scholarly journals Perspectives on Women in Plutarch’s Apophthegmata Laconica

Humanitas ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 71-96
Author(s):  
Fabio Tanga
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
External Focus ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Historical Periods

The paper analyzes role and reputation, words and behaviors, duties and activities of the female figures described and quoted in Plutarch’s Apophthegmata Laconica. Depending on status and context, the role played by women in Spartan families and society seems to be fundamental for several reasons, in crucial situations and in different historical periods. And Plutarch, relating anecdotes, customs and sayings of the Spartans, allows to identify a remarkable variety of perspectives on women and their field of action. So, the internal and external focus on Spartan women’s everyday life helps to show the female loyalty to a Spartan ‘system of values’, through a series of aphorisms that outline the contribution of women to the historical and political experience, tradition and literary narration of Sparta over the centuries.

scholarly journals Pursuing happiness in everyday life: The characteristics and behaviors of online happiness seekers.

Emotion ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1222-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Acacia C. Parks ◽  
Matthew D. Della Porta ◽  
Russell S. Pierce ◽  
Ran Zilca ◽  
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
And Behaviors

scholarly journals Reconstructing the everyday culture of medieval society in the museum exposition

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-100
Author(s):  
Maxim G. Terebilov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
General Picture ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Museum Interpretation ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Live Culture

The issue of representing the everyday culture of archaic societies in the museum exposition is quite relevant for modern museology. The culture of everyday life itself plays an important role in studying history of culture as well as the existence of society in different historical periods; therefore its museum interpretation requires particular emphasis. The author reflects on things, which distinguishes historical, long-defunct everyday live culture, artificially created in the exposition of the open-air museum, from the modern, original one, which is being saved by various ecomuseums. In addition, the article identifies three forms of expression of everyday culture, examines the possibilities of its reconstruction, relationship with each other and with the museum itself in the process of creating a general picture of medieval society’s life. Thus, the reconstruction of everyday culture appears to be a strictly historical phenomenon, which is impossible without theatricalization and other creative elements

Neal E. Miller and His Research1

Biofeedback ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar E. Coons ◽  
Sarah F. Leibowitz
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Learning Control ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Organ Response ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
And Behaviors

Abstract Neal Miller's research contributions mainly concerned reward and learning mechanisms: (a) underlying thought processes and behaviors relevant to problem solving in psychotherapy and everyday life, (b) as mediated by the nervous system, and (c) involved in learning control over voluntary (conscious) skeletal muscle and autonomic (normally unconscious) internal-organ response systems for minimizing stress, treating disease, and promoting health. His career shows psychology's evolution from a theory-driven but data-impoverished discipline in the 1930s to one integrating vast bodies of clinical, social, and physiological knowledge.

scholarly journals Reported Changes in Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Adolescents ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Sabina Kapetanovic ◽  
Sevtap Gurdal ◽  
Birgitta Ander ◽  
Emma Sorbring
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Critical Number ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Government

What effect the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had on adolescents’ psychosocial functioning is currently unknown. Using the data of 1767 (50.2% female and 49.8 male) adolescents in Sweden, we discuss adolescents’ thoughts and behaviors around the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as reported changes in substance use, everyday life, relations, victimization, and mental health during the outbreak. Results showed that (a) the majority of adolescents have been complying with regulations from the government; (b) although most adolescents did not report changes in their psychosocial functioning, a critical number reported more substance use, conflict with parents, less time spent with peers, and poorer control over their everyday life; and (c) the majority of adolescents have experienced less victimization, yet poorer mental health, during the COVID-19 outbreak. Adolescent girls and adolescents in distance schooling were likely to report negative changes in their psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 outbreak. Based on these findings, we suggest that society should pay close attention to changes in adolescents’ psychosocial functioning during times of crisis.

scholarly journals Assessment of Distorted Nutrition-Related Beliefs and Behaviors of Students Enrolled in an Introductory Nutrition Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 484-484
Author(s):  
Emily Riddle ◽  
Jessica Newmark
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Eating Behavior ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Nutrition Course ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Behaviors

Abstract Objectives Most students entering an introductory nutrition course have previously held beliefs about food. They have been eating their whole lives and have been bombarded with media portraying both sound and flawed science. Drawing from psychology, the cognitive model describes how distorted beliefs can give rise to distorted behaviors. Distorted beliefs can be rooted in fantasia, or the certainty that something is understood that truly is not. Applying this to nutrition, fantasia and associated distorted beliefs may negatively impact eating behavior. The objectives of this study are to 1) assess the nutrition-related knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors of students taking an introductory nutrition course, 2) evaluate the effectiveness of pre- and post-unit assignments designed to help students evaluate and correct their own areas of fantasia. Methods Nutrition in Everyday Life is an introductory nutrition course (n = 25). In 2020, pre- and post- unit reflective assignments were integrated into the course. Using the cognitive model, these assignments aimed to help students evaluate and correct distorted beliefs rooted in fantasia. Mixed methods, including a pre/post-test, were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the assignments. Mann-Whitey U tests were used to compare quantitative data. Results Prior to the course, students’ average pre-test score was a 66%. The most commonly held distorted beliefs included, “If people eat less and exercise more, they will always lose weight,” and “Low-fat and diet foods are always healthier alternatives to full-fat products.” Students reported that these beliefs had influenced them to “avoid carbohydrates and fat” and to “eat in a calorie deficit and exercise a lot.” Students’ average post-test scores significantly increased (P = 0.001), indicating that students were better able to identify distorted beliefs. Students reported that correcting their distorted beliefs may impact their behaviors, such as “wanting to alter diets to include more healthier carbs and fats.” Conclusions The incorporation of pre- and post-unit reflective assignments into an introductory nutrition course can be an effective way to teach students to critically evaluate their own previously held beliefs, which may lead to positive changes in nutrition-related behaviors. Funding Sources College at Oneonta Foundation; SUNY Oneonta Alumni Association.

scholarly journals Chemistry in a post-Covid-19 world

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goverdhan Mehta ◽  
Alain Krief ◽  
Henning Hopf ◽  
Stephen A. Matlin
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Knowledge Application ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
And Behaviors

The long-term impacts of global upheaval unleashed by Covid-19 on economic, political, social configurations, trade, everyday life in general, and broader planetary sustainability issues are still unfolding and a full assessment will take some time. However, in the short term, the disruptive effects of the pandemic on health, education, and behaviors and on science and education have already manifested themselves profoundly – and the chemistry arena is also deeply affected. There will be ramifications for many facets of chemistry’s ambit, including how it repositions itself and how it is taught, researched, practiced, and resourced within the rapidly shifting post-Covid-19 contexts. The implications for chemistry are discussed hereunder three broad headings, relating to trends (a) within the field of knowledge transfer; (b) in knowledge application and translational research; and (c) affecting academic/professional life.

scholarly journals Stiletto Socialism

Aspasia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
Polona Sitar
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
And Behaviors

This article explores how women interpreted everyday clothing practices and decoration of their body and how they positioned themselves in different social milieus during the period of socialist Slovenia (1945–1991). The new socialist middle class in Slovenia and Yugoslavia was defined by participation in a lifestyle, created and expressed through consumption and behaviors that turned everyday life into a symbolic display of taste and cultural distinction. This article shows the ways women engaged in self-expression and negotiated dressing up. It analyzes the self-emancipation of women as they challenged the boundaries of social hierarchies on the basis of self-transformations, pointing out the active role that women had in their self-positioning in social categories.

scholarly journals The Persistence of the Past: Memory, Generational Cohorts and the ‘Iron Curtain’

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
SABINA MIHELJ
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Generational Cohorts ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Border Town ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
State Socialist ◽  
Historical Periods

AbstractDespite considerable evidence of the link between generational cohorts and mnemonic persistence in other social and historical contexts, existing research on memory in former state socialist countries tends to focus primarily on evidence of mnemonic change. In contrast, this article seeks to develop a more nuanced understanding of post-state-socialist memories, one capable of accounting for both mnemonic change and persistence. Methodologically, the article combines the analysis of personal memories across several generations with a reconstruction of the changing contours of everyday life in different historical periods, based on archival and secondary sources. To demonstrate the usefulness of such an approach, the article examines the memories of life at the Yugoslav border with Italy, as recounted by the inhabitants of the Slovenian border town of Nova Gorica in 2008.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER: KEPEDULIAN TERHADAP LINGKUNGAN

Conciencia ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Yusron Masduki
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Character Building

a Karno as the first President of the Republic of Indonesia as the founding father of this nation stressed that: This nation must be built by prioritizing character building, because this character will make Indonesia a great, advanced and dignified nation. If character development is not carried out, then the Indonesian people will become coolies. Character can be interpreted as a basic value that builds a person's personal, formed because of the influence of heredity and environmental influences, which distinguishes it from others, and is manifested in attitudes and behaviors in everyday life.

scholarly journals Reported Change in Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning during the Covid-19 Outbreak

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Kapetanovic ◽  
Sevtap Gurdal ◽  
Birgitta Ander ◽  
Emma Sorbring
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Critical Number ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Government ◽  
Using Data

Abstract What effect the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic has on adolescents’ psychosocial functioning is unknown. Using data of N = 1789 (50% females) adolescents in Sweden we described adolescents’ thoughts and behaviors, as well as perceived changes in substance use, everyday life, relations, victimization, and mental health during the outbreak. Results show that a) adolescents tend to comply with regulations from the government, b) although most adolescents do not experience psychosocial changes, a critical number report increase in substance use and negative relational changes and c) most of the adolescents report poorer control of their everyday life and mental health. Adolescent females and adolescents with distance schooling were likely to report negative changes in their psychosocial functioning during the Covid-19 outbreak. Based on these findings, we suggest that the society should pay close attention to changes in adolescents’ psychosocial functioning during the time of crisis.

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