Not Entirely Married: Resisting the Hegemonic Patrilineal Family in Japan's Household Registry

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-606
Author(s):  
Linda White
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Japanese Family ◽  
Name Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Family Membership ◽  
Legal Marriage ◽  
Marriage Structure

Abstract The koseki 戸籍 (family or household registry) has long served as a material representation of the conceptual structure of Japanese family relations. Membership in a family has been stipulated and proved through registration in a koseki document defined through a shared surname and address. Evidence of family membership for purposes of legal transactions and social interactions has rested in the koseki document. However, during the past several decades some women have questioned the social pressure and legal requirement to change their names in marriage, choosing instead to maintain their surname by refusing to register their marriages to their “husbands.” Claiming themselves “married” but not legally registering their marriages, this growing group of name-change resisters defines their nonregistered marriages as jijitsukon 事実婚 (common-law or real marriage). Drawing on ethnographic research with women in jijitsukon marriages in Tokyo who refuse to share a koseki with their “husbands,” this article explores the implications of marital registration resistance in a marriage-centric society and the concurrent critique of the koseki system (the Koseki Law, koseki document, and the broader system of registration) and the legal marriage structure at the core of women's claims to be married when they do not meet Japan's legal criteria for marriage.

Social and non-social knowledge in vervet monkeys

1985 ◽  
Vol 308 (1135) ◽  
pp. 187-201 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Vervet Monkeys ◽  
East African ◽  
Dominance Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecological Problems

The social knowledge of East African vervet monkeys is striking. W ithin a local population the monkeys recognize individuals, and associate each individual with its particular group. W ithin groups, the monkeys recognize dominance relations, rank orders, and matrilineal kinship, and they remember who has behaved affinitively towards them in the past. Outside the social domain, however, vervets appear to know surprisingly little about other aspects of their environment. Although they do distinguish the different alarm calls given by birds, vervets do not seem to recognize the fresh tracks of a python, or indirect evidence that a leopard is nearby. Similarly, although cooperation and reciprocity seem common in social interactions, comparable behaviour has apparently not evolved to deal with ecological problems. Results support the view that primate intelligence has evolved mainly to solve social problems. As a result, vervet monkeys make excellent primatologists but poor naturalists.

Social Issues in Management: Comments on the Past and Future

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 1406-1412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archie B. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
International Association ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Name Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
Program Chair ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Level

This essay comments on the past and the future of the Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM). The essay addresses the two major questions posed to the commentators on this special issue: First, does the past of the SIM Division provide any clues as to its future? Second, where is the SIM Division going or where should it be going? The author has been a member of SIM since 1971 and served as program chair in 1975 and division chair in 1976 to 1977. SIM is certainly a field at the community and administrative levels, and you could argue that SIM is a discipline, though we are interdisciplinary. It is not as certain that we are unique or distinctive at the intellectual level because we are not always that different in kind or quality from what is being done elsewhere in AOM, and there are more and more scholars in other divisions now working on topics that we once worked on exclusively. However, it is equally unlikely that many of the other AOM divisions could meet a test of intellectual uniqueness. The essay emphasizes some ideas that might help improve the intellectual rigor of the SIM meetings, and the value of alliances with Society for Business Ethics (SBE) and International Association for Business and Society (IABS). A division name change, even if desirable, is not a compelling issue.

scholarly journals Odyssey of the mind: Social networking in a cyberschool

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Michael K Barbour ◽  
Cory Plough
Keyword(s):  
Charter Schools ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Online Programs ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cyber Charter School ◽  
Online Schools ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The Mind

K-12 online learning and cyber charter schools have grown at a tremendous rate over the past decade. At the same time, these online programs have struggled to provide the social spaces where students can interact that K-12 schools are traditionally able to provide. Social networking presents a unique opportunity to provide these kinds of social interactions in an online environment. In this article, we trace the development and use of social networking at one cyber charter school to extend the space for online instruction and provide opportunities for social interaction that online schools are often unable to provide.<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><input id="jsProxy" onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" type="hidden" />

scholarly journals Empathy in Social Agents

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Concrete Model

Empathy is seen as the capacity to perceive, understand and experience others' emotions. This notion is often considered as one of the major elements in social interactions between humans. As such, when creating social agents, that are believable and able to engage users in social interactions, empathy needs to be addressed. Indeed, for the past few years, many researchers have been looking at this problem, not only in trying to find ways to perceive the user's emotions, but also to adapt to them, and react in an empathic way. This paper provides a small overview of this new challenging area of research, by analyzing empathy in the social relations established between humans and social agents, and providing a concrete model for the creation of empathic social agents.

Common-Law Marriage

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna L. Grossman ◽  
Lawrence M. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Legal Marriage ◽  
Husband And Wife ◽  
Common Law Marriage

This chapter describes the adventures—and the decline and fall—of the doctrine of common-law marriage in the twentieth century. A common-law marriage was an informal, but perfectly legal, marriage. If a man and woman agreed with each other to be husband and wife, then, from that moment on, they were husband and wife, without a marriage license, a judge or clergyman, witnesses, or anything else. A series of court decisions, in the first half of the nineteenth century, established the doctrine in most of the states. The chapter looks at the social factors which led to the decline of the common-law marriage.

The Need to Refocus on the Group as the Site of Radicalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura G. E. Smith ◽  
Leda Blackwood ◽  
Emma F. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Individual

The past decade has witnessed burgeoning efforts among governments to prevent people from developing a commitment to violent extremism (conceived of as a process of radicalization). These interventions acknowledge the importance of group processes yet in practice primarily focus on the idiosyncratic personal vulnerabilities that lead people to engage in violence. This conceptualization is problematic because it disconnects the individual from the group and fails to adequately address the role of group processes in radicalization. To address this shortcoming, we propose a genuinely social psychological account of radicalization as an alternative. We draw on recent developments in theory and research in psychological science to suggest that radicalization is fundamentally a group socialization process through which people develop identification with a set of norms—that may be violent or nonviolent—through situated social interactions that leverage their shared perceptions and experiences. Our alternative provides a way of understanding shifts toward violent extremism that are caused by both the content (focal topics) and process of social interactions. This means that people’s radicalization to violence is inseparable from the social context in which their social interactions take place.

scholarly journals Using Locative Media to Enrich Spaces with Historical Artifacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Aidan Power
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Augmented Reality Application ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
The University

This piece is a prototype of an mobile Augmented Reality application that uses locative media to focus on the social interactions people have in space between each other and  technology. It allows users to interact with digital objects in the built environment on the University of Waterloo campus through their mobile devices and envision the past of the spaces they enter, such as the contruction of well known buildings on campus or past student activities at their residences. It brings together the disciplines of history, fine arts, interface design and locative media studies. 

scholarly journals Why did the Supreme Court rule that the issue of foresight had been misinterpreted for the past 30 years with regards to joint enterprise?

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Mubarok Juhi ◽  
Alex Mullen ◽  
James McGauley ◽  
Lauren McDonald ◽  
Regan Melngalvis
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Supreme Court Ruling ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Law ◽  
Joint Enterprise

Joint enterprise is an area of law that has no statutory definition, instead being developed through the common law. It involves situations where more than one defendant can be convicted of the same crime, even if the co-defendant did not play an active role in the crime and, since it is common law based, many would argue (including Ben Crewe, a scholar) that the laws surrounding it have been created in a ‘hazardous way’. This has ultimately resulted in the Supreme Court ruling in 2016 that the law had been misinterpreted for the past 30 years- and judges had been using the law to wrongfully convict people, with a major factor being the issue of foresight had been misunderstood. In the past the jury had been able to use proof of foresight of a crime as a suitable mens rea for joint enterprise, a lower mens rea threshold than for other convictions of murder and post 2016 this is no longer the case. This essay will therefore explore the leading case where the decision to overturn the law was made, what happened prior to 2016 and any appeal cases and the social context of joint enterprise legislation.

scholarly journals A review of psychological studies on social interactions of students in inclusive classrooms

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Konokotin
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Inclusive Classrooms ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychological Studies

The article presents a review of current foreign publications on the social interactions of children in inclusive classrooms. It analyzes the studies carried out during the period from 2008 to 2017, i.e. over the past decade. The results show that social interactions of students in inclusive classrooms are often studied in small groups where students with special educational needs and their normally developing peers are gathered together, but researchers ignore other factors that may have an impact on the quality of their interactions. Thus interactions of students are not equal in nature and are not purposefully organized so that researchers are not able to fully identify the role of each student

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