ◽  
Su-Fei Yap
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Value Belief Norm Theory

Previous environmental sustainability studies have examined only limited type of pro-environmental behaviour (PEB; e.g., recycling), but have not explored relationships among various types or dimensions of PEBs. This paper explores six types of PEBs (i.e., activist, avoider, green consumer, green passenger, recycler and utility saver) and investigates their antecedents and interrelationships between two ethnic groups—Malays and Chinese in Malaysia. Survey data from 581 respondents, comprising 307 Malays and 274 Chinese, were used to assess the research model. To conduct multi-group analysis, the study used partial least squares structural equation modelling in SmartPLS 3. The study extends the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory by using social norms to predict PEBs. The results suggest that social norms predict each type of PEB, in contrast to other constructs in VBN theory, except for utility-saving behaviours. The findings also reveal some similarities as well as differences between Malays and Chinese, indicating that the two ethnic groups are not homogeneous. The study is the first to simultaneously study six types of PEB and to examine the differences between Malays and Chinese on PEB constructs and offers a valuable contribution to the literature by extending VBN theory to social norms and PEB.

Groupism and the politics of indigeneity: A case study on the Sámi debate in Finland

Ethnicities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarno Valkonen ◽  
Sanna Valkonen ◽  
Timo Koivurova
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Discrete Groups ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Ethnopolitical Conflict ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
As If

The article addresses the problems of defining an indigenous people by deconstructing the Sámi debate in Finland, which has escalated with the government’s commitment to ratify ILO Convention No. 169. We argue that the ethnopolitical conflict engendered by this commitment is a consequence of groupism, by which, following Rogers Brubaker, we mean the tendency to take discrete groups as chief protagonists of social conflicts, the tendency to treat ethnic groups, nations and races as substantial entities and the tendency to reify such groups as if they were unitary collective actors. The aim of the article is to deconstruct groupist thinking related to indigenous rights by analytically separating the concepts of group and category. This allows us to deconstruct the ethnicised conflict and analyse what kinds of political, social and cultural aspects are involved in it. We conclude that indigeneity is not an ethnocultural, objectively existing fact, but rather a frame of political requirements.

scholarly journals Berdamai dengan Pluralitas Paham Keberagamaan

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Biyanto Biyanto
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Religious Understanding ◽  
Do So

<p>The article asserts that plurality—particularly with respect to religious understanding—is a certainty and an avoidable matter, which should be wisely addressed. This is a pivotal issue as the fact shows us that Indonesia, naturally and culturally, consists of various different ethnic groups. Bhinneka Tuggal Ika—as national watchword—affirms that Indonesia is founded on diversity and difference. However, Indonesian nation has to unite despite of its diversity. In addition, Indonesia is also called a colorful state. This statement refers to the fact that there are a vast number of different ethnic groups, cultures, and religions that live and exist in this country. Empirically, plurality has often caused social conflicts which involve interfaith groups with different religious understanding. The conflict occurs when these different groups are unprepared to live together harmoniously and build coexistence. Therefore, it is important to continuously promote the values of pluralism and multiculturalism in order to create a better life order based on acceptance, respect, and tolerance. To do so, emotional and intellectual intelligences—as “social modal”—are urgently required. The writer argues that this is a way—if not the sole—to bring about solution to the problem of religious plurality and religious understanding.</p>

From Jewish Sentiments to Rational Exhortations

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-153
Author(s):  
Netta Galnoor
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Israel Defense Force ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Military Commanders ◽  
Israeli Soldiers

What exhortations were given to Israeli soldiers when sent to a possible sacrifice of their lives in war? This article introduces the genre of ‘battle missives’ written by Israel Defense Force (IDF) commanders as a prism to investigate this question. Battle missives are short texts sent to soldiers on the eve of battle to mobilize them to fight and to justify the risk to their lives. I employ narrative and hermeneutic methods to analyze an original database of 289 missives written between 1948 and 2014, which reveal the changing motivations and justifications preceding combat. My findings indicate a move from ‘Jewish sentimental’ exhortations that prevailed from 1948 until 1973 toward ‘rational’ exhortations between 1982 and 2014. This study locates battle missives as key to understanding the social norms and values relating to sacrifice in war, and the ways in which military commanders adjusted the language of sacrifice to reflect major transformations in both Israeli society and the IDF.

scholarly journals A contrast among farmers’ ethnic groups: is this a social polarization tendency?

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 00044
Author(s):  
Siti Aida Adha Taridal ◽  
Nur Isiyana Wianti ◽  
Muhammad Arsyad ◽  
Arifiana Shima Ekaputri
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
Dry Land ◽  
Important Message ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Local Farmer ◽  
Swidden Farming ◽  
Planting System

The aim of the study was to capture the differences between Tolaki, Javanese, and Bugis ethnic in relation to their livelihoods in paddy upland farming activity. The study uses the post-positivism paradigm. In our research setting in Sulawesi drylands ecology, Tolaki local farmer, inhabit most areas of dry land, tend to be sub-subsistence and subsistence-oriented, their planting system is shifting cultivation, or the swidden farming, which was the legacy of their ancestors. Javanese tend to be subsistence and supra-subsistence oriented, while the Bugis farmer is expansive and supra-subsistence oriented. Another important message showed the symptoms of social polarization between the Tolaki and the Bugis as ethnic immigrants. The climax conditions will lead to social conflicts between Tolaki local farmer, Javanese, and Bugis migrants as a result of the emergence of social polarization.

scholarly journals Conflict Resolution Towards a Sustainable Peace: A Lesson from The Indonesian Military Ordinariate

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 341
Author(s):  
Rofinus Neto Wuli ◽  
Muchlis R Luddin ◽  
Thomas Suyatno
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
State Power ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Racial Background ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The diversity of tribes, religions, races, groups, and cultural expressions in various dimensions make Indonesia one of the most vibrant cultures in the world. However, it cannot be denied, that diversity has the potential to trigger social conflicts that can threaten the unity and unity of the nation and state and disrupt a safe and peaceful shared life. The long history of the Indonesian journey proves that social conflicts often occur due to the differences in ethnic groups, religious, racial background, and inter-group (SARA). Therefore, conflict resolution efforts are a necessity for Indonesia to realize a safe and peaceful shared life. This study was aimed to study the conflict resolution based on the history of the Indonesian Military Ordinariate in mitigating and resolving conflict. In general, there are two approaches to conflict resolution, namely intervention in security or stability and humanitarian intervention. Security interventions (stability) usually use military power to resolve conflicts, whereas humanitarian intervention integrates the strength of culture and local wisdom as a basis for resolving conflicts. Humanitarian intervention in resolving conflicts usually results in sustainable, peaceful reconciliation. A peace that occurs between the parties to the conflict is not due to compulsion under military pressure or State power but is born from the awareness of the parties to create mutually reconciling society.

scholarly journals MENEPIS PRASANGKA DAN DISKRIMINASI DALAM PERILAKU BERAGAMA UNTUK MASA DEPAN MULTIKULTURALISME DI INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-222
Author(s):  
Triana Rosalina Noor
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Harmonious Society ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Discriminatory Behavior ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

Indonesia is a multicultural nation that has a variety of ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity. This diversity makes its challenges in creating a harmonious society. This is because it can bring some people trapped prejudice and discrimination, especially in religion. The prejudice that leads to discrimination and acts of violence will make social conflicts more acute in the multidimensional crises that occur in Indonesia.This article aims to describe prejudice and discrimination behavior from an individual psychological perspective, sociological, and cultural background. Besides that, it was also explained the idea of how to prevent and overcome prejudice and discrimination in religious beliefs that occurred. Efforts to prevent prejudice and discriminatory behavior in religion can be done by increasing the value of the group that is prejudiced, opening communication, conditioning the environment to internalize social norms. The hope is that all citizens can live side by side and respect each other in a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere.

The Forming of the Ethnic Identity of Hutsul Highlanders

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Haratyk
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
Aims Of Education

AbstractThe forming of ethnic identity is one of the basic aims of education. First and foremost, it consists in creating bonds with the local community. The factors that are favourable to the forming of one's identification with the region are social norms, history, traditions and customs, regional art, language, folktales and legends, handicraft and forms of everyday life, etc. The mentioned paper briefly presents the ways in which the ethnic identity of one of the most fascinating and unique ethnic groups of the Carpathians the Hutsul highlanders of Eastern Carpathians is formed; and the factors that influence their identity.

scholarly journals Interpersonal teamwork among ethnic groups toward economic development in transmigration areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e131911797
Author(s):  
Jamaluddin Hos ◽  
Ambo Upe ◽  
Muhammad Arsyad ◽  
Suharty Roslan ◽  
Hasniah Hasniah
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Paddy Field ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Rice Fields ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Mutual Interest

This study purposed to reveal some interpersonal teamwork form as well as remarkable social norms for mutual interest in economic development among members of ethnic groups in transmigration areas. The method used in this research is qualitative. The finding indicated that the most dominant social field influencing social teamwork interaction was economic life. The form of the teamwork could be seen in the paddy field, in the processing of rice fields and rice cultivation in the marketing of agricultural products. This cooperation among ethnic groups was based on the values and norms adopted by each ethnic group.

Cooperation and obligation in early parent-child relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Infant Survival ◽  
Peer Experiences ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Early Parent ◽  
Collaborative Skills ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Abstract Tomasello's moral psychology of obligation would be developmentally deepened by greater attention to early experiences of cooperation and shared social agency between parents and infants, evolved to promote infant survival. They provide a foundation for developing understanding of the mutual obligations of close relationships that contribute (alongside peer experiences) to growing collaborative skills, fairness expectations, and fidelity to social norms.

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