Everyday Life Events Research Articles

Logic and the Development of Scientific Competencies in First-Year General Education

Since 2008, Mount Royal University (MRU) has been committed to providing students with capacities for quantitative reasoning and the kind of literacy we have come to associate with the interpretation and assessment of scientific ideas shaping public discourse. After ten years, it was decided to revise the curriculum primarily responsible for supporting this mandate. A notable revision was the addition of a unit on logic in the course “GNED1101: Scientific and Mathematical Literacy for the Modern World”, MRU’s foundational course on quantitative reasoning. Logic was added to improve students’ critical reasoning and ability to assess arguments, especially those made by practicing scientists. Interviews with students who have completed class activities and discussions about the modified curriculum show a positive impact of studying logic on their learning skills such as problem solving, writing and understanding scientific texts along with everyday life events. In this paper, we present the rationale behind this curriculum change, the importance of connecting the study of logic to the study of science in the first year of every degree program, and the share some activities that we use in our classrooms to emphasize the relationship between logic and science. We also present student views gathered through semi-structured interviews.

An ontology-driven perspective on the emotional human reactions to social events

Social media has become a fulcrum for sharing information on everyday-life events: people, companies, and organisations express opinions about new products, political and social situations, football matches, and concerts. The recognition of feelings and reactions to events from social networks requires dealing with great amounts of data streams, especially for tweets, to investigate the main sentiments and opinions that justify some reactions. This paper presents an emotion-based classification model to extract feelings from tweets related to an event or a trend, described by a hashtag, and build an emotional concept ontology to study human reactions to events in a context. From the tweet analysis, terms expressing a feeling are selected to build a topological space of emotion-based concepts. The extracted concepts serve to train a multi-class SVM classifier that is used to perform soft classification aimed at identifying the emotional reactions towards events. Then, an ontology allows arranging classification results, enriched with additional DBpedia concepts. SPARQL queries on the final knowledge base provide specific insights to explain people's reactions towards events. Practical case studies and test results demonstrate the applicability and potential of the approach.

ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯ КОМПОНЕНТА ВИЗАНТИЙСКОЙ АГИОГРАФИИ

The quasi apparent anti-historicity of Byzantine hagiography is manifested as in unconcretizing the described objects and phenomena and in the corresponding uncertainty of dating and attribution of the monuments themselves. At the same time the hagiographic narrative in its sense is aimed to resolve the task of historicization of an action that proves the uncommonness, sanctity, moral and spiritual greatness of the hero. It is characteristic that hagiographers like to stress their own participation in his deeds. The principle of “autopsy”, maintained in hagiography, helps to prove the reality of what is happening, even the most unusual, at first glance, miracles. The attention of the Lives to the events of everyday life, private life, to the individual details of the usual daily ritual, often ignored by chronicles and monumental stories, is characteristic. Beyond the stereotypy of hagiographic images in the Lives, one can often catch portrait characteristics of representatives of completely different social strata, socio-psychological descriptions of such categories as holy fools, beggars, hermits, and other individuals or outsiders. The most peculiar in hagiography seems to be the function of time. Time is neither cyclic, as in histories and biographies of classical antiquity, nor linear as in medieval annals and historiography. The nature of temporal revelation is as iterative (the events of modern history are as if repetition or copy of the Biblical history) so sudden. The hagiographic space is full of features of teratomorphism, whether in the desert, the wilds or in the deserted mountains. Thus, the historical approach to hagiography is expressed indirectly, in accordance with the genre etiquette, the socio-psychological and historical conditions of medieval mentality. The historicity of hagiography seems to be characterized mainly as an “apocalyptical historicity” (from the Greek. “apocalypse” – revelation, discovery).

Social communication paradoxes in post-conflict societies

The article presents the results of a media-analytical study of information flows in Ukraine and in the “new” subjects of the Russian Federation – Crimea and Sevastopol. The relevance of the study of post-conflict societies is dictated by the fact that in the digital era, an effective military solution must be supported by participation in the formation of the information agenda and management of information flows. The cases of color revolutions allow to speak of communication as a factor in the formation of unconventional social attitudes. The results of the study carried out by the authors show that in the condition of the crisis in society, communication networks are formed often due to the external influence. Information flows of a post-conflict society are formed not only from real events of everyday life and the existing socio-political situation, but also focusing on a number of topics and discourses that must be present in the media field without fail. They act as information triggers, system trigger tools that form a different streaming of flows, which were differentiated by the authors as single – and multi-wave. The analysis of the identified flows, that represent communicative network structures, testifies to the different genesis of their emergence and functioning, but the determining factor in this process is the geopolitical request for the formation of media tracks. The authors come to conclusion that the information flows of post-conflict societies are communicative-political structures of a dual nature: they initially carry the ideas of an open and democratic society, but then form conflict situations in the civil and media fields.

“TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME”: COMMUNICATING DISSENT AS A MICRO-CELEBRITY IN A RESTRICTED NATIONAL TWITTERSPHERE

Turkey has a notoriously restricted Twittersphere where any explicit criticism towards the government can be framed as a criminal offence (Saka, 2018). However, despite the efforts to eradicate public expression of dissent on social media, Twitter remains as an essential space for political deliberation for Turkish dissidents (Dogu and Mat, 2019). This surveillance regime creates a necessity of engaging in political talk that remains under the radar. Especially, the accounts with higher visibility such as micro-celebrities suffer most scrutiny, whilst being important actors of information dissemination (Sanjari and Khazraee, 2014). In this paper, I analyse the evasion tactics used by dissenting Twitter micro-celebrities in navigating these restrictions. In order to do this, I specifically focus on micro-celebrity accounts by ordinary users who gained fame due to the humorous commentaries they offer on the daily events in Turkey. Without a claim for expertise or any exceptional ability beyond being avid observers of the social, cultural and political realities of life in Turkey, these accounts claim follower numbers that often exceed 30-40k and some reaching millions. This paper presents how these accounts express political criticism through a narration of everyday life and daily events by utilising platform specific cultural capital in formulating a language (Scott, 1990) that is understood by subgroups who are acclimated to the platform culture. I argue that these practices signal a change in the conventions of dissident political talk that relies on a perceived gap in platform cultural knowledge between the pro- and anti-government groups.

MIGRANT YOUTH PUSH BACK. VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIPS AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE IN THE DIGITAL SPHERE

ABSTRACT Resistance has proven to be a hard concept to define. Debates about resistance in the sociological and sociolinguistic literature cover many aspects: from the degree to which resistance can be seen as related to established social groups (see Rampton 1996), to the level of agentivity and intention that is required for an action to be regarded as resistant, to the type of social behavior that qualifies. Thus, while some see resistance as based on actions, others see it as based on cultural appropriation (Hall & Jefferson 1976). In their comprehensive review of literature on the topic, Hollander & Einwohner (2004) conclude that resistance can be seen as consisting of action and opposition. In this paper, I analyze resistance from the point of view of opposition to ideas, social situations, institutional actions and processes that result or may result in discrimination or stereotyping of specific social groups, as negotiated in the digital sphere by migrant and non-migrant youth belonging to a school-based community. Indeed, it has been argued (Chiluwa 2012, Chibuwe & Ureke 2016) that digital environments constitute ideal arenas for the development of resistance thanks to their wide reach and their ability to mobilize people around common themes. However, much of the research in this area has targeted organized resistance fueled by political or ethnic groups. In this paper I argue that resistance is an emerging process that does not necessarily stem within political contexts or from open choice, but can develop within interactional exchanges focused on everyday life events. Thus, what I am interested in here is in how spontaneous acts and discourses of resistance emerge in the everyday exchanges of a diverse community that was not born around a particular social or political agenda. For this paper, I will examine exchanges that happen on the Facebook page of one of the members of the community. I will show how resistance takes many forms: from irony and jokes to the raising of serious topics, to the dissemination of information and through different discourse genres: from storytelling to the posting of pictures.

Savor now and also reap the rewards later: amplifying savoring predicts greater uplift frequency over time

ABSTRACT Conceptualised as an adaptive positive emotion regulation strategy, savoring has been shown to mediate and moderate emotional reactions to positive life events. In contrast, in the present study, we sought to determine whether amplifying savoring might evidence an uplift propagation function paralleling the previously documented stress generation function of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. Two large community-based longitudinal samples (Ns = 319 and 755) obtained self-reports of frequencies of everyday positive life events (uplifts) and both amplifying and dampening savoring. Across both samples, amplifying savoring prospectively predicted an increased frequency of uplifts over 3 months, whereas dampening savoring did not significantly predict changes in uplift frequency over time. Further, uplifts did not predict changes in either type of savoring over time. These findings suggest that: 1) amplifying savoring precipitates an increase in reports of uplifts, and that 2) experiencing positive events does not build the capacity to adaptively regulate positive emotions.

Do teenagers recover from traumatic situations? Identification of types of change and relationship with psychopathology and coping

Teenagers may experience potentially traumatic interpersonal and non-interpersonal events in everyday life that could cause discomfort. The general aim of this study was to explore changes over time in the perception of such discomfort and the psychopathological symptoms and coping linked to such change. The specific objectives were to: (a) describe the potentially traumatic life events (PTLEs) reported by participants; (b) analyze types of change in the distress experienced at the time that the event occurred and now according to gender and the time elapsed since the PTLE, and (c) assess psychopathological symptoms and coping styles according to four categories of change in distress (no-distress, permanence in initial distress, increased distress and decreased distress). MethodsA retrospective cross-sectional design was employed. Five hundred and fifty-three Spanish teenagers (13 to 19 years old; 60.6% female) completed the LITE-S, YSR and A-COPE-SP self-reports, which assess traumatic events, psychopathological symptoms and coping style, respectively. ResultsAmong the participants, 98.5% reported at least one PTLE, with non-interpersonal events more common than interpersonal events. Depending on the specific PTLE, 48% to 74% of teens reported reduced distress since the incident, a maximum of 16% reported increased distress, and between 6% and 56.5% reported permanence in the initial distress. Depending on the PTLE, anxiety and oppositional behaviors were higher in those showing increased distress, while affective and post-traumatic stress were lower in individuals showing decreased distress. Coping styles did not vary much between the types of change in distress, with the exception of searching for friendship, which was less common in adolescents who showed no distress over time. Being taken away from family caused the most persistent distress ConclusionsThis study provides a useful framework for understanding the experiences of adolescents exposed to PTLEs, indicating that adolescents generally show good ability to recover from trauma. However, teens with increased and permanent distress over time have been identified as an at-risk population, and are therefore likely to be cared for by psychological or psychosocial services.

Longitudinal Impact of Life Events on Adolescent Binge Drinking in the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA)

Background: Life events experienced during adolescence are associated with risk and resilience to heavy episodic drinking (HED; i.e. binge drinking). The current study builds on prior research using latent class analysis (LCA) to examine heterogeneity in patterns of adolescent life events at baseline to HED over the course of three years (4 timepoints) as part of the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA). Methods: Life event classes were modeled using LCA that characterized NCANDA participants based upon their responses to the Life Events Questionnaire (N = 467, age: M = 14.98, SD = 1.69, 49.7% female). These baseline latent life event classes were then compared to HED at baseline and years 1, 2 and 3 using multinomial logistic regression. Results: At baseline, the LCA characterized four classes of adolescents based on endorsement of life events: negative-relational conflict (n = 65, 13.9%), negative-financial problems (n = 49, 10.5%), low life events (n = 130, 27.8%), and positive life events (n = 223, 47.8%). Life event trajectories differed for the negative life event classes compared to the other two classes, with greater odds of HED in the negative-financial problems class at year 1. Conclusion: The four latent classes derived from the life events of NCANDA youth yielded a characterization of adolescents that could aid in understanding HED over the subsequent three years, suggesting that everyday life events may inform adolescent binge drinking.

The image of the Russian province nuns based on visual sources of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries

Studying the history of the past, scientists created a certain cult of a written source. In this regard, visual images were perceived only as additional material to the text. Neglect of images led to the loss of a full historical source in the reconstruction of events and phenomena of the past. The visual turn at the end of the 20th century brought about a change in the research program. Visualism has expanded the source field of research, and enriched methods of data analysis. Photography is not only a fixator of cultural events of everyday life, but also a source of features of the studied region. This research attempts to study the images of the monastic cloisters of the Simbirsk diocese in the second half of the 19th early 20th centuries based on photo sources presented in book editions, online resources, archives of nunneries. The photographs show both abbesses and the nuns of the city nunnery of the Simbirsk eparchy. When analyzing photo sources, the context of creating images was taken into account: design of the photo, background, pose, attributes and information about the authors. The photographs made it possible to construct the image of the nuns of the Russian province and to trace the connection of nunnery with sociocultural phenomena in the urban space at the turn of the 19th20th centuries.

An Introduction to the Second Veeranaikar Diary

Human life is subject to change over time. In that way, man made a habit of taking note of events in everyday life. This was later called the diary. The forerunner of the diaries is the Greek memorandum known as “Ephemerides”. The diary-writing system developed in the 18th century among Tamils. Anandarangappillai, who was the head of the French government in Puducherry, records the political and social situation in Puducherry in the 18th century. Many have since written a dairy, In that order Rajagopala Nayakar’s son ll Veeranaikar, who played the second lord (Nayinar) post in the French court’s both during the French rule of Puducherry in the late 18th century, wrote a dairy from 1778 to 1792. The introduction of ll Veeranayakar as well as information about Puducherry, history of Veeranaaykar’s dairy, Hints about printer of Veeranaikar’s diary,process of process printing information’s explained in this article.

Dwelling in Craft: Introduction: A Call for Studies about Craft

Abstract Craft is a sphere of activities where humans as cultural beings can dwell, a place in people’s lives where processing of thoughts and feelings regarding everyday life and political events can take place. Craft as cultural heritage can also be directed toward the future, since understanding of handmade processes is a base for industrial production. It is a space for dreaming and planning as well as for material encounters between body and matter—in both ways changing the world. Dwelling in craft must not be idealized, though. Its manifold expressions and opposite features have to be studied critically. Craftwork can be apprehended in various ways: calming but also frustrating, creative, and innovative, as well as boringly routinized. People can earn their living through craft, or they can reside in craft contexts like educational workshops, the DIY or DIT movement, and maker spaces for recreational purposes. Craft can be about healthy people’s creative self-expressions, but it can also be used as a tool in therapeutic processes or in reminiscence work with persons who have dementia. Craft is social when learned and shared but often individually performed with personal bodily knowing as its prerequisite. Thus, it connects people and fosters self-esteem, but it also pinpoints differences regarding bodily performances and may lead to competition and envy. An ethnological “double glance” at the phenomenon is needed. We invite scholars to theorize on craft/making as cultural activities or to present empirical findings from the field.

Uncovering the Wealth of Physics Examples from Videos on the Internet for Use in Physics Lessons

It is well known among educators that carefully planned Physics demonstrations incorporated into lessons can enhance the teaching and learning of Physics. However, there are also everyday life events, such as car crashes and lightning strikes that also aptly demonstrate concepts in Physics but cannot be easily recreated in class. Today, many of these events are captured on video and are easily available on the internet. To facilitate teachers to find what they need, we classify online videos useful for Physics teaching into six broad categories. Some of these videos can be more useful than traditional lecture demonstrations in providing relevant contexts for introducing Physics concepts. We will also discuss some principles for designing class activities to help students make sense of the underlying Physics in the videos.

Assessment of Exam-related Anxiety among the Students of the High Healthy Vocations Institute at Medical City

The purpose of this study was to assess levels of anxiety among the Students of the High Healthy Vocations Institute, to find out relationship between students’ anxiety levels and some socio-demographic characteristics such as (age, residency, marital status and department) of the Students of the High Healthy Vocations Institute. The period of the study was from April 2 nd , 2019 to June 2 nd , 2019). To meet the study objectives a questionnaire was constructed. This questionnaire consisted of two parts: the first part includes four demographic characteristics: age, residency, marital status, and department; the second part concerning with the test anxiety scale. The scale measures the most important symptoms that characterize the test anxiety. Data were analyzed by applying: descriptive statistical analysis: frequencies and percentages and distribution; and inferential analysis: Correlation Coefficient, Chi-squire. The findings of the study revealed that assessment of exam-related anxiety among the Students of the High Healthy Vocations Institute is moderately to severe level of anxiety. There was a significant relationship between severity of anxiety and age of the students. The present study recommends encouraging the students to learn some coping strategies and stress managements by attending training and relaxation sessions. Advice to regular recreational programs that include trips to reduce stress and to help them to prevent and lessen the stress associated with every-day life events stress.

Assessment of Exam-related Anxiety among the Students of the High Healthy Vocations Institute at Medical City

The purpose of this study was to assess levels of anxiety among the Students of the High Healthy Vocations Institute, to find out relationship between students’ anxiety levels and some socio-demographic characteristics such as (age, residency, marital status and department) of the Students of the High Healthy Vocations Institute. The period of the study was from April 2nd, 2019 to June 2nd, 2019). To meet the study objectives a questionnaire was constructed. This questionnaire consisted of two parts: the first part includes four demographic characteristics: age, residency, marital status, and department; the second part concerning with the test anxiety scale. The scale measures the most important symptoms that characterize the test anxiety. Data were analyzed by applying: descriptive statistical analysis: frequencies and percentages and distribution; and inferential analysis: Correlation Coefficient, Chi-squire. The findings of the study revealed that assessment of exam-related anxiety among the Students of the High Healthy Vocations Institute is moderately to severe level of anxiety. There was a significant relationship between severity of anxiety and age of the students. The present study recommends encouraging the students to learn some coping strategies and stress managements by attending training and relaxation sessions. Advice to regular recreational programs that include trips to reduce stress and to help them to prevent and lessen the stress associated with every-day life events stress.

«Пасквиль на литературу»: журналы «Всемирный труд» и «Заря» в оценках сатирического еженедельника «Искра»

Purpose. The article analyzes editorial and publishing strategies and tactics of the illustrated weekly “Iskra” (“Spark”), aimed at discrediting the fiction department of the journals “Vsemirny Trud” (“World Labor”) and “Day Spring” (“Zarya”). Results. On the basis of feuilleton notes, satirical essays, reviews and assessments of contemporaries, the reputation of publications are investigated, the principles of constructing symbolic capital (and its undermining) by the “Iskra” editorial staff are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the controversy surrounding the novel by Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace”. This situation is not unique. The development of the magazine and newspaper market determines the development of competition. This was equally true for “Iskra”, whose existence in the magazine field of the sixties allows us to compile a fairly complete portrait of the mass reader of the era. In the future, most of the illustrated weeklies will use the same strategy of discrediting related and more complex publications. At the same time, responding to the urgent events of everyday life and reacting to new periodicals, the “Iskra” for a modern researcher becomes a kind of crooked mirror, which most clearly reflects the difficult situation of the history of Russian journalism in the late 60s of the 19th century. Conclusion. Creating an anti-world of Russian life and Russian journalism, “Iskra” paid special attention to discrediting Slavophil periodicals and conservative vector publications. The hypothesis is put forward in the article, according to which, such tactics had not only (and not so much) ideological tasks, but commercial ones. The literal “squeezing” and “survival” of opponents from the literary and journalistic field was not only the principle of the existence of “Iskra”, which did not have any independent ideological platform, but also a way of converting symbolic capital into real, quantifiable, including the number of subscribers and circulation of the publication.

Analisis Penokohan Tokoh Ainun dalam Novel Habibi dan Ainun Karya Baharudin Jusuf Habibi

Literature generally involves all aspects of human life and life, events in works of fiction as well as events in everyday life, always carried by a certain character or perpetrators. The formulation of the problem in this analysis is how the characterization of Ainun figure is expository and dramatic in novel Habibie and Ainun Karya Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie ?. The results of data analysis and discussion, In revealing the figure Ainun figure, the author uses the technique of depiction of figures proposed by Nurgiyantoro, the technique of depiction of characters in a literary work can be distinguished in two techniques, namely expository techniques and dramatic techniques, through the technique of Ainun figure expression in novel Habibie and Ainun by Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie can be concluded that he is a figure of a very patient, while through dramatic techniques that include skillful techniques, behavioral techniques, techniques of mind and feeling, stream of consciousness techniques, reaction techniques, techniques of reactions of other figures, background and techniques of physical representation, figure Ainun is obedient and obedient to her husband, kind, responsible, has a very patient personality, he is a figure of a figure who likes peace, peace. But he had tested his loyalty to the husband that when he had to live mediocre when he was in Germany, he learned to use the maximum time so that everything can be resolved properly set the menu cheap but healthy, take care of children, husband and work. All he lived with full sincerity. Ainun always provide peace in his family with his personality. After a long time he thought to go back to work as a doctor so he could help his family's economy, but it takes recognition of UI diplomas in Germany and requires an indeterminate time process. After Ainun got back to work, Ainun was confronted with her personal problems when the children were sick and needed her to choose between work and children, based on faith, Ainun sacrificed her job as a doctor to Always be with her son and husband.

How is physiological arousal related to self-reported measures of emotional intensity and valence of events and their autobiographical memories?

Research suggests that emotionally intense experiences that elicit higher-than-average physiological arousal responses lead to particularly durable and detailed autobiographical memories. Yet, the lack of objective measures of physiological arousal while events unfold in everyday life makes it hard to corroborate this lab finding. Also, it is uncertain how well arousal maps onto self-reports of the phenomenological characteristics of autobiographical events and memories. Here, we examined how physiological measures of arousal, taken while everyday life events develop, correlate with self-reports. Our results showed that physiological arousal during an event not only was related to self-evaluations of its assessed physical reaction -at the time of report-, but also predicted evaluations of physical reaction, positivity, and importance of their memories one week after. Further analyses revealed that, while arousal affected evaluations of emotional intensity of events and memories, this relationship was moderated by participants' level of awareness about their own emotional processes.

Memorias en disputa. Los monumentos a Joaquín Cayzedo y Cuero, Simón Bolívar, María y el monumento a los Estudiantes Caídos durante la dictadura de Rojas Pinilla, Cali 1910-1958

Este artículo problematiza la práctica de erigir monumentos, a partir de la construcción de memorias que tienen lugar en el acontecer de la vida cotidiana. Para ello, se presentan y estudian los monumentos de dos espacios de la ciudad, a saber: el monumento a los Estudiantes caídos durante la dictadura de Rojas Pinilla ubicado en el barrio Siloé y los monumentos a Joaquín Cayzedo y Cuero, Simón Bolívar y a la novela de Jorge Isaacs, María, ubicados en el Centro Histórico de Cali. El trabajo analiza la constitución de memorias en relación con las disputas y conflictos que desde la vida cotidiana conllevan a una reapropiación y resignificación de las huellas del pasado, en este caso, de los monumentos.

Obesity in Russia: modern view in the light of a social problems

The purpose of the article is to highlight the social aspects of stress as a syndrome of adaptation to the current situation in Russian society in order to justify the consideration of society as a factor contributing to the development and spread of overweight and obesity among the Russian population.
 The problem of the conditions and quality of everyday life of a significant part of the population of our country is raised, which are accompanied by an increased stress level of everyday life events. A modern Russian society, possessing an immanently inherent systemic quality - a stressful property, combined with the specificity of a hypodynamic lifestyle, is a powerful and systemically active factor that provokes the development and spread of obesity and overweight. The stress factors of modern society, generated by the disorder and non-complementarity of the work of social institutions, instability in the economic and political spheres are analyzed. Food family traditions, food paradigm, leisure activity of Russians are studied. The irrationality of the use of food by mankind is discussed. The proposed measures to combat and prevent obesity.