Public Social Life Research Articles

Gender Differences in Social Embeddedness Determinants of Loneliness Among Moroccan and Turkish Older Migrants.

Moroccan and Turkish migrants residing in Northwestern Europe have high loneliness levels. This study examines gender differences in loneliness within this migrant population. The migrants have gender-segregated social roles at home and in public, which might lead to gender differences in what aspects of social relationships can explain variation in loneliness. Respondents are from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam with 446 first-generation Moroccan and Turkish migrants in the Netherlands, aged between 55 and 66 years. We use interaction effects to test for gender differences in determinants of loneliness. Men and women have a similar, moderate level of loneliness. Having a spouse and receiving care from children are more strongly related with lower loneliness levels in men than in women. Coethnic ties play an equally important role for men and women. In men, frequent mosque attendance is related with greater loneliness, but not in women. Family ties are more protective against loneliness for older men than for older women, possibly indicating that migrant women's expectations regarding family go above and beyond having a spouse, receiving intergenerational care, or having frequent contact with children. In addition, migrant older men's higher expectations regarding a public social life could make their social life in the Netherlands less fulfilling, resulting in greater loneliness.

SOCIO-LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF THE STATE LANGUAGE IN THE DIGITIZATION OF KAZAKHSTAN

The article is intended to determine the features of the state language during the process of digitization in the public social life of the citizens of Kazakhstan. Digitization of Kazakhstan is going on intensively. The rapid development of IT technology has made changes to the structure of the language. In this regard, the article considers the social, political, and economic reasons for determining the peculiarities of the Kazakh language in the field of digital technology. Language units collected from texts on social networks, state portals, media channels, business platforms were taken as materials of the article. Socio-linguistic methods were used in the article: the method of external observation on field research, the method of synchronous analysis in modeling the features of language in society, general linguistic methods (description, analysis, systematization). The current state of the Kazakh language was described using the method of external observation, the sociolinguistic phenomena that occurred in the linguistic situation of the Kazakh language in a heterogeneous linguistic environment (linguistic situation, language conflict, mixing of languages, bilingualism, multilingualism, language choice, recognition of language status, etc. ) was determined. It has been proven that the use of IT technology and digital system products contributes to the expansion of the functional scope of the Kazakh language. Although the "Digital Kazakhstan" program is not directly related to the implementation of the language policy of the state, it was determined that it had a positive effect on the development of the state language.

Impact of COVID-19 on public social life and mental health: a statistical study of google trends data from the USA

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant disruption in the social lives and mental health of people across the world. This study aims to asses the effect of using internet search volume data. We categorize the widely searched keywords on the internet in several categories, which are relevant in analyzing the public mental health status. Corresponding to each category of keywords, we conduct an appropriate statistical analysis to identify significant changes in the search pattern during the course of the pandemic. Binary segmentation method of changepoint detection, along with the combination of ARMA-GARCH models are utilized in this analysis. It helps us detect how people's behavior changed in phases and whether the severity of the pandemic brought forth those shifts in behaviors. Interestingly, we find that rather than the severity of the outbreak, the long duration of the pandemic has affected the public health status more. The phases, however, align well with the so-called COVID-19 waves and are consistent for different aspects of social and mental health. We further observe that the results are typically similar for different states as well.

Critical Discourse Analysis of Teun A. Van Dijk's Model against Online News “The Decline in Refinery Profits Threatens to Increase Oil Prices”

This study aimed to describe the dimensions of the text of the Teun A Van Dijk' model in the text discourse online news “the decline in refinery profits threatens to increase oil prices”. The rise of online media news coverage regarding the decline in refinery profits threatening the increasing oil prices interests the researchers in analyzing the discourse because the author considers that no mass media is completely neutral and objective. This research used a qualitative descriptive method with Teun A Van Dijk’s theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, because the Van Dijk’s model also looks at the social cognition of the unit of observation and the social context in which the unit of observation occurs. The result of the research revealed that most of the dimensions of the text structure were met. Social analysis that is obtained was the decrease in refinery profits will cause new problems in public social life. For the textual analysis of macrostructure elements, the topic described a common theme of this online news which is "petroleum". In this news discourse, several elements of the microstructure were found in the form of background, detail, intent, coherence, conditional coherence, sentence form, and presuppositions.

Internalisasinilai Pendidikan Perdamaian Melalui Pemahaman Perbedaan Peran Gender dalam Pertunjukan Kesenian Reog Ponorogo

Culture is the result of the construction of society through ideas and norms, which are reciprocal with public social life. Plural community life certainly creates its own challenges because it is vulnerable to conflict. This paper’s aim is to determine the differences in gender roles in Reog art and the valuescontained in. Gender differences in their identities and roles both naturally and as result of social construction often arise conflicts within them. One feels as a passive and subordinating, while other as an active and dominating. This dichotomy of roles, traits, and positions between men and women born by the concept of gender causes its own stereotypes, so that misunderstandings and conflicts arise between one and another. The art of Reog Ponorogo essentially internalizes the values of peace as an effort to cultivate spirit of peace and mutual tolerance. The value of peace education is displayed through understanding diversity of men and womens’ identities and roles.

Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London

ABSTRACT Cities need social infrastructure, places that support social connection in neighborhoods and across communities. In the face of austerity in many places, the provision of such infrastructures are under threat. To protect such infrastructures, it is important to have robust arguments for their provision, maintenance, and protection. Through a case study of a dispute about the appropriate use and provisioning of an everyday park located in London, UK, this article examines what social infrastructure is and why it matters. The dispute has brought to the surface a number of critical questions about how to fund and provide collective, public social life. It has also raised questions about what types of social and collective life should be valued. To examine the dispute a sixfold typology is developed to explore the different registers of sociality afforded by social infrastructure: co-presence, sociability and friendship, care and kinship, kinesthetic practices, and civic engagement.

Where the Normal is Crisis: Service Delivery to Underserved Populations during the COVID Pandemic

Women and children subject to violence. Refugees. The incarcerated and criminalized. The homeless. Ethnic and racialized minorities. When a global pandemic hits populations that are already vulnerable, racialized, marginalized, historically subject to oppression, and underserved, the civil society organizations mandated to serve them need all their ingenuity and resourcefulness to provide support while following public health guidelines. As the COVID‑19 global pandemic forced the closure of many workplaces and the re-direction of public social life, the daily lives of vulnerable people, many already struggling on the margins of society, and those mandated to serve and support them changed shape drastically in some ways, and in other ways, not so much. My main argument is that the pandemic of 2020 and consequent imposed restrictions brought about a moment of difference in how our society treats those who are usually and in “normal” times pushed to the margins, invisible and overlooked. Policy spotlight, propelled by panic and a global public health crisis, shone on them, rendering them sharply visible.

Narrative Time and Anti-Queer Prejudice in Henry James’s The Bostonians

Recent critics provide compelling accounts of Olive Chancellor’s unprecedented queerness in The Bostonians. Where these accounts tend to focus on how James approaches Olive as a type, they often leave unexplored the full force of both Basil and the narrator’s prejudice in shaping Olive’s representation. This essay re-orients the discussion to the novel’s narratological structure and examines how James frames the politics of her sexual difference through a prejudicial narrator who erases sympathetic portrayals of Olive’s difference. James responds to dangers that queers faced in participating in public social life and offers narrative strategies by which to read Olive sympathetically. The essay offers a reconsideration of formal practices in narratology and queer theory and suggests that The Bostonians provides important context for reading queer narrative style at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.

ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКИХ ЦІННОСТЕЙ ІНОЗЕМНИМИ КОНСУЛАМИ НА ПІВДНІ УКРАЇНИ (КІНЕЦЬ ХІХ – ПОЧАТОК ХХ ст.)

Today we hear more and more that until our country realizes fundamental European values, it will not be able to become a full member of the “European family”. But it should be emphasized that this process began long before Ukraine gained independence and the leading role in this was played by foreign consuls of Europe and America. The countries that created the modern world as it is, where the foundations of modern statehood, civil society, an efficient market economy, and a system of social justice were laid. Therefore, this article is dedicated to highlighting the role of these representatives in the implementation of European values in the south of Ukraine in the late XIX – early XX centuries. Being in the port cities of the region, which then opened wide horizons for commercial activity, and using all opportunities to maximize the protection of the interests of their state and citizens, foreign consuls, through the development of public-social life of the region, contributed to the implementation of priority values. There were many consuls who made a significant contribution to the development of urban territories, their improvement, the enrichment of the spiritual and intellectual life of the townspeople. Consulates of Greece, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Belgium, England, Denmark, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina deserve special attention. Awareness of the importance of education, spiritual status of the population and the development of the city as a whole made positive changes. At the end of XIX – beginning of XX century the South of Ukraine began to occupy leading positions in the foreign economic activity of the Russian Empire. Of course, it cannot be said that this was done solely through the work of foreign representatives, but they nevertheless managed to prove that the unity of values is the foundation on which the European Union stands today.

The Family Politics of the Federation of South African Women: A History of Public Motherhood in Women’s Antiracist Activism: Winner of the 2017 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

AbstractThis article reexamines the roots of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), the first national organization of women from all state-defined racial groups united against apartheid, founded in 1954. It argues that the deep history of public motherhood in southern Africa was what made FEDSAW possible: biological and symbolic motherhood had long been associated with responsibility for public social life in the region. Moreover, the article demonstrates that the first half of the twentieth century represented a time of profound transformation in the ways that women in southern Africa talked about and experienced motherhood. The influences of both missionary Christianity and international socialism encouraged women to claim that long-standing regional cultural forms of public engagements were an extension of private maternal responsibilities. African women talked about their public activism as emanating from an idealized private sphere to make themselves legible as social actors, both to agents...

Does Associational Membership Affect Extreme Right Voting and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes? An Individual and Contextual Analysis in Belgium

This paper investigates the impact of associational membership on anti-immigrant attitudes and extreme right voting. It provides a unique test of this relationship by considering jointly direct individual membership to various types of association as well as the density of these social networks in the individuals’ environment. In contrast with previous research, the results show that the role of social capital is weaker than hypothesized. Using the PIOP-ISPO post electoral surveys of 1999 and 2003, we show that the intensity of public social life in the environment has no significant effect on attitudes and behaviour, and individual social capital has a differentiated effect depending on the nature of the association individuals belong to. Membership to political associations has an effect on both extreme right voting and on negative attitudes toward migrants. Membership to non-political organizations has no impact on voting behaviour but is negatively correlated with anti-immigrant attitudes. In sum, the study emphasizes that the influence of social capital is much less straightforward than assumed in most of the literature.

Great, Good, and Divided: The Politics of Public Space in Rio De Janeiro

ABSTRACT:At a time when cities, particularly large Latin American cities, are increasingly polarized and overcome with violence, and public space has long been pronounced dead, an exceptionally vibrant public realm survives in Rio de Janeiro. In the elite beach neighborhood of Ipanema, residents spend a large part of their free time in public: on the street corner, in bars, and on the beach. Ipanema has a proliferation of what Ray Oldenburg calls “third places” where neighbors, friends, and colleagues plug into and out of an ongoing public social life. But below the idyllic surface lies a conflictual social space stratified along race and class lines. Through an analysis of the discursive construction of the beach, the politics of beach access, and a 15-year old tradition of beach riots, I question the notion—popularized by Oldenburg and others—of public space as the location of an organic civil society that greases the wheels of commerce, promotes democracy, and solves its own problems in the common interest. Rather, I argue that Rio’s famous beach neighborhoods are a key arena of the public sphere where the terms of Rio’s unjust social order are challenged, negotiated, and largely reproduced. Nevertheless, Ipanema’s public space represents political possibility for the otherwise excluded majority.

Less than Equal: Secularism, Religious Pluralism and Privilege

Less than Equal: Secularism, Religious Pluralism and Privilege

The new wealth of cities: city dynamics and the fifth wave

Contents: Preface: an explanation Theory: Two Inter-locking Theories of City Development: Introduction A general model of city dynamics The long waves of city development City dynamics Old money and new work. Economy: The New Economy and the Creative Industries: The economy of cities Knowledge economies and post-Fordism The cultural or creative industries The rise of London's creative industries Local economic development of the creative industries. Culture: Art and the City: Artistic creativity Artistic movements Cities and artistic creativity The arts and urban regeneration Artistic creativity and the long waves. Time: The Regulation of Public Morality: On Time: Public social life and the evening economy Night-time cities The problem of regulation Public morality and the long waves New regulation of the night-time city?. Place: The Art of Place-Making and Urban Design: Place matters Losing the place City building Urban design Place in the fifth wave. Creative Milieux: Quarters and Clusters: Creative milieux Cultural quarters Planned cultural quarters A typology for developing cultural and creative industry quarters Creative milieu in the fifth wave. Cities of the Fifth Wave: Summary argument Fifth wave cities City dynamics and place-making Renaissance or enlightenment? Index.

Burnt Orange

The Dutch tend to see themselves as a tolerant and antiracist nation, despite frequent evidence to the contrary. One area in cultural life that is both a site of stardom for nonwhite Dutch and a site of extreme racism and prejudice is popular sports and especially football (or soccer). Games played by the national soccer team are major events, in particular when the team comes near the finals in a European or world championship. In such cases, practices of television viewing run over into public social life and carnivalesque outbursts of sports loving and nationalist joy. This article will draw on interviews held with soccer fans that focused on nationalism and ethnicity. The author is interested in the pleasures of television sports viewing and football fandom, and in the representation of the male body (often signified in explicitly ethnic and racial terms) in television sports reporting as perceived by audiences.

Public boundaries: Privacy and surveillance in a technological world

Surveillance cameras placed in public places by security forces and police departments and cameras linked for transmission via the Internet represent variations on the theme of private connection and public life illustrating the difficulty in fixing boundaries of publicness and privateness. Theoretically, the awareness of cameras is though to foster a sense of safety and therefore intended to serve as a means of revitalizing public spaces, making them more inviting as sites of public social life and political activity. Privacy rights and communication freedoms are among those areas particularly intertwined with psychological and functional expectations in using a public space but these rights and freedoms are entangled with conflicting interests in safety and security offered by the surveillance industry.

Female Rituals and the Politics of the New York Marriage Market in the Late Nineteenth Century

This article reevaluates the role of society women in the late nineteenth century in the formalization of New York's high society and in shaping class identity. In doing so, it takes issue with studies that have regarded this period in New York's social history as aberrational and, instead, evaluates women's involvement in the marriage market as a determined attempt to modulate the merger of rival elites and bring stability to a metropolitan society disrupted by urbanization, industri alization, and demographic growth. It argues that female social leaders complied with, and reinforced, the dominant male class structure while at the same time expanding their participation in a public social life and enhancing their status within the family.

Café culture and the city: The role of pavement cafés in urban public social life

This article explores the relationship between pavement cafés, street life and urban public social life. It argues that the licensing of public entertainment and the enforcement of liquor licences and rigid opening times have helped to undermine public social life in English cities. Attitudes which first gained ascendancy in the 1890s have remained dominant and, broadly speaking, unchanged. Nevertheless, there has been a recent and fairly rapid growth in wine bars, cafés and bistros in London and some other English cities. The paper explores whether these help to stimulate public social life. Reference is made to research in Holland and Denmark, and also recent experience in London and Manchester. The paper concludes that city policy makers should, in the short term at least, act to stimulate café culture. Some anti‐social and behavioural problems might well require an element of control, and not all urban areas are suited to café culture. Yet in a technological age, café culture represents one of the few remaining opportunities for public sociability. Where it creates a nuisance, it could and should be controlled but this is not the same thing as exercising an all‐persuasive moral control which has its roots in Victorian England.

The regulation of public social life: Communication law revisited

A complex arena of legal regulations governing public space and the built environment shape the opportunities for and nature of social interaction. This article develops a taxonomy of the indirect or accidental, intentional, or unintended regulations which influence social interaction in public spaces and suggests an expansion of the scope of communication law. The taxonomy developed through a case study of a suburban municipality and encompasses zoning laws (which address signage, facade, parking, display windows, take‐out and delivery service, and vending machines, the segregation of functions, design districts), penal codes, minimum drinking and driving ages, and the regulation of smoking in public places. These form the regulatory web around which communication in public life revolves.

The crisis of urban public social life in Britain: Origins of the problem and possible responses

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