Pink consumption areas: research accomplishments and future perspectives

Pink consumption areas are a collection of places that were created and/or stand out for their openness towards the LGBT community. Research of pink consumption first arose in the 1990s and took place in an urban context almost without exception, and was largely geographically limited to Anglo-America and Western Europe. Night clubs have been identified as the starting points of pink consumption, but pink consumer spaces are becoming increasingly diversified with the liberalisation of social relations in the Western world. However, entertainment remains the dominant domain and the most research attention has been focused on this area. Purchasing systems, including consumption management called rainbow washing, has also been well studied, though studies on culture and health related to this area are strongly lacking. Research of pink consumption spaces shares a common methodology with this issue. A central issue is the lack of a public list of LGBT persons, which makes it virtually impossible to have any form of probability sampling. Accordingly, qualitative research based on the interview method, focus group discussions, and geosemiotic analyses are more frequently used than quantitative research.

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Stimulating community participation in a group of farm workers using action research.

Curationis ◽

10.4102/curationis.v22i1.694 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

P Jagananen

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Focus Group ◽

Community Participation ◽

Research Methodology ◽

Health Problems ◽

Farm Workers ◽

Related Activity ◽

Focus Group Discussions ◽

Group Discussions ◽

Health Related

This study assessed whether community participation in health related activity was a reality or just popular development rhetoric.Using action research methodology, focus group discussions and informal contacts were made with farm workers consisting of twelve families in Umkomaas, south of Durban in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal. The aim was to establish whether this community could be actively involved in all aspects of community participation. The level of participation was described using Rifkin’s model (Rifkin et al, 1988). Results of this study revealed that the community was able to identify their own health problems, prioritize them and plan appropriate strategies to meet the needs identified.

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The experience of pregnancy: subjectivity and social relations

Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology ◽

10.1590/s1809-43412011000200026 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 529-549 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Claudia Barcellos Rezende

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Middle Class ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Social Relations ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Male Partners ◽

Urban Context ◽

Medical Specialists ◽

Research Material ◽

The Family

In this article, I examine from a comparative perspective how the experience of pregnancy is affected by pregnant women's social network, in an urban context. In particular, I analyse the role played by husbands or male partners, family, friends and medical specialists during gestation and how these relationships impinge on women's subjectivity. I contrast the earlier studies of Maria Isabel Almeida and Tania Salem, carried out in the 1980s, with my own research material, gathered in 2008, all of which dealt with middle class women living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who were going through their first gestation. I argue, with this comparison, that different ways of thinking and living these relationships as well as the changes undergone in gender roles in the family affects women´s subjectivity, in particular the value given to the expression of individuality - its motivations, desires and emotions.

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CPAP Treatment Adherence in Women with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Sleep Disorders ◽

10.1155/2017/2760650 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

E. Libman ◽

S. Bailes ◽

C. S. Fichten ◽

D. Rizzo ◽

L. Creti ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Obstructive Sleep Apnea ◽

Sleep Apnea ◽

Treatment Adherence ◽

Positive Airway Pressure ◽

Daytime Functioning ◽

Research Attention ◽

Obstructive Sleep ◽

Health Related ◽

Nocturnal Polysomnography

Untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has numerous negative health-related consequences. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is generally considered the treatment of choice for OSA, but rates of nonadherence are high. It is believed that OSA is more prevalent among men; therefore understanding how OSA presents among women is limited and treatment adherence has received little research attention. For this study, 29 women were recruited from primary care offices. They completed a questionnaire battery and underwent a night of nocturnal polysomnography (PSG) followed by a visit with a sleep specialist. Women diagnosed with OSA were prescribed CPAP; 2 years later CPAP adherence was evaluated. Results show that approximately half the sample was adherent. There were no significant differences between adherent and nonadherent women on OSA severity; however CPAP adherent women had worse nocturnal and daytime functioning scores at the time of diagnosis. Moreover, when the seven nocturnal and daytime variables were used as predictors in a discriminant analysis, they could predict 87% of adherent and 93% of the nonadherent women. The single most important predictor was nonrefreshing sleep. We discuss the implications of the findings for identifying women in primary care with potential OSA and offer suggestions for enhancing treatment adherence.

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“We Prefer the Friendly Approach and Not the Facility”: On the Value of Qualitative Research in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences ◽

10.4314/ejhs.v28i5.6 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 28 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Ruth Jackson

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Human Resources For Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Child Health Services ◽

Health Extension Workers ◽

Group Discussions ◽

Disciplinary Boundaries ◽

Tigray Region ◽

Afar Region

BACKGROUND: Quantitative research is useful for answering ‘how many’ or ‘how much’ questions, while qualitative research helps answer ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions. Most research about health extension workers (HEWs) has been quantitative and few studies examine the experiences of HEWs themselves. This qualitative study draws attention to the gendered dynamics of human resources for health at the community level.METHODS: Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with 14 HEWs (two FGDs in Afar Region and two in Southern Nations Nationality and Peoples Region), and interviews with 45 HEWs from Afar Region, SNNPR and Adwa (Tigray Region) were conducted to identify how gender issues affected their well-being. Questions were designed to explore personal safety, stress, autonomy, self-esteem, family, other social relationships, as we wanted to analyze the extent to which these gendered issues affected HEWs in their day-to-day work.RESULTS: By employing female HEWs, the Health Extension Program (HEP) has seen substantial gains in ‘practical’ gender needs by improving women’s access to, and utilization of maternal and child health services. Although the HEP has the potential to be gender transformative by providing employment for HEWs, there is limited evidence that it 'strategically' advances women's position. Many HEWs had heavy workloads, received low pay relative to other public sector jobs and lacked opportunity to transfer or upgrade their skills and advance within the health workforce hierarchy.CONCLUSION: Qualitative research can provide complex descriptions of the social world to better understand what people such as HEWs say and the meanings they give, thus providing explanations for some health problems outside disciplinary boundaries.

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School Adjustment and Socio-Family Risk as Predictors of Adolescents’ Peer Preference

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645712 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Yolanda Sánchez-Sandoval ◽

Laura Verdugo

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Peer Acceptance ◽

School Adjustment ◽

Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Sample Selection ◽

Entire Group ◽

Research Approach ◽

Family Risk

This work analyzes peer preferences at the beginning of adolescence. For this purpose, each adolescent’s sociometric status was studied in their classroom group, and attempts were made to identify indicators of academic, personal, and socio-family adjustment related to that status. Participants were 831 adolescents studying 1st grade of Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE), in 31 classrooms from 10 schools. The 31 tutors of these students also participated. Sample selection was intentional. A quantitative research approach was used. Sociometric data were collected using the nomination method. Teachers provided information about these youths’ adjustment and family risk variables. Descriptive analyses and bivariate correlations were calculated as a preliminary analysis of the study. Chi-square tests or ANOVAs examined the similarities and differences between status based on personal, socio-family, and school adjustment variables. Lastly, linear regression analysis and a Structural Equation Model (SEM) were performed. These latter analyses revealed that good performance and academic adjustment are important predictors of successful social relations. Also, the data show that the presence of personal and socio-family risk variables makes it difficult for adolescents to be accepted by their peers. The results suggest the need for school and family support to promote peer acceptance. Working on both aspects can help improve classroom coexistence. Intervention techniques are recommended for the entire group to intervene on attitudes, interpretations, and behaviors that enrich individual tools and the collective climate.

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Student Well-being pada Remaja Jawa

Psikohumaniora Jurnal Penelitian Psikologi ◽

10.21580/pjpp.v2i1.979 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Tri Na'imah ◽

Tukiran Tanireja

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Well Being ◽

Research Approach ◽

The Social ◽

Interview Guide ◽

Cluster Random Sampling

Abstract: This study aims to describe the source of student well-being in Javanese adolescents. This research uses quantitative research approach and supported by qualitative. Research location in Banyumas with cluster random sampling technique. Instrument data collection using the scale of student well-being and open source questionaire student well-being and interview guide. Quantitative data analysis using descriptive. The results of the study are: 1) The sources of student well-being are the dimensions of social relations, cognitive, emotional and spiritual. 3) The inhibiting factor of achieving student well-being is if there are problems in the social, cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan sumber student well-being pada remaja Jawa. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan penelitian kuantitatif dan didukung dengan kualitatif. Lokasi penelitian di Banyumas dengan teknik cluster random sampling. Instrumen pengumpulan data menggunakan skala student well-being dan openquesioner sumber student well-being serta panduan wawancara. Analisis data kuantitatif menggunakan deskriptif. Hasil penelitian adalah: 1) Sumber-sumber student well-being adalah dimensi hubungan sosial, kognitif, emosi dan spiritual. 3) Faktor penghambat tercapainya student well-being adalah jika ada masalah dalam dimensi sosial, kognitif, emosi, fisik dan spiritual.

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Transmission, Transplantation, and Diffusion in the Latin West

Taming the Unknown ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691149059.003.0008 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Victor J. Katz ◽

Karen Hunger Parshall

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Growth And Development ◽

Western Europe ◽

Western World ◽

Intellectual Culture ◽

Latin West ◽

Royal Courts ◽

Mathematical Sciences ◽

Gerbert Of Aurillac ◽

And Diffusion

This chapter follows the growth and development of the intellectual culture in the West after a period of decline roughly concurrent to that of the decline of the Roman Empire. It explores the intellectual reawakening of the Western world following the efforts of the clergyman Gerbert of Aurillac, who transmitted classical and Islamic learning and strove—through his innovative use of the abacus, celestial spheres, and armillary spheres of his own fabrication—to raise the level of learning of the mathematical sciences in the Latin West. Among his students was a generation of Catholic scholars who went on themselves to establish or to teach at cathedral schools and to influence educational reforms in royal courts throughout western Europe.

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Feudal Modes

Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199264537.003.0011 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

David A. Hinton

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Western Europe ◽

Eleventh Century ◽

Leisure Activities ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

Feudal Society ◽

Anglo Norman ◽

Chess Piece ◽

Female Presence ◽

Time To Learn

The trend away from ornamented brooches, rings, and swords that demonstrates changing social pressures and expression during the eleventh century was maintained in the first half of the twelfth. The Anglo-Norman aristocracy had considerable wealth for its castles and churches, but the spending power of the Anglo-Saxon majority was very much diminished by the impositions that followed the Conquest. Social relations among the former were based primarily on land, and although sentiments of personal loyalty were defined by oaths of fealty, there is no record of gift-giving from lord to retainer other than the increasingly formalized bestowal of arms. Towns were growing both in size and number, but only a few merchants were really rich, and the peasantry in the countryside was increasing in number but had decreasing opportunity for individual advancement. Excavations at castles and other baronial residences generally yield the evidence of martial appearance and activity that would be expected, like spurs, and slightly more evidence of wealth, with coins a little more profligately lost, than at other sites. There are also luxuries like gilt strips, from caskets of bone or wood, and evidence of leisure activities, such as gaming-pieces; chess was being introduced into western Europe, and appealed to the aristocracy because it was a complicated pastime that only the educated would have time to learn and indulge in. Furthermore, it could be played by both sexes, though ladies were expected to show their inferior skill and intelligence by losing to the men; it echoed feudal society and its courts; and it could be played for stakes. An occasional urban chess-piece find, not always well dated, shows that a few burgesses might seek to emulate the aristocracy. Other predominantly castle finds include small bone and copper-alloy pins with decorated heads that have been interpreted as hairpins, as at Castle Acre, attesting a female presence, but other personal ornaments are infrequent. Some pictures in manuscripts suggest that in the early twelfth century the highest ranks of the aristocracy were wearing brooches. These were probably conventional representations, however, as there are no valuable brooches or finger-rings in the archaeological record, as there had been earlier.

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Social Interventions Targeting Social Relations Among Older People at Nursing Homes: A Qualitative Synthesized Systematic Review

INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing ◽

10.1177/0046958018823929 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 56 ◽

pp. 004695801882392 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anne Sophie Bech Mikkelsen ◽

Signe Petersen ◽

Anne Cathrine Dragsted ◽

Maria Kristiansen

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Nursing Home ◽

Nursing Homes ◽

Older People ◽

Social Relations ◽

Well Being ◽

Video Conference ◽

Social Interventions ◽

The Social ◽

Health Related

Social relations are part of the complex set of factors affecting health and well-being in old age. This systematic review seeks to uncover whether social interventions have an effect on social and health-related measures among nursing home residents. The authors screened PubMed, Scopus, and PsycINFO for relevant peer-reviewed literature. Interventions were included if (1) they focused primarily on social relations or related terms such as loneliness, social support, social isolation, social network, or being involuntarily alone either as the base theory of the intervention or as an outcome measure of the intervention; (2) they were implemented at nursing homes (or similar setting); (3) they had a narrative activity as its core (as opposed to dancing, gardening or other physical activity); (4) their participants met either physically or nonphysically, ie, via video-conference or the like; and if (5) they targeted residents at a nursing home. The authors systematically appraised the quality of the final selection of studies using the Mixed Methods Assessments Tool (MMAT) version 2011 and did a qualitative synthesis of the final study selection. A total of 10 studies were included. Reminiscence therapy was the most common intervention. Studies also included video-conference, cognitive, and support group interventions. All studies found the social interventions brought about positive trends on either/or the social and health-related measures included. Despite limited and very diverse evidence, our systematic review indicated a positive social and health-related potential of social interventions for older people living in nursing homes or similar institutions.

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What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later

Open Information Science ◽

10.1515/opis-2018-0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 115-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lorenzo D’Orsi ◽

Fabio Dei

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Relations ◽

Social Bond ◽

Western World ◽

Emile Durkheim ◽

Scientific Thought ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Unitary Approach ◽

Collective Representations

Abstract This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's approach in Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (1912). We discuss three different aspects of the Durkheimian perspective on religion and rituals: a) the sacred/profane dichotomy; b) the concept of collective representations - which establishes a substantial continuity between religious and scientific thought; c) a ‟practical” and performative interpretation of rites as the basis of social bond. During the twentieth century, these aspects have influenced different and sometimes opposing theoretical approaches (including ‟symbolist” and ‟neo-intellectualist” theories and Victor Turner's ‟anthropology of experience”). We briefly review each of them, arguing for the importance of reconsidering them into a unitary perspective, centred on religious phenomena as basically moral experiences and as the language of social relations. In the conclusions, we will show how such unitary approach helps us understand the transformations as well as the continuities of rituality in the individualized and secularized societies of what we call nowadays the Western world.

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