Significant Cultural Events Research Articles

О киносериале «Трудно быть мужчиной», его герое и некоторых особенностях японской культурной традиции (новая редакция)

This article is an attempt to analyze the content of the longest Japanese movie series “It’s Tough Being a Man”. The fifty-episode film, spanning over 50 years, was directed by the distinguished Japanese filmmaker Yoji Yamada, who also wrote the screenplay for the series. The article examines the circumstances of the film creation, its compositional, genre, and conceptual features, as well as its connection to Japan’s social history and the development of Japanese cinema. Characteristics of the main characters of the film are provided, the reasons for the popularity of the movie series are explored, along with its cinematic language and style, and its relationship with American cinema and Japanese artistic tradition. The image of Kuruma Torajiro (the main character of the film) is compared with the image of Superman in American movies, as well as with the images of the Russian fool (including fairy-tale characters), and with the character of Prince Myshkin from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”. The author of this article concludes that Yoji Yamada’s work has become a significant cultural event of Japan in the last third of the 20th century and is still of great importance.

Preserving Folk Music in Community Cultural Events as a Method of Preserving Traditional Heritage: A Case Study of the Ta Oi Ethnic Group in Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam

The Ta Oi people in Thua Thien-Hue province continue to preserve and promote numerous unique indigenous music genres. However, these invaluable cultural heritages are at risk of vanishing from their cultural life in the future if there is no comprehensive and scientifically backed protection policy in place. My first-hand fieldwork and surveys have demonstrated that folk music is integral to the Ta Oi people’s way of life, being practiced at every stage of their lives, in significant cultural events within the community, and during religious rituals. Music serves as a distinct language, fostering connections among individuals, between people, and between people and spirits within specific cultural spaces, thereby forming a remarkably distinctive cultural mosaic among the Ta Oi people. Utilizing qualitative research methods, this study focuses on conducting in-depth interviews with skilled local artisans and participating in folk music performances within the Ta Oi community. The findings of the study reveal that significant community events play a crucial role in the practice, preservation, and maintenance of the Ta Oi people’s traditional musical culture. The study asserts that preserving folk music within the cultural life of the community serves as the most effective approach to safeguarding the indigenous folk art of each distinct community. This progression would enable the maintenance of the musical heritage of each ethnic group within contemporary society. Such endeavors necessitate support from the government, researchers, and local authorities.

Tuloni Biya and its impact on menstrual health: A qualitative exploration of the menstrual experiences of adolescent girls in Assam

AbstractMotivationThe status of menstrual health (MH) and hygiene management is very low in India due to a widespread culture of silence and secrecy regarding menstruation but, among the Hindu community in the north‐east state of Assam, the celebration of Tuloni Biya is a significant cultural event that openly celebrates a girl's menarche.PurposeAssuming that this cultural event is indicative of the openness of society towards menstruation, this study explores the cultural celebration of menarche and its various lesser‐known details. It aims to find out the role of this celebration of menarche on adolescent girls' MH preparedness.Methods and approachA qualitative approach is used. In‐depth interviews were conducted with well‐informed community members to gather information on the historical background of this cultural event; interviews with some adolescent girls from the community to learn about their experiences of menstrual management and the impact of Tuloni Biya.FindingsThe main purpose of celebrating Tuloni Biya among the Assamese Hindu community is to announce when a girl reaches puberty because the celebration of the power of fertility gives girls and women the social status of being fertile, which the community regards as worthy of respect. Notwithstanding the lack of silence and secrecy about menstruation, the social taboo and stigma still remain. Assam continues to perform poorly in relation to MH, and the cultural celebration of menarche in Assam does not appear to have any significantly positive impact in this regard.Policy implicationsTuloni Biya could be used as a development tool for bringing constructive changes in MH preparedness in the community, for instance, by celebrating Tuloni Biya (cultural customs and rituals) and the celebration of menstruation (MH education and literacy); through knowledge‐sharing sessions by teachers on the occasion of Tuloni Biya; arranging the gifts of kits for MH management from the Health Ministry of Assam on the occasion of Tuloni Biya; training of mothers by the public health system in how to use the opportunity of Tuloni Biya to equip their daughters with adequate information and guidance on MH.

Tracing memories and meanings of festival landscapes during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 has deeply affected mass gatherings and travel and, in the process, has transformed festivals, festival landscapes, and people's sense of place in relation to such events. In this article we argue that it is important to better understand how people's memories of festival landscapes are affected by these larger shifts. We worked from the premise that information-rich cases could provide some initial insights in this respect. To that end, we interviewed seven individuals who are regular and longstanding in their engagement with festivals in one place, lutruwita/Tasmania, the island state of Australia. Key findings suggest that pandemic experiences mediate the range of meanings participants give to festival landscapes and their interpretations of such landscapes can be described as attachments and detachments, encounters, and reorientations. We conclude by proposing that participants' efforts to draw on memories, reflect on emotional geographies, and recast autobiographies help them adjust to crises, rethink their ways of moving to and from festival sites, and reframe their sense of place in relation to significant cultural events. Such insights have application beyond both the island state and the participants involved.

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Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention by Steele Nowlin

Reviewed by: Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention by Steele Nowlin Denise Stodola Steele Nowlin, Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention. Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016. 274 pp. ISBN: 9780814213100 It is unusual but incredibly useful when authors challenge their readers to think about familiar terms in unfamiliar ways, which is what Steele Nowlin has done here. Calling upon his readers to view the terms “affect” and “invention” through a different lens, he shows us that these two concepts are intimately linked even though “affect” is often used as a synonym for emotion. For Nowlin, affect and emotion are separate concepts that interact with each other. In fact, in his configuration, affect [End Page 98] is a type of “emergence” that precedes an actual feeling or emotion. Because affect concerns an “emerging” potential, it is thus linked to invention, which is, itself, an emerging potential. More specifically, affect emerges and then “collapses” into emotion, and this is analogous to the way in which invention “collapses” into poetic form. By reshaping our perceptions of how affect precedes emotion and is therefore analogous to invention preceding form, we are then able to view poetic invention differently. Ultimately, invention not only shapes poetic form, but can, in many cases, expose cultural narratives that are themselves in need of revision. Moreover, Nowlin does a fine job of contextualizing his theoretical approach within the introductory chapter. He asserts that his work relies heavily on Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, as well as Eve Sofosky Sedgwick. He also uses the work of scholars like Eric Shouse, Brian Massumi, Gregory J. Seigworth, Melissa Gregg, Lauren Berlant, Mary Carruthers, and Rita Copeland. By showing the relationship of his work to that of other scholars—not only those focused on critical theory, but also those who specialize in “feeling theory,” as well as medieval scholars and rhetoricians— Nowlin provides a solid foundation for his theoretical approach. On the other hand, the order of the subsequent chapters is somewhat strained. In the first two chapters, he focuses on Chaucer, first on House of Fame in Chapter 1, and then on Legend of Good Women in Chapter 2. The placement of these chapters makes sense insofar as they both focus on Chaucer and illustrate not only how Chaucer’s works can been seen to deploy Nowlin’s formulation but also how neither of the works pushes past a potential realization of cultural narratives into any sort of action. In House of Fame, physical movement aligns affect with invention, bringing together the literary with the political and ultimately illustrating how the affective dynamic helps us to understand “patterns of cultural power.” In this case, that power is the power of literary men to find their own fame by using women. Dido, in fact, becomes a symbol for what Nowlin calls the “coemergence” of affect and invention, and the form resulting from invention does not provide any answer to Dido’s plight. Legend of Good Women, however, addresses misogyny and antifeminism more fully. Ultimately, though, it does not move past its own misogyny, but rather leaves the reader understanding how unethical that misogyny is. As such, it reveals the cultural narratives in which the work itself exists. By putting these two chapters next to each other, we are able to see both poems rely on affective invention and how the Legend of Good Women moves closer to an invention that more clearly articulates the misogyny of the culture in which it was produced. Chapters 3 and 4 could be brought together into one chapter as both focus on Gower’s Gonfessio Amantis, and both illustrate Gower’s success with the use of affective invention to effect potential change. Chapter 3 shows that the affective invention in the Confessio reveals masculinist cultural discourses and how they shape cultural reality, suggesting a potential need to transform the culture in which it was produced. Similarly, Chapter 4 argues that the chronicle form as a means of codifying significant cultural events and providing an authoritative version of those events has fundamentally opposite [End Page 99] impulses from what Gower’s poem ultimately achieves: invention of not only a...

Ghevond Alishan's Literary Activity Through the Light of Russian

The history of Russian-Armenian literary relationships is one of the brightest and most significant events of the time. It undoubtedly enhanced the mutual cultural heritage and left a profound mark on the worldview, moral and aesthetic values of Armenian and Russian writers, translators, and literary critics. Since the beginning of the 20th-century Armenian culture, mainly Armenian literature, aroused great interest among such outstanding classics, as M. Gorky, V. Bryusov, A. Blok, O. Mandelstam, A. Bely, A. Akhmatova and others who not only appreciated its aesthetic and stylistic texture but also embarked on the laborious work of translating its best achievements into Russian. In this sense, the anthology "The Poetry of Armenia from Ancient Times to the Present" in 1916 can be considered a significant cultural event. It was edited by Valery Bryusov, who also wrote the introductory part of the work. The publication was carried out with M. Gorky's direct assistance and support. It should be noted that many Russian translations done by V. Bryusov and A. Blok are still brilliant samples of the artistic heritage of translation. The present work focuses on the evaluations and interpretations of Russian critics (V. Bryusov, Y. Veselovsky) of the creative heritage of Gh. Alishan, his poetic individuality and the influence on the development of the literary process of that time. It also reveals the role of Russian poets, translators and literary critics in promoting the publication and popularization of Bryusov's anthology as a significant cultural event of the time. The section of the anthology "Poetry of Western Armenians" includes the most famous poems of Gh. Alishan, M. Peshiktashlyan, P. Duryan, Sipil, L. Shant, and others are parallelly illustrated by the excellent translations of V. Bryusov, S. Shervinsky, V. Khodasevich, K. Balmont, S. Bobrov and others. The scientific research has shown that among Russian poets and translators, Bryusov was one of the first interested in Gh. Alishan's literary works and his bright poetic individuality. It can be explained by the fact that Alishan was a well-known representative of Western Armenian poetry and a comprehensive creator of his time, a man with encyclopedic knowledge. In addition, he was a historian, philosopher, translator, philosopher, geographer who devoted his whole life to science and enlightenment. Bryusov was also a gifted man. He had a poetic talent; he contributed to improving the Russian dialect, elevating it to a new, higher level. Consequently, there are many common features between Bryusov and Alishan. These are the breadth of the intellectual range, brilliant knowledge of languages and world literature, devotion to scientific activities, profound love for their Motherland, its cultural values and the highest level of humanism. Undoubtedly, they were outstanding figures of their era who made a significant contribution to the development of culture, science and literature. This article is an attempt at a comprehensive study of the principles of the Russian translation theory used in the translation of Armenian literature, with particular reference to the poem "Hrazdan", an extract from Gh. Alishan's patriotic lyrics. The proficiency of Russian translators and the revelation of Armenian linguistic and national characteristics helped them interpret the linguo-stylistic peculiarities of the original and recreate their equivalent counterparts.

Chronicles of Spanish 2020: new challenges

This work is dedicated to such a significant cultural event for the Spanishspeaking world as the launch of the annual publication of the Chronicle of the Spanish,where the work of the Academy in the “era of coronavirus” is described, and the resultof which was the first volume of the chronicle published by ESPASA in November,2020. This chronicle describes the development of the Spanish language and showsThe Royal Spanish Academy activities mainly over the past year. It also includes themost actual and fundamental issues of Spanish studies at the present time, predictsvocabulary and grammar changes of different national Spanish variants, describesvarious initiatives and projects of the Academy.The new strategy for the Academy, which wants to demonstrate greatertransparency in its actions will be analyzed and the most interesting topics from thefirst edition of the chronicle will be observed.

The Value of Ethnographic Research on Music: An Introduction

Musical performances are at the heart of many significant cultural events and often represent and affirm distinct cultural identities. Ethnographic research on music thus provides an important lens through which to understand distinct cultural worlds. In this introductory article we consider the value of research on music—for the communities for whom it is a highly valued form of cultural expression and for the produced understandings of peoples' social worlds. Extending Anthony Seeger's recent flagging of areas for improvement in ethnomusicological research, this special issue is framed in terms of several concerns: engagement with cultural tradition, music and essentialism, and music as sustainability activism. Against the contemporary context in which the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the ways that musicians can gather and make music together, we consider the question of research on music from interdisciplinary perspectives and the varied positions of researchers, musicians and community members.

ХОББИТСКИЕ ИГРИЩА: РАЗВИТИЕ РОЛЕВЫХ ИГР В КРАСНОЯРСКОМ КРАЕ (1980-1990)

Local history as a kind of public history is gaining more and more popularity among researchers every year, because awareness of local historical experience is a tool for regional and personal self-identification, a way to define oneself, one’s uniqueness in the large multicultural world. Based on the study of the role-playing movement, it is possible to trace not only any peculiarities of the Krasnoyarsk cultural processes, but also to understand what influence the events of the “big” history had on the local history of the development of the role-playing movement in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in a specific cultural and historical period. The aim of the study is to reconstruct significant cultural events that contributed to the creation of the role movement, the influence of the socio-cultural environment on the role movement in the region, as well as to record the events characteristic of this subculture through the analysis of interviews with people participating in these events. The object of the study is the role-playing movement of Tolkienists in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, while the subject of the history (interviews) of informants who stood at the origins of the role-playing movement in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the 1980s-90s. To conduct the study, the following tasks were set: conducting an interview with participants in the role movement as a subculture characteristic of the Soviet period in the history of the culture of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and interpreting the received empiric material and identifying the features and trends in the development of the role movement subculture.

3D multiscale curvature analysis of tool edges as an indicator of cereal harvesting intensity

The adoption of an agricultural lifeway is considered one of the most significant cultural events in prehistory. Microwear analysis of stone harvesting tools is among the many approaches used to document the transition to agriculture in the Near East. Traditionally, these microwear analyses rely on the use of optical microscopy and visual-verbal descriptions of wear criteria. In addition to traditional optical microscopy, ongoing research into the applications of surface metrology for the characterization of microwear traces has contributed to the development of quantitative microwear methods. Despite significant research into the quantification of lithic microwear polishes, there has been comparatively little research on the quantification of tool edge angles to understand function. In this paper, we test a new method for the quantification of areal curvature of stone harvesting tool edges at multiple scales using data collected with focus variation microscopy. These calculations are based on curvature tensors of the measured surface topographies along tool edge cross sections. This method allows calculation of maximal and minimal curvatures at each location and scale. For this paper, we analyze a set of experimental microliths used as cereal harvesting tools using changes in multiscalar areal edge curvature to mathematically document harvesting intensity (duration of use). This experimental research presents a new method for documenting used stone tool edges that will contribute to our understanding of how harvesting tools were used, curated, and discarded in the past, giving insight into the food collection practices of early farmers.

Актуализация русской классики в период литературных юбилеев

The article examines the specifics of the study of the Russian classics in the years of literary jubilees, when the role of the classics in the spiritual life of the country is significantly enhanced, new opportunities for actualizing classical works appear. The author reveals traditional and new forms of work of a language teacher with students in the classroom and in extracurricular activities during the period of literary anniversaries. The article provides an overview of the most significant cultural events and sources dedicated to the 200th anniversary of I.S. Turgenev and A.A. Fet, the 125th anniversary of S.A. Yesenin. The practical part of the article deals with the methodology of guiding the students’ research work (on the example of identifying the role of Pushkin’s quotes in the story by I.S. Turgenev “Spring Waters”). The concluding part of the article presents the content and methods of conducting the anniversary problem lesson “N.А. Nekrasov and A.A. Fet: a dialogue between two poets and two poetic directions in the Russian poetry”. In it, on the basis of specific and little-studied material, the periods of the closest proximity of the two poets are considered, Nekrasov’s assessments of Fet’s work are given and the reasons for their personal and creative divergence in the 1860s are revealed. The author concludes that literary anniversaries are a serious incentive for the actualization of the works of Russian classics, for the inclusion of students in the cultural life of the country. It is important for a literature teacher to have information on the holding of these anniversaries, to use the information in their work, to prepare for lessons and extracurricular activities, to contribute to forming a philological environment at school, to improve their literary and methodological competence.

The third all-Russia scientific and practical conference "Culture and Art in Modern Educational Medium" in Kostroma State University

The article highlights the significant scientific and cultural event of the beginning of 2019, which took place at the Institute of Culture and Arts of Kostroma State University: The 3rd All-Russia Scientific and Practical Conference "Culture and Art in Modern Educational Medium". The aim of the conference included the exchange of advanced educational experience and modern scientific information in the field of culture and art, a regional exhibition of creative work of pedagogues of educational organisations was opened at the museum of the Institute of Culture and Arts of Kostroma University. The presentation of the documentary film "Sergei Rachmaninoff and Aleksandr P. Konovalov: crossroads of the same fate", which was presented by its founder, Professor Yevgeniy Borzov from the City of Ivanovo, Russia, was a significant cultural event of the conference. Such scientific event will contribute to the further development of value and theoretical systems in the implementation of the culturological model of education in Kostroma’s leading university, preserving the cultural heritage of Russia, thebest traditions of Russian performing and art schools, and passing the creative and pedagogic experience on to the new generation.

Political and Social Issues Impacting on the Theme of Contemporary Poetry

Islamic Revolution has been a significant cultural event in Iran and world. This cultural-social phenomenon has considerably affected all political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of society. The question is that how is this effect on literature and contemporary poetry and has it had effect or not? This study elaborates that entrance of new religious contents, impressionability of ritual poetry, new thinking with religious-social approach in contemporary poetry as well as a new attitude toward death in frame of martyr and martyrdom, and etc. are achievements of revolution in scope of literature. Also, Islamic Revolution could change poetic forms so that modern poetry (free verse) and white poetry (blank verse) can be seen in poems of poets at early years of revolution. This paper argues that Islamic Revolution made the poetry completely social by removing personal aspects and bringing it to community.

Carme Riera’s En el último azul (1994): An encounter with Spain’s conflicted past

Carme Ri era's novel En el ?ltimo azul ? published first in Catalan in 1994 and then in 1996 in a Castilian translation prepared by the author herself ? presents the story of a group of crypto-Jews [chuetas) living in seventeenth-century Majorca whose failed attempt to flee persecution leads to disaster.1 Published shortly after 1992 ? the five-hundredth anniversary of, amongst other things, the official Edict of Expulsion of the Jews ? this novel counters the multifaceted positive commemorative discourse ofthat year (in which Spain hosted a number of significant cultural events that celebrated 'Spain's coming of age as a modern, democratic European nation-state')2 with a representation intended to reveal some of 1492's darker consequences.3 The novel, awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1995 (the first novel in a language other than Castilian to receive it), is based on historical events that took place between 1687 and 1691, but, as the author suggests, in her retelling of them in the genre of the historical novel a significant degree of poetic licence has been exercised. First and foremost, En el ?ltimo azul is a moving, novelistic account of the life and death of a persecuted community. As Akiko Tsuchiya has observed, however, it is also 'a complex hybrid of history and fiction'.4 It is a novel dominated by questions regarding the relationship between official history and individual and collective memory, by questions regarding the relationship between past and present, and by questions as to where fiction might fit within these debates. Indeed, much of the critical discussion of the novel has centred upon what En el ?ltimo azul, as a work of fiction, adds to the historical account of those events. Furthermore, almost every critic who has written of this novel has linked it to some aspect of the present, either the context in which the novel was published or the critic's own present, for, as Carlos Garcia Guai has argued, the historical novel alludes frequently to the present in its evocation of the past and 'atrae ese pasado evocado hacia el presente, mostrando la semejanza de uno y otro'.5 There can be no question that making reference to historical memory was extremely relevant at the time the novel was written and is even more so now in the current Spanish political climate, with the passing of the Law of Historical Memory in 2007 and the growing demand for recognition of the victims of the Civil War and the Franco regime. Critics have viewed the text in very different ways: for Janet P?rez, En el ?ltimo azul presents a kind of historiography in line with the concepts propounded by the New Historicists.6 Neus Carbonell argues, applying post-colonial theories of the subaltern, that it might be read as 'a narrative of resistance from the ethical perspective of the responsibility for the repressed',7 while Tsuchiya analyses it as an expos?, partaking equally of history and fiction, of the discursive mechanisms used by the Spanish Inquisition to produce a disciplinary society.8 For G?raldine Cleary Nichols, En el ?ltimo azul embodies 'some of the infinidades de historias behind the capital-h Historical accounts of the last autos de fe [sic] resulting in loss of life in Majorca', and thus unsettles the official documents' monological presentation of the chuetas' last years, thus restoring 'some vestige of speech to the silenced'.9 Reyes Coll-Tellechea, on the other hand, has linked the novel to anxieties relating to the full entry of Spain into the European Union and the ethnic intolerance and genocide surrounding the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.10 In particular, the critics have found it irresistibly tempting to read the narrative in juxtaposition with the three-page 'Afterword/Nota' at the end of the novel where the author sets out some of her aims in the production of the text. Here Riera also lays out briefly what she understands to be the salient differences between fictional and historical narrative and positions her text in relation to these two poles. …

Athens' Post-Olympic Aspirations and the Extent of their Realization

As host to the world's largest sporting event, Athens hoped to revise its image in the eyes of the world by securing the social, economic, environmental, cultural and sporting recognition appropriate to a modern metropolis. This was not to be. Some hopes remained unfulfilled aspirations. The post-Olympic era was characterized by missed opportunities that mainly concerned the utilization of the Olympic venues, which, hampered by bureaucracy and lack of long-term planning, remained unexploited having been abandoned after the games. Nonetheless, Athens saw some of its aspirations realized: it acquired a modern transport infrastructure which reduced air pollution, an urban regeneration programme which resulted in a renovated city centre, selective upgrading of the outlying Attica districts and a boost to economic investment which increased tourism. Athenians also benefited from significant cultural events in the post-games period. However, these benefits failed to eradicate the negative impressions of Athens held by the wider world and the disappointments of unrealized aspirations as a consequence of missed opportunities.

Cultural Icons and Marketing of Gambling

A number of different countries and states have or are in the process of developing formal or informal guidelines to govern gambling advertising and marketing of gambling. There is a growing consensus that gambling advertising should not mislead the public, be fair, provide information on the odds of wining and there should be provisions in place to protect vulnerable groups, such as, children. In the development of these guidelines by different countries or states there has been no real consideration of the need to engage with different indigenous and ethnic populations to ensure that they are protected as vulnerable populations. Further there is a need to engage with these populations within countries and across countries to ensure that indigenous and ethnic minority cultural icons, values, religious practices and music are not used without their permission or exploited in the business of promoting and marketing different forms of gambling products. New Zealand’s experience of marketing and advertising of gambling is discussed in this paper. It is outlined the development of casinos in New Zealand and how Maori were actively encouraged to participate in the opening of these establishments and therefore, legitimate their existence as a safe place for Maori, the indigenous population of New Zealand to frequent on a regular basis. Since then other ethnic minority populations have been targeted to engage in different forms of gambling by recognising their significant cultural events, importance of family events and celebrating and promoting the success of important sport role models. Gambling advertising can be direct or subtle, however, little research has focussed on the third person effect associated with gambling advertising. New Zealand has adopted a public health approach to reduce gambling related harm. One of the key strategies introduced to reduce gambling related harm has been the development and implementation of harm minimisation regulations. Research conducted in New Zealand regarding individuals’ attitudes and behaviour to gambling, highlights that Maori have a high recall of gambling advertisements alongside other ethnic populations. The paper suggests that as part of a public health approach to reduce gambling related harm that it is now timely in New Zealand, for consideration to be given as to how much exposure, if any, New Zealanders should be subjected to gambling advertising.

Developing Cross-Cultural Competence: A Guide for Working with Children and their Families, Second Edition

Developing Cross-Cultural Competence: A Guide for Working with Children and their Families, Second Edition

The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader: On the Uses of "Serious" Fiction

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader: On the Uses of "Serious" FictionJanice RadwayJanice Radway Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 14, Number 3Spring, 1988The Sociology of Literature Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/448454 Views: 15Total views on this site Citations: 17Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1988 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Victoria Kingham The Excluded Middle: Cultural Polemics and Magazines in America, 1915–1933, (Jan 2012): 115–129.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354647_8Andrew P. Carlin The Corpus Status of Literature in Teaching Sociology: Novels as “Sociological Reconstruction”, The American Sociologist 41, no.33 (May 2010): 211–231.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-010-9096-8Larry Isaac Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change: Making the American Labor Problem Novel, American Sociological Review 74, no.66 (Dec 2009): 938–965.https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240907400605Elisabeth Klaus Janice Radway: „Frauengenres“ und die alltägliche Produktion von Gender, (Jan 2009): 290–303.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91839-6_24Denel Rehberg Sedo RICHARD & JUDY'S BOOK CLUB AND ‘CANADA READS’: Readers, books and cultural programming in a digital era1, Information, Communication & Society 11, no.22 (Mar 2008): 188–206.https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180801934487Linsey Howie Ritualising in Book Clubs: Implications for Evolving Occupational Identities, Journal of Occupational Science 10, no.33 (Nov 2003): 130–139.https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2003.9686520David E. Sutton Is Anybody Out There ?, Critique of Anthropology 11, no.11 (Jul 2016): 91–104.https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X9101100105 The Dialectics of Our America, (Jan 1991): 3–22.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-001 “Squeezed by the Banana Company”, (Jan 1991): 23–48.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-002 Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique, (Jan 1991): 49–84.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-003 The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina, (Jan 1991): 87–104.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-004 The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God, (Jan 1991): 105–120.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-005 The School of Caliban, (Jan 1991): 123–148.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-006 Postcolonial Borders, Dissent, and the Politics of the Possible, (Jan 1991): 149–153.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-007 Notes, (Jan 1991): 155–179.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-008 References, (Jan 1991): 181–195.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381709-009Elizabeth Long Cultural studies, Critical Studies in Mass Communication 6, no.44 (Dec 1989): 427–435.https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038909366768

Nixon's Resignation and Death Rates: Individual/Systems Interaction in America

Two studies are reported in which death rates were examined to determine the impact of Richard Nixon's resignation as a cultural/environmental event. As hypothesized, in the first study a significant dip in the number of deaths occurred in Atlanta, Georgia in the week immediately following the resignation. An examination of subpopulations indicated that the phenomenon was strongest among those individuals who had no obvious familial support system. In the second study, analysis of death rates for the entire state of Wisconsin indicated that the effect was strongest among circulatory deaths for males and neoplasmic deaths (tumor-related deaths) for females. The results are interpreted in terms of a stress hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, significant cultural events will be accompanied by emotional reactions, including stress reactions, and we may expect alterations in behavior to accompany these emotional reactions. In this instance, the behavior is death.