scholarly journals Socialisation Process, Power Relations and Domestic Violence: Marginal Voices of Assamese Women

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polly Vauquline
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Background ◽  
The North ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
The One

Domestic violence is an evil that never dies. It is an indicator of inequality, injustice and discrimination of the social system. Though there is no justification for its existence in a civilized society, then why it is so difficult to root it out? Why does it persist to exist even after the prevalence of legal provisions to combat domestic violence? The causes maybe embedded on the facts that it involves intimate relationship on the one hand and exercise of power relations on the other. These power relations put women at disadvantaged positions, which are prominently gendered in nature. Assam, a state in the north-eastern corner of India, is unique in its own distinction. It is a region with myriad communities with varied culture, ethnic and social background. Distinctive statistical differences of domestic violence exist among these communities. These variations may categorically be due to the nature of power relations in intimate relations among these communities, which is probed with the application of oral history method. An effort is made through this study to explore the societal attitudes concerning power within intimate human relations. The focus of this paper is to search for the social beliefs attached with the power relations that have been governing them or promoting them in the form of social values, customs, rituals and traditions, which are the nucleus of domestic violence in Assamese society. This study intends to investigate the power relations amongst the different communities. Oral history method is applied to probe the socialisation process of the victims of domestic violence and to analyse how it creates power relations that caters to domestic violence. It gives a deeper understanding to the gendered nature of power in intimate relations. It illustrates that power relations is created through socialisation process and is a contributing attribute to domestic violence among spouses.

Internet blackouts in Meghalaya: A case of emerging complexities in the digital age

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110453
Author(s):  
Alexander Lewis Passah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The One ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Media Practices

The paper is rooted in the observations from the two internet blackouts witnessed in Meghalaya in 2018 and 2019. The state is located in the North Eastern region of India and this study focuses on the Khasi population residing in the East Khasi Hills District. The study explores the complex role social media has played in information dissemination in the digital age. India currently leads the world in terms of internet blackouts and it has been imposed 538 times in the country. This phenomenon has become a reoccurring trend over the last few years with the rise in digital communications and technological affordances. The paper addresses the dualistic nature of social media and how it can be empowering on the one hand, and can also be a key contributor to mis(dis)information on the other. The study offers a non-digital centric approach by adopting digital ethnographic methods and offers insights into the social media practices and experiences of the Khasi participants as well as delving into the problematic nature of internet blackouts with respect to Meghalaya. Evidently, social media has become a space in which most individuals carry their identity, aspirations, views, history, and opinions.

scholarly journals Itako on screen

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Ilaria Vecchi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The North ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Critical Religion ◽  
Visual Methodology ◽  
North Eastern Part

This article is based on my fieldwork with Itako shamans in the north-eastern part of Japan. The progressive modernisation of Japan at the expense of rural areas has also affected Tohoku, resulting in the ageing of the social fabric of its communities. Within this context, this article focusses on traditional and established activities practised by the blind female Itako shamans, who are going through a process of adaptation. Therefore, the article is concerned with this process and, in particular, on the methodology applied before and during my fieldwork experience of spending time, observing, having conversations, and filming these women in their everyday life. In the attempt to understand and document these shamans, I consider the use of visual ethnographic methods for understanding the changing aspects and their implications on the life of these women. While doing this, I also considered their communities and the area in which they live. I analyse this process by blending different methodologies such as visual methodology and digital visual ethnography and the critical religion approach proposed by Fitzgerald (2000). In addition, the paper will describe how I applied this methodology to provide a fresh look at these women and their daily activity.

scholarly journals Theory driven analysis of social class and health outcomes using UK nationally representative longitudinal data

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Welcome Wami ◽  
Gerry McCartney ◽  
Mel Bartley ◽  
Duncan Buchanan ◽  
Ruth Dundas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Variation Explained ◽  
Market Relations

Abstract Background Social class is frequently used as a means of ranking the population to expose inequalities in health, but less often as a means of understanding the social processes of causation. We explored how effectively different social class mechanisms could be measured by longitudinal cohort data and whether those measures were able to explain health outcomes. Methods Using a theoretically informed approach, we sought to map variables within the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to five different social class mechanisms: social background and early life circumstances; habitus and distinction; exploitation and domination; location within market relations; and power relations. Associations between the SF-36 physical, emotional and general health outcomes at age 50 years and the social class measures within NCDS were then assessed through separate multiple linear regression models. R2 values were used to quantify the proportion of variance in outcomes explained by the independent variables. Results We were able to map the NCDS variables to the each of the social class mechanisms except ‘Power relations’. However, the success of the mapping varied across mechanisms. Furthermore, although relevant associations between exposures and outcomes were observed, the mapped NCDS variables explained little of the variation in health outcomes: for example, for physical functioning, the R2 values ranged from 0.04 to 0.10 across the four mechanisms we could map. Conclusions This study has demonstrated both the potential and the limitations of available cohort studies in measuring aspects of social class theory. The relatively small amount of variation explained in the outcome variables in this study suggests that these are imperfect measures of the different social class mechanisms. However, the study lays an important foundation for further research to understand the complex interactions, at various life stages, between different aspects of social class and subsequent health outcomes.

Some Aspects of Judicial Life

1925 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-179
Author(s):  
McCardie
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The One

Instead of dealing with technical matters, I shall take a different path to-night, because you may like to hear from a judge something of the reality of his everyday life, the actual decisions that he has to make and the actual problems that he has to face. Will you, therefore, go with me upon one of the circuits? As you know, the whole country is divided into seven circuits, and the one that I should like to choose for the purpose of this evening is the North Eastern circuit—Newcastle, Durham, York and Leeds.

scholarly journals Autobiographical Accounts of War Experiences. An Outline for the Analysis of Topically Focused Autobiographical Texts – Using the Example of the "Robert Rasmus" Account in Studs Terkel's Book, "The Good War"

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-283
Author(s):  
Fritz Schütze
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts ◽  
The One

The paper demonstrates both: firstly, a research strategy for the social science analysis of autobiographical narrative interviews, and, secondly, a research strategy for the social science use of published oral history and/or autobiographical materials. It is an attempt to demonstrate a text-oriented procedure of biography analysis in the social sciences, especially – sociology. This allows the empirically grounded generation both of general theoretical concepts for socio-biographical processes, and of conceptual provisions for the uniqueness of the features and dynamics of biographical and historical single cases, their situations, and phases. The paper deals with the analysis of autobiographical accounts of war experiences and it shows the general mechanisms of collective, social, and biographical processes, on the one hand, and the uniqueness of historical, situational, and biographical developments, on the other, coexist during wars in an especially ironical, tragic, elating, depressive, dangerous, hurting, deadly combination.

scholarly journals Contact, Incorporation, and the North American Southeast

2005 ◽  
pp. 95-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley A. Hollis
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Durable Goods ◽  
World System ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
The North ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
American Southeast ◽  
The One

The broadening of the world-system, which involves the geographic expansion into previously external areas and integration of new economies into its network of economic relationships, is represented in world-system scholarship by two competing views. On the one hand, Wallerstein and his associates treat incorporation as being specifically contingent on the routine and systematic economic exchange for durable goods produced in the previously external area to the benefit of the core. In contrast, Hall and Chase-Dunn contend that incorporation is a synchronous process that takes different forms depending onthe relative locations within the hierarchical world-economy of both the previously external areas and the “incorporating” area. Using the sixteenth-century North American Southeast as an episode of incorporation, this study examines the contact relationship between early European explorers and the indigenous groups in the formerly external area. My goal is to illuminate more fully how contact may permanently alter the social organization and relations within the region and, consequently, the form taken by subsequent integration into the world-system.

scholarly journals MEMBINA KELUARGA BAHAGIA SEBAGAI UPAYA PENURUNAN KEKERASAN DALAM RUMAH TANGGA (KDRT) DALAM PERSPEKTIF AGAMA ISLAM DAN UNDANG-UNDANG

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
M. Thoriq Nurmadiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Law ◽  
Husband And Wife

This article talks about efforts to foster happy families to anticipate domestic violence. The perspective discussed would be in the in the views of Islam and the law in Indonesia. The existence of domestic violence is a fact in the social life of Indonesian families, many women and children have fallen victim thereto. Domestic violence could be avoided and reduced is the commitment constructed between husband and wife is consistent with the teachings of Islam and the relevant legal provisions. A proper understanding of respective roles, rights and obligations  would lead to happy families and the extinction of domestic violence.

scholarly journals Visualization Practices in Training Pedagogy Students

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Issue 04) ◽  
pp. 1144-1159
Author(s):  
Irina Vitalevna Sosnovskaya ◽  
Nadezhda Ilinichna Nikonova ◽  
Svetlana Yrievna Zalutskaya ◽  
Nina Pavlovna Terentyeva ◽  
Elena Olegovna Galitskyh
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The North ◽  
New Information ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The One

The world practice of distance learning has updated the educational technologies that are adequate to the challenges of today and can effectively solve the problems of training competitive specialists in the new information society. Among them, visualization is singled out, which improves the quality of perception, understanding and assimilation of educational material and serves as a powerful motivator of the students’ cognitive activity. The study is aimed at characterizing the potential of visualization as a technology for teaching Pedagogy students, which allows using the tools of the digital environment effectively to achieve educational goals. The main research method is the survey of 96 second-year bachelor-degree students of the subject area “Pedagogical Education” of the Faculty of Philology of the North-Eastern Federal University. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results of the research on visualization as educational technology has revealed the interest of future teachers in using visual teaching methods and understanding the role of visualization in enhancing the cognitive activity of students. The respondents have demonstrated, on the one hand, knowledge of the basic means of information visualization (88%). Yet, on the other hand, not all of the respondents (55%) can clearly and consciously differentiate the concepts of “online platform”, “social network” and “visual means of transmitting information” (“visual communication”).

scholarly journals Barutane (polveriere) na tvrđavama sv. Nikole i sv. Ivana u Šibeniku

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Ivo Glavaš
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Curtain Wall ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All

In the early modern forts of St Nicholas in St Anthony’s Canal and St John above Šibenik, the only fully preserved elements are the gunpowder magazines. This paper focuses on the typology of Venetian gunpowder magazines (polveriere), analysing those in St Nicholas’ fort and the central part of St John’s fort. The gunpowder magazine in St Nicholas’ fort has hitherto been erroneously interpreted as a prison, whereas the one in St John’s fort has remained completely unnoticed. The gunpowder magazine in St Nicholas’ fort may be approximately dated to the 17th century, even though the drawings preserved at the Municipal Library of Treviso, presumably made by the architect who designed the fort of Giangirolamo Sanmicheli or someone familiar with his design, indicate an area in the lower storey, at the sea level and next to the north-eastern curtain wall, which may have been destined for a gunpowder magazine as no cannon posts were located there. The gunpowder magazine in St John’s fort is visible in almost all known historical depictions and was built sometime between 1649, when the fort was first enlarged after the Ottoman attack two years earlier. The earliest depiction of the gunpowder magazine is from 1658.

scholarly journals De Vlaamse patriotten en de natievorming. Hoe de Vlaamse natie ophield 'klein' te zijn

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-248
Author(s):  
Bruno De Wever ◽  
Frans-Jos Verdoodt ◽  
Antoon Vrints
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
Socioeconomic Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
Influential Theory

Het artikel toetst de invloedrijke theorie van Miroslav Hroch over de ontwikkeling van ‘kleine’ naties in het territorium van een dominante natie toe aan de hand van de casus Vlaanderen. Er wordt met name aandacht besteed aan de sociale achtergrond van de Vlaamse patriotten en aan het sociaal programma dat ze ontwikkelen in relatie tot de Vlaamse natie. Het essayistische betoog verdedigt de hypothese dat de Vlaamse beweging er lange tijd niet in slaagde de arbei-dersbeweging en de werkgevers te integreren in de Vlaamse natie, waardoor die in de opvattingen van Hroch ‘gedesintegreerd’ bleef en dus ‘klein’. De sociale achtergrond van de Vlaamse patriotten bleef beperkt tot de middengroepen; hun programma was niet of slechts in beperkte mate gericht op de integratie van andere sociale groepen. Dit veranderde pas vanaf de jaren 1960, toen enerzijds als gevolg van sociaaleconomische veranderingen de middengroepen expandeerden en anderzijds door sociaal-culturele veranderingen het Vlaams natieproject een ruimere sociale basis kreeg. De Vlaamse patriotten slaagden er in een proces van staatshervormingen op gang te brengen waardoor de Vlaamse natie zich reproduceerde in de dagelijkse realiteit. In die omstandigheden voltrok zich dan toch de massificatie van de Vlaamse natie waardoor die ophield ‘klein’ te zijn ten opzichte van de Belgische.________Flemish Patriots and Nation-Forming. How the Flemish Nation Ceased to Be “Small”This article tests the influential theory of Miroslav Hroch concerning the development of ‘small’ nations within the territory of a dominant nation on the basis of the case of Flanders. Namely, attention is paid to the social background of the Flemish patriots and the social program that they developed in relation to the Flemish nation. The argument of this essay defends the hypothesis that, for a long time, the Flemish Movement did not succeed in integrating the workers’ movement and employers into the Flemish nation, and thus in Hroch’s conception it remained ‘disintegrated’ and thus ‘small’. The social background of the Flemish patriots remained restricted to the middle classes; their program was barely, if at all, geared toward the integration of other social groups. This did not change until the 1960s, when, on the one hand, the middle classes expanded as a result of socioeconomic changes and, on the other hand, the Flemish national project obtained a larger social basis through sociocultural changes. Flemish patriots succeeded in getting a process of devolution underway, by which the Flemish nation reproduced itself in day-to-day life. In these circumstances, the massification of the Flemish nation happened, whereby it ceased to be ‘small’ with regard to the Belgian.

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