Boys in Education in Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elli Scambor ◽  
Victor Seidler
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
International Comparison ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Early School ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Educational Careers ◽  
Role Of Men

The paper discusses the phenomenon of the “boy crisis” in education by following trajectories which seek to describe the situation of boys at school in different countries across Europe in its complexity. The current study of the Role of Men in Gender Equality (Scambor, Wojnicka & Bergmann, eds., 2012) offers an international comparison of the situation of boys and outlines major trends related to gender disparities in education across Europe. An in-depth analysis of male early school leavers leads to a deeper understanding of boys and men as heterogeneous social groups. Relations between so called “costs” and “privileges” in education show considerable varieties due to differences between boys, with educational careers being strongly influenced by social class, “race,” and ethnicities as well as migration backgrounds.

scholarly journals Robo-Revolution: A Marxist Approach to Social Uprising in the High-Tech Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-244
Author(s):  
Lika Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Future ◽  
Marxist Approach

With the increasing role of technological agents in contemporary society, questions surrounding the future of socio-economic organization are intensely debated. A variety of predictions have been made, ranging from conservative views that emphasize the gradual integration of techno-actors into human social collectives to radical outlooks that assume the inevitability of a dramatic historic break. This study employs the method of simulation, exploring the on-going path towards automation with the help of classical Marxism. It seeks to understand whether robots and artificial intelligence (AI) might become new value producers and a revolutionary social class. As demonstrated, the continuity of capitalist relationships may facilitate the formation of new social groups and recast class-based political agendas.

scholarly journals Class matters: the sociolinguistics ofgooseandgoatin Manchester English

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Baranowski
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Sociolinguistic Variation ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Internal Change

AbstractThis paper reports on patterns of sociolinguistic variation and change in Manchester'sgooseandgoatvowels on the basis of the acoustic analysis of 122 speakers, stratified by age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity.Goosefronting is an internal change showing little social differentiation, except before /l/ as inschoolandpool, where, in contrast to most other dialects of English,gooseshows advanced fronting inversely correlated with socioeconomic status.Goatfronting, on the other hand, is a change brought from outside the dialect by the highest status groups, displaying a pattern of monotonic social stratification, a female lead, and a strong effect of ethnicity. The role of attitudes toward the community in the realization of the vowels is compared with the effect of social class construed in terms of distances between social groups. Social class turns out to be a better predictor, suggesting that the role of attitudes and identity may be overestimated in research eschewing a systematic exploration of social class at the same time.

scholarly journals Male Feminists Promote Gender Equality in Islamic Moderation Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Maghfur Ahmad ◽  
Siti Mumun Muniroh ◽  
Umi Mahmudah
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Male Involvement ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Male Feminists ◽  
Role Of Men

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between the role of men in supporting the feminist movement and moderate Islamic teachings among college students in Indonesia. This study used a quantitative approach by distributing questionnaires to 625 respondents who were randomly selected. The independent variable used, namely religious moderation, was measured using four indicators: a sense of nationalism (X1), tolerance (X2), anti-violence (X3), and accommodative attitudes towards local culture (X4). This study examined multiple linear regression analysis to test whether the four problems in Islamic moderation were related to student attitudes towards male involvement in feminism. The results suggested that these four independent variables have a positive and significant effect on student attitudes towards the active role of men in supporting the gender equality movement. Furthermore, an accommodative attitude towards the local culture and a sense of nationalism were known to have the greatest and smallest effects, namely 0.28 and 0.15 respectively. These results indicate that moderate Muslims tend to have a greater acceptance of male feminists. Then, the results also indicated that Muslim students who practised moderate Islamic teachings had realized the importance of male involvement in feminism.

Doing Bodhisattva’s Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-32
Author(s):  
Le Hoang Anh Thu
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
The Social

This paper explores the charitable work of Buddhist women who work as petty traders in Hồ Chí Minh City. By focusing on the social interaction between givers and recipients, it examines the traders’ class identity, their perception of social stratification, and their relationship with the state. Charitable work reveals the petty traders’ negotiations with the state and with other social groups to define their moral and social status in Vietnam’s society. These negotiations contribute to their self-identification as a moral social class and to their perception of trade as ethical labor.

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