Social Perception of Old Age in the Context of the Family Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol XVII ◽  
pp. 73-92
Author(s):  
Wojciech Piestrzyński ◽  
Dariusz Sarzała
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The Third ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One

Nowadays, geriatrics and gerontology are facing a great social chal-lenge. On the one hand, the age of human life is significantly extended, and on the other hand, families of people in the third age increasingly do not feel obliged to surround their Seniors with support and care. The life of older people, even in modern well-organized and affluent societies, is not free from threats related to their safety. Therefore, the question arises how to act so that people in old age feel satisfied with the fact that they were given to live to a ripe old age? However, taking adequate measures in this area and ensuring them the need for security in all psychosocial dimensions requires, above all, a deeper understanding of the society's attitude towards people of senior age. This study presents the results of research on attitudes towards old age, perception of the senior age as a value in the upbringing of the young generation, and the place and importance of older people in the family.

The experience of non-traditional study of the poetics of literary works (on the example of the book “Fontanelle” by Meir Shalev)

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
Vadim Markovich Rozin
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family And Marriage ◽  
Nontraditional Approach ◽  
Empirical Material

This article offers a nontraditional approach towards studying the poetics of literary work, which considers personality of the reader and analysis of the reality that he reconstructs and experiences. The empirical material is comprised on the authorial analysis of the poetics of Meir Shalev's novel “Fontanelle”. This literary work features the four major themes: love of the protagonist Michael, creation of the new world from its inception, the characteristic of life values of a person, and discussion of the peculiarities of reality that Meir Shalev builds as an artist. In the first theme, the author reveals several images of love, reflecting on the mystical love of the protagonist for the young woman Ana, love in the family and marriage, love for children. At the same time, the author discusses not only the way that Meir Shalev understands and describes love in “Fontanelle”, but also talks about the own interpretation of love. In the plotline of the second theme, the author also distinguishes two lines: the story the protagonist’s grandfather Apupa, who carries his beloved Amuma on his shoulders across the country, seeking a place where they could create a home and family; and the story of gradual development of a small settlement into a city, created by Apupa and Amuma on the mountain, and several Jewish families at the lower valley. Discussing in the third topic the anchors of human life, the author emphasizes such values as effort, love, family and family line, creativity, indicating that Michael is not alone, he is loved, he gets involved in family history, as well as the history of Israel and Jewish culture, drawing strength in the heroes of this story. The last part of the article gives characteristic to the reality of “Fontanelle” and explains why the author liked it.

scholarly journals Exploring the Preparedness of Ghanaians for Retirement and Ageing: A Case Study of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Korkoi Aboh ◽  
Busisiwe P. Ncama
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
The Family

Introduction: There is evidence of the inability of older people in Nigeria, Ghana and other developing countries to sustain themselves through savings, assets or pensions. This situation highlights the minimal benefit of pensions, savings or assets as income sources for older people; old age very often brings poverty and disability. Methodology: A qualitative interpretive design informed the study. The study area was categorized into three distinct ecological areas namely urban, periurban and rural areas. Twenty interviews and three focus group discussions with 68 elderly persons were conducted in ten sub-districts in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana. The forty-eight elderly individuals were put into groups of 8, 20 and 20 for the focus group discussions. Data was thematically analysed.Results: Four major themes and subthemes were identified to reflect the pertinent issue of exploring and defining the preparedness of people for their retirement and ageing. There was evidence that preparing for old age is not an active precedent for the people of Cape Coast and they still believe in the traditional system of caring where it is the sole responsibility of the family to care for its own aged members.Conclusion: It is evident that formal care is not practiced in Ghana and that the aged therefore find the idea bewildering. They want to experience this care, but existing norms expect the family members to single-handedly provide care for their aged.

Liaison entre la religion et les fonctions culturelles de la famille

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Voyé
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Parallel Evolution ◽  
Family Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Sociological Explanation ◽  
Hereditary Character ◽  
Socializing Agents ◽  
The Impact

The relatively hereditary character of diverse cultural phenomena has already drawn attention to the role that the family can play in this trans mission. It appears in particular that political orientations and the chances of access to different types and levels of education can frequently be explained by a specific family membership. Two types of argument are put forward here in order to explain how the family can appear as a privileged place of cultural apprenticeship: on the one hand psychological arguments linked with the primary and universal character of family education and the type of relations that this develops; on the other hand a more sociological explanation based on the repercussion that the more or less great complexity of learned language entails with regard to diverse exterior participations, and on the comparison between the impact of the family and those of other socializing agents on the successive choices which they will impose. To these explanatory elements of the existing link between cultural memberships and the family environment is added, for religion as much as for the family, the transition from the public to the private sphere. This parallel evolution will tend to increase the autonomy of religion on the plane of secondary elaborations for which it will borrow its mode of re-interpretation from the exigencies of daily life, particularly from the family.

HEALTH AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE FAMILY CARE, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIALIZATION PROCESS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FUNCTIONING OF PROFESSIONAL FOSTER FAMILIES IN SZCZECIN

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Urszula Kazubowska
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Family ◽  
Socialization Processes

Health is in the area of analysis of many sciences, e.g. psychology, sociology, pedagogy or philosophy. Each of them presents health and its specificity in a specific way. The most frequently indicated dimensions of health are: physical, mental (including intellectual and emotional), social, spiritual and transcendent. Contemporary pedagogical concepts of health emphasize that they can be considered as: value, resource (wealth), means, aim, a concept emphasizing the benefits of being healthy. Attention is also paid to the health mandala and the eudaimonic concept of family health. Thanks to these concepts, health is part of family care, educational and socialization processes. Parents, the main implementers of integrated interactions, create, among others, health behaviors, attitudes or lifestyle of their children. The subject of the research was the course of care, educational and socialization processes in professional foster families functioning in the city of Szczecin. The aim of the research was to find out about the specificity of family care, educational and socialization processes. The activities of professional foster families in caring for: children's health, their health attitudes and behaviors as well as health as a value in human life were especially emphasized. The research method was to triangulate the diagnostic survey method with the qualitative dimension of the case study. The technique used for the study was a questionnaire, in-depth qualitative interview and direct observation. The obtained empirical material was subjected to an in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis with elements of interpretability of the data, however, efforts are being made to make a holistic diagnosis of the family. Axiologization of health attitudes in the surveyed families and making children aware of the need to take care of their own health on the basis of resources at hand are particularly significant for the armory. 

Re-measuring Twenty-first Century Population Ageing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei Scherbov ◽  
Warren C. Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Natural Generalization ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One

Probably the most famous demographic riddle of all time is the one that the Sphinx was said to have posed to travellers outside the Greek city of Thebes: ‘Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?’ Unfortunate travellers who could not answer the riddle correctly were immediately devoured. Oedipus, fresh from killing his father, was the first to have got the answer right. The correct answer was ‘humans’. People crawl on their hands and knees as infants, walk on two feet in adulthood, and walk with a cane in old age. We easily recognize the three ages of humans. Humans are born dependent on the care of others. As they grow, their capacities and productivities generally increase, but eventually these reach a peak. After a while, capacities and productivities decline and, eventually, if they are lucky enough to survive, people become elderly, often again requiring transfers and care from others. The human life cycle is the basis of all studies of population ageing, and so we cannot begin to study population ageing without first answering the Sphinx’s riddle. However, answering the Sphinx’s riddle is not enough to get us started on a study of population ageing. We must take two more steps before we begin. First, we must recognize that not all people age at the same rate. As seen in Chapter 5, nowadays more educated people tend to have longer life expectancies than less educated people. Second, we must realize that there is no natural generalization of the Sphinx’s riddle to whole populations. Populations cannot be categorized into the stages of infancy, adulthood, and old age. Indeed, if the Sphinx was reborn today, we might find her sitting near another city and posing an equally perplexing riddle, one especially relevant for our times: ‘What can grow younger as it grows older?’ Answering this riddle correctly is the central challenge of this chapter and the key to understanding population ageing in the twenty-first century.

Cohabitation, Marriage and Delinquency: The Significance Family Environment

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotirios Sarantakos
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Occurrence Type ◽  
The One ◽  
Parental Conflicts ◽  
The Relationship

This paper uses Australian data to examine the relationship between parental lifestyles and family environments on the one hand, and occurrence, type and frequency of delinquency on the other. These data, collected by means of interviewing, relate to a part of a longitudinal study including 512 children; 233 were children of cohabiting couples and 279 of married couples. The findings presented in this paper show that (a) there are proportionally more offenders coming from families of cohabiting than of married couples; (b) there are proportionately more offenders who become recidivists coming from families of cohabiting than of married couples; and that (c) the family environments of the majority of offenders are marked by instability, low integration, hostile parental attitudes, domestic violence, parental conflicts and parental indifference.

scholarly journals The Large Family in Contemporary Conditions

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franciszka Wanda Wawro
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Social Force ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
High Position ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Family

Abstract In the Polish cultural ethos, the family as a value seems to have an established high position. It is also confirmed by current numerous studies focused mainly on the young generation, which show that for young people the family constitutes a value of the highest priority. It could be presumed, therefore, that the present socio-cultural climate is favourable for the family and enables it to perform its various functions, including the care and cultural function. It also concerns the large family, which in the Polish tradition used to be considered as a beneficial educational environment, or even a kind of a social force. However, in the modern society, which in its definition seems to be a declaration of high quality standards, mainly in terms of developmental chances of all its subjects, the large family has found itself in a specifically difficult situation. The reason behind it is, above all, the fact that having a large number of children is socially ostracized in various ways. If the value of the large family is not only not appreciated socially, but even discredited, then the consequences of such a state of affairs will become apparent in numerous spheres of social life. Most often, it is reflected in the basic decisions in the area of social policy, unfavourable towards large families. For such families it might imply the necessity of engaging in even an extreme struggle for survival in the sphere of everyday existence; even more so when it comes to decent conditions of performing its tasks and its socio-cultural role. Therefore, it is essential to define and refer to the arguments coding in the social consciousness the fact that the large family in the Polish cultural ethos occupied a high position not only in the past, but it still constitutes a significant value which deserves recognition and support.

scholarly journals Pola Penanaman Karakter Mulia Terhadap Anak Didik Dalam Keluarga Berdasarkan Nilai Yang Terkandung Dalam Hadits

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Muhammad Darwis Dasopang
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
Simultaneous Process ◽  
Happy Family

Education is the most important part in human life who has morals and progress. Education can be carried out by everyone in an educational institution, but the primary education should be implemented through family education which is instilled by parents towards their family members from an early age. For this paper, the author will describe the nature and understanding of education in the family; What are the hadiths about education in the family; how the methods and aspects of family education based on the hadiths. The author uses the literature review (library research), with the primary data sources from the hadiths relating to children's education in the family. Study in this paper, Islamic education requires a simultaneous process and sustainable which involves aspects of disciplinary learning and compliance to implement Islamic education towards students. Education in the family, can be found patterns that must be implemented in the family environment, for the formation of a happy family according to what was taught by the prophet Muhammad SAW, and according to the word of Allah SWT in Q.S. Lukman: 13-19

scholarly journals Dysfunctionality of the family environment as one of the reason for recidivism

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Gucwa-Porębska
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
The Family

The family as a basic social cell, the first human life environment, plays a fundamental role in securing needs, transferring social patterns and protecting its members. Taking into account the different family models that exist in the modern world, apart from traditional and reconstructed families, we also distinguish dysfunctional families, which does not immediately mean that they are pathological ones. Properly populating parental functions is one of the most important tasks of the family. It is a family that creates educational, caring and socializing environment for a child, where the characteristics of its personality and identity are evolving, as well as social norms are assimilated and associated with adequate sanctions. Family type and model can have a significant impact on the emergence of criminal behavior in adulthood. The author’s studies in the years 2007–2011 show that family relationships are the most significant factor in the biographies of prisoners. Besides, it has been shown that to start criminal activities and subsequent returns to such activities, they correlate with educational problems and numerous addictions in the family (from alcohol, drugs, psychoactive substances, gambling, etc.). The dysfunctions that arise as a result of the socialization process and the building of daily relationships can be linked to the entry into the criminal way of a young man, and thus foster a return to negative habits and recidivism in the future. The article aims to show the relationship between the being brought up in the dysfunctional family and the entrance to a criminal path, which may also be regarded as one of the causes of later recidivism of individuals.

scholarly journals MODERASI PEMIKIRAN HUKUM ISLAM IMAM SYAFI’I

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Abdul Haris Naim
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Value System ◽  
A Value ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
The One

Almost every life is always characterized by motion and dynamics.<br />Starting from the movement and dynamics of change and<br />development of thought with a variety of variants, always occur<br />continuously without knowing the limits. Likewise in religion, the<br />existence of a religion will be judged to have a function for a life, if<br />religion in practice opens a wide space for the demands of motion<br />and the dynamics of life as intended. The same thing happens also<br />in Islam, on the one hand it is considered a value system that is<br />able to provide guidance and direction for human life, but on the<br />other hand it requires dynamic space constructed from the basics<br />of norms that have the essence of universal truth, because in life<br />always requires constant movement and change from situation to<br />situation and from conditions to other conditions. <br /> <br /><br />

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