Reimagining Home, Rethinking Sukkah: Rabbinic Discourse and its Contemporary Implications

Jews at Home ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 107-139
Author(s):  
Marjorie Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Character Types

This chapter re-examines assumptions about the gendered meaning of the sukkah. It points out that this ritual structure, linked to the home but apart from it, forced negotiation between the spheres of the ritual and the domestic. The chapter looks at historic sources to reconstruct the process by which the rabbis dictated the gendering of the sukkah that persists to the present. It looks in detail at the male rabbinic figure Rabbi Yohanan ben Hahorani and at the female figures Shammai's daughter-in-law and Queen Helene in their sukkahs. They are observed as character types used by the rabbis for rhetorical purposes to express elements of their own anxiety about the rabbinic home and all that it represents. In this regard, just as the rabbis ‘think with’ the sukkah in order to think about home, they also ‘think with’ the gendered body that occupies home. Each of these three figures disrupts the expected social relations of husband–wife, mother–son, and rabbi–disciple within the spaces of different sukkah structures, and points to aspects of rabbinic identity-formation.

Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Timothy Laurie ◽  
Catherine Driscoll ◽  
Liam Grealy ◽  
Shawna Tang ◽  
Grace Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Heuristic Model ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Girls Studies ◽  
Political Economic

This critical commentary considers the significance of Connell’s The Men and the Boys in the development of an affirmative feminist boys studies. In particular, the article asks: How can research on boys contribute to feminist research on childhood and youth, without either establishing a false equivalency with girls studies, or overstating the singularity of “the boy” across diverse cultural and historical contexts? Connell’s four-tiered account of social relations—political, economic, emotional, and symbolic—provides an important corrective to reductionist approaches to both feminism and boyhood, and this article draws on The Men and the Boys to think through contrasting sites of identity formation around boys: online cultures of “incels” (involuntary celibates); transmasculinities and the biological diversity of the category “man”; and the social power excercised within an elite Australian boys school. The article concludes by identifying contemporary challenges emerging from the heuristic model offered in The Men and the Boys.

Hawaiian Music and Oceanizing American Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (04) ◽  
pp. 1163-1172
Author(s):  
LEAH KURAGANO
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
American Studies ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Culture Concept

American studies has been dedicated to understanding cultural forms from its beginnings as a field. Music, as one such form, is especially centered in the field as a lens through which to seek the cultural “essence” of US America – as texts from which to glean insight into negotiations of intellectual thought, social relations, subaltern resistance, or identity formation, or as a form of labor that produces an exchangeable commodity. In particular, the featuring of folk, indigenous, and popular music directly responded to anxieties in the intellectual circles of the postwar era around America's purported lack of serious culture in comparison to Europe. According to John Gilkeson, American studies scholars in the 1950s and 1960s “vulgarized” the culture concept introduced by the Boasian school of anthropology, opening the door to serious consideration of popular culture as equal in value to high culture.1

Inquiry into Environment and Body: Women, Work, and Chronic Illness

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 737-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Moss ◽  
Isabel Dyck
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Medical Geography ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Critical Approaches

The recent call for the reorientation of analysis in medical geography to more critical approaches has been met with both enthusiasm and caution. Critical theories of health and health care services are emerging, which complement the well-developed focus on the spatial aspects of disease and service delivery. Yet in reconceptualising the links between place, space, and health, care must be taken in theorising in context experiences of health and illness. By context we mean the richly textured social formation wherein social relations are threads of a tapestry woven together. One topic which lends itself to such an inquiry is how material and discursive bodies combine to create identities for women with chronic illness around issues of gender and (dis)ability within the context of the wider social political economy. In this paper, we propose a feminist political economic analysis of environment and body as an addition to the critical frameworks emerging in medical geography. We first discuss what a radical body politics entails conceptually. Then we make suggestions with regard to undertaking such inquiry, using in illustration empirical work on women's reshaping of their environment in response to chronic illness. This type of investigation extends previous work on the formation of women's identities, experiences of chronic illness, and the materiality of everyday life. Last, we recast the concepts of environment, body, and identity formation while maintaining a commitment to the fluidity of conceptual and material boundaries.

scholarly journals “BERBAUR TAPI TIDAK LEBUR”: MEMBENTUK DAN MEMPERTAHANKAN IDENTITAS RELIGIUS PADA MAHASISWAAKTIVIS DAKWAH KAMPUS (“Mixing but not melting”: Forming and Maintaining Religious Identity among Islamic Activists on Campus)

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syafiq
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Movement Data

This study aimed at revealing how religious identity is formed and maintained among Islamic student activists in higher education. The implications of the religious identity on their social relations to other students and larger society were also discussed. A qualitative approach with a phenomenological method was employed. Four participants were recruited based on their long engagements in Da'wa movements in campus and significant roles they played in the movement. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The results show three dominant themes, namely motivation to join the Da'wa movement, the process of religious identity formation, and strategies to maintain the identity. In general, this study concluded that the initial factors that encourage the participants' involvements in Da'wa movement in higher education is the desire to feel an emotional bond of kinship based on religious values. After joining the movement, most participants developed their self-perception as a 'minority' with all its consequences. Furthermore, the need to recruit as many common Muslim students as possible for joining in their 'minority community' raise the tension between maintaining their 'exclusive' identity or answering the requirement of making relations inclusively in order their religious messages to be received by wider students.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap bagaimana identitas religius aktivis dakwah kampus terbentuk, strategi untuk mempertahankan identitas tersebut, dan apa implikasinya dalam interaksi sosial aktivis dakwah. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode fenomenologi. Subjek penelitian ditentukan secara purposif dengan mempertimbangkan lama keterlibatan dan peran yang dimainkan dalam gerakan dakwah kampus. Data dikumpulkan melalui wawancara semi-terstruktur. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan tiga tema dominan, yaitu motivasi bergabung dalam gerakan dakwah, pembentukan identitas aktivis dakwah, dan strategi mempertahankan identitas. Secara umum penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa faktor awal yang mendorong keterlibatan partisipan dalam gerakan dakwah adalah keinginan untuk merasakan ikatan emosional kekeluargaan yang dipersepsi sebagai 'tanpa pamrih' karena berlandaskan nilai religius. Stelah menjadi anggota komunitas dakwah, para partisipan mengembangkan persepsi diri mereka sebagai 'minoritas' dengan segala konsekuensinya. Selanjutnya, motivasi untuk mengajak sebanyak mungkin mahasiswa lain untuk bergabung dalam komunitas minoritas tersebut membuat  para aktivis dakwah berada dalam ketegangan antara tetap menjaga identitas 'eksklusif' dengan tuntunan untuk bergaul luas secara inklusif agar pesan dakwah bisa diterima.

scholarly journals Constructing the Processes of a Person’s Identification and Self-Identification Within a Naturalistic Approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Anna S. Petrakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
External World ◽  
Personal Identification ◽  
Naturalistic Approach ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Identification Processes

Issues of identity formation affect the essential foundations of human being in the world. The identification processes carried out by a person allow him/her to self-determine in society, to understand his/her own place in the structure of social relations and the purpose of his/her life. To date, science has no unambiguous understanding of the essence of identification. In this regard, this article is aimed at identifying the bases and factors of the processes of identification. In this study, the author mainly used a naturalistic approach to the understanding of the processes of identification, since it offers the basis for identification to consider the individual need of a person for self-determination. Based on the methods of comparative analysis, synthesis, generalization and abstraction, the basic concepts on the problem of identification were compared, the general and the specific in the points of view of various authors were identified, which contributed to a more thorough and detailed study of the phenomenon of identification. Identification is a process of interaction with the external, mainly social environment, during which a person identifies with objects and phenomena of the external world. The basis of identification, as shown by the study of most of the concepts available in science, is the human need for self-recognition. It is this need that initiates the process itself. However, in the course of identification, the sociocultural context plays a crucial role, in which a person recognizes oneself in others by searching for common foundations of being. In turn, selfidentification allows comparing the components of oneself with each other via thought communication. In unity, the processes of identification and self-identification form the identity of a person, both to oneself and to society. Identity initiates behavioral manifestations. In itself, it is unstable, since it is influenced by the external social environment. Identification can occur both for several reasons, and for many. Moreover, the sense of identity can be both actual, based on the analysis of the qualities of objects of the external world and their comparison with their own characteristics, and fictitious, formed as a result of inspiring the individual to be convinced of similarity. In the latter case, we are talking about manipulation. Identity is a prerequisite for the successful socialization of an individual, as it allows not only identifying identity with society, but also realizing its integrity and isolation from it. All this allows a person to function and develop harmoniously. The materials of the article are of practical value, since they can be used as a theoretical and methodological basis for the further development of the problem of personal identification in the framework of sociophilosophical or wider humanitarian research.

THE EFFECTS OF EDUCATIONAL AND RELATIONAL MENTAL INCONGRUITY ON IDENTITY FORMATION

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurjen Iedema ◽  
Wim Meeus ◽  
Martijn De Goede
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Relational Identity ◽  
Educational Identity ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Life Planning ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Incongruity Theory ◽  
Development Of Identity

We elaborated an integrated theoretical model of identity within Nurmi's general framework of adolescent life-planning by combining concepts of Tazelaar's mental incongruity theory and Marcia's identity model. Mental incongruity is what people experience when there is a discrepancy between how they think a situation should be (the standard) and how they experience the actual situation or their own behavior (the cognition). The mental incongruity theory is domain specific which connects well with Marcia's domain specific identity model. We studied the influence of adolescents' standards - how they would like their educational status to be or how they would like their social relations to be - and mental incongruity on the development of identity in the respective domains. By means of Lisrel, we tested hypotheses on a sample of 1230 Dutch adolescents, between the ages of 15 to 24. As expected, a higher standard led to more exploration and commitment and thus to a more developed identity, but also to more mental incongruity. More mental incongruity led in its turn to a less developed identity. Thus, a higher standard directly led to a more mature identity, but caused indirectly - via mental incongruity - a less mature identity. Furthermore, a low relational mental incongruity induced a low educational mental incongruity, and likewise a high relational identity somewhat increased the educational identity. Finally, the expected crisscross effects of the standard in one domain decreasing the mental incongruity in the other domain were found.

scholarly journals Film Art in the System of Forming a Stage Identity Model

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Vladimir Alexeyevich Kolotayev
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Identity Changes ◽  
Behavior Models

The article examines the processes of forming stage identity models in the artistic space of cinema that possesses a modeling function, the ability to create new identity types, to influence the formation of a personality and change social relations. A screen art work both reflects the inner identity changes and offers the culture subjects some plausible behavior models for self-identifying in everyday life. By analyzing a number of ilms the author singles out four stages of identity development and deines their main characteristics. The structure and process of identity formation are treated as the result of interaction with culture. The configuration of identity depends on the prevalent cultural system. The notions "Culture 1" and "Culture 2" are revised and such concepts as "product culture" and "conlict culture" are introduced.

Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Timothy Laurie ◽  
Catherine Driscoll ◽  
Liam Grealy ◽  
Shawna Tang ◽  
Grace Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Heuristic Model ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Girls Studies ◽  
Political Economic

This critical commentary considers the significance of Connell’s The Men and the Boys in the development of an affirmative feminist boys studies. In particular, the article asks: How can research on boys contribute to feminist research on childhood and youth, without either establishing a false equivalency with girls studies, or overstating the singularity of “the boy” across diverse cultural and historical contexts? Connell’s four-tiered account of social relations—political, economic, emotional, and symbolic—provides an important corrective to reductionist approaches to both feminism and boyhood, and this article draws on The Men and the Boys to think through contrasting sites of identity formation around boys: online cultures of “incels” (involuntary celibates); transmasculinities and the biological diversity of the category “man”; and the social power excercised within an elite Australian boys school. The article concludes by identifying contemporary challenges emerging from the heuristic model offered in The Men and the Boys.

scholarly journals Geopolitics and Identity-Making in US Diasporic Chinese Churches

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Shirley Lung
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
The Us ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Religious Site

Using ethnographic and interview data, my paper analyzes how geopolitical relationship manifest at the community level in Chinese America Responding to Lien Pei-Te’s call to meaningfully disaggregate among the commonly “lumped together Chinese Americans”, I draw upon the experiences of specific groups of Chinese immigrants to the US, post-1949 migrants to Taiwan, pre-1949 migrants to Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Chinese, in order to understand how boundary drawing occurs in their various communities but also consider how the act of being “lumped together” itself in the US context complicates identity formation. The year 1949 marks the communist victory in the PRC as well as the inaugural year of the Kuomingdang (KMT)-led Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. Carved out of these historical events, the contemporary social relations among these groups persist after their migration to the US, but they manifest differently in various domains of practice, including religious ones. As political relationships among states reorganizes their social relations, the religious site offers what Carolyn Chen calls a “moral vocabulary” to articulate, contemplate, and, in some cases, justify these divides. Even within a Christian context, messages of inclusivity are not universal but redefined according to the political and social contexts. By not assigning a singular definition to Christian thought, my paper makes way for a theorization of an intersectional Christian identity.

scholarly journals For a Vygotskian concept of nurse professional identity: reflective essay

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogério Silva Lima ◽  
Marlene Fagundes Carvalho Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nurse Professional

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the nurse professional identity from a vygotskian perspective and to understand its implications in the education process of nursing students. Methods: theoretical-reflexive study, based on the historical-cultural approach of Lev Seminovich Vigotski. Results: the perspective of human cultural development defended by Vigotski can support an understanding of nurse professional identity as a complex psychological construction, which takes into account both the elements of the historical-cultural context that circumscribes the profession and the subject, as well as the set of psychological functions, developed by the subject in personal and professional relationships. Final considerations: the professional identity formation necessarily passes through the social relations that take place in formative process and it places the nursing professor in relief in the conduct of learning, which results not only in appropriations of attributes and codes, but also in students psychological development.

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