Gendered Technologies: Youth, Gender and Mobile Phones in Chennai City

2021 ◽  
pp. 097152152110568
Author(s):  
Vijay Devadas
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Life ◽  
South India ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chennai City ◽  
The City

This article explores the role of mobile phones in the lives of the youth in the city of Chennai, South India. Drawing on field research, the article argues that the social life of the mobile phone is gendered. The article curates three narratives to make this argument. The first engages with young men and mobile phones and claims that the technology is instrumental in the construction of normative ideas of masculinity. The second explores the ways in which the technology has empowered young women, enabled mobility, and reconstituted female agency. The third examines the regulation and disciplining of women’s use of and access to the technology through the discourse of maanam. The aim of articulating these three narratives is to demonstrate that the mobile phone is a gendered technology.

scholarly journals Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Zieleniec
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politics Of Space ◽  
The City

Henri Lefebvre’s project, developed over decades of research produced a corpus of work that sought to reprioritise the fundamental role of space in the experience and practice of social life. His assertion that there is ‘politics of space’ provides a challenge to the planning and design of the built environment by emphasising the need to understand the complex of elements involved in ‘the production of space’. Lefebvre’s approach and his ‘cry and demand’ for a ‘right to the city’ reflects the fundamental focus and importance he imparts to the practices, meanings and values associated with the inhabitation and use of the social spaces of everyday life. It will be argued that planning and design theory and practice should seek to address more fully and incorporate Lefebvre’s spatial theory as a means to reinvigorate and regenerate the urban as a lived environment, as an oeuvre, as opportunity for inhabitation, festival and play and not merely as a functional habitat impelled by the needs of power and capital.

scholarly journals Pentecostal cultures in urban peripheries: a socio-anthropological analysis of Pentecostalism in arts, grammars, crime and morality

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Vital da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City ◽  
Empirical Field

Abstract In past decades, Catholicism in Brazil has emerged as a privileged theme in the Social Sciences literature, coming to be recognised as a key element in the formation of a "national culture". For the less affluent residents of the city, Catholicism constituted what Sanchis (1997) called “traditional urban popular culture”. Despite the abstraction contained in the notion of a "popular culture", Sanchis’ perspective has had wide academic repercussion. With the growing presence of Pentecostal Evangelicals in the public sphere, and the percentage of people who claimed to be “Evangelical” in the IBGE censuses since 1990, part of the social science literature began to reflect on the possible establishment of a "Pentecostal culture" in Brazil. In this article, I analyse the formation of a Pentecostal culture in urban peripheries. To this end, I consider that the increase in the number of Pentecostal churches and their devotees in these localities provoked changes in different spheres of social life. This article is based on empirical field research carried out intermittently between the years of 1996 and 2015 in the Acari shantytown (Rio de Janeiro).

scholarly journals The Effect of Exercise Duration on Mobile Phone Dependence among College Students: The Mediating Role of Self-Control

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Weihang Huo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Exercise Duration ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Social

This research focused on the social concern of college students’ participation in physical exercise and mobile phone dependence. The research model and hypotheses in this study were constructed based on the self-control theory and by reviewing previous research. This research distributed questionnaires to 207 college students from a university in Guangzhou, China to obtain relevant data. Mediation analysis was employed to test the four hypotheses drawn from empirical and conceptual research. The results of this research showed that first, the longer the exercise duration of college students, the higher the level of their self-control, thus exercise duration has a significant positive impact on self-control. Second, increasing the exercise duration of college students had no effect on their mobile phone dependence. Third, the higher the level of self-control, the lower the dependence on mobile phones, thus signifying that self-control has significantly negative impact on mobile phone dependence. Fourth, self-control plays a mediating role in the effect of exercise duration on mobile phone dependence. In conclusion, the longer the exercise duration of college students, the higher the level of self-control, in which it is able to significantly reduce the dependence on mobile phones.

scholarly journals Women in the social life of a medieval town (based on the material of London in the 14th–15th centuries)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-329
Author(s):  
Larisa N. Chernova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The article examines the place and role of women in the social life of London in the 14th–15th centuries based on the material of the original sources. It is shown that, despite the restrictions fixed by custom and laws on the social activity of women, the range of occupations of the townsmen –wives and widows – was unusually wide. It is craft and trade, including the right to take apprentices, real estate transactions, and financial deals. Women did not just help men in the craft or trade shops, but also worked independently. The status of women, especially married women, who chose to participate in trade or in town production as their main occupation, was never fully developed. A significant degradation in the position of women in the public sphere in London occurred in the 16th century. The author concludes that, despite all the difficulties, a new type of woman was gradually developed in the city – energetic, enterprising, educated, who acts in society as an independent head of the family and business.

scholarly journals IDENTITAS KESALEHAN PEREMPUAN: EKSISTENSI BENDRONG LESUNG DARI KEMBAN HINGGA JILBAB DI KOTA CILEGON

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Sobariyah ◽  
Arif Zamhari
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Performance ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Traditional Arts ◽  
Happy Expression ◽  
The City

Abstract: This article examines efforts to preserve local culture by women in the city of Cilegon. The existence of the bendrong lesung art will be the object of research because the role of women looks so important in this art performance. Women with their bendrong lesung represent the values of strong religiosity. This article is the result of field research using a case study method with a feminist anthropological approach. The researchers used some data collection techniques such as observation, in-depth interviews and documentation. Bendrong lesung is one of the traditional arts performed by the people of the City of Cilegon, Banten. Historically, this art performance was held in a community tradition in welcoming the harvest as a form of gratitude and happy expression for the efforts that have produced good results. Bendrong lesung as a cultural product represents the social piety identity of women. On its development, women as the main actors have a high awareness of diversity. Thus, beside the identity of social piety that was born in the existence of this bendrong lesung, personal piety identity was also manifested by the players with symbols in the form of the use of the veil covering the genitals to replace the clothes kemban. The existence of the bendrong lesung has witnessed how the piety movement was formed until now.الخلاصة: تتناول هذه المقالة الجهود المبذولة للحفاظ على الثقافة المحلية من قبل النساء في مدينة سيليجون. إن وجود فن الالتواء هو موضوع البحث لأنه في هذا الفن دور المرأة يبدو مهمًا جدًا. تمثل النساء مع غمازاتهن قيم التدين الكثيف. هذه المقالة هي نتيجة البحث الميداني باستخدام طريقة دراسة حالة مع نهج أنثروبولوجي نسوي. في تقنيات جمع البيانات ، يستخدم الباحثون تقنيات تشمل الملاحظة والمقابلات المتعمقة (المقابلات المتعمقة) والتوثيق. Bendrong lesung هي واحدة من الفنون التقليدية لشعب مدينة Cilegon   Banten. تاريخيا ، أدرج هذا الفن في تقاليد المجتمع في الترحيب بالحصاد كشكل من الامتنان والتعبير السعيد عن الجهود التي أسفرت عن نتائج جيدة. تمثل bendrong lesung كمنتج ثقافي هوية التقوى الاجتماعية للمرأة. لدى تطورها ، تتمتع النساء بصفتهن الجهات الفاعلة الرئيسية بوعي عال بالتنوع. لذلك ، بالإضافة إلى هوية التقوى الاجتماعية التي ولدت في وجود هذا الانحناء ، ظهرت هوية التقوى الشخصية من قبل اللاعبين برموز في شكل استخدام الحجاب الذي يغطي الأعضاء التناسلية لاستبدال الملابس التوأم. شهد وجود مدافع الهاون كيف تشكلت حركة التقوى حتى الآن.Abstrak: Artikel ini mengkaji tentang upaya pelestarian kebudayaan lokal yang dilakukan oleh kaum perempuan di Kota Cilegon. Eksistensi kesenian bendrong lesung akan menjadi objek penelitian karena dalam kesenian ini peran perempuan terlihat begitu penting. Kaum perempuan dengan bendrong lesung-nya merepresentasikan nilai-nilai religiusitas yang kental. Artikel ini merupakan hasil penelitian lapangan menggunakan metode studi kasus dengan pendekatan antropologi feminis. Dalam teknik pengumpulan data, peneliti menggunakan teknik-teknik diantaranya observasi, wawancara mendalam (indepth interview) dan dokumentasi. Bendrong lesung merupakan salah satu kesenian tradisional masyarakat Kota Cilegon, Banten. Secara historis, kesenian ini termasuk dalam sebuah tradisi masyarakat dalam menyambut panen sebagai wujud rasa syukur dan ungkapan bahagia atas jerih payah yang telah membuahkan hasil yang baik.  Bendrong lesung sebagai sebuah produk kebudayaan merepresentasikan identitas kesalehan sosial kaum perempuan. Dalam perkembangannya, para perempuan sebagai pelaku utama mempunyai kesadaran akan keberagamaan yang cukup tinggi. Maka, selain identitas kesalehan sosial yang terlahir dalam eksistensi bendrong lesung ini, identitas kesalehan personal juga terwujud dari para pemainnya dengan simbol berupa penggunaan jilbab penutup aurat menggantikan pakaian kemban. Eksistensi bendrong lesung telah menjadi saksi bagaimana gerakan kesalehan terbentuk sampai sekarang.

The Effect of Prestige Sensitivity on Price Acceptance in Vietnam’s Mobile Phone Market

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Huyen Thi Nguyen ◽  
Ngoc Minh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Product Knowledge ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Modelling Method ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Convenience Sampling

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of prestige sensitivity on mobile phone customer’s price acceptance in Vietnam and the mediating role of product knowledge and price mavenism on this relationship. We used the convenience sampling method for data collection via questionnaires with a sample of 605 consumers who purchased mobile phones. The collected data was analysed by applying a structural equation modelling method. The result indicates that prestige sensitivity has both direct and indirect effects on price acceptance via product knowledge and price mavenism. The findings suggest that prestige sensitivity can be used as a market segmentation criterion for mobile phones when making price decisions and providing customers with adequate information could improve price acceptance.

Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its dominating institution. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome provides a new picture of these developments, focusing on the extraordinary role played by members of the traditional elite, the senatorial aristocracy, in the redefinition of the city, its institutions, and spaces. During this period, Roman senators and their families became increasingly involved in the management of the city and its population, in building works, and in the performance of secular and religious ceremonies and rituals. As this study shows, for approximately three hundred years the houses of the Roman elite competed with imperial palaces and churches in shaping the political map and the social life of the city. Making use of modern theories of urban space, the book considers a vast array of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic documents to show how the former centre of the Mediterranean world was progressively redefined and controlled by its own elite.

Change in the social life of urban public spaces: The rise of mobile phones and women, and the decline of aloneness over 30 years

Urban Studies ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 1489-1504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith N Hampton ◽  
Lauren Sessions Goulet ◽  
Garrett Albanesius
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Social

Management Problems and Countermeasures of City Outdoor Advertising - Taking Jinan as an Example

2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 999-1003
Author(s):  
Peng Chen ◽  
Jun Min Zhang ◽  
Ji Nan
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Outdoor Advertising ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Problems ◽  
Advertising Management ◽  
The City ◽  
Great Development

Along with the progress of society, the development of the city and economic prosperity, outdoor advertising has achieved great development and plays an increasingly prominent role in the social life. In this paper, the development present situation of outdoor advertising management of Jinan as the starting point, we analyze the problems in the management of outdoor advertising and put forward corresponding countermeasures.

The role of public libraries in the development of social capital in local communities – a theoretical study

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-196
Author(s):  
Maja Dorota Wojciechowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

PurposeSocial capital, understood as intangible community values available through a network of connections, is a factor in the development of societies and improving quality of life. It helps to remove economic inequalities and prevent poverty and social exclusion, stimulate social and regional development, civic attitudes and social engagement and build a civic society as well as local and regional identity. Many of these tasks may be implemented by libraries, which, apart from providing access to information, may also offer a number of services associated with social needs. The purpose of this paper is to present the roles and functions that libraries may serve in local communities in terms of assistance, integration and development based on classical social capital theories.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews the classical concepts of social capital in the context of libraries. It analyses the findings of Pierre-Félix Bourdieu, James Coleman, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Putnam, Nan Lin, Ronald Stuart Burt, Wayne Baker and Alejandro Portes. Based on their respective concepts, the paper analyses the role of the contemporary library in the social life of local communities. In particular, it focuses on the possible new functions that public libraries may serve.FindingsA critical review of the concept of social capital revealed certain dependencies between libraries and their neighbourhoods. With new services that respond to the actual social needs, libraries may serve as a keystone, namely they may integrate, animate and engage local communities. This, however, requires a certain approach to be adopted by the personnel and governing authorities as well as infrastructure and tangible resources.Originality/valueThe social engagement of libraries is usually described from the practical perspective (reports on the services provided) or in the context of research on the impact of respective projects on specific groups of users (research reports). A broader approach, based on original social theories, is rarely encountered. The paper draws on classical concepts of social capital and is a contribution to the discussion on possible uses of those concepts based on an analysis of the role of libraries in social life and in strengthening the social capital of local communities.

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