A Life History Study about First-generation Mixed-race People

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
So-Yun Choi
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Life History Study

A Life History Study on Middle-aged Women Experiencing Insomnia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunghee Kwak ◽  
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Moungil Jin ◽  
Seokbong Woo ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Life History Study

scholarly journals Family Background and Educational Attainment – Are there Birth Order Effects in Germany?

2015 ◽  
Vol 235 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Martina Eschelbach
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Life History ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Higher Secondary Education ◽  
Life History Study

Summary This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of children’s human capital by analyzing the effects of birth order in Germany. These effects are typically attributed to sibling rivalry for parental resources. For our analysis we use data collected as part of the German Life History Study on birth cohorts 1946-1977. We find a substantial positive impact of being first born on the probability of completing higher secondary education. Analyzing gender differences, we find stronger effects for boys. Furthermore, birth order effects are more prevailing in small families. The results are discussed against the background of equal opportunities in the German educational system.

Whether Mahatma Gandhi Was Misinterpreted Through the Dilemma of Irrelevant and Relevant Philosophies?

2021 ◽  
pp. 0972558X2110571
Author(s):  
Mithun Sikdar
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Current Anthropology ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Life History Study

In one of the articles published in Current Anthropology way back in 1973, David G. Mandelbaum talked about two approaches to understand the life of an individual. For him, to observe the lifestyle of a person or gain the knowledge about a lifestyle of a person, social scientists always succumb to two main approaches: life passage studies and life history studies. Life passage studies understand the contribution of society about the socialization and enculturation of their young ones, whereas life history studies emphasize the personified experiences and requirements of the individuals and how the individual copes up with the society. Here I have adopted the means of life history study to see some of the facets of Gandhiji’s life and its influence in the society. I shall do it by looking at some of his philosophies on health, food, sexual life, rather than going into the details of his whole life history. I shall do it without perplexing my own way of understanding “Mahatma” and linking sometimes my own life experiences that had been influenced by the philosophies of Gandhiji. I shall be carrying out an autoethnography by perceiving the virtues of Gandhiji in my own life. Nevertheless, it will rather be a futile exercise to describe his philosophies in a single paper and that too with a minimum experience on his whole life.

Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters

Alegal ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
Annmaria M. Shimabuku
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The State ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Global World

This chapter examines the post-reversion era from 1972 to 1995. Along with reversion came the enforcement of the anti-prostitution law and the demise of Okinawa’s large-scale sex industry. The first generation of mixed-race individuals came of age and started speaking for themselves instead of allowing themselves to be spoken for. This was also a time when Okinawans started to look past the unfulfilled promises of the Japanese state for liberation and to conceptualize different forms of autonomy in the global world. This chapter reconsiders self-determination as a philosophical concept. In place of the imperative for a unified self and unified nation as the precondition for entry into selfhood and nationhood (i.e., the capacity for “self-determination”), this chapter revisits Matsushima Chōgi’s concept of the “Okinawan proletariat” to rethink the theoretical implications of Okinawa, as a borderland of the Pacific, where humans and non-human objects circulate. It appeals to Tosaka’s anti-idealist attempt to assign a different kind of agency to morphing matter and reads Tanaka Midori’s mixed-race memoir, My Distant Specter of a Father, for an example of a life that fails to unify before the state, but nonetheless continues to matter or be significant in the quality of its mutability.

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