The Social Meaning of Food Consumption Behaviors in Rural Brazil: Agreement and Intracultural Variation

Field Methods ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1525822X2199216
Author(s):  
Lesley Jo Weaver ◽  
Nicole Henderson ◽  
Craig Hadley
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Cultural Consensus ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heads Of Household ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning that coping strategies might also vary within a population. Thus, whether people actually agree on FI coping behaviors is an open question. This article describes methods used to test whether there was a culturally agreed on set of coping behaviors around FI in rural Brazilian majority-female heads of household, and to detect patterned subgroup variation in that agreement. We used cultural consensus and residual agreement analyses on freelist and rating exercise data. This process could be applied as a first step in developing experience-based measures of FI sensitive to intragroup variation, or to identify key variables to guide qualitative analyses.

scholarly journals Exploring the Coping Strategies of Older Persons During COVID-19 Lockdown in Nigeria: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Adedeji ◽  
Saheed Akinmayowa Lawal ◽  
Sola Aluko-Arowolo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities

Abstract Background The challenge of COVID-19 and the restrictions that were imposed in Nigeria had a direct effect on social life. Older persons were disproportionately affected because of the existing social vulnerabilities, socio-economic dependency, and high risk of COVID-19 in the population. Older persons require essential dimensions of social support, but these were significantly limited due to the COVID-19 restrictions. To this end, the study interrogated the coping strategies of older persons. Specifically, the study drew narratives to identify the processes for coping with the mental health challenges associated with being severed from established routines and sources of social support. The study adopted an exploratory research design using qualitative methods. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, in-depth telephone interviews were conducted among twenty-seven (27) older persons in Ibadan, Nigeria. Through a system of content analysis, using Atlas ti 8.4, textual data was analyzed and validated. ResultsThree major themes emerged to describe the coping behaviors, which were embedded in the problem-focused coping strategies of older persons. Older persons explored spirituality, engaged their social networks through telephones, and gave more attention to a healthy diet and physical exercises mainly indoors to improve their general wellness and mental health. The nuances of the coping behaviors reflect the mental health needs – fear, anxiety, and depression, among older persons during the restrictions. ConclusionsTherefore, health promotion by the social support structure and government is valuable for improving the mental health outcomes of older persons in a pandemic.

Citizen sociolinguists scaling back

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Betsy Rymes ◽  
Gareth Smail
Keyword(s):  
Social Meaning ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Multilingual Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis paper examines the different ways that professional experts and everyday language users engage in scaling practices to claim authority when they talk about multilingual practices and the social significance they assign to them. Specifically, we compare sociolinguists’ use of the term translanguaging to describe multilingual and multimodal practices to the diverse observations of amateur online commentators, or citizen sociolinguists. Our analysis focuses on commentary on cross-linguistic communicative practices in Wales, or “things Welsh people say.” We ultimately argue that by calling practices “translanguaging” and defaulting to scaled-up interpretations of multilingual communication, sociolinguists are increasingly missing out on analyses of how the social meaning of (cross)linguistic practices accrues and evolves within specific communities over time. By contrast, the fine-grained perceptions of “citizen sociolinguists” as they discuss their own communicative practices in context may have something unique and underexamined to offer us as researchers of communicative diversity.

scholarly journals Why Singles Prefer to Retire Later

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 936-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Eismann ◽  
Kène Henkens ◽  
Matthijs Kalmijn
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Relationship Status ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Financial Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spousal Influence

This study goes beyond a purely financial perspective to explain why single older workers prefer to retire later than their partnered counterparts. We aim to show how the work (i.e., its social meaning) and home domain (i.e., spousal influence) contribute to differences in retirement preferences by relationship status. Analyses were based on multiactor data collected in 2015 among older workers in the Netherlands ( N = 6,357) and (where applicable) their spouses. Results revealed that the social meaning of work differed by relationship status but not always as expected. In a mediation analysis, we found that the social meaning of work partically explained differences in retirement preferences by relationship status. We also show that single workers preferred to retire later than workers with a “pulling” spouse, earlier than workers with a “pushing” spouse, and at about the same time as workers with a neutral spouse.

The Social Meaning of Money: "Special Monies"

1989 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviana A. Zelizer
Keyword(s):  
Social Meaning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meaning Of Money

‘It ain’t nothing like America with the Bloods and the Crips’: Gang narratives inside two English prisons

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coretta Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Prisoners

This article explores recent concerns about the emergence of gangs in prisons in England and Wales. Using narrative interviews with male prisoners as part of an ethnographic study of ethnicity and social relations, the social meaning of ‘the gang’ inside prison is interrogated. A formally organized gang presence was categorically denied by prisoners. However, the term ‘gang’ was sometimes elided with loose collectives of prisoners who find mutual support in prison based on a neighbourhood territorial identification. Gangs were also discussed as racialized groups, most often symbolized in the motif of the ‘Muslim gang’. This racializing discourse hinted at an envy of prisoner solidarity and cohesion which upsets the idea of a universal prisoner identity. The broader conceptual, empirical and political implications of these findings are considered.

Influence of the social context on use of surgical-lengthening and group-empowering coping strategies among people with dwarfism.

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saulo Fernández ◽  
Nyla R. Branscombe ◽  
Ángel Gómez ◽  
J. Francisco Morales
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
The Social

The Social Characterizations of Price: The Fool, the Faithful, the Frivolous, and the Frugal

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick F. Wherry
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Pricing System ◽  
Meaning Of Money

This article extends both Viviana Zelizer's discussion of the social meaning of money and Charles Smith's proposal that pricing is a definitional practice to the under-theorized realm of the social meanings generated in the pricing system. Individuals are attributed with calculating or not calculating whether an object or service is “worth” its price, but these attributions differ according to the individual's social location as being near to or far from a societal reference point rather than by the inherent qualities of the object or service purchased. Prices offer seemingly objective (quantitative) proof of the individual's “logic of appropriateness”—in other words, people like that pay prices such as those. This article sketches a preliminary but nonexhaustive typology of the social characterizations of individuals within the pricing system; these ideal types—the fool, the faithful, the frugal, and the frivolous—and their components offer a systematic approach to understanding prices as embedded in and constituents of social meaning systems.

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