scholarly journals Readings Behind the Early Christian Queer Experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Larisa Orlov Vilimonović
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
Body Modifications

This paper deals with the ideas of queer experiences in the Early Christian movement, seen through early Christian epistemologies of gender and patristic thought focused on sex differences. The lives and passions of transgender nuns are used in discussing various aspects of gender fluidity in early Christianity. Theoretically, the paper rests on the idea of the performativity of gender, that is, on the ways gender was constructed and how body modifications enabled renegotiation of gender categories. It also focuses on the social context of queer experiences in the late antique period with regard to Roman social norms.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE DYNAMICS TO WIN THE NATIONAL CHAMPION TITLE IN ATHLETICS IN THE LAST CENTURY, IN A DISTINCT REGION IN ROMANIA

GYMNASIUM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol XVII (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan-Iulian Alexe
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Distinct Region ◽  
Sports Performance ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Categories

Reaching sports performance in a sports branch, discipline or event is dependent and conditioned also by the social context, the demographic situation of the area, region, the athlete’s country, age, gender or race, experience and the “migration of the sports population” etc. Previous research has shown that statistics can provide evidence in sport on the dynamics over a certain period of time, but statistics can also be a benchmark for future predictions. This paper aims to highlight various statistical analyses, for a period of 101 years, based on various criteria that have contributed more or less to the “record” of national titles in a distinct region of Romania, namely Bacau County. The research subjects are represented by 162 performance athletes registered according to the Romanian Athletics Federation regulations into four age categories (Junior II, Junior I, Youth and Senior) and into two gender categories (male, female). By comparing the results highlighted by the analysis of 712 titles, we can declare that the dynamics of sports performance over a century of athletics in Bacau can be clearly traced only by analyzing the data as a whole. The results, reported in detailed analyses of certain criteria, illustrate trends which do not allow us to generalize.

Profiling “User Bases” of Online Social Contexts

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-126
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Current User ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Practices

One aspect of profiling to enhance teaching and learning involves the various contexts in which learners will engage, such as particular social media ecosystems and their attendant microcultures (the social norms and common practices in these spaces), particularly if learners will be engaging with individuals outside of the formal classroom. Understanding the larger online social context helps define the affordances and constraints of what can be effectively taught and learned. This involves profiling the current user base of the online social spaces where the learners will be engaging and interacting and co-creating knowledge.

Developmental transformations in attachment in middle childhood

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Kerns
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Reproductive Strategies ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Fundamental Nature ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Developmental Transformations

AbstractThe target article proposes a model to explain the emergence of sex differences in attachment in middle childhood and their implications for reproductive strategies. While biological factors are prominent in the model, little is said about the social context of middle childhood and its contributions. There is also a need to clarify the fundamental nature of attachment in middle childhood.

A Critique of the ‘Curse/Death’ Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 5.1–8

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
James T. South
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Studies

There has been in recent years an upsurge of interest in the social description of early Christianity, particularly in the reconstruction of its ‘social world’. Any valid sociological analysis of early Christianity of necessity depends upon the exacting interpretation of the NT texts, since these constitute the necessary data for such studies. In many cases such exegetical ground-work has been done thoroughly and well, so that fruitful social studies can be conducted on the basis of the resulting data. Unfortunately, in the case of early Christian disciplinary practices, relatively little careful research has been done, and much of what has been done is, in the opinion of the present writer, seriously flawed. Social descriptions based upon this data are inevitably likewise flawed, and a distorted picture of early Christian communal life is the unfortunate result. The nature of early Christian discipline is obviously a problem of a social nature, but before serious sociological studies can be done, there must be a correction of the distortions which are currently prevalent in the scholarly consensus regarding this subject.

The Methodological Dilemma of Evaluating the Variation Unit in Romans 11:31

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
David A. Kaden
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Full Treatment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractRomans 9-11 has attracted much scholarly attention, and the amount of secondary literature is nearly overwhelming. Yet, no serious scholarly-length article has emerged that wrestles with the textual issues of 11:31. Why? How might a full treatment of this variation unit impact the interpretation of the surrounding chapters? This article seeks to answer these questions by examining the social situation of Jewish-Christian relations and hostilities from the late first to the late second centuries CE. It reflects a trend in early Christian textual criticism away from questing after an “original” text to instead examining the social context of variation units.

scholarly journals Sex differences in vocalizations to familiar or unfamiliar females in mice

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 201529
Author(s):  
Eri Sasaki ◽  
Yuiri Tomita ◽  
Kouta Kanno
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Ultrasonic Vocalizations ◽  
Social Response ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Vocal Behaviour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Novel Objects ◽  
Female Male Female ◽  
Male To Female

Mice, both wild and laboratory strains, emit ultrasound to communicate. The sex differences between male to female (male–female) and female to female (female–female) ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) have been discussed for decades. In the present study, we compared the number of USVs emitted to familiar and unfamiliar females by both males (male–female USVs) and females (female–female USVs). We found that females vocalized more to unfamiliar than to familiar females. By contrast, males exhibited more USVs to familiar partners. This sexually dimorphic behaviour suggests that mice change their vocal behaviour in response to the social context, and their perception of the context is based on social cognition and memory. In addition, because males vocalized more to familiar females, USVs appear to be not only a response to novel objects or individuals, but also a social response.

Sound-Making Objects

2021 ◽  
pp. 289-324
Author(s):  
Ellen Swift ◽  
Jo Stoner ◽  
April Pudsey
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alarm Sounds ◽  
Shed Light

The chapter investigates a specific functional category of objects of everyday life: sound-producing objects, with a focus on ordinary, simple items such as bells, clappers, and rattles, and their social function and contribution to everyday experience. After an initial overview of the types of artefacts studied and their dating, evidence from a close examination of the objects themselves is set alongside wider knowledge of their use and social context available from visual and textual sources, and historical and anthropological studies that shed light on the social function of sound-making objects. An innovative aspect of this chapter is the use of evidence from artefact replicas regarding likely notes played, and the volume of the sound produced. This directly inform understanding of the possible roles played by particular types of instruments within everyday social experience in Roman and late antique Egypt, for instance whether they were suited to public performance, more individual entertainment and play, or wider social functions such as the production of alarm sounds, and their audibility to different social groups with discrepant hearing capacity, such as young children, or elderly people. Drawing on experimental recording data including the recreation of the acoustic environment within a Romano-Egyptian house, the final section examines how the sounds produced by the objects may have contributed more widely to the creation of ambient environments and collective experiences.

Beyond our origin: Adding social context to an explanation of sex differences in emotion expression

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 393-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agneta H. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Emotion Expression ◽  
Emotional Expressiveness ◽  
Emotional Responding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotion Displays ◽  
Relational Framework

AbstractVigil's socio-relational framework of sex differences in emotional expressiveness emphasizes general sex differences in emotional responding, but largely ignores the social context in which emotions are expressed. There is much empirical evidence showing that sex differences in emotion displays are flexible and a function of specific social roles and demands, rather than a reflection of evolutionary-based social adjustments.

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