scholarly journals Co-Housing Response to Social Isolation of COVID-19 Outbreak, with a Focus on Gender Implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7203
Author(s):  
Emanuele Giorgi ◽  
Lucía Martín Martín López ◽  
Rubén Garnica-Monroy ◽  
Aleksandra Krstikj ◽  
Carlos Cobreros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Social Habits

COVID-19 forced billions of people to restructure their daily lives and social habits. Several research projects have focused on social impacts, approaching the phenomenon on the basis of different issues and scales. This work studies the changes in social relations within the well-defined urban-territorial elements of co-housing communities. The peculiarity of this research lies in the essence of these communities, which base their existence on the spirit of sharing spaces and activities. As social distancing represented the only effective way to control the outbreak, the research studied how the rules of social distancing impacted these communities. For this reason, a questionnaire was sent to 60 communities asking them to highlight the changes that the emergency imposed on the members in their daily life and in the organization of common activities and spaces. A total of 147 responses were received and some relevant design considerations emerged: (1) the importance of feeling part of a “safe” community, with members who were known and deemed reliable, when facing a health emergency; and (2) the importance of open spaces to carry out shared activities. Overall, living in co-housing communities was evaluated as an “extremely positive circumstance” despite the fact that the emergency worsened socialization.

Youthful socialities in Australia’s urban multiculture

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 605-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Harris
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Friendship Relations ◽  
Harmonious Community ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Very High ◽  
High Diversity

This article considers the function of friendship as a form of urban relation for young people living in working class areas of Australia’s multicultural capital cities. These neighbourhoods are characterised by very high diversity, significant socioeconomic disadvantage and large youth populations, and over the last five years many have received the largest influx of refugees and migrants of any Australian municipality. Against this backdrop, this article investigates the ways that sociality is produced amongst young people of many backgrounds who must constantly negotiate interethnic propinquity in their daily lives. It explores how young people create ways of being together beyond and beneath the imperatives of formal social cohesion initiatives to participate in harmonious community-making. It argues that everyday forms of convivial co-habitation are produced and regulated through friendship relations and networks that embed mix in daily life, and these can serve to recognise and manage, rather than eliminate, intensity, conflict and ambivalence. It suggests that such practices of sociality complicate mainstream policy endeavours, and can offer some important and hopeful ways to expand theorisation of social relations in the multicultural city.

scholarly journals Guy Debord'un "Gösteri Toplumu" Adlı Çalışması Bağlamında Mekân ve Modanın Tüketim Unsuru Olarak İncelenmesi / The Examination of Space and Fashion as a Component of Consumption in the Context of "Society of Spectacles" of Guy Debord

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevde Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Issue ◽  
The Will ◽  
Set Up

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Since the occurance of the concept of consumption, it has been discussed by a number of theorists. In these works, the concept of consumption has been analyzed in many different ways. Even though the consumption concept is a very financial issue, the social scientists have done some studies about consumption. In this work, I will examine the consumption perception of Guy Debord who is an influential figure for several future studies and who is a preminent actor among other consumption theorists. Debord states that the consumption is imposed to individuals via virtual reality and it is presented to the daily lives of individuals in a very pragmatic way. Debord calls the communities in which people give priority to consumption upon arranging the social relations as ‘society of spectacles’.</p><p>Debord relates the concept of spectacle to the consumption. He suggests that spectacle manipulates the daily life and increases the will to consume and passivates individuals. The concept of spectacle has grown with the emergence of the leisure time and has been directed to daily pratic after the places were related to consumption. In this work, the relation between spectacle and consumption that Debord set up is examined. In the work, it is deduced that in order to accelerate the consumption, spectacle utilizes some areas such as mass media, place and fashion.</p><p><strong>Öz</strong></p><p>Tüketim kavramı ilk ortaya çıktığı andan beri birçok kuramcı tarafından tartışılmıştır. Bu çalışmalar tüketim kavramını çok farklı yönleriyle ele almıştır. Tüketim kavramı iktisadi bir konu olsa da sosyal bilimciler de tüketim ile ilgili çalışmalar yapmıştır. Bu çalışmada tüketim kuramcıları arasında önemli bir yer tutan ve fikirleri gelecek araştırmalar için esin kaynağı olan Guy Debord’un tüketim anlayışı incelenecektir. Debord, tüketimin sanal bir gerçeklik yoluyla bireylere dayatıldığını ve bu dayatmaların son derece pratik yollarla bireylerin gündelik hayatlarına sunulduğunu ifade etmektedir. Debord bireylerin pasifleştiği ve tüketimin toplumsal ilişkileri düzenlemede temel etken olduğu toplumlara “gösteri toplumu” adını vermiştir.</p><p>Debord gösteri kavramı ile tüketim arasında ilişki kurmuştur. Gösterinin gündelik hayatı manipüle ettiğini, tüketim arzusunu arttırdığını ve bireyleri pasifleştirdiğini belirtmiştir. Gösteri kavramı boş zamanın ortaya çıkması ile filizlenmiş, mekânların tüketime eklemlenmesi ile gündelik pratiğe aktarılmıştır. Bu çalışmada, Debord’un gösteri ile tüketim arasında kurduğu ilişki incelenmiştir. Gösterinin tüketimi hızlandırmak için kitle iletişim araçları, mekân ve moda gibi alanlara başvurduğu tespit edilmiştir.</p>

scholarly journals Dreaming during the Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dream reports reveals mental suffering related to fear of contagion

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. e0242903
Author(s):  
Natália Bezerra Mota ◽  
Janaina Weissheimer ◽  
Marina Ribeiro ◽  
Mizziara de Paiva ◽  
Juliana Avilla-Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Social Habits ◽  
Global Threat

The current global threat brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread social isolation, posing new challenges in dealing with metal suffering related to social distancing, and in quickly learning new social habits intended to prevent contagion. Neuroscience and psychology agree that dreaming helps people to cope with negative emotions and to learn from experience, but can dreaming effectively reveal mental suffering and changes in social behavior? To address this question, we applied natural language processing tools to study 239 dream reports by 67 individuals, made either before the Covid-19 outbreak or during the months of March and April, 2020, when lockdown was imposed in Brazil following the WHO’s declaration of the pandemic. Pandemic dreams showed a higher proportion of anger and sadness words, and higher average semantic similarities to the terms “contamination” and “cleanness”. These features seem to be associated with mental suffering linked to social isolation, as they explained 40% of the variance in the PANSS negative subscale related to socialization (p = 0.0088). These results corroborate the hypothesis that pandemic dreams reflect mental suffering, fear of contagion, and important changes in daily habits that directly impact socialization.

scholarly journals Recriando cotidianos possíveis: construção de estratégias de apoio entre docentes e estudantes de graduação em Terapia Ocupacional em tempos de pandemia/Recreating possible everday lifes: building support strategies between teachers and graduate students in occupational therapy in pandemic times

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-518
Author(s):  
Melissa Ribeiro Teixeira ◽  
Catarina Magalhães Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Academic Activities

O início de 2020 foi marcado pela pandemia da doença causada pelo novo coronavírus (COVID-19) em nível mundial. Neste cenário, diversas instituições de ensino interromperam as atividades letivas, o que representou o adiamento de diferentes projetos, tanto acadêmicos, quanto de futuro (formatura, pós-graduação e inserção no mercado de trabalho). O artigo visa relatar os desafios impostos à comunidade acadêmica pelo distanciamento social e delinear possíveis estratégias de apoio entre docentes, terapeutas ocupacionais e discentes de um curso de graduação em Terapia Ocupacional. Aponta a adaptação de propostas de manutenção de algumas atividades acadêmicas, sensíveis às diferentes realidades dos estudantes, como estratégia para reestruturação da rotina no período de reclusão. Nesse sentido, a reorganização da rotina pode favorecer a ressignificação do cotidiano no cenário da pandemia, de intensificação da comunicação virtual e da eclosão do ethos social individualista. O mapeamento da situação dos discentes, as ações de autocuidado e a oferta de suporte remoto para acolhimento/ acompanhamento de estudantes que manifestaram sofrimento frente à pandemia e à interrupção das atividades letivas foram algumas das estratégias para oferta de apoio psicossocial deste coletivo. Em tempos de pandemia, a reinvenção de nossa cotidianidade é um imperativo ético para reafirmarmos nossos projetos de vida e fortalecermos a esperança em futuro menos aterrador.AbstractThe beginning of 2020 was marked by the pandemic of the disease caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) worldwide. In this scenario, several educational institutions interrupted academics activities, which represented the suspension of different projects, both academic and future accomplishments (graduation, post-graduation and insertion in the labor market). This article aims to report the challenges imposed by social distancing to the academic community and outline possible support strategies between professors, occupational therapists and undergraduate students of Occupational Therapy. It points to the need of adapting proposals to maintain some academic activities, sensitive to the different realities of the students, as a strategy for restructuring the routine in the period of social distancing. In this sense, the reorganization of the routine can favor the re-signification of daily life in the pandemic scenario, the intensification of virtual communication and of the worsening of an individualistic social ethos. The mapping of the students' situation, self-care actions and remote support for accompanying students who were suffering in face of the pandemic, and also the interruption of academics activities were some of the strategies for offering psychosocial support for this group. In times of pandemic, the reinvention of our daily lives is an ethical imperative to reassure life projects and strengthen hope for a less terrifying future.Keywords: COVID-19; psychosocial support; daily life; higher education; Occupational therapy. ResumenEl comienzo de 2020 estuvo marcado por la pandemia de la enfermedad causada por el nuevo coronavirus (COVID-19) en todo el mundo. En este escenario, varias instituciones universitarias interrumpieron las actividades académicas, lo que representó el aplazamiento de diferentes proyectos, tanto académicos como de futuro (graduación, posgrado e inserción en el mercado laboral). El artículo tiene como objetivo informar los desafíos impuestos a la comunidad académica por el distanciamiento social y esbozar posibles estrategias de apoyo entre profesores, terapeutas ocupacionales y estudiantes de un curso de graduación en Terapia Ocupacional. Señala la adaptación de propuestas para mantener algunas actividades académicas, sensibles a las diferentes realidades de los estudiantes, como una estrategia para reestructurar la rutina en el período de reclusión. En este sentido, la reorganización de la rutina puede favorecer la reasignación de la vida cotidiana en el escenario de la pandemia, la intensificación de la comunicación virtual y el surgimiento del ethos social individualista. El mapeo de la situación de los estudiantes, las acciones de autocuidado y la oferta de apoyo remoto para dar acogida / acompañamiento a los estudiantes que expresaron su sufrimiento ante la pandemia y la interrupción de las actividades académicas fueron algunas de las estrategias para ofrecer apoyo psicosocial a este grupo. En tiempos de pandemia, la reinvención de nuestra vida cotidiana es un imperativo ético para reafirmar nuestros proyectos de vida y fortalecer la esperanza de un futuro menos aterrador.Palabras clave: COVID-19; apoyo psicosocial; cotidiano; educación universitaria; Terapia ocupacional. 

Indian Influences on Balinese Culture : The Role of Hinduism and Buddhism in Present Day Bali

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
I Ketut Ardhana ◽  
I Nyoman Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The People

Indian culture has dominantly influenced the Indonesian people, particularly in the western part of the archipelago. This, which started centuries ago, can still be seen in the peoples’ daily lives in social, cultural, economic and political matters. Both the Hindu and Buddhist lessons have been practiced in Bali, although it is argued that the Buddhist lessons had been developed earlier than the Hindu ones. These developments have strongly characterized Balinese daily life, so, it is very important to understand how the people anticipate and solve some crucial issues regarding the processes of modernization and globalization. There are some important questions that need to be addressed on the Indian influences in strengthening the Balinese culture from the earlier periods until the modern and even postmodern times. In this case, the specific questions are: Firstly, how did the Balinese accept these two lessons in their daily lives in the context of Balinization processes? Secondly, what kinds of tangible and intangible cultures of the Hindu and Buddhist lessons can be seen in the present day Bali? Thirdly, how do they strengthen the Bali identity or Balinization,  known as “Ajeg Bali”? Through this analysis, it is expected to have a better understanding of the issues of social, cultural, economic and political changes in Indonesia in general and Bali in particular in modern and postmodern times.

scholarly journals Resilient Research in the Field: Insights and Lessons From Adapting Qualitative Research Projects During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110161
Author(s):  
Syahirah Abdul Rahman ◽  
Lauren Tuckerman ◽  
Tim Vorley ◽  
Cristian Gherhes
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Building Resilience ◽  
Digital Methods

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the implementation of unprecedented social distancing measures, restricting social interaction and with it the possibility for conducting face-to-face qualitative research. This paper provides lessons from a series of qualitative research projects that were adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure their continuation and completion. By reflecting on our experiences and discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by crises to the use of a number of qualitative research methods, we provide a series of insights and lessons for proactively building resilience into the qualitative research process. We show that reflexivity, responsiveness, adaptability, and flexibility ensured continuity in the research projects and highlighted distinct advantages to using digital methods, providing lessons beyond the COVID-19 context. The paper concludes with reflections on research resilience and adaptation during crises.

Concurrent and Lagged Relations between Emotion Regulation and Affect in Adolescents’ Daily Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Silva ◽  
Teresa Freire ◽  
Susana Faria
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Trait Level

AbstractA better understanding of emotion regulation (ER) within daily life is a growing focus of research. This study evaluated the average use of two ER strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) and concurrent and lagged relationships between these two ER strategies and affect (positive and negative affect) in the daily lives of adolescents. We also investigated the role of the same strategies at the trait level on these within-person relationships. Thirty-three adolescents provided 1,258 reports of their daily life by using the Experience Sampling Method for one week. Regarding the relative use of ER strategies, cognitive reappraisal (M = 2.87, SD = 1.58) was used more often than expressive suppression (M = 2.42, SD = 1.21). While the use of both strategies was positively correlated when evaluated in daily life (p = .01), the same did not occur at the trait level (p = .37). Multilevel analysis found that ER strategies were concurrently related to affect (p < .01), with the exception of cognitive reappraisal-positive affect relationship (p = .11). However, cognitive reappraisal predicted higher positive affect at the subsequent sampling moment ( β = 0.07, p = .03). The concurrent associations between cognitive reappraisal and negative affect vary as function of the use of this strategy at the trait level (β = 0.05, p = .02). Our findings highlighted the complex associations between daily ER strategies and affect of a normative sample of adolescents.

Self-narration and double articulation: A study of a WeChat group of Pumi villagers

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-503
Author(s):  
Xinru Sun
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
Group Activities

The study focuses on the WeChat usage and WeChat group activities of a group of Pumi youngsters in order to investigate their self-expression and interaction. This is done by adopting methods of online ethnography and offline fieldwork, which explains how the new medium gets involved in their daily lives and is used to construct multiple narrations. In this article, WeChat is regarded to be a kind of self-processed cultural description and practice. Meanwhile, WeChat builds one’s daily life through double articulation as mentioned by Roger Silverstone. Thus, WeChat connects reality and virtual space, interweaves individual minds with ethnic beliefs and achieves a tighter interaction between the inside and the outside of a village.

Addressing food poverty in the UK

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Community Life ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk

The foodbank network The Trussell Trust does not only give emergency food supplies, but also offers emotional support and a growing range of practical projects via the More Than Food programme to help tackle poverty-related issues. The mission is to bring communities together to end hunger and poverty in the UK by providing compassionate, practical help while challenging injustice. This chapter details the different programmes The Trussell Trust have devised and thereby examines some external challenges the London network faces. The chapter concludes that poverty and hunger are often amplified through social isolation. It suggests that more work needs to be done in order to increase collaboration across sectors, and specifically between the government, third sector, and businesses. There is increased need for more community life, and the fostering of social relations appears ever greater.

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