scholarly journals Changing the opinions, beliefs and attitudes of the Efiks, Quas and Efuts of Calabar Municipality towards the practice of female circumcision

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Oyira Emilia James ◽  
Emon Umoe Duke ◽  
Essien N. C ◽  
Affiong Ekpenyong Onoyom ◽  
Egbai ME ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Female Circumcision ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The City ◽  
Harmful Effects ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes ◽  
Local Languages

Objective: To determine the opinion of the Efiks, Quas and Efuts of old Calabar district towards the practice of female circumcision. To examine the beliefs of the Efiks, Quas and Efuts of Calabar towards the practice of female circumcision. To determine the attitude of the Efiks, Quas and Efuts of Calabar towards the practice of female circumcision.Methods: In order to successfully carry out the study, three research questions and hypothesis were formulated. Literatures were reviewed based on the research variables. The research instrument used for data collection was questionnaire which was administered on three hundred and six (306) respondents who served as the sample for the study. Their responses were analyzed using frequencies, and percentages. Results showed that more than 50% are not in support of the practice and in fact more than 64% will not want their daughters circumcised.Results: It is observed that majority of educated, well informed and enlightened individuals who are aware of the harmful effects of the female circumcision abhors it. To this extent, proper education, and enlightenment, should be encouraged. Religions and cosmopolitan nature of the city are key to influencing the opinions, beliefs and attitude of the people living there. And finally, majority of the people think that the practice of female circumcision is decreasing in the city. Based on these findings information should continue to be disseminated using mass media and local languages for complete eradication and permanent attitudinal change.Conclusions: This work highlight the influence of public education and increase awareness from both the rural and urban communities so rooted to their cultures of female circumcision in old Calabar district as bad practice and unacceptable tradition in the 21st century world of today.

Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hudnut-Beumler
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
First Century ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Evangelical Protestant

In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive interviews and his own personal journeys throughout the region over the past decade to present a comprehensive portrait of the South’s long-dominant religion. Hudnut-Beumler traveled to both rural and urban communities, listening to the faithful talk about their lives and beliefs. What he heard pushes hard against prevailing notions of southern Christianity as an evangelical Protestant monolith so predominant as to be unremarkable. True, outside of a few spots, no non-Christian group forms more than six-tenths of one percent of a state’s population in what Hudnut-Beumler calls the Now South. Drilling deeper, however, he discovers an unexpected, blossoming diversity in theology, practice, and outlook among southern Christians. He finds, alongside traditional Baptists, black and white, growing numbers of Christians exemplifying changes that no one could have predicted even just forty years ago, from congregations of LGBT-supportive evangelicals and Spanish-language church services to a Christian homeschooling movement so robust in some places that it may rival public education in terms of acceptance. He also finds sharp struggles and political divisions among those trying to reconcile such Christian values as morality and forgiveness—the aftermath of the mass shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church in 2015 forming just one example. This book makes clear that understanding the twenty-first-century South means recognizing many kinds of southern Christianities.

scholarly journals The Last Dutch Smallpox Epidemic: Infectious Disease and Social Inequalities in Amsterdam, 1870-1872

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Muurling ◽  
Tim Riswick ◽  
Katalin Buzasi
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
History Of ◽  
Neighbourhood Characteristics ◽  
The City

The complex relationship between the history of infectious diseases and social inequalities has recently attracted renewed attention. Smallpox has so far largely escaped this revived scholarly scrutiny, despite its century-long status as one of the deadliest and widespread of all infectious diseases. Literature has demonstrated that important differences between rural and urban communities, and between cities, but has so far failed to address disparities within cities due to varying living conditions and disease environments. This article examines the last nationwide upsurge of smallpox in the Netherlands through the lens of Amsterdam’s 50 neighbourhoods in the period 1870-1872. We use a mixed methods approach combining qualitative spatial analysis and OLS regression to investigate which part of the population was affected most by this epidemic in terms of age and sex, geographic distribution across the city, and underlying socio-demographic neighbourhood characteristics such as relative wealth, house density, crude death rate, and birth rate. Our analyses reveal a significant spatial patterning of smallpox mortality that can largely be explained by existing socio-demographic neighbourhood characteristics. The smallpox epidemic was not socially neutral, but lays bare some of the deep-seated social and health inequalities across the city.

scholarly journals Revealing the Accountability of the Sultanate of Ternate Assets in the era of Sultan Mudaffar Sjah II (1975-2015)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-437
Author(s):  
Muhamad Dhanutirto F. Tuwow ◽  
Bambang Hariadi ◽  
Ali Djamhuri
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
City Government ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Thought

This study aims to construct the assets accountability of the Sultan Mudaffar Sjah II era of the Ternate’s Sultanate (1975-2015). The focus of the study was to uncover various forms of embodiment and values contained in accountability during the Sultan Mudaffar Sjah II Ternate’s Sultanate. This research uses ethnographic methods developed by River and Boas. The analysis used to answer research questions uses Foucoult's historical thought analysis of Power-Knowledge. Questions were given to several informants who explained that they were competent to support this research. In carrying out asset accountability, the values inherent in the Accountability of Sultan Mudaffar Sjah are based on the philosophy of Jou se Ngofangare which is closely held by the Ternate’s Sultanate. Accountability of Jou se Ngofangare is what gave birth to a trilogy of dimensions that instills the values of a harmonious relationship between humans and God, humans and humans, and the relationship between humans and nature. The construction of accountability for Sultan Mudaffar's assets takes several forms: His view is that all property is intended for the people. Much has been done by Sultan Mudaffar Sjah during his leadership in the contemporary era, from protecting all forms of the Sultanate's assets. Starting from accountability for power, accountability for trust and responsibility for customary land, until he also donated land for the public interest in this case to the City Government of Ternate, namely for the construction of Khairun University as well as the construction of an airport.

scholarly journals Spatial inequality hides the burden of dog bites and the risk of dog-mediated human rabies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micaela De la Puente-León ◽  
Michael Z. Levy ◽  
Amparo M. Toledo ◽  
Sergio Recuenco ◽  
Julianna Shinnick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Human Rabies ◽  
Medical Facility ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Dog Bites ◽  
The People ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTCurrently, there is an active rabies outbreak in the dog population of Arequipa, Peru. Inhabitants of the city are bitten by both pets and free-roaming dogs; therefore, the risk of human rabies transmission is concerning. Our objective was to estimate the rate of dog bites in the city and to identify factors associated with going or not going to a medical facility for rabies follow-up. To this end, we conducted a door-to-door survey of 4,000 houses in 21 urban and 21 peri-urban communities. We then analyzed associations between attaining follow-up rabies care and various socioeconomic factors, stratifying by urban and peri-urban localities. We found that the rate of dog bites in peri-urban communities (12.4%) was approximately three times higher than urban areas (4.0%). Among the people who were bitten, a significantly greater number of people in urban areas got follow-up rabies care than those in peri-urban areas.

scholarly journals AMBON DI BAWAH ORDE BARU: TRANSFORMASI KAPITALISME PADA MASYARAKAT PINGGIRAN

DIALEKTIKA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Hatib Kadir
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
New Order ◽  
Karl Polanyi ◽  
Rural People ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT: Using the approach of Karl Polanyi (2014), this paper studies three great transformation take place in Ambon Island during the 1970s t0 1990s. Those transformation are on land, money and transportation. Money transforms local people to acquaint with the price system. On the other hand, the needs of consumption increase when money is introduced. Using money, local Moluccans can send their children to the higher school as well as allocate to buy more machinery works. The machinization also accelerates rural people to work faster and more efficient. The questions from this paper is who are the people who bring all of these social and economic transformations? The author found that the coming of voluntary migrants from Sulawesi, Java, and Padangese any other Island in Indonesia play significant role to change the Moluccan system economic and social systems. These migrants dominate exchanges from the production level in the orchards to the rural and urban marketplaces. They play both as traders and middlemen. The Butonese, migrants from Sulawesi, are the most significant suppliers and middlemen that bring rural commodities to sell to the Chinese Moluccan in the city. Chinese Moluccan mostly are shop owners who do not have a direct in touch with the local Moluccan landowners in the rural areas. They also play a role as moneylender for Butonese to buy cloves and nutmeg from the rural areas. Therefore, it is Butonese that have direct contact with the rural Moluccans. Despite the authoritarian regime of the New Order, in the economic field, the State tend to let people to constitute their own business, before finally in the mid of 1990s, The Clove Support and Trading Board (BPPC) under the authority of Tommy Suharto, the son of Indonesian President, took over the business by monopolize the clove trade system. Keywords: Economic Transformation, ethnic economy, exchanges, middlemen, monetization.

scholarly journals CULTURAL ORIGINS OF THE CITY OF OSH AND OSH REGION

2018 ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
T.D. Kadyrov
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
New School ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Origins ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The article deals with the cultural transformation of the city of Osh and Osh region (under the USSR). The October revolution made a radical revolution not only in the field of socio - economic, political and national relations, but also in spiritual life: in culture, ideology, morality, as well as in the life and traditions of the peoples of our Republic. It not only opened the people wide access to spiritual values, but also made them direct creators of these values. From the first days of the victory of the October revolution, it was decided to eradicate such remnants of the middle ages as class, national inequality, the disenfranchised status of women, etc. First of all, it was necessary to create a new school, in its essence, principles, structure and objectives radically different from the old one. Education in the new schools has become free, compulsory, co-educational for children of both sexes and independent of their nationality. All peoples have the right to study in schools in their native language. In April 1918, the people's Commissariat of education was established at the V Congress of Councils of Turkestan, local departments of public education at the Executive committees of regional and district Councils. On may 20, 1918 the Council of public education was formed in Osh.

scholarly journals Implementation of Good Government Governance through E-Government

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S9) ◽  
pp. 276-283
Keyword(s):  
Program Planning ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
The People ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Policy And Science ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Ideal

The article explain about the implementation of e-government management in Tasikmalaya city, West Java. Using a qualitative approach, the researcher is an instrument obliged to collect, process, analyze, interpret and verify the data and information. The observation and participatory research done by observing the processes of implementation of policy implementation of e-government in Tasikmalaya, which concerns such aspects as idealized policy, implementing organization, target groups, and environmental factors. Data and information through observation and in-depth interviews to informants are the key in collecting the data. The validity and reliability of data and information are performed by triangulation, clarification and description explained and verified by theories of public policy and science administration to formulate answers from the research questions. The result of this research shows that the implementation of e-government policy in Tasikmalaya city has not shown towards the understanding of the policies that favor e-government in the city of Tasikmalaya. The ideal policy on the implementation of e-government were not yet properly implemented by the fact that in implementing organization in the department of communication of Tasikmalaya city were not optimally effective in coaching, services and protection as well as socialization and the process and preparation of program planning. In this case the aspirations of the people are less involved in the formulation of the policy of e-government implementation resulted in the implementation; it did only accept without commenting and understanding the implementation of the e-government.

scholarly journals Dislokasi Identitas Agama dan Budaya Perkotaan: Perkembangan Kampung Wisata di Kota Yogyakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Zaenuddin Hudi Prasojo ◽  
Muhammad Arifin ◽  
Irwan Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Villages

Since the early 20th century, villages in the city of Yogyakarta has started to become villages of tourism following the government promoting tourism in the region. Originally carrying local and cultural identities, those villages appear to be touristic, accommodating the needs of the visitors. This work attempts to explore how this social phenomenon happening to two urban villages within the city namely Kampung Kauman and Kampung Prawirotaman. It focuses on explaining how the villagers actively play their roles in the neighborhood in social and cultural processes within the new environment and physical space.  The appropriate data found in the field is analyzed accordingly to the research questions by employing a qualitative approach.  The work suggests that cultural identity has changed in these two urban villages as a result of the influence of external values promoting the redefinition and redesign of public and social space. Besides, it also finds that delegitimization of the identity of Kampung and communality dislocation has occurred due to tourism purposes. The new formulation of the Kampung does not only reflect the emergence of new ideology and tradition but also stimulate resistance, conflict, and negotiation. This study recommends the importance of mentoring programs from the strategic stakeholders for better space and cultural transformation leading to the prevention of the damage of local wisdom basis within urban communities.

scholarly journals Religion, Suanggi, and Suicide: A Case Study in the City of Ambon from the Perspective of Religious Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Steve G.C. Gaspersz ◽  
Nancy N. Souisa ◽  
Rido D. Latuheru
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The People ◽  
The City

During 2017-2019 a few cases of suicide amongst Christian teenagers in the city of Ambon have been linked to the infl uence of “suanggi” that has connotations of being the representation of an evil supernatural power. By using the qualitative research method with a case study approach, the article is focused on the religious reactions of the Christian community in their understanding and rationalization of these two phenomena. Data is collected through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and personal interviews. All collected qualitative data are analyzed by social hermeneutical analysis. The results of the study have shown that: (1) Social change that occurred amongst the people of Ambon has implications in the shift of traditional order of living values, at the same time clashes between the custodians of cultural traditions and morality (church) have occurred. (2) Within the Ambonese community, religion does not only symbolize certain systems of belief, but also becomes the institution that provides a place for the communal spirit and protects the shared morality through its teachings and the practice of its rituals. (3) The phenomena of suicide amongst teenagers in Ambon, the circulation of information concerning the influence of “suanggi”, and the reactive response of the Christian community reflects the clash between the insistence for social change amongst the urban communities.

Teachers' Base Pay, Student/Teacher Ratio, and Per-Student Expenditures as Predictors of Communities' Average Satisfaction with Local School Systems

1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter R. Schumm ◽  
Anthony P. Jurich ◽  
Stephan R. Bollman
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
School System ◽  
Parental Satisfaction ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
School Systems ◽  
Local School ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Per Student Expenditures

In an analysis of 15 rural and urban communities in the Midwest, nonsignificant relationships were found between parental satisfaction with the local school system and three presumed measures of educational quality or financing, including teachers' base pay, student/teacher ratio, and per student expenditure. Implications for the support of public education are briefly discussed.

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