Studying the Particular, Illuminating the General: Community Studies and Community in Wales

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 672-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nickie Charles ◽  
Charlotte Aull Davies
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Community People ◽  
Work Affect ◽  
General Community

This article is inspired by Frankenberg's (1990) claim that the best way to understand general social processes is through the study of their manifestation in the details of social life. We look at how studies of community that have been carried out in Wales, particularly Village on the Border and The Family and Social Change ( Rosser and Harris, 1965 ), have accomplished this link between the particular and the general. We then consider the findings of our own research, which is a restudy of Rosser and Harris, showing how they provide a counterbalance to grand theoretical claims about the transformations that are affecting community and family life. We find that although factors such as increasing geographical mobility and women's greater participation in paid work affect people's experiences of community, people continue to place a high value on what they call communities. Such communities are spoken about and defined in different ways but all are based on local social networks of kin, neighbours and friends and/or locally-based associations. They are also gendered, with women playing a key role at both informal and formal levels of community. We suggest that the apparent resilience of local social relations evident in our research may help to explain the continued cultural and political resonance of community in Wales.

scholarly journals Stages of busi(-)ness and identity

Ethnologies ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Lightfoot ◽  
Valérie Fournier
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Work Space ◽  
Small Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Creation

Résumé This article explores how space gets mobilised in the performance of “family business”. The very concept of the “family business” collapses some deeply entrenched distinctions in Western modern societies, those between home and work, private and public, family life and business rationality, distinctions that are mapped over space through the creation of boundaries between work space and family space, home and office. The “family business”, especially when run from home, unsticks this ordered sense of space as familial images and business stages are collapsed. Our analysis of small family run boarding kennels focuses on the way space is used to frame different stages of action. In particular, we draw upon theatrical metaphors to explore the work that goes into the staging of identities and social relations. We first discuss the relationships between space, stages, performance and identity through a theatrical lens; we then draw upon material from our study of family run boarding kennels to explore how owner-managers use space as a malleable resource from which they carve out and assemble different stages to perform their business and themselves to different audiences. After going back into the theatre to discuss the role of stages in weaving together coherent stories in the family business or in drama, we close by exploring the limitations of the theatrical metaphor for the analysis of social life.

Child Diagnosis of Autism - How It Can Change the Family Life

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 498
Author(s):  
Maria Stănescu
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Child Behaviors ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Child Diagnosis ◽  
The Family

The article is about the role of the family in the education and formation of children and, especially, in the life and development of autistic children. It describes the problems their family is facing and the need for counseling to parents with autistic children. The reaction to finding the diagnosis of autism varies from one family to another and may encounter a large variety: from disbelief, anger, guilt, helplessness, devastation, surprise, or even rejection of the child, to understanding and relief when finally the parents have an explanation for their child behaviors. Early intervention is important in psychological sustaining of the parent, as parent involvement in the recovery of the child with autism has a determinant role in his development and in ensuring a high quality of life of the child and the life of the hole family. The response to a child's autism diagnosis varies from one family to another. The family goes through a variety of disbelief, anger, guilt, helplessness, devastation, surprise, or even rejection of the child, to understanding and relief. Early intervention is very important in the psychological support of the parent. Because any change disturbs the family equilibrium. A diagnosis of autism changes not only the life of the diagnosed child, but also the life of family members. All the resources are focused on the need of the child. Although each parent is different, after diagnosing the child with autism, all parents are overwhelmed by confusion, shock and denial. Parents' feelings can be influenced by how their children's situation affects different aspects of life - it has an impact on service, on social life and all their personal life. If we look at the family as a system and when a disturbing factor appears, all parts of the system are affected. The involvement of parents in the recovery of the child with autism has a decisive role in its development and in ensuring a high quality of child's life and family life.

scholarly journals أوامر في سورة النساء المتعلقة بأحكام الأسرة; دراسة تطبيقية

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-199
Author(s):  
Awal Rifai ◽  
Usamah Maming
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Law

Surah An-Nisa is one of the longest madaniah surah, and is one full of provisions of sharia laws that govern all matters both internal and external ones for Muslims. Among the prominence of this noble surah is that it tells a lot about important things related to women, household, family, country, and social life. In this surah, there are commands and prohibitions in various matters. The purpose of this study was to extract imperative sentences related to family life and then briefly identify the rules that became the base for these commands. The researcher employed an inductive and analytical approach by extrapolating Surah Al-Nisa, taking imperative sentences related to family life, and explaining the law which is concluded from it. Researcher finds, among the most important of the most important ones are as follows: understanding the meaning of al-amr (command) which is a request to do something in the form of superiority. There are two types of amr: direct and indirect. The number of amr related to the family in the surah is seventeen.

scholarly journals Prohibitions and Prescriptions about Family Life in the Work of I. Teneromo

2018 ◽  
pp. 274-294
Author(s):  
Galina Eliasberg
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
The Family ◽  
Transitional Era

The article is devoted to the life and works of I. Teneromo, a participant of the Tolstoyan movement, correspondent of L.N. Tolstoy, the author of memories, journalist and playwright. It deals with works which reflected his understanding of the «family question» close to Tolstoy's views; emphasizes the autobiographical basis of a number of his plays, as well as stories about conversations with Tolstoy. His plays and stories do not pretend to be of special artistic value, they are analyzed taking into account the edifying tasks and moral lessons important for the author, whose views was formed under the influence of the ideas of Tolstoy, Russian social life, and the assimilation processes characteristic of Russian Jewry in the transitional era of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Partnerstwo w relacji małżeńskiej jako współczesna wartość wychowania

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-123
Author(s):  
Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Family

Today we observe the dynamic changes in relations between the sexes in the family, which appear as a result of economic, cultural, and social transformation, the growth of women’s economic strength, as well as the level of their education, and the development of the ideas of the equal rights of women and men in the labour market and in social life. Hitherto existing research results show that Poles are increasingly in favour of the egalitarian family model and declare their wish to build their relationships based on equality. In the article I will characterise our cultural context, in which the egalitarian relation of a man and a woman in a family is both an educational space of confrontation between the “old” concept of family life, often rooted in Parsons’ concept of the nuclear family, and the “new” one, specific for the socio-cultural breakthrough in Poland. I will also present the involvement of formal education in fixing stereotypical images of family life, which are in opposition to the changes observed in relations between women and men. At the end I will present my own concept of education for equality in the marital relations, as well as the frame of equality between spouses in marital relations as a value of upbringing, which are a response to the needs of contemporary women and men.

scholarly journals TRADISI NGAJAHUL: Fikih Pemakaman dan Kohesi Sosial Pada Masyarakat Muslim Priangan

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Yayan Suryana
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Death Rituals ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents an analysis of the death rituals carried out by Muslims in the Priangan region known as ngajahul. Ngajahul is done on the sixth or seventh day after death. Analysis of the ritual of death illustrates that the ritual of death is not only a spiritual-fiqhiyyah aspect, but also has a role in describing social relations. The graveyard that lay in the cemetery, not only shows the grave, but also describes the relationship between the deceased, the family and the social environment. This research in a sociological perspective produces the concept that the rituals of death and society, especially Muslim societies in various aspects are referred to as containing social cohesion. This concept illustrates that death rituals are not as depicted in recitation forums that see death rituals as a tradition laden with rituals that are spiritually nuanced. Ngajahul is a tradition that produces social interaction and involvement in social life that is produced simultaneously. Key Words : Ngajahul, Ritual, Social cohesion, fiqhiyyah

scholarly journals FAMILY LIFE IN CENTRAL ASIA: PROBLEMS OF FATHERS AND CHILDREN

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2(22)) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Abdirashid Mamasidikovich Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Khurshid Abdirashidovich Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Nasiba Alizhanovna Abdukholikova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
The Impact

The article presents the results of an anthropological analysis of the social life of a modern family. It is immersed in deep socio-economic and demographic problems, which are complicated by the impact of globalization and information technology. Analyzing the transformational processes of family relations, the author comes to the conclusion that in the modern family there is “alienation” of generations, the gap between parents and children, which affects the traditional ethno-confessional foundations of the family. We are talking about the foundations of the national mentality of the peoples of the region about intergenerational relationships between children and their parents, the transformation from a macro-family to a nuclear one.

scholarly journals The Challenge Faced by Hindu Women in Doing Their Swadharma in the Midst of Modernisation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
I Gusti Agung Istri Agung
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Mental Development ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Family Finances ◽  
Hindu Women

<p>Hindu women who are already in the Grhasta period play an important role in the family. In their married life, women have several obligations for the harmony of their family. The word ‘woman’ comes from the word <em>‘wanită’</em>, the feminine sex, which means beloved, wife, girl, woman, female (Semadi Astra, 2000: 372). Based on that sense, the word ‘woman’ means beloved, indicating that women are part of social life and family is part of the composition of social creatures that spread love to the surrounding environment, likewise their effort to enforce the Swadharma in their life. However, there are several obstacles regarding the efforts of women in implementing their Swadharma to create harmony in the family, society, and workplace.</p><p>The Hindu women in Bali began to show their existence in their family life, society, nation, and state. Women's participation in the family is very meaningful. A woman as a wife and mother in the family has an important role in creating the harmony of the family as well as mental development of her children. In addition to taking care of the family, now women also participate in helping the family finances. Hindu women in Bali do not want to be housewives only and ask the husband for the household expenses. Many women are now beginning to participate to help family finances by working at home and outside. Even some mothers really want to fight alone for their children. It simply proves that women can also act as the head of a family just as a father.</p>

Community Studies and the Investigation of Nineteenth-Century Social Relations

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clyde Griffen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Study ◽  
Textile Workers ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
And Behavior

The recent popularity of community studies among investigators of nineteenth-century social history in the United States owes much to convergence of interests since the early 1970s among four broad groupings of historians: labor and radical historians concerned with class-formation; historians of women and the family; immigration historians; and urban historians concerned with the transformation of spatial and social structure. Stressing the importance of the interrelationships between their subjects, historians with these interests have tended to see the community study as the best means of describing the interrelationships fully and concretely. Howard Chudacoff expressed this perception when he characterized books on the artisans of Newark and on the iron and textile workers of Troy and Cohoes as “community studies of the best type, for they combine working class history with perspectives on family, ethnicity, mobility, stratification, ideology, technology, politics, and … show the importance of interactions between place and behavior” (Chudacoff, 1979: 535).

scholarly journals Socio-Pedagogical Determinants of Social Acceptance of People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdzisław Kazanowski ◽  
Agnieszka Żyta
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Family ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

The social acceptance of people with disabilities is multidimensional and is often analyzed concerning various factors. Both external (demographic) factors, e.g. age, gender, place of residence, type of education or occupation, and internal factors (e.g. level of intelligence, self-esteem, sense of coherence) can be taken into consideration. The study presents the results of an analysis of the relationship between socio-demographic factors, characteristics of the family environment, social relations, contact with people who have disabilities, and the level of social acceptance of people with disabilities. The study uses the Disability Acceptance Scale, which consists of 27 statements and is a tool used to measure the level of acceptance of people with disabilities in three dimensions: (1) the acceptance of support given to people with disabilities; (2) the acceptance of inclusion of people with disabilities in the institutions of social life; (3) the acceptance of competences of people with disabilities to function in social roles. The study involved 313 people living in south-eastern Poland, including 156 women (49.84%) and 157 men (50.16%).The results of the research showed that regarding socio-demographic factors there are no statistically significant differences between the level of acceptance of people with disabilities depending on the gender of the respondent;, while differences are observed between different age groups and people living in different types of living environment. In the context of the family environment, the factors affecting the level of acceptance were the mother’s education and the father’s employment. Concerning social relations with people with disabilities, having a family member with a disability and having contact with a student with a disability at school were found to be significant factors affecting social acceptance.

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