scholarly journals Modernización y reconfiguración socio-productiva en un grupo de campesinos ganaderos del Noroeste de México, 1964-2000

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 197-235
Author(s):  
Gloria María Cañez De la Fuente ◽  
Juana María Meléndez Torres
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Productive Activity ◽  
Intergroup Relation ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
And Control ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Estudio De Caso

Este artículo aborda el estudio de caso de un grupo de campesinos desplazados de sus pueblos en la región serrana, como resultado de la política modernizadora agrícola-ganadera en el noroeste de México. Se analizan, desde una perspectiva socio-antropológica e histórica, los aspectos que afectaron tanto el desarrollo de acciones y relaciones sociales dirigidas al mejoramiento de sus condiciones de vida, como de su actividad productiva bajo las nuevas circunstancias que les imponía dicha modernización, en una región semidesértica, durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Se realizaron entrevistas a profundidad, con la finalidad de recuperar sus propias experiencias y los significados de sus acciones. Encontramos que el nuevo esquema productivo y financiero, la exclusión de la ganadería tradicional, y los cambios en el uso y control de los recursos agua y tierra, fueron elementos que propiciaron conflictos internos entre estos campesinos y que al mismo tiempo, contribuyeron a la reconfiguración del complejo de relaciones sociales e identitarias existentes.Palabras Clave: campesinos, ganadería, relaciones entre grupos, identidad, estudio de caso, Noroeste de México. Modernization and Socio-Productive Reconfiguration  in a Group of Cattle Raisers Peasant in the Northwest of Mexico, 1964-2000AbstractThis article approaches the study of case of a group of cattle raisers in the northern of Mexico. They are analyzed from a socio-anthropological and historical perspective, which were the aspects that affected so much the development of actions and social relations directed the improvement of his conditions of life as of his productive activity under the modernization process in a semidesert region, during the second half of the 20th century. Qualitative interviews were realized, with the purpose of recovering his experiences and the explanation or meaning of his actions in his own terms. We find that the new productive and financial scheme, the exclusion of the traditional ranching, and the changes in the use and control of the resources water and land, they propitiated internal conflicts between these peasants concerning the control and use of it, as well as the reconfiguration of the existing social relations and identities complex.Keywords: peasantry, cattle ranching,intergroup relation, identity, study of case, northern of Mexico.

scholarly journals Cocaine Rituals in Club Culture: Intensifying and Controlling Alcohol Intoxication

2021 ◽  
pp. 002204262098651
Author(s):  
Marit Edland-Gryt
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Alcohol Intoxication ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Cocaine Use ◽  
Interaction Rituals ◽  
Collective Effervescence ◽  
Drinking Culture ◽  
Cocaine Users ◽  
And Control

Clubbing is an important part of the nighttime economy, and cocaine use is, for some young people, an essential part of this clubbing culture. However, the interaction rituals around the use of powder cocaine in this context remain understudied. This study is based on qualitative interviews with young adult recreational cocaine users ( n = 28) and explores how they use cocaine in club settings, in relation to rituals and drinking culture. The analysis identified three main explanations for using cocaine: (a) unity with friends because of shared transgression, (b) the high as a “collective effervescence,” and (c) the possibility to control, extend, and intensify drinking to intoxication. These three explanations illustrate how cocaine rituals were deeply integrated in drinking-to-intoxication rituals, and how the illegality of cocaine use reinforced feelings of unity with friends. In the nighttime economy, cocaine use and its related rituals are used to intensify and control alcohol-fuelled partying.

scholarly journals Implementing safeguarding and personalisation in social work: Findings from practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Stevens ◽  
John Woolham ◽  
Jill Manthorpe ◽  
Fiona Aspinall ◽  
Shereen Hussein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Direct Payment ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
And Control ◽  
Exercise Of Discretion

Summary This paper reports on part of a research study carried out in three local authority adult social care departments in England, which explored links between adult safeguarding and personalisation. The study included statistical analysis of data on safeguarding referrals and the take up of personal budgets and qualitative interviews with managers, social workers, other staff working on safeguarding and with service users. The paper reports the findings from 16 interviews with managers and social workers, highlighting their perspectives and experiences. Findings Five main themes emerged from our analysis: contexts and risk factors; views about risks associated with Direct Payments, approaches to minimising risk; balancing risk and choice; and weaving safeguarding and personalisation practice. Social workers identified similar ranges and kinds of risks to those identified in the national evaluation of Individual Budgets. They described a tension between policy objectives and their exercise of discretion to assess and manage risks. For example, some described how they would discourage certain people from taking their personal budget as a Direct Payment or suggest they take only part of a personal budget as a Direct Payment. Application This exploratory study supports the continued need for skilled social workers to deliver outcomes related to both safeguarding and personalisation policies. Implementing these policies may entail a new form of ‘care and control’, which may require specific approaches in supervision in order to ensure good practice is fostered and positive outcomes attained.

An Historical Perspective of the Giriama and Witchcraft Control

Africa ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Brantley
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
African Society ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Protection And Control ◽  
And Control

Opening ParagraphWherever belief in witchcraft permeated an African society, fear prevailed and people demanded protection and control. Even though the degree of African concern about witchcraft was not always appreciated by outsiders, it was possible, at least in centralized societies, for such outsiders to discern the processes that were involved in its control. A king or a priest who failed to control the spread of witchcraft and to alleviate the fear was unlikely to maintain his authority for long. In non-centralized societies, the problem of witchcraft and the means of control were less clear-cut. Solutions were rarely obvious and easy.

Historical perspective of cyathostomes: prevalence, treatment and control programs

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.T Lyons ◽  
S.C Tolliver ◽  
J.H Drudge
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals TRAYECTORIAS FRAGMENTADAS: UNA APUESTA POR LA UNIVERSIDAD EN TIEMPOS DE CAMBIO SOCIAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Montes
Keyword(s):  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Estudio De Caso

RESUMEN El fin del siglo XX viene caracterizado por un proceso de heterogeneización de los perfiles que acceden a la Educación Superior (ES) a escala global. Los jóvenes universitarios presentan características sociales y educativas crecientemente diversas, sujetas a patrones de desigualdad cambiantes. El objetivo del artículo es analizar cómo el acceso a la ES es condicionado por las trayectorias biográficas y educativas de los jóvenes; identificando patrones de desigualdad propios de las trayectorias “no tradicionales”. Para ello, se ha realizado un estudio de caso en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), siguiendo un enfoque de métodos cualitativos (N.40 alumnos/as). Los resultados muestran diferentes estructuras de desventaja que afectan la construcción de trayectorias educativas desiguales poniendo de manifiesto las diferencias generadas por el origen social.

scholarly journals “It’s their way of protecting them”: Between care and control in an honor context for youths with intellectual disabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotta Löfgren-Mårtenson ◽  
Pernilla Ouis
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Special Schools ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Sexual Norms ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Personal Assistants ◽  
And Control

Today’s multicultural society is characterized by contradictory sexual norms that may have consequences for youths with intellectual disabilities’ possibilities of choosing a partner and expressing their sexuality. However, the body of knowledge concerning the area of youths with intellectual disabilities is limited. This study aims to examine professionals’ views on honor-related experiences among youths with intellectual disabilities. The data consists of nine qualitative interviews with professionals in special schools (personal assistants and teachers). In addition, 11 professionals were included at pre-meetings while designing the study. A thematic analysis was conducted while using sexual script as a theoretical framework. The results are presented in the following themes: (1) The professionals’ perceptions of the young people’s abilities to deal with honor-related experiences; (2) The professionals’ opinions of the existence of honor-related experiences among youth with intellectual disabilities; and (3) Descriptions of the professionals’ conduct toward the youths with intellectual disabilities concerning honor-related experiences. The analysis shows an honor script geared towards youths with intellectual disabilities, which can be described as a continuum between care and control connected to cultural sexual norms and to the disability. The families’ strive for a so-called normality seem to be an important factor in understanding for example arranged marriages among youths with ID. To meet the needs of these youths, the professionals require tools to navigate between care and control in this complicated arena of contradictory sexual and cultural norms.

Wars within Wars: Why Windows of Opportunity and Vulnerability Cause Inter-rebel Fighting in Internal Conflicts

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Costantino Pischedda
Keyword(s):  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Rebel Groups ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Vulnerability Theory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Window Of Vulnerability ◽  
And Control

Why do rebel groups often fight each other when confronting a common, and typically stronger, enemy—namely, the government? Inter-rebel aggression is a calculated response by rebel groups to opportunities for expansion and to the threats confronting such groups. In particular, inter-rebel wars occur under the following conditions: (1) when a window of opportunity emerges allowing rebel groups to defeat coethnic rivals at low costs and thus achieve rebel hegemony, or (2) when rebel groups are confronted with a window of vulnerability, in which they experience a radical deterioration of power relative to that of coethnic rivals and then attempt to escape in a desperate military gamble. Both strict military considerations and ethnic identities shape the rebel groups' calculus. Coethnicity influences the threat perception of rebel groups and their ability to grow at the expense of rivals, thus providing both defensive and offensive motives for inter-rebel aggression. Because coethnic rebel groups want to mobilize and control the same ethnic communities, they are highly sensitive to immediate, intense conflicts of interest and see other coethnic rebel groups as serious threats. Moreover, coethnic rebel groups can generally expect to absorb the resources of defeated rivals, which in turn may improve their chances in the fight against the government. In-depth case studies of multiparty insurgencies in Ethiopia's Eritrea and Tigray provinces, based on interviews with former rebel leaders, strongly support the window of opportunity and vulnerability theory of inter-rebel war.

scholarly journals Praca, robotnicy, archiwa, fotografia — utrwalanie stereotypów i walka o emancypację

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-221
Author(s):  
Tomasz Ferenc
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
The Third ◽  
Working People ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Moment ◽  
And Control ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Scientific Tool

Work, workers, and workers’ living conditions quickly became a field of interest for photographers. Already by the middle of the 19th century there were photographs showing working people. Nevertheless, the contexts in which such photographs were taken varied considerably. The first part of this article presents, in the historical perspective, the different causes and strategies involved in making these types of documents, up to the moment when photographs began to appear that had been made by workers themselves. The movement to photograph workers, which developed in the first decades of the 20th century, is recalled in the second part of the article (using the examples of the Weimar Republic and Soviet Russia). The third part is devoted to photographic projects whose purpose was to increase the productivity of, and control over, workers. Photography is presented as a scientific tool for measuring movement and as an illustration of the most effective manners of organizing work. At the end, the Digital Repository of Worker Photography is described, as an example of work on a collection of photos and the creation of a platform permitting further work, but also as a legal and methodological problem.

Seeking Solutions for Enhancing Social Relations and Communication in Media-Dependent Children of the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Tuğba Akdal
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Communication Devices ◽  
And Control

The technological age we're in removes all the temporal and spatial boundaries of communication and continues to provide various opportunities and conveniences for us. However, in this digital age in which individuals face intense information flow every day along with these opportunities, the effectiveness and control power of means of communication also increase. In today's capitalist or modern social order, a child model whose mental processes in a consumption-oriented way, who fully gets hold of the control mechanism and acts as an adult is being created. Parent profile of modern order accepts this model and they expect their children to behave as adults. The aim of this study is to find solutions to problems children—who have increasingly become dependent on communication devices of the digital age—face in socializing, establishing realistic relationships, and getting included within the communicative action of a realistic world to guide and raise awareness within parents for developing new communicative methods and skills with the children who have almost become mechanized.

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