scholarly journals Social Structure of Pods' Correlation to Frequency of Repetitive Pacing in Captive Beluga Whales

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianna Perugini ◽  
Jamela Orrego
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
Behavioral Observation ◽  
Beluga Whale ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Beluga Whales ◽  
The Social ◽  
In Captivity

Beluga whales in captivity currently show signs of mental distress through stereotypical behaviors such as repetitive pacing. It is currently well established that the social structure of beluga whale pods can alter beluga whale social behavior. This study aims to determine how differing social structures of beluga whale pods correlate to the frequency of repetitive pacing. In this context repetitive pacing is when a beluga whale paces three or more laps in the same pattern and direction. To test the hypothesis that beluga whales in larger more diverse pods will repetitively pace less than beluga whales in smaller more uniform pods, a behavioral observation was conducted at Seaworld Orlando and Georgia Aquarium. Over 20 observation periods, the amount of times repetitively paced, amount of laps while repetitively pacing, and the amount of laps repetitively paced per hour were all noted. The results supported the hypothesis, correlating the more diverse pod to less frequent repetitive pacing. These results suggest that pod social structure can play a role in captive beluga whales’ mental wellbeing. On this basis, during future transfers, more diverse pods should be put together to try to limit the amount of repetitive pacing and improve the mental wellbeing of captive beluga whales.

Profit as Social Rent: Embeddedness and Stratification in Markets

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sascha Muennich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Rent Extraction ◽  
Free Competition ◽  
The Social

This article shows how research on the social structure of markets may contribute to the analysis the growing income inequality in contemporary capitalist economies. The author proposes a theoretical link between embeddedness and social stratification by discussing the role of institutions and networks in markets for the distribution of economic profits between firms. The author claims that we must understand profit and free competition as opposites, as economic theory does. In the main part of the article the author illustrates six typical mechanisms of rent extraction from networks or formal and symbolic rules that embed markets. They emerge from material as well as symbolical access to and influence on the orientation of other market actors. Social structures in markets lead to unequal chances for rent extraction, even if actors produce them for coordination rather than for accumulation purposes. This is how market sociology and theory of capitalism can be linked more closely.

Behaviour of the Bilby, Macrotis lagotis (Reid), (Marsupialia : Thylacomyidae) in Captivity

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
CN Johnson ◽  
KA Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Feeding Behaviour ◽  
Dominance Hierarchy ◽  
Dominant Male ◽  
Alpha Male ◽  
The Social ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
Below Ground ◽  
Activity Cycles ◽  
Central Australia

The behaviour was observed, in captivity, of the bilby Macrotis lagotis, a fossorial bandicoot of central Australia. Most of the observations were made at night, but some were of below-ground behaviour during the daylight hours. Bilbies proved to be relatively passive in comparison with other bandicoots, and a rigid dominance hierarchy amongst males was maintained without destructive fighting. Dominant males chased subordinate males out of and away from burrows and the alpha male maintained priority of access to all the well used burrows in the enclosure. Males scent-marked around burrows; the dominant male usually marked over scents left by other bilbies. Males shared burrows freely with females, and copulation appears to take place down burrows. Information is also given on female-female and mother-young behaviour, and some suggestions are made concerning the social structure of wild bilbies. Activity cycles, feeding behaviour, etc. are described.

Feminist Challenges to the Social Structure and Sex Roles

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen R. Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Voluntary Childlessness ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Complex Relationships

A social-psychological and historical context for understanding contemporary sex roles, fertility, parenting, and the family is provided by reviewing origins and objectives of the Women's Movement. Feminist efforts to change social structures affecting women's choice of roles and fertility require continued attention. Increased voluntary childlessness seriously challenges the concept of motherhood as central to adult feminine identity and legitimization of choice in whether or not to become a parent provides a new context for studying women, sex roles, fertility, and their complex relationships to the social structure. Continued challenges to premises, methodologies, and conclusions of such research are urged.

scholarly journals KRIMINALISASI SOSIOLOGIS NIKAH SIRI

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwan Zaenul Fuad ◽  
Agus Fakhrina ◽  
Abdul Azis ◽  
Ahmad Rosyid
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
People Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labelling Theory ◽  
The City ◽  
Law Making

However, Nikah Siri (unregistered marital) has been seen asa part of the social behavior, and lived in Indonesian society. Thisbehavior often impact living condition of social structure. In anotherside, this social problem must be fixed with appropriate law-makingsystem. The Act Plan of “Hukum Peradilan Agama Bidang Perkawinan”(RUU HPABP) was noted in commitment to criminalize the behavior.Some sounds of pro and anti toward this Act Plan nowadays, makethis issues more interesting be reseacrhed. Applying symbolicinteractionism approach and labelling theory, this study examined thecriminalization issues on the Act Plan in social framework. The frameworkis critical to assume the effectiveness of law making processbased on people participation. This research took place in PekalonganDistrict (the City and Regency of Pekalongan), which is noted for the‘hidden’ large number of nikah siri practices. Results of the study revealedthe social criminalization of Nikah Siri akin to kinds of people’sperception toward the behavior. The hidden types of Nikah Siri(hidden from people’s knowledge) had an effect on social constructionto criminalize the behavior, but not the open one

COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY AND COMPLETION OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Mower White
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Balance Principle ◽  
The Social

Seventy-two Ss, of whom half were cognitively complex and half cognitively simple, made predictions about unknown relations in four-person social structures. Structures differed in the number of relations given. For those with two or three relations given, predictions of cognitively complex and cognitively simple Ss did not differ, all Ss making balanced predictions. For those with four or five relations given, cognitively complex Ss, to a greater extent than cognitively simple Ss, made balanced predictions. Cognitively simple Ss tended to make predictions based on consideration of fewer relations in the social structure. It is suggested that this result supports the contention that cognitively simple Ss become “overloaded” by smaller amounts of information than do cognitively complex Ss, and that such an explanation has relevance to the interpretation of the balance principle as a conceptual rule.

“Taking the Gravel Road”: Educational Aspirations of Working Class Malay Youths

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadzli Bin Baharom Adzahar
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Educational Aspirations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Close Correspondence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gravel Road

Abstract Applying Bourdieu’s theoretical framework on the correspondence between mental structures and social structures, this paper examines the persistence of educational underachievement among working class Malay youths in Singapore. Accordingly, my first objective is to document the social structure, namely a largely working class neighbourhood where these Malay youths have grown up. My second aim is to analyse how everyday cultural practices and interactions among peers in the neighbourhood significantly reinforced these youths’ levelled aspirations. I maintain that by believing in ‘taking the gravel road’, which is symbolically rough, uneven and uncertain, these youths justified the irrelevance of doing well in school. Succinctly, this essay demonstrates the close correspondence between the perceptions of the odds of success and the educational underperformance of the Malay youths. Hence, this paper would be of interest to scholars in the Malay Peninsula, as well as experts concerned with the intertwining of education with class and ethnicity.

The power of social structure: how we became an intelligent lineage

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Resendes de Sousa António ◽  
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
New World ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Great Apes ◽  
Male Competition ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Social

AbstractNew findings pertinent to the human lineage origin (Ardipithecus ramidus) prompt a new analysis of the extrapolation of the social behavior of our closest relatives, the great apes, into human ‘natural social behavior’. With the new findings it becomes clear that human ancestors had very divergent social arrangements from the ones we observe today in our closest genetic relatives.The social structure of chimpanzees and gorillas is characterized by male competition. Aggression and the instigation of fear are common place. The morphology of A. ramidus points in the direction of a social system characterized by female-choice instead of male–male competition. This system tends to be characterized by reduced aggression levels, leading to more stable arrangements. It is postulated here that the social stability with accompanying group cohesion propitiated by this setting is favorable to the investment in more complex behaviors, the development of innovative approaches to solve familiar problems, an increase in exploratory behavior, and eventually higher intelligence and the use of sophisticated tools and technology.The concentration of research efforts into the study of social animals with similar social systems (e.g., New World social monkeys (Callitrichidae), social canids (Canidae) and social rodents (Rodentia)) are likely to provide new insights into the understanding of what factors determined our evolution into an intelligent species capable of advanced technology.

scholarly journals IDENTITAS SOSIAL DAN KEARIFAN LOKAL PADA KUMPULAN CERPEN CELURIT HUJAN PANAS KARYA ZAINUL MUTTAQIN [Social Identity and Local Wisdom in The Collection of Short Stories Celurit Hujan Panas By Zainul Muttaqin]

TOTOBUANG ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-313
Author(s):  
Bayu Suta Wardianto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
The Social

Social society and socio-culture cannot be separated from each other. Therefore, literature was born as a product of society and culture. From these literary works, literary teaching materials with social and cultural background can be made. This study explains the social identity and local wisdom contained in the collection of Celurit Hujan Panas short stories by Zainul Muttaqin. In this study, the method used is the quality desriptive method. The data used comes from quotes on a collection of short stories of Celurit Hujan Panas. This research used listening and note-taking techniques. Research data analysis started from presenting the data, reducing the data, and analyzing conclusions. The results of this study show that the social identity contained in the story are namely (1) social structure, (2) social behavior, and (3) ontological definitions. Moreover, the values of local wisdom contained in the story are (1) culture, (2) beliefs, and (3) social values. Sosial masyarakat dan sosial budaya tidak bisa dipisahkan satu sama lain. Karena itulah, sastra lahir sebagai produk dari sosial dan budaya. Dari karya sastra tersebut, dapat dibuat bahan ajar sastra berlatar sosial dan budaya. Penelitian ini menjelaskan tentang identitas sosial dan kearifan lokal yang terkandung dalam kumpulan cerpen Celurit Hujan Panas karya Zainul Muttaqin. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu metode deksriptif kualititatif. Data yang digunakan berasal dari kutipan pada kumpulan cerpen Celurit Hujan Panas. Penelitian menggunakan teknik simak dan catat. Analisis data penelitian dimulai dari menyajikan data, mereduksi data, dan kesimpulan analisis. Penelitian ini menunjukkan hasil bahwa identitas sosial yang terkandung yaitu (1) struktur sosial, (2) tingkah laku sosial, dan (3) definisi ontologis. Nilai kearifan lokal yang terkandung adalah (1) nilai budaya, (2) kepercayaan, dan (3) nilai sosial. 

Logics of History as a Framework for an Integrated Social Science

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Steinmetz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Event History ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Social Science ◽  
The Relationship

This essay surveys the contributions of William H. Sewell Jr.'sLogics of History and concludes that the book sketches a compelling agenda for an integrated historical social science. The author first summarizes Sewell's ontological and epistemological claims concerning social structure and event, history and temporality, and sociohistorical causality. The author then discusses five main areas in which ambiguities in Sewell's approach might be clarified or his arguments pushed farther. These concern (1) the relationship between historical event and traumatic event; (2) the idea of the unprecedented event or “antistructure”; (3) the theory of semiosis underlying Sewell's notion of a multiplicity of structures; and (4) the compatibilities and differences between the concepts of structure and mechanism (here the author argues that social structures are the distinctive “mechanisms” of the human or social sciences). Finally, (5) Sewell's call for “a more robust sense of the social” in historical writing locates the “social” mainly at the level of the metafield of power, or what regulation theory calls the mode of regulation; the author suggests a possible integration of this society-level concept with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of semiautonomous fields.

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