scholarly journals Fertility regulation as identity maintenance: Understanding the social aspects of birth control

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cicely Marston ◽  
Alicia Renedo ◽  
Gertrude Nsorma Nyaaba
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Fertility Regulation ◽  
Identity Maintenance ◽  
Contraception Use ◽  
The Social

We take a dialogical approach to exploring fertility regulation practices and show how they can maintain or express social identity. We identify three themes in educated Ghanaian women’s accounts of how they navigate conflicting social demands on their identity when trying to regulate fertility: secrecy and silence – hiding contraception use and avoiding talking about it; tolerating uncertainty – such as using unreliable but more socially acceptable contraception; and wanting to be fertile and protecting menses. Family planning programmes that fail to tackle such social-psychological obstacles to regulating fertility will risk reproducing social spaces where women struggle to claim their reproductive rights.

Population Control in the “Global North”?: Canada’s Response to Indigenous Reproductive Rights and Neo-Eugenics

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s3) ◽  
pp. s876-s902
Author(s):  
Erika Dyck ◽  
Maureen Lux
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
The North ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Global North

An historical analysis of reproductive politics in the Canadian North during the 1970s necessitates a careful reading of the local circumstances regarding feminism, sovereignty, language, colonialism, and access to health services, which differed regionally and culturally. These features were conditioned, however, by international discussions on family planning that fixated on the twinned concepts of unchecked population growth and poverty. Language from these debates crept into discussions about reproduction and birth control in northern Canada, producing the state’s logic that, despite low population density, the endemic poverty in the North necessitated aggressive family planning measures.

Paul and the Author of 1 Clement as Entrepreneurs of Identity in Corinthian Crises of Leadership

2021 ◽  
pp. 0142064X2110647
Author(s):  
Katja Kujanpää
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Identity Approach

When Paul and the author of 1 Clement write letters to Corinth to address crises of leadership, both discuss Moses’ παρρησία (frankness and openness), yet they evaluate it rather differently. In this article, I view both authors as entrepreneurs of identity and explore the ways in which they try to shape their audience’s social identity and influence their behaviour in the crisis by selectively retelling scriptural narratives related to Moses. The article shows that social psychological theories under the umbrella term of the social identity approach help to illuminate the active role of leaders in identity construction as well as the processes of retelling the past in order to mobilize one’s audience.

Family Planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-65
Author(s):  
Emily Klancher Merchant
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Human Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
Demographic Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Carnegie Corporation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The New Deal

Chapter 2 documents the establishment of demography, the social science of human population dynamics, in the United States during the 1930s. It contends that this interdisciplinary field was able to build an institutional structure because of support from eugenicist Frederick Osborn, who saw in demography an ally for the creation of a postracial democratic version of eugenics. Osborn’s new brand of eugenics emphasized birth control rather than sterilization and worked through the private sector rather than the public sector. He fused birth control advocacy with eugenics in a strategy he termed “family planning,” which signaled reproductive autonomy in the context of social control. Osborn secured patronage for demography from the Milbank Memorial Fund and the Carnegie Corporation, and an audience for demographic research in the New Deal welfare state. He leveraged his influence to focus demography’s research program on producing support for his family planning–based eugenic project.

In home or at home? How collective decision making in a new care facility enhances social interaction and wellbeing amongst older adults

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1393-1418 ◽  
Author(s):  
CRAIG KNIGHT ◽  
S. ALEXANDER HASLAM ◽  
CATHERINE HASLAM
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Residential Home ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Term Care ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communal Space

ABSTRACTBenevolent, long-term care can threaten older adults' sense of autonomy in a residential home environment. Increasing reliance on a hotel style of living has been seen to erode social identity, life satisfaction and even survival or lifespan. Drawing on evidence from both gerontological and social psychological literature, this paper examines the links between the empowerment of residents and their subsequent quality of life in the context of a move into a new care facility in a medium-sized town in South-West England. A longitudinal experiment was conducted during which 27 residents on one floor of a new facility were involved in decisions surrounding its décor, while those on another floor were not. The residents' attitudes and behaviour were monitored at three points over five months (four weeks pre-move, four weeks post-move, and four months post-move). Consistent with the social identity literature, members of the empowered group reported increased identification with staff and fellow residents in the new home, displayed enhanced citizenship, reported improved wellbeing, and made more use of the communal space. Moreover the staff found the empowered residents to be more engaged with their environment and the people around them, to be generally happier and to have better health. These patterns were observed one month after the move and remained four months later. Some implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Going to extremes: Social identity and communication processes associated with gang membership

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 813-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liran Goldman ◽  
Howard Giles ◽  
Michael A. Hogg
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gang Membership ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Gang violence, endemic to many communities in the United States and around the world is a very significant social problem. Given that the messages conveyed by, and the rivalries associated with, gang identities readily invoke constructs and processes familiar to the social psychological study of social identity, intergroup relations, and communication (Lauger, 2012), it is surprising that social psychologists have not advanced such an analysis of gangs. In attempt to fill this void and set a research agenda, this theoretical article examines the role social identity and identity-related communication play in promoting affiliation with gangs, particularly among youth who confront uncertainties and strive for family-like protection. The article discusses messaging communicated by gang members and reasons why youth adopt antisocial (e.g., violent) rather than prosocial behaviors. It also explores ways to diminish the allure of gang membership and raises questions for future research.

Preventing Groupthink Risk through Deliberative Discussion

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene E. Turner ◽  
Anthony R. Pratkanis
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Identity Maintenance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Decision ◽  
Deliberative Discussion ◽  
Maintenance Model

This study examined the role of deliberative discussion strategies in improving group performance under conditions associated with groupthink. Three-person groups solved a complex decision task in one randomly assigned condition of a 2 (collective threat: low vs. high) by 2 (deliberative discussion strategies: none vs. provided) between-subjects design. All groups were also given a manipulation designed to induce high cohesion consistent with a social identity maintenance framework. Highly cohesive groups facing a collective threat produced poorer quality decisions (indicative of groupthink) when not provided with discussion strategies than groups in all other conditions. However, when provided with deliberative discussion strategies, highly cohesive groups facing a collective threat produced the highest quality decisions. Results were consistent with the social identity maintenance model of groupthink.

scholarly journals PERSON’S RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION FROM THE SOCIAL–PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-93
Author(s):  
SRBUHI GEVORGYAN ◽  
ANNA KHACHATRYAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Religious Identification ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective

The article presents the ways of socio–psychological investigation of a person`s religious identity and the essentials of methodology. The problem is delivered by the term of a person`s social identity, socio–psychological forms of self–expression in social surroundings are also being determined.

scholarly journals The social psychological processes of ‘procedural justice’: Concepts, critiques and opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Radburn ◽  
Clifford Stott
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social World ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Scale Survey

Contemporary research on policing and procedural justice theory (PJT) emphasizes large-scale survey data to link a series of interlocking concepts, namely perceptions of procedural fairness, police legitimacy and normative compliance. In this article we contend that as such, contemporary research is in danger of conveying a misreading of PJT by portraying a reified social world divorced from the social psychological dynamics of encounters between the police and policed. In this article we set out a rationale for addressing this potential misreading and explore how and why PJT researchers would benefit both theoretically and methodologically through drawing upon advances in theoretical accounts of social identity, developed most notably in attempts to understand crowd action. Specifically, we advance an articulation of a ‘process-based’ model of PJT’s underlying social and subjective dynamics and stress the value of ethnographic approaches for studying police–‘citizen’ encounters.

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