Motivation Matters: Shelter Workers and Residents in the Late Capitalist Era

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Hillary Haldane
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Shelter Workers ◽  
The One ◽  
Family Folklore ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Social Safety Nets

Domestic violence shelters are a product of a capitalist order; a response to a political-economic system that has seen shrinking extended family networks and disappearing social safety nets. In our contemporary era, the head of the household is responsible for the financial well-being of the family. There are fewer familial and communal systems of support. The isolation of the nuclear family is compounded by the circulation through popular culture and our own family folklore of the myth of the one true love, undying passion and lifelong happiness. This lifelong happiness is disrupted by families that don't follow the mythical narrative: divorce, death before children reproduce, when one generation cannot ‘naturally’ take over from the one that came before. When things go wrong, we are increasingly forced to turn outside our kinnetworks for assistance. Shelters are designed to provide a safe haven for women experiencing violence when there is nowhere else to go. When interested members of the public ask, "Why does she stay?" it is because shelters have become the obvious place the victim is supposed to go. Beyond providing respite from the abuse, shelters are increasingly viewed as the space where a transformation takes place—the replacing of unproductive victims with able bodied survivors, survivors to be healthfully put back into the system, revitalized and productive members of society read workforce.

scholarly journals PERBEDAAN SUBJECTIVE WELL BEING PADA IBU DITINJAU DARI STRUKTUR KELUARGA DI KOTA DENPASAR

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Sonia Martha Dewi ◽  
Adijanti Marheni
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
T Test ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Area Sampling

Ilmu psikologi tidak hanya studi yang membahas tentang kelemahan tetapi juga studi tentang kekuatan dan kebijakan individu yang kemudian disebut sebagai Psikologi Positif. Salah satu pokok bahasan dalam psikologi positif adalah terkait dengan subjective well being individu. Terdapat enam prediktor subjective well being individu dimana salah satu prediktor tersebut adalah hubungan sosial yang positif. Kelompok sosial terkecil didalam masyarakat adalah keluarga. Penelitian ini merupakan sebuah penelitian kuantitatif dengan menggunakan metode analisis Independent Sample T-test, teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan yaitu two stage area sampling. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah ibu yang tinggal pada struktur keluarga nuclear family (N=60) dan struktur keluarga extended family (N=60) dengan rentang usia 18-40 tahun. Alat ukur dalam penelitian ini menggunakan skala subjective well being sebanyak 27 aitem (?= 0,857).  Hasil dari penelitian ini diperoleh t hitung pada Equal varians assumed sebesar 2,519 dengan probabilitas 0,013 atau berada dibawah 0,05 (p<0,05), maka Ha diterima, atau dapat dikatakan kedua kelompok berbeda secara signifikan. Hasil tersebut menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan subjective well being pada ibu yang tinggal dalam struktur keluarga nuclear family dengan ibu yang tinggal dalam struktur keluarga extended family.   Kata Kunci : Subjective well being, Ibu, Extended Family, Nuclear Family

Disciplining Desiring Subjects through the Remodeling of Masculinity

Modern China ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Government Regulation ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic

If You Are the One, the most watched dating show in China, caused a heated public debate following its debut in 2010, resulting in two government notices being issued regarding the regulation of dating shows. Using textual and intertextual analysis of the show and the public debate surrounding it, this article scrutinizes the transformation, following government regulation, of the construction of masculinity on the show. Drawing on Lisa Rofel’s narrative of “desiring China” and Robert P. Weller’s concept of “responsive authoritarianism,” this article shows how the tension between the market logic of the Chinese media and their political ownership is played out through the negotiation and mobilization of the meaning of gender. This article therefore also sheds light on larger political, economic, and sociocultural configurations in contemporary China.

Replacing the family? Beguinages in early modern western European cities: an analysis of the family networks of beguines living in Mechelen (1532–1591)

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIM OVERLAET
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Family

ABSTRACTIn many early modern towns of the southern Low Countries, beguinages gave adult single women of all ages the possibility to lead a religious life of contemplation in a secure setting, retaining rights to their property and not having to take permanent vows. This paper re-examines the family networks of these women by means of a micro-study of the wills left by beguines who lived in the Great Beguinage of St Catherine in sixteenth-century Mechelen, a middle-sized city in the Low Countries. By doing so, this research seeks to add nuance to a historiography that has tended to consider beguinages as artificial families, presumably during a period associated with the increasing dominance of the nuclear family and the unravelling ties of extended family.

ONE HEALTH AND BIOSAFETY -NEED OF HARMONIZATION IN MONGOLIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Zayatiin Batsukh ◽  
Gonchigoogiin Battsetseg
Keyword(s):  
One Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Wildlife Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Health Concept ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

The One Health concept recognizes that the health of humans is connected to the health of animals and the environment. The major aim of the One Health is to improve health and well-being through the prevention of risks and the mitigation of effects of crises that originate at the interface between humans, animals and their various environments.Regardless of which of the many definitions of One Health is used, the common theme is collaboration across sectors. Collaborating across sectors that have a direct or indirect impact on health involves thinking and working across silos and optimizing resources and efforts while respecting the autonomy of the various sectors. To improve the effectiveness of the One Health approach, there is a need to establish a better sectoral balance among existing groups and networks, especially between veterinarians and physicians, and to increase the participation of environmental and wildlife health practitioners, as well as social scientists and development actors.As this kind of collaboration newly introduced in Mongolia, there are numerous complications and difficulties may arise, that eventually could lead to the results, with higher negative impact to the public and personal health. From the technical perspective, it is undoubtfully important to evaluate the system and reveal the gap and weakness of each stakeholder in this important network and try to introduce common standard operational procedures for the handling and maintaining infective agents to avoid the unpleasant spill over the pathogen into the environment.Mongolian Journal of Agricultural Sciences Vol.13(2) 2014: 146-152

scholarly journals Agriculture À Base D’anacarde Et Formes Traditionnelles De Mobilisation De La Main D’oeuvre Agricole Chez Les Fohobélé Au Centre-Nord De La Côte d'Ivoire

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Ouattara Nanfouhoro Paul-Kévin
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Le système de production agricole des Fohobélé est basé sur une main d’oeuvre provenant principalement de la famille dite élargie et du nabonron qui est une institution sociale destinée à mutualiser la force de travail. A la suite de l’adoption de la culture de l’anacarde, l’économie locale s’est structurée autour d’une économie de plantation en remplacement de l’économie fondée sur la culture de rente qu’est le coton. Le présent article vise d’une part à connaitre l’impact de la culture de l’anacarde sur les structures sociales de mobilisation de la main d’oeuvre agricole des Fohobélé et d’autre part à découvrir les nouvelles stratégies de formation de la force de travail agricole. A travers des entretiens semi-directifs avec les acteurs locaux et des observations de terrain, il ressort de l’étude que l’adoption de cette nouvelle spéculation agricole a déstructuré les formes traditionnelles de la force de travail. La famille traditionnelle s’est éclatée pour laisser la place à des familles nucléaires. Le nabonron, forme d’entraide locale a disparu. La force de travail provient désormais de la famille nucléaire avec un rôle plus accru des femmes, des prestations monétarisées et de l’usage des produits chimiques dans l’agriculture. The Fohobélé agricultural production system is based on a workforce mainly coming from the so-called extended family and the nabonron, which is a social institution intended to pool the labor force. Following the adoption of cashew cultivation, the local economy was structured around a plantation economy to replace the economy based on the cash crop of cotton. This article aims on the one hand to know the impact of cashew cultivation on the social structures of mobilization of the agricultural workforce of the Fohobélé and on the other hand to discover the new strategies of strength training agricultural work. Through semi-structured interviews with local actors and field observations, it emerges from the study that the adoption of this new agricultural speculation has deconstructed the traditional forms of the labor force. The traditional family has split up to make way for nuclear families. The nabonron, a form of local mutual aid, has disappeared. The labor force now comes from the nuclear family with a greater role for women, cash benefits and the use of chemicals in agriculture.

scholarly journals Co-Creating a “Sustainable New Normal” for Social Work and Beyond: Embracing an Ecosocial Worldview

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10941
Author(s):  
Meredith Powers ◽  
Michaela Rinkel ◽  
Praveen Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Better Than

We have an opportunity to help shape new systems and structures that redress injustices and course correct us for a trajectory that is infinitely better than the one on which we are now set. We can co-create a sustainable new normal, intentionally and mindfully, alongside those who are most impacted by factors of oppression, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Such a new trajectory would mitigate both the unintentional harm and blatant atrocities done to people and our ecosystem, as well as heal and promote holistic, mutual well-being. Since the dawn of the profession, many social workers have practiced using an expanded understanding of the person–environment framework (i.e., social, political, economic, and environmental) and have drawn upon Indigenous worldviews. However, our current mainstream professional models are entrenched in the growth ideology, which perpetuates the very injustices that we seek to eliminate. Therefore, we need to embrace an ecosocial worldview, shifting conversations and actions towards alternative approaches and establish new policies and practices. In order to equip the profession to meet these roles and responsibilities and address these interwoven injustices, we highlight examples of real, successful alternatives implemented across the globe and pose considerations for re-envisioning and co-creating a sustainable new normal, for the profession and beyond.

Democracy as Expectation of Material Pleasures

Tocqueville ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien Jaume
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
The Public ◽  
Town Government ◽  
Concrete Realization ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter deals with the taste for material pleasures that inevitably accompanies the development of democracy. What Tocqueville indiscriminately referred to as the “taste for material pleasures” or the “passion for well-being” was a phenomenon directly linked to equality, which therefore became characteristic of “democracy.” Here, then, we have a new facet of equality, different from the one encountered previously in decentralized town government in America, where popular sovereignty achieved its concrete realization, and different too from the religion of the Public, in which the citizen is at once strong and weak because he must deal with “increasingly similar and equal men.” Any definition of democracy that does not count pleasure in well-being as its foremost aim will fail to do justice to Tocqueville's thought. What is more remarkable still is the fact that the commentators' embarrassed silence is not a recent phenomenon: no serious analysis of this point can be found even in the first reviews.

Children as Providers and Recipients of Support

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Ruiz-Casares ◽  
Shelene Gentz ◽  
Jesse Beatson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The State ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Processes associated with the formation of child-headed households (CHH) are complex. Findings are mixed with regard to the impact of living in CHHs on children. On the one hand, children in CHHs do not necessarily have more unmet basic needs than do peers in adult-headed households and, in fact, have more opportunities to develop self-esteem and care for others. Nonetheless, children in CHHs confront specific challenges to their well-being. This chapter summarizes the state of the literature pertaining to CHHs, with a particular focus on CHHs as indicators of “the breakdown of the extended family” as a safety net. The authors present two case studies from Namibia that illustrate changes in children’s relationships and other aspects of the CHH experience and explore immediate and deferred reciprocity as a measure of accessibility and strength of their relationships and as an indicator of the changing status of children and family dynamics.

scholarly journals SRBIJA I POLITIČKI ODNOSI U JUGOSLAVIJI U VREME SAHRANE ALEKSANDRA RANKOVIĆA 1983: TAČKE SUKOBA

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2/2021) ◽  
pp. 415-434
Author(s):  
Slobodan Selinić
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Political Unity ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic

Serbia’s political status after the death of Josip Broz was determined by two kinds of efforts by the state. Firstly, the Serbian leaders aimed to change its unequal status in federal Yugoslavia. Secondly, they aimed to stop fragmentation within Serbia, which grew steadily after the 1974 Constitution. Political relations between Serbian leaders on the one hand, and some political circles and leaders of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and the autonomous provinces on the other, were strained. They worsened even more after several clashes in 1983. Despite the opposition of politicians in Bosnia, Croatia, and Vojvodina to Dragoslav Marković (who was described as a strong advocate of Serbian political unity), he was elected as chairman of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (CK SKJ) in 1983. Serbo-Croatian relationships were further damaged after the publication of the book Enigma Kopinič in Belgrade. The Croatian leaders were against this publication because it revealed – as far as the Party was concerned – undesirable information about the interwar years and the period during World War II. The major confrontation came over the interpretation of events that occurred at the funeral of Aleksandar Ranković (mainly over who was responsible for the mass gathering and the respectful attitude toward the deceased). Federal party units, as well as those from the Yugoslav republics and from Belgrade, jointly condemned those events as a political rally against the government. However, they disagreed over who was responsible for the incident and what had caused the public outcry. The CK SKJ chairmanship members from the autonomous provinces, Croatia, and Bosnia accused Serbia and the Serbian Communist Party for the display of nationalism. They also held the Belgrade City Party Committee responsible for letting the rally happen. Contrary to this, the Belgrade City Committee led by Ivan Stambolić, whom the Serbian leadership supported, felt that the uproar was caused by the overall political, economic, and social crisis, for which the Federal government was to blame.

scholarly journals Family, poverty and conflict in the metropolitan city of Douala- Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Billa Robert Nanche
Keyword(s):  
Durable Goods ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Home Based

The objective of this work was to describe how poverty influences family’s consumption pattern in the Household wealth theory which explains that wealth is a source of well-being and how the increasing rate of unemployment among household due to the deterioration of the job markets has affected family members’ consumption of home products for 202 participants. A systematic sampling method was used in which in every neighbourhood, much effort was made to start with an nth subject and then select every twentieth unit after the first was selected. The questionnaires were administered by directly contacting and handing them to the respondents (self-administered) and the non-literate ones were helped to fill them. It was discovered that, people tend to prefer nuclear family as their income rises and extended family as their income decreases. The nuclear family members have a better consumption habit than extended family members, single parents and single people because they earn more money and have a much smaller family-size. However, single parent tend to significantly use formal health seeking methods than others because they also have smaller families. The extended family consume more home-based goods and therefore have more domestic comfort: they do not only significantly own and rent expensive and quality homes but also have more durable goods.

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