scholarly journals The Postpartum Tradition of Sawa Mahina in Rural Punjab, Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azher Hameed Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Infant Health ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe Punjabi postpartum tradition is called sawa mahina (‘five weeks’). This study investigates infant health care belief practices in rural Punjab and looks at the social significance of infant care beliefs practiced during sawa mahina. During six months of fieldwork, using participant observation and unstructured interviews as primary research methods, the study explored the prevalent postpartum tradition from a childcare perspective. A Punjabi child holds a social value regarding familial, religious, and emotional values. The five-week traditional postpartum period provides an insight into mother-child attachment, related child care belief practices, and the social construction of infancy. A child’s agency is recognised in the embodied mother-child relationship, and a child is seen in a sympathetic connection with the mother. Establishing an early foundation of ascribed identities is another important part of postpartum belief practices.

scholarly journals An exploratory study of the ways in which mothers keep their infants occupied

Curationis ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Botha ◽  
G. Cleaver
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
First Year ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Infant Research ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

The mother child relationship can help or hinder the social, emotional and intellectual development of the infant. Research has shown that the interaction between mother and child can affect the child’s cognitive development. Research has shown that mothers from the lower socio-economic groups do not stimulate their babies optimally and that this may affect the children negatively. In this study 86 underprivileged mothers from two different cultural backgrounds were asked to describe the ways in which they kept their infants occupied during the first year of their infants’ lives. The differences between the two groups are discussed and recommendations are made.

scholarly journals Humour in Sports Coaching: ‘It’s a Funny Old Game’

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 744-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Nicholas Edwards ◽  
Robyn L Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Ethnographic Film ◽  
The Social ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Sports Coaching

The primary purpose of this article was to investigate the use and manifestation of humour within sports coaching. This was particularly in light of the social significance of humour as a critical component in cultural creation and negotiation. Data were gathered from a 10-month ethnographic study that tracked the players and coaches of Senghenydd City Football Club (a pseudonym) over the course of a full season. Precise methods of data collection included participant observation, reflective personal field notes, and ethnographic film. The results demonstrated the dominating presence of both ‘inclusionary putdowns’ and ‘disciplinary humour’, particularly in relation to how they contributed to the production and maintenance of the social order. Finally, a reflective conclusion discusses the temporal nature of the collective understanding evident among the group at Senghenydd, and its effect on the humour evident. In doing so, the work contributes to the body of knowledge regarding the social role of humour within sports coaching.

Evaluation for Arts-Based Research Performance: Audience Perceptions of Rising from the Ashes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Viega
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The purpose of the study is to understand how audiences evaluated an arts-based research performance called Rising from the Ashes. Audience evaluation promises egalitarian and pluralistic perspectives that may assist artist-as-researchers with gaining new insight into out of performative arts-based research results. Rising from the Ashes was performed several times between 2015 and 2019. Evaluations were provided to six different audiences and consisted of rating-scale and open-ended questions based on general criteria for judging arts-based research: incisiveness, concision, generativity, social significance, evocation and illumination, and coherence. Descriptive rating scores and thematic analysis of open-ended questions aided in the artist-as-researcher’s understanding of how audiences responded to the performances. Descriptive scores showed that audiences strongly agreed that the performance was concise, incisive, and evocative and illuminating. The performance was less likely to support audiences’ understanding of the social issues addressed in the study, which implied decreased generativity and social significance. Open-ended questions enhanced and supported rating-scale responses as well as revealed specific elements of the performance that addressed its coherence. The results deepened the artists-as-researcher’s understanding of potential strengths and limitations of Rising from the Ashes based on the audience evaluations. Implications for arts-based research evaluation in music therapy, particularly related to music performance, are discussed.

Towards a Postpatriarchal Family

1998 ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Patricia S. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Familial Relations ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

Ours is a time of dramatic and confusing transformations in everyday life, many of them originating in the social enfranchisement of women that has occurred over the past twenty-five years. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild demonstrates a widespread phenomenon of work-family imbalance in our society, experienced by people in terms of a time bind, and a devaluation of familial relationships. As large numbers of women have moved into the workplace, familial relations of all sorts have been colonized by what Virginia Held critically refers to as the contractual paradigm. Even the mother/child relationship, representing for Held an alternative feminist paradigm of selfhood and agency, has been in large part "outsourced." I believe that an Arendtian conception of speech and action might enable us to assert anew the grounds for familial relations. If we require a new site upon which to address our human plurality and natality, the postpatriarchal family may provide that new site upon which individuals can freely act to recreate the fabric of human relationships. It would seem to be our moral and political responsibility as social philosophers today to speculatively contribute to the difficult yet imperative task of reconfiguring the family. In this paper, I attempt to articulate the basic assumptions from which such a reconfiguration must begin.

Social value of regional tax potential: experience of Montenegro

2020 ◽  
pp. 62 (87)-72 (96)
Author(s):  
Dmitry Novikov
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Taxation System

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the taxation system in Montenegro. The social signifi cance of the tax potential of this region is demonstrated. The features of taxation in Montenegro are described. Full text translation in English (pp. 87-96 of this issue): https://panor.ru/articles/social-significance-of-regional-tax-potential-experience-of-montenegro/48148.html

Wantok and Lain ‐ a look at two Melanesian cultural concepts in two Tok Pisin texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Paweł Kornacki
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
World View ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Bride Price ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Group Family

Abstract This article looks at salient interpersonal uses and meanings of two prominent Tok Pisin social relations nouns ‐ wantok ('friend', 'same language speaker') and lain ('group', 'family', 'clan') ‐ which it is proposed exemplify key cultural Melanesian concepts in some anthropological literature of the area. Whereas certain aspects of language use in Tok Pisin were identified as potentially divisive and socially harmful, some scholars endeavoured to identify a group of concepts indicative of culturally specific Melanesian values. For example, the words wantok and lain were claimed to jointly represent 'the value of the clan' across Melanesian societies, while embodying and supporting a distinct world-view of the Melanesian peoples. This article studies two Tok Pisin texts which focus on the cultural significance of concepts of wantok and lain in their rural/traditional environment. While the first text offers a native speaker's insight into the social significance of the cultural expression wantok sistem ('system favouring friends'), the other one details the roles of lain in the passage of a bride-price ceremony. Given that both texts presuppose the cultural background of rural Tok Pisin, a brief look at some characteristic usage of the two words in electronic media suggests that certain aspects of traditional uses and meanings of these words may be extended and employed to conceptualize new social and political phenomena.

The brain as an organ of the person

2017 ◽  
pp. 173-208
Author(s):  
Thomas Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
First Year ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Resonance System ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intentional Agents ◽  
First Year Of Life ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
The Brain

‘The brain as an organ of the person’ examines the socially and culturally scaffolded development of the human brain, especially in early childhood. Beginning with early intersubjectivity and intercorporeality in the mother–child relationship, it first focuses on interactive forms of implicit memory. As a neurological basis of this development, the attachment system and the social resonance system (‘mirror neurons’) are discussed. Secondary intersubjectivity manifests itself towards the end of the first year of life, among others, in the development of joint attention. Understanding others as intentional agents lays the foundation for later perspective-taking and thus for the ‘eccentric position’ of human beings. On this basis, language acquisition is examined as the anchoring of an embodied interpersonal practice, connected with the biological resonance system of mirror neurons.

scholarly journals Resisting Resolution: Enterprise Civic Systems Meet Community Organizing

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Le Dantec ◽  
Adriana Alvarado Garcia ◽  
Ciabhan Connelly ◽  
Amanda Meng
Keyword(s):  
Community Organizing ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Enterprise Technology ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Insight Into

Notions of the smart city look to mobilize information technology to increase organizational efficiency, and more recently, to support new forms of community engagement and involvement in addressing municipal issues. As cities turn to civic enterprise technology platforms, we need to better understand how that class of system might be positioned and used to collaborate with informal community-born coalitions. Beginning in 2019, we undertook an embedded collaborative research project in Albany Georgia, a small rural city, to understand three primary research questions: (1) How do community organizing practices take shape around joint initiatives with local government? (2) What data, tools, and process are needed to support those initiatives? (3) How do the affordances of City-run enterprise platforms support such community-born initiatives? To develop insight into these questions, we deployed a mixed-methods study that interwove participant observation, qualitative fieldwork, and participatory workshops. From this, we point to several mismatches that arose between the assumptions of a managed enterprise environment and the complex needs of establishing and supporting a multiparty community coalition.

Mother-Child Relationships in Rehabilitation of the Physically Disabled

1951 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 261-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Powers ◽  
Morris Grayson ◽  
Joseph Levi
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Medicine ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Diagnostic Decision ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

1. The mother-child relationship may constitute an obstacle to the effective rehabilitation of the disabled younger group. This relationship has to be seen as a dynamic one, involving the body image of the mother as well as that of the child. 2. A casework diagnostic decision regarding whom to attempt to refer—mother, child, or both—which includes psychiatric and psychological evaluation is frequently essential in assisting the social worker with this problem. 3. Following the patient's discharge, the need for continuing a casework contact after a lapse of a few months appears to be a decisive factor in some cases for eventual successful referral of the younger group. Proper handling of referrals, by the caseworker's understanding of the above factors, can mean success or failure in the rehabilitation of the young disabled person. It is equally important that physicians and other disciplines in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation, as well as social workers, recognize and assist in paving the way for proper referrals.

scholarly journals The Sustainability of Intangible Heritage in the COVID-19 Era—Resilience, Reinvention, and Challenges in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5796
Author(s):  
Xavier Roigé ◽  
Iñaki Arrieta-Urtizberea ◽  
Joan Seguí
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

The public health restrictions and social distancing imposed as a consequence of COVID-19 have not only had a profound impact on intangible heritage, they have also prompted resilience, reinvention, and creativity. This analysis of the period provides an insight into the social significance of intangible heritage and its adaptability and ability to evolve, while also raising questions about its sustainability. This article tackles the impact of lockdown and public health restrictions on the festivals included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Heritage in Spain. Employing qualitative and ethnographic methodology, the study analyzes the effects of restrictions on the 18 elements on the UNESCO list and the responses adopted; it also includes case studies on three elements. The article concludes that in the post-COVID-19 period, it will be necessary to rethink the economic and social sustainability of intangible heritage practices and to discover new ways of managing them. It will also be necessary to go back to more local formats that are less crowded and less dependent on tourism. The pandemic has exposed the fragility of intangible heritage, and it is now time to rethink the perhaps excessive growth it has experienced in recent years.

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