scholarly journals Articulations of Family Life and Organization for Happy Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Ali Fatah Bin Jamal ◽  
Mohammad Zakari
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Research Question ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Cultures

Family is an instrumental for the development of the nation and culture. Different culture have different perception regarding the importance of the family. There are also difference in types of family, and social scientists measure the characteristics of the family in different cultures. In this paper we tried to explore the importance of family for happy life. In order to test the hypothesis, the chosen research question, data from the German General Social Survey 2014 is used. Based on statistical analysis and their results, both hypothesis are supported.  These hypotheses and their results indicates that the people who spend their leisure time with family, they consider and think that family is important. On the other hand, people who are more interested in soaps and sitcoms, they may think that, all problems and issues are part of life but family is still important for them.

scholarly journals Behavioral Ecology of the Family: Harnessing Theory to Better Understand Variation in Human Families

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Paula Sheppard ◽  
Kristin Snopkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Ecology ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Selection Of

Researchers across the social sciences have long been interested in families. How people make decisions such as who to marry, when to have a baby, how big or small a family to have, or whether to stay with a partner or stray are questions that continue to interest economists, sociologists, demographers, and anthropologists. Human families vary across the globe; different cultures have different marriage practices, different ideas about who raises children, and even different notions of what a family is. Human behavioral ecology is a branch of anthropology that is particularly interested in cultural variation of family systems and how these differences impact upon the people that inhabit them; the children, parents, grandparents. It draws on evolutionary theory to direct research and generate testable hypotheses to uncover how different ecologies, including social contexts, can explain diversity in families. In this Special Issue on the behavioral ecology of the family, we have collated a selection of papers that showcase just how useful this framework is for understanding cultural variation in families, which we hope will convince other social scientists interested in family research to draw upon evolutionary and ecological insight in their own work.

Developmental Models of Adult Life: Myth or Reality

1980 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Lacy ◽  
Jon Hendricks
Keyword(s):  
General Social Survey ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Developmental Models ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions

This study investigates the existence of age related life stages and the presumed evolution of attitudes and perceptions in accordance with passages through these successive developmental plateaus. The research utilizes data from six national samples gathered as part of the General Social Survey between 1972 and 1977 by the National Opinion Research Center (N=9120). Criteria suggested by developmental theorists and other social scientists are employed to examine respondents' life orientation and satisfaction. In most Instances age is minimally related to attitudes in these areas while social class and to a lesser extent race and sex emerge as statistically significant and substantively important predictors of these dimensions. The results suggest the difficulties in identifying age related adult life phases through national surveys of attitudes and challenges the underlying assumptions for the existence of uniform age related stages.

Joining the Urban World: Occupation, Family, and Migration in Three French Cities

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Page Moch ◽  
Louise A. Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Family ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
And Migration ◽  
And Behavior

Historians and sociologists have long been aware of variability in family structure and behavior and curious about the effects of large-scale change on the family. Nineteenth-century social scientists from Frederic LePlay to Lewis Henry Morgan interpreted family change in an evolutionary framework: LePlay discerned what he believed was the baleful effect of changes in the law on family life, Morgan, the progress due to changing economic and environmental factors. The twentieth-century revival of family history received its impetus from Philippe Ariés, who in both his early Histoire des populations françaises and the later Centuries of Childhood maintained the evolutionary perspective.

The 2004 GSS Finding of Shrunken Social Networks: An Artifact?

2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude S. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Technical Error ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The People

McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Brashears (2006, 2008b) reported that Americans' social networks shrank precipitously from 1985 to 2004. When asked to list the people with whom they discussed “important matters,” respondents to the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS) provided about one-third fewer names than did respondents in the 1985 survey. Critically, the percentage of respondents who provided no names at all increased from about 10 percent in 1985 to about 25 percent in 2004. The 2004 results contradict other relevant data, however, and they contain serious anomalies; this suggests that the apparently dramatic increase in social isolation is an artifact. One possible source of the artifact is the section of the 2004 interview preceding the network question; it may have been unusually taxing. Another possible source is a random technical error. With as yet no clear account for these inconsistencies and anomalies, scholars should be cautious in using the 2004 network data. Scholars and general readers alike should draw no inference from the 2004 GSS as to whether Americans' social networks changed substantially between 1985 and 2004; they probably did not.

scholarly journals The Gender Pray Gap: Wage Labor and the Religiosity of High-Earning Women and Men

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Landon Schnabel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Earned Income ◽  
High Earning ◽  
The Relationship

Social scientists agree that women are generally more religious than men, but disagree about whether the differences are universal or contingent on social context. This study uses General Social Survey data to explore differences in religiosity between, as well as among, women and men by level of individual earned income. Extending previous research, I focus on high earners with other groups included for comparison. Predicted probabilities based upon fully-interacted models provide four key findings: (1) There are no significant gender differences among high earners; (2) high-earning women are less religious than low-earning women; (3) high-earning men are more religious than low-earning men; and (4) differences among women and among men at different earnings levels are just as large as average differences between women and men. Further analyses demonstrate that the relationship between gender, earnings, and religiosity varies by race. The findings demonstrate the utility of intersectional approaches for understanding gender differences in religiosity. Beyond the implications specific to the gender differences in religiosity literature, this study also indicates that religion is an important, yet often under-emphasized, aspect of our intersectional selves.

Tracking US Social Change Over a Half-Century: The General Social Survey at Fifty

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-134
Author(s):  
Peter V. Marsden ◽  
Tom W. Smith ◽  
Michael Hout
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Current Characteristics

In the five decades since its inception in 1971, the General Social Survey (GSS) project has prospectively recorded the current characteristics, backgrounds, behaviors, and attitudes of representative cross sections of American adults covering more than two generations and more than a century of birth cohorts. A foundational resource for contemporary social science, the data it produces and disseminates enable social scientists to develop broad and deep understandings into the changing fabric of US society, and aid legions of instructors and students in teaching and learning. It facilitates internationally comparative survey research and places the United States in the context of other societies through the International Social Survey Program, which it cofounded. This article first recounts the GSS's origins, design, and development. It then surveys contributions based on GSS data to studies of stratification and inequality, religion, sociopolitical trends, intergroup relations, social capital and social networks, health and well-being, culture, and methodology.

scholarly journals THE FEATURES OF THE EMBODIMENT OF THE FAMILY THEME IN THE NOVEL BY L. N. TOLSTOY «RESURRECTION»

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Valeria G. Andreeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Epic Hero ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
The People ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Ideal

The article analyzes the family theme in the novel «Resurrection», examines the attitude of Leo Tolstoy towards the ideal family, the image of which in the work, in comparison with the previous work of the writer, only insignificant corrections associated with the idea of the role of the family in the spiritual ascent of man. The author of the article addresses the dispute between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky about Russian families, which unfolded in the 1870s. and shows that in the last novel, Tolstoy makes extensive use of the previously unacceptable image of a random family, described by Dostoevsky in the Writer's Diary and the novel Teen. The gallery of random families presented in «Resurrection» includes both noble families and families from the people, allows Tolstoy to enlarge the national crisis that unfolded in Russia at the end of the 19th century, to show its all-encompassing nature. The writer not only exposes the power, state and judicial systems, he shows how a lie accompanies a person coming from a random family, makes him incapable of compassion. The article examines numerous realizations of the family theme in the novel, analyzes the images of characters who are capable and not capable of family life, as well as the path of the protagonist, who in the final of the work not only approves the highest Divine laws as a guide for life, but also meets the example of a real family. contrasting with all previously presented random families. The author of the work demonstrates how, as the novel progresses, Nekhlyudov's life is getting closer and closer to the big popular world, correlates with the fate of the country – Nekhlyudov becomes a truly epic hero.

scholarly journals Homosexuality, Religion, and the Family: The Effects of Religion on Americans’ Appraisals of the Parenting Abilities of Same-Sex Couples

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Family ◽  
Nationally Representative

While a growing body of research focuses on Americans’ attitudes toward same-sex couples as parents, very few include measures of religion and those that do fail to capture its multidimensional nature. Furthermore, many past studies rely on convenience samples of college students, or samples gathered outside the United States. Multivariate analyses of the 2012 General Social Survey – a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States – reveal that a slim majority of Americans still do not believe same-sex couples can parent as well as male-female couples and the religious beliefs, behaviors, and affiliations of Americans are significantly and at times differentially associated with appraisals of same-sex couples’ parenting abilities. It appears that while religion is generally associated with more negative appraisals of the parenting abilities of same-sex couples, it is not uniformly so. Americans’ immediate religious and cultural context can shape their appraisals of homosexuality in diverse ways.

scholarly journals NOGAY CYCLE OF THE KAZAKH HEROIC EPIC

Keruen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (68) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.U. Azibayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Composite Part ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
The People ◽  
Heroic Epic ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Individual

Epic song heritage is an important and significant part of the Kazakh folklore. Important, socially significant issues of the Kazakh epic, an integral and composite part of the global epic heritage – praising the actions of the arrow-hunter, who lives separately from the people, protection of the family, protection of the clan, tribe, El, Motherland from foreign invaders, the struggle for the unity and independence of the people, the struggle for personal happiness, protection of honor and dignity of the individual, glorifying personal qualities of the average member of society, depiction of the internal struggles, religious feelings and affections, as well as interpersonal, intra-family, intra-tribe and inter-tribe interactions, etc. The national theme of protection of the Motherland, being relevant in many periods of history of Kazakhstan, is a dominant theme of the epics with heroic orientation, which received the highest artistic expression in classical samples of the heroic epic which were rightly included into the golden Foundation of the world epic heritage; images of the heroes- defenders became an example to follow for many generations. Heroes of classical samples of the heroic epic, for example, epics "Alpamys Batyr", "Kobylandy Batyr", "Kambar Batyr", etc. protect interests of specific clans and tribes which they lead. Heroes of Nogay cycle of the heroic epic don't protect a specific clan or tribe, but the whole Nogay El. In historical epics, the batyrs defend the interests of the Kazakh khanate, fight for freedom, independence, peace and happy life of the entire Kazakh people. These epic genres give us a panoramic picture of the progressive development of the national epic from the clan-tribal to the State epic. Nogay cycle is a semantically significant part of the heroic Kazakh epic, a symbol of a certain stage of its historical development. Nogay cycle of heroic epic is created within the frame of national epic traditions, however, it is characterized by its specific parameters and features.

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