Coming Out, Going Home

2022 ◽  
pp. 507-519
Author(s):  
Hong-Chi Shiau
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Movement Trajectory ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
Optimal Distance ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Spatial Movement ◽  
The Common

Despite the historical centrality of Western cities as sites of queer cultural settlement, larger global economic and political forces have vociferously shaped, dispersed, and altered dreams of mobility for gay Taiwanese millennials in the age of globalization. While Taiwanese gay millennials follow a seemingly universal “rural-to-urban,” “East-to-West” movement trajectory, this study also explicates local nuanced ramifications running against the common trend. Drawn upon five-year ethnographic studies in Taiwan, this study examines how parents could to some extent conform to societal pressures by co-creating a life narrative to the society. Parents/family appear to contribute to how participants' decision on spatial movement but gay male millennials with supportive parents are eventually “going home.” However, the concept of home is configured by multiple economic and social forces involving (1) the optimal distance with the biological family and (2) the proper performances of consumption policed and imposed by the gay community in the neoliberal Taiwanese society.

Coming Out, Going Home

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Hong-Chi Shiau
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Movement Trajectory ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
Optimal Distance ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Spatial Movement ◽  
The Common

Despite the historical centrality of Western cities as sites of queer cultural settlement, larger global economic and political forces have vociferously shaped, dispersed, and altered dreams of mobility for gay Taiwanese millennials in the age of globalization. While Taiwanese gay millennials follow a seemingly universal “rural-to-urban,” “East-to-West” movement trajectory, this study also explicates local nuanced ramifications running against the common trend. Drawn upon five-year ethnographic studies in Taiwan, this study examines how parents could to some extent conform to societal pressures by co-creating a life narrative to the society. Parents/family appear to contribute to how participants' decision on spatial movement but gay male millennials with supportive parents are eventually “going home.” However, the concept of home is configured by multiple economic and social forces involving (1) the optimal distance with the biological family and (2) the proper performances of consumption policed and imposed by the gay community in the neoliberal Taiwanese society.

Megamarketing in The Post-Pandemic Era: Rebalancing Political and Social Power

2021 ◽  
pp. 027614672199643
Author(s):  
Philip Kotler ◽  
Hermawan Kartajaya ◽  
Abdullah Alaydrus
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Organizational Functions ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Business Enterprises ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Experience Difficulty

Amid globalization and digitalization, market access is relatively more difficult due to various obstacles caused by political and social forces. Large enterprises with limited control over regulation-making with values not in sync with the society experience difficulty accessing markets. Megamarketing represents an effort by business enterprises to counter closed market access by way of managing two “mega” forces: political and social power. The practice of megamarketing has considerably evolved with the changing times -- considering the increasingly significant role of society, preventive interventions, and political forces. Business enterprises can apply megamarketing by (1) better understanding the political and social landscape, (2) integrating relevant organizational functions, and (3) addressing the issues that restrict market access.

Can Communities Protect Autonomy? Ethical Dilemmas in HIV Preventative Drug Trials

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Zion
Keyword(s):  
Advance Directive ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Drug Trials ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Trial Participants

Before sailing past the sirens' “flowery meadow,” Ulysses instructed his sailors to lash him to the mast so that he would not succumb to the siren's singing. His advance directive demonstrated that he valued his dispositional or long-term autonomy over his unquestioned right to make decisions. He also indicated to his oarsmen that he understood the nature of temptation and his inability to resist it. Ideas of autonomy and sexual choice are central to this discussion of new AIDS treatments, especially the trials of preventative vaccines. Questions arise over the rights of individuals and the extent that these should be limited by concerns of the gay community. Should the gay community intervene in the risky decisions of individuals if no explicit advance directive exists? If so, how do they justify their paternalism? Could their aims not be better served through strengthening the individual dispositional autonomy of trial participants rather than making specific claims about the common good?

scholarly journals Analyzing the Role of the Permanent and Temporary Shocks in Peru Using the Co-Movements Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Cesar R. Sobrino
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Work ◽  
Capita Consumption ◽  
Quarterly Data ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
The Common ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Capita Output ◽  
Per Capita Consumption

In this study, we use the co-movements approach to examine the role of permanent (common trend) and temporary (common cycle) shocks on per capita output, per capita consumption, and per capita investment in Peru, a small open commodity-based economy. Using quarterly data from 1993: Q1 to 2019: Q1, the effects of the temporary shocks are short-lived, and, on average, are a minor source of the variations of macro time series, over 10 quarters. This evidence suggests that the main source of per capita output and per capita consumption variations is the common trend shock which must be related to the 1990s reforms. Moreover, per capita output and per capita consumption are less responsive to unfavorable (favorable) common cycle shocks than per capita investment is. This outcome indicates that per capita investment has a much more volatile cycle than per capita private output and per capita consumption which is consistent with a previous empirical work.

scholarly journals Clinical spectrum, geographical variability of COVID-19 and its implications

Coronaviruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Hasanul Banna Siam ◽  
Abdullah Al Mosabbir ◽  
Nahida Hannan Nishat ◽  
Ahsan Ahmed ◽  
Mohammad Sorowar Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Clinical Spectrum ◽  
Surveillance Strategy ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Atypical Symptoms ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The Common

: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a worldwide unprecedented public health crisis. Initially, COVID-19 was considered as a disease of the respiratory system as fever and at least one respiratory symptom was used to identify a suspected COVID-19 case. But there are now numerous reports of COVID-19 patients presenting with myriads of extrapulmonary symptoms and a substantial number of patients are asymptomatic as well. Additionally, there are significant clinical and epidemiological variations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCOV-2) infection across different geographical locations. The updated research thus challenges the existing surveillance system that is mainly based on fever and respiratory symptoms. As countries are coming out of lockdown to save economic fallout, a revised surveillance strategy is required to effectively identify and isolate the correct patients. Besides, since developing countries are becoming the new epicenters of pandemic and there are limited resources for RT-PCR based tests, so documenting the clinical spectrum can play a vital role in the syndromic clinical diagnosis of COVID-19. A plethora of atypical symptoms also aids in guiding better treatment and remains as a source for further research. It is therefore crucial to understand the common and uncommon clinical manifestations of SARS-COV-2 infection and its variability across different geographic regions.

scholarly journals The common-trend and transitory dynamics in real exchange rate fluctuations

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Michael Bergman ◽  
Yin-Wong Cheung ◽  
Kon S. Lai
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Real Exchange Rate ◽  
Exchange Rate Fluctuations ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
The Common

A Comparative Study on the Current TESL Curriculum: Identifying a Match for Industry Revolution (IR) 4.0

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faizah Abd Majid
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Curriculum Developer ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
Core Courses ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
The Common ◽  
Programme Outcomes

This paper examines TESL curriculum and how the curriculum relates to the training of the super skills needed in Industry Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0). Specifically, a comparative study on several TESL programmes offered in several public universities in Malaysia will provide the common trend among the universities and specific strengths of each university. Focus of comparison includes the programme outcomes (PO), discipline core courses offered, methods of delivery and assessment. The comparisons are made to shed some lights on how universities are providing relevant training for the pre-service English language teachers in meeting the demand of Industry Revolution 4.0. In addressing the relevance of the curriculum, a discussion on the super skills needed for IR 4.0, IR characteristics and components will be briefly provided. Findings that address the strengths and rooms for improvement in the current TESL programme curriculum in meeting the need of IR 4.0 could benefit policy makers, curriculum developer and TESL trainers.

scholarly journals The entropic basis of collective behaviour

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (106) ◽  
pp. 20150037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. Mann ◽  
Roman Garnett
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Collective Behaviour ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Simulation Studies ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
The Common ◽  
General Abstract ◽  
Future Path

We identify a unique viewpoint on the collective behaviour of intelligent agents. We first develop a highly general abstract model for the possible future lives these agents may encounter as a result of their decisions. In the context of these possibilities, we show that the causal entropic principle , whereby agents follow behavioural rules that maximize their entropy over all paths through the future, predicts many of the observed features of social interactions among both human and animal groups. Our results indicate that agents are often able to maximize their future path entropy by remaining cohesive as a group and that this cohesion leads to collectively intelligent outcomes that depend strongly on the distribution of the number of possible future paths. We derive social interaction rules that are consistent with maximum entropy group behaviour for both discrete and continuous decision spaces. Our analysis further predicts that social interactions are likely to be fundamentally based on Weber's law of response to proportional stimuli, supporting many studies that find a neurological basis for this stimulus–response mechanism and providing a novel basis for the common assumption of linearly additive ‘social forces’ in simulation studies of collective behaviour.

scholarly journals Spatial development of Orthodox temple construction in Petrograd and its environs by 1917

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 04023
Author(s):  
Sergey Sementsov
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Study ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Functional Area ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
The Common ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Spatial Area

The present paper discusses the results of comprehensive historical-and-archive, cartographic, bibliographic and morphological study on the development stage of Orthodox temple construction in Saint Petersburg and surrounding areas at the beginning of 1917. The integral spatial area of citizens’ seasonal life was identified, within the boundaries of which the common trend of Orthodox temple placing was formed. This area included Saint Petersburg, its suburban police districts, the nearest territories, called uyezds, and the following towns under royal administration: Gatchina, Krasnoye Selo, Pavlovsk, Petergof, Oranienbaum, Strelna, Tsarskoye Selo. This integral metropolitan functional area had in total 987 cathedrals, churches, chapels and kiots; particularly in Saint Petersburg there were 676 temples, which meant that approximately each twelve developed land plots had one temple. Such an extraordinary territorial density of placing temples formed a special multilayer system of visual and skyline composition of town planning, which completely differs from a modern one that appeared after mass destructions of 1920 – 1960.

scholarly journals The Productivity Gap Among Major European Countries, USA and Japan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Calcagnini ◽  
Germana Giombini ◽  
Giuseppe Travaglini
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
A Priori ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Efficient Markets ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Markets And Institutions ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Common ◽  
Opportunity Cost Approach

Abstract This paper analyzes Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK), the USA and Japan between 1954 and 2017. It uses the common trend– common cycle (CTCC) approach to decompose series in trends and cycles. We find that the seven economies are structurally different and differently affected by similar shocks. We show that trend and cycle innovations are, in most of the cases, negatively correlated as predicted by the ‘opportunity cost’ approach to productivity growth, and that trend innovations are larger than cycle innovations. We provide an interpretation for countries’ differences in TFP performance in recent years that is related to the so-called ‘deep’ determinants in growth literature, such as the presence of efficient markets and institutions. Finally, we present a comparison with the traditional Hodrick and Prescott deterministic filter to highlight the advantages of CTCC methodology that does not require a priori on the nature of the time series.

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