The comparative constitution of twinship: strategies and paradoxes

Twin Research ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
EA Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Mode Of Reproduction ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
The Social

AbstractIn both traditional and modern societies, twinship, as an unusual mode of reproduction, involves difficulties for social systems in maintaining consistent classification systems. It is proposed that the most prevalent response to twinship involves various ‘strategies of normalisation’ to defuse and contain the potential disruption. This proposition is illustrated and analysed in relation to ethnographic maternal drawn mainly (but not exclusively) from African communities in the twentieth century. Following a discussion of twin infanticide as the most extreme of the normalising strategies, the article concludes by identifying a number of paradoxes in the social construction of twinship. Twin Research (2000) 3, 142–147.

The social construction of married women's labour-force participation: the case of Sweden in the twentieth century

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Nyberg
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
The Social

Les données provenant des dénombrements indiquent que la proportion des femmes mariées qui travaillent augmente considérablement dans tous les pays d'Europe depuis le début de ce siècle. Cependant cet accroissement n'est, dans une large mesure, qu'une construction sociale de la réalité, ayant pour seule base les idéologies qui prédominaient à l'époque et non une description correcte de la réalité. Si la définition actuelle de la main d'oeuvre avait été appliquée au début du siècle, le travail des ouvrières mariées aurait été évalué de façon complétement différente: on trouverait un taux élevé de participation des ouvrières au début du siècle, un taux bien moindre durant les années 1950 et 1960 et un taux croissant depuis les années 1960 et jusqu'à aujourd'hui.

scholarly journals JUST A MATTER OF CHOICE

2017 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-122
Author(s):  
Marco Antonio Bueno Filho
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Social

What is learning? What is teaching? What would be students and teachers’ role regarding the process of learning and teaching? These are basic questions that have been answered in different ways throughout the twentieth century by various currents of thought in the field of education. As teachers we also tend to respond to them based on our past pedagogical readings and experiences, resulting in a plurality of positions where cognitivism, socio-cultural, behavioral, and political aspects can be appreciated jointly or to some degree polarized relative to each other. In the early 1990s, Gerard Vergnaud also contributed to these questions in formulating The Conceptual Field Theory. Although the foundations of this theoretical body, in a first reading, are aligned with the Piagetian tradition, later developments contemplated the social construction of action schemes and, consequently, of the amalgam of concepts and thought operations that confer operability to human actions.

Feminism and Gender Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darlene Juschka
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralism ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Theoretical Developments

This chapter examines gender as a category and concept and its deployment in the study of systems of belief and practice in the last decades of the twentieth century. It charts four theoretical developments that have extended the study of gender in significant ways: that is, intersectionality (analysis of interrelations between race, class, and gender), feminist poststructuralism, gender studies and performance (performance as a central aspect of the social construction of gender, e.g. in rites of passage), and sexuality and queer studies (e.g. recognizing that there is no single normative or universal sexuality). It then examines the application of these theoretical developments in the study of religion.

“I would say it’s alive”: Understanding the social construction of place, identity, and neighborhood effects through the lived experience of urban young adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-500
Author(s):  
Kalen Flynn ◽  
Brenda Mathias
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construction Of Place

A burgeoning literature provides evidence that neighborhood matters, especially in relation to urban adolescent development. Exposure to crime and poverty has been shown to negatively impact key aspects of development, such as physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Traditional theoretical frameworks identifying the social mechanisms of place fail to critically examine how neighborhood effects are socially constructed at the individual level, and rather assume aggregate community narratives. Such blanket measures of neighborhood effects do not account for individual interpretations of space or the impacts of larger structural forces on decision making and developmental processes. A unique combination of qualitative GIS methodologies was utilized to explore how urban adolescents define, navigate, and engage their surrounding environment to better understand the mechanisms of neighborhood effects, and how these interactions shape development. Sedentary and walking interview data were paired with GPS data to develop a real-time understanding of the spaces across which youth were navigating. The findings from this work suggest that how youth perceive space is a complex process, stemming from the interaction of structural and social systems, and highlight the value of understanding varying resident experiences when considering definitions of neighborhood. This study begins to fill a gap in the neighborhood effects’ literature by developing an argument for the social construction of place as an alternative to traditional methodological and theoretical frameworks.

Media discourses and marketing strategies in the advertising of the pianola

Popular Music ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-57
Author(s):  
Jordi Roquer González
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Great Mass

AbstractAs a phenomenon of great social relevance between 1900 and 1930, the graphic advertising of the pianola must be considered as one of the first great mass media platforms linked to musical activity and, therefore, the analysis of its discourse offers valuable information about the social construction of the musical world during the first decades of the twentieth century. This article shows the results of an analysis of 200 historical advertisements through which it is possible to trace the origins of some of the current advertising rhetoric and also some of our current ideas about musical activity. In this way, the advertisements studied show some interesting links to the mindset and aesthetic and social conventions of the time but also show us to what degree these discourses are, to a large extent, still valid today.

scholarly journals To Visit and to Cut Down: Tourism, Forestry, and the Social Construction of Nature in Twentieth-Century Northeastern Ontario

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-357
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Native People ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Construction Of Nature ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historical Forest

Abstract This paper relies on the insights of social nature scholarship to trace the historical forest conservationist and tourism discourses through which Temagami, Ontario, became famous as a site of wild forest nature. The discursive practices associated with Temagami tourism and forest conservation in the early twentieth century did not merely reflect a self-evident wilderness, but rather constituted the region as a wild place for non-Native people both to visit and to extract for profit. The social construction of Temagami wilderness came to appear natural through the erasure of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai’s claim to the Temagami region, an erasure that persisted in environmentalists’ struggle to “save” the Temagami wilderness in the late 1980s. Revealing the histories and power relationships embedded in wilderness is part of the struggle toward greater justice.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social
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