scholarly journals The Analysis of Sexism in English Proverbs

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 352
Author(s):  
Xin Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intercultural Conflicts ◽  
Foreign Exchanges ◽  
The Development Trend

The proverb is summarized and refined by human through many years of social practice beings. As a social variant, it reflects the social customs and cultural values. It is not difficult to see this kind of phenomenon in the English proverb because of the widespread discrimination against women in human culture. Through studying the development trend of sexism in English proverbs, the paper analyses these phenomena from the five aspects-personality, behavior, intelligence, marriage and social status. And then the paper probes into the causes of sexism from three aspects: historical reasons, cultural origin and social factors. The proper comprehension of the sexism in English proverbs not only helps to improve the students' ability of using English, but also avoids the intercultural conflicts caused by improper using of English proverbs in the foreign exchanges.

scholarly journals How to become a Brahman: The construction of varṇa as social place in the Mahābhārata’s legends of Viśvāmitra

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-67
Author(s):  
Adheesh Sathaye
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Textual Performance

University of British ColumbiaThis article investigates varṇa as an embodied and spatialized social practice in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, with a focus on the epic subnarratives of Viśvāmitra, the legendary king who became a Brahman. Adopting a post-Dumontian position that the articulation of social status is always a political act, the Mahābhārata’s treatment of Viśvāmitra is analyzed as a literary attempt to secure the social place of Brahmanhood in post-Mauryan India. Two specific narratives are taken up for comparative study: first the kāmadhenu legend—the squabble with Vasiṣṭha that led to Viśvāmitra’s Brahmanhood—and then an altogether different story in which a mixup by Viśvāmitra’s sister Satyavatī meant that he had always been a Brahman by birth. Two distinct interpretive voices are heard in the same epic—one extolling Viśvāmitra’s extraordinary ascetic power, and another, louder one minimizing his realworld impact by insisting that his varṇa change never actually happened. Developing the concept of ‘textual performance’ to explain how fluid legendary material was embedded into the fixed epic corpus, this article argues that the Mahābhārata utilized counter-normative figures like Viśvāmitra to articulate alternative voices and possibilities, but within a carefully regulated epic storyworld that naturalized varṇa as an everyday social practice.

scholarly journals Social status gates social attention in humans

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Dalmaso ◽  
Giulia Pavan ◽  
Luigi Castelli ◽  
Giovanni Galfano
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
High Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Gaze Cuing ◽  
Specific Identity

Humans tend to shift attention in response to the averted gaze of a face they are fixating, a phenomenon known as gaze cuing. In the present paper, we aimed to address whether the social status of the cuing face modulates this phenomenon. Participants were asked to look at the faces of 16 individuals and read fictive curriculum vitae associated with each of them that could describe the person as having a high or low social status. The association between each specific face and either high or low social status was counterbalanced between participants. The same faces were then used as stimuli in a gaze-cuing task. The results showed a greater gaze-cuing effect for high-status faces than for low-status faces, independently of the specific identity of the face. These findings confirm previous evidence regarding the important role of social factors in shaping social attention and show that a modulation of gaze cuing can be observed even when knowledge about social status is acquired through episodic learning.

scholarly journals How to fit in? South Asian Mothers and children's acculturation experiences in Australia and children's weight

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
tehzeeb zulfiqar ◽  
Lyndall Strazdins ◽  
Cathy Banwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Asian Mothers

<p>This study of 14 Australian immigrant mothers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, and their 12 children aged eight to 11 years, explores the interplay of cultural and social processes which might elevate the risk of obesity. Mothers and their children were asked in semi-structured, face-to-face interviews about changes in their diet and physical activities after immigration to Australia.</p> <p>Thematic analysis of these interviews showed a transformation in immigrant families’ diets and physical activities as they transitioned from their traditional lifestyles to an Australian pattern. Both mothers and their children recognised the problem—and causes—of obesity. However, different frames of reference—origin countries for mothers and Australian peers for children—resulted in generational disjuncture about healthy bodyweight and the strategies to achieve it. Mothers’ cultural values and low social status in origin countries, led them to struggle to adapt to new health behaviours. In contrast, their children wanted to look and act like their Australian peers, who valued slimness.</p> <p>Our findings reveal that the social status of food and activity reflects cultural meanings from both origin countries and Australia, creating contradictions and tensions for immigrants that public health campaigns will need to help them navigate.</p>

Gems, Cameos, and Social Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 357-383
Author(s):  
Jörn Lang
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Protection

This chapter focuses on the social practice of Roman images in the form of engraved gems and cameos. They were carried along on the body of their owner, so that the way they were perceived was highly flexible. The function of the representations was thus not limited to spatially fixed contexts of perception and could potentially function in all social configurations in which their wearer interacted socially. This essay aims to consider gems and cameos as objects within social spheres of activity. The starting point is the use of the objects. This makes it possible at least to limit the social interactions into which the images were integrated. Following upon this functional approach and an overview of common pictorial motifs, examples of possible ways these representations were concretely integrated to social practices will be shown. To this end, both outwardly directed functions such as social status or affiliation with a social group as well as actor-oriented aspects such as personal commemoration or the desire for individual protection are considered.

Honor and Humiliation in Apuleius’ Apologia

Mnemosyne ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Kehoe ◽  
Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practical Dimension ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Apuleius’ Apologia has consistently drawn scholarly attention as an example of soaring rhetoric from the Second Sophistic and for being the only remaining account of a trial for illegal magic from the early Empire. This study opts for a different approach. It uses the Apologia as a window into the culture of Roman provincial high society by examining Apuleius’ motivations for demanding his accusers bring formal charges against him, as well as the social factors that pushed the preceding conflict to such a dramatic climax. The main contention of this inquiry is that the actions of both Apuleius and his enemies reveal the paramount importance of honor as a cultural driver of conflict, and particularly its vocalization in the parry and riposte of insults and humiliation that ultimately resulted in a theatrical courtroom confrontation. The results of this micro-study in Roman provincial life should thus provide a useful complement to both Ifie & Thompson’s excellent paper on Rank, Social Status and Esteem in Apuleius (1977-1978) as well as J.E. Lendon’s magisterial Empire of Honour. The Art of Government in the Roman World (1997). It also adds a practical dimension to Lateiner’s detailed analysis of Apuleius’ literary strategies of humiliation and embarrassment in his Metamorphoses (2001).

scholarly journals Teaching and Learning Vocabulary through Reading as a Social Practice in Saudi Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Sultan Altalhab
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Context Of Learning

<p>The study explores the social practice of vocabulary learning by examining vocabulary teaching techniques employed by teachers, the vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) identified by students as most useful and the ones they felt most competent in using when reading and teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary through reading. While most vocabulary research is quantitative, this study used a mixed methods approach of quantitative and qualitative data collected from a range of sources. One hundred and fifty students majoring in English from four different universities completed a semi-structured questionnaire and twenty-two of them were interviewed. In addition, nine teachers of vocabulary and reading subjects were interviewed and their classes observed. A systematic analysis for the prescribed textbooks was also conducted. The findings revealed that both teachers and students were negotiating their autonomy on an ongoing basis, which means that the social context of learning has a powerful influence on what students learn. The study concludes that vocabulary learning is a social practice influenced by a range of factors, such as teaching techniques, VLSs, the prescribed textbook, participants’ beliefs and attitudes, learners’ interests, cultural values and learners’ level of competence in English.</p>

Agricultural Natural Disasters Mitigation in Hebei Province China

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 1979-1988
Author(s):  
Abdur Rehman ◽  
Wang Jian
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Political System ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Hebei Province ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
The Development Trend ◽  
Risky Business

Agriculture by nature is a risky business, not only natural calamities but also other environmental factors such as political system, law, policy, social factors and many others has profoundly affecting the agricultural development. However the current paper mainly concentrates on the four main kinds of natural calamities such as drought, flood, wind hail and frost etc affecting the agricultural development of Hebei province China. In order to evaluate and mitigate the province from the agricultural natural calamities, the panel data from 1990-2012 of four agricultural natural disasters covered and affected areas are analyzed. It defined and measured the rates of disaster reduction and affected, gives the analysis and mitigation of agricultural natural disasters. According to the extent and the areas of distribution of a variety of calamities in the losses of crops, use basic statistical methods to analyze the development trend and the affected areas variation of various calamities, such as it discussed the natural calamity's long term changes in the diversity and complexity of features. Finally from the prospective of macro policy the study responds and concludes some mitigation measures to compete with agricultural natural calamities.

scholarly journals Social factors for coastal management: A short review and some insights

2019 ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Chee Kong Yap ◽  
Chee Seng Leow
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Coastal Management ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Social Factor ◽  
Short Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
Habitat Niche ◽  
Citizen Perceptions

Integration of social-economic and environmental perspectives are important in making the goal of coastal management to be obtained within expectation. In this review paper, the social factor is focused upon in particular. This is due to the fact that human cannot escape from surrounding which becomes their habitat niche. From this review, the social factors are known as 1) human attitudes, 2) differences of social-cultural values, ethics and classes, 3) population growth, 4) stakeholder/citizen perceptions, 5) involvement of social/public community, 6) anthropogenic activities, and 7) the involvement of managers and governance. Most dominantly, anthropogenic activities involved aquaculture, fishing, shipping and port activities, sediment mining, salt extraction, and tourism. Keywords: Coastal management; Human activities; Social factors

scholarly journals Sexism in English Proverbs and Idioms

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Ali He ◽  
Yang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Sexism In Language ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Development Trend

The study of “language and gender” has been always popular among linguistics. Language, as a mirror of the society, reflects a nation’s values and beliefs. Sexism against women has been common in English-speaking countries. So we can also see sexism in English here and there. Proverbs and idioms are blood and guts of a nation. This paper pays much attention to the sexism in English proverbs and idioms. This paper first discusses the preview studies about sexism and the definition of English proverbs and idioms; and then the thesis expounds the manifestations of sexism in proverbs and idioms from the perspectives of social status, wisdom, character, and marriage; then the paper also makes deep studies into the causes of sexism from three aspects: society, culture and psychology; finally, this paper indicates the development trend of sexism in English proverbs and idioms. Through the studies on English proverbs and idioms, this paper tries to reveal the phenomenon of sexism in language and find out solutions to help people reduce and eliminate discrimination against women in society and language.

scholarly journals How to fit in? South Asian Mothers and children's acculturation experiences in Australia and children's weight

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
tehzeeb zulfiqar ◽  
Lyndall Strazdins ◽  
Cathy Banwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Asian Mothers

<p>This study of 14 Australian immigrant mothers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, and their 12 children aged eight to 11 years, explores the interplay of cultural and social processes which might elevate the risk of obesity. Mothers and their children were asked in semi-structured, face-to-face interviews about changes in their diet and physical activities after immigration to Australia.</p> <p>Thematic analysis of these interviews showed a transformation in immigrant families’ diets and physical activities as they transitioned from their traditional lifestyles to an Australian pattern. Both mothers and their children recognised the problem—and causes—of obesity. However, different frames of reference—origin countries for mothers and Australian peers for children—resulted in generational disjuncture about healthy bodyweight and the strategies to achieve it. Mothers’ cultural values and low social status in origin countries, led them to struggle to adapt to new health behaviours. In contrast, their children wanted to look and act like their Australian peers, who valued slimness.</p> <p>Our findings reveal that the social status of food and activity reflects cultural meanings from both origin countries and Australia, creating contradictions and tensions for immigrants that public health campaigns will need to help them navigate.</p>

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