scholarly journals Online Dating Is Shifting Educational Inequalities in Marriage Formation in Germany

Demography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Potarca
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
Internet Dating ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Digital technologies govern a large part of our social lives, including the pursuit of a romantic partner. Despite recent inquiries into the social consequences of meeting online, what remains unclear is how the link between education and union formation varies in online versus offline meeting contexts, particularly on the backdrop of growing educational gaps in marriage. Using 2008–2019 pairfam data from Germany (N = 3,561), this study ran a series of Fine-Gray competing risks models to assess how online dating shapes the transition to marriage for partnered adults with nontertiary and tertiary education. Results reveal that irrespective of education, men in online-formed couples had greater chances of marrying than men in couples established offline. Highly educated women who met their partner in nondigital ways were less prone to marry than lower-educated women; for women in couples initiated online, however, the pattern was reversed. The internet dating marriage advantage of well-educated women was partly related to better matching on marriage attitudes and gender ideology. Facing a scarcity of eligible partners offline, high-educated women draw on more abundant online options to select more egalitarian-minded men. This study overall suggests that internet dating fosters an uneven distribution of opportunities for marriage, highlighting the role of digital partner markets in the social demography of union formation.

scholarly journals Cultural Capital as a Hidden Asset: Culture, Egalitarianism and Inter-Class Social Encounters in Stavanger, Norway

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Vassenden ◽  
Merete Jonvik
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Social Closure ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
Magnum Opus

In this article, we engage with the theory of cultural capital, which was originally outlined in Pierre Bourdieu’s magnum opus Distinction. We start from a study of lifestyles in Stavanger, Norway, and qualitative interviews with 39 people dispersed in the social space. We find that interviewees with less education are largely indifferent to cultural capital, and secure about their own lifestyles. This diverges from Bourdieu’s depiction of the working-class ‘sense of place’. Yet cultural capital has social consequences. To university graduates, taste and education often matter for self-definition and social networks. Cultural capital thus contributes to social closure. Importantly, though, the highly educated are careful to de-emphasize their cultural capital when appropriate, especially in inter-class social encounters. They keep cultural distinctions hidden. In accounting for why our findings diverge from Bourdieu’s, possible explanations pertain to national cultural repertoires (Nordic egalitarianism) as well as broader (even transnational) changes in morality. Crucially, though, we engage with social interaction, which has been more neglected in previous research. For that purpose, we build on Erving Goffman’s theories. For cultural capital studies, we propose the concept of a ‘discursive gap’, and suggest more emphasis on social encounters.

Exposure to Cyberbullying and Classroom Social Climate as Predictors of Students' Sense of Belonging in Class in Elementary and Middle Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-131
Author(s):  
Gabriela Kashy-Rosenbaum ◽  
Dana Aizenkot
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
And Gender

Children and adolescents currently conduct part of their social lives in cyberspace. Along with the increased use of WhatsApp – the most popular social platform in Israel – as a social network, we witness the spread of cyberbullying, that is, targeted aggressive activity against individuals in a virtual social space. Bullying in the virtual social space sometimes also flows into the actual social space in the classroom through feeding and refeeding, affecting the perception of the classroom social climate and the student’s sense of belonging in the classroom. Impairment of students’ sense of belonging in the classroom may impair their mental wellbeing and their functioning in school. The present study was designed to broaden our understanding of how exposure to cyberbullying relates to the social climate and students’ sense of belonging in the classroom beyond the students’ age and gender, distinguishing between exposure to cyberbullying in the private space and in the group space. The study involved 4,813 students (53% girls) in grades 4–9 in 191 classes within 33 schools. Participants filled out e-questionnaires. The findings showed that, as predicted by the research hypotheses, the more students are exposed to cyberbullying in the private and group spaces, the more negative the perceived social climate and students’ sense of belonging in the classroom will be. Exposure to simultaneous cyberbullying in both spaces, private and group, was found to be associated with even greater harm to the perceived social climate in the classroom and to students’ sense of belonging. It was also found that the perception of the social climate in the classroom mediates the connection between exposure and bullying in the classroom virtual space and students’ sense of belonging. The educational implications are discussed.

All’s Well That Ends Well and Recipe Cultures of Knowledge

2016 ◽  
pp. 130-150
Author(s):  
Wendy Wall
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Management ◽  
And Gender

This essay reinterprets the social, sexual, and gendered meanings of Helena’s climactic moment of healing in All’s Well That Ends Well by situating the play within the early modern recipe world of letters. Just as importantly, it positions All’s Well so as to illuminate the intellectual and cultural stakes of recipe writing in the period. Shakespeare’s story of a woman’s powerful recipe, I argue, emerges within the discourse of seasoning, an intellectual matrix that entailed reflection on the human management of organic matter in and through time. In its articulation of seasoning, the recipe archive allows us to explore domestic determinations in the play’s critically noted features: its probing of eroticism and gender ideology, its construction of proof, and its concern with the conundrums of temporality.

The Postmodern Individual: Structural Determinants of Attitudes

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 339-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Wernet ◽  
Cheryl Elman ◽  
Brian Pendleton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Country Level ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Higher Educational Attainment ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis study uses the World Values Survey and country level data to explore how social structure, especially cross-national differences in female education, reproductive freedom, and participation in state policy formation, is related to attitudes of postmaterialism and gender ideology. Thefindings show that pro-woman state structure and policies are associated with higher educational attainment for citizens, higher work attainment and income levels, and greater satisfaction. Moreover, women and men who live in states with pro-woman policies are more postmodern in their attitudes; these individuals more readily support gender equality and prefer a culturally rich, high quality of life over economic gain. Women also have more postmodern attitudes than men. This research identifies the structural components and the social processes associated with the holding of individual attitudes, as suggested by House.

scholarly journals Beliefs about finding a compatible partner in three settings

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-264
Author(s):  
Susan Sprecher
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Internet Dating ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Single Adults ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
People’S Attitudes

Single adults often exert considerable energy searching for a compatible partner. Until recently, people met partners primarily through everyday activities (work, school) and through friends. These ways of meeting partners are still common, although Internet dating sites have also become a main way for couples to meet. The current study was conducted to examine people’s attitudes about finding a compatible partner in three different settings: online dating, the social network (e.g., friends of friends), and everyday activities. A sample of 702 single (unpartnered) adults (ages 18 to 40) completed a survey that included items that measured their attitudes about finding a compatible partner in the three different ways. Participants believed they would be less likely to find a compatible partner through online dating than either through friends or in everyday activities. Age and shyness were negatively associated with optimism of finding a partner, particularly in the traditional settings of everyday activities and through one’s social network.

Beth Miqdash Me’at: The Synagogues of Medieval England

1993 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Hillaby
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Temple

Since the destruction of the Temple the synagogue has been at the heart of every Jewish community. Here the individual could affirm his obedience to the laws (kalakkot) through prayer and ceremony. In this way he sought the salvation of the soul and the resurrection of the body in the messianic age. In addition the community, through the offices of the synagogue, was able to exercise close control over the social lives of all its members, by excommunication if necessary but this was rarely required for ‘the social consequences of nonconformity brought irresistible pressure to bear upon the transgressor’.

scholarly journals Parenthood in a Crisis: Stress Potentials and Gender Differences of Parents During the Corona Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Jellen ◽  
Heike Ohlbrecht
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Home Schooling ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender

The social consequences of the corona pandemic are unequally distributed. Initial studies show that people with a low household income are particularly affected by the consequences of the pandemic, but also families have been faced with massive challenges for coping with everyday life and subjective health due to the lockdown. In our research we can show and concretise the burden dimensions of parents, but also their resources in times of Corona crisis. It becomes clear that mothers in particular are more affected by emotional consequences, their life satisfaction has dropped most, and they have to take over the care and home schooling of their children for the most part. However, some families are benefiting from the crisis in terms of the time resources they are gaining. It is also striking that the family seems to be both- a resource and a source of stress for women during the lockdown.

Mahila Sanghas as Feminist Groups

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo-Anne Everingham
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Credit Unions ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right

With increasing focus on the place of women in development by multilateral agencies, donor countries and non-governmental organisations, various strategies of intervention are employed. One such intervention results in poor illiterate women in Orissa, redefining their position in contrast to the dominant discourses and gender ideology of state, religion and economy, to over come culturally enshrined powerlessness. From the observation of the work of the People's Rural Education Movement (PREM), and the women's organisations and credit unions they support and foster it is clear that such women's groups are appropriately understood as feminist in that they have claimed the right to speak for themselves (and those with whom they are attempting to change the social order); conceptualised an alternative social order and defined for themselves alternative social, political and economic activities within it; are challenging the mass of constructed ideas, values and myths around their gender; and are also challenging the social construction of male-female dualism and the ways in which it is reinforced. Their activities are considered in terms of Kristeva's three tiers of feminist thought: liberal feminism, radical feminism and symbolic-order post-structural feminism.

Sin, Gender, and Empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Croasmun
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Roman Republic ◽  
Social System ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

This chapter places Paul’s discourse of the “Body of Hamartia” within the context of various ancient discourses regarding the social body. These discourses are shown to be oriented around a central ideology of self-mastery that frames ancient Greco-Roman ideas about both gender and empire. It engages especially with the Roma cult in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire as an instance of an ancient collective “person” emergent from a complex social system. (The case of “Legion” in Mark 5 is considered as well.) This comparison allows for a discussion of Hamartia in Paul in terms of ancient political and gender ideology.

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