scholarly journals Violence against women as the risk for social transformation

Temida ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Miletic-Stepanovic
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Intensity Analysis ◽  
Transformation Theory ◽  
Risk Capital ◽  
Violent Behaviors ◽  
Four Levels

Violence against women is social risk, active at three levels: individual, group and global. Global level of risk is risk for social transformation. Theory of P. Bourdieu, and basic concepts: social reproduction, habitus, risk, capital, are used in the paper. Index of violence is generated by seven modes of violent behaviors, and four levels of intensity. Analysis steams into two directions: it researches violence against women as social relation, and relations between violence against women and social position.

Embeddedness dilemma and alternative commoditization of social economy in rural China: a case study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufei He ◽  
Ernest Wing Tak Chui
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cash Income ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Transformation Theory ◽  
Marketization Reform

Abstract This article identifies different aspects of the embeddedness dilemma in a rural social economy project in South China. The term ‘alternative commodification’ is proposed to summarize the practitioners’ strategy. This strategy highlighted social embeddedness of economic development, but on the other hand involved the village deeper into the commodification process. Participants of the project only focused on newly emerged economic opportunities, with little concern of the embeddedness goal. Based on social transformation theory of Wright, the article also identifies two social reproduction mechanisms brought by marketization reform as structural barriers for realizing embeddedness goal: universal commodification and consumerism, both of which intensify villagers’ demand for cash income and ignorance of social dimensions of the project. Future research also needs to identify more barriers and methods to overcome obstacles in the process of developing social economy.

Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s

2018 ◽  
pp. 260-278
Author(s):  
Smriti Rao ◽  
Vamsi Vakulabharanam
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Reproductive Labor ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Agrarian Crisis

Since liberalization, urban migration in India has increased in quantity, but also changed in quality, with permanent marriage migration and temporary, circular employment migration rising, even as permanent economic migration remains stagnant. This chapter understands internal migration in India to be a reordering of productive and reproductive labor that signifies a deep transformation of society. The chapter argues that this transformation is a response to three overlapping crises: an agrarian crisis, an employment crisis, and a crisis of social reproduction. These are not crises for capitalist accumulation, which they enable. Rather, they make it impossible for a majority of Indians to achieve stable, rooted livelihoods.

An Empirical Investigation of Violence Against Women in the NFL

2021 ◽  
pp. 019372352110436
Author(s):  
Krystyna Gotberg ◽  
Jacquelyn D. Wiersma-Mosley
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Driving Under The Influence ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Violent Behaviors ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Enhancing Drugs ◽  
Violent Offenses

The purpose of this study was to examine violence against women (VAW) in the National Football League (NFL). Since Ray Rice assaulted his partner on video, VAW by NFL players has received more public attention. However, there is little empirical research that examines VAW in the NFL and player suspensions compared to other violations. Data come from a public list of 176 NFL players known to have violated NFL policies from 2010–2019. Four major types of violations were found: VAW included sexual assault, rape, and domestic violence; general violent behaviors included assault or battery; drug-related offenses included substance abuse, alcohol, driving under the influence (DUI's), illegal drugs, and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs); and minor sports-related infractions included issues such as missing a team meeting. The average number of game suspensions was 4.08 for VAW offenses, 1.75 for general violent offenses, 4.05 for drug-related offenses and 1.88 for minor infractions. We found no differences in the number of game suspensions for drug-related offenses compared to VAW; general violent offenses had even fewer suspensions. These numbers are contradictory to the NFL's Personal Conduct Policy of a 6-game suspension without pay for VAW and general violence.

Kin-Mode Contradictions, Crises, and Transformations in the Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley E. Ensor
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
System P ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Demographic Growth

A Marxist perspective considers contradictions within modes of production that ultimately lead to crises and transformations to other modes, providing a framework for interpreting political economic change in human societies. This chapter describes how kinship and marriage structure social relations of production and contradictions in kin-modes that may lead to social transformations. An archaeological framework for making inferences on kinship and marriage is applied to the Archaic periods of the Lower Mississippi Valley to explain the enigmatic development of early mound-building foraging societies and their dissolution in the Tchefuncte period. The Archaic periods reflect competitive “Crow/Omaha” kinship and marriage—explaining mound building and widespread craft production and exchange—that experienced the disproportionate demographic growth among descent groups hypothesized to cause crises in social reproduction. This was followed by a social transformation in the Tchefuncte period to bilateral descent networks with a less competitive “complex” marriage system.

scholarly journals Care Economy and the Burden of Housewives’ Work in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Atnike Nova Sigiro
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Productive Work ◽  
Care Economy

<div>Social reproduction role by women are mostly unpaid, which are done in the context of social relation within household or family. In the context of macro economy, care work for family are often overlooked, furthermore are often not being considered as productive work that contribute to the economy. This situation bring overburden to women and the lack of appreciation toward care work in Indonesia. This article was written based on a national survey conducted in 2018 in 34 provinces in Indonesia. The survey measured the care work’s burden of housewives, and public perception towards care economy that are run by housewives in Indonesia.</div><p> </p>

Commons’ movements and ‘progressive’ governments as dual power: The potential for social transformation in Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-251
Author(s):  
Antonios Broumas
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Extreme Conditions ◽  
Failed States ◽  
Negative Pole ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The Commons

In the neoliberal era, social counter-power emerges as the main resurgent force to contend the capital–state complex, whether in the form of labour struggles or direct democratic movements or in the form of struggles for the preservation/diffusion of the commons. Political forces within these societies in motion do not play the role of revolutionary vanguards, instead they protect and facilitate the process of the social revolution by political or military means. At the negative pole of the duality, the failure to sustain social reproduction under extreme conditions of inequality and corruption gives rise either to ‘failed states’ or to progressive governments, which start building their hegemony in complex interrelation to grassroots movements. In this context, we are in need of subversive politics that weaken the bourgeois state by facilitating the emancipation of society.

scholarly journals Domestic Violence and Patriarchy in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Şevket Ökten
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Violent Behaviors ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Family ◽  
Economic Violence

Violence against women being a global epidemic that kills tortures and maims women physically and psychologically. The most common and widespread form of the violence is domestic violence. Violent behaviors such as beating, pushing, slapping or throwing things by family members; sexual, emotional, economic violence against women in the home, within the family or in a relationship is considered as domestic violence. Domestic violence is common place in Turkey though majority of women do not justify its occurrences as indicated by different nationwide studies conducted in Turkey. Instead nearly half of women who were subjected to violence remained isolation and overwhelming majority of victims avoided to get help from status apparatus. This study attempts to find out that why nearly half of women who are subjected to physical violence in Turkey did not share their experiences of violence to anyone before these studies. This study regards the patriarchal system and practices as the obstruction which deter overwhelming majority of women who are subjected to physical violence to express their suffering and seek help from state apparatus

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