scholarly journals Money-Related Meanings and Practices in Low-Income and Poor Families

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 450-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Daly
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Character Development ◽  
World View ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Positive Orientation ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
Meeting Material

This article focuses on the meanings and repertoires of action associated with money in low-income and poverty circumstances. Based on interviews with 51 people, the analysis reveals how people on a low income actively engage with money as a way of situating themselves in their complex worlds. Money is investigated at two levels: praxis and orientation regarding spending, and as part of self-identity. In regard to spending, people displayed two main repertoires: one was functional (viewing money as a way of meeting material need) and the second relational (with money interpreted in regard to relationships and upholding of personal and familial values). These repertoires in turn link into self-understanding and world view. For people in poverty and low income, money can be a disabler, detracting from a valued identity and sense of future but a counter, more positive, orientation normalises lack of money, by reference to skills and character development and core values and relationships. The research as a whole underlines the complexity of money in low-income or poverty settings, the agency and creativity which people bring to its use and the diverse meanings they invest it with.

Moral Self-Identity and Character Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 683-707
Author(s):  
Daniel Lapsley ◽  
Timothy S. Reilly ◽  
Darcia F. Narvaez
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Life Span Development ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Moral Personality ◽  
Moral Stage

Moral development is a kind of sociopersonality development that has as its aim the disposition to virtue. The developmental grounding of moral personality is in the first months of life and includes neurobiological foundations, the mutual responsive orientation, and dialogic socialization of the moral self. The authors argue that moral self-identity offers integrative possibilities for understanding the life span development of moral personality and for understanding the dispositional and motivational bases of moral behavior, and that social cognitive theory has resources for understanding how the moral self and conscience of infancy is canalized into individual and cultural differences in the schedule and priority of character strengths that are the targets of socialization. Moral self-identity and character are placed in the historical context of the moral stage theory paradigm.

Participant Perceptions of Character Concepts in a Physical Activity–Based Positive Youth Development Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaina Riciputi ◽  
Meghan H. McDonough ◽  
Sarah Ullrich-French
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Impact

Physical activity–based positive youth development (PYD) programs often aim to foster character development. This study examined youth perspectives of character development curricula and the impact these activities have on their lives within and beyond the program. This case study examined youth from low-income families in a physical activity–based summer PYD program that integrated one character concept (respect, caring, responsibility, trust) in each of 4 weeks. Participants (N = 24) included a cross section of age, gender, ethnicity, and past program experience. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis and constant comparative methods. Thirteen themes were grouped in four categories: building highquality reciprocal relationships; intrapersonal improvement; moral reasoning and understanding; and rejection, resistance, and compliance. The findings provide participant-centered guidance for understanding youth personal and social development through physical activity in ways that are meaningful to participants, which is particularly needed for youth in low-income communities with limited youth programming.

Profiling Kuwaiti female apparel consumers

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 98-117
Author(s):  
Mohamed M. Mostafa
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Arab Country ◽  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Market Theory ◽  
Self Organizing Maps ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Adoption Theory

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine female fashion consumer profiles in Kuwait. Drawing on symbolic interactionist, fashion adoption theory, the trickle-down theory, the collective selection theory and the mass-market theory, this study examines the influence of self-identity, social interactions and prestige consumption on Kuwait female apparel consumers.Design/methodology/approachThe study applies self-organizing maps (SOM), discriminant and multiple correspondence analyses to analyze the influence of self-identity, social interaction and prestige consumption on Kuwaiti female apparel consumers.FindingsResults unveiled three distinct clusters: liberals, traditionalists and conservatives. Liberals include students, singles with a low income, less than KD 500. They are younger and wear neither Abaya nor Hijab. Traditionalists include employees, mixed between married and divorced females. They have moderate income between KD 500–1,500, two age groups between 25–30 and 31–35 years. Finally, conservatives include older females of age 36–45 years. They are housewives with a high-income of more than KD 1,500, and wear both Abaya and Hijab. Findings seem to confirm that the younger generations of females in Kuwait are by far living a different life than their mothers and grandmothers. Findings also show that culture, especially religion and traditions, is still exercising an enduring influence on Kuwaiti females purchasing behavior.Originality/valueThis study extends the existing literature dealing with female apparel consumption by applying cluster analysis to an Arab country, which makes it possible to generalize results to other Arab nations. Second, the author uses SOM along with traditional clustering methods to check the robustness of findings.

Segregating Shelter

2013 ◽  
Vol 647 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie DeLuca ◽  
Philip M. E. Garboden ◽  
Peter Rosenblatt
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Residential Choice ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Voucher Program ◽  
Section 8 ◽  
Housing Choice Voucher Program ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
Housing Search ◽  
High Concentrations

Individuals participating in the HUD Housing Choice Voucher program, formerly Section 8, can rent units in the private market and are not tied to public housing projects in a specific neighborhood. We would expect vouchers to help poor families leave the ghetto and move to more diverse communities with higher socioeconomic opportunity, but many voucher holders remain concentrated in poor, segregated communities. We use longitudinal qualitative data from one hundred low-income African American families in Mobile, Alabama, to explore this phenomenon, finding that tenants’ limited housing search resources, involuntary mobility, landlord practices, and several aspects of the voucher program itself limit families’ ability to escape disadvantaged areas. We also find that the voucher program’s regulations and funding structures do not incentivize housing authorities to promote neighborhood mobility and residential choice. This combination of forces often keeps voucher recipients in neighborhoods with high concentrations of poor and minority residents.

scholarly journals MODELLING OF THE CHILDHOOD WORLD IN THE NOVEL “MARGHERITA DOLCEVITA” BY S. BENNI

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 111-113
Author(s):  
Iryna Kushnir,
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Home Space ◽  
Existential Dimension ◽  
First Time

In the article the problem of the childhood in the novel “Margherita Dolcevita” by S. Benni has been studied. The well-known Italian author shows the particular situation when the child comes into collision with the world of adults for the first time. That’s why the main character 15-year-old Margherita became an active adolescent who fights for her family and the main family values. The narrative subjectified child’s “I” reflects the world-view of the XXI century where adults are enchanted by the power of consumerism. Margherita struggles for salvation of the family because she is the only child who can find forces to resist the evil in his own pure soul. The process of modeling of the childhood world is accomplished due to the symbolization of the home space as hearth in contrast with modern soulless neighbors’ world embodied by their black house. Margherita became the core to assemble all generations of her family together. The following microdominants of modeling of the childhood world have been defined: existential dimension of home and family, discontinued connection between family generations, the way to self-identity through the life trials and growing up. The formal peculiarities of the novels such as visuality, unity of composition, burning conflict to show as if from within a difficult emotional and psychological situation in which the character is found have been investigated. This novel by its title “Margherita Dolcevita” gives the child answer to the challenge of the world which she would like to preserve as kind and joyful. The studied novel is rated between the best examples of literature on child’s problems and childhood. Unfortunately this writer remains quite unknown to Ukrainian audience. This fact shows the topicality of this research.

scholarly journals Character Development among Youth of Color from Low-SES Backgrounds: An Examination of Boy Scouts of America’s ScoutReach Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn A. Ferris ◽  
Rachel M. Hershberg ◽  
Shaobing Su ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Richard M. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Low Ses ◽  
Boy Scouts ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Future Expectations ◽  
Predominantly Black ◽  
Black African

This study examined character attributes associated with participation in ScoutReach, Boy Scouts of America’s recent program innovation created to deliver Scouting curriculum to underserved populations. Participants were predominantly Black/African American (72.9%; N = 266, Mage = 10.54, SD = 1.58) and resided in low-income urban communities. Youth completed surveys assessing how much they embody different character attributes (e.g., kindness, helpfulness, hopeful future expectations), and a subset of youth (n = 22) also participated in semi-structured interviews examining character-shaping experiences within the program. Results replicated an eight-factor character structure established with youth involved in traditional Scouting programs, and indicated that involvement in ScoutReach may positively contribute to the development in youth of prosocial behaviors, future career goals, tolerance beliefs, and the manifestation of character attributes across Scouting and non-Scouting contexts. Together, these findings have implications for measuring character constructs among youth of color from low-SES backgrounds, and for the conduct of youth-serving character development programs more generally.  

scholarly journals Arrangements for workers’ safety and health in container terminals: Corporate core values and concrete practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 0143831X1989376 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Walters ◽  
Emma Wadsworth
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Container Terminals ◽  
Low Income Country ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Global Companies

This article presents an account of corporate strategies for occupational safety and health (OSH) management in container terminals operated by large global companies in four countries, and their delivery in the operation of terminal work activities. It indicates a substantial gap between these aims and approaches, their orientation at corporate and terminal management levels and the workers’ experiences in the terminals. While this gap is evident everywhere, it is considerably more pronounced in the terminals of the low-income country included in the study. The article indicates that in day-to-day practice, OSH is principally addressed through behaviour control strategies that fail to reach many aspects of occupational health and safety that workers perceive as important. It further indicates that contractor workers are hardest hit by such practice and suggests a radical rethinking of corporate approaches to safety and health is required to justify the claim that they represent ‘corporate core values’.

Organization Identity

2012 ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Páscoa ◽  
Pedro Leal ◽  
José Tribolet
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Business Architecture ◽  
Motivation Model ◽  
Organization Identity

Organizations not only play an increasingly active role in today’s society but also address everyday necessities and concerns of individuals. To achieve a competitive advantage, it is becoming more and more necessary that organizations perform efficiently in order to survive. As organizations can be defined as a group of people who work together to obtain common results, it is imperative that all its constituents represent themselves as part of the whole. Essential issues belonging to self-identity such as: who is the organization, what it does, for whom it operates, and what its core values are can be answered by building a Business Model. In this context, the Business Model and artifacts like the Business Motivation Model, which help to specify the enterprise business architecture, can be complementary. This paper shows how the Portuguese Air Force developed its generic Business Model and describes two example of application in the strategic and operational levels.

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