scholarly journals Dynamism: Reconceptualising Resilience in Recovery From Trauma

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Zoe Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Trauma Survivors ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cultural Contexts

Resilience research is currently dominated by Western theoretical frameworks, concepts, constructions, worldviews and understandings. Applying a Western construction of resilience to other global settings, is challenged by the fact that cultural practices central to different cultural identities, may not be acknowledged. This paper will present new and existing ways of conceptualising resilience and proposes that the term dynamism may be more culturally appropriate for capturing the concept of resilience in cross-cultural settings. The term dynamism has been crafted from research that initially sought to understand resilience and recovery among young Cambodian trauma survivors (See Wyatt, 2021). The research endeavoured to situate the concept of resilience within a non-Western, Cambodia-specific context. This study looked at factors that enabled young people to move forward with their lives and do remarkably well, despite significant childhood trauma (Wyatt, 2021). This paper is an extension of the key findings and will focus on the construction of the term resilience and its usefulness in cross-cultural settings. Furthermore, this article will present a model for dynamism and how this may be helpful in understanding recovery from trauma in cross-cultural contexts.

Cross-cultural views on human development in the third millennium

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre R. Dasen ◽  
Ramesh C. Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Indigenous Psychologies ◽  
Apparent Conflict

The authors examine the prospects of a cross-cultural approach for research in human development. They first examine the apparent conflict between the positivistic and the constructionist paradigms, and examine their methodological implications. They argue for a midline position, seeing the seemingly opposed paradigms as complementary rather than antithetical. The major part of the paper lists the further developments needed in the field, in particular taking new theories to the cross-cultural test more quickly, and working out culturally appropriate applications to social issues. Shorter sections are devoted to the choice of appropriate theoretical frameworks, to the development of “indigenous psychologies” and to the working conditions of researchers in different contexts. The authors conclude that the situation of a cross-cultural approach to human development has improved significantly in the last two decades, but that there is still a lot to be done to completely disengage developmental psychology from its inherent ethnocentrism by “taking culture seriously”.

Culture, Emotion, and Health

2018 ◽  
pp. 366-378
Author(s):  
Jiah Yoo ◽  
Yuri Miyamoto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Cultural Fit ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Physiological Systems

Emotion plays central roles in health via numerous pathways; how these linkages vary by cultural contexts is beginning to be understood. Studies have demonstrated that culturally shared ideas, values, practices, and norms influence health implications of emotions. This chapter summarizes differences in beliefs, values, and norms about emotion between Western and East Asian cultures. Self-construal theory and dialecticism provide theoretical frameworks for the investigations that follow. Studies are reviewed demonstrating cultural differences in the associations between emotions and health, highlighting the idea of cultural fit along the way. The health outcomes include mental health, self-rated physical health and physical symptoms, and physiological systems. Considered are possible psychosocial and behavioral processes through which culturally appropriate emotions affect health. Future directions are suggested. The overarching message is that culture needs to be considered in building a full understanding of how emotion and health are linked.

scholarly journals “I Treat My Daughters Not Like My Mother Treated Me”: Migrant and Refugee Women’s Constructions and Experiences of Menarche and Menstruation

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Alexandra J. Hawkey ◽  
Jane M. Ussher ◽  
Janette Perz
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

Abstract Hawkey, Ussher, and Perz bring attention to the constructions and experiences of menarche and menstruation from the perspective of migrant and refugee women resettled in Australia and Canada. The authors describe how the positioning of menstruation as shameful, polluting, and something to be concealed has implications for girls’ and women’s embodied experiences, as well as for their level of knowledge about menstruation at menarche. They demonstrate how migrant and refugee women variably adopted, adapted, and questioned cultural practices and how this impacted their engagement with their daughters, showing women’s negotiation or navigation of differing cultural contexts following migration. By identifying the women’s experiences, the authors highlight details that are essential to deliver culturally appropriate medical practice, health promotion, and health education.

Stories from Ultrasonographic Abyss

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matylda Szewczyk
Keyword(s):  
Prenatal Care ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Prenatal Ultrasound ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Medical Imagery ◽  
The Future ◽  
Different Cultures

The article presents a reflection on the experience of prenatal ultrasound and on the nature of cultural beings, it creates. It exploits chosen ethnographic and cultural descriptions of prenatal ultrasounds in different cultures, as well as documentary and artistic reflections on medical imagery and new media technologies. It discusses different ways of defining the role of ultrasound in prenatal care and the cultural contexts build around it. Although the prenatal ultrasounds often function in the space of enormous tensions (although they are also supposed to give pleasure), it seems they will accompany us further in the future. It is worthwhile to find some new ways of describing them and to invent new cultural practices to deal with them.

scholarly journals Western listeners detect boundary hierarchy in Indian music: a segmentation study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tudor Popescu ◽  
Richard Widdess ◽  
Martin Rohrmeier
Keyword(s):  
Musical Training ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Substantial Agreement ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Structural Units ◽  
Structural Relationships ◽  
Indian Music ◽  
Time Awareness

AbstractHow are listeners able to follow and enjoy complex pieces of music? Several theoretical frameworks suggest links between the process of listening and the formal structure of music, involving a division of the musical surface into structural units at multiple hierarchical levels. Whether boundaries between structural units are perceivable to listeners unfamiliar with the style, and are identified congruently between naïve listeners and experts, remains unclear. Here, we focused on the case of Indian music, and asked 65 Western listeners (of mixed levels of musical training; most unfamiliar with Indian music) to intuitively segment into phrases a recording of sitar ālāp of two different rāga-modes. Each recording was also segmented by two experts, who identified boundary regions at section and phrase levels. Participant- and region-wise scores were computed on the basis of "clicks" inside or outside boundary regions (hits/false alarms), inserted earlier or later within those regions (high/low "promptness"). We found substantial agreement—expressed as hit rates and click densities—among participants, and between participants' and experts' segmentations. The agreement and promptness scores differed between participants, levels, and recordings. We found no effect of musical training, but detected real-time awareness of grouping completion and boundary hierarchy. The findings may potentially be explained by underlying general bottom-up processes, implicit learning of structural relationships, cross-cultural musical similarities, or universal cognitive capacities.

Metal burial: Understanding caching behaviour and contact material culture in Australia's NE Kimberley

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-52
Author(s):  
Sam Harper ◽  
Ian Waina ◽  
Ambrose Chalarimeri ◽  
Sven Ouzman ◽  
Martin Porr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Contact Material ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Burials

This paper explores identity and the recursive impacts of cross-cultural colonial encounters on individuals, cultural materials, and cultural practices in 20th-century northern Australia. We focus on an assemblage of cached metal objects and associated cultural materials that embody both Aboriginal tradition and innovation. These cultural materials were wrapped in paperbark and placed within a ring of stones, a bundling practice also seen in human burials in this region. This ‘cache' is located in close proximity to rockshelters with rich, superimposed Aboriginal rock art compositions. However, the cache shelter has no visible art, despite available wall space. The site shows the utilisation of metal objects as new raw materials that use traditional techniques to manufacture a ground edge metal axe and to sharpen metal rods into spears. We contextualise these objects and their hypothesised owner(s) within narratives of invasion/contact and the ensuing pastoral history of this region. Assemblage theory affords us an appropriate theoretical lens through which to bring people, places, objects, and time into conversation.

scholarly journals Elites and Culture: Social Profiles in the Cultivated Population

2021 ◽  
pp. 174997552199830
Author(s):  
Antonio Ariño Villarroya ◽  
Ramon Llopis-Goig
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Cultural Classification ◽  
Social Profiles

Since the 1990s, the central references of the sociology of cultural practices have been the theoretical frameworks developed by Pierre Bourdieu and Richard A. Peterson around the concepts of distinction and omnivorousness. This article is based on these frameworks; it revises them together with those of Donnat and Lahire and postulates that the terms of cultural classification and especially those of the upper classes (distinguished and omnivorous) require revision. The article also claims that there are diverse socio-cultural profiles due to the fact that there is never a single logic of differentiation of tastes, and that the results of the present research demand a new conceptual framework capable of showing the operation of diverse logics of differentiation and hierarchy. In order to do this, an analysis of the socio-cultural profiles of the cultivated groups in Spanish society is carried out on the data obtained from the Survey of Cultural Habits and Practices in Spain 2018/19. This work proves the existence of three types of cultivated population – classical, modern and syncretic – with notable differences in their cultural interests and practices, as well as in their underlying sociodemographic features and aesthetic logics, and concludes by posing the need to delve into the latter in what it defines as the study of cultural practice regimes.

scholarly journals School and Shaping Students’ Identities: A Report on the Studies into Youth in the Silesian Voivodeship

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Alina Szczurek-Boruta
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
School Year ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Two Stages

The identity of young people, and the state of a school’s fulfilment of its tasks, as presented in the article, are based on the results of the author’s own field explorations carried out in the school year 2003/2004 and repeated in the same territory of the Silesian Voivodeship in the zone of intensive social and economic development in 2016/2017. The results of the research conducted have shown that schools brought young people with different personal and social resources, and living in different historical and socio-cultural contexts, to a similar value of identity capital. The study, conducted in two stages with an interval of 13 years, has revealed the greatest shifts in the following areas: extension of the range of interactions (change 13.2%); ambivalence (change 8.1%); revitalization (change 7.7%); and ethos (change 6.8%). The least change occurred in the provision of offers of identification (1.7% change). A slight decline was noted in the extension of the developmental moratorium (1.5% change). The identified, described and empirically verified tasks of a school form a specific map of educational activities, which can be successfully used as a matrix to describe and interpret a school’s participation in the shaping of young people’s identities.

A dynamic Asian response to globalization in cross-cultural social work

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 593-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam-shing Yip
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Travail Social ◽  
Trabajo Social

Authentization, indigenization, cultural sensitivity, cultural competence and globalization are controversial issues in cross-cultural social work. In this article, the writer tries to clarify all these related concepts. In terms of various Asian cultural contexts, a model of dynamic Asian response and exchange in the field of cross-cultural social work practice in Asian countries is suggested. French L'authentization, l'indigénisation, la sensibilité culturelle, la compétence interculturelle et la mondialisation sont des questions controversées en travail social interculturel. Dans cet article, l'auteur tend à clarifier ces concepts interliés et suggère une réponse et des échanges asiatiques dynamiques dans le contexte culturel diversifié des contrées de l'Asie. Spanish La autencización, la indigenización, la sensibilidad cultural, la competencia cultural y la globalización son asuntos controvertidos en el trabajo social transcultural. El autor trata de clarificar todos estos relacionados conceptos. Respecto a varios contextos culturales de Asia, el autor sugiere un modelo dinámico de intercambio y respuesta asiática a la práctica de trabajo social transcultural en países de Asia.

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