scholarly journals Causes of improper body posture in children and possibility of prevention

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Marta Dedaj
Keyword(s):  
School Success ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Functional Abilities ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Work Surface ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Positive Traits ◽  
Number Of Classes ◽  
Do So

The modern way of life, which is characterized by insufficient movement, most often leads to poor posture. Children and young people exercise less and less and spend more and more time in passive sitting and lying positions. Such habits take them away from their natural needs for movement (hypokinesis) and significantly reduce most of their physical and functional abilities. The question is why do so many children sit with such poor posture? Habit is one of the main reasons, but not the only factor of poor posture when sitting. The article especially discusses the environment factors that may indicate the causes of improper posture, and occur during school: several hours of sitting in school desks, a large number of classes, short breaks, dysfunctional and inadequate classroom furniture, insufficient lighting of the work surface, heavy school bags and improper way of carrying one. Due to the influence of various factors: family, preschools, schools, and others in the formation of proper posture, it is necessary to create a system of preventative measures from an early age, which includes educating children. Prevention not only affects school success but also changes the attitude towards oneself, peers, and other people, which contributes to the development of positive traits and characteristics of the person and their successful socialization.

Twilight of Work: The Labor Question in Nietzsche and Marx

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael James Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Radical Reduction ◽  
Theoretical Project ◽  
Do So

This essay is an intervention into the debate regarding the possibility and/or desirability of articulating Nietzsche with Marx as a means to expand upon the foundations of critical social theory. Critics who oppose such an articulation do so because they see Nietzsche’s political views as elitist, if not reactionary, and therefore incompatible with any Marxist-influenced theoretical project. On the other hand, theorists who do attempt such an articulation focus upon the critique of epistemology at the relative exclusion of politics. By focusing upon the labor question, the following pages present a new way to articulate Nietzsche’s cultural analyses with Marx’s structural ones. Both thinkers argued for the separation of work from leisure through a critique of the capitalist work ethic. This way of approaching the labor question is largely neglected in much of Marxist theory that seeks the liberation of work rather than the liberation from work. Reading the two thinkers together on the labor question provides an alternative way to understand Nietzsche’s perceived aristocratic pretensions while jettisoning the labor metaphysic that plagues much of Marxist theory. A rigorous critique of the work ethic points toward a new way of life beyond the workplace, made possible by the radical reduction of working hours.

The Christian View of Man: An Examination of Karl Barth's Doctrine

1949 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Whitehouse ◽  
J. B. Souček
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Christian View ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

Volume III of the Dogmatik is concerned with creation, and the first part dealt with the act of creation, elucidating from a specifically Christian point of view the relation of creation and covenant. In this second part, it is the creature which is studied. For a theology bound to the Word of God, the questions at issue concern the nature of man, and the enquiry is controlled by the fact of God having become man. The material which is handled in this vast volume is a selection from man's varied attempts to speak about himself. The aim is to illuminate and to correct the speech of the contemporary Christian Church on this subject, and to do so by proper theological method and criteria. The resultant doctrine may not be very different from what is said in section I (A) of the Lambeth Report Part II, but one cannot help asking whether the statements made there have been reached by the searching discipline of dogmatic theology, practised with the seriousness found in Barth's work. His declared purpose is to seek “comprehensive clarifications in theology, and about theology itself”, which will give the Church strength to offer “clarifications in the broad field of politics”, a strength which is not strikingly obvious in the Lambeth conclusions about “The Church and the Modern World” and “The Christian Way of Life”.

scholarly journals Christianity and Indigenisation in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
M. A. Masoga ◽  
A. Nicolaides
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Spiritual Consciousness ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

In a quest for greater coherence between parochial identities, culture and Christianity, there exists an African consciousness which seeks to indigenise and decolonise Christianity. Africans are profoundly religious people who view their faith as part of their way of life, as strengthening their cultures and providing a moral compass for daily living. In efforts to transform society, the Christian religion has played a significant role in the path to African development. Christianity in Africa dates to the very inception of the church. Africans consequently played a crucial role in establishing the doctrines and theology of the early church. While African Traditional religion (ATR) is paramount, it is the purpose of this article to suggest that the Christian faith has and continuous to play a significant role on the African continent in its development. While there are many indigenous African beliefs, these have been to a large extent supported by Christianity in a quest to systematize novel knowledge and promote peace and tolerance across the continent. Many Africans have sought facets of Christianity that are similar to their religious and personal practices and continue to do so. Thus, while there exist numerous similarities and also differences between Christianity and ATR, it is imperative to preserve old-style regional distinctiveness and Christianity as the unifying rudiments in nation building endeavours and in efforts to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Africans can and should come to comprehend the Triune Godhead as being consistent with their own spiritual consciousness and existential veracities. Indigenization of Christianity requires enculturation and essentially an understanding that it is indeed ecumenical and also embraces diversity and fundamentally requires viewing Holy Scriptures and the truths they propound as being applicable to any context and cultural milieu across the ages. Christians after all espouse a faith in the Ekklesia or body of Christ for all its people who are the Laos of God.

scholarly journals Giving Up Our Cultural Addiction

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 825
Author(s):  
Deborah Orr
Keyword(s):  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Buddhist Practice ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Dualistic Structure ◽  
Do So

This article will begin with an overview of the sources of our cultural addiction to patriarchal culture and its values in Western cultures. Of particular importance to this was the development of the daughter languages of Sanskrit with their dualistic structure. A further major source lies in the Biblical Genesis creation text and subsequent Western philosophy and theology. These things together supported the delusional consciousness which led to individual suffering and the exploitation of others and the earth. The article will then look briefly at some of this addiction’s manifestations and their effects and then explain how Buddhist practice can help with the withdrawal process and foster a ‘new’ way of life although it must be acknowledged that there are real questions as to whether Buddhist practice will be used extensively enough to do so in time to save us from ourselves.

scholarly journals Budaya Kreatif dalam Konsep dan Pengembangan

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Susanto
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fostering Creativity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
External Forces

This study is an attempt to understand the concept of culture as a creative and cultural influence of external factors in fostering creativity. Culture is believed to be one of the aspects that can facilitate the growth of individual creativity. Creative culture as behavior, activity or way of life of a person or group of people embedded within it an element of novelty to life effective, communicative and refer to attitudes toward the social situation and the phenomenon of life. This study attempted to reveal the dominance of internal and external forces that encourage individual creativity. Of the 198 participants were high school students known that the external aspect dominates 63% as the force that drives one's creativity. Socializing creative culture from an early age is expected to facilitate the growth of creativity in the individual.

The Rise of Cybercrime

2018 ◽  
pp. 625-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grainne H. Kirwan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Do So

Unlike many other types of crime, it is possible to make a good estimate for when the first cybercrimes occurred. It is unfortunately much more difficult to clearly define and categorize cybercrime, despite attempts by many key researchers in the field to do so. This chapter describes various types of cybercrime and presents typologies of cybercrime proposed by various researchers. It considers the problems in quantifying cybercrime and presents various reasons why such crimes may not be reported by victims or witnesses or recorded by law enforcement agencies. It provides an overview of various methods by which cybercrime can be prevented, including policing, diversion, deterrence, and developing target resistance. For many of these, psychological insights can help to provide guidance in the deterrence of offenders and preventative measures of targets.

Learning to live with “Languages”

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janus Spindler Møller
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Compulsory School ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

AbstractIn this paper I describe how a group of speakers participating in a longitudinal study develop patterns of linguistic practices as well as norms for their use over time. The group at issue consists of speakers with a Turkish minority background living in Denmark. Data were collected from this group during their nine years of compulsory school and again in their mid-twenties. From a very early age this group of speakers acquires linguistic repertoires which involve features associated with several “languages”, of which the most influential are Turkish and Danish. I will show how they develop ways of employing large parts of those repertoires in their languaging practices and how at the same time they increasingly express an awareness of the fact that they are living in languagised world. I will do so by analysing instances where the participants explicitly refer to languages in peer group interactions, discuss observations concerning patterns of languaging in the same types of interactions, and consider the development of both phenomena.

Inventing America

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Lienhard
Keyword(s):  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Do So

America was not discovered, it was invented. Its name was invented; its machines were invented; its way of life was invented. America sprang from the minds of that unlikely breed of people who were able to pack up a few belongings and step into a great unknown. That step into the expanse of a new continent unleashed astonishing creative energy. America was an adventure of the mind. The land seemed to reach into infinity, and minds opened to fill it. The colonists had limited recourse to the European intellectual mainstream. They were poorly equipped, but they were freedom-driven and freedom-shaped. They were free of method and free of tradition. They were free to create a new life. Colonial technology was so molded by the imperative to be free that it is hard to talk about it without being drawn into that infectious drive. You cannot just report it; you have to celebrate it. As I look back at the early episodes of The Engines of Our Ingenuity upon which this chapter is based, it is clear that I too was drawn in. My first impulse in reworking this material for print was to tone it down and mute my enthusiasm. In the end I did not do so. History gives us too few moments with such verve. Why not go back and be the irrepressible child that America itself once was? The need to rediscover the childhood of our nation is great. We are drifting into a new sobriety. It was in my generation that we first lost a war. We no longer take our leadership in productivity for granted. We have found that we have a capacity for failure, and that we do not always emerge as the good guys. We have deconstructed our heroes until they seem to be heroes no more. But they were heroes. Any chapter on colonial technology inevitably yields up the names of Jefferson (no mean inventor himself), Fulton (with his thumb in so many pies), and the towering figure of Benjamin Franklin. These people appear here not because they were the only heroes we had, but because they were true paragons of colonial creativity.

Youth Out-Migration in Nigeria: The Dual Role of Social Media as a Cause and Solution

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Okunade ◽  
Oluwabunmi Dorcas Bakare
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Government ◽  
Do So

The phenomenon of migration has been recorded to be a part of human history. Over the years, scholars have averred that people migrate for different reasons. While some do so for economic reasons and in search of greener pastures, others do so to escape either the wrath of the society in which they live or the government owing to their actions and way of life. This phenomenon is not restricted according to gender and age, as both males and females, old and young, are involved. Of late, it has been discovered that there is a huge desire among youths, including those who have jobs, to exit the country, thereby leading to a massive emigration of youths out of Nigeria. Although it is an undeniable fact that the economy of the country is in shambles, which leads to a desire to search for greener pastures elsewhere, the trend in the youths’ desire and rush to leave Nigeria transcends this sole reason. Given the revelations by migrant returnees, it has been discovered that social media platforms play a pivotal role in both stirring and dampening this desire. Utilising a secondary data analysis in addition to a systematic literature review, this study explored the contribution of social media, especially Facebook, to the desperation shown by Nigerian youth for out-migration and how various social media platforms can be used for economic benefit in order to dissuade the youth from doing so. The study recommends that Nigerian youths should realise that the essence of social media meant to foster human interaction and healthy communication is gradually turning into an abode of misinformation that has embedded youths’ lives within the discourse of youth out-migration in Nigeria, as anecdotal evidence as well as empirical evidence has shown. The study informs policy, society, practice and theory within the discourse of youth out-migration and social media studies.

scholarly journals Infants possess an abstract expectation of ingroup support

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (31) ◽  
pp. 8199-8204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyong-sun Jin ◽  
Renée Baillargeon
Keyword(s):  
Early Age ◽  
Minimal Group ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Minimal Groups ◽  
Violation Of Expectation ◽  
Do So ◽  
Ingroup Favoritism

One pervasive facet of human interactions is the tendency to favor ingroups over outgroups. Remarkably, this tendency has been observed even when individuals are assigned to minimal groups based on arbitrary markers. Why is mere categorization into a minimal group sufficient to elicit some degree of ingroup favoritism? We consider several accounts that have been proposed in answer to this question and then test one particular account, which holds that ingroup favoritism reflects in part an abstract and early-emerging sociomoral expectation of ingroup support. In violation-of-expectation experiments with 17-mo-old infants, unfamiliar women were first identified (using novel labels) as belonging to the same group, to different groups, or to unspecified groups. Next, one woman needed instrumental assistance to achieve her goal, and another woman either provided the necessary assistance (help event) or chose not to do so (ignore event). When the two women belonged to the same group, infants looked significantly longer if shown the ignore as opposed to the help event; when the two women belonged to different groups or to unspecified groups, however, infants looked equally at the two events. Together, these results indicate that infants view helping as expected among individuals from the same group, but as optional otherwise. As such, the results demonstrate that from an early age, an abstract expectation of ingroup support contributes to ingroup favoritism in human interactions.

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