Haushaltsökonomie und Sozietät

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Geiselhart
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Household Economics ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Collaborative Strategies ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Household economics and ‘Sozietät’. Collaborative strategies and economic organisation levels of rural households in Botswana. This article explains that a commonly supported livelihood strategy is not self-evident in rural households of Botswana. On the basis of a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods the term ‘Sozietät’ is developed. The term describes the level of economic organisation and whether there is a collaborative strategy within a household. Individuals participate to different degrees and sometimes even distance themselves from the household they live in. It is assumed that resources flow alongside of responsibility lines which are more or less imperative through cultural norms. In the wake of social change such norms might not be met any more. In this respect especially the role of agricultural production was found to change in the rural villages assessed.

scholarly journals Interacción y debate en Twitter en las elecciones españolas de mayo de 2015: ¿promesa tecnológica o realidad virtual?

Obra digital ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 61-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neiky Machado Flores ◽  
Arantxa Capdevilla Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Online Interaction ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
New Parties ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Este artículo toma posición respecto al debate relacionado con la transformación de la comunicación política en escenarios virtuales y el papel de los partidos noveles en dichos cambios. Analiza si las campañas electorales en Twitter del PSOE y de Podemos, previas a las elecciones locales y autonómicas de 2015, aprovechan las potencialidades de interacción online o si mantienen códigos de los medios tradicionales. Para responder a los objetivos, recurre a dos programas informáticos, creados para la descarga automática de tuits y para procesar cuantitativamente los datos. Además se aplican métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos en el análisis de los resultados. Interaction and discussion on Twitter in the Spanish elections of May 2015: technological promise or virtual reality? Abstract In this paper, we take a position regarding the debate on the transformation of political communication in virtual environments and the role of new parties in these changes. We analyse whether the election campaigns of PSOE and Podemos on Twitter, before the local and autonomous elections of 2015, exploited the potential of online interaction or if traditional media codes were maintained. To meet the objectives, we use two programmes: one to automatically download tweets, and another to process the data quantitatively. We also apply quantitative and qualitative methods for analysing the results. Keywords: elections, campaign, Twitter, interaction, innovation  

Unspoken Depths: Dramatherapy and Dementia

Dramatherapy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicky Morris
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Day Hospital ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Client Group ◽  
Moderate Dementia ◽  
Subjective Study ◽  
Clark Moustakas ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

In the dual role of therapist and researcher, working in an NHS Day Hospital with a small group of clients with moderate dementia, my question was simple, yet perplexing: What could I learn from the paradox between the joyful energy of my Dramatherapy group and the intense sadness and confusion that seemed to exist on the periphery? A qualitative, heuristic approach was the most appropriate in respect of ethics and practicality. By using vignettes – in which client names were changed – as opposed to detailed case studies, I required neither written nor ongoing verbal consent – though spoke informally about it with my clients and their carers throughout the process. I followed the six stages of heuristic research described by Clark Moustakas and gathered data using the tools and techniques recommended. I created a personal log book and collated my official session notes on 20 clients seen between January and October 2009. Through the analysis of data, key themes arose: Fear and Stigma, Anger, and Self-Identity. This article may be most relevant to those working creatively with this client group, who find themselves confronted by a paradox of emotions, forced to confront personal fears and limitations. Whilst the need for further research is evident, my small and subjective study meets the minimal requirements of BADth's EPB/PBE guidelines (Dokter and Winn) and could compliment larger-scale studies using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

scholarly journals Tracking Agriculture-Induced Fertility Among Yorùbá Farmers of Southwestern Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fausat Motunrayo Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Human Fertility ◽  
Small Measure

The dynamics of agricultural production in African peasant economies featured human fertility in no small measure. The role of increased fertility in agricultural productivity is explained by opposing ideologies, yet, African perspectives on increased fertility for agricultural production, in the current social climate, are seemingly deficient. Using a triangulation of qualitative methods, this work explores agriculture-induced fertility among Yorùbá farmers of Southwestern Nigeria. The findings clearly and dominantly indicate that the option of increasing fertility deliberately through polygyny, for improved agricultural production has tremendously diminished. Instead, concerns over optimum child development, which can hardly be guaranteed with continued agriculture-induced fertility, are stressed. This shows that Yorùbá farmers’ disposition towards increasing fertility is dictated by pecuniary circumstances, thereby accentuating the rationality of Yorùbá culture and its people. 

scholarly journals Women as Drivers for a Sustainable and Social Inclusive Development in Mountain Regions – The Case of the Austrian Alps

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 808-821
Author(s):  
Theresia Oedl-Wieser
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Mountain Regions ◽  
The World

Abstract Women in mountain regions play an important role regarding the agricultural production and ensuring sustainable livelihoods. Furthermore, they are active in climate change adaption and preservation of biodiversity. Despite these important activities and performances the vital role of women for a sustainable and social inclusive development in mountain regions is often invisible and not appreciated enough in society. There still exists structural discrimination of women which is caused by patriarchal societies, social and cultural norms as well as difficult economic situations. Considering the need to foster the dynamic and sustainable development of mountain regions all over the world, it is of paramount importance to reflect and integrate women’s issues, problems and needs to a larger extent in research, public policy and in worldwide decision-making agendas.

scholarly journals Smartphones for community health in rural Cambodia: A feasibility study

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengby Ngor ◽  
Lisa J. White ◽  
Jeremy Chalk ◽  
Yoel Lubell ◽  
Cecelia Favede ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Smartphone Technology ◽  
Study Completion ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Background: Village Malaria Workers (VMWs) are lay people trained to provide a valuable role in frontline testing and treatment of malaria in rural villages in Cambodia. Emergence of artemisinin-resistant malaria highlights the essential role of such VMWs in surveillance and early treatment of malaria. Smartphone technology offers huge potential to support VMWs in isolated and resource-poor settings.  Methods: We investigated the feasibility of issuing established VMWs with a smartphone, bespoke Android application and solar charger to support their role. 27 VMWs in Kampong Cham and Kratie provinces participated.  Results: 26/27 of the smartphones deployed were working well at study completion twelve months later. Interviews with VMWs using quantitative and qualitative methods revealed pride, ease of use and reports of faster communication with the smartphone. VMWs also expressed a strong wish to help people presenting with non-malarial fever, for which further potential supportive smartphone applications are increasingly available.  Conclusions: As a result of this pilot study, two smartphone based reporting systems for malaria have been developed at the Cambodian National Malaria Center, and the programme is now being extended nationwide. The full code for the smartphone application is made available to other researchers and healthcare providers with this article. Smartphones represent a feasible platform for developing the VMW role to include other health conditions, thus maintaining the relevance of these important community health workers.

scholarly journals SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND ENVIRONMENT: ROLE OF SUPREME COURT

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Mukesh Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Change Environment

Humans have a deep connection to the environment. Ever since man came to this earth, he has kept the environment with him. The sun, moon, earth, mountains, forests, rivers, oceans, water etc. have been used by humans since the beginning of human development. Human beings have used natural wealth from the beginning to obtain wood, food, clothes, medicines etc. in their daily life and continue to the present. With social change, environment has been affected in industrial development and population growth. Due to industrialization, a person has become an active factor to change the environment according to his needs. Destruction of forests, air and aquatic pollution and increasing use of pesticides for agricultural production have led to extensive changes in the environment. Various types of diseases like famine, drought, earthquake, earthquake and epidemic are causing the destruction of human civilization. Today the environment is being polluted with the extreme development of industrialization. पर्यावरण से मानव का गहरा संबंध है। मनुष्य जब से इस पृथ्वी पर आया, उसने पर्यावरण को अपने साथ जोड़े रखा है। सूर्य, चन्द्रमा, पृथ्वी, पर्वत, वन, नदियां, महासागर, जल इत्यादि का प्रयोग मनुष्य मानव विकास के आरंभ से करता आ रहा है। मनुष्य अपने दैनिक जीवन में लकड़ी, भोजन, वस्त्र, दवायें इत्यादि प्राप्त करने हेतु प्राकृतिक सम्पदा का शुरू से उपयोग किया है और वर्तमान मे निरंतर जारी है। सामाजिक परिवर्तन के साथ औद्योगिक विकास एवं जनसंख्या वृद्धि में पर्यावरण को प्रभावित किया है। औद्योगीकरण के कारण व्यक्ति आज अपनी आवश्यकता के अनुरूप पर्यावरण को बदलने के लिये सक्रिय कारक बन गया है। वनो का विनाश वायु एवं जलीय प्रदूषण एवं कृषि उत्पादन हेतु कीटनाशक दवाओं के बढ़ते हुए प्रयोग ने वातावरण में व्यापक परिवर्तन किये है। अकाल सूखा अतिवृष्टि भूकम्प एवं महामारी जैसे विभिन्न प्रकार के रोग मानव सभ्यता के विनाश के कारण बने हुए हैं। आज औद्योगीकरण के चरम विकास के साथ पर्यावरण प्रदूषित हो रहा है।

scholarly journals High School EFL Teachers’ Perception of the Use of Pictures in Pre-Reading Stage

2021 ◽  
pp. 267-284
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Yen Phuong ◽  
Nguyen Huynh Trang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

This descriptive study aims to investigate EFL teachers’ perceptions toward the use of pictures in pre-reading stage as well as the role and the possible difficulties of using picture in pre-reading stage that they may gain. The current study adopted both quantitative and qualitative methods to collect the data via questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with the participation of 30 teachers in different high schools in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam and six out of the teachers were invited to participate in the interviews. There are some main following findings. First, EFL teachers highly appreciated about the role of pictures in pre-reading stage. Second, the participants revealed there were some possible difficulties that prevent English teachers from using pictures in pre-reading stage.

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