scholarly journals Exploring Hybridity and Multiculturalism: Intra and Inter Family Relations in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Pérez Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Zadie Smith ◽  
City Of London ◽  
White Teeth ◽  
Intra Family

La primera novela de Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000), ha sido considerada como ejemplo del multiculturalismo y de la pluralidad que caracterizan hoy en día a la ciudad de Londres. Este artículo estudia los modos en los que los personajes de White Teeth negocian un sentido de pertenencia e identidad y establecen y/o transgreden fronteras espaciales dentro de dicha localización. Este trabajo analiza también la identidad híbrida de los personajes y el carácter maleable que tiene tal espacio multicultural a través del análisis de las relaciones inter- e intra-familiares que se representan en la novela.Abstract:Zadie Smith’s fi rst novel White Teeth (2000) has been analysed as an example of the diverse and multicultural society of the present-day city of London. This essay studies the way in which characters in White Teeth negotiate a sense of belonging and identity and how boundaries are established, and/or violated within that location. It also analyses the characters’ hybrid identities and the malleable aspect of that multicultural social space by focusing on the ways Smith depicts spatial confi gurations of inter and intra family life. 

Technologies for Preparing the Younger Generation for Family Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-16
Author(s):  
V. N. Kelasev ◽  
I. L. Pervova ◽  
O. V. Kelasev
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
National Project ◽  
Forming Technology ◽  
Younger Generation

The article discusses approaches to preparing the younger generation for family life. An active-forming technology for working with adolescent and youth audience is proposed, which is focused on the development of social competence in the field of family relations. This technology is significant for the successful implementation of the National Project “Demography” 2019–2024.

Elusive Belonging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Projected Image ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Everyday Lives

With the unprecedented number of foreign-born population, South Korea has tried to reinvent itself as a multicultural society, but the intense multiculturalism efforts have focused exclusively on marriage immigrants. At the advent and height of South Korea’s eschewed multiculturalism, Elusive Belonging takes the readers to everyday lives of marriage immigrants in rural Korea where the projected image of a developed Korea which lured marriage immigrants and the gloomy reality of rural lives clashed. The intimate ethnographic account pays attention to emotional entanglements among Filipina wives, South Korean husbands, in-laws, and multicultural agents, with particular focus on such emotions as love, intimacy, anxiety, gratitude, and derision, which shape marriage immigrants’ fragmented citizenship and elusive sense of belonging to their new country. This investigation of the politics of belonging illuminates how marriage immigrants explore to mold a new identity in their new home, Korea.

scholarly journals “Go where the Love Is”: Failed Emotional Negotiations of Space and Identity in Tessa McWatt's This Body

2013 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Elena Igartuburu García
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Love Relationship ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way ◽  
Normative Ideals

Identity, space and emotions, although traditionally all traditionally naturalized and delinked from the construction of one another, might also be read as formed by intertwined processes that are guided and shaped by hegemonic powers. Nonetheless, as they delineating difference within and among themselves, the consideration of these three fields and the way they work together in these shaping opens up new ways to approach the split between normative categories of identity, assigned location and adequate feelings, and their subjective perception. Tessa McWatt’s novel This Body presents the reader with two Guyanese characters, Victoria and her nephew Derek, that undergo, at many different levels, this split between subjectivity and a socially and culturally given subject position. Challenging normative ideals, Victoria struggles with her categorization as Other; an endeavour marked by her trajectories and experiences as she negotiates and redeploys a physical as well as a social space of her own in the city of London. Still, her love relationship with a British man would make her drift towards assimilation inasmuch as this affair relocates Victoria within dominant gender, ethnic and class hierarchies.

I processi di integrazione delle nuove generazioni letti attraverso il capitale sociale

2012 ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
Guia Gilardoni
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
The United States ◽  
Segmented Assimilation ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The One

The article presents considerations regarding the usefulness of social capital in studying integration paths, and it examines research data on the integration of the new generations in Italy, analysing a sample of 17,225 preadolescents (aged 11 to 14), of whom 13,301 were Italians, 2,921 foreigners and 1,003 children of mixed parentage. Data has been collected by a questionnaire translated and adapted from the one used by Portes and Rumbaut in the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) of 1992 in the United States. They are used to present the Italian situation in light of segmented assimilation theory. One first result is the underachievement of Latinos. Given this finding, an effort is made to consider various factors which contribute to shaping the socio-existential circumstances of this specific group. The second main result is that children of mixed couples were those most disposed to form intercultural relations. When distinguishing between those with an Italian father and a foreign mother and those, vice versa, with an Italian mother and a foreign father, forcefully evident is the central role played by the mother in the transmission of cultural elements and in the construction of a sense of belonging and identity. Third, focusing on social capital at family level and within the peer group, it has been revealed a greater cross-cultural propensity among the new generations than among previous ones: Italian preadolescents growing up in a multi-ethnic society are more open to, and willing to accept, the challenge of cultural diversity than are their parents. More in general, the new generations contribute to creating a more inclusive social space in which membership of social circles becomes more transversal with respect to cultural and ethnic origins.

Exposure to Cyberbullying and Classroom Social Climate as Predictors of Students' Sense of Belonging in Class in Elementary and Middle Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-131
Author(s):  
Gabriela Kashy-Rosenbaum ◽  
Dana Aizenkot
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
And Gender

Children and adolescents currently conduct part of their social lives in cyberspace. Along with the increased use of WhatsApp – the most popular social platform in Israel – as a social network, we witness the spread of cyberbullying, that is, targeted aggressive activity against individuals in a virtual social space. Bullying in the virtual social space sometimes also flows into the actual social space in the classroom through feeding and refeeding, affecting the perception of the classroom social climate and the student’s sense of belonging in the classroom. Impairment of students’ sense of belonging in the classroom may impair their mental wellbeing and their functioning in school. The present study was designed to broaden our understanding of how exposure to cyberbullying relates to the social climate and students’ sense of belonging in the classroom beyond the students’ age and gender, distinguishing between exposure to cyberbullying in the private space and in the group space. The study involved 4,813 students (53% girls) in grades 4–9 in 191 classes within 33 schools. Participants filled out e-questionnaires. The findings showed that, as predicted by the research hypotheses, the more students are exposed to cyberbullying in the private and group spaces, the more negative the perceived social climate and students’ sense of belonging in the classroom will be. Exposure to simultaneous cyberbullying in both spaces, private and group, was found to be associated with even greater harm to the perceived social climate in the classroom and to students’ sense of belonging. It was also found that the perception of the social climate in the classroom mediates the connection between exposure and bullying in the classroom virtual space and students’ sense of belonging. The educational implications are discussed.

Family Matters: Negotiating Intergenerational Mixed Identities among Eurasian Families in Singapore

2020 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2095705
Author(s):  
Brenda S.A. Yeoh ◽  
Kristel Anne F. Acedera ◽  
Zarine L. Rocha ◽  
Esther Rootham
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Generational Changes ◽  
Identity Shifts ◽  
Intra Family

This paper tracks and explores the generational changes in the dynamics of racial identity and identification of Eurasians in Singapore, as reflected in family life. Eurasians are a historic mixed-descent community originating in the mixing of European and Asian cultures in the region since the 16th century. By analysing the embodied enactment and negotiation of mixed identities intergenerationally in the spheres of marriage and language choices, the paper reveals how families express and construct what it means to be Eurasian in the Singaporean context. This study draws on 30 interviews with self-identified Eurasians over two generations, including six paired intra-family interviews, illustrating intergenerational identity shifts. While the boundedness of racial identification appeared to be the norm for earlier generations, a tempering of race as a boundary marker and an openness to changing familial rhythms have served to encourage a lowering of race consciousness among younger Eurasians in Singapore.

Democracy's Family Values: Alexis de Tocqueville on Anxiety, Fear and Desire

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Janara
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
The Family ◽  
Democracy In America

Standing interpretations of the family relations depicted in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America project onto his portrait of democracy a strong public-private dichotomy. However, de Tocqueville insists that family life is embedded in the dynamics that shape the broader society and culture. Investigating this claim yields a psychological account of the desires, fears and anxieties that haunt democratic society. These passions foment a paradoxical mix of egalitarianism and hierarchy, liberty and subjugation, within family life and beyond. De Tocqueville's fundamental thesis that democracy boasts healthy and unhealthy potentialities is better understood when the idea of family as a discrete sphere is abandoned.

Family Life and Racial and Ethnic Diversity

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIDEON SJOBERG ◽  
NORMA WILLIAMS ◽  
ELIZABETH GILL ◽  
KELLY F. HIMMEL
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Multinational Organizations ◽  
Family Issues ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the debates among communitarians, liberals, and conservatives regarding contemporary family issues and critically evaluates these perspectives. Current orientations inadequately address the impact of large-scale bureaucratic organizations on family life and do not confront problems relating to racial and ethnic discrimination. The implications of the authors' perspective are brought to the fore when discussing education and the criminal justice system. The authors conclude that students of family relations need to consider larger issues associated with democratic theory, particularly as these relate to racial and ethnic diversity and to the manner in which multinational organizations are eroding family life.

scholarly journals Dynamics of change in transnational families ̶ Biographical perspectives on family figurations between Spain and Ecuador

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽  
pp. 264-286
Author(s):  
Christian Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Sudden Change ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
National Society ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Transnational Social Space ◽  
Self Presentations

This paper explores the figurational process in transnational families through the study of the biographical self-presentations and the life courses of family members who live apart (in Bilbao, Spain and Guayaquil, Ecuador) but remain interdependent. It asks which factors inside and outside the family figuration influence the negotiation of the fragile power balances along gender and generational lines, with what effect for the structure of positions, family norms, mutual expectations and the division of tasks. Special attention is given to the deep financial and economic crisis affecting Spain between 2008 and 2014 and how this sudden change of the context in one national society impacts the transnational family life. Results highlight the importance of the long-term pre-migration family figurational process for the way transnational family life is being shaped. They also show how a variety of influencing factors, observed during the migration period and located in different national societies and the transnational social space, is intertwined with the logic of this long-term process.

scholarly journals Solidarity of generations in everyday life through the eyes of youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Ludmila G. Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Parental Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Intra Family

Solidarity refers not only to the socio-political sphere, but also to the sphere of intra-family relations. Solidarity and support of generations in everyday life is one of the natural traditions of inter-generational and intra-generational relationships. Solidarity is a structure of behavior inherited by individuals, fixed in the natural-historical process of succession of generations. The purpose of the article is to analyze the problems and trends in traditional relations of intra-family solidarity and mutual assistance of generations in everyday life. Sociological materials show that the modern young generation is, for the most part, completely or mostly independent in financial and economic terms. There is a noticeable trend that today's youth are noticeably less helpful in everyday life to older generations than older generations are helping young people. On the one hand, young people are largely separated from the parental family, become independent, less and less help parents in everyday life. On the other hand, a large part of parents finds themselves in a more difficult financial and economic situation and do not have real opportunities to help their children. It is necessary to recognize the paramount importance of the care of society and the state, especially in relation to two social groups - students and older people experiencing financial difficulties and in need of daily assistance. The manifestation of care on the part of society and the state, systematic targeted support for the most financially vulnerable groups of the population in its own way will support the modern meanings of traditional relations of solidarity and mutual assistance of generations in everyday life.

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