The Role of Music in Everyday Life Among Pakistanis

FEW WESTERN RESEARCHERS HAVE STUDIED music in everyday life. Data were collected from 200 Pakistani participants to address whether Western findings could be generalized to non-Western samples. Music was heard in everyday life by a large number of participants; most musical experiences occurred while participants were with friends; Pakistani classical and Western pop music were heard most frequently; liking for the music varied depending on who the participant was with, where they were, and whether they had chosen to be able to hear music; music was usually experienced during the course of some other activity; exposure to music occurred more frequently in the evening and at weekends; music was heard mostly at home; and the importance of several functions of music depended upon whom the participant was with and the place where the music was heard. These findings are compared with those from earlier Western research.

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Hjemme i globaliseringen

Dansk Sociologi ◽

10.22439/dansoc.v18i4.2302 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 71-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mette Mechlenborg

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Key Words ◽

Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

Zygmunt Bauman ◽

Housing Research ◽

The Difference ◽

Definition Of ◽

At Home

I nærværende artikel er det min hensigt at sætte fokus på den aktuelle dyrkelse af hjemmet, som har pustet liv i en diskussion om hjemmets rolle i globaliseringsteorierne. I dag synes udfordringen ikke at forstå globaliseringen over for det forankrede hverdagsliv, men at forsøge at etablere en dialog mellem de to. Ved at sætte begrebet hjem centralt i forhold til teorier om mobilitet, modernisering og globalisering, vil denne artikel sætte fokus på kløften mellem stereotype opfattelser af globaliseringen og ind-groede myter om hjem og hverdagsliv. Teoretisk og metodisk er artiklen placeret i feltet mellem boligforskning, kulturstudier og globaliserings-forskningen. Med udgangspunkt i Marshall Bermans modernitetsopfattelse og Mieke Bals tværkulturelle teori om "rejsende koncepter" gennemgås en række kanoniserede ideer om hjem og globalisering, idet hensigten er at åbne op for en mere nuanceret, tidssvarende definition af det globaliserede hjem. Af referencer kan nævnes Zygmunt Bauman, David Morley, John Tomlinson og Agnes Heller. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Mette Mechlenborg: At Home in Globalisation? The recent renaissance of home in culture and media has reactivated a discussion about the role of anchor in the theories of globalisation. It has also revived the discussion of the consequences of globalisation in everyday life. Today the challenge is not so much to understand the difference between a homebound life and globalisation, but to establish a dialogue between the two. By trying to place home in the center of theories on mobility, modernity and globalisation, this article focuses on the gap between traditional understandings of globalisation and myths of everyday life and home. Theoretically and methodically this article lies in the field between housing research, cultural studies and theories of globalisation. It is embedded in the writings of Marshall Berman and in Mieke Bal’s theory of “travelling concepts“, developed for interdisciplinary studies, but goes through a range of canonised publications and writings dealing with the gap between home and globalisation as it tries to open up for a more up to date and post modern definition of the globalised home. Key words: Globalisation, home, everyday life, mobility, theory.

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Physical inactivity – The human health’s greatest enemy

Slovenian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.2478/sjph-2022-0002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 61 (1) ◽

pp. 1-5

Author(s):

Rado Pišot

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Physical Inactivity ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Scientific Organizations ◽

Work At Home ◽

At Home

Abstract For decades, research has been highlighting the positive impact of physical activity on health. Despite the immense efforts made by many professional and scientific organizations to raise individual and societal awareness about the role of a sufficient quantity and intensity of physical activity in everyday life and to increase the level of adherence, the situation is still very worrying. Even more worrying is the fact that increasingly prolonged periods of physical inactivity are insidiously and aggressively taking over modern people’s lives – at school, at work, at home, even at leisure. It is probably incomprehensible and difficult for many to accept, but physical inactivity is becoming the first and worst enemy of health in today’s society.

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Symbolic Spaces of Everyday Life

Nordicom Review ◽

10.1515/nor-2017-0234 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 119-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Stina Bengtsson

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Labour Market ◽

Media Use ◽

The Media ◽

Symbolic Construction ◽

Social Interactionist ◽

Material Space ◽

Post Industrial ◽

At Home

Abstract This article presents an analysis of the role of the media in the symbolic construction of work and leisure at home. Dealing with individuals who represent a post-industrial and cultural labour market and who work mainly at home, the analysis focuses upon the ritual transformations of everyday life and the role of the media within it. Leaning on social interactionist Erwin Goffman and his concepts of regions and frames, as well as a dimension of the materiality of culture, this analysis combines a perspective on media use as ritual, transformations in everyday life and the organization of material space From this perspective, the discussion penetrates the symbolic dimension of media use in defining borders of behaviour and activities in relation to work and leisure at home.

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The role of gossip in everyday life

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e633872013-129 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Holly Hom ◽

Jonathan Haidt

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life

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The role of gossip in everyday life

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e633872013-712 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Holly Hom ◽

Jonathan Haidt

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life

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MOBIS-COVID19/06: Results as of 11/05/2020

10.31124/advance.12310316 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Molloy ◽

Christopher Tchervenkov ◽

Thomas Schatzmann ◽

Beaumont Schoeman ◽

Beat Hintermann ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Research Project ◽

Daily Mobility ◽

The University ◽

At Home

To slow down the spread of the Coronavirus, the population has been instructed to stay at home if possible. This measure consequently has a major impact on our daily mobility behaviour. But who is being affected, and how? The MOBIS-COVID-19 research project, an initiative of ETH Zurich and the University of Basel, is a continuation of the original MOBIS study. The aim of the project is to get a picture of how the crisis is affecting mobility and everyday life in Switzerland.

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Musical shape and feeling

10.1093/oso/9780199351411.003.0028 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Recent Work ◽

Sensory Perception ◽

Dynamic Processes ◽

Sensorimotor System ◽

Musical Sound ◽

Sensory Mode ◽

Daniel Stern

The concept of shape is widely used by musicians in talking and thinking about performance, yet the mechanisms that afford links between music and shape are little understood. Work on the psychodynamics of everyday life by Daniel Stern and on embodiment by Mark Johnson suggests relationships between the multiple dynamics of musical sound and the dynamics of feeling and motion. Recent work on multisensory and precognitive sensory perception and on the role of bimodal neurons in the sensorimotor system helps to explain how shape, as a percept representing changing quantity in any sensory mode, may be invoked by dynamic processes at many stages of perception and cognition. These processes enable ‘shape’ to do flexible and useful work for musicians needing to describe the quality of musical phenomena that are fundamental to everyday musical practice and yet too complex to calculate during performance.

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Studying Globalization at Home

10.1093/oso/9780199964727.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sunil Bhatia

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Cultural Narratives ◽

Cultural Codes ◽

Qualitative Approaches ◽

Interpretive Methods ◽

Significant Interest ◽

At Home

This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.

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The Role of Place of Delivery in Preventing Neonatal and Infant Mortality Rate in India

Geographies ◽

10.3390/geographies1010004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 47-62

Author(s):

Ujjwal Das ◽

Barkha Chaplot ◽

Hazi Mohammad Azamathulla

Keyword(s):

Mortality Rate ◽

Infant Mortality ◽

Neonatal Mortality ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

Infant Mortality Rate ◽

Private Institutions ◽

Public And Private ◽

Place Of Delivery ◽

At Home

Skilled birth attendance and institutional delivery have been advocated for reducing maternal, neonatal mortality and infant mortality (NMR and IMR). This paper examines the role of place of delivery with respect to neo-natal and infant mortality in India using four rounds of the Indian National Family Health Survey conducted in 2015–2016. The place of birth has been categorized as “at home” or “public and private institution.” The role of place of delivery on neo-natal and infant mortality was examined by using multivariate hazard regression models adjusted for clus-tering and relevant maternal, socio-economic, pregnancy and new-born characteristics. There were 141,028 deliveries recorded in public institutions and 54,338 in private institutions. The esti-mated neonatal mortality rate in public and private institutions during this period was 27 and 26 per 1000 live births respectively. The study shows that when the mother delivers child at home, the chances of neonatal mortality risks are higher than the mortality among children born at the health facility centers. Regression analysis also indicates that a professionally qualified provider′s antenatal treatment and assistance greatly decreases the risks of neonatal mortality. The results of the study illustrate the importance of the provision of institutional facilities and proper pregnancy in the prevention of neonatal and infant deaths. To improve the quality of care during and imme-diately after delivery in health facilities, particularly in public hospitals and in rural areas, accel-erated strengthening is required.

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