Developing an Index of Ethnic Community Participation

1978 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Sengstock
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Community Characteristics ◽  
Cultural Behavior ◽  
Ethnic Associations ◽  
High Degree

This paper is an attempt to construct an index of community characteristics of the Chaldean Iraqi-Americans residing in Metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, by suggesting that an ethnic occupation, a high degree of intermarriage within the ethnic group, and geographical proximity, might serve to unite the Chaldean community as effectively as ethnic associations united the communities in Raymond Breton's study. These three variables are found to be intercorrelated and predictive of the general cultural behavior of the Chaldean community as well as of their values, social interaction patterns, and certain phases of general culture. This has several consequences for ethnic research.

Economic and Social Interactions in the Piedmont Village Tradition-Mississippian Boundarylands of Southeastern North America, AD 1200–1600

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-92
Author(s):  
Eric E. Jones ◽  
Maya B. Krause ◽  
Caroline R. Watson ◽  
Grayson N. O'Saile
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
The North ◽  
American Southeast ◽  
Tool Types ◽  
High Degree

This research seeks to understand the economic and social interaction patterns among dispersed Piedmont Village Tradition communities in the North American Southeast, AD 1200–1600. Piedmont Village Tradition communities lived adjacent to Mississippian societies and have been categorized as a peripheral society because of this spatial relationship. We examine economic behaviors by constructing fall-off curves of local versus nonlocal lithic material proportions at settlement sites and examining the reduction behaviors and tool types at sites. The results support a possible gateway model for the acquisition and distribution of nonlocal materials that linked spatially proximate communities. To examine social interaction patterns, we conducted a Brainerd-Robinson analysis of ceramic attributes from six sites and combined our results with work by Rogers (1993). The results show sites with stylistic similarities are not the same sites that share lithic resources. We conclude that these spatially non-overlapping artifact patterns result from a heterarchical social organization with a high degree of independence between economic and social interactions. Finally, we contextualize our results within the current knowledge of Mississippian and Piedmont Village Tradition societies in the region to broaden the discussion of gateways in reciprocity-based economies, societies traditionally thought of as peripheral to complex societies, and coalescence.

The Inscriptions on the Gravestones in the Croatian Villages of Slovakia, Chunovo and Jarovce: The Specificity of Mixing Graphics Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 159-173
Author(s):  
Darya Yu. Vashchenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Funerary Monuments ◽  
Traditional Spelling ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Village

The article discusses the inscriptions on funerary monuments from the Croatian villages of Cunovo and Jarovce, located in the South of Slovakia, near Bratislava. These inscriptions reflect the complicated sociocultural situation in the region, which is particularly specific due to the fact that this territory was included to Slovakia’s territory only after 1946, while earlier the village was part of Hungary. In addition, the local Croatian ethnic group was actively in close contact with the German and Hungarian communities. At the same time, the orthographic norms of the literary Croatian, German, Hungarian, and Slovak languages, which could potentially be owned by the authors of the inscriptions, differ in many ways, despite the Latin alphabet used on all the gravestones. All this is reflected in the tombstones, representing a high degree of mixing codes. The article identifies the main types of fusion on the monuments: separate orthograms, writing the maiden name of the deceased in the spelling of her native language, the traditional spelling of the family name. In addition, the mixing of codes can be associated with writing feminitives, also order of name and surname within the anthroponym. Moreover, the settlements themselves represent different ethnic groups coexistence within the village. Gravestones from the respective cemeteries also differ from each other in the nature of the prevailing trend of the mixing codes. In Jarovce, where the ethnic groups live compactly, fusion is often presented as a separate foreign language orthograms. In Cunovo, where the ethnic groups constitute a global conglomerate, more traditional presents for a specific family spelling of the names on the monument.

Enhancing the Social Interaction Skills of Preschoolers with Visual Impairments

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (8) ◽  
pp. 576-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tana D'Allura
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Longitudinal Observational Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interaction Skills ◽  
Children With Visual Impairments

This longitudinal, observational study of 13 children in a preschool for children with visual impairments examined the effects of reverse mainstreaming, in combination with the cooperative learning strategy, on the social interaction patterns of preschoolers with and without visual impairments. It found that the type of environment provided and the learning strategies used affect both whether and how children relate to their environment.

Respiratory sinus arrhythmia and social interaction patterns in preterm newborns

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Hofheimer ◽  
Brian R. Wood ◽  
Stephen W. Porges ◽  
Ellyn Pearson ◽  
Edward E. Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Preterm Newborns

scholarly journals DAKWAH INKLUSIF DALAM KERANGKA MAQĀṢID AL-SHARĪ’AH: STUDI KASUS POLA INTERAKSI LINTAS AGAMA PADA MASYARAKAT KALUKKU

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Muliadi Muliadi ◽  
A. Zamakhsyari Baharuddin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Inclusive Theology

This study aims to elaborate and analyze the harmonization model of religious life which is integrated into the patterns of religious social interaction in Kalukku and the role of religious leaders in knitting religious social harmony. The method applied is a qualitative method using inductive data analysis. The results of this study indicate that the pattern of religious interaction in Kalukku refers to the three patterns of Hossein Nasr interaction, namely: 1) concentric interaction patterns; 2) reciprocal interaction patterns; and 3) bound interaction patterns, which are carried out in an integrated manner have succeeded in creating a dynamic, harmonious and quality model of religious interaction. The motivation that underlies the realization of an energetic relationship refers to the concept of the four pillars of maqāṣid Ibn ‘Āshūr namely Fiṭrah, Samāḥa, al-Musāwāh, and Ḥurriyah. The paradigm of religious leaders towards the existence of cross-faith parties leads to a tolerant attitude based on the concept of Cak Nur's inclusive theology. The harmony and tolerant paradigm in Kalukku is built through formal and non-formal da'wah which is woven in efforts to acculturate religion and culture. 

scholarly journals Uncovering spatiotemporal biases in place-based social sensing

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Grant McKenzie ◽  
Krzysztof Janowicz ◽  
Carsten Keßler
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Service Usage ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Social Sensing ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Times ◽  
Data Acquiring

Abstract. Places can be characterized by the ways that people interact with them, such as the times of day certain place types are frequented, or how place combinations contribute to urban structure. Intuitively, schools are most visited during work day mornings and afternoons, and are more likely to be near a recreation center than a nightclub. These temporal and spatial signatures are so specific that they can often be used to categorize a particular place solely by its interaction patterns. Today, numerous commercial datasets and services are used to access required information about places, social interaction, news, and so forth. As these datasets contain information about millions of the same places and the related services support tens of millions of users, one would expect that analysis performed on these datasets, e.g., to extract data signatures, would yield the same or similar results. Interestingly, this is not always the case. This has potentially far reaching consequences for researchers that use these datasets. In this work, we examine temporal and spatial signatures to explore the question of how the data acquiring cultures and interfaces employed by data providers such as Google and Foursquare, influence the final results. We approach this topic in terms of biases exhibited during service usage and data collection.

Transcultural Connections

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-127
Author(s):  
Abdalla Uba Adamu
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Cultural Convergence ◽  
Cultural Behavior ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Insight Into

The virtual addiction of Muslim Hausa youth to Indian films has a long history, which stretched to the first Indian films screen in northern Nigerian cinemas in the 1960s. The cultural convergence between what the Hausa see as representations of Indian cultural behavior – in terms of social mores, dressing, social interaction – all served to create what they perceive as a convergence between Indian ‘culure’ and Muslim Hausa culture. This paper traces the evolutionary attachment of the Hausa to Indian films and culture. In particular, it traces the various ways through Hausa youth use various devices to adopt, or adapt Indian popoular culture to suit their own re-worked creative pursuits. As a study of transnational fandom, it provides vital insight into how cultural spaces are collapsed, despite spatial and religious spaces.

Wikis as Tools for Enhancing Interaction and Fulfilling Expectations of Modern Learning Theories

2018 ◽  
pp. 171-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Karipidis ◽  
Jim Prentzas
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
Time Restrictions ◽  
Modern Learning ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Common Learning ◽  
High Degree

Modern learning theories focus on the importance of social interaction as a means of facilitating and enhancing learning. In this context, an aspect of importance is the creation of learning communities (i.e., groups of persons with common learning goals). ICT tools are frequently used to create and maintain online learning communities by overcoming geographical and time restrictions as well as motivating learners and retaining a high degree of interaction among them. To achieve these goals, researchers adjust previous and propose new learning theories taking into consideration human, social, and technological factors in the learning process. This chapter first outlines relevant learning theories and then highlights wikis as tools that may assist learning by increasing social interaction.

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