scholarly journals Following ties and traces of migration

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachele Bezzini ◽  
Gilles De Rapper ◽  
Ana Cristina Irian
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Status

The Albanian town of Gjirokastër is located 30 kilometers from the Greek border. While this proximity has inevitably contributed to directing migration flows to Greece, the focus of this article is to understand the characteristics of migration from Gjirokastër to Italy – the second destination for Albanian migrants after Greece. Findings will show how, despite its marginality, migration from Gjirokastër to Italy plays a significant role in remaking the symbolic boundaries within the social space under consideration. Based on a short period of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in the summer of 2015, this research follows the ties and traces of migration from Gjirokastër to Italy through an experimental analysis of the town’s visual landscape and soundscape and that of the narratives which emerged from photo-elicitation sessions and face-to-face interviews with individuals related to Albanian migrants in Italy. Thanks to the analysis of both these public and private spheres, the article specifically proposes an understanding of the migration phenomenon which focuses on its transformative role within the place of origin, its categories and its hierarchies.In particular, we will see how migration to Italy may become a way to transform the status of Muslim Albanians vis-à-vis Orthodox Albanians in Gjirokastër through religious conversion to Catholicism, as well as as through the opportunities provided by learning the Italian language. In fact, both language learning and religious conversion – either before or after migration – seem to act as tools for social mobility on an individual basis. This concerns not only migrants, but also their kin and, more extensively, the local population of Gjirokastër through infrastructures (church, honorary consulate, school, etc.) indirectly linked with migration to Italy.

‘Story of one’s life and a tree of friends’ – understanding millennials’ information behaviour in social networks

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 489-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Read ◽  
Chirag Shah ◽  
Lupita S-O’Brien ◽  
Jaqueline Woolcott
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Space ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Work Supports

Exploring ways in which new technology impacts adolescents’ information behaviours and creates a social space requires holistic investigation. A qualitative study of 21 seniors in an upper-middle-class suburban high school revealed highly individualized use of Facebook and its features. These included: (i) Friends groups of 50—3700 members, with even the largest groups representative primarily of face-to-face connections, and (ii) a clear articulation within those groups of various categories, each with its own distinct communicative channel and style. A meaningful connection was found between the social value of various social network (SN)-mediated relationships and the communicative modes used to maintain and enhance them. Through a comprehensive literature review and clearly grounded analysis of rich data, this work supports the contention that adolescent social groups in which SNs are embedded form a distinct domain, and establishes a rationale for further investigation of adolescents’ contextualized use of SNs within social relationships.

The social identity of Welsh learners

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol S. Trosset
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Linguistic Groups

ABSTRACTThe process of the attempted acquisition of spoken Welsh by English speakers in Wales is examined ethnographically in relation to the native association of Welsh-language speech with a Welsh cultural identity. Perceptions of Welsh learners by members of other linguistic groups reveal the symbolic significance of the learning of a minority language. The status of learners as verbal performers is investigated, together with the psychological impact of that status and of the ambiguity of the learners' identity on the learning process. (Bilingualism, language learning, Wales/Welsh)

scholarly journals Between Tradition and Modernity: Determining Spatial Systems of Privacy in the Domestic Architecture of Contemporary Iraq

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Ali Al-Thahab ◽  
Sabah Mushatat ◽  
Mohammed Gamal Abdelmonem
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Spatial Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The notion of privacy represents a central criterion for both indoor and outdoor social spaces in most traditional Arab settlements. This paper investigates privacy and everyday life as determinants of the physical properties and patterns of the built and urban fabric and will study their impact on traditional settlements and architecture of the home in the contemporary Iraqi city. It illustrates the relationship between socio-cultural aspects of public and private realms using the notion of the social sphere as an investigative tool of the concept of social space in Iraqi houses and local communities (Mahalla). This paper reports that in spite of the impact of other factors in articulating built forms, privacy embodies the primary role under the effects of Islamic rules, principles and culture. The crucial problem is the underestimation of traditional inherited values through opening social spaces to the outside that giving unlimited accesses to the indoor social environment creating many problems with regard to privacy and communal social integration.

scholarly journals Urban Connective Syntax: Re-Imagining the Connective Relationshops of Social Space in Toronto’s Downtown Core

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Smart
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
City Core ◽  
The City

Urban metropolitan city-centers offer the most complex, socially connective environments in the built world. The social structures fundamentally embedded in city life are, however increasingly being overshadowed by an isolating system of city densification. The City of Toronto, as a territory of exploration, is one of many cities that are evolving a dense array of restrictive boundaries that increasingly challenge human connectivity, and the deep-rooted ability of these environments to establish vibrant city life. It is the role of architecture to mediate the relationships between the public and private territories and to understand how these environments are utilized and engaged by the surrounding context. This thesis has extracted critical environmental components exemplified in city, community, and building territories, and has re-integrated these defining characteristics into an alternative design strategy that establishes a balanced symbiotic relationship between the private and public realms of Toronto’s future City Core.

scholarly journals The space of unfreedom: GULAG and its society

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-209
Author(s):  
Ilya V. Udovenko
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mode Of Life

This paper analyzes the GULAG as a social phenomenon of the Soviet society and as a specific type of the Soviet unfree space. In particular, it considers social constructs and the relation between the camp administration, prisoners, hired workers and the local population. Paying close attention to the analysis of the social groups which a camp population was comprised of, their gender and social structure, this paper explores the living conditions, mode of life, customs and mores of the social environment in a camp. Based on the large database of various historical sources, such as governmental acts, statistical evidence, archival documents, publications in the camp press and memoirs, this paper also relies on the video interviews of former prisoners collected by the GULAG History Museum. Without denying the authoritarian nature of the corrective-labor camp system, the author came to the conclusion that the established organizational model of camp complexes determined the lack of distinct borders between the camp social space and the public space of the free world. Such blurred structure of corrective-labor camps leads to the fact that the camp culture with its archaic social principles dominated by the thieves culture extended its considerable influence over the whole society of the Soviet Union.

scholarly journals Learners’ Beliefs and Communities Around Them: The Social Pressure to Learn Language

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401989884
Author(s):  
Munassir Alhamami
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Learning Language

This study used a mixed-methods design to investigate the effects of language learners’ subjective norm (SN) beliefs on learning English as a foreign language (EFL). To examine the perceived social pressure to learn EFL, two experiments were conducted in a Saudi university: a face-to-face language learning (FLL) experiment and an online language learning (OLL) experiment. A total of 674 EFL learners participated in the FLL treatment, and 286 EFL learners participated in the OLL treatment. In addition, several interviews were conducted with participants from both groups. The results show that understanding the SN beliefs of particular groups of people can help predict EFL students’ perceived social pressure to engage or not in learning a foreign language in online and face-to-face settings. Comparing the results of both groups shows that EFL learners hold more positive SN beliefs toward learning language in face-to-face settings than in online settings due to the participants’ SN beliefs. This finding highlights the importance of understanding the social pressure confronting language learners.

ظاهرة تغيير الديانة في الأرخبيل الماليزي: الخبرات النفسية والاجتماعية

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
LORANS HASSAN AL ZUABI ◽  
Muhammad Aunurrochim Mas'ad Saleh ◽  
Amalina Ahmad Tajudin ◽  
Sumaya Mohammed Bagotayan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Decision To Leave ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Research Analysis

The main objective of this study is to explore the reasons why people leave their religion and convert to another religion or adopt another religious status. By using qualitative research analysis, the study explores the reasons why some people in Malaysian Peninsular have converted to Islam while others have embraced it. The study took into consideration whether the psychological, social and religious experiences of the converts affect their decision to convert. The data was collected through accurate interviews, both face-to-face and online, with converts to and from Islam. With purposive samples and a snowball, online interviews were conducted with apostates and face-to-face interviews with converts to Islam. The results of the data analysis showed that the phenomenon of religious conversion is a sensitive and complex issue in Malaysian Peninsular. The research found that the reasons for changing their previous religions or leaving the religion entirely vary greatly depending on the social, psychological and religious experiences of the converts. Thus, the reasons cited by most apostates about Islam seem more religious, but in fact more psychological and social. The reasons cited by those who converted to Islam are more social and psychological. For apostates, violence and contradiction in Quranic verses and Islamic education are the main reasons for abandoning Islam. Love, marriage, and material gain were among the reasons why some people converted to Islam. Therefore, the study concluded that the decision to leave the former religion is usually influenced by multiple, varied and interrelated reasons. Most of them were the result of social motives, which created psychological crises, and, in turn led to a change of religion.

scholarly journals TURN TAKING STRATEGIES AND ITS RELATIONS TO EFL LEARNERS’ PERSONALITY AND POWER IN THE INTERACTION OF ENGLISH CONVERSATION CLASS

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
Rohmatul Fitriyah Dewi ◽  
Suharsono Suharsono ◽  
Ahmad Munir
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
The Status ◽  
Conversation Class

Conversation is a pivotal spoken discourse needs to be practiced by EFL learners in the classroom. The successful of conversation can be achieved through turn taking strategies as the important part of the conversation. In fact, the way of EFL learners’ turn taking strategies is influenced by the social context where it is employed. This study is aimed at examining social contexts based on how EFL learners’ social personality and power influence their turn taking strategies during the interaction in English conversation class. Since this study depicts naturally occurring interaction, a qualitative approach is applied. By conducting participant observation, the data is gained from EFL learners spoken interactions by using audio recording. The findings reveal that turn taking strategy employed by the learners result their different personality. Besides, the role of power also reflects the participants’ social roles. The higher the status of participants, the more influence the language is in face-to-face interaction. In conclusion, the intertwined of language and social context is beneficial for the learners to motivate them in functioning the language. 

scholarly journals Urban Connective Syntax: Re-Imagining the Connective Relationshops of Social Space in Toronto’s Downtown Core

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Smart
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
City Core ◽  
The City

Urban metropolitan city-centers offer the most complex, socially connective environments in the built world. The social structures fundamentally embedded in city life are, however increasingly being overshadowed by an isolating system of city densification. The City of Toronto, as a territory of exploration, is one of many cities that are evolving a dense array of restrictive boundaries that increasingly challenge human connectivity, and the deep-rooted ability of these environments to establish vibrant city life. It is the role of architecture to mediate the relationships between the public and private territories and to understand how these environments are utilized and engaged by the surrounding context. This thesis has extracted critical environmental components exemplified in city, community, and building territories, and has re-integrated these defining characteristics into an alternative design strategy that establishes a balanced symbiotic relationship between the private and public realms of Toronto’s future City Core.

scholarly journals Posiciones en disputa frente a la regulación de las TRHA: el caso argentino (Positions in dispute against the regulation of ARTS: the Argentinian case)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 850-875
Author(s):  
María Cecilia Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Assisted Reproduction Techniques ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Principal Axes ◽  
The Status ◽  
National Congress

Las Técnicas de Reproducción Humana Asistida (TRHA) constituyen innovaciones que, en el espacio social, dan cuenta de los procesos de gobernabilidad reproductiva, tensionando definiciones de reproducción, familia, parentesco y persona. En el caso argentino, estas definiciones, por su acceso, se dirimieron en gran medida en el escenario jurídico y legislativo. Tomando el debate legislativo argentino, este artículo analiza las argumentaciones de las posiciones a favor y de las oposiciones conservadoras a la hora de regular el acceso de la población a las TRHA. Mediante una metodología cualitativa, se realiza un análisis de contenido de documentos y versiones taquigráficas del debate legislativo por la regulación de las TRHA (2012-2013) en el Congreso de la Nación Argentina, retomando los principales ejes de debate: las nociones de sexualidad, de familia y de reproducción, así como las disputas sobre el estatus del embrión producto de estas técnicas. The Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ARTs) constitute innovations that in the social space account for the processes of reproductive governance, stressing definitions of reproduction, family, kinship, and person. In the Argentine case, these definitions for their access were primarily resolved in the legal and legislative scenarios. From the Argentine legislative debate, this article analyzes the arguments of positions in favor and conservative oppositions, when regulating the access of the population to the ARTs. Through a qualitative methodology, analysis of the content of documents, and shorthand versions of the legislative debate for the regulation of the ARTs (2012-2013) in the Argentine National Congress. This is carried out taking up the principal axes of discussion: the notions of sexuality, of family, reproduction as well as disputes about the status of the embryo product of these techniques.

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