scholarly journals Occupational Mobility among the Kaivarttas (Fisherman Community) in a Village Setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 123-125
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Fishing Communities ◽  
Privatization Of Education

Kaivarttas are one of the major fishing communities of Assam. In the last few decades, the processes like globalization of marketing, liberalization of different policies and privatization of education have changed the life style of the Kaivarttas, not only in an urban area but village too. Now, they are engaged in different areas occupations including government, private and entrepreneurial works. As the occupation is closely interrelated with socio-economic and cultural factors, therefore, it is important to make a study to understand their adoption of new occupation in response to the process of social change. Present study is undertaken into two Kaivartta populated village in Majuli Island to understand the occupational mobility among them. The study shows that most of the villagers have taken up new occupations rather than fishing.

Early Schooling: What Matters?

1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Gerald Ashby ◽  
Gillian M. Boulton-Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Significant Variable ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Early Schooling ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Age Of Entry

ABSTRACTToo often debate about the pros and cons of early schooling, including preschooling, focuses on age. But is age the most significant variable? How does the focus on age of entry align with current perspectives on development in early childhood? TO what extent does the debate take account of recent advances in teaching strategies and curriculum in early childhood? Too often it would appear that decisions concerning school programs are based on considerations which do not give attention to psychological and other evidence. To this extent the paper argues that the links between psychology and social change are tenuous. The paper undertakes a review of the issues from both developmental and educational viewpoints. In addition consideration is also given to the impact of social and cultural factors upon the movement; of children both from home to school and within school. Specifically the paper advances the view that a central concern in early education is the extent to which curriculum and strategies are able to meet individual needs.

Suicide in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-91
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Vijaykumar ◽  
U. Vindhya
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Research And Policy

Although self-induced deaths in some form or another have probably occurred almost as long as human beings have been in existence, the current research and policy interest in suicides can be said to be generated by not only the rapidly rising suicide rates worldwide and in India, but can perhaps also be located in the contemporary context of processes of social change as causal agents of suicidal behaviour. This chapter maps the recent literature on the prevalence of suicide in India; the current rates and trends of suicide, both global and Indian and the magnitude of the problem; the determinants of suicidal behaviour, including biological and psychological factors, the distinctive socio-cultural factors in India; and suicide prevention intervention strategies.

Interrelation of Language and Culture

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 1940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayten Mahammad Bayramova
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Distinguishing Features ◽  
Insight Into

The present article deals with the mutual influence of constituent components of language - culture interrelation. It also studies the revealing of the forms and principles of occurrence of cultural factors in the language and  provides a short insight into the history and setting of the problem. The attitude of a human being towards reality phenomena as well as to the realization of time, quantity, gender, and case categories depend on the life style, daily routine, customs / traditions and  mentality of the ethnos. The ways of defining common and distinguishing features of expressing the linguo- cultural factors in multi – system languages are investigated in the paper. It is stated in the research  that  cultural factors are reflected not only in the lexical and phraseological units of the language system, but also in its grammatical categories. Being a bearer and a transmitter of information, language is a specific means of realization of the culture.Accordinly,  cultural factors are encoded and decoded in the language depending on the mentality and outlook of the ethnos. The mutual influence of language and culture occurs in communication process between the bearers of multi – system languages and evinces quite differently.

scholarly journals The city life of youths in Greenland

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jette Rygaard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Small Town ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
City Life ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Rural Dwellers ◽  
The City

Abstract In traditional Greenlandic literature as among the critics of modern civilisation, modernisation and urbanisation correspond to alienation, loneliness, urban misery, and stress. On the other hand, more and more people try to get to the big cities. An urban centre like Nuuk seems to be a success. In contrast, the small remote settlements in Greenland continuously face major problems of social disorders and poverty because of extreme living costs and unemployment. In this article, life in the city is discussed through the eyes of youths from Nuuk and the rural East Greenlandic small town of Ittoqqortoormiit. The data come from three succeeding projects, CAM I-II-III, which included photos and texts from young Greenlanders between 10 and 20 years of age regarding themes such as “my school,” “my friends,” “my media,” and “my city.” An analysis of the material produced reveals that the views of these young people fit urban theories concerning life style and behaviour; rural dwellers submitting to a life with close connections and tranquillity opposite to the hectic city dwellers’ life in an urban area.

scholarly journals Culture and psychological distress

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Dressler ◽  
Mauro Campos Balieiro ◽  
José Ernesto dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Multivariate Models ◽  
Cultural Consonance ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
Psychological Influences

Examining the influence of cultural factors on psychological distress, relative to other (e.g. social and psychological) influences, has been difficult due to the incomplete development of a theory of culture that leads to the reliable and valid measurement of cultural factors in such a way that these can be incorporated into multivariate models. In this paper we present both such a theory and such a methodology, and apply it to the study of the community distribution of psychological distress in an urban area in Brazil. In this theory and method, culture is conceptualized as consisting of shared cultural models that are imperfectly realized in mundane behaviors. The link of cultural model and individual behavior is referred to as "cultural consonance". Here we show that cultural consonance in two different domains is associated with psychological stress, independently from covariates and possible confounding variables. Implications of the results for future research are also discussed.

The Culture of Indian Politics: A Stock Taking

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashis Nandy
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Life Style ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Life ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractPolitical culture in India is not merely a reflection of community life-style. It is also the link between historical experiences of politics and model identities, on the one hand, and the needs of new political forms, on the other. Defined thus, it becomes not only an emergine national idiom, but also a cultural vector diat is gradually entering the community's life-style as a legitimate force of social change.There are four historical stages in the development if the culture of Indian politics. The contemporary political culture also consists of four strands, each with its own psychological problems of adaptation and their typical cultural expressions. These strands are related, on the one hand, to the four corresponding historical stages and, on the other, to different levels of personality functioning in the model Indian. Within this framework, a new approach can be taken to the analysis of the major themes and symbols in Indian politics. It is possible, for example, to decompose some of the major themes into their stage-specific contents which, again, can be related to the larger adaptive problems faced by the community at different historical phases.

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