Inseparable Entities Research Articles

DEL AF FAMILIEN: Penge og gavegivning i danske udvekslingsfamilier

This article deals with the financial aspect of kinship and is based on field data collected
 in Denmark among ‘exchange families’ consisting of Danish host families and foreign
 exchange students living with the families for up to one year. The theoretical background
 of the article is the ideal separation between money and family in Western society
 depicted by the anthropologists Maurice Bloch, David Schneider and James Carrier.
 The ethnographic material in the article is represented primarily by an extended case,
 and shows clearly that the separation is ideal, and that family life and finances are
 inseparable entities. The article analyses one reason why the exchange families are
 faced with financial challenges: Exchange organizations expect host parents to treat
 the exchange student as they treat their own child, and Westerners generally expect
 parents to treat their children in the same way. The article demonstrates that factors
 such as money and gifts affect the continuous creation of social relatedness in the
 “exchange families”. However, host parents’ intention of financially treating the
 exchange student like one of their children is doomed from the very start, since the
 financial conditions of the exchange student and the host siblings differ fundamentally.
 This difference challenges both the notion of sibling equality and the ideal relationship
 between parents as givers and children as receivers.

Rearticulating Violence

Rearticulating Violence

Ecospirituality. A pattern that connects.

Ecospirituality is a manifestation of the spiritual connection between human beings and the environment. Ecospirituality incorporates an intuitive and embodied awareness of all life and engages a relational view of person to planet, inner to outer landscape, and soul to soil. This study describes an appraisal of a pattern in the human-environmental, continuous mutual process and innovative change; a phenomenological study that used the focus group method. Randomly selected volunteer registrants (n = 36) of phase one of the American Holistic Nurses' Association Certificate Program in Holistic Nursing constituted the sample and participated in one of four focus groups. The findings of this study contribute to holistic nursing by examining the essence of the lived experience of an ecospiritual consciousness of select holistic nurses. The essences of an ecospiritual consciousness are uniquely inseparable entities embedded within the framework of an ecospiritual consciousness. The essences are tending, dwelling, reverence, connectedness, and sentence.

Shaping modern liberalism: Herbert Croly and progressive thought

Liberty, equality, democracy and national unity are all highly valued by liberal politicians who often present them as inseparable entities. But, as Herbert Croly and his turn-of-the-century contemporaries found, moulding these appealing, yet often conflicting, concepts into a liberal philosphy was not nearly as easy as embracing them in a campaign speech. In this study of Herbert Croly's political theory, Edward Stettner analyses Croly's writings and examines the events, experiences and people who influenced Croly's thinking. In the process, he reveals Croly's significant influence on modern liberalism as classical liberal theory merged with progressive philosophy. Croly, founder of The New Republic expounded on issues from the nationalisation of railroads to the Espionage Act in his search for a middle way between socialism and capitalism. Stettner illustrates how Croly's political theory influenced the editorial position of one of the leading liberal journals and how his thought in turn was modified in reaction to national and world events, such as presidential elections and World War I. Stettner portrays Croly as a modest and conscientious intellectual who wholeheartedly came to embrace the progressive movement and consequently helped establish the framework for modern liberalism. In doing so, Stettner emphasises how Croly's philosophy evolved and how Croly was drawn to the conclusion that a strong national government and individual rights could indeed coexist - if not always serenely - in a democratic society.