scholarly journals Framing the Actors though Thematic Structures: The Case of the Malaysian Orang Asli

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Marlina Jamal ◽  
Malini Ganapathy
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Orang Asli ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
Insight Into

The current study deals with the analysis of thematic structures in news articles published regarding the Orang Asli community in The Star. The study aims to investigate the major themes associated with the community when they are presented in media. An analysis was conducted on 158 news articles through the utilisation of van Dijk’s “Theory of Semantic Macrostructures” (1980). Findings revealed that the community has been stereotypically represented as the most marginalised ethnic group in Malaysia with the highest poverty rates, experiencing poor health conditions, confronted horrendously with limited amenities, and facing limited access to political power. The findings provide a novel insight into the ways the Orang Asli community are represented in media and serves as a wake-up call for a more neutral representation of the community in media.   Received: 15 September 2020 / Accepted: 4 February 2021 / Published: 5 March 2021

scholarly journals Women and Society in Balochistan

Al-Burz ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Tahira Naudhani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social System ◽  
Structural Difference ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Rural And Urban

Our whole society is a multi-colored, which is strongly structured on the basis of gender specifications for both male and females. Our society has a rich heritage of socio-cultural diversity. Their inhabitants are admixture of different races. Balochistan society is basically tribal in nature and there are different ethnic group with their own patterns of socio-cultural system and code of conducts. There is a clear cut structural difference between rural and urban parts of the society. Balochsitani women have some special and significant characteristics as a member of a tribal society with some special features which increase the worth and dignity of a women and makes safer their position in a social system. Despite all these facts and realities, the Balochistani women is facing enormous hardships of life like poverty, illiteracy & ignorance and poor health conditions. Woman faces lack of social services and many other social problems and hurdles in their lives, but still she is fighting against all hardships with courage and consistency to combat the misfortunes to make their harsh destiny comfortable and prestigious.

scholarly journals What Causes Changes in Passenger Behavior in South-East Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8398
Author(s):  
Sreten Simović ◽  
Tijana Ivanišević ◽  
Bojana Bradić ◽  
Svetlana Čičević ◽  
Aleksandar Trifunović
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Passenger Behavior ◽  
Insight Into

The appearance of the COVID-19 virus in Europe, at the beginning of 2020, brought many challenges and changes to society. These changes affected the behavior, desires, and needs of passengers in vehicles. The change in passenger behavior has contributed to the more difficult organization of passenger transport and traffic management. For these reasons, in the countries of South-East Europe (Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, the Republic of Northern Macedonia and Croatia), this survey was conducted in order to examine which demographic characteristics of respondents (age, gender, residence, education, and health) influence choice of transport, with the aim to optimize the transport system in times of crisis in this region. 786 respondents participated in the research. The results showed that the acceptability of vehicle occupancy most often differs with respect to age, education, and health conditions of the respondents. The obtained results will greatly help the organizers of public transport and the transport system in the region, since based on these results they can have an insight into the demographic factors that influence the choice of transport mode during a crisis.

Compassion

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
True Nature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups

This chapter evaluates the central role of compassion in preventing the contagion next time. During COVID-19, compassion revealed just how many people in the United States are deeply vulnerable to poor health. This vulnerability was often a product of underlying health conditions. There are many health challenges in the United States which annually generate a level of mortality comparable to that of COVID-19, challenges like obesity and addiction. However, America have not addressed these challenges with anywhere near the level of urgency they brought to bear in addressing COVID-19. A key reason why is, arguably, because these challenges are not infectious, making it possible for the public at large to escape the visceral feeling of vulnerability to a disease which transmits through the air and can strike anybody. Instead, they see these challenges somehow as niche issues, the niche being the lives of the marginalized and disadvantaged groups. This outlook allows them to evade the feeling of common humanity which gives rise to compassion. Compassion, then, depends on the understanding of the true nature of health and of the shared vulnerability to disease.

Process and practice: groupness, ethnicity, and habitus in Carpathian Rus'

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 848-866
Author(s):  
Kristina M. Cantin
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
Processual Approach

This article synthesizes Wimmer's and Brubaker's processual approach to analyzing ethnic groups with Jenkins and Bentley's practice-based theories of ethnicity to explain the role played by socio-emotional experiences and practical concerns in Carpatho-Rusyns, both mobilizing as an ethnic group as well as resisting such mobilization. Data were gathered from interviews and participant observation during the eight months of fieldwork in 10 different villages, towns, and cities in the Prešov region of Slovakia and the Zakarpattia oblast of Ukraine. Carpatho-Rusyns live in an area where borders have changed frequently and where religions, states, and political movements have encouraged the inhabitants' assimilation to a new or larger group. Rusyns tend to describe ethnicity as instrumentalist theorists do, that is, something largely produced as a result of struggles over territory, resources, and political power. Nevertheless, they evince a profound emotional connection to their language, land, and spirituality. This emotional connection manifests itself among “ethnopolitical entrepreneurs” as well as among the general population, but only motivates explicit political organization among the former.

scholarly journals Fattigdom, social eksklusion og boligforhold

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Jytte Kristensen ◽  
Jørgen Elm Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Economic Inequalities ◽  
Dividing Line

Formålet med artiklen er primært at belyse, hvordan boligforholdene for fattige og socialt ekskluderede i Danmark har udviklet sig i perioden fra 1976 til 2000. Artiklen viser, at boligforholdene udgør en helt afgørende markør på socioøkonomiske uligheder i det danske samfund. Dem, der er fattige, socialt ekskluderede og som har et dårligt helbred, har langt ringere boligforhold end andre, og der er en klar intersektionalitet mellem forskellige, sårbare socioøkonomiske positioner. Artiklen viser endvidere, at der er en klar skillelinje mellem ejere og lejere i forhold til disse sårbare socioøkonomiske positioner. Lejere har for det første ringere boligforhold end ejere, og for det andet er de økonomiske uligheder mellem ejere og lejere øget markant inden for de seneste år på grund af stigende uligheder i indkomster og formuer. Artiklen giver således som noget nyt i dansk socialforskning et samlet overblik over økonomiske, sociale og boligstandardmæssige uligheder mellem dels ejere og lejere og dels mellem fattige og socialt ekskluderede og resten af befolkningen. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Jytte Kristensen & Jørgen Elm Larsen: Poverty, Social Exclusion and Housing Conditions The purpose of this article is to examine how housing conditions for poor and socially excluded people in Denmark have developed between 1976 and 2000. The article shows that housing conditions are a decisive marker of socio-economic inequalities in Danish society. People who are poor, socially excluded, and have poor health have poorer housing conditions than others. There is a clear intersectionality between the different vulnerable socio-economic positions. The analysis indicates that there is an unmistakable dividing line between owners and tenants as regards these vulnerable socio-economic positions. Firstly tenants have poorer housing conditions than owners, and secondly the economic inequalities between owners and tenants have increased in recent years primarily due to increasing inequalities in income and wealth. The article contributes to existing scientific knowledge about housing and inequality by drawing together both existing and new evidence about the economic, social and housing inequalities between owners and tenants and between poor and social excluded people and the rest of the population. Key words: Housing conditions, poverty, social exclusion, health conditions, inequality.

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