scholarly journals About the Cover Image

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Phillip Joy
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Alternative Gender ◽  
The Way

This image, Challenging Masculine Constructs by Oliver, is part of a photovoice project (see the article by Phillip Joy, Matthew Numer, Sara F. L. Kirk, and Megan Aston, Embracing a New Day: Exploring the Connections of Culture, Masculinities, Bodies, and Health for Gay Men through Photovoice, this issue) that explored the way culture and society shape the beliefs, values, and practices about food and bodies for gay men. Taken by the participant, this image is his way to challenge what he believes are limiting gender ideas for men and how masculine bodies should be dressed and presented to others. He disrupts these social constructs by dressing and presenting his body in ways he believed moved beyond typical masculine notions and by doing so reveals alternative gender expressions and new possibilities of living.

Screening for Straights: Aspects of Entrance Policy at a Gay Disco

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea McVeigh
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Closed Environment ◽  
The Way

The gay disco has an important function within the gay community. It is a place where lesbians and gay men can meet and socialise with other members of the gay community, in a fairly closed environment that offers seclusion and shelter from the outside (mainly heterosexual) world. This paper examines the way in which potential patrons of a gay disco, that is, those who were not known as regular patrons to the doorman and bouncers, were screened in an attempt to determine sexual identity, to ensure that as few heterosexuals as possible were allowed entrance into the club.

The impact of demographic factors on the way lesbian and gay employees manage their sexual orientation at work

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 992-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Köllen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence demographic factors have on the way lesbians and gay men manage their sexual orientation at work. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data taken from a cross-sectional survey of 1,308 gay and lesbian employees working in Germany, four regression models are proposed. The means of handling one’s homosexuality at work was measured by the 31 items containing Workplace Sexual Identity Management Measure from Anderson et al. (2001). Findings – Results indicate that being in a relationship is related to increased openness about one’s homosexuality at work. Furthermore, it appears that the older and the more religious lesbian and gay employees are, the more open (and therefore less hidden) about their sexuality they are. Having a migratory background is related to being more guarded about one’s sexual orientation, whereas personal mobility within the country is not related to the way one manages one’s sexual orientation at work. Lesbians tend to be a little more open and less guarded about their homosexuality compared to gay men. Research limitations/implications – The focus of this research (and the related limitations) offers several starting and connecting points for more intersectional research on workforce diversity and diversity management. Practical implications – The study’s findings indicate the need for an intersectional approach to organizational diversity management strategies. Exemplified by the dimension “sexual orientation”, it can be shown that the impact each dimension has for an employee’s everyday workplace experiences and behavior in terms of a certain manifestation of one dimension of diversity can only be understood in terms of its interplay with other dimensions of diversity. Originality/value – It is shown that manifestations of demographic factors that tend to broaden the individual’s coping resources for stigma-relevant stressors lead to more openness about one’s homosexuality in the workplace.

scholarly journals What Does “Education” Mean: Cultural Values in Educational Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
Mark Honegger
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This article will advocate for the use of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Theory to research cultural values in Education. It will demonstrate how NSM research can be conducted as it provides explications for the word education. NSM is a research agenda that has identified 65 semantic primes, words that are found in every language of the world and which cannot be defined in terms of any simpler words. If you try to break down a semantic prime like good, you might describe it in terms of words like “positive, pleasing, valued,” all of which turn out to be more complex than good itself. Because primes cannot be decomposed and are universal to every language and every culture, they provide a basis for carrying out cross-linguistic comparisons of meaning and for identifying the cultural perspectives that inform our language and its thought structures. More complicated words, the bulk of any language, are social constructs that are culturally laden, providing deep insights into the way a society thinks.

Subtle Tyranny

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 90-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nemer E. Narchi ◽  
Beatriz Canabal Cristiani
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Neoliberal Reforms ◽  
The Way

Neoliberal reforms and social constructs that legitimate the full exploitation of nature intersect with political power to produce an inherently violent social atmosphere in which economic development is based on exclusion, submission, and dispossession of rural and indigenous communities. Historical ecological study of Lake Xochimilco reveals the way in which imposed constructs of nature that exclude traditional ecological knowledge have transformed landscapes and livelihoods to the detriment of all the inhabitants of Mexico City. Las reformas neoliberales y las construcciones sociales que legitiman la explotación plena de la naturaleza se cruzan con el poder político para crear un ambiente social inhe-rentemente violento en el cual el desarrollo económico se basa en la exclusión, el sometimiento y el despojo de las comunidades rurales e indígenas. El estudio histórico de la ecología del Lago de Xochimilco revela la manera en que las construcciones de la naturaleza impuestas que excluyen el conocimiento ecológico tradicional han transformado el paisaje y los medios de subsistencia en detrimento de todos los habitantes de la Ciudad de México.

New Voices, New Visions: Toward A Lesbian/Gay Paradigm for Psychology

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura S. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Men I ◽  
Psychological Inquiry ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article proposes an alternative model for psychological inquiry based in the experiences of lesbians and gay men. I propose that there are three elements that cross-situationally define a lesbian and gay reality: biculturalism, marginality, and normative creativity. Each of these elements is explored with examples of how these perspectives might alter the way that certain dominant notions about human relationships are understood. The article closes with questions regarding the application of this lesbian and gay paradigm to methodologies for inquiry. The relationship between a lesbian/gay paradigm for psychology and feminist questions regarding epistemology is also explored.

scholarly journals Simone De Beauvoir: Transgressing Immanence, Motherhood And Social Constructs

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-130
Author(s):  
ELISABETA ZELINKA
Keyword(s):  
Natural Consequence ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Snow White ◽  
White Type ◽  
Western Woman ◽  
The Way

Abstract The thesis of the present paper is to investigate the reasons why it may become difficult for the 20th century Western woman to avoid feeling trapped within her status of motherhood and to transcend her immanence as a woman. Simone de Beauvoir argues in The Second Sex, Part V, chapter XVII (“The Mother”) that the modern Western woman proves unable to transgress her own immanence. What are the three factors that stand in the way of the woman's existential telos? What is the natural consequence of her Snow White-type of imprisonment? Will she impose the same pattern of panoptic surveillance upon her own offspring?

scholarly journals Praxeologische Feldforschung – Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Klaus Geiselhart ◽  
Simon Runkel ◽  
Susann Schäfer ◽  
Benedikt Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
The People ◽  
Matters Of Concern ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This paper develops three analytical categories – range, supporting capacity, exigency/notability – to capture how supra-individual phenomena affect the people studied by empirical research. Researchers face a tension between constructivist and realist perspectives as the examined phenomena are simultaneously social constructs, in the way people perceive and understand them, and social facts in their consequences. Taking a critical perspective on the notion of large social phenomena – popularized by Theodore Schatzki – the paper develops an explorative terminology that aims to facilitate practice-oriented field research. Examples of empirical research on transition and degrowth initiatives illustrate how research subjects estimate the range of a phenomenon by trying to grasp whether they are in or out of its reach; the supportive capacity of a phenomenon by exploring how far it carries certain processes; and they experience the exigency of a phenomenon and ascribe a certain notability to it. Taken together, this terminology grasps the way phenomena are matters of concern, rather than matters of fact, for the research subjects.

scholarly journals Domino, novel steganography system

2018 ◽  
Vol 219 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Nadia mohammed Abdulmajeed
Keyword(s):  
Vision System ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Human Vision ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Human Vision System ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

Primary objective of the proposed system is to achieve higher level of confidentiality in absence of standard encryption techniques which add up to complexity of the stego system. In this system the principle of dominoes is adopted in the way of the selection of the pixel of the image to hide the ciphertext. Where domino stones models are prepared in advance, which are two-dimensional matrices (2*6), and selecting one of them and start the projection of the model on the image and hide the ciphertext in the pixel corresponding to the points in the domino model Experimental results show that the proposed system effectively achieve the objective. Even though the proposed system gives good enhancement to the steganoraphy technique and there is no difference between the cover-image and the stego-image can be seen by the human vision system (HVS), so this method can be considered as a success and can be adopted in the field of steganography.

Keep Silent, Keep Sinful: Mainstream Newspapers’ Representation of Gay Men and Lesbians in Contemporary China

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiang Chang ◽  
Hailong Ren
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Chinese News Media ◽  
The Way

From a critical discourse analysis of all gay-related news reports in five mainstream Beijing newspapers between 2010 and 2015, this article distils four dominant categories of images of gays and lesbians represented by the news media: gays as crime victims because of their presumed inherent weakness, as violent subjects, as enemies of traditional values and as a source of social instability. This means that despite legal and official recognition of homosexuality in China, it is still tainted with sin and perversion in the mainstream public discourse. The way in which the Chinese news media and journalists construct the image of the homosexual person notably differs from that in the West. Newspapers treat gay men and lesbians separately, with the former deemed socially destabilising elements of violence and promiscuity and the latter seen as closer to ‘normal’ heterosexuals in the way they think and act. In addition, Chinese news reports almost completely silence gay people who are rarely interviewed, and the few who are see only their expressions of shame or regret published. This article discusses and interprets such discursive strategies within the specific sociocultural context of Chinese society.

Ontology of Art

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Davies
Keyword(s):  
Natural Kinds ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
Ontology Of Art ◽  
The Way

Ontology is the study of the kinds of things there are in the world. The ontology of art considers the matter, form, and mode in which art exists. Works of art are social constructs in the sense that they are not natural kinds but human creations. The way we categorize them depends on our interests, and to that extent ontology is not easily separated from sociology and ideology. Nevertheless, some classifications and interests are likely to be more revealing of why and how art is created and appreciated. There are a number of traditional classifications of the arts, for instance in terms of their media (stone, words, sounds, paint, etc.), their species (sculpture, literature, music, drama, ballet, etc.), or their styles or contents (tragedy, comedy, surrealism, impressionism, etc.). The ontology of works of art does not map neatly on to these classifications, however.

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