The Social Relations–Physical Health Connection: A Comparison of Elderly Samples from the United States and Japan

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary R. Janevic ◽  
Kristine J. Ajrouch ◽  
Alicia Merline ◽  
Hiroko Akiyama ◽  
Toni C. Antonucci
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social

The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052110558
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Conner ◽  
Nicholas MacMurray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Social ◽  
Perfect Storm

In this study, we examine the social phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’. While QAnon is typically thought of as an exclusively online cultural phenomenon, and thus easily dismissed, it has played a significant role in promoting physical acts of violence—including multiple murders and the attack on the United States Capital on 6 January 2021. Utilizing a qualitative analysis of 300 hours of QAnon-related content, we argue that the widespread beliefs held by QAnon supporters were only possible due to the confluence of feelings of distrust in government and other public officials, purveyors of QAnon that profited in the movement’s success, and a populist digital media environment in which extremist ideas are housed and promoted. We conclude by asking if this is a phenomenon created by greater connectivity, or if this is a byproduct of late-stage capitalism in which social relations continue to be atomized.

White Domestic Goddess on a Postmodern Plantation: Charity and Commodity Racism in The Blind Side

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Montez de Oca
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
National Football League ◽  
The United States ◽  
Blind Side ◽  
White Family ◽  
Private Charity ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cultural Commodity

This article looks at the Hollywood “blockbuster” movie The Blind Side (2009) to explore intersections of race, class, and gender in a significant neoliberal, cultural commodity. Animating the production and, apparently, the consumption of the film is the “inspiring” story of Michael Oher, an impoverished young African American man who was adopted by a wealthy white family and rose to success in the National Football League in the United States. The film mobilizes postracial and postfeminist discourses to tell a story of redemption and how private charity can overcome social problems that the state cannot. Ultimately, charity operates as a signifying act of whiteness that obscures the social relations of domination that not only make charity possible but also creates an urban underclass in need of charity.

Book Reviews: Social Relations in a Secondary School, A Sociology of English Religion, Rôleplaying in Psychotherapy: A Manual, Political Systems: Some Sociological Approaches, A Social Geography of Zambia, The Changing Social Structure of England and Wales 1871—1961, Group Conflict and Co-Operation: Their Social Psychology, Approaches to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Communities in Britain: Social Life in Town and Country, Mental Health and Contemporary Thought, Supervision in Social Work, Psychological Needs and Cultural Systems: A Case Study, Education and Social Work, The Lazy South, The Political Economy of Slavery, Intelligible Fields in the Social Sciences, Passing On: The Social Organization of Dying, Dilemmas of Social Reform: Poverty and Community Action in the United States, Poverty in Canada and the United States, The Government of Associations: Selections from the Behavioral Sciences, Wages and Work Allocation: A Study of Social Relations in a Garment Workshop, The Origins of Modern Town Planning, Basic Thinking in Regional Planning, Land and People, The City Region in Western Europe, Kinship and Casework

1967 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-388
Author(s):  
S. John Eggleston ◽  
John Highet ◽  
Paul De Berker ◽  
Hugh Berrington ◽  
P. Harries-Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
City Region ◽  
The Social

Planetary Power? The United States and the History of Around-the-World Travel

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOYCE E. CHAPLIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Whole Earth

It is a given that the United States has been an important global power, yet it may be of at least equal significance that the nation has been an only faltering planetary power. Global is social – it implies the social relations that extend over the globe. In contrast, planetary is physical, indicating the physical planet itself. Far more historical studies have focussed on the former than on the latter; examining the history of the United States within planetary terms is only beginning to be done. One long tradition of human engagement with the whole Earth is the practice of circumnavigation, going around the world. This essay examines American circumnavigators’ accounts ecocritically, in terms of their consciousness of the natural world, in order to explain that the United States came to the tradition of going around the world belatedly and not always beneficially.

scholarly journals Salvar-nos do cinismo: teologia e classes sociais

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (289) ◽  
pp. 102-124
Author(s):  
Jung Mo Sung
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Theological Critique

A crise econômica que atinge os Estados Unidos e a Europa e a visibilidade mundial dos movimentos “Ocupem” nos Estados Unidos colocaram novamente o tema da desigualdade social em destaque. Geralmente, nas Igrejas e na teologia, esse assunto é objeto de crítica ética utilizando-se o conceito de classes sociais em termos de renda, ricos e pobres. Este artigo defende a tese de que, para superamos o cinismo frente ao sofrimento dos pobres, é preciso ir além: é preciso uma crítica teológica que se liberte do cinismo e trabalhe com a noção de classes sociais, associada ao lugar nas relações sociais de produção, de idolatria e de pecado estrutural.Abstract: The economic crisis affecting the United States and Europe and the worldwide visibility of the movement “Occupy” in the United States brought the issue of social inequality once more to the fore. Generally, in the Churches and in theology, this matter is the target of ethical criticism where the concept of social classes - in terms of income, the rich and the poor - is used. This article defends the thesis that, in order to overcome cynicism in face of the suffering of the poor, we must go further: we need a theological critique that can free itself from cynicism and work with the notion of social classes associated with the place in the social relations of production and with the notion of idolatry and structural sin.Keywords: Economics. Market. Social classes. Social conflict. Structural sin. Theology. Idolatry. Option for the poor.

scholarly journals Models of legal regulation of sales of personal weapons in foreign countries (on the example of the United States, Germany, and Japan)

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Oleg Ivanovich Beketov ◽  
Aleksei Davidovich Maile ◽  
Ol'ga Sergeevna Goman ◽  
Vadim Igorevich Surgutskov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Current State ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

The object of this research is the social relations established with regards to the sales of personal weapon in the United States, Japan, and Germany. The subject of this research is the legislation of the aforementioned countries, which regulates the sales of weapon for civilian population. The key goal lies in elaboration of the models of legal regulation of the sales of personal weapons based on the analysis of normative legal acts. The article reveals the peculiarities of establishment, development, and current state of legal regulation of sales of personal weapons abroad using the example of three countries – United States, Germany, and Japan. The scientific novelty of the conducted research consists in description of the three contrasting models of legal regulation of sales of personal weapons: liberal-permissive, prohibitory-paternalistic, and combinatory. The conclusion is made that the choice of the method of legal regulation of sales of personal weapons depends on the objective factors the country exists in, namely: social, political, cultural, ideological, religious, as well as historical experience of the country, regulation of domestic social issues, population mentality, presence or absence of the “war status”. There is yet no universal model for regulation of the sales of personal weapon. Most efficient implementation of the indicated models is possible only in case of the balanced consideration of all objective actors for each particular country.

Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

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