The image of Russia in the consciousness of Russian youth: peculiarities of the value-semantic code of cultural representations

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
L. V. Matveeva ◽  
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T. Ya. Anikeeva ◽  
Yu. V. Mochalova ◽  
O. B. Stepanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Semantic Code ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Semantic Component

The study involved 98 representatives of Moscow youth; 116 of Perm youth and 104 of Tyumen youth. A total 318 respondents, 44% young men and 56% young girls, aged 18 to 25. The 49 bipolar psychosemantic scale of the study describes the image of the country in terms of its strength and authority in the international arena, activity in transformations and various aspects of assessment. Respondents evaluated the images of “Russia-country”, “Future Russia”, “USA”, “China”. The categorical structures of young people's social representations about the country's image, identified in all three regions, have three substantively comparable factors: 1) “Welfare, progressiveness of the country”, 2) “Level of social distance”, 3) “Civilizational attribution”. The value-semantic component in the structure of young people's ideas fixes the cultural codes of Russian civilization: “beauty”, “generosity”, “mercy”, “kindness”, “spirituality”, “morality”.

Borrowing from Femininity: The Caring Man, Hybrid Masculinities, and Maintaining Male Dominance

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 801-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Eisen ◽  
Liann Yamashita
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Gender Hierarchy

Prevalent cultural representations of masculinity depict men as aggressive, emotionally distant individuals whose hard and muscular bodies epitomize these traits. These traditional representations of masculinity have also been linked to sexism and male dominance, which has encouraged many men to distance themselves from these representations. This study employed grounded theory methods to analyze interviews with twenty-five men about their understanding and construction of their masculinity. The analysis revealed that some men construct a hybrid masculinity by describing themselves as caring or being in touch with their feminine side to create social distance between themselves and men who adhere to traditional representations of masculinity. While men incorporated what they viewed as feminine characteristics into their identities, they reinforced, rather than challenged, the symbolic boundaries of gender and the resulting gender hierarchy. Ultimately, the men in this study were able to co-opt the language of caring to gain more prestige while reinforcing gender inequality and male dominance.

ARMAND TROUSSEAU ON THE TREATMENT OF ENURESIS (c1850)

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-49
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Typhoid Fever ◽  
Scarlet Fever ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Break Up ◽  
All Diseases ◽  
Empty Bladder

Armand Trousseau (1801-1867), in his time considered the foremost clinician of the Hôtel-Dieu (the oldest hospital in Paris), made many significant advances in the treatment of diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, and rickets. In one of his clinical lectures at the Hôpital des Enfants-Malades, Trousseau gave the following suggestions for the treatment of enuresis. This infirmity [enuresis] I consider a neuralgia or névrose, and it is much more common than is generally believed. It has been thought nearly incurable, but with belladonna, is one of the most easily cured of all diseases. Those children who are troubled in the daytime are not cured by belladonna. A child going to bed with an empty bladder will pass his water during the first two hours, sometimes during the first hour; placed in bed at 9 o'clock, the bladder will throw off its contents at 10 o'clock, and then retain them until 8 o'clock the following morning, being full at that time. The accident generally happens once only during the night, but sometimes twice. During the first hours of sleep, you generally find in young men and children an erection. The question may be asked, whether something of the same kind may not take place in the bladder. This complaint is most common among young girls, and is generally cured spontaneously at the age of puberty; but when this is not the case, do what chance has shown to be efficacious. Treatment—The first precaution is to break up the bad habit of the organs. Wake the child at the end of an hour, and make him pass his water; after several days, make him at the end of an hour and a half. This is only accessory.

VI.–i.

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Young Girls

On their arrival the station was lively with straw-hatted young men welcoming young girls who bore a remarkable family likeness to their welcomers, and who were dressed up in the brightest and lightest of raiment. ‘The place seems gay,’ said Sue. ‘Why—it is Remembrance Day!...

Questioning the sexy oldie: masculinity, age and sexuality in the Viagra era

2019 ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Medical Expert ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Ageing Male ◽  
Male Patients

The chapter explores the intersections of gender, sexuality and ageing in the Viagra era, by investigating medical expert discourses and social representations of men’s sexual health problems (Gott, 2005; Marshall, 2010). By adopting the STS notion of enrolment (Johnson, Sjoberg and Asberg, 2016), the analysis will show how medical experts are called on and woven into a medical and pharmaceutical discursive framework, and how they contribute to define new sexual techno-social subjectivities, like the “forever functional” ageing man (Marshall and Katz 2002). Physicians use discursive strategies, making reference to cultural representations on gender and ageing, more specific medical knowledge as well as to marketing discourses about sexuopharmaceuticals, to support and promote their ageing male patients in monitoring their sexual health, but also an authoritative position in defining the boundaries of legitimate medical problems and solutions. The analysis shows how medical experts thereby reproduce, renegotiate and question what they perceive as a “respectable sexuality” (Bertone and Ferrero Camoletto 2009) and a “mature masculinity” (Wentzell 2013)..

Cultural and Social Representations on the Border: From Disagreement to Coexistence

Human Affairs ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurij Fikfak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Ritual Practices

Cultural and Social Representations on the Border: From Disagreement to CoexistenceIn the twentieth century, certain locations, symbols, and ritual practices along the Italian-Slovenian border were subject to various social and cultural representations. During that century, they primarily represented a subject of disagreement between both ethnic communities; however, in the last ten years, some groups and local authorities have been seeking opportunities to live together in coexistence.

Tattoo, piercing, and adolescent tobacco consumption

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Guéguen
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Cigarette Consumption ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Young Girls

Abstract The objective of the study was to evaluate the link between tattoos and/or piercings and young people’s tobacco consumption. Methods: A total of 2587 students (1168 females and 1419 males) were asked about tattoos, piercings, and tobacco consumption. Results: Young men and young girls who had tattoos and/or wore piercings were more likely to report smoking behavior, earlier smoking behavior, and higher cigarette consumption per day. It was also found that both with men and women, the combined effects of piercings and tattoos were associated with an increase in smoking behavior. Conclusion: Piercings and/or tattoos as well as combined piercings and tattoos appeared as markers of tobacco consumption. Such marks could serve as signs for educators, parents, and physicians.

scholarly journals Language of Outgroup Prejudice: Revealing Perceptions towards 60 U.S Immigrant Groups from Language Patterns

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Li ◽  
Thomas Hills
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Language Patterns ◽  
Concrete Language

Migration is a central activity of human cultural history and brings diverse groups into contact with one another. Whether these interactions result in harmonious mutual understanding or toxic outgroup prejudice depends in part on psychological tendencies to perceive outgroup members differently from ingroup members. In the present study, we analyzed patterns of language associated with 60 ethnic and religious groups in a corpus of 1.8 million newspaper articles published over a 20-year period. Based on construal level theory, we first operationalize perceived social distance towards outgroups as language concreteness and sentiment as language valence. We validate our operationalization using empirical survey data on perceived social distance towards 30 U.S minority groups. Next, our findings show that concrete language, as an indicator of close social contact, is strongly associated with positive sentiment. To examine how language differs across social groups in the context of immigration, we used Latent Dirichlet Allocation to identify 15 topics (e.g., crime, politics, food, arts, and education) reflecting cultural representations of immigrant identity that may drive positive and negative sentiment. The present study, by revealing language of our-group prejudice, provides an opportunity to evaluate outgroup prejudice at societal level, instead of relying on aggregation of self-reports across large sample of participants alone. Moreover, our approach shows rich diversity in language patterns associated with outgroup members, and therefore complements the current prejudice literature that often implies heterogeneity in various outgroups through an ingroup-vs-outgroup dichotomy. Lastly, we discuss implications for further research and for policies aimed at reducing intergroup conflict.

HOW BOSTON YOUNG LADIES IN 1836 SHOULD ACT TOWARD YOUNG MEN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-597
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Good Taste ◽  
A Chain

Young girls once received much advice about how to behave toward young men. The following is quite typical of the rules of behavior or taught to proper Boston young girls in the 1830's: If the natural feelings of modesty are not sufficient to guard you from all personal familiarity with the young men of your acquaintance, let good breeding, and good taste, aid you in laying down rules for yourself on this head. Never join in any rude plays, that will subject you to being kissed or handled in any way by gentlemen. Do not suffer your hand to be squeezed, without showing that it displeases you by instantly withdrawing it. If a finger is put out to touch a chain that is round your neck, or a breast-pin that you are wearing, draw back, and take it off for inspection. Accept not unnecessary assistance in putting on cloaks, shawls, over-shoes, or anything of the sort. Be not lifted in and out of carriages, on or off a horse; sit not with another in a place that is too narrow; read not out of the same book; let not your eagerness to see anything induce you to place your head close to another person's. These, and many other little points of delicacy and refinement, deserve to be made fixed habits, and then they will sit easily and gracefully upon you, heightening the respect of all who approach you, and operating as an almost invisible, though a very impenetrable fence, keeping off vulgar familiarity, and that desecration of the person, which has too often led to vice.1

scholarly journals SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS: Moçambican ethnicities

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. a7en
Author(s):  
Antonio Francisco Sefane ◽  
Joseneide dos Santos Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theory Of Social Representations

This article aims to bring a reflection on the theory of Social Representations from the perspective of Social Psychology. From the bibliographic review, an analogy is made between the theories of social representations, to a concrete society, in this case, the Mozambican society. Social representations have been a topic widely discussed by several and categorized authors, many of them addressing the relationship between cognition-knowledge, individual and society. For this purpose, three Mozambican ethnicities were analyzed, namely, Macuas-Lomués, Ndaus and Tsongas, in which, based on the bibliographic verification of their cultures, beliefs and values, a real analogy can be drawn between the theories on social and cultural representations. the behaviors of these ethnic groups, which make clear the different social representations in the different regions that form the country called Mozambique.The basis of the research was the bibliographic review, both to address the theoretical supports, as well as to address the Mozambican reality.

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