Abused Husbands

Husband abuse has been and continues to be a topic of controversy within the field of family violence. Although arguments persist over methodology, prevalence, and ideology, this study analyzes the narratives of 12 men who claimed to have been abused by their partners and compares their stories to the narratives and findings of past studies of wife abuse. In so doing, this study identifies that the accounts of the relationships of battered men and women follow similar patterns, including the structure of the relationships, the acceptance of the abuse, and the social context of the situation. This reinforces the findings of wife abuse research showing that abusive relationships display certain commonalties and reveals the necessity of future studies of battered males.

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Negotiating Boundaries Between Gender and Social Identities in the Principality of Samos: The Case of Divorces (1902–1911)

European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research ◽

10.26417/ejser.v8i1.p90-103 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 90

Author(s):

Vasilios Gialamas ◽

Sofia Iliadou Tachou ◽

Alexia Orfanou

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Gender Identity ◽

Social Roles ◽

Cultural Construction ◽

Social Identities ◽

Gender Ratio ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Social ◽

The Government ◽

Qualitative Characteristics

This study focuses on divorces in the Principality of Samos, which existed from 1834 to 1912. The process of divorce is described according to the laws of the rincipality, and divorces are examined among those published in the Newspaper of the Government of the Principality of Samos from the last decade of the Principality from 1902 to 1911. Issues linked to divorce are investigated, like the differences between husbands and wives regarding the initiation and reasons for requesting a divorce. These differences are integrated in the specific social context of the Principality, and the qualitative characteristics are determined in regard to the gender ratio of women and men that is articulated by the invocation of divorce. The aim is to determine the boundaries of social identities of gender with focus on the prevailing perceptions of the social roles of men and women. Gender is used as a social and cultural construction. It is argued that the social gender identity is formed through a process of “performativity”, that is, through adaptation to the dominant social ideals.

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Perlawanan Visual Perempuan dalam Poster

JSW Jurnal Sosiologi Walisongo ◽

10.21580/jsw.2017.1.2.1987 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 147

Author(s):

Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Social Context ◽

Gender Inequality ◽

Social Life ◽

Men And Women ◽

Text Interpretation ◽

Religious Text ◽

The Social ◽

Visual Expression ◽

And Gender

Visual expression is something un-denayable in social life because the viasuality is the expression of the social life. This article has the purpose to explore how visual expression of women resistance toward gender inequality. Applying qualitative research with the method of documentation study this article in detail analyses the interpretation of religious text as the source of inequality and gender reality in social context. It is revealed that visual expression of the poster suggesting to treat men and women respectfully is the resistance toward religious text interpretation which is inequally treat men and women.

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Música y juventud en la primera mitad del siglo XVII español a través de la novela picaresca = Music and youth in the first half of the 17th Spanish century through picaresque novel

Estudios Humanísticos Filología ◽

10.18002/ehf.v0i38.1416 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 145

Author(s):

Clara Bejarano Pellicer

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Men And Women ◽

Picaresque Novel ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship ◽

Xviith Century

Este trabajo se pregunta qué funciones desempeñaba la música entre los jóvenes de la primera mitad del siglo XVII en España, haciendo hincapié en sus aplicaciones en el contexto de las relaciones entre los sexos. La novela picaresca española puede apuntar indicaciones sobre cuál era la relación entre la música y la juventud en ese período, y en qué medida esta relación se debe a las características psicológicas de la edad o al contexto social en que tiene lugar.This paper wants to know which roles music played for youth in the first half of XVIIth century Spain, focusing on its application in the context of relationship between men and women. Spanish picaresque can point ways of which was the relationship between music and youth in that period, and how much this relationship is caused by psycological characteristics of youth or the social context.

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Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055412000329 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 106 (3) ◽

pp. 533-547 ◽

Cited By ~ 126

Author(s):

CHRISTOPHER F. KARPOWITZ ◽

TALI MENDELBERG ◽

LEE SHAKER

Keyword(s):

Experimental Data ◽

Social Context ◽

Decision Rule ◽

Gender Inequality ◽

Gender Gap ◽

Majority Rule ◽

Gender Composition ◽

Descriptive Representation ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Social

Can men and women have equal levels of voice and authority in deliberation or does deliberation exacerbate gender inequality? Does increasing women's descriptive representation in deliberation increase their voice and authority? We answer these questions and move beyond the debate by hypothesizing that the group's gender composition interacts with its decision rule to exacerbate or erase the inequalities. We test this hypothesis and various alternatives, using experimental data with many groups and links between individuals’ attitudes and speech. We find a substantial gender gap in voice and authority, but as hypothesized, it disappears under unanimous rule and few women, or under majority rule and many women. Deliberative design can avoid inequality by fitting institutional procedure to the social context of the situation.

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Rapid learning of object names in dogs

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-81699-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Claudia Fugazza ◽

Attila Andics ◽

Lilla Magyari ◽

Shany Dror ◽

András Zempléni ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Memory Consolidation ◽

Learning Outcome ◽

Learning Object ◽

Human Species ◽

Future Studies ◽

Rapid Learning ◽

Testing Procedures ◽

The Social ◽

Retention Intervals

AbstractLearning object names after few exposures, is thought to be a typically human capacity. Previous accounts of similar skills in dogs did not include control testing procedures, leaving unanswered the question whether this ability is uniquely human. To investigate the presence of the capacity to rapidly learn words in dogs, we tested object-name learning after four exposures in two dogs with knowledge of multiple toy-names. The dogs were exposed to new object-names either while playing with the objects with the owner who named those in a social context or during an exclusion-based task similar to those used in previous studies. The dogs were then tested on the learning outcome of the new object-names. Both dogs succeeded after exposure in the social context but not after exposure to the exclusion-based task. Their memory of the object-names lasted for at least two minutes and tended to decay after retention intervals of 10 min and 1 h. This reveals that rapid object-name learning is possible for a non-human species (dogs), although memory consolidation may require more exposures. We suggest that rapid learning presupposes learning in a social context. To investigate whether rapid learning of object names in a social context is restricted to dogs that have already shown the ability to learn multiple object-names, we used the same procedure with 20 typical family dogs. These dogs did not demonstrate any evidence of learning the object names. This suggests that only a few subjects show this ability. Future studies should investigate whether this outstanding capacity stems from the exceptional talent of some individuals or whether it emerges from previous experience with object name learning.

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Reform of the Law of Inheritance in Turkey and Tunisia

AL- ADALAH ◽

10.24042/adalah.v17i2.8031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 249-268

Author(s):

Kiki Adnan Muzaki ◽

Asep Saepudin Jahar ◽

Muhammad Amin Suma

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Research Method ◽

Social Issues ◽

Civil Law ◽

Gender Issues ◽

Men And Women ◽

Library Research ◽

The People ◽

The Social ◽

The Law

This study examines the reform of the law of inheritance in Turkey and Tunisia. Both countries reinterpret the law of inheritance based on the current social context where the changes of social structure particularly related to gender issues encourage changes in its implementation. Applying the library research method, this study aims at comparing the law of inheritance in Turkey and Tunisia and illustrating that the Sharia law associated with social issues is adapted to and reinterpreted according to the needs of the people. As the result, the study draws some conclusion that Turkey grants equal inheritance rights to men and women, whereas Tunisia integrates the inheritance legal system described in the Quran with the social context. This happens due to the fact that Turkey has been subject to total secularisation and has caused a conflict with the opposition since the beginning of its formation. In the meantime, Tunisia has attempted to avoid a conflict with the traditionalists. To that end, in Tunisia the opinions of the Mālikī and Ḥanafī scholars followed by the majority of the people are adopted and used as a source to formulate the first draft of the civil law.

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