scholarly journals Ethno Cultural Concept of Family Life in Malaysian Literature in English

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 508-514
Author(s):  
Murooj Fareed Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Home Economic ◽  
Green Is ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Economic Collaboration ◽  
Cultural Concept

A family involves two or more persons who live in the same household and are related through blood, marriage, or adoption . Family is “a social group branded by a common home, economic collaboration, and reproduction. It includes grown-ups of both genders, at least two of whom sustain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the adults living together(Alakavuklar, 2009).The study is going to examine the concept of family in term of father/mother, father /children, mother/children binary opposition between three main ethnic groups in Malaysia (Malay ,Chinese ,Indian )  through   Malaysian novels in English: ‘The Rice Mother', ‘Evening Is the Whole Day’, ‘Green Is the Color’, and ‘The Garden of Evening Mist’.

Modern forms of assistance to solve families difficult cases and their adolescent children

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Marzena Możdżyńska
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Event ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Difficult Cases ◽  
Complex Activities

Abstract In recent decades, we observe a significant disorganization of family life, especially in the sphere of parental functions performed by unprepared for the role emotional, socially and economically young people. Lack of education, difficulties in finding work, and the lack of prospects for positive change are the main causes of their impoverishment and progressive degradation in the social hierarchy. Reaching young people at risk of social exclusion and provide them with comprehensive care, should be a priority of modern social work and educational work. In order to provide help this social group and cope with the adverse event created a lot of programs to support systemically start in life. An example would be presented in the article KARnet 15+ program as a form of complex activities of a person stimulating subjectivity, and allows you to modify support in individual cases

Afterword and Concluding Thoughts

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-210
Author(s):  
Deepra Dandekar
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Christian Families ◽  
Family Associations

The concluding chapter summarizes all the conceptual questions raised while analysing the topic of religious conversion in nineteenth-century Maharashtra. Using personal experience, the author explores whether Marathi Brahmin Christians could be considered an ethnic group in the early colonial period. Using arguments from the preface of this book, the author discusses how social stigma created family life and family associations among early Christian converts who converted and intermarried within and across colonial missions to form a separate social group that was outside both Marathi and Brahmin identity, and colonial identity. While this intellectual burgeoning group of Brahmin Christians did not survive after independence, their vernacular expressions of Christian piety constituted important notions about religious modernity in the colonial period. Finally, the author discusses how conversion became a mode of communication within Christian families that becomes inherent expressions of articulating dissent.

Experimental evidence that acorn woodpeckers recognize relationships among third parties no longer living together

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1257-1265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A Pardo ◽  
Eric L Walters ◽  
Walter D Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Social Species ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Melanerpes Formicivorus ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Acorn Woodpeckers ◽  
Group Relationships

Abstract Triadic awareness, or knowledge of the relationships between others, is essential to navigating many complex social interactions. While some animals maintain relationships with former group members post-dispersal, recognizing cross-group relationships between others may be more cognitively challenging than simply recognizing relationships between members of a single group because there is typically much less opportunity to observe interactions between individuals that do not live together. We presented acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus), a highly social species, with playback stimuli consisting of a simulated chorus between two different individuals, a behavior that only occurs naturally between social affiliates. Subjects were expected to respond less rapidly if they perceived the callers as having an affiliative relationship. Females responded more rapidly to a pair of callers that never co-occurred in the same social group, and responded less rapidly to callers that were members of the same social group at the time of the experiment and to callers that last lived in the same group before the subject had hatched. This suggests that female acorn woodpeckers can infer the existence of relationships between conspecifics that live in separate groups by observing them interact after the conspecifics in question no longer live in the same group as each other. This study provides experimental evidence that nonhuman animals may recognize relationships between third parties that no longer live together and emphasizes the potential importance of social knowledge about distant social affiliates.

Signs and Meanings in the Representations of their Home City by the School Pupils of Daugavpils

2012 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Mairita Folkmane ◽  
Ilva Skulte
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Ethnic Schools ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Daugavpils historically was the place where different ethnic groups are living together, interacting on the public spaces. The mixture of cultures is represented in the city landscape - home to every inhabitant, still having differents accents, figures and symbolical meanings. The following paper is based on the semiotic analysis of the pictures made by the pupils of different (ethnic) schools of Daugavpils, in order to understand what and how cildren "see" their city - what are the signs they use to construct the message about their city together and what do they mean - how different is a pictorial message. To do the analysis collection of the children drawings was made for an exhibition in the hall of the city munipality of Daugavpils - a material for our research. The findings show that besides of expected reference to different cultural traditions and some aestetical preferences, no difference exists between the way children represent their city. Diversity of cultural footprints in the landscape of the city and the pride for their city is present in the works of children coming from different ethnic, linguistic and cultural environments.

scholarly journals Die Kernfamilie als Ideal. Zur Konstruktion von Scheidung und Nachscheidungsfamilien

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Ulrike Zartler
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Family Based

Against the backdrop of high divorce rates and changing concepts in the social sciences, the issue is addressed as to how children and families construct divorce and patterns of family life prior and subsequent to divorce. Based on an Austrian qualitative survey of 50 ten-year old children and their respective parents (n=71), it can be shown that divorce is predominantly constructed as a disintegration of the family. Based upon the dimensions of normalcy, complementarity and stability, nuclear families are being perceived as the most advantageous form of living together as a family. Whereas single-parent families are constructed as being both deficient and disadvantaged, stepfamilies are seen in a more positive light which, in turn, is due to the everyday presence of two parents in those families. These findings indicate that the interviewees orientate themselves along the lines of the model of disorganization, hierarchized ways of family life, and family concepts that are household-centered and focus primarily on family structures. Finally, the implications and repercussions of these findings for family policies and family research are being discussed. Zusammenfassung Vor dem Hintergrund hoher Scheidungsraten und veränderter sozialwissenschaftlicher Konzepte wird die Frage gestellt, wie Kinder und Eltern Scheidungen sowie familiale Lebensformen vor und nach einer Scheidung konstruieren. Basierend auf einer österreichischen qualitativen Befragung von 50 zehnjährigen Kindern und ihren Eltern (n= 71) zeigt sich, dass Scheidung überwiegend als Auflösung der Familie konstruiert wird. Kernfamilien werden, basierend auf den Aspekten Normalität, Komplementarität und Stabilität, als vorteilhafteste Lebensform wahrgenommen. Ein-Eltern-Familien werden als defizitär und benachteiligt konstruiert, während Stieffamilien aufgrund der alltäglichen Präsenz von zwei Elternpersonen positiver betrachtet werden. Die Ergebnisse verweisen auf eine Orientierung am Desorganisationsmodell, eine Hierarchisierung von Lebensformen sowie haushaltszentrierte und familienstrukturell fokussierte Konzeptionen. Auswirkungen und Implikationen dieser Ergebnisse für Sozialpolitik und Familienforschung werden diskutiert.

scholarly journals Sex and Marriage With Members of Other Ethnic Groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham P. Buunk ◽  
Pieternel Dijkstra
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Marital Partner ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Moroccan Women

Given the importance of interethnic intimate relationships for the integration of minority groups, the present study examined attitudes toward marriages and sexual relationships with in-group and out-group members among young second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands compared with the Dutch. A sample of 95 ethnically Dutch, 68 Moroccan, and 68 Turkish individuals aged between 15 and 25, living in the Netherlands filled out an online questionnaire. Overall, individuals showed a preference for a marital partner from the same ethnic group as themselves, but a less pronounced preference for a sexual partner from their own ethnic group. Turkish and Moroccan, but not Dutch, men would rather engage in a sexual relationship than in a marriage with a Dutch woman, and rather in a marriage than in a sexual relationship with a woman from their own ethnic group. In contrast, women, especially Moroccan women would rather engage in a marriage than in a sexual relationship, preferably with someone of their own ethnic group. Finally, the more religious they were, the more Turkish and Moroccan women preferred a marital partner from their own ethnic group. Findings are discussed in the light of the integration of different ethnic groups in society.

scholarly journals The Religion of War and Peace: Better Understanding of International Conflict

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armand Abecassis
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
The Other ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Binary Logic ◽  
Spiritual Meaning ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Receive

PEACE: Is peace the cessation of war? The Binary Logic, The History: War is organized and collective, War is a balance of strengths. Can politics alone create a foundation of peace? Is peace only security? WAR: Is the difference the cause of violence? War is linked to living together as a social group. War: Is the hidden threat in the differences between the nations? War:”Is the midwife of societies”.The problem of terrorism: Is peace the obliteration of the differences? THE MEADING OF CONFLICTS: The conflict is permanent and necessary. Peace is not a cessation of conflict. Peace exists only with, through, and owing to conflicts .PEACE AS A DIALECTIC BETWEEN JUSTICE AND LOVE: The spiritual meaning of love. Humility and responsibility. The relation to the other. THE LESSONS OF THE EIGHT WELLS OF THE BIBLE: From war to love. To give and to receive.

scholarly journals The Use of Malaysian English in the Work of Lloyd Fernando

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Murooj Fareed Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Green Is ◽  
Local Language ◽  
English Novel

The ongoing paper aims to study the use of Malaysian English lexis in creative writing by Lloyd. To be more accurate, the study aims to investigate the local language referents in the work of Lloyd Fernando in "Green is the colour". It is  a sensitive novel about racial and religious tolerance set against the shadow of the 1969 racial riot in Kuala Lumpur where four main characters, good young people from different ethnic groups who become friends and even fell in love. To give this novel a characteristic of being more realistic ,Lloyd Fernando uses lots of local words in his English novel,which lead this work to analyze these local lexis items according to categories made by Baskaran (2005). 

scholarly journals Dezorganizacja życia rodzinnego w sytuacji uwięzienia rodzica. Wstępna refleksja teoretyczna i wyniki badań własnych

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Angelika Sikorska
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Narrative Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

This article is devoted to the functioning of families that are in crisis as the result of a family member’s imprisonment. The author’s description of the most important functions and tasks of the family as the primary social group leads to further reflections. The disorganization of family life caused by placing a parent in prison is described and a case study is used to illustrate the issues. On the basis of an autobiographical narrative interview, the process of reorganizing family life is analyzed from the perspective of a ‘prisoner’s child.’

scholarly journals Racial Inequality in the Prevalence, Degree, Extension, and Permeation of Incarceration in Family Life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngmin Yi
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data

The prevalence, consequences, and unequal racial distribution of the experience of parental and own imprisonment have been well documented in scholarship on mass incarceration in the United States. However, much of our knowledge of the reach of mass incarceration into family life is focused on incarceration of a parent, romantic partner, or child, to the exclusion of other important relationships. Using data from a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults (N=2,029), this study introduces a set of new descriptive measures of family incarceration to provide a comprehensive picture of the demography of family incarceration and its unequal distribution across racial/ethnic groups: degree, generational extension, and permeation. The analysis shows that Black adults in the U.S. are not only more likely to have ever experienced family incarceration but are also likely to have had more family members incarcerated and to have had family members from more generations ever incarcerated than those of other racial and ethnic groups.

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