Disabled Everyday Life in the Context of the Concept of Social Labeling

The article deals with issues related to the perception and positioning of people with disabilities in the current space of social life. It was pointed out that the conditions and possibilities of everyday human existence and access to everyday spaces, regardless of the level of fitness, constitute an opportunity to normalize interpersonal relations based on a democratic order.

Men’s Marital Adjustment and Violence against Female Partners in Couples Applying for Infertility Treatment

INTRODUCTION: Infertility is a life-changing experience that brings with it medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social problems, with cultural, religious, and social aspects, individual-specific, leadings to stress in couples, resulting in social labeling, sexual dysfunction. Many factors can trigger or increase the severity of infertility. Couples failing to achieve one of the basic functions of the family institution, also experience negativities in marriage. This study aimed to determine the severity of violence by men to his partner and the marital adjustment level in men in couples applying for infertility treatment. METHODS: The study population consisted of 286 men from the couples applying to Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Infertility Outpatient Clinic June -October 2017. The data was collected using the Sociodemographic Data Form, Conflict Tactic Scale-2, Marital Adjustment Scale. Data analyzed using SPSS 20.0 Statistical analysis program. RESULTS: The mean age of men was 34.79±7.24 years, the mean duration of marriage was 5.87±4.86 years and the mean age at first marriage was 26.33±5.09 years. Of the participants, 93.4% were violent against their spouses based on the Conflict Tactics Scale-2 results. There was no significant relationship between the overall violence by men and any of the sociodemographic data. Marital Adjustment Scale revealed that there was a marital adjustment in 80.4% of men. A significant relationship was found between marital adjustment and sociodemographic variables including occupation, previous infertility treatment, and marital status. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The men practiced violence against their wives and that the most common type of violence was psychological violence. In infertile couples, the majority of men had good marital adjustment and they did not seem to be affected by infertility.

Neological cancer metaphors in the Chinese cyberspace

This study examines emerging cancer metaphors that are encoded as a neological construction [X-ái ‘cancer’] using corpus data retrieved from Chinese social media. The quantitative findings show that [X- ái] is a highly productive construction where the open slot X attracts a wide variety of lexical items. The qualitative findings are twofold. First, the central meaning of this construction is to express subjective feelings such as self-mockery (e.g., laziness cancer) and contempt for other people’s behaviors in gender discourse (e.g.. straight man cancer). Second, the development of this construction is caused by the exemplar-based cognitive mechanism through social labeling practices. I argue that this neological language use is employed to convey collective emotions in gender discourse and that it indexes a group style, either playful and humorous or contemptuous and disparaging, both of which construct language user identity and sociocultural ideology in the Chinese cyberspace. This study has implications for research on neological metaphors and for language use in digital culture in general.

L’étiquetage environnemental et social : Quel intérêt pour valoriser l’huile d’olive espagnole en France?

From a perspective of valorization of the Spanish olive oil at the international market, this research tries to determine the benefits of adopting environmental and social labeling of the product. Findings from a qualitative study performed to French consumers, using the Scenario method, confirm that the Spanish olive oil is perceived as a lower quality. Environmental and/or social labeling, through institutional certification, could help to improve the perceived country’s image.

CARIES OF THE EARLY IRON CENTURYPOPULATION OF POLTAVA AND CORRELATED AREAS AS REFLECTION ASPECTSOF SOCIAL LIFE

An attempt has been made to display a picture of carious pathology and other dental diseases based on the study of the general status and reconstruction of cultural and everyday traditions of the early Iron Age society of Poltava and adjacent regions of Ukraine for introduction into the scientific base with the interaction of the formula: disease - social conditions, for a particular territory, specific society, one historical time. The materials of the study were the skeletons of 223 individuals with preserved dental-maxillary area (discovered and collected during the archaeological excavations of mounds 1998–2017 by expeditions of the Center for the Preservation and Research of Monuments of Archeology of the Department of Culture of the Poltava Regional State Administration) of the early Iron Age (mid-5th-6th centuries). BC, hereinafter - RHW) of the territory of Poltava and adjacent areas: 40 skeletons of children, 79 - women, 104 - men. In the analysis of pathology, we used our own method of studying the bones of ancient people and studying the pathology on anthropological material. Studied age-related changes in the skeleton, social labeling (if possible, determined the type of occupation, special social characteristics - decoration of the teeth, effects on the teeth when initiating into adult life, technical use of the masticatory organs, etc.). The social portrait of society shows the clinical picture of caries, other deviations from the generally accepted norm, which can be used as a starting point when comparing caries indicators to earlier or later communities with their social characteristics and economic structure. So, a pathology change curve can be created, with the creation of an intermediate picture of the disease and prediction at any time in the future. Having such a formula of pathological processes in a given population in a given territory at a given time with a given social characteristic, we can further obtain information on the pathology of close and distant communities, which will provide new methods for dating and recreating life. For medicine, it is important to trace causal relationships. It is, therefore, possible to derive diagrams of diseases at the level of similar conditions of life and management (expect a similar status of the oral cavity in similar societies).

Unequal gender relations in the practices of girl marriage in poor families at East Java Province

The practice of girl marriage in Indonesia is a social reality that has been going on from generation to generation. Although the average level of education in Indonesia is increasing and the government has limited the practice of child marriage, in some areas of East Java province the tendency of parents to marryoff their underage girls remains. This study aims to identify gender-based power relations within the practices of girl marriage in poor family in East Java province. This study is also aimed at revealing how the social reproduction of gender inequality values takes place in the girl marriage practices. This research was done by using qualitative method which was supported with quantitative data. This study shows that the victims of early marriage practices are girls. Gender-based-power relations between young wives with husbands, parents and in-laws are not equal. The unequal gender-based power relations in girl marriage practices in poor family are relate to limitation of knowledge and reproduce of power. The unequal gender relations are continuously reproduced through the imposition of negative social labeling on girls. The prevention of girl marriage requires a comprehensive approach by addressing the social and cultural values, especially promoting equal gender relations. One of the solutions is empowerment based on equal gender perspective.

FENOMENA TARI TAYUB DI KECAMATAN JATIROGO KABUPATEN TUBAN

Tayub is a traditional dance popularized in Kecamatan Jatirogo, Kabupaten Tuban. Tayub dance usually performed in the wedding party, circumcision, and bersih desa which aim to get the fertility. This tayub dance performance is closely related to the social divergence, social labeling, and the effect which is emerged. This study aim to describe the factors considered that tayub is divergent from the public norm which causes social labeling and influences the existence on the profession of ledhek and the effect of tayub dance performance either to ledhek or community in Kecamatan Jatigoro, Kabupaten Tuban This study is a qualitative descriptive which the primary data resource consisted of ledhek, pengibing, and public figure. The secondary data resource was collected by using documentation and references. The data were collected by: observation, interview, and documentation. The sampling technique used was the purposive sampling. The validity of data used the triangulation and method. In addition, the data analysis consists of several steps, such as data collection, data reduction, presenting data, and conclusion. This study showed that tayub dance is performed in two sessions; in the midday and night. Tayub and ledhek still exist at the time. It has been shown that the Tuban local government in every year invites the ledhek to be a representative dancer of East Java simultaneously to intend the Culture program in Jakarta, even performs in TMII. In addition, it has been a fundamental program of the Tuban celebration. Tayub dance performed in the wedding party, circumcision, and purified village ritual are believed to be able to influence the fertility. Tayub dance has a manifest and a laten functions. The manifest function can be considered from its purpose that is gratitude, and keep the good relationship between the figure and its community. The latent function considered from the public divergence, labeling and the effect of tayub dance. The effects of its divergence are sawer (has not been allowed by Tuban government since 2003), drinking alcohol, conflict, and an affair. This social divergence emerges the social labeling on ledhek either positive or negative. Tayub dance has a positive and negative effect to either ledhek or its community. The positive effect can be considered from the high financial reached by the ledhek. Ledhek has an experience performed in Jakarta. On the other hand, the negative effect emerges the negative labeling from the public. Keywords: Tayub, ledhek, social divergence, labeling, effect