scholarly journals “Cinderella Men”: Husband- and Son- Caregivers for Elders with Dementia in Shanghai

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-20
Author(s):  
Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Primary Caregivers ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Caregivers ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Property Inheritance ◽  
China Men

Traditionally, women had the day-to-day responsibility for eldercare. However, social changes have created alternatives for men to take on what is generally considered a “female duty.” Particularly, as the prevalence of dementia has increased in China, men are increasingly becoming the primary caregivers for their kin. Yet, we have limited understanding of male caregiving. Based on twenty months’ ethnographic study of 60 men taking care of a relative with dementia, this paper examines motivations, practices, struggles and strategies of male caregivers. While acknowledging the gendered nature of caregiving, I argue that eldercare goes beyond solely social construction of gender roles and power asymmetries between males and females. Men—both husbands and sons—who engage in caregiving are motivated by love, affection, moral obligation, reciprocity based on past assistance, and property inheritance. Male caregivers’ care practices and their responses toward challenges vary from case to case, yet, these differences have less association with gender identity but more with cohort variations. The expanding home roles of male caregivers call attention to the social transformation of gendered care practices in China and beyond.

scholarly journals Misfits: An ethnographic study of extremely fat patients in intensive care

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Caroline Hales
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Intensive Care Setting ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Practices

<p>Critically ill fat patients pose considerable healthcare delivery and resource utilisation challenges which are often exacerbated by the patients’ critical condition and types of interventional therapies used in the intensive care environment. Added to these difficulties of managing care is the social stigma that is attached to being fat. Intensive care staff not only have to attend to the specific needs of the critically ill body but also navigate, both personally and professionally, the social terrain of stigma when providing care to this patient population.  The purpose of this research was to explore the culture and influences within the intensive care setting in which doctors and nurses cared for fat patients. A focused ethnographic approach was adopted to elicit the specific knowledge and ‘situated’ experiences of caring for critically ill fat patients from the perspectives of intensive care staff. The setting for this study was an 18 bedded tertiary intensive care unit (ICU) in New Zealand. Participant observation of care practices and interviews with intensive care staff were undertaken over a four month period. This study adopted an insider perspective throughout the research process as the study site was also my place of work. The dual tensions of the nurse and researcher position are reflexively explored through the thesis.  Key findings from this research reveal how fat patients were considered to be ‘misfits’ in the ICU as a result of not fitting the physical, medical, and social norms of intensive care practices. Staff managed their private perceptions of fatness during care situations through the use of emotional labour, behavioural regions, and face-work. Through the construction and presentation of the professional and private ‘face’, staff were able to establish positive social experiences for fat patients.  This study has brought new understandings of fatness; often percieved as the last socially accepted form of discrimination. Conceptualising fat patients as ‘misfits’ in the intensive care setting, reveals the performances of staff in managing the social awkwardness of fat stigma. The implications of this for healthcare is the provision of clinical services that are fit for purpose and a reconceptualisation of how staff use emotional labour in order to deliver non-discriminatory care to socially stigmatised fat patients.</p>

scholarly journals TRANSFORMASI SOSIAL MASYARAKAT SAMIN Di BOJONEGORO (Analisis Perubahan Sosial dalam Pembagian Kerja dan Solidaritas Sosial Emile Durkheim)

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Umi Hanifah
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organic Solidarity ◽  
Mechanical Solidarity ◽  
Division Of Work

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis perubahan yang terjadi pada masyarakat Samin Bojonegoro dengan menggunakan teori Pembagian Kerja dan Solidaritas Sosial Emile Durkheim. Yaitu perubahan sosial dari masyarakat tradisional menuju masyarakat modern. Menurut Emile Durkheim, peningkatan sistem pembagian kerja pada masyarakat berimplikasi pada perubahan tipe solidaritas sosialnya, yaitu pada masyarakat dengan sistem pembagian kerja yang sangat sedikit akan menghasilkan tipe soli-daritas mekanik, sedangkan pada masyarakat dengan pembagian kerja yang kompleks akan menghasilkan tipe solidaritas organik. Dimulai dengan mendeskripsikan kehidupan masyarakat Samin dari asal usul, ajaran yang diikuti dan perubahan sosial yang terjadi pada mereka. Bentuk kajian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif. Data dalam kajian ini digunakan untuk memahami dan menafsirkan makna peristiwa serta pola tingkah laku masyarakat Samin Bojonegoro. Adapun data yang diperoleh berasal dari dokumen sejarah Samin dan bahan kepustakaan berupa buku, video film maupun jurnal ilmiah. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat diketahui bahwa kondisi masyarakat Samin Bojonegoro telah mengalami transformasi dari tradisional menuju masyarakat modern. Meskipun telah mengalami perubahan dan modernisasi di segala bidang, masyarakat Samin masih identik dengan masyarakat mekanik dalam hal solidaritas. Hal tersebut dikarenakan masyarakat Samin masih menjunjung tinggi ajaran Saminisme dan mengamalkannya sampai sekarang yang berimplikasi pada kesadaran kolektif yang tinggi., meskipun mengalami berbagai transformasi, masyarakat Samin masih memegang teguh ajaran leluhurnya, yaitu Saminisme.Kata Kunci: Transformasi Sosial; Suku Samin; Pembagian Kerja Emile Durkheim; Solidaritas Organik; Solidaritas MekanikThis study aims to analyze the changes that occur in the Samin Bojonegoro community by using Emile Durkheim’s Division of Work and Social Solidarity. Namely the social change from traditional society to modern society. According to Durkheim, an increase in the system of division of labor in society has implications for changes in the type of social solidarity, that is, in societies with very little division of labor will produce a type of mechanical solidarity, whereas in societies with complex division of labor will produce types of organic solidarity. It starts by describing the lives of the Samin people from their origins, the teachings that are followed and the social changes that occur in them. The form of this study is qualitative research. The data in this study are used to understand and interpret the meaning of events and the behavior patterns of the Samin Bojonegoro community. The data obtained comes from historical documents Samin and literature materials in the form of books, video films and scientific journals. Based on the results of the study it can be seen that the condition of the Samin Bojonegoro community has undergone a transformation from traditional to modern society. Although it has undergone changes and modernization in all fields, the Samin community is still synonymous with a mechanical society in terms of solidarity. That is because the Samin community still upholds the teachings of Saminism and practices it until now which has implications for high collective consciousness., Despite undergoing various transformations, the Samin community still upholds the teachings of its ancestors, namely Saminism.Keywords: Social Transformation; Samin Tribe; Emile Durkheim Division of Work, Organic Solidarity; Mechanical Solidarity

scholarly journals TRANSFORMASI SOSIAL PADA UPACARA RAMBU SOLO DIRAPAI DI RANTEPAO TORAJA UTARA

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Rahleda Rahleda
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Local Elite ◽  
Traditional Leaders ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the shift rambu solo dirapai ceremony in conjunction with the social changes that occurred in the Toraja people. This study covers the forms of commodification is happening in the ceremony, interpendensi and social relations, as well as forms of figuration and habitus as a supporting component of a shift in the ceremony rambu solo dirapai. In this paper illustrates that ritual rambu solo dirapai shifting meanings and social values in society, first carried out in order to customary funeral procession of bodies of the nobility, now used as a means to obtain the existence in society and have also been used as a commodity for the benefit of tourism, so the ceremony rambu solo dirapai who had now become profane sacred nature. At the local elite also changes the structure, which was once the relationship is between traditional leaders and communities are now going a new power relationship that is influenced by the government as the new power relations by making ceremony rambu solo dirapai as tourism attraction in Toraja. In the shift between traditional leaders and the government as the new power relations created a balanced power relationship so there is no contradiction in the ceremony rambu solo dirapai as indigenous and as a tourism commodity. Keywords: Ceremony Rambu Solo Dirapai, Social Transformation, Figuration

Agents of social change in a crisis society: variants of problematization and contours of conceptual framework of research

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Liubov Bevzenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Deterministic Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Order

In view of the permanent crisis of the social situation in our country, the question of agents of social change acting in these crisis moments is actualized. Two variants of scientific problematization of this issue are proposed. The first is on the platform of the theoretical vision of social change, proposed by P. Sztompka, which provides a descriptive and ascertaining study of the movements, leaders, ideas and revolutions which change our society. The second option addresses the dilemma of agents and structure, which has been debated for many years in the search for a compromise between micro- and macro-deterministic models of social change. It is emphasized that the terms social transformation, transition, and crisis are not identical; namely, the crisis is characterized by unpredictable consequences of social changes. The search for theoretical micro-macro-compromise for the situation of social crisis is suggested to be searched within the paradigm combination — the paradigm of complexity, the paradigm of practices and network theory. Social changes are specified by a change in the institutional order, which is analytically divided into formal (organizational) and informal (self- organizational) constituents. Тhe difference between the manifestations of agency within these institutional constituents is emphasized. The conceptual series and outline of a possible conceptual scheme of the study of the problem are proposed.

scholarly journals Misfits: An ethnographic study of extremely fat patients in intensive care

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Caroline Hales
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Intensive Care Setting ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Practices

<p>Critically ill fat patients pose considerable healthcare delivery and resource utilisation challenges which are often exacerbated by the patients’ critical condition and types of interventional therapies used in the intensive care environment. Added to these difficulties of managing care is the social stigma that is attached to being fat. Intensive care staff not only have to attend to the specific needs of the critically ill body but also navigate, both personally and professionally, the social terrain of stigma when providing care to this patient population.  The purpose of this research was to explore the culture and influences within the intensive care setting in which doctors and nurses cared for fat patients. A focused ethnographic approach was adopted to elicit the specific knowledge and ‘situated’ experiences of caring for critically ill fat patients from the perspectives of intensive care staff. The setting for this study was an 18 bedded tertiary intensive care unit (ICU) in New Zealand. Participant observation of care practices and interviews with intensive care staff were undertaken over a four month period. This study adopted an insider perspective throughout the research process as the study site was also my place of work. The dual tensions of the nurse and researcher position are reflexively explored through the thesis.  Key findings from this research reveal how fat patients were considered to be ‘misfits’ in the ICU as a result of not fitting the physical, medical, and social norms of intensive care practices. Staff managed their private perceptions of fatness during care situations through the use of emotional labour, behavioural regions, and face-work. Through the construction and presentation of the professional and private ‘face’, staff were able to establish positive social experiences for fat patients.  This study has brought new understandings of fatness; often percieved as the last socially accepted form of discrimination. Conceptualising fat patients as ‘misfits’ in the intensive care setting, reveals the performances of staff in managing the social awkwardness of fat stigma. The implications of this for healthcare is the provision of clinical services that are fit for purpose and a reconceptualisation of how staff use emotional labour in order to deliver non-discriminatory care to socially stigmatised fat patients.</p>

The Place of Social Networks in Social Transformation, Technological and Educational Relationships

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Ferit Çakmak
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Relationships ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

In this research, the impact of technology on this process has been highlighted following the idea of social change and the phases reached by mankind. Social changes are then dealt with and the circumstances that arise via interaction between the three ideas are articulated in the framework of education, which has a link with technology. The ideas of distant education and e-learning that have been developed are described and the capabilities and impacts of social networking and social media -this links the virtual and real world through Web 2.0- are taken into account on individuals and society. Positive improvements can be made using the potential of social networks in the social changes, technology and education triangle but, if certain matters are ignored, such potential might damage them.

Cross-space Consumption among Undocumented Chinese Immigrants in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou ◽  
Xiangyi Li
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Currency Exchange ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Migrants

We consider cross-space consumption as a form of transnational practice among international migrants. In this paper, we develop the idea of the social value of consumption and use it to explain this particular form of transnationalism. We consider the act of consumption to have not only functional value that satisfies material needs but also a set of nonfunctional values, social value included, that confer symbolic meanings and social status. We argue that cross-space consumption enables international migrants to take advantage of differences in economic development, currency exchange rates, and social structures between countries of destination and origin to maximize their expression of social status and to perform or regain social status. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic study of consumption patterns in migrant hometowns in Fuzhou, China, and in-depth interviews with undocumented Chinese immigrants in New York and their left-behind family members, we find that, despite the vulnerabilities and precarious circumstances associated with the lack of citizenship rights in the host society, undocumented immigrants manage to realize the social value of consumption across national borders and do so through conspicuous consumption, reciprocal consumption, and vicarious consumption in their hometowns even without being physically present there. We conclude that, while cross-space consumption benefits individual migrants, left-behind families, and their hometowns, it serves to revive tradition in ways that fuel extravagant rituals, drive up costs of living, reinforce existing social inequality, and create pressure for continual emigration.

Thèmes et variations Réflexions stylistiques sur l’itinéraire d’Égérie

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 611-621
Author(s):  
Sára Horváthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Changes ◽  
The South ◽  
Hidden Information ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social

SummaryEgeria, a 4th century pious woman from the south of present-day Spain, retold, after visiting Palestine with the Bible in hand, her observations to her sisters. If the linguistic aspects of her letters are quite well-known, much less is known about its stylistic value, inappropriately called “simple”.What seems to be boringly the same again and again, is in fact a constantly renewed and perfectly mastered “variation on a theme”, just as in a well-composed piece of music. Her apparent objectivity is indeed a wish to focus on what she considers the most important, namely to tell her community, as closely to reality as possible, what she observed during her pilgrimage. However, Egeria’s latin is also a testimony of the christian lexicon in construction and of the social changes that were in progress by that time.Linguistics and stylistics work together here, the choice of a word or a grammatical formula reveals hidden information about the proper style of an author who, despite her supposed objectivity, had real personal purposes.

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