Rebay-Salisbury, K. and Pany-Kucera, D. Eds. (2020): Ages and Abilities: The stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond. Oxford: Childhood in the Past Monograph Series 8. ISBN: 978-1-78969-768-1

In the past several years, there has been a renewal of interest in malnutrition. More importantly, perhaps, approaches to the study of human malnutrition have become increasingly sophisticated; it has been recognized that this condition does not constitute a single definable entity. Rather, malnutrition occurs primarily among underprivileged populations; thus, it is located in a particular physical, social, psychological, and biological environment. In other words, studies of the effects of malnutrition in human population groups rarely peimit the identification of a single cause for a specific effeet; rather, a series of complex interactions leads to an observed result.

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Perceptions of Anticipated Stigma in Gay and Lesbian Workers in Health Services (Argentina)

Cuadernos Inter c a mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe ◽

10.15517/c.a..v17i1.42308 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. e42308

Author(s):

Julián Ortega

Keyword(s):

Sexual Orientation ◽

Experimental Design ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Social Recognition ◽

Gay And Lesbian ◽

Theoretical Assumption ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

The Past ◽

Mixed Approach ◽

Anticipated Stigma

This article analyses situations of discrimination, violence and inequality against gay and lesbian workers due to their sexual orientation, gender and / or gender expression in healthcare institutions located in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. Some of the qualitative findings of a larger study are developed, which had a mixed approach and a cross-sectional, non-experimental design, in order to describe variants of anticipated stigma and perceptions of sexual orientation as potential obstacle at work. The persistence of stigma toward gay and lesbian workers, despite the greater legal and social recognition these groups have gained over the past decades, is a theoretical assumption of the study. While favourable changes are recognized, it is concluded that anticipated stigma persists among this group of workers.

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Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ): Validity Evidence among HIV+ Patients in Northeast Brazil

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel11050234 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 234 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cassiano Augusto Oliveira da Silva ◽

Ana Paula Rodrigues Cavalcanti ◽

Kaline da Silva Lima ◽

Carlos André Macêdo Cavalcanti ◽

Tânia Cristina de Oliveira Valente ◽

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Keyword(s):

Family Support ◽

Social Recognition ◽

Spiritual Needs ◽

Support Needs ◽

Construct Definition ◽

The Past ◽

Five Factors ◽

The Social ◽

Immunodeficiency Virus ◽

Validity Criteria

The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) measures psychosocial, existential, and spiritual needs in clinical contexts. The objective was to confirm its factor structure in Brazil, comparing the results of its validation for Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, under similar sampling conditions, in João Pessoa (Paraíba-Brazil), among 157 HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus)+ patients, most of them men (49%) (women = 35%; other = 16%), aged between 30 and 49 years (53.5%). From exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency analysis a structure of five factors (or components) was obtained: Religious Needs (α = 0.73), Inner Peace and Family Support Needs, gathered (α = 0.64), Existential Needs (α = 0.49) and two new factors instead of “Giving/Generativity Needs”, being Social Recognition Needs (α = 0.54), referring explicitly to religious practices, with items formerly found in the Religious Needs factor, and Time Domain: Reflection and Clarification Needs (α = 0.57), which group only two items (item 4, “reflection on the past” (formerly in the Inner Peace component) and item 5, “resolution of outstanding problems”). The institutional religiosity perceived in the composition of the Social Recognition Needs component shows that these patients differentiate “religiosity” from “spirituality”. The Religious Needs component was formed with items from the “spirituality” construct definition. The most important component was Inner Peace and Family Support Needs, a relevant coping strategy in this disease. The results met proper validity criteria, and SpNQ proved to be sensitive and appropriate to situations of cultural and clinical diversity between samplings.

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The Nature and Promise of Analytic Theology

Brill Research Perspectives in Theology ◽

10.1163/24683493-12340008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 1-103

Author(s):

Oliver D. Crisp ◽

James M. Arcadi ◽

Jordan Wessling

Keyword(s):

Research Program ◽

Biblical Studies ◽

Theological Method ◽

Annual Conference ◽

Research Centers ◽

Academic Journals ◽

Monograph Series ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

Abstract In the past decade analytic theology has established itself as a flourishing research program that includes academic journals, monograph series, a dedicated annual conference, research centers on several continents, and a growing and diverse body of work produced by scholars drawn from philosophy, theology, and biblical studies. In this short monograph Oliver Crisp, James Arcadi, and Jordan Wessling introduce readers to analytic theology. The work provides an account of analytic theology, some of the main areas in which analytic theologians have worked, and some of the prospects for the future of analytic theology going forward. It also addresses some key objections to analytic theology as a theological method, and aims to acquaint scholars and students with this new and promising theological movement.

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Transgender: A Useful Category?

TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly ◽

10.1215/23289252-9311032 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 426-442

Author(s):

Marta V. Vicente

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Social Representation ◽

Social Recognition ◽

First Person ◽

The Past ◽

Trans People

Abstract This article seeks to start a discussion that may help us understand why the category “transgender,” created to include all trans* experiences, has excluded some. If “transgender” cannot fully include all trans* people, can it still be a useful category to adequately capture and analyze the lived experience of historical actors? It is in tracing back the genealogy of transgender, in the search for a name that could encompass the multiple and sometimes contradictory relationships between one's body and its social recognition, that we may attempt to discover why transgender has eclipsed terms such as transsexual and transvestite. The article first examines the parallels between recent debates in the historiographies of gender and transgender as terms that can express the complex social representation of bodies negotiated by language. Second, it studies how much a genealogy of transgender in the past reveals in fact a multiplicity of terms to express a realignment between body and a self that can be read by society. Ultimately, the author proposes the study of first-person narratives as the best way to comprehend the multiple terms used to express the diverse and sometimes contradictory identities an individual can embody.

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From Cow to Cradle. Mutations and Meanings of Rural Household in Post-socialism

International Review of Social Research ◽

10.1515/irsr-2011-0010 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 35-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Vintilă Mihăilescu

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Max Weber ◽

Social Recognition ◽

Main Interest ◽

Lifestyle Choice ◽

The Past ◽

Productive Activities ◽

Trace Back ◽

History Of ◽

Recognition Theory

Abstract This article points at the path to modernization of the recent Romanian households, meaning, in this case, the out ruling of productive activities from the household’s space and time (Max Weber). A brief social history of the household (gospodărie) tries to trace back this longue durée process focusing on the shift in the work ethics from a normative model of the ‘good householder’ to an ‘aesthetisation of life’ (Max Weber) and symbolic emancipation. The main interest of the article concerns the relatively new phenomenon of ‘rustic houses’, which is less an architectural, than a lifestyle choice. Contrasted with the former ‘pride houses’ that spread all over the Romanian villages in the last decade, the peasant rustic taste seems to express a kind of return to the local and the past articulated with a modern concern for comfort and appearance: ‘rustic is traditional and modern in the same time!’ – claimed one of our informants. Rusticity thus becomes a (post)modern simulacrum of genuine peasant life. The final part of the article tries to transcend this mere semantic overview in search of its deeper and subjective motivations. In doing so, the article is approaching these recent rural households in the terms of Axel Honneth’s social recognition theory. It also suggests that, in this respect, the rustic taste expresses an existential search for authenticity.

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Heroic memory and contemporary war

International Review of the Red Cross ◽

10.1017/s1816383119000225 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 101 (910) ◽

pp. 229-249

Author(s):

Gilbert Holleufer

Keyword(s):

Civil Wars ◽

Social Recognition ◽

International Humanitarian Law ◽

Global Changes ◽

Collective Violence ◽

Humanitarian Law ◽

The Past ◽

Cultural Construct ◽

Male Gender Role ◽

Warrior Ethos

AbstractInter-State wars seem to have come to an end in the late 1990s; ever since, the global reality of collective violence has come down to the chaos of contemporary civil wars and terrorist attacks. In this article, it will be argued that in today's civil wars, as well as in terrorist violence, the traditional warrior ethos is fading, giving way to types of violence governed by a new psychological and social paradigm. In other words, it is assumed that the very set of values that has universally determined the male gender role and the frame of hegemonic masculinity since time immemorial has also informed the waging of war according to a “heroic regime of violence”, and this phenomenon has made war a desirable option for countless generations of young men. On the other hand, the global changes entailed by modernity seem to have undermined this warrior ethos, giving way to a “post-heroic regime” in which extermination-oriented violence, rather than combat-oriented violence, is fostered. In this article, the author will scrutinize the founding psychological and social determinants that have so far upheld the cultural construct of the heroic model, in order to illuminate the ominous consequences of the deculturation of war in today's chaotic conflicts. In such contexts, the men who are fighting1 suffer from a loss of meaning and the impossibility of gaining dignity and social recognition in an ecosystem of humiliation and ubiquitous violence that has little to do with the expectations of pride and dignity conveyed by the past ideals of heroism associated with a certain vision of masculinity. The article will also discuss ways and means of getting the message of international humanitarian law through to men on the front lines caught up in such circumstances.

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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYES: THE LENS OF VISIBILITY IN INTERNET RESEARCH

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research ◽

10.5210/spir.v2018i0.10469 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

David Myles ◽

Daniel Trottier ◽

Mélanie Millette ◽

Claudine Bonneau ◽

Viviane Sergi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Ethical Issues ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Social Reality ◽

Social Identities ◽

Social Recognition ◽

Internet Research ◽

The Past ◽

Digital Materiality ◽

The Social

The objective of this panel is to examine the analytical and empirical relevance of the “visibility lens” for Internet research. In the past decade, researchers have started to take a specific interest in the constitutive role of online visibility in the organization of social reality. Studies have underlined the fundamental role of visibility afforded by digital technologies in the social recognition or exclusion of individuals, groups, and communities. They have also identified visibility and its management as being constitutive of social identities, relations, and practices among actors in a variety of fields. So far, Internet researchers have provided various definitions and operationalizations of online visibility. For example, visibility can be apprehended as both a political lever for individuals and collectives or as a conceptual category for researchers to make sense of social reality. Visibility is also frequently associated with digital materiality. As such, it is sometimes used as a criterion to categorize digital technologies regarding the control they allow for users to manage and disclose personal contents or activities. Furthermore, visibility can also be conceptualized as an affordance that is enabled by the functionalities of digital technologies and enacted through their situated uses. In this panel, presenters will raise theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues linked to visibility by drawing from a series of case studies. They will then draw similarities and contrasts between cases, as well as discuss the implications and, indeed, the relevance of formalizing the lens of visibility in the field of Internet research.

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Observations of the continuum near the galactic centre

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900101305 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 405

Author(s):

F. J. Kerr

Keyword(s):

Galactic Centre ◽

The Past ◽

Centre Region ◽

The Continuum

A continuum survey of the galactic-centre region has been carried out at Parkes at 20 cm wavelength over the areal11= 355° to 5°,b11= -3° to +3° (Kerr and Sinclair 1966, 1967). This is a larger region than has been covered in such surveys in the past. The observations were done as declination scans.

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