Sociocultural Resources Research Articles

Local Wisdom of Bajo Tribe in Utilizing Marine Resources

Bajo ethnic communities have a set of local wisdom in their social and cultural system which is then implemented into a religious beliefs and emotional ties in their transcendental relationship with supernatural powers, concept, and expression about life and its meaning, aim, orientation, knowledge, and interpretation framework of the world. This paper focused on three main issues; the form of local wisdom, the development of local wisdom as sociocultural resource in empowering coastal community of bajo ethnic, factors that can support and hinder the development of local wisdom and the way to reduce poverty in Bajo’s community at Tumora village Poso district, Poso. The objective of this study was to understand and describe sociocultural phenomenon existing in the culture-supporting society and gain a deep understanding of other cultural influences on the Bajo local wisdom.

ОСНОВЫ СОЗДАНИЯ ТУРИСТСКО-РЕКРЕАЦИОННЫХ ЗОН

Problem statment: The article discusses the theoretical and methodological foundations of creating tourist and recreational areas, formation criteria, the study of natural, environmental, cultural, socio-economic prerequisites, management features, its certification, the formation of destination centers as part of recreational areas. In the formation of tourist and recreational zones of Azerbaijan, natural, environmental, socio-cultural factors, development strategy development, prerequisites for the establishment of destination management centers are studied. In addition, the article reflects the creation of regional destination centers, the effective use of existing potential, improved management, which stimulate the development of various types of tourism and general economic development. The formation of recreation areas is associated with economic and social factors, as they develop based on the use of available resources. Recreational systems are a complex form of socio-economic management system, which includes the management of individual subsystems of various tourism entities within a particular center. The purpose of the study: To analyze the tourist and recreational areas of Azerbaijan and to study the theoretical and methodological foundations of the creation of tourist and recreational areas. Methods The study used the method of comparative historical methods, statistics. Results: The formation of tourist and recreational areas and the prerequisites for the establishment of destination centers in their composition can lead to the following conclusions: - The formation of tourist and recreational areas is based on the joint use of natural, environmental, geographical and socio-cultural resources, which serves to reveal the attractiveness of the territory from the point of view of tourism . - Certification of tourist and recreational areas and criteria for dividing the destinations are carried out using the resource potential and the assessment of infrastructure prerequisites, which contributes to the formation of control centers for destinations. - The formation of tourist and recreation zones gives an impetus to the economic development of the regions, which contributes to the development of certain destinations, environmental protection, and the presentation of cultural heritage as a tourist product. Scientific novelty: The article explores the activities of regional destination centers and the implementation of marketing strategies in this area. Here, the natural and environmental features of the region were studied and areas of application for the formation of small specialized recreational zones were shown. It was also noted the importance of creating centers of destination management to protect the ecological environment of the territory, to prevent degradation of the landscape. Practical relevance: Natural tourism resources have led to an increase in the number of tourists coming to the fore in the demand of people for tourism. As can be seen from the figure, natural tourism resources play a role in attracting tourists, which indicates the importance of taking into account the types of natural tourism when compiling passports of tourist and recreational areas.

An evaluation of recreational benefits and tribal tourism development for aboriginal villages after post-disaster reconstruction - a case study of Taiwan

ABSTRACTThis study investigates two sites suffering severe damage from typhoon Morakot. It utilizes the travel cost method to measure the average recreational benefits of compensation variation and equivalent variation per person, and it evaluates whether there are causal relationships among tourists’ recreational experiences, perceived values, and revisit intentions. The outcomes demonstrate that most tourists assign high recreational values to natural and socio-cultural resources. However, a further analysis of the tangible benefits indicates that the amount of income received remains low. Tourists have difficulties nurturing an immediate revisit intention here, even when they are satisfied with their experiences.

Examining intersectional inequalities in access to health (enabling) resources in disadvantaged communities in Scotland: advancing the participatory paradigm

BackgroundMultiple structural, contextual and individual factors determine social disadvantage and affect health experience. There is limited understanding, however, of how this complex system works to shape access to health enabling resources (HER), especially for most marginalised or hard-to-reach populations. As a result, planning continues to be bereft of voices and lived realities of those in the margins. This paper reports on key findings and experience of a participatory action research (PAR) that aimed to deepen understanding of how multiple disadvantages (and structures of oppression) interact to produce difference in access to resources affecting well-being in disadvantaged communities in Edinburgh.MethodsAn innovative approach combining intersectionality and PAR was adopted and operationalised in three overlapping phases. A preparatory phase helped establish relationships with participant groups and policy stakeholders, and challenge assumptions underlying the study design. Field-work and analysis was conducted iteratively in two phases: with a range of participants working in policy and community roles (or ‘bridge’ populations), followed by residents of one Edinburgh locality with relatively high levels of deprivation (As measured by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, a geographically-based indicator. See http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/SIMD/DataAnalysis/SPconstituencyprofile/EdinburghNorthern-Leith). Traditional qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups) alongside participatory methods (health resource mapping, spider-grams, photovoice) were employed to facilitate action-oriented knowledge production among multiply disadvantaged groups.ResultsThere was considerable agreement across groups and communities as to what healthful living (in general) means. This entailed a combination of material, environmental, socio-cultural and affective resources including: a sense of belonging and of purpose, feeling valued, self-esteem, safe/secure housing, reliable income, and access to responsive and sensitive health care when needed. Differences emerge in the value placed by people at different social locations on these resources. The conditions/aspects of their living environment that affected their access to and ability to translate these resources into improved health also appeared to vary with social location.ConclusionIntegrating intersectionality with PAR enables the generation of a fuller understanding of disparities in the distribution of, and access to, HER, notably from the standpoint of those excluded from mainstream policy and planning processes. Employing an intersectionality lens helped illuminate links between individual subjectivities and wider social structures and power relations. PAR on the other hand offered the potential to engage multiply disadvantaged groups in a process to collectively build local knowledge for action to develop healthier communities and towards positive community-led social change.

Representations of love in the early stages of love

Abstract Love, especially romantic and partnership love, has been a legitimate research theme in social science since the mid-twentieth century. In the research less attention is paid to how personal conceptions of love are formed within specific sociocultural contexts. One question that emerges in relation to social representations theory is: how are ideas about love, or knowledge of love, re-presented among particular social groups and which sociocultural resources are used in the process? In our questionnaire-based research we ascertained which perceptions, ideas and knowledge are prevalent among young people who are gaining their first experiences of partner relationships, what they consider love to be in their own context and what knowledge they have of love. The questionnaire was completed by 268 higher education students, who provided 38 representations of love, based on personal experience and linked to sociocultural sources of love.

Preventing Substance Use Among Hispanic Urban Youth: Valuing the Role of Family, Social Support Networks, School Importance, and Community Engagement

Hispanic urban youth experience high levels of violence, access to drugs and alcohol, and limited access to quality educational institutions, as well as a disproportionate use of substances. However, youth exposed to multiple sources of support, such as values related to family centrality (e.g., family cohesion or familismo) and positive social networks, are less likely to use substances, and more likely to value school and participate in community activities. The present study examines substance use and empowering-protective resources among a cohort of Hispanic students (N = 538) from a northeastern United States urban community. We also assessed the moderating influence of gender using structural equation modeling (SEM) multigroup path analysis techniques. Results indicate that access to more sociocultural resources, such as cohesive families (familismo) and social supports, increases Hispanic adolescents’ community participation and school importance. Outcomes also demonstrate the positive, yet diverging, effects of gender. Implications for community prevention and policy are discussed.

Responsive play: Creating transformative classroom spaces through play as a reader response

This eight-month study, conducted in a first-grade classroom in the southwestern United States, analyzed young children's playful responses to literature. It focuses on framing a theory that underpins play as a form of reader response, which I term ‘responsive play’. It further aims to answer the overarching research question and the sub-question: What are the affordances of play for responding to text in a first-grade classroom? What are the sociocultural resources that children use to respond to and make meaning with text? Findings suggest that the children in this study created a space for learning and understanding, through their responsive play, that allowed them to think through, demonstrate, and share their experiential knowledge, their funds of knowledge, and their intertextual knowledge – as sociocultural resources – and to connect these to their literacy learning as they cooperatively transacted with and responded to various books. These findings suggest that children's play, language, and literacy are complementary, that children's responsive play should be encouraged in the classroom setting, and that children's experiences and funds of knowledge should be valued as additive to the academic learning context. Implications of this study include that responsive play can be viewed as a generative source of academic learning and that the notion of reader response, in research and practice, can be reconceived to include responsive play.

Oral language learning in a foreign language context: Constrained or constructed? A sociocultural perspective

This paper reports on an exploratory study which investigated English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' oral language learning experiences from a sociocultural perspective. The study involved four Chinese proficient English learners, and gathered data from interviews and written journals. With Activity Theory serving as the analytical framework, data analysis revealed that 13 sociocultural resources in relation to artifacts, rules, community, and roles mediated the participants' oral English learning by providing and actualizing learning affordances, serving as learning goals, and generating motivation for learning. The findings delineate a picture of the social context in which learners make use of sociocultural resources, both instructional and extracurricular, to seek opportunities for oral language learning. The study suggests that EFL contexts can afford learners with diverse potential learning resources, the usefulness of which depends on learners' agency in seeking and exploiting these resources.

Sharing Autism Through Metaphors. (Dis)ability, Difference and Diversity in Temple Grandin’s Portrayals of Autism.

Autistic people, professionals claim, lack the socio-emotional awareness to employ metaphors. Yet public, medical and neuroscientific discourse about autism is full of metaphors, including those used by autistic people themselves. Analyzing the autobiographic writings of Temple Grandin – livestock scientist and autism spokeswoman – I treat her metaphors as shared sociocultural resource negotiating the identities of autistic people within a larger context of changing American disability narratives and identity politics.

Resource approach in studying the role of employees in social partnership: To methodology of research

The article provides a survey of the theoretical ideas of resource approach and the ensuing empirical studies of the role of employees in negotiation with employers and government. The major theorists of resource approach are P. Bourdieu, J. Coleman, N. E. Tihonova, V. I. Il’in, V. V. Radaev, A. N. Krasilova, and V. A. Jadov. R. Putnam and F. Fukuyama’s conception of social capital is an alternative version of resource approach that is used for the analysis of society as a whole. The resource approach is the strategy of scientific research of social inequality in society, based on the analysis of structure and capacity of resources. The resource of the employee is not always required in society or at the labour market. The required resource that determines the status of employee is called “active”. Active converts into capital if it brings the profit due to exceeding the expenses for its reproduction. If the employee has enough capacity of the required social resources, he can realize his interests and influence another subjects of the social partnership. Based on addition of Jadov’s methodology and results of synthesis of empirical studies, we single out three interdependent levels in the structure of social resource: socio-cultural resources, resources of social links and individual-personal resources. Individual-personal resources determine conversion of other social resources into actives and capitals.

Assessing the Priority Area of Mountainous Tourism Using Geospatial Approach in Kendal Regency, Central Java

Kendal is one of 35 regencies in Central Java which has diverse topographies, from low land, hilly, to mountainous areas. Mountainous area of Kendal with numerous unique and distinct natural environments, supported by various unique and distinct culture of its community can be used for tourism activities. Kendal has natural and sociocultural resources for developing tourism that must be considered by the local government. Therefore, nature based tourism resources assessment is important in order to determine the appropriate area in the planning of sustainable tourism destination. The objectives of this study are to assess and prioritize the potential area of mountainous tourism object in Kendal using geospatial approach based on criteria attractiveness, accessibility and amenity of the tourism object. Those criteria are modification of ADO-ODTWA guidelines and condition of the study location. There are 16 locations of tourism object that will be assessed. The result will be processed using ArcMap 10.3. The result will show the most potential tourism object that could become priority for mountainous tourism development in Kendal.

Pelagic marine refugia and climatically sensitive areas in an eastern boundary current upwelling system.

Refugia are areas relatively buffered from contemporary climate change that enable the persistence of valued physical, ecological, or sociocultural resources. Spatially identifying refugia is important for conservation and applied management. Yet the concept of refugia has not been broadly extended to marine ecosystems. Here, we analyze data from a unique and long-term (1999-2015) standardized survey of pelagic marine and anadromous species off Oregon and Washington in the northern California Current to identify such refugia. We use quantitative approaches to assess locations with high species richness and community persistence relative to local and basin-scale environmental fluctuations. We have identified a potential climate change refugial zone along the continental shelf of Washington State in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean, characterized by a species-rich community with low interannual temporal community change. This region contrasts with adjacent areas to the south and offshore that have lower species richness, and higher temporal species community change. Also, using spatially variant generalized additive mixed models, we identify areas with species compositions that are more influenced by basin-scale climatic fluctuations than others. We propose that upwelling regions with retentive topographic features, such as wide continental shelves, can function as marine refugia for pelagic fauna, whereas offshore locations are potentially more climatically sensitive and experience high temporal change in species composition. Further identification of these marine refugia using insitu data for pelagic biodiversity and climatically sensitive areas can help guide management in the face of inevitable climatically driven change.

바흐친의 대화주의 이론에 대한 탐색적 고찰 - 한국어 학습자 정체성 연구와 관련하여 -

The purpose of this study is to explore and apply the ways in which Mikhail M. Bakhtin’s (1895~1975) concept of Dialogism can frame our understanding of SLA identity research as well as Korean language education in general. Scholarship in second and foreign language learning has traditionally looked to the field of linguistics and psycholinguistics for its epistemological foundations. In this tradition, a formalist view of language influenced over the years on research and actual education fields. But as concerns with the limitations of this view for understanding fully language learner’s experiences have recently increased, with scholars calling for explorations into other disciplinary territories. One of the more significant sources of current understands of language can be found in the work of Bakhtin, a Russian literary theorist. He developed his ideas in response to early Russian formalist. He viewed language as comprising dynamic constellations of sociocultural resources that are fundamentally tied to their social and historical contexts. In this study, there are two main purposes to present: 1) The importance of identity studies in SLA research, and 2) Introduction of Bakhtin’s Dialogism and its implications & application in analyzing Korean language learning experiences of European Korean Studies students.

IMPLEMENTASI JAMINAN KESEHATAN DAERAH: STUDI KASUS DI KABUPATEN SLEMAN

The purpose of this article was to know the implementation of regional health insurance. This research is empirical juridical research. This research was conducted with field research aimed at the implementation of regional health insurance after the enactment of Sleman Regent Regulation No. 60 of 2012. The results of this research indicated that the implementation of regional health insurance after the enactment of Sleman Regent Regulation No. 60 of 2012 follow: Regional Health Insurance Program in Sleman District has a goal to provide quality and affordable services to the community, maximizing health financing for the Sleman Slum community. Each JAMKESDA participant had the right to receive basic health services including outpatient and inpatient services, as well as Advanced Advanced Outpatient Health Care (RJTL), Advanced Inpatient (RITL), delivery and emergency care services. Constraints faced include limited local budgets for regional financing and inadequate health facilities and resources. In addition, other obstacles related to procedural administrative, constraints derived from data collection, constraints that are socio cultural and human resource constraints (HR). Keywords: Implementation, Health Insurance, Regional.

Voice of Society and the Crisis: The Potential and Limits of Reflexivity and Civility

The strategic capacity of human agency to orient itself in a context of growing uncertainty and complexity depends on the degree and quality of its reflexivity and relationality, and of the civic impulse arising from the connection between both. The present article explores this capacity by analysing the results of an opinion survey carried out in May 2016, and by developing an argument about one collective agent: the Spanish citizenry. Spanish citizens send three main messages. First, they opt for a European course and for a range of policies consistent with convergence (and debate) between the traditions of social democracy and conservative liberalism. Second, they are attentive to the task of recreating a political community. Third, they ask for civil forms of doing politics. To send these messages they draw on socio-cultural resources, and forms of reflexivity and relationality. The article addresses society’s relations with the political class and with itself and the cultural resources (economic knowledge, historical narratives) that map these relationships within their global context and their past.

CROSS-CULTURAL REALITIES IN THE JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

The paper examines the journalistic discourse as a linguistic phenomenon in the socio-cultural realities. The relevance of the study is determined by the great interest of linguistic science to the issues of cross-cultural communication and their significance in teaching English as a foreign language. The journalistic discourse is a peculiar phenomenon of linguistics because it reflects socio-cultural features of specific communication space; it creates a language picture of the world of a certain culture and society through the specific socio-cultural lexical units – realities. The main aim of the study is to examine, analyze, summarize and systematize socio-cultural linguistic resources as a means of creating and transmitting linguistic awareness, revealing the pragmatic aspects of their functioning in the journalistic discourse. In order to achieve this goal the following steps have been taken: 1) to study the characteristics of the journalistic discourse; 2) to determine the specific genres of the journalistic discourse of the English language periodicals and mass media on-line resources; 3) to investigate the cognitive and pragmatic features of the vocabulary functioning, which reflect the peculiarities of the English language context of the socio-cultural aspect of the journalistic discourse; 4) to categorize and analyze the thematic and typological groups of socio-cultural realities and study their functions in the context. The possible application of the obtained results is to develop the scientific and teaching facilities in the field of foreign language learning and translation.

Education Reform in China: Toward Classroom Communities

ABSTRACTFocusing on China’s current education reform, this article critically discusses how contextual factors, specifically sociocultural factors and resources, assist and constrain Chinese educators in their attempt to develop dynamic and inviting classroom communities. Three main findings are highlighted in this article, the first being that the creation of classroom communities is perceived by Chinese educators to be beneficial to the students. Secondly, Chinese educators judiciously rely on existing professional learning communities to experiment with and launch classroom communities. The third finding foregrounds two key challenges faced by educators. The first challenge is the difficulty with fostering classroom communities in the poorer parts of China where schools perennially struggle with huge class size and inadequate educational support. The second key challenge is a predominantly exam-centric culture that inhibits the flourishing of classroom communities for effective teaching and learning. The experience in China illustrates the moderating effects of local conditions in shaping the evolving concept and practice of classroom community.

Young Africans’ representations of the origins of same-sex attraction and implications for sexual and mental health

Sexual minorities are stigmatised in much of sub-Saharan Africa, restricting their access to sexual health services and undermining their mental health. Although public attitudes and social representations inform the experience of sexual stigma, little is known about how young Africans make sense of sexual diversity. We conducted a thematic analysis of 56 texts contributed by young people from 10 countries in response to a prompt in a scriptwriting competition inviting participants to ‘tell a story about someone who is attracted to people of the same sex’. We analysed accounts of the origins of same-sex attraction, a prominent theme in the narratives. Two-thirds of the texts provide an explicit or implicit explanation, presenting same-sex attraction as innate (15/38) and/or the consequence of environmental influences (32/38), including parental behaviour, gender separation, trauma, foreign influences and evil spirits. Expressions of the potential to avert or cure same-sex attraction are common. Young people’s sense-making around sexual diversity draws on available sociocultural and symbolic resources, some of which may be highly stigmatising, and reflects local, national and transnational influences. The need to explain same-sex attraction and the preponderance of harmful explanatory frameworks compounds sexual minority youth’s vulnerability to sexual stigma, harmful coping strategies and mental health challenges.

Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation.

Refugia have long been studied from paleontological and biogeographical perspectives to understand how populations persisted during past periods of unfavorable climate. Recently, researchers have applied the idea to contemporary landscapes to identify climate change refugia, here defined as areas relatively buffered from contemporary climate change over time that enable persistence of valued physical, ecological, and socio-cultural resources. We differentiate historical and contemporary views, and characterize physical and ecological processes that create and maintain climate change refugia. We then delineate how refugia can fit into existing decision support frameworks for climate adaptation and describe seven steps for managing them. Finally, we identify challenges and opportunities for operationalizing the concept of climate change refugia. Managing climate change refugia can be an important option for conservation in the face of ongoing climate change.

From Peru to Ichaboe: The dynamics of a shifting guano frontier, 1840–5

ABSTRACTThe guano frontier originated as a geographic space for a socio-cultural resource central to the identity, lifestyle and worldview of the indigenous Peruvians. Colonisation in combination with advances in understandings of plant nutrition and fertiliser science, however, shifted guano’s meaning from its original roots and turned it into a globally tradable commodity. The geographical frontier, under the influence of post-independence politics and nationalisation, firstly became an economic frontier and, secondly, a political boundary. With discoveries on Ichaboe and other neighbouring islands on the southwest coast of Africa, this frontier shifted and a race for monopoly control ensued. The dynamics of the struggle for monopoly control over the guano frontier on the Namib coast challenges some of our fundamental historiographic tenets of frontiers, their very natures, triggers and movements. This article suggests the extension of a socio-ecological model in which resource demand and depletion, coupled with changes in the extension of knowledge and legal boundaries, all played roles.