Ambivalent Attitude of Young People in China Toward Rich Kids: Evidence from Behavioral Indices

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 1255-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dai Cui ◽  
Lili Wu ◽  
Jianxin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Behavioral Indices ◽  
Cognitive Evaluation ◽  
Attitudinal Ambivalence ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
The Rich

A social phenomenon of great interest in China is that of young people who have rich parents, commonly referred to as “rich kids.” These rich kids are both liked and disliked by other young people, leading to contradictions in the behavior of their peers toward the rich kids. We conducted 2 studies to examine the attitude that young people hold toward rich kids from an ambivalent theory perspective. In Study 1, we used a free-thinking task and found that participants were ambivalent, associating both good and bad things with the target phrase “rich kids.” In Study 2, we presented participants with a scenario. Participants showed a more negative evaluation of, and more ambivalent emotions toward, the target they were supposed to meet when they were told that the target was a rich kid. These results showed that the participants' attitudinal ambivalence manifested in their emotion but not in their cognitive evaluation.

Escaping the Trap: Losing the Northern Cities Shift in Real Time

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-398
Author(s):  
Anja Thiel ◽  
Aaron J. Dinkin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Time Change ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Small City ◽  
Northern Cities Shift ◽  
Northern Cities

AbstractWe examine the loss of the Northern Cities Shift raising of trap in Ogdensburg, a small city in rural northern New York. Although data from 2008 showed robust trap-raising among young people in Ogdensburg, in data collected in 2016 no speakers clear the 700-Hz threshold for NCS participation in F1 of trap—a seemingly very rapid real-time change. We find apparent-time change in style-shifting: although older people raise trap more in wordlist reading than in spontaneous speech, younger people do the opposite. We infer that increasing negative evaluation of the feature led Ogdensburg speakers to collectively abandon raising trap between 2008 and 2016. This indicates a role for communal change in the transition of a dialect feature from an indicator to a marker.

Making Class: Children's Perceptions of Social Class through Illustrations

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Adam Howard ◽  
Katy Swalwell ◽  
Karlyn Adler
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
Third Graders ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Rich ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Background Context ◽  
Do So

Background/Context Though there has been attention to how class differences impact children's experiences in schools and how young people perceive racial and gender differences, very little research to date has examined how young people make sense of social class differences. Purpose In this article, the authors examine young children's conceptualizations of differences between the rich and the poor to better understand children's process of classmaking. Research Design To access young children's ideas about social class, the authors examined kindergartners’, third graders’, and sixth graders’ (N = 133) drawings depicting differences between rich and poor people and their corresponding explanations of their drawings. These children attended two schools, one public serving a majority working- class population, and one private serving a majority affluent population. Findings/Results Children understand social class to be inclusive emotions, social distinctions, and social status. Children's drawings and explanations show that perpetuated ideology-justifying status quo of poverty and economic inequality. Children have complex sociocultural insights into how social class operates that manifest themselves through four domains: material, intersectional, emotional, and spatial. Conclusions/Recommendations Educators should provide more opportunities for teaching about social class, and can do so in ways that engages students in processes of classmaking that do not reinforce stereotypes and that interrupts inequality.

scholarly journals Alkoholizm, prostytucja, zakażenia HIV i AIDS, narkomania jako formy wykluczenia społecznego (w świetle badań)

2012 ◽  
pp. 93-112
Author(s):  
Violetta Korporowicz
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Common Cause

The growth of social exclusion may be affected many aspects of social life such as alcoholism, prostitution and drug addiction. Particularly worrying is the growth of alcoholism among young people in Poland. A 2009 study conducted in Poland by WHO states that 11–15-year-old students in Poland are attempting to drink alcohol. Prostitution is another social phenomenon affecting the development of social exclusion. The most common cause of prostitution in Poland is difficult financial situation and inability to obtain work. Another negative phenomenon, which may affect the growth of social exclusion is drug addiction. The reasons for importance of drug abuse among social problems are not only quantitative parameters, but also the dynamics of the phenomena and changes in the structure of the population affected by the problem. Synthetic studies of the spread of drug addiction emphasize that the increasing rate of the phenomenon goes beyond its reach and environmental groups traditionally associated with drug addiction. This is the reason why it is so hard to help the drug addicts.

scholarly journals Social Anxiety And Perfectionism In Young People Who Stutter

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
E.N. Gorshkova ◽  
S.V. Volikova
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Young People ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Speech Pathology ◽  
Social Avoidance ◽  
Maladaptive Perfectionism ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of the present research was to screen for social anxiety and perfectionism among young people who stutter (PWS). Participants included 71 PWS and 51 normally-fluent controls. Young PWS were characterized by significantly higher rates of social anxiety, which involved social distress, social avoidance and fear of negative evaluation. The rate of perfectionism in experimental group equated the severity of maladaptive perfectionism in patients with anxiety disorders. PWS tend to interpret others as imposing unrealistically high standards and re- quirements on them and critically evaluating their actions. They constantly select negative information, failures and mistakes, depreciating and not noticing their own achievements and successes. They are inclined to dichotomous and polarized thinking (of “all or nothing” type). Severity of stuttering in young people is associated with social anxiety and perfectionism. The results of present study evidence the need to highlight significant social anxiety and maladaptive perfectionism in PWS as targets of psychotherapy. We express gratitude to Khavanov A.Yu., Head of the Department of Logoneurosis of «Center of Speech Pathology and Neurorehabilitation — Moscow Department of Healthcare», and his colleagues (Geras’kin A.A., Bogdanov M.A.) for their help in research conduction.

scholarly journals The Village Voice: Women's Views of Themselves and Their World in Russian Chastushki of the 1920s

1993 ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel A. Tirado
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Peasant Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Village Voice ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Village ◽  
Women’S Views

This was the call of a peasant woman, most likely a teenager, prompting her friends and neighbors to join her in composing and singing chastushki, the short ditties that enlivened all youth gatherings. The humorous songs were the spontaneous creation of young people of both sexes for an audience their own age. At times ironic, biting, or plain silly, chastushki expressed the composers' views on almost all facets of the young peasant's life: love, homelife, the way to dress, the changing countryside, and the world beyond the village. We know little about the views of the young peasant woman in the Russian countryside just after the Revolution. She is rarely the subject of scholarship, and her voice is seldom heard in the rich literature of the 1920s. In the wake of the revolutions of 1917 peasants made up 80 percent of the population; their children nineteen years of age· or younger accounted for half of the rural population, with females making up half of that age group. As the expression of the village young people, the chastushka is an invaluable historical source that captures the tension between old and new. This interpretative essay seeks to use chastushki as a tool in reconstructing aspects of post-revolutionary peasant mentalite-that is, the views, attitudes, and mores of peasant society.

The Puzzle on Unemployment Factors and the Welfare State Role in Greece

2020 ◽  
pp. 680-703
Author(s):  
Argyris Kyridis ◽  
Maria Pavlis Korres ◽  
Christos Dimitrios Tourtouras ◽  
Nikos Fotopoulos ◽  
Christos Zagkos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Scientific Achievement ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Post Industrial

In an era of major technological, digital and scientific achievement, in the modern post-industrial globalized society of great contradictions, problems and conflicts, the unemployment phenomenon, which affects young people to a greater extent, is exacerbated. Greece is the country that was affected more than any other country in southern Europe by the multiple effects of the economic crisis, which among others catapulted youth unemployment to unprecedented levels. This chapter presents a research on views and attitudes analysis of male and female students of higher education in Greece towards unemployment as a social phenomenon, towards stereotypical attitudes on unemployment, as well as towards the ways and forms of the research phenomenon configuration. Subsequently, this research attempts to record, analyze and interpret the students' views and attitudes towards the Greek welfare state, thoroughly studying the correlations of all the above data.

Volunteers of generations X and Y in the Peace Patrol of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity foundation

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-117
Author(s):  
Magdalena Roszak
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Generation X ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Voluntary Activity ◽  
Previous Generation

Volunteering is a social phenomenon originating from philanthropy and charity, defined as voluntary unpaid work for the benefit of individuals or organisations. Voluntary activity covers many spheres and occurs in various forms. This diversity also applies to the functions performed by volunteering and the motivation driving people who work, which is described in more detailed form by Mirosław Górecki. Statistical data show that only 35% of Poles volunteer. These are mainly young people, looking for interesting perspectives and experiences. Differences in activity are also visible in terms of generation. The Youth 2011 report shows that generation Y is more socially involved than previous generation X. Differences between representatives of generations X and Y also appeared in case of the volunteers of the Peace Patrol of the Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity). In the conducted research, respondents were asked about the motivation behind their choice to volunteer for the Peace Patrol; their experiences, and the benefits of the experience. To complete the overview, materials from the website of the Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity) foundation were analysed. On the basis of the analyses carried out, the functions of volunteering in the Peace Patrol and the differences in the motivation of the volunteers of generation X and Y were shown.

FEATURES OF FORMATION OF THE YOUTH MOVEMENT IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Матвеева ◽  
Evgeniya Matveeva ◽  
Комарова ◽  
Marina Komarova
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Science Of History ◽  
The Relationship

The article reveals the fundamental questions of formation of the youth movement in pre-revolutionary Russia. The situation of young people, as the dual bio-social phenomenon has some specifics: defining the relationship between psycho-physical and social development. The methodological basis of the research served as the essential principles of the science of history, such as consistency, Historicism, interdisciplinary and scientific objectivity that allowed the author to consider studied facts and events in the dynamics and interactions. The authors brought the problems of youth movement in Russia´s socio-economic conditions of pre-revolutionary Russia, under which they should be seen as an integral part of social movements in General and at the same time as having a certain autonomy.

scholarly journals Hybrid Qualifications, Institutional Expectations and Youth Transitions: A Case of Swimming with or against the Tide

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayna Davey ◽  
Alison Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Vocational Qualifications ◽  
English System ◽  
Institutional Expectations ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This paper uses the concept of hybrid qualifications to expose some of the ways in which the English system, with its longstanding Academic and vocational divide, fails to support the transitions of young people with ‘average’ educational attainment. The concept of hybrid qualifications was developed during EU funded research undertaken in 2010 - 11 with project partners from Germany, Austria and Denmark. It was conceived to mean those qualifications generally achieved by young people aged 16-18 which would facilitate entry to the labour market or access to university. In the English system we defined Level 3 qualifications such as the BTEC National suite of Diplomas, Applied A-Levels, the Advanced Diploma and some qualifications contained within the Advanced Apprenticeship programme as contenders for hybridity. Compared with the clear pathways for entry to bachelor degrees that are articulated for those who have attained traditional Academic qualifications (namely A-levels), the routes for those leaving school with vocational qualifications are poorly and narrowly-defined, and fragile. Using the rich, narrative data gathered from interviews and focus groups with students, tutors and key stakeholders, we illustrate how for this group transition often involves ‘swimming against rather than with the tide’. To make sense of their uncertain and at times fragmented journeys we draw on Bourdieu's conceptual toolbox, and argue that his notion of ‘doxa’ is especially helpful in making sense of the way in which educational institutions play their own very distinctive roles in shaping those transitions.

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