scholarly journals A take on early child marriage in Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Shilan Dargahi
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Early Child ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Opinion Piece ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minimum Age

This is an opinion piece on the practice of early child marriage in Iran, with a brief review of the causes and consequences of this practice. This piece critically looks at the blanket policies, such as minimum age at marriage, that criminalise early child marriage and discusses why such policies may do more harm than good when they are not compatible with the social norms of the societies in which they are implemented.

scholarly journals Child Marriage and Physical Violence: Results from a Nationally Representative Study in Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Ramesh Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Representative Study ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Minimum Age

Child marriage is a significant public health concern especially in developing countries. This study examines the prevalence and factors influencing the physical violence among married women in Nepal. More specifically, this paper aims to investigate whether child marriage has an effect on married women’s experience of physical violence by their husbands. Data were drawn from the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2016, involving currently married women aged 15–49 years who had participated in the domestic violence module (n=3447). Weighted percentages were calculated to examine the age at marriage for experiencing physical violence from their husband. A multivariate logistic regression model was used to assess risk factors of physical violence due to child and early marriage. After controlling individual, household and community characteristics, this study found that lower age at marriage had increased odds of women experiencing physical violence by their husband. It is found that women who got married at less than 15 years, 15-17 years, 18-19 years were 2.3 times (adjusted OR=2.33), 1.68 times (adjusted OR=1.68) and 1.64 times (adjusted OR=1.64) respectively more likely to experience violence by their husbands than those who got married at the age of 20 years or later. Child and early marriage puts women at increased risk of physical and sexual violence. Government agencies need to strictly enforce existing law on the minimum age at marriage to reduce violence from their husband and increase quality of life of women and family.Journal of Health Promotion Vol.6 2008, p.49-59

scholarly journals Raising Awareness for Gender Equality in Hindu Marriage

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Maryam Kaydani
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Commercial Exchange ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Hindu marriage has been one of the controversial issues among activities. Marriage in Hindu community is considered as holy and very significant social institution. In real, it is a commercial exchange and at large a marketplace populated by high demanding groom family. The paper aims to give a comprehensive account of problems that Hindu girls encounter during their marriage and within their marriage life. Apparently, Hindu marriage is between two families rather two people. More or less girls have no right to object. As a result girls mostly get married at earliest opportunity and they are forced into relationship as such most of marriage is based on parent’s decision rather than mutuality of sentiment or emotional attachment. Therefore, prepubescent girls are often oppressed by bridegroom and his family members. In this sort of relationship, girls are financially dependent which develop their suppression. Data for this paper has drawn from in-depth interviews conducted with 120 married women of aged 12-20 years living in two Indian states who got married since 2005. Participants were randomly selected for interview if the woman was married before the ages of 15 years. Findings underscore the need to raise awareness of the negative outcomes of child marriage and to build support among girls and their families for delaying marriage, to enforce existing laws on the minimum age at marriage and to encourage other authorities to support young women in negotiating with their parents to delay marriage and eliminate child marriage.

scholarly journals The Importance of Revising Policy of Minimum Age of Marriage: A Philosophical, Sociological and Juridical Argumentation

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 02011
Author(s):  
Siti Rofiah
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Age Of Marriage

The policy of minimum age for marriage is set out in Act No. 1 of 1974 On Marriage, which is 19 years for men and 16 years for women. According to Act No. 35 of 2014 On Child Protection, the age of 16 is still a child. Therefore, the policy of minimum age for marriage is open up the potential for child marriage. Various previous researches indicate that child marriages has the potential to cause negative impacts for both the child itself and the social life widely. Accordingly, revising the policy of minimum age for marriage is very important. This study uses the socio legal method where the law is not only conceptualized as a set of rules, but also as a behavior. In this method, legal validity is not only determined by norms, but also from the facts that grow and develop in society. The results showed that revising of minimum age for marriage has a philosophical, sociological and juridical basis. Child marriage has an impact on social life because it can lead to a cycle of sustainable poverty, increased illiteracy, poor health to future generations, and robbing of wider community productivity both in the short term and long term.

Interpreting Heidegger on das Man (1995)

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mode Of Being

In their debate over Dreyfus’s interpretation of Heidegger’s account of das Man in Being and Time, Frederick Olafson and Taylor Carman agree that Heidegger’s various characterizations of das Man are inconsistent. Olafson champions an existentialist/ontic account of das Man as a distorted mode of being-with. Carman defends a Wittgensteinian/ontological account of das Man as Heidegger’s name for the social norms that make possible everyday intelligibility. For Olafson, then, das Man is a privative mode of Dasein, while for Carman it makes up an important aspect of Dasein’s positive constitution. Neither interpreter takes seriously the other’s account, though both acknowledge that both readings are possible. How should one choose between these two interpretations? Dreyfus suggests that we choose the interpretation that identifies the phenomenon that the work is examining, gives the most internally consistent account of that phenomenon, and shows the compatibility of this account with the rest of the work.

Can Humanism be the Social Norm?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon D. Welch
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social

Assaults on truth and divisions about the nature of wise governance are not momentary political challenges, unique to particular moments in history. Rather, they demonstrate fundamental weaknesses in human reasoning and core dangers in ways of construing both individual freedom and cohesive communities. It will remain an ongoing challenge to learn to deal rationally with what is an intrinsic irrationality in human cognition and with what is an intrinsic tendency toward domination and violence in human collectivities. In times of intense social divisions, it is vital to consider the ways in which humanism might function as the social norm by, paradoxically, functioning in a way different from other social norms. Humanism is not the declaration that a certain set of values or norms are universally valid. At its best and most creative, humanism is not limited to a particular set of norms, but is, rather, the commitment to a certain process in which norms are continuously created, critically evaluated, implemented, sustained or revised. Humanism is a process of connection, perception, implementation, and critique, and it applies this process as much to itself as to other traditions.

Punarvivaham vs. Pativratyam: Pulugurta Lakshmi Narasamamba and the Widow Remarriage Question in Colonial Andhra

2021 ◽  
pp. 025764302110017
Author(s):  
Shaik Mahaboob Basha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women's Journals

The question of widow remarriage, which occupied an important place in the social reform movement, was hotly debated in colonial Andhra. Women joined the debate in the early twentieth century. There was a conservative section of women, which bitterly opposed the widow remarriage movement and attacked the social reformers, both women and men. Pulugruta Lakshmi Narasamamba led this group of women. Lakshmi Narasamamba treated widow remarriage (punarvivaham) with contempt and termed it as an affront to the fidelity (pativratyam) of Hindu women. According to her, widow remarriage was equal to ‘prostitution’, and the widows who married again could not be granted the status of kulanganas (respectable or chaste women). Lakshmi Narasamamba’s stand on the question of widow remarriage led to the emergence of a fiery and protracted controversy among women which eventually led to the division of the most famous women’s organization, the Shri Vidyarthini Samajamu. She opposed not only widow remarriage but also post-puberty marriage and campaigned in favour of child marriage. This article describes the whole debate on the widow remarriage question that took place among women. It is based on the primary sources, especially the woefully neglected women’s journals in the Telugu language.

scholarly journals When time becomes personal. Aging and personal identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Sternad
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Physical Process ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Self ◽  
Social Level

AbstractAging is an integral part of human existence. The problem of aging addresses the most fundamental coordinates of our lives but also the ones of the phenomenological method: time, embodiment, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, and even the social norms that grow into the very notion of aging as such. In my article, I delineate a phenomenological analysis of aging and show how such an analysis connects with the debate concerning personal identity: I claim that aging is not merely a physical process, but is far more significantly also a spiritual one as the process of aging consists in our awareness of and conscious relation to our aging. This spiritual process takes place on an individual and on a social level, whereas the latter is the more primordial layer of this experience. This complicates the question of personal identity since it will raise the question in two ways, namely who I am for myself and who I am for the others, and in a further step how the latter experience shapes the former. However, we can state that aging is neither only physical nor only spiritual. It concerns my bodily processes as it concerns the complex reflexive structure that relates my former self with my present and even future self.

scholarly journals Composing Individuals: Ethnographic Reflections on Success and Prestige in the British New Music Network

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
HETTIE MALCOMSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
New Music ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Art Worlds ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scant Attention

AbstractIn contrast to established musicians, lesser-known composers have received scant attention in art music scholarship. This article, based on an ethnographic study, considers how a group of British composers construed ideas of success and prestige, which I analyse in terms of anthropological writings on exchange, Bourdieusian symbolic economies, and Foucauldian notions of disciplinary power. Prestige was ascribed to composers who created ‘interesting’ music, a category that eclipsed novelty as an aim. Individuality, enacted within a context of individualism, was key to assessing whether music was interesting. This individuality had to be tempered, structured, and embedded in the social norms of this and related ‘art worlds’. The article examines the social processes involved in creating this individuality, musical personality, and music considered interesting.

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