Reflection Of Social Norms Research Articles

Reflection of social norms, moral ideals and gender dispositions of Premodern society in the medieval chivalric romance

Reflection of social norms, moral ideals and gender dispositions of Premodern society in the medieval chivalric romance

Language, Gender Bias and Identity in Arabic Language Learning

This research aims to determine the relationship between language, gender bias and identity in Arabic language learning. Language and gender cannot be separated in a context, as aspects of language, including structure, word use, and communication conventions, can play a role in forming and reproducing gender norms, including in Arabic language learning. This research method uses library research with a qualitative approach. The data that will be presented is descriptive and analytical by paying attention to the characteristics of data sourced from articles, journals, books and related discussion topics. The results of this research show that in Arabic language learning there is still an unequal gender overlap in the context of texts which are exemplified by the dominance of muzakkar rather than muannats contained in the MTs Arabic language book Class VII Print -1 of 2020. Meanwhile, language and gender must have balance and Language equality is not only a means of communication, but also a reflection of social norms and structures, especially in learning, so that there is no gender image in the learning process.

From ‘no dogs here!’ to ‘beware of the dog!’: restricting dog signs as a reflection of social norms

Signs in public space reflect ‘normalcy’ in a community. The authors ask what restricting signs tell us about a society? In order to explore the system and variation in the ways dog signs manifest different norms and control, they compare two different data sets: dog signs in a Northern European town, Jyväskylä in Finland, and two Eastern European villages in Romania. They apply a qualitative methodology based on visual communication, geosemiotics and linguistic landscape studies. The focus of the article is on the resources of addressing and the visual semiotics of the image. The investigated communities seem to create a complementary distribution of what they regulate that is also displayed through their semiotics: the Jyväskylä examples are prohibitions for dogs ‘being’ while the Romanian cases consist of warnings or threats. Both prohibitions and warnings implicate the norms and normalities in the communities, showing where they stand in terms of a continuum between a ‘dog as a pet’ and a ‘dog as a (co-)worker’. As images, the urban signs in Jyväskylä can be characterized as icons of a small collared pet, placed as a part of top-down communication in ‘tight’ public spaces. In contrast, the photographs of big dogs in the open and private Romanian village spaces refer to some specific guard dog, through which their owners communicate a benevolent warning or an intimidating threat.

The portrayal of infant feeding in British women's magazines: a qualitative and quantitative content analysis.

Exclusive breastfeeding is the best start an infant can receive. However, in many high-income countries breastfeeding rates are low and this may be a reflection of social norms which in turn may be influenced by the media. This study therefore explored the portrayal of infant feeding in women's general interest magazines. The five top selling women's weekly magazines in Britain and Ireland for 2013 over a 4-month period were included. A quantitative and qualitative content analysis was conducted for both written and visual content. In 58 magazines, there were 90 references to infant feeding with an average of 1.5 (range: 0-5) per magazine. Breastfeeding and formula feeding references were present in equal number and both were predominantly portrayed positively. There was only 1 visual representation of breast feeding compared with 11 of bottle feeding. Potential drivers for breastfeeding included its role in post-pregnancy weight loss and celebrity endorsement while family routine, the role of males in the house and concerns about adverse health effects were identified as barriers to breastfeeding. An improvement in visual representations of breast feeding and factual information in women's weekly magazines may be helpful in re-defining social norms regarding infant feeding. Keywords: food and nutrition, health promotion, public health.

From Kosovo to Syria: the transformation of NATO Secretaries General's discourse on military humanitarian intervention

ABSTRACTThe civil war in Syria began approximately four years ago and has resulted in the murder of thousands by the Assad regime and the flight of millions to neighbouring countries. The international community's reluctance to intervene to halt the ongoing massive human rights violations has been explained in geopolitical, military-strategic, diplomatic, and legal terms. Yet, what does this imply normatively? And does the weakening of the military humanitarian intervention (MHI) norm support arguments regarding the poverty of constructivist security studies? This article examines these two questions and demonstrates the weakness of the MHI norm, especially in light of the new interpretations and meanings which authoritative agents ascribe to its key conceptual components in changing strategic, social and political contexts. Yet, the article employs constructivist tools to explore the endogenous challenges to the MHI norm while proving the added value of constructivist security research, not only for explaining “norm evolution” but also “norm decline”. Taking discourse as a reflection of social norms and an arena for encouraging new intersubjective interpretations of concepts, it examines the above assertions by analysing the discourse of NATO Secretaries General from 1999 (Kosovo crisis) to today.

REFLECTION OF THE SOCIAL STANDARDS AS A CONDITION OF A SUCCESSFUL SOCIALIZATION OF THE CHILDREN WITH A HIGH CREATIVE POTENTIAL

The aim of this article is to study the problem of reflection of social norms and its impact on the process of socialization of children with a high creative potential. Methods. Processes of socialization and reflection of social norms are considered in this article on the basis of the methodology of the system and mental activity analysis developed by G. P. Schedrovitsky, the founder of the Moscow Methodological Study Group. The article provides the comparative analysis of the adaptation and activity approach to socialization of children with a high creative potential according to such parameters as the object, socialization mechanisms, characteristics of social norms, social controls, personal controls, personal qualities, level of social mobility, and nature of the process of socialization. Results and scientific novelty . The author puts forward the thesis about irrational character and «off-limits» of judgements of the majority of social norms in a modern society, and shows distinction of social and personal regulators of a reflection of these norms. One of the main conclusions is the following: rationalisation and reflection of social norms are the important conditions of social dynamics and social development. It has been found that unconscious personal acceptance of social norms that is typical of the adaptation approach leads to two opposite results: 1) successful adaptation due to uncritical acceptance of social norms by the child, which leads to decrease in the diversity of ways of activity and specificity of its products, and, as a result, failure to realize the creative potential; 2) desocialization of the child in case of keeping the level of creative abilities and the possibility of its realization. The activity approach which is based on reflexive mechanisms represents absolutely different methodological opportunities for solving the problem of socialization of children with a high creative potential. The activity approach contributes to the instrumental attitude of the individual to the process of social interaction, process of autonomy and preserving the personal identity of the human being due to the possibility of establishing this interaction and reconstructing the social norm in a group. Practical significance. The approaches to socialization provided in the article can help practicing teachers to organize their work more effectively, efficiently and qualitatively.