scholarly journals Shaping “New Man”, Reconstructing “New Woman”: A Return to Albanian Totalitarian Socialist Past

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Aida Goga ◽  
Ardita Prendi ◽  
Brunilda Zenelaga
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
New Man ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Education Work

The totalitarian socialist regime, which was installed in Albania in 1945, lasting until 1990, was expressed and articulated as a consistent effort led to modernism or civilization, as a kind of “social engineering” incarnated to the inner individual and society dimensions. Fighting old and traditional mentality, the totalitarian socialist countries created the infrastructure for spreading the model of the “new man” according to new principles, aiming to make everyday life productive and disciplined. Under the implementation of the “new man” approach, especially the image of woman was reconstructed. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the ideal of the “new man” and “new woman” were socially constructed and how they have influenced the everyday life of people, under the totalitarian socialist regime, referring to the case of the Albania. 18 in depth semi structured interviews with woman and men from 55 until 85 years old have been conducted and the poetry and text songs of that time have been explored. The research showed that through the trinomen “education-work-tempering”, the “new man” and “new woman” was socially constructed. People’s social status, during the socialist regime in Albania influences their perceptions and their attachment to the “new man” and “new woman” portraits   Received: 4 September 2021 / Accepted: 15 November 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022

scholarly journals The The Daily Life of Contemporary Mothers – Between Social Expectations, the Sense of Duty and the Individual Experience of Motherhood

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (54) ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Monika Lewicka
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Narrative Interview ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Ideal

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to present the dilemmas of everyday life of contemporary mothers related to society’s expectations of motherhood and their individual experiences. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The research problem was the (re)construction of everyday life of modern mothers during a pandemic. The narrative interview technique was used in the research. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: This article analyzes how mothers experience motherhood during a pandemic against the background of social transformations. The issue of everyday life as an important category was presented in the considerations contained in the article below. Then, the methodological assumptions and research results focused on the issues of the multiplicity of choices in the present day and the difficulties associated with them, as well as the everyday life of mothers, were presented. The article ends with reflections on the situation of mothers in the context of contemporary challenges. RESEARCH RESULTS: A conclusion can be drawn about the positioning of motherhood between the traditional and modern pattern of the ideal mother. First of all, mothers feel tired of the seriousness of the role they play, and from fulfilling which many people can “hold them accountable”. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The conducted research shows interesting conclusions pointing to changes related to the perception of the role of the mother in modern times. They contribute to the undertaking of more extensive research on the need for (re) construction of motherhood.

scholarly journals Vývoj a vliv tradiční a moderní hudby v každodennosti Kyrgyzů / The development and influence in traditional and modern music on the everyday life of the Kyrgyz people

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Miloš Jodas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
National Pride ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The principal aim of this paper is to define Kyrgyz music in Kyrgyzstan ethnomusicology in order to assess whether the traditional Kyrgyz music has an essential impact on the identity of the Kyrgyz people and, if so, how does this impact manifest itself. In order to assess the impacts during research, the author was concerned with the influence of urbanization, globalization on processes related to music, the preference of either traditional or modern music, and how music is perceived in a cross-generational perspective. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on related phenomena including folk music instruments of the Kyrgyz or the Kyrgyz storytellers and musicians, who call themselves aqyns and manaschi. Additionally, the relationship of the national pride and music or the most common forms of music education of children and adolescents and its financial and spatial availability are being explored and scrutinized. The unifying theme of this thesis is music in everyday life of the Kyrgyz. The analytical part of this research mainly draws on the results of the author’s month-long field research from 2018 which took place in various diverse regions of Kyrgyzstan. The research includes a questionnaire, overt participant observation, and semi-structured interviews.

scholarly journals HJEMLIGHED SOM VELFÆRDSPARADOKS: Om iscenesat autenticitet i døgninstitutioner for anbragte børn

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Højlund
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Children’S Homes ◽  
The Ideal

The article is built upon a fi eldwork in Danish children’s homes which analyses what it means to social workers and children to be a homey institution. The ideal of hominess is presented as a paradoxical idea producing several contradictions and dilemmas in the everyday life of the institution. The article presents the historical background for this problem, with a focus on the ideal of authenticity both as a product of, and a counter-strategy to, modernity. Keywords: Home, hominess, social work, children’s homes.  

THUS FATE KNOCKS AT THE DOOR: PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER’S ‘THE FAT KITCHEN’ AND ‘THE THIN KITCHEN’ AS A METAPHOR OF SOCIAL MOBILITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Dilshat Sánchez Harman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Pieter Bruegel ◽  
Pieter Bruegel The Elder

The engravings "The Fat Kitchen" and "The Thin Kitchen" (1563), based on drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1525-1569), immediately became very popular in the Netherlands and remained popular throughout the second half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries. They were copied and served as a source of inspiration; their composition and individual motives were borrowed both in graphics and in painting. The secret of their success was a combination of an original and vivid artistic program with already known motives, tackling urgent problems of society alongside with scenes from the everyday life of peasants and ordinary townspeople that were growing ever more popular then. In this article, I show that the iconographic analysis of engravings based on drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder enables us to interpret them as a metaphor for social mobility. The artist shows us how a person's actions affect his social status. The engravings were designed both for those who could identify themselves with those depicted (wealthy peasants or artisans), and for those who belonged to the new bourgeois elite of the Netherlands. By placing “The Fat Kitchen” and “The Thin Kitchen” in the context of the contemporary and subsequent visual tradition and identifying iconographic borrowings, allusions and innovations, it is possible to clarify the form in which the the mid-16th century Netherlandish art expressed the values and norms of the emerging middle class.

From the barbecue to the sauna: A comparative account of the folding of media reception into the everyday life

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110003
Author(s):  
Pablo J Boczkowski ◽  
Facundo Suenzo ◽  
Eugenia Mitchelstein ◽  
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik ◽  
Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
Media Reception ◽  
Social Media Communication

How and why do people still get print newspapers in an era dominated by mobile and social media communication? In this article, we answer this question about the permanence of traditional media in a digital media ecosystem by analyzing 488 semi-structured interviews conducted in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States. We focus on three mechanisms of media reception: access, sociality, and ritualization. Our findings show that these mechanisms are decisively shaped by patterns of everyday life that are not captured by the scholarly foci on either content- or technology-influences on media use. Thus, we argue that a non-media centric approach improves descriptive fit and adds heuristic power by bringing a wider lens into crucial mechanisms of media reception in ways that expand the conceptual toolkit that scholars can utilize to analyze the role of media in everyday life.

scholarly journals A travelling speculator (CIL III 1650)a glimpse of the everyday life of the principales through the window of Roman funerary art

Balcanica ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Sanja Pilipovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Funerary Art ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Everyday

The focus of the paper is on the travel scene depicted on the funerary stele of L. Blassius Nigellio (CIL III 1650), a speculator of legio VII Claudia, from Viminacium. Seeking to gain a more comprehensive understanding of this scene from the everyday professional life of a Roman speculator, it draws attention to an iconographic pattern shared by a group of monuments of Roman principales (speculatores, frumentarii, beneficiarii consularis) among which the scene from Viminacium holds a very important place. It also takes a look at the origin and social status of the Upper Moesian speculator who could afford such a costly tombstone.

scholarly journals Christopher Hadnagy, Socjotechnika. Sztuka zdobywania władzy nad umysłami

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (54) ◽  
pp. 300-304
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Złocka
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World

Social engineering is the same concept as the concept of social engineering and related to manipulation and disinformation. Review of Christopher Hadnagy’s book Social engineering – the art of gaining power over minds is, according to the principles of art, a set of subjective assessments by the author. These assessments relate first to the impressions of reading, and are supported by their own critical image of the world in which social engineering is applied in the everyday life of each of us. The author of the review points out that the position has an application value, because a higher level of awareness and knowledge on a given topic translates easily into the individual’s safety.

scholarly journals Informal Practices of Inequality in Recruitment in Finland

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuija Koivunen ◽  
Hanna Ylöstalo ◽  
Katri Otonkorpi-Lehtoranta
Keyword(s):  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Ideal Worker ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Ideal

In this article, we explore the policies and processes of selection and recruitment from the perspective of equality. Focusing on tacit ideas of the ‘ideal worker,’ ideal recruitment, and selection that direct the recruitment process, we examine the ways in which implicit ideas and recruitmentrelated settings of daily interaction become informal practices of inequality. In this analysis, we rely on the conceptual framework of inequality regimes. The qualitative analysis of the semi-structured interviews focuses on the categories of gender, ethnicity, and age. We identified three categories of informal practices of inequality, which we have named as recruitment by the book, relocation of responsibility, and recruiting by addressing the difference. The findings suggest that although recruiters follow the legislation concerning equal treatment in recruitment, they do so because they want to avoid problems and possible litigation rather than because they are committed to promoting equality as an end in itself. However, equality promotion requires that gender, ethnicity, and age equality is itself the goal. If equality serves other goals, such as avoiding litigation or boosting business, the everyday practices of recruitment may turn into informal practices of inequality.

scholarly journals The daily life of pregnant women: nursing promoting being healthy

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 987-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel de Godoy Ferreira ◽  
Viviane Soares ◽  
Rosane Gonçalves Nitschke ◽  
Adriana Dutra Tholl ◽  
Maria Angeles Garcia Carpintero Muñoz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Interpretative Sociology

This is a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive study, grounded on the everyday life and interpretative sociology. The aim of the study was to understand the everyday life of pregnant women and their families, based on prenatal care. The study was conducted in a health center in southern Brazil, and it involved ten pregnant women. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews, using the intrafamilial genogram and ecomap, between March and May of 2011. Data analysis involved: preliminary analysis, ordering, key links, coding and categorization. The results show that the everyday life of pregnant women involves biological changes and emotional experiences that generate a need for changing their pace of life, whose implementation depends on social changes, requiring a support network that may contribute to promote health during pregnancy.

Summer Retreats, Travel, and Family in the Life of František Lexa (1876–1960), The First Czechoslovak Egyptologist

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-64
Author(s):  
Adéla Jůnová Macková
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Travel Experience ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Scientific Life

The study will explore the family and the family milieu of the first Czechoslovak Egyptologist František Lexa, founder and first director of the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology, expert on Egyptian philology, especially demotic languages, and mentor of two important Egyptologists, Jaroslav Černý, professor at Oxford University, and Zbyněk Žába, professor at Charles University, Prague. The study will analyse the social status of Lexa’s family and the importance of his marriage in shaping his scientific life and consider the everyday routines of this scientist’s household, including the claims demanded by the requirements of bringing up three children. As a specific focus, we will try to introduce the everyday life of a travelling scientist, particularly during holidays spent with family abroad, and illuminate the significance of summer retreats in shaping a scientists’ familial travel experience.

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