scholarly journals Cellmates versus family – the sense of belonging among tattooed prisoners

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-163
Author(s):  
Mateusz Jan Lammek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Weak Sense ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Personal Resource ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Body Modifications

Introduction: The sense of belonging in a group can be a form of adaptation to the conditions of prison isolation. However, excessive group identification could result in negative consequences for the identity of an individual. The sense of support in social relations is a significant personal resource of convicts. The social identity of convicted persons influences their behaviour, and thus the effect of penitentiary interactions. Hence, the aim of the study was to assess the sense of belonging in a group among convicts with body modifications. Methods: The research was conducted in penitentiary units at the District Inspectorate of the Prison Service in Gdańsk (Poland). Fifty-eight re-sentenced convicts participated in the study (36.2% did not have body modifications, and 63.8% had tattoo/tattoos). The age of the respondents ranged from 18 to 62 years (M = 35.12; standard deviation, SD = 10.98). The participants completed the Group Identification Scale (Mael and Ashforth, 1992), the Identity Fusion Scale (Gómez et al., 2011) and the measure of identity fusion (Swann et al., 2009). Results: The study showed that convicts declare a very weak sense of belonging with their cellmates (55.2%) and a very strong sense of belonging with their family (44.8%). A relationship was observed between younger age and identity fusion; however, it was on the border of a significant statistical trend. Conclusions: Interpersonal relationships used as a personal resource in the social rehabilitation process can be extremely important for the probability of recidivism in the future. Especially, non-standard methods may allow convicts to test themselves in a new role. The self-concept should not be formatted through the prism of social stereotypes of prisoners, but with the simultaneous support of the family, which may strengthen socially acceptable behaviours.

scholarly journals The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 2601-2612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maraja Riechers ◽  
Ágnes Balázsi ◽  
Lydia Betz ◽  
Tolera S. Jiren ◽  
Joern Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Landscape Sustainability ◽  
Rural Landscapes ◽  
Relational Values ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Landscape Sustainability Science

Abstract Context The global trend of landscape simplification for industrial agriculture is known to cause losses in biodiversity and ecosystem service diversity. Despite these problems being widely known, status quo trajectories driven by global economic growth and changing diets continue to lead to further landscape simplification. Objectives In this perspective article, we argue that landscape simplification has negative consequences for a range of relational values, affecting the social-ecological relationships between people and nature, as well as the social relationships among people. A focus on relational values has been proposed to overcome the divide between intrinsic and instrumental values that people gain from nature. Results We use a landscape sustainability science framing to examine the interconnections between ecological and social changes taking place in rural landscapes. We propose that increasingly rapid and extreme landscape simplification erodes human-nature connectedness, social relations, and the sense of agency of inhabitants—potentially to the point of severe erosion of relational values in extreme cases. We illustrate these hypothesized changes through four case studies from across the globe. Leaving the links between ecological, social-ecological and social dimensions of landscape change unattended could exacerbate disconnection from nature. Conclusion A relational values perspective can shed new light on managing and restoring landscapes. Landscape sustainability science is ideally placed as an integrative space that can connect relevant insights from landscape ecology and work on relational values. We see local agency as a likely key ingredient to landscape sustainability that should be actively fostered in conservation and restoration projects.

Moral Principles in the Life of Society, or “Metaphysics of History”

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4-2) ◽  
pp. 311-329
Author(s):  
Vladislav Cheshev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

The article investigates the influence of moral principles on historically developing social relations. The appeal to this problem is based on a conceptual approach to the origin of human morality, which arises in the course of sociogenesis as a set of behavioral principles that provide the intraspecific cultural (non-genetic) solidarity necessary for human societies. It is noted that the moral consciousness of individuals, which regulates interpersonal relationships, is a necessary but insufficient means for transmitting moral principles. Morality is expressed in the relationship between society and an individual. Society solves the problem of reproduction of moral regulators, it brings them into the nature of social relations by necessity. In this regard, attention is drawn to the role of elite groups in solving the aforementioned problem, in particular, it points out the peculiarities of the formation of an elite layer in Russian history. The elite is the bearer of moral images of social behavior, which expresses the attitude to public goals, interests, historical meanings of social life. The task of the elite is the implementation of these principles in the nature of social relations. The egoism of individuals and social groups can impede the solution of such a problem. Overcoming difficulties of this kind can be achieved by an awareness of history, which provides the basis for public consensus. The article focuses on the ethos of the “spirit of capitalism”, which enters into the social environment through the principles of the organization of economic activity. The paper shows the relevance of the problem of interaction of economic ethics and moral foundations of society as a systemic whole.

scholarly journals Empathy in Social Relations of the Modern World

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Wojciech Gulin
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Side ◽  
Negative Phenomena

AbstractThe present day is characterized by many new technical and scientific solutions. The goal is probably to improve human existence. A computer and any related issues or a mobile phone; they are supposed to make life easier, but they also generate many negative phenomena. One of the most important is communication, increasingly poor in content (sms), “virtual world” at the expense of the real. Negative phenomena have also occurred from the social side. The sense of social exclusion is intensifying, which is a good example of older people. Empathy is the solution and also a way to address the negative tendency. It results in prosocial processes, through which people will look for direct relationships in interpersonal contacts, so there will be a renewal of interpersonal relationships that have characterized humanity for centuries.

scholarly journals THE GENDER COMPONENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF THE SOCIAL PROTECTION IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Verkhovod ◽  
Olena Leushyna
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Social

The factors of the functioning of the system of the social protection of the population have been analyzed in the article as the open, the ramified, the multilevel and the multifunctional system aimed at the maintenance of the individual-social balance in its activity, the activation of the socio-economic potential and the prevention of the negative consequences of the transformational processes and the minimization of the social risks in the society by means of legislative, economic, organizational, managerial and educational support of the gender equality. The use for the social-economic analysis of the system of the social protection of the numbers of the categories has been grounded, where the essence of the interaction of economic, social, political, organizational and legal subsystems of the system of the social protection has been reflected and their role in the development of the sustainable social relations. The principles of the integration of the gender approach into the state policy of Ukraine at the interstate, the national and the local levels have been researched on the basis of legislative, legal and other branch sources and the marks of the effectiveness of the state and the branch measures has been given as for the priority implementation of Directive 79/7 / EEC about gradually implementation of the principle of the equal attitude for the men and the women in the sphere of the social providing, the main problematic aspects of the implementation of the mechanisms of the social providing, the policy of the employment, health care have been revealed, which have the significant impact on the state of the gender equality in Ukraine. The ways of the increase of the level of the compliance of the principle of the gender have been determined equality in terms of the improvement of the normative-legal base, the accounting of the gender components in the programs of the economic and the social development, the improvement of the mechanism of the realization of the gender-legal expertise, the improvement of the realization of the mechanisms of the right to the protection from the discrimination on the basis of sex, making the gender component to the programs of the social reforms with the involvement of the public authorities, the local self-governments and the public organizations and the associations, the activities are aimed at the providing of the equal rights and the opportunities of the women and the men.

scholarly journals New Migrants’ Social Integration, Embedding and Emplacement in Superdiverse Contexts

Sociology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Wessendorf ◽  
Jenny Phillimore
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Majority Population ◽  
The Uk

This article focuses on how newcomers form social relations when settling in the UK, and the role of these relations in regards to their sense of belonging as well as access to resources that support integration. By bringing together the concept of social integration with scholarship on embedding and sociabilities of emplacement, the article demonstrates how a combination of serendipitous encounters, ‘crucial acquaintances’ and more enduring friendships with other migrants, co-ethnics and members of the majority population support migrants’ settlement. Drawing on two qualitative studies on migrant settlement, it shows the importance of social relations with other migrants during settlement, and subsequently critically reflects on how the notion of ‘bridging social capital’ has been used in policy discourse. By doing so, the article contends that the notion of ‘integration’ needs to reflect the social ‘unit’ into which migrants are supposed to integrate.

Grandparenting, Social Relations, and Mortality in Old Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 016402752110154
Author(s):  
Heejung Jang ◽  
Fengyan Tang ◽  
Rachel A. Fusco ◽  
Rafael J. Engel ◽  
Steven M. Albert
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Custodial Grandparents ◽  
Social Network Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Grandparent Caregiving

Guided by a convoy model of social relations, this study investigates the relationships between grandparenting status, social relations, and mortality among community-dwelling grandparents age 65 and older who are caring for their grandchildren. The data were drawn from the 2008 and 2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study ( N = 564). Latent class analysis was used to identify the social network structure based on six indicators of interpersonal relationships and activities. A series of hierarchical Weibull hazard models estimated the associations between grandparent caregiving, social relations, and mortality risk. Results of survival analyses indicate that co-parenting and custodial grandparents had higher all-cause mortality risk than grandparents who babysat occasionally; however, for custodial grandparents, the association was not significant once social relation variables were added to the model. This study suggests that community-based support may be beneficial to older grandparents and improved relationship quality is integral to the well-being of older adults.

The SRM Approach to Family Assessment

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Analysis Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Direction Of Effects

Abstract. In family systems, it is possible for one to put oneself at risk by eliciting aversive, high-risk behaviors from others ( Cook, Kenny, & Goldstein, 1991 ). Consequently, it is desirable that family assessments should clarify the direction of effects when evaluating family dynamics. In this paper a new method of family assessment will be presented that identifies bidirectional influence processes in family relationships. Based on the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984 ), the SRM Family Assessment provides information about the give and take of family dynamics at three levels of analysis: group, individual, and dyad. The method will be briefly illustrated by the assessment of a family from the PIER Program, a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to prevent the onset of psychosis in high-risk young people.

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