The Meaning of Social Inclusion to Players With and Without Intellectual Disability in Unified Sports Teams

Inclusion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy McConkey ◽  
Cheryl Peng ◽  
Marie Merritt ◽  
Amy Shellard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Sports Teams ◽  
Thematic Content Analysis

Abstract Sport can be a means for promoting social inclusion but to date, the perspectives of participants have been rarely sought. Focus groups interviews were held with 6 Special Olympic, Unified Sports teams in the United States as well as one each in Germany and India. In all, 49 athletes with intellectual disability and 39 team-mates without disability participated. From a thematic content analysis, a core concept of togetherness emerged, with five subthemes of equality, friendships, participation, connections, and assistance. Four main feelings were associated with togetherness: happy, relaxed, confident, and cared for. The players gave specific examples of how these outcomes were realised in sport and community settings. Their insights could guide future attempts to promote social inclusion in sports and the wider community.

Restrictions, Power, Companionship, and Intimacy: A Metasynthesis of People With Intellectual Disability Speaking About Sex and Relationships

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhonda S. Black ◽  
Rebecca R. Kammes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
The United States ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Program Staff ◽  
Person Centered Approach

Abstract Examining literature that tells us what people with intellectual disability (PWID) think and feel about their sexual lives may enable families and professionals to offer a more person-centered approach to education and support. Examining the voices of many individuals across several studies may provide more convincing evidence about the experiences of these individuals—turning a solo into a chorus. Thus, the purpose of this article is to describe the results of a metasynthesis of qualitative studies highlighting the voices of PWID with respect to relationships and sexuality. Combining the results of 16 qualitative studies, 271 participants with intellectual disability were interviewed individually or in focus groups about their feelings and experiences regarding intimate relationships. Studies were conducted across Europe, in Australia, China, and in the United States. A little more than half of the participants were male; ages ranged from 13 to 89. Results revealed two competing themes of control and desire. Participants across studies desired friendships and close interpersonal relationships, yet were restricted from developing these relationships by policies, program staff, and family members.

scholarly journals Who's afraid of the big bad wolf : examining attacks on Canada's federal centre-right political parties in the televised negative political advertisements between 1993 and 2006 using propaganda analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Adrian Brosens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Political Advertisements

This thesis uses a triangulated methodology of focus groups, semiotic analysis, and content analysis to categorize and analyze the televised negative political advertisements aired during the Canadian federal elections between 1993 and 2006. How these attacks made against the conservative parties during this timeframe were interpreted by mothers of adolescent children receives particular considerations. The findings demonstrate that during this period the Canadian debate between individualism and communitarianism was prevalent in these political advertisements. It is argued that propaganda methods, namely the name calling technique, were used effectively by the left-wing parties to emphasize specific ideological traditions in conservatism and to link the conservative parties to the United States of America for strategic purposes. The author contends that political advertisements are complex expressions of a party's ideology and goals, thus this campaign tool ought to be studied more by Canadian academics.

scholarly journals Who's afraid of the big bad wolf : examining attacks on Canada's federal centre-right political parties in the televised negative political advertisements between 1993 and 2006 using propaganda analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Adrian Brosens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Political Advertisements

This thesis uses a triangulated methodology of focus groups, semiotic analysis, and content analysis to categorize and analyze the televised negative political advertisements aired during the Canadian federal elections between 1993 and 2006. How these attacks made against the conservative parties during this timeframe were interpreted by mothers of adolescent children receives particular considerations. The findings demonstrate that during this period the Canadian debate between individualism and communitarianism was prevalent in these political advertisements. It is argued that propaganda methods, namely the name calling technique, were used effectively by the left-wing parties to emphasize specific ideological traditions in conservatism and to link the conservative parties to the United States of America for strategic purposes. The author contends that political advertisements are complex expressions of a party's ideology and goals, thus this campaign tool ought to be studied more by Canadian academics.

Capturing the Art of Public Service: The Government’s Perspective

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Tony Carrizales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Art Forms

Public Service, in popular culture, can be viewed through many artistic lenses. Although there has been a consistent negative portrayal of government through art forms such as film and television, this research looks to review how government institutions in the United States have used art to provide a positive portrayal of public service. Eight forms of public service art are outlined through a content analysis of the holdings at the Virtual Museum of Public Service. The findings show that government and public entities have historically and continually engaged in promoting public service through art. Many of these public art examples are accessible year round, without limitations, such as buildings, statues, and public structures.

Improving psychotropic medication use among persons with dementia

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1587-1588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donovan T. Maust
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Psychotropic Medication ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Limited Evidence

The use of psychotropic medication among persons with dementia (PWD) both in nursing home (Wetzels et al., 2011) and community settings (Maust et al., 2016) far exceeds what might be expected based on their limited evidence for benefit (Kales et al., 2015). This relatively high use persists despite years of evidence about the potential harms associated with their use in older adults generally and PWD in particular (e.g. Wang et al., 2001; Schneider et al., 2005). However, the solution to relatively high psychotropic use is not to end all psychotropic use, as there are individual patients for whom use of such medication is appropriate. For example, a policy that defines all antipsychotic use as inappropriate may simply lead to increased use of alternatives with even less evidence of benefit, as suggested by the response to antipsychotics’ black box warning in the United States (Kales et al., 2011).

Sex Roles in Advertising: A Comparison of Television Advertisements in Australia, Mexico, and the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Gilly
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Television Advertisements

In the past, research has found that the portrayal of sex roles in advertising has not reflected equality or reality. Further, studies typically have examined only U.S. advertising, leaving open the question of cultural influence on advertising's sex role portrayals. The author offers a new analysis of sex roles in advertising and compares content analysis findings for U.S., Australian, and Mexican television advertisements. Results reveal differences in the portrayal of the sexes in U.S. advertisements. Australian advertisements show somewhat fewer sex role differences and Mexican advertisements show slightly more sex role differences than U.S. advertisements. Stereotypes are found in the advertising of all three countries, but are manifested in different ways.

Savvy Surrogates and Rock Star Parents: Compensation Provisions, Contracting Practices, and the Value of Womb Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-431
Author(s):  
Hillary L. Berk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Medical Risks ◽  
Exchange Relations

Abstract:What is the value of surrogate labor and risks, and how is it negotiated by participants as they contract within an unsettled baby market? This article presents novel data on compensation, fee, and bodily autonomy provisions formalized in surrogacy contracts, and the experiences of actors embedded in exchange relations, as they emerge in a contested reproductive market. It combines content analysis of a sample of thirty surrogacy contracts with 115 semi-structured interviews conducted in twenty states across the United States of parties to these agreements, attorneys who draft them, counselors, and agencies that coordinate matches between intended parents and surrogates. It analyzes the value of services and medical risks, such as loss of a uterus, selective abortion, and “carrier incapacity,” as they are encoded into agreements within an ambiguous field. Surrogacy is presented as an interactive social process involving law, markets, medicine, and a variety of cultural norms surrounding gender, motherhood, and work. Contracts have actual and symbolic power, legitimating transactions despite moral anxieties. Compensation transforms pregnancy into a job while helping participants make sense of the market and their “womb work” given normative flux. Contracts are deployed by professionals without informed policies that could enhance power and reduce potential inequalities.

scholarly journals Implementation of U.S. Immigration Policies

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Burçak Gündal ◽  
Sıddıka Öztekin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Immigrant Policies

Immigration and refugees are sets of global flows of people who are seeking information, technology, economic stability, and military, political, and social asylum. Immigrants and refugees, which is one of the categories of migrants, represent only one of many global exchanges in an increasingly independent world. As the number of immigrants increases, the national, demographic, and socio-economic composition of the foreign residents in a host country are impacted by the immigration and immigrant policies of the receiving country. Immigration is inseparably part of the American national identity and always will be, and the United States would not continue to grow without immigration. In setting immigration policy in the United States, policymakers must be sensitive to both the U.S. vulnerabilities and the effects of American policies on the countries of origin. Since the post 9/11 period in the United States, immigration, immigration policy and implementation have been debated issues. Especially after Donald Trump was elected, the debate about migrants and immigration issues has increased even more. The purpose of this study is to show the development of immigration in American history, the positive and negative effects of immigrants on American economy and social life, and the question of the effects of social inclusion policies on the immigrant problem.

Role of Haitian Newspapers in the United States

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leara Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
The United States

This study used a content analysis of four Haitian newspapers to determine how they define their roles in American communities and in Haiti. The results of the study suggest that the newspapers are not ethnic presses encouraging assimilation but are alternative presses with political agendas.

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