scholarly journals Religious Heterogamy and the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian L. McPhail ◽  
Fenggang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Religious Socialization ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parental Impact

Research has long established that parents who do not share the same religious tradition produce less religious children than parents who do. Therefore, religious heterogamy and its negative effects on religious socialization have been associated with the generational decline of religion in Western societies. How about China, where religion has been resurging in the last few decades? Existing studies suggest two opposing possibilities: the restrictive national context may diminish parental impact on religious socialization, or the family influence withstands contextual pressures. Using the 2007 Spiritual Life Survey of Chinese Residents and logistic regression models, we examine patterns of association between having one or two religious parents during childhood and current religious affiliation, beliefs, behavior, and salience of respondents in China. Analyses reveal that despite China’s atheist education system and strict religion policies, having at least one religiously affiliated parent is associated with increased religiosity compared to having two nonreligious parents. As the number of interreligious marriages rises in Chinese society, religious heterogamy contributes to the growth of religion among younger generations. Whereas religious heterogamy in the West has a secularizing effect on the next generation and contributes to religion’s decline, religious heterogamy in secular nations such as China has a religionizing effect and contributes to religion’s rise.

Social Environment and Creativity

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Jiří Semrád ◽  
Milan Škrabal
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

The paper deals with issues connected with the motivation of high school students to participate in activities aimed at professional creative activity and, in this context, issues of environmental influences, especially from school and the family. It is responding to some of the growing efforts of neoliberalism to over individualize creative expression and activities and completely ignore social influences. It also takes into account the cultural legacy of past generations and the sources of creative power that have taken root in society and from which individuals draw and process their inspiration. Presented within are the results of an empirical probe focused on the influence of the social environment on the creative activity of teenagers. The paper follows the relations to the existing body of knowledge on the relationship between social environment and creativity, with an effort to capture the social conditionality of creative performances—to capture their roots. The results of the probe have confirmed the initial hypothesis that the creative efforts of secondary school students taking part in vocational training is based on the social background of the family and school. However, the family influence on the students’ creativity is not as significant as one would expect. It is the indirect effect of the family environment that has a larger influence.

Family influence on career decisions: perceptions of Latin American CEOs

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Blanco ◽  
Mariela N. Golik
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Literature

PurposeThe career is a space where family and work lives amalgamate. The role of work for the individual, and the meaning of work within the culture, will determine the relevance of family. This study investigates CEOs' perception about conjugal family influence on career decisions, and it examines family factors.Design/methodology/approachThrough a qualitative study, 22 Latin American CEOs who work for multinational firms were interviewed in a semi-structured way.FindingsNot all career decisions were influenced by conjugal family. CEOs varied in the extent to which they considered their families when reflecting on their career decisions. Expatriation, joining or quitting an organization and change of area of work were found as those decisions perceived to be influenced by conjugal family. Family support, family structure and family demands and responsibilities were identified as the family factors involved. In spite of the role salience, family factors influenced some of CEOs' career decisions, in part, due to the cultural characteristics of the Latin American environment. The instrumental support of the extended family, as part of collectivist societies, was also evidenced.Practical implicationsA better understanding of the family influenced decisions and family factors involved may enhance individual career decision-making as well as organizational career management processes and public initiatives.Originality/valueThis study contributes to family and career literature, being the first one to explore the conjugal family influence upon CEOs' career decisions.

Drugs and their impact on the individual and society

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 63-96
Author(s):  
INTISAR SHAHBAZ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Negative Behaviors ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Positive Behaviors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Breakdown ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract The problem of drug addiction for individuals, especially young people, is one of the most dangerous pests that cause many problems in various health, social and psychological aspects facing every society, but rather the whole world. The phenomenon of drug addiction often leaves individuals with dangerous negative effects on their behavior, whether towards themselves or towards others, and this requires the relevant institutions to strive for important and constructive solutions to reform such individuals, and then rid them of their negative behaviors, rehabilitate them and integrate them into society, to become active and effective individuals through their adoption of positive behaviors that are acceptable in line with the values, customs and traditions of their societies to which they belong. Therefore, our current study came to shed light on the most important effects resulting from the phenomenon of drug addiction among individuals through achieving the two research objectives which seek to know: 1- Causes of addiction to drug use among individuals 2- The effect of drug abuse on society. Upon verifying the two research objectives by relying on the analytical method of literature and previous studies, the two researchers reached the following results: First - The most important causes of youth addiction to drugs are poverty, begging, loss of one or both parents, the presence of a criminal in his family, invalid education and other various phenomena and deviations. Second - The symptoms of drug addiction push the addicted person to adopt deviant behaviors, as well as afflicting the addicted individual to psychological and mental pressures, and then afflicting his family with chronic diseases, in addition to the family breakdown occurring in the homes of drug addicts. Key words: drugs; Drug effect; The individual and society.

scholarly journals Beleweniswêreld van die straatkind in Hillbrow

Curationis ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Hatting ◽  
M. Poggenpoel ◽  
C.P.H. Myburgh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Child Life ◽  
Street Child ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Educational Psychologist ◽  
The Family ◽  
Developmental Opportunities ◽  
Gaining Insight

The street child that is driven by circumstances to live outside the supportive structure of the family, is on his own. He doesn’t have the educational developmental opportunities that children who grow up in families and societies do. He finds himself in a unique educational and living environment. From an educational psychologist’s point of view, this environment is abnormal. It is therefore a great challenge for the educational psychologist to try and avoid or resolve negative effects of the child's living environment. An exploratory-, descriptive-, contextual- and qualitative study was done, with the aim of gaining insight and understanding into the life of the street child in Hillbrow as well as his experiences of his situation. The results obtained from the interviews were placed in four categories. These categories are: The street child’s continuous struggle to survive, his need for a “normal child life” , his inability to accept responsibility and the presence of a normative awareness within the street child. In conclusion it is clear that the experiential world of the street child is multi-facetted. In general it appears that the street child has many limitations and difficulties which he experiences, and that input by an educational psychologist can have meaningful influence in his life.

Capturing the Familiness of Family Businesses: Development of the Family Influence Familiness Scale (FIFS)

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 709-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Frank ◽  
Alexander Kessler ◽  
Thomas Rusch ◽  
Julia Suess–Reyes ◽  
Daniela Weismeier–Sammer
Keyword(s):  
High Reliability ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Control

This article develops a familiness scale measuring the family influence on the business via decision premises that express familiness. In three studies, we examine familiness with qualitative and quantitative approaches based on new systems theory. Narrative interviews are employed to generate items. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses led to a multidimensional scale (Family Influence Familiness Scale [FIFS]) comprising six dimensions: (1) ownership, management, and control; (2) proficiency level of active family members; (3) sharing of information between active family members; (4) transgenerational orientation; (5) family–employee bond; and (6) family business identity. Results indicate high reliability and validity levels.

scholarly journals Einflüsse von Lebensstilmerkmalen auf den Übergang in die erste Ehe

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-33
Author(s):  
Daniel Lois
Keyword(s):  
Transition Rate ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Education Professional ◽  
Family Orientation ◽  
Wenn Sich

This study examines the question to which extent lifestyle features such as a family or career orientation may independently predict the transition from cohabitation into the first marriage. The results have shown that regarding marriage behaivour the lifestyle features neither represent simple reflexes of other sociostructural factors such as age, education or professional status nor are they independent of those. A family-oriented and religious lifestyle is positively linked to the probability of marriage – even when controlling for education level, formal religious affiliation and other features. Negative effects of a career- and leisure-oriented lifestyle of the woman on the transition rate, however, can be explained by education, professional status and family formation. Furthermore, it is relevant to which extent certain lifestyle features are shared between the partners. The probability of marriage tends to increase with an increasing career orientation of the male cohabitor in relation to the female cohabitor. In contrast, it decreases if the partners’ family orientation is different. Zusammenfassung Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit Lebensstilmerkmale wie eine Familien-, Freizeit- oder Berufsorientierung eigenständig den Übergang von der nichtehelichen Lebensgemeinschaft in die erste Ehe erklären können. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Lebensstilelemente im Hinblick auf das Heiratsverhalten weder einfache Reflexe anderer soziostruktureller Merkmale wie Alter, Bildung oder Erwerbsstatus darstellen, noch von diesen unabhängig sind. Zwischen einem häuslich-familienorientierten sowie religiösen Lebensstil und der Heiratswahrscheinlichkeit bestehen (geschlechtsunspezifisch) auch dann positive Zusammenhänge, wenn das Bildungsniveau, die formale Konfessionszugehörigkeit und weitere Merkmale kontrolliert werden. Die negativen Effekte eines berufs- und freizeitorientierten Lebensstils der Frau auf die Übergangsrate lassen sich dagegen durch das Bildungsniveau, den Erwerbsstatus und die Familiengründung erklären. Darüber hinaus ist relevant, wie bestimmte Lebensstilmerkmale innerhalb des Paares verteilt sind. Die Heiratswahrscheinlichkeit steigt tendenziell bei einer relativ zur Frau ansteigenden Berufsorientierung des Mannes. Sie sinkt dagegen, wenn sich die Familienorientierung der Partner unterscheidet.

scholarly journals Indeks sopus kao indikator porodične moćl u socijalizaciji adolescenata

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Branko Milosavljević
Keyword(s):  
Urban Community ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
Training School ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Gathering

The SOPUS (DFGUC) index (daily family gathering in urban community) considers gatherings of narrow and wider family circles aind friends on various social occasions where adolescents are also present. The hypothesis was that the SOPUS (DFGUC) index could serve as an indicator of the family influence iin the process of socialization of adolescents. 228 adolescents were screened (85 male and 143 female). They were all born in town, live with their parents and attend the third grade of the secondary specialized training school. The results of the research have shown that the SOPUS (DFGUC) index can be taken as an indicator of the family influence on some aspects of the elements of socialization of adolescents.

scholarly journals Factors associated with retention in faith-based drug treatment centers in the Mexican-American border

Salud Mental ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ietza Bojorquez ◽  
◽  
Daniel Rodríguez ◽  
Olga Odgers ◽  
Ramiro Jaimes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residential Treatment ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Retention Rate ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Treatment Facilities

Introduction. Faith-based centers are major providers of residential treatment for substance use problems in Mexico, but relatively few studies have been conducted in this context. Objective. To explore factors associated with treatment retention in two faith-based (with different religious orientation) residential treatment facilities for male drug users in Tijuana, Mexico. Method. We conducted an exploratory follow-up study of 328 clients admitted during 2014-2015 to either an Evangelical Pentecostal center or a faith-based center without a specific religious affiliation. The main outcome was retention, defined as remaining in treatment for at least three months. Results. Among participants, the retention rate was 38.7%. Multivariate logistic regression models showed that age (OR 1.04; 95% CI [1.01, 1.06]; p = .002) and having used heroin or opioids in the past 30 days (OR .50; 95% CI [.25, 1.00]; p = .049) were associated with retention. Having a personal religious affiliation was associated with retention in the Evangelical Pentecostal center, but not in the center without a specific religious affiliation. Discussion and conclusion. The retention rate was low, but within the previously reported range. The interaction of personal religious affiliation and the religious orientation of the center suggests that a match between a person’s religious convictions and those of the center could be important for retention. More research is needed to clarify the utility of faith-based centers for religious and non-religious drug users.

scholarly journals Sopocani and Gradac: About the relation of funerary programmes of the two churches

Zograf ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branislav Todic
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Church

King Uros (1243-1276) erected the Church of the Holy Trinity in the Sopocani monastery in about 1270 and, in it, he prepared tombs for the first hegoumenos of Sopocani, his mother Queen Ana, for himself and the then archbishop, Joanikije (Fig. 1). Over each tomb there is a marble sarcophagus surrounded by appropriate wall paintings. The tombs of Uros and Joanikije were located in the western bay of the naos. Thus, the recently announced hypothesis, that the endowed did not intend to be buried in Sopocani, is unfounded. The intention of King Uros was only brought into question in 1276 when he was driven from the throne by his older son, Dragutin. The overthrow caused a major drama in the family, the state and the Church. King Uros retired to the southern part of the state (Hum), where he became a monk and subsequently died (perhaps in 1277). His wife Jelena received vast territories from her son, the new king, which she practically ruled independently, while Archbishop Joanikije, after having denied Dragutin his blessing, retired with the former king and died in the region of Pilot in 1279. King Dragutin (1276-1282) made a great effort to mitigate the negative effects of the overthrow: he continued his father's foreign policy established good relations with neighboring Dubrovnik, took pains to appease his mother, Queen Jelena, by granting her vast territories, and to win the support of the Church by erecting, repairing or presenting gifts to several churches and monasteries. He certainly obtained the Sopocani monastery through hereditary ktetorial rights.

scholarly journals The Effects of Media Language Using of Comedian Program Audiences of Kurdish Televisions; BEZMÎ BEZM Program at KurdMax TV As A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-186
Author(s):  
Shwan Adam Aivas ◽  
Mahabad Kamel Abdulla
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Effects Of Media

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of media language misusing in comedian programs of Iraqi Kurdish televisions. To achieve this goal, the researchers have done an online survey with 145 TV viewers; as well as analyzing the thematic contents of 12 episodes of the BEZMÎ BEZM program on the KurdMax satellite channel.   Based on the research results; media language misusing in the BEZMÎ BEZM program has negative effects on viewers of this program, despite the fact that the majority of opinions agreed on the definition of this satellite as a Kurdish entertainment channel and the rates of views of its main programs "Great". However, they also agreed that this program on the KurdMax satellite channel has become a popular platform for insults, exchange of accusations, and defamation of certain personalities and groups in society, and a reason for sabotaging the Kurdish language and its methods, producing linguistic and psychological violence and highlighting gender discrimination. In addition to sabotaging the public taste of viewers, lack of respect for their needs, delinquency of adolescents, reducing the value of artistic work etiquette and educational foundations, and underestimating the family and Kurdish culture and its peculiarities. As for the topics presented in this program, the main goal is to make viewers laugh only and to achieve this; they do not hesitate to spread market language and archaic and patriarchal cultures, encourage gender differences of men and women, social and sexual taboos, defame personalities, neglect health guidelines, and violate professional media ethics. All of the above; represents the main identity of the BEZMÎ BEZM program on the KurdMax satellite channel. As a final point, this research has recommended the relevant people and bodies to subordinate such programs in order to review its content based on legal and ethical media standards, laws, and rules of the Kurdish language, along with abiding professional art principles.

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