Heteronormativity made me lesbian: Femme, butch and the production of sexual embodiment projects

Queer theory argues that ruling heteronormative discourses are productive of sexualities. How then does heteronormativity produce lesbians? We theorize femme and butch as sexual embodiment projects—processual, relational responses to patriarchal heteronormativity incessantly textually threaded throughout our lives. Drawing on radical feminisms updated with Foucault and Dorothy Smith, we offer autoethnographic accounts of our sexual embodiments of butch and femme, arguing not that rape experiences, but the constant threat of rape in everyday life can produce lesbian desire and embodiment. Ultimately, we understand sexual embodiment as not based on a fixed ontological ground but always in the relational, everyday doings of people and, hence, malleable within the social context, discursive moment, and individual intersections of one’s life within relations of power (gender, race, class, religiosity, nationality, and so on).

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MODEL INTEGRASI NILAI ISLAM DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SAINS

HUMANIKA ◽

10.21831/hum.v18i1.23129 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 59-80

Author(s):

Azmah Marvavilha ◽

Suparlan Suparlan

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Science Learning ◽

Science And Religion ◽

Religion And Science ◽

The Social ◽

Contemporary Context

Dalam konteks masa kini, agama dan sains memiliki relasi yang saling melengkapi,dapat didialogkan, dan didiskusikan. Dikotomi antara sains dan agama dapatdiintegrasikan secara akurat, sehingga antara sains dan agama tidak berdiri sendiri-sendiri.Adanya integrasi antara sains dan agama, diharapkan akan menambah keyakinan dansemakin menyadari keagungan Allah swt. Dalam konteks pembelajaran sains, integrasisains dan agama dapat dikategorikan dalam tiga konteks, yakni bayani, burhani, dan‘irfani. Bayani, sains diintegrasikan dengan teks Alquran. Burhani, sains diintegrasikandengan konteks sosial, budaya, dan realitas alam. Irfani, sains diintegrasikan denganmanfaat dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Dengan ketiga konteks tersebut, diharapkanpembelajaran akan semakin lebih bermakna.In contemporary context, religion and science have a complementary relations, it canbe dialogued and discussed. The dichotomy between science and religion can beaccurately integrated, so that between science and religion does not stand alone. Theexistence of integration between science and religion, is expected to add confidence and bemore aware of the majesty of Allah swt. In the context of science learning, the integrationof science and religion can be categorized in three contexts, bayani, burhani, and 'irfani.Bayani, science is integrated with the text of the Alquran. Burhani, science is integratedwith the social context, culture, and the reality of nature. Irfani, science is integrated withbenefits in everyday life. With these three contexts, learning is expected to be moremeaningful.

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The meal as a performance: food and meal practices beyond health and nutrition

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x16000945 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 83-107 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MARIA NYBERG ◽

VIKTORIA OLSSON ◽

GERD ÖRTMAN ◽

ZADA PAJALIC ◽

HÅKAN S. ANDERSSON ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Elderly People ◽

Elderly Persons ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

The Social ◽

Strongly Connected ◽

New Challenges

ABSTRACTThe proportion of elderly people in the population is increasing, presenting a number of new challenges in society. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how elderly persons with motoric eating difficulties perceive and perform their food and meal practices in everyday life. By using Goffman's concept of performance as a theoretical framework together with Bourdieu's thinking on habitus, a deeper understanding of food and meal practices is obtained. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 elderly people (aged between 67 and 87 years) and meal observations were carried out with 11 of these people. Participants were found to manage food and meal practices by continuously adjusting and adapting to the new conditions arising as a result of eating difficulties. This was displayed by conscious planning of what to eat and when, avoiding certain foods and beverages, using simple eating aids, but also withdrawing socially during the meals. All these adjustments were important in order to be able to demonstrate proper food and meal behaviour, to maintain the façade and to act according to the perceived norms. As well as being a pleasurable event, food and meals were also perceived in terms of being important for maintaining health and as ‘fuel’ where the main purpose is to sustain life. This was strongly connected to the social context and the ability to enjoy food and meals with family members and friends, which appeared to be particularly crucial due to the impending risk of failing the meal performance.

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Task instructions: a part of the social context of participants? A N300 and N400 event-related brain potential study

10.31234/osf.io/u9xfv ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Sujata Sinha ◽

Sheila Bouten ◽

Amanda Tardif ◽

Tarlan Daryoush ◽

Natalie Frye ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Event Related Potentials ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Cognitive Behaviors ◽

Task Instructions ◽

The Social ◽

Related Potentials ◽

Mere Presence ◽

Motor Representations

The early and preconscious processing of stimuli that are meaningful in everyday life includes systematical activations of many semantic, emotional and motor representations. Inhibitions should then occur in order to select, among these primed representations, those that are consistent with the context. Even in a lab this context is social, as it typically consists of the experimenter and of the instructions and stimuli (s)he provides. Three recent N400 studies confirm this social view of experimental settings by showing that socially driven processes affect what was primed by prior stimuli. The small amplitudes of the N400 event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by stimuli preceded by semantical primes were found to be enhanced by the mere presence of a person next to participants when they know this person did not have the semantic primes. It thus seems that N400 processes inhibit what these primes have activated so that participants can also have the perspective of the uninformed person. This inhibition interpretation implies that N400s should be notably reduced when nothing allows to determine what should be inhibited, that is, when the social context is not defined and when task’s instructions require minimal inhibition. We tested this prediction by having a stranger next to participants (n=29) and by presenting meaningful unpredictable images in a simple memorization task. As foreseen, N400s were small. They were enhanced by definable social contexts, that is, in participants alone with the experimenter (n=30) and in those with a friend (n = 36). The amplitudes of the N300s were also enhanced. A second experiment revealed that these N300 and N400 enhancements were larger for friends who felt in the presence of their partner during most of the experiment. As to the late posterior positivities (LPPs) immediately succeeding the N400s, they were found to be larger in the unknown social context of the first experiment, suggesting that more information ended up being placed into the working memory when inhibitions could not occur. These results are compatible with a serial 3-stages framework of the processing of stimuli meaningful in everyday life. Early and broad systematic activations (priming) would be followed by automatic late selections done according to the social-context and then, by the participant’s consciousness of the meanings of the stimulus in this context. As inadequate late selections would cause impairments of social and cognitive behaviors, the present results could have implications for psychiatric disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia.

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Addressing erasure, microfication and social change: age-friendly initiatives and environmental gerontology in the 21st century

Age-Friendly Cities and Communities ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447331315.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jessica A. Kelley ◽

Dale Dannefer ◽

Luma Issa Al Masarweh

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Social Context ◽

Everyday Life ◽

21St Century ◽

Policy Research ◽

Transnational Migration ◽

Institutional Practices ◽

Daily Experience ◽

The Social ◽

Environmental Gerontology

Chapter 4 argues for a greater awareness and understanding of how macro-level developments, such as gentrification and transnational migration, influence the creation of AFCCs. It identifies two key challenges which limit the success and effectiveness of both age-friendly initiatives and the scholarly field of environmental gerontology: first, microfication, or the tendency to focus on immediate aspects of everyday life while overlooking broader, overarching aspects of the social context that define and set key parameters of daily experience; and second, erasure, referring to the issue that certain groups of people remain ‘unseen’ in policy, research, or institutional practices. Remedying the limiting effects of these tendencies will be essential to increase the value and effectiveness of both of these enterprises, the authors conclude.

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Alcohol and the Identity-Building Experience: The Biographical Interview

Inter ◽

10.19181/inter.2021.13.3.6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 130-145

Author(s):

Maxim Kotelnikov

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Distinctive Feature ◽

Living Alone ◽

Drinking Alcohol ◽

Depth Interview ◽

The Social ◽

Three Stages ◽

Modes Of Engagement

Within the framework of this paper, the author examines individual drinking "strategies" and their relationship with the social context. To accomplish this task, the author turns to the concept of ‘modes of engagement’ by Laurent Thévenot. On the base of an in-depth interview, the author identifies three stages of alcohol consumption that the informant went through: 1) adolescence, which can be described as a "game", the essence of which boils down to hiding the fact of drinking alcohol from the parents; 2) the student period (life in a dormitory), when the strategy of consumption can be described as the ‘discovery mode’ according to Thévenot, a distinctive feature of which is the search for something new; 3) the present (living alone), which is characterized by a non-reflective routine use of alcohol. Such a strategy is brought in accordance with Thévenot’s "mode of intimacy", which is characterized by an increase in the importance of an object (in this case, alcohol); however, at the same time, the actor loses the opportunity to reflect on his relationship with the object, due to the fact that it becomes a part of his “unquestioned” everyday life. The article also examines the models of conceptualization of alcohol and alcoholism, used by the informant herself.

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La orientación discursiva de la universidad pública colombiana en el contexto de la globalización neoliberal: análisis crítico del discurso de la misión, visión y metas

10.31235/osf.io/458cf ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jorge Benavides

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Context ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Belief Systems ◽

Social Practices ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Social Structures ◽

Cultural Expression ◽

The Social ◽

Relations Of Power

The objective of this article is to invite the reader to consider the new field of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a complementary way to the study of history. It intends to approach several interdisciplinary concepts for the incorporation of critical discourse analysis, a relatively recent theoretical and practical approach of discourse analysis based on critical theory, critical linguistics and discourse analysis into history. It centers its focus on the consideration of discourse as an event, a socio-cultural expression conditioned by social structures and belief systems of groups of power acting upon others and conditioning the social context while being the transmitter of ideology. It presents social practices in parallel to discursive ones thereby creating a dialectal relationship between them. The relations of power, hegemony, dominance, and especially, ideology, are the main concerns of critical discourse analysis thereby making room for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary joint efforts to research: psychology, sociology, politics, economics, and education, among a few others are related to history in order to describe, interpret and explain the historical relationships between society and language.

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