scholarly journals Risky Eating: Shanghai Families’ Strategies to Acquire Safe Food in Everyday Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-280
Author(s):  
Ingrid Fihl
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Moral Issue ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
The Family ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
Individual Strategies

Resourceful parents and grandparents in Shanghai go a long way in search of safe and healthy food for the children of their families. From an ethnographical perspective, this article delves into the risk of eating in everyday family life in urban China, and it investigates the complexity of navigating the urban food market and trusting advice from Internet sources, mommy groups, friends, and family members in order to avoid often incomprehensible health risks posed by polluted or chemically treated foods. It describes how family caregivers feel a moral obligation of doing their best to handle food risks in everyday life, and how they exchange practical knowledge in private networks. It argues that food risks are tackled with individual strategies aiming towards a feeling of peace of mind ( fangxin), and that buying, preparing, and eating safe food is a moral issue within the family.

"MOTHER, SHOWING NO SPECIAL AFFECTION FOR YOU, WRITES TO YOU VERY FRIENDLY". COUNT V.A. MUSIN-PUSHKIN'S PRE-WEDDING LETTERS TO HIS BRIDE

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Yuliya V. Kim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
Power Hierarchy

The article presents two letters from V.A. Musin-Pushkin which he wrote to his bride shortly before the wedding in 1828 (the letters are kept in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts). The text of the letters reflects the context of the time and everyday life, the system of views and the peculiarities of the worldview of a young aristocrat, the specific features of intra-family interaction in the field of feelings, marriage, human relations which inevitably turn out to be associated with the concepts of the family honor, family duty, the need to preserve the status of a noble family. The author traces how the power hierarchy is manifested at the level of relations within a close circle of relatives, as well as how traditional patterns are combined with new elements. Vladimir Alekseevich Musin-Pushkin, the youngest son of the archaeographer Count A.I. Musin-Pushkin, was arrested in connection with the case of the Decembrists, transferred from the Guards to the army and exiled to serve in Finland, where he met his future wife, Emilia Karlovna Shernval von Wallen. The article provides details of the family life of this married couple, as well as private facts from the biography of some other members of the Musin-Pushkin family.

CITRA PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL BURUNG TIUNG SERI GADING KARYA HASAN JUNUS

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Chrisna Putri Kurniati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
The Family ◽  
Status Of Women

This study entitles ―Citra Perempuan in Novel Burung Tiung Seri Gading Written by Hasan Junus‖. Problem in this research about the image of women and the gender inequities in the novel.This study aims to describe, express women‘s image and the discrimination of gender in novel Burung Tiung Seri Gading. The use of this study is to inform people in general and readers in particular about the roles and status of women in society reflected in novel Burung Tiung Seri Gading. The theory used is feminist literature criticism. This is a qualitative research. using the book study method. Primary data that is Burung Tiung Seri Gading novel Hasan Junus work published by Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Provinsi Riau, Pekanbaru 2009185 pages thick.The steps of the research are (1) identify the female characters in literature, (2) seek the position of these figures in everyday life in society, good relations within the family or in society at large, (3) gender inequality would be viewed through a gender analysis ofits image of women in daily life. The conclusions of this study are that the roles and status of women in society get women not be able to avoid their housework and the discrimination of gender. AbstrakPenelitian ini berjudul ―Citra Perempuan dalam Novel Burung Tiung Seri Gading Karya Hasan Junus‖. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini tentang citra perempuan dan terjadinya ketidakadilan gender dalam novel. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan citra perempuan dan mendeskripsikan ketidakadilan gender dalam novel Burung Tiung Seri Gading. Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah memberikan pengetahuan kepada pembaca khususnya dan masyarakat pada umumnya tentang peran dan kedudukan perempuan dalam masyarakat yang tercermin dalam novel Burung Tiung Seri Gading serta memberikan pengetahuan kepada pembaca tentang terjadinya ketidakadilan gender dalam masyarakat yang tercermin dalam novel Burung Tiung Seri Gading. Teori yang digunakan adalah kritik sastra feminis. Penelitian ini bersifat kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode studi pustaka. Data primernya bersumberkan pada novel Burung Tiung Seri Gading karya Hasan Junus yang diterbitkan oleh Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Provinsi Riau, Pekanbaru, 2009 setebal 185 halaman. Kesimpulan yang dapat diambil dalam penelitian ini adalah adanya peran dan kedudukan perempuan di masyarakat membuat perempuan belum bisa lepas dari pekerjaan domestik serta perempuan adalah korban dari ketidakadilan gender.

scholarly journals 324 - Twelve-month progress of online intervention to prevent cognitive decline: Maintain Your Brain

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 82-82
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Randomised Trial ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Recruitment Rate ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
Online Lifestyle ◽  
Physical Activity Adherence

Authors:Henry Brodaty, Megan Heffernan, Gavin Andrews, Kaarin Anstey, Maria Fiatarone Singh, Louisa Jorm, Nicola Lautenschlager, Anthony Maeder, John McNeill, Perminder Sachdev, Michael Valenzuela, Maintain Your Brain Collaborative Team.Abstract:In the absence of disease modifying interventions for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias there is an increased interest in dementia prevention. An issue for population-based lifestyle preventative approaches is scalability. An internet-based multicomponent Maintain Your Brain (MYB) randomised trial is currently underway.Invitations to participate in Maintain Your Brain were emailed or mailed to people aged 55-77 years from the 45 and Up study, a population-based cohort study of one in ten people aged 45 years and older (n = 267,000). To be enrolled into the study participants were required to have risk factors that made them eligible for at least one of the available modules. Modules were designed to address physical inactivity and health risks associated with inactivity (Physical Activity), adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet and health risks associated with poor nutrition (Nutrition), cognitive activity (Brain Training) and mental wellbeing (Peace of Mind).During recruitment 96,418 invitations were sent and 14,064 (14%) provided consent. Of those who completed baseline over 90% were eligible for at least two modules of the intervention. Overall, 6,236 (44%) were enrolled resulting in an overall recruitment rate of 6%, or 50% of those eligible at screening. The final sample was 64% female with a mean age of 64.9yrs (SD = 5.8, range 55-77 yrs) and mean years of education of 12.9yrs (SD = 3.0, range 2-22 yrs).Recruitment rates in MYB were comparable to other clinical trials targeting older people and who included online recruitment strategies. This is promising for the willingness of participants to engage with trials that use online rather than traditional in-person methods. Although the baseline withdrawal number (3%) remained stable after randomisation (4%), a further 25% of participants did not attempt any activities. These rates continued at the annual assessments when 4% withdrew, 31% completed no follow-up activities, 14% partially completed and 55% completed all.Online lifestyle interventions have capacity to reach broad segments of the 55-77 year old population, the majority of whom may benefit from support activities shown to be effective in reducing risk of cognitive decline and ultimately delay onset of dementia. The challenge with this new approach is encouraging continued engagement with the program over time.

scholarly journals EVERYDAY LIFE OF UKRAINIAN NOBILITY IN 2 QUARTER OF 19 CENTURY: M. MARKEVYCH’S LETTER TO P. GALAGAN

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Maryna Budzar
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Everyday Communication

The publication of the document is devoted to the anniversaries of two well-known representatives of the Ukrainian elite of the 19th century — 200th anniversary of the birth of Hryhorii Pavlovych Galagan and the 215th anniversary of the birth of Mykola Andriiovych Markevych. Published letter depicts the serious events of the family history of Markevyches — the disease and the death of the father of historian Andrii Markevych. The text contains a detailed description of the events leading up to the event and the circumstances of the death of A. Markevych. The author addresses to Pavlo Galagan, who is the husband of his aunt (mother’s sister). He fully trusts this man. This leads to the frankness of the story. The text includes people from the immediate surroundings of related families of Markevyches — Galagans. This allows us to clarify the personal and psychological characteristics of individual representatives of the Markevyches family. We can notice from the text the remarkable details of the everyday life of the middle-income family of the beginning of the 19th century. We see the arrangement of everyday life, the traditions of everyday communication, the level of provision of medical aid, etc. The contents of the document reveals the attitude of the nobility Left Bank Ukraine to the problem of disease and death, to the ethics of family communication, to property and financial problems.

scholarly journals A pragmatic critique of the conception of everyday praxis within Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 423-443
Author(s):  
Srdjan Prodanovic
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Comparative Advantages

This paper tries to critically analyse Jeffrey Alexander?s cultural sociology. In the first part of the paper I will examine Alexander?s conception of hermeneutical structuralism which argues that conventional systemic sociology and richness of experience found in everyday praxis can be reconciled. In the next section I will provide a critique of this kind of approach to social theory and maintain that Alexander?s sociology is, in principle, reductionist regarding everyday life. In addition, I will also point out some of the comparative advantages that pragmatically oriented theory has in the attempt of integrating theoretical and practical knowledge. In the final section of the paper, I will try to illustrate some of the major shortcomings of Alexander?s sociology on the concrete example of advances in computer technology.

scholarly journals First record of Stephanostomum sp. Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) metacercariae parasitising the pleasure oyster Crassostrea corteziensis (Hertlein) from the Mexican Pacific coast

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
M. I. Grano-Maldonado ◽  
F. Rubalcava-Ramirez ◽  
A. Rodriguez-Santiago ◽  
F. Garcia-Vargas ◽  
A. Medina-Jasso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Host Preference ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Mantle Tissue ◽  
Mexican Pacific ◽  
The Family ◽  
Crassostrea Corteziensis

SummaryThe aim of this investigation was to identify the parasites present in the largely understudied pleasure oyster Crassostrea corteziensis in Sinaloa state in the northwestern Mexican Pacific coast. Inspection of twenty-eight oysters collected on “Ceuta” lagoon revealed the presence of the digenean Stephanostomum sp. (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) cysts. Metacercariae were found encapsulated and embedded in the digestive gland and mantle tissue of oysters. The prevalence of infection revealed that 84.6 % were infected, the abundance was 13.62, with a mean intensity of 16.09 per host. The members of this genus are characterized by a double crown of spines in the cephalic region surrounding the buccal opening of the worm. Significantly, we report the first incidence of the digenean Stephanostomum sp of the family Acanthocolpidae parasitizing Crassostrea corteziensis. Further we report that this bivalve is now considered a new intermediate host, and the northwestern Mexican Pacific coast is a new geographical distribution area for this digenean. The findings contribute to our understanding of the biology, biodiversity and host preference of these parasites, with implications for health risks posed by human consumption of the pleasure oyster.

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