The Reluctant Immigrant

The Mentelles ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph Paul Runyon
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Horseback Riding ◽  
Louis Xvi ◽  
As If

This chapter contrasts the Parisian childhoods of Charlotte and Waldemar Mentelle, born in 1770 and 1769 respectively. Charlotte was raised, in the absence of her mother, by her physician father as if she were a boy, inuring her to hardship and teaching her the "manly arts" of fencing, hunting, and horseback riding. Waldemar's father, Edme Mentelle, was a prominent academician with ties to Louis XVI and led such an active social life that he left his son entirely to the care of his mother, who spoiled him. When Waldemar became a young man, his father took him to task for not having learned a profession, and sent him off to America in the hope he could make something of himself there. Charlotte and Waldemar had in the meantime become lovers.

scholarly journals ON OUR MORAL COMMUNITIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Bobo
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Moral Communities ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
As If

Notions of race and the full-blown ideologies of racism that often accompany such social distinctions are not now nor have they ever been entirely static phenomena. Much, and arguably too much, social scientific research proceeds as if race and racism were relatively transparent, discrete, and static phenomena. Furthermore, such a perspective implies that lacking such transparency and fixity, race and racism have lost force and salience in social life. Such phenomena need not be fixed or simplex in order to profoundly affect how individuals in a society live or in order to be made the focus of important systematic social research. Yet, the complexity, pliability, and historical specificity of notions of race and of racism do perforce raise for us challenges of conceptual clarity and theoretical logic, and demand of us clear standards for the collection, deployment, and interpretation of evidence.

View from the Fourteenth Floor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erikson
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
As If

This chapter considers one approach to the sociological perspective that has to do with looking at social life as if from afar even when one is positioned at arm's length from it. It explains how sociologists look at social life from a point of vantage similar to that gained at a fourteenth floor. It suggests that sociologists who speak of the social tend to be speaking of tides, forces, currents, pulls—something in the nature of social life that induces people to behave in fairly predictable ways at least part of the time. Human life is subject to social forces that help give it form and pattern. Sociologists tend to regard those forces as things. The chapter also considers the conflict and disorder that characterize the social world.

scholarly journals The LocaL Tradition of Magical Practices in Banten society

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayatullah Humaeni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Central Spot ◽  
Local Tradition ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Ma Thesis ◽  
As If

<div class="WordSection1"><p>This article aims to discuss the cultural phenomenon of magical practices in the Muslim society of Banten which still exists up to the present. It is a part of my MA thesis research that has been combined with my recent field research using ethnography method based on the anthropological approach. Magical practices becomes cultural identity for Bantenese society.  Several sources on Banten mention that Banten as a central spot for magical sciences, besides it is also well- known as a religious area. The magical practices are still regarded important for Bantenese people, especially who live in the villages to solve their practical problems in their social life. Magic is a socio-religious phenomenon which has long, well-established roots in Banten society. It  is  traceable from many literatures that describes the uniqueness of Bantenese’s culture. Besides other magical practices debus is the most noticeable appearance of the magical tradition in Banten since the sultanate period until nowadays. The existence of debus Banten and other kinds of magical practices in Banten has strengthened the reputation of Banten as if ‘a haven of magical sciences’.</p> <p> </p> <p>Tulisan ini mencoba mendiskusikan tentang fenomena kultural mengenai praktek magis pada masyarakat Muslim Banten yang masih ada hingga saat ini. Artikel ini merupakan bagian dari tesis Master saya yang sudah dikombinasikan dengan penelitian lapangan baru-baru ini dengan menggunakan metode etnografi berdasarkan pendekatan antropologis. Praktek magis sudah menjadi identitas kultural bagi masyarakat Banten. Beberapa sumber menyebut Banten sebagai pusat ilmu-ilmu gaib, di samping dikenal sebagai daerah yang religius. Praktek magis masih dianggap penting bagi masyarakat Banten, khususnya yang tinggal di pedesaan untuk menyelesaikan masalah-masalah praktis dalam kehidupan sosial mereka. Magis adalah sebuah fenomena sosio-kultural yang memiliki akar yang cukup lama dan sudah berakar kuat dalam masyarakat Banten. Hal ini bisa dilacak dari banyak literatur yang menjelaskan keunikan dari budaya Banten. Debus adalah bukti paling kongkrit dari tradisi magis di Banten sejak periode kesultanan hingga saat ini, disamping beragam praktek magis yang lainnya. keberadaan debus Banten dan berbagai jenis praktek magis yang lainnya di Banten telah memperkuat reputasi Banten sebagai ‘tempat bersemayamnya ilmu-ilmu magis’.</p></div> <p> </p><br />

scholarly journals AGAMA DALAM KEHIDUPAN INDIVIDU

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Ahmad Taufik
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Positive Feeling ◽  
Broad Scope ◽  
As If

Religion as a form of human belief in something supernatural or supernatural turns out to be as if accompanying humans in the broad scope of life. Religion has values for human life as people per person and in relation to social life. Besides that religion also has an impact on everyday life. The influence of religion in an individual's life is to give inner stability, feeling of happiness, feeling of protection, a sense of success and satisfaction. This positive feeling will further be a motivator to do religion in the life of an individual besides being a motivation and ethical value is also hope.

The View from Above

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hardman
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Decision Points ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Louis Xvi ◽  
Alternative Solutions ◽  
As If

In the maelstrom of ‘pre-revolutionary’ agitations, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the king and his ministers, to varying degrees, still thought and acted through 1788 and early 1789 as if their wishes and decisions were the determinants of political action. And indeed, to a certain extent, they were. This chapter explores the complex web of principle, prejudice and self-interest that continued to mark the conduct of old-regime governance up to, and beyond, the threshold of revolutionary change. As well as detailing a series of crucial decision points at which the monarchy could have offered alternative solutions to those it unsuccessfully chose, it also reflects on the extent to which the nature of those decisions can be fully understood, or must remain locked within the enigma that was the personality of Louis XVI.

scholarly journals The Prevalence, Management and Impact of Dysmenorrhea on Medical Students’ Lives—A Multicenter Study

Healthcare ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Romina-Marina Sima ◽  
Mihaela Sulea ◽  
Julia Caroline Radosa ◽  
Sebastian Findeklee ◽  
Bashar Haj Hamoud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Menstrual Period ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
As If

Introduction: Dysmenorrhea is defined as the presence of painful menstruation, and it affects daily activities in different ways. The aims of this study were to assess the prevalence and management of dysmenorrhea and to determine the impact of dysmenorrhea on the quality of life of medical students. Material and methods: The study conducted was prospective, analytical and observational and was performed between 7 November 2019 and 30 January 2020 in five university centers from Romania. The data was collected using an original questionnaire regarding menstrual cycles and dysmenorrhea. The information about relationships with family or friends, couples’ relationships and university activity helped to assess the effects of dysmenorrhea on quality of life. The level of significance was set at p < 0.05. Results: The study comprised 1720 students in total. The prevalence of dysmenorrhea was 78.4%. During their menstrual period, most female students felt more agitated or nervous (72.7%), more tired (66.9%), as if they had less energy for daily activities (75.9%) and highly stressed (57.9%), with a normal diet being difficult to achieve (30.0%). University courses (49.4%), social life (34.5%), couples’ relationships (29.6%), as well as relationships with family (21.4%) and friends (15.4%) were also affected, depending on the duration and intensity of the pain. Conclusion: Dysmenorrhea has a high prevalence among medical students and could affect the quality of life of students in several ways. During their menstrual period, most female students feel as if they have less energy for daily activities and exhibit a higher level of stress. The intensity of the symptoms varies considerably and, with it, the degree of discomfort it creates. Most student use both pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods to reduce pain (75.7%). University courses, social life, couples’ relationships, as well as relationships with family and friends are affected, depending on the duration and intensity of the pain.

Slavery and Social Life: Attempts to Reduce Free People to Slavery in the Sertão Mineiro, Brazil, 1850–1871

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Bieber Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
District Attorney ◽  
Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Many ◽  
Free People ◽  
As If ◽  
Internal Trade

In 1859 the district attorney of Montes Claros, in a long dispatch to the provincial chief of police, enumerating the many evils prevailing in his jurisdiction, included ‘craven traffickers who abduct little free children of colour whom they trick and seduce with fruits and presents, to sell as if they were slaves, trading them for livestock or mere trinkets’. This complaint was not an isolated incident; it reflected a larger trade in free people of colour which took place in the sertão of northern Minas Gerais after the closing of the transatlantic slave trade in 1851 and before the passage of the law of the free womb in 1871. The internal trade in free persons ceased in the early 1870s, when mandatory slave matriculation made illicit transactions more detectable.

Webs of meaning: Theories and evidence from contemporary Ireland

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-243
Author(s):  
Tom Inglis
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Meaning Theories ◽  
Do So ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

Meaning is basic to social life. Without it we are, as Bourdieu put it, like fish out water. And yet, within mainstream sociology, meaning is taken for granted. There are two questions. Is it important to try and get at meaning? And, if yes, how do we do so? In this article, I argue that we have progressed much theoretically from the debate that took place between Schutz and Parsons back in the 1960s. It is as if meaning and structures are opposite sides of the same coin but we either look at one side or the other: we cannot address them simultaneously. However, I argue that to do good sociology, it is necessary to try to marry what is going on in the actor with the way in which the actor is constituted within social structures. Given that we can only develop an approximate understanding of any actor and that we can only develop an approximate understanding of social structures, any attempt to link the two is necessarily tentative but, nevertheless, worthwhile.

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