Socio-political Events Research Articles

Speedy activists: How firm response time to sociopolitical events influences consumer behavior

AbstractOrganizations face growing pressure from their consumers and stakeholders to take public stances on sociopolitical issues. However, many are hesitant to do so lest they make missteps, promises they cannot keep, appear inauthentic, or alienate consumers, employees, or other stakeholders. Here we investigate consumers' impressions of firms that respond quickly or slowly to sociopolitical events. Using data scraped from Instagram and three online experiments (N = 2452), we find that consumers express more positive sentiment and greater purchasing intentions toward firms that react more quickly to sociopolitical issues. Unlike other types of public firm decision making such as product launch, where careful deliberation can be appreciated, consumers treat firm response time to sociopolitical events as an informative cue of the firm's authentic commitment to the issue. We identify an important boundary condition of this main effect: speedy responses bring limited benefits when the issue is highly divisive along political lines. Our findings bridge extant research on brand activism and communication, and offer practical advice for firms.

Transgender and gender diverse clients’ experiences in therapy: Responses to sociopolitical events and helpful and unhelpful experiences.

Transgender and gender diverse clients’ experiences in therapy: Responses to sociopolitical events and helpful and unhelpful experiences.

Contextualizing Response Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From a Boston-Based Community Health Centers Study.

The focus of this study was to calculate and contextualize response rates for a community-based study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, a topic on which scant data exist, and to share lessons learned from recruiting and enrolling for implementation of future studies. The Life+Health Study, a cross-sectional population-based study designed to advance novel methods to measure and analyze multiple forms of discrimination for population health research. The study recruited participants from 3 community health centers in Boston, Massachusetts, between May 2020 and July 2022. A total of 699 adult participants between the ages of 25 and 64 years who were born in the United States and had visited one of the health centers within the last 2 years. The response rate was calculated as follows: (number of completions + number of dropouts)/(dropouts + enrollments). To contextualize this response rate, we synthesized evidence pertaining to local COVID-19 case counts, sociopolitical events, pandemic-related restrictions and project protocol adjustments, and examples of interactions with patients. Our study had a lower-than-expected response rate (48.4%), with the lowest rates from the community health centers serving primarily low-income patients of color. Completion rates were lower during periods of higher COVID-19 case counts. We describe contextual factors that led to challenges and lessons learned from recruiting during the pandemic, including the impact of US sociopolitical events. The Life+Health Study concluded recruitment during the pandemic with a lower-than-expected response rate, as also reported in 4 other US publications focused on the impact of COVID-19 on response rates in community-based studies. Our results provide an example of the impact of the pandemic and related US sociopolitical events on response rates that can serve as a framework for contextualizing other research conducted during the pandemic and highlight the importance of best practices in research recruitment with underserved populations.

Process of sovietisation of tertiary education in Slovakia in 1945-1956

The socio-political events of 1945-1956 are characterised by several phenomena that significantly marked the formation of tertiary education in Slovakia and determined its subsequent development. In the first years after the end of the war, attempts at political, economic, or cultural contacts with Western countries could still be observed in several Central European countries for some time. Universities maintained their traditional internal academic structure, organisation of student enrolment, content of studies, etc. This situation was mainly fostered by the needs of the country's reconstruction, which at the same time masked the political pragmatism of the new, but not yet fully strengthened, people's democratic regimes. Gradually, they became a priority concern of the Communist Party, whose aim was to gain ideological control over them. Soviet influence in education was exercised in the spirit of communist ideology, centralized state planning, and a bureaucratically controlled process of education marked by ideological influences. The paper aims to analyse the basic changes in educational models and specific features of Slovak higher education systems after the bipolar division of the world.

“I WILL NO LONGER COME TO YOU AS A GIRL STUDENT, BUT AS A FREE CITIZEN OF MY MOTHERLAND”: A WOMAN IN THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

The article examines letters by Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Sergeeva (Tanskaya), who was born in Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude), to her relatives and friends during her education at Troitskosavsk high school and, from 1903, the Bestuzhev Higher Women’s Courses. The post-reform development of the Russian Empire greatly diversified women’s living conditions. The introduction of the concept of personal freedom and the modernization of the educational system stimulated social emancipation in general, and women’s emancipation in particular. Social changes are reflected in private lives, particularly in personal correspondence. In her letters, Sergeeva goes beyond the female “domestic” narrative, enriching it with pictures of education, reflections on the books she read and on socio-political events, and a presentation of her inner self. Her correspondence can be roughly assigned to the period in Troitskosavsk, when she thought upon and wrote extensively about her desire to become independent, and to the time in Saint Petersburg when she actively implemented her new-found independence. In addition, the letters reveal the birth of a new kind of woman, whose life is not limited to her female duties. The study of Sergeeva (Tanskaya)’s letters leads to the conclusion that the circle of out-of-home interests of women began to form even in the outskirts of the Russian Empire. While this progress developed in the central regions of the empire during the nineteenth century, it was slow and limited in Transbaikalia. Sergeeva’s letters are a unique historical source for the region, allowing us to reconstruct history through the eyes of women, whose view of personal, social and state events was not examined by specialists in the social sciences and humanities until the late twentieth century.

Compassion fatigue and global compassion fatigue in practitioner psychologists: a qualitative study

AbstractPractitioner psychologists are at risk of compassion fatigue (CF) due to the emotional demands of helping individuals who have experienced pain and suffering. Practitioner psychologists may also be impacted by wider socio-political events (such as the COVID-19 pandemic), which can lead to global compassion fatigue (GCF). While these concepts have been examined in various healthcare professionals, research exploring the impact of CF and GCF on practitioner psychologists has been very limited. This study therefore aimed to explore the impact of compassion fatigue (CF) and global compassion fatigue (GCF) on practitioner psychologists’ practice. Ten participants were recruited for online semi-structured interviews during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collected was thematically analysed. Five themes related to compassionate care were identified, which included: ‘How to be compassionate’, ‘Psychologists require TLC too!’, ‘Hindrances of compassionate care’, ‘Constraints within the NHS’ and ‘Indicators of compassion fatigue and burnout’. Three themes related to GCF were identified, which included: ‘Effects of news/social media’, ‘Management of news/social media’ and ‘Challenges faced by COVID-19’. The implications of CF and GCF and ways to mitigate their effects on practitioner psychologists’ wellbeing, development, and their practice are discussed.

Историко-культурные связи Ирана и России через восприятие духовно-нравственных концептов воспитания молодежи на примере коранической поэзии И.А. Бунина первой четверти 20 в.

In the general spectrum of cultural cooperation between Iran and Russia, a special place belongs to the problems of educating the younger generation. The rich spiritual and artistic heritage of the two countries, common historical parallels, traditional worldview ideals contribute to the formation of the civic identity of young people, the harmonious development of the individual. Philosopher, thinker, poet, true patriot of his Motherland – I.A. Bunin was subtly aware of the Eurasianism of his country, which was reflected in the awareness of the national identity and rich cultural heritage of Russia through the prism of understanding world religions. The article provides a structural and semantic analysis of several poems by I.A. Bunin, thanks to the use of appropriate mystical images referring to the text of the Koran. The poet, based on religious and mystical (Muslim) traditions and legends, which, in turn, have a connection with other cultures (Christian, Jewish, etc.), depicts the Day of Judgment. Particular attention is also paid to the motif of the Day of Judgment in Islamic mysticism (Sufism). The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the authors reveal the motif of the Day of Judgment in the artistic system of I.A. Bunin influence of socio-political events of the first half of the XX century. Based on the foregoing, the article attempts to analyze and identify the main spiritual and moral concepts of the Nobel Prize winner, nicknamed “Righteous Among the Nations”, relevant in a poly-confessional and multi-ethnic human society at different stages.

Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Context

Adolescence and early adulthood are periods of rapid biological and social change, during which stressors can have large, and long-lasting impacts on stress biology and developmental outcomes. Some have termed adolescence a “second sensitive period” due to rapid changes in biology and increases in stress-sensitivity occurring during this period. Although much early research focused on family and peer stressors and daily life events stress in adolescents and young adults, more recent theory and research has highlighted the important impacts of youth exposure to more structural forms of stress emerging from broader neighborhood, societal, and cultural contexts, such as economic stress, or the stress of discrimination based on race, gender identity and/or sexual orientation, especially among minoritized youth. Recent research has also focused on positive aspects of youth development and youth contexts that may protect youth against the negative impacts of stress or promote positive youth development in the face of high stressor exposure. In this set of four talks, researchers each highlight the impacts of different structural/contextual forms of stressors or supports on multiple stress-sensitive aspects of adolescent or young adult biology, and the implications of stress-related alterations in biology for youth health and wellbeing. In the first presentation, Paul Hastings reviews data from the California Families project, a large longitudinal sample of Mexican-origin families, presenting data on how structural stressors and exposures impact multiple youth neurobiological systems. In the second presentation, Luis Parra presents data from multiple studies on the impacts of heterosexist and racist discrimination and hate violence on the adrenocortical functioning, psychosocial adjustment, and mental health of ethnically/racially diverse LGBQ young adults. In the third presentation, Leah Doane examines the impact of cultural values and cultural contexts on the day-to-day links between sleep and diurnal cortisol patterns among Latino college students. In the final presentation, Lindsay Till-Hoyt presents data from two studies focusing on how macro-level sociopolitical events, the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections, differentially affect youth stress (perceived stress and diurnal cortisol patterns) and youth behavior (e.g. civic engagement) depending on their social positions, identities and experiences. Together, these studies highlight the importance of examining diverse samples of youth and considering how broad social, political, economic and cultural contexts intersect to affect youth exposures to stressors and supports, which in turn impact their stress biology and developmental wellbeing.

Young Adults Disparate Experiences of Elections and Civic Engagement: How does Sociopolitical Stress get under the Skin?

Macro-level sociopolitical events, such as elections, may differentially affect youth’s day-to-day functioning depending on their social positions, identities, and experiences. In a set of studies of young adult college students across the USA, we explored psychological and physiological responses to the 2016 presidential election (Study 1) and trajectories of sociopolitical stress and civic engagement during the 2020 election (Study 2). Study 1 included salivary cortisol and daily diary data from 286 students (M=20.24 years; 73% women; 56% white) from two universities collected on consecutive days before/during/after the 2016 election. Study 2 included three waves of self-report survey data from 588 students (Mage =20.24; 72% women; 68% white) from ten universities in fall 2020. Piecewise trajectory analyses for Study 1 revealed that different facets of a young person’s identity (e.g., political preference, gender, race/ethnicity) moderated trajectories of mood and diurnal cortisol during election week. For example, youth who disapproved of President Trump showed significant increase in bedtime cortisol after he won the election (b=0.21, p<.05). In Study 2, growth mixture modeling pointed to four profiles of sociopolitical stress over the election period (i.e., high, high/decreasing, medium/increasing, low). Youth in the “low” profile were more likely to identify as white, heterosexual, and male, and reported the lowest levels of civic action. Integrating key findings from both studies with theories from developmental science and psychoneuroendocrinology, we suggest a framework to study mechanisms between sociopolitical stress and civic engagement in the 2024 election.

Adaptive framing of sustainability in CEO letters

PurposeThis study provides insights into the external powers that can influence business leaders' communication on sustainability. It shows how the socio-political context manifested in national and transnational policies, regulations and other socio-political events can influence the CEO talk about sustainability.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts an interpretative and qualitative method of analysis using the lenses of the theoretical concepts of framing and legitimacy, analysing CEOs’ letters from 10 multinational industrial companies based in Sweden, over the period of 2008–2019.FindingsThe results show that various discourses of sustainability, emerging from policies and regulatory initiatives, socio-political events and civil society activism, are reflected in the ways CEOs frame sustainability over time. This article reveals that CEOs not only lead the discourse of profitable sustainability, but they also slowly adapt their sustainability talk to other discourses led by the policymakers, regulators and civil society. This pattern of a slow adaptation is especially visible in a period characterised by increased discourses of climate urgency and regulations related to social and environmental sustainability.Research limitations/implicationsThe theoretical frame is built by integrating the concepts of legitimacy and framing. Appreciating dynamic notions of legitimacy and framing, the study suggests a novel view of reporting as a film series, presenting many frames of sustainability over time. It helps the study to conceptualise CEO framing of sustainability as adaptive framing. This study suggests using a dynamic notion of adaptive framing in future longitudinal studies of corporate- and accounting communication.Practical implicationsThe results show that policymakers, regulators and civil society, through their initiatives, influence the CEOs' framing of sustainability. It is thus important for regulators to substantiate sustainability-related discourses and develop conceptual tools and language of social and environmental sustainability that can lead CEO framing more effectively.Originality/valueThe study engages with Goffman's notion of dynamic framing. Dynamic framing suggests a novel view of reporting as a film series, presenting many frames of sustainability over time and conceptualises CEO framing of sustainability as adaptive framing.

THE RELATIONSHIP OF EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC-EDUCATIONAL WORK WITH STUDENTS (USING THE EXAMPLE OF SOCIO-POLITICAL &#x0D; EVENTS IN THE KSUEL IN 2023)

The article deals with the implementation of the relationship of educational and scientific-educational work with students in the process of conducting university socio-political events. The authors substantiate the importance of the interrelation of these directions from the point of view of the formation of rational consciousness and critical thinking among students. The effectiveness of the considered socio-political events is revealed by the example of an interuniversity student scientific and educational conference.

Children's ideas about COVID-19 and learning loss: Interviews with 10 second-graders

In 2020 and 2021, there has been extensive scholarly and popular discussion about children's learning loss due to COVID-19 and its related school closures. This conversation generally overlooks the voices of young children. This study, set in a US context where children spent a year or more attending school exclusively remotely, reports from interviews with 10 second-graders about how they conceive of loss related to COVID-19 and particularly what it might mean to lose learning. The study finds that the children have extensive ideas about what it means to lose something tangible or intangible, and that their theories about loss are based in well-understood personal experience. It also shows how children use loss narratives to make sense of sociopolitical events and concepts in the world around them, and it offers the possibility that the upheaval wrought by COVID-19 has helped some children become quite emotionally aware and able not only to tolerate but also adaptively defend against difficult feelings. The article emphasizes the importance of foregrounding children's ideas and voices in making sense of their educational experiences.

For the Pragmatic and Semantic Understanding of Lexeme "War" in English Media Discourse

The semantic perception of the lexeme "war" and its pragmatic understanding is a very interesting process from the linguistic perspectives. The recent negative situation in the world has especially strengthened the semantic perception of the socio-political event (war) and its pragmatic understanding in the linguistic context, which is revealed by our mini-observation and study. Accordingly, the main goal of our research is the pragmatic and semantic understanding of the lexeme "war" and the media discourse (British and American modern newspapers magazines, such as The Guardian, USA Today, BBC News. etc.) is selected as the principal analytical source for our study.

Everyday non-partisan fake news: Sharing behavior, platform specificity, and detection.

Concern over the impact of fake news on major socio-political events is growing. The use of deliberate misinformation is thought to have played a role in the outcome of the UK EU referendum, the 2016 US presidential election, and in the effectiveness of COVID-19 public health messaging. As a result, recent research has tended to focus on hyper-partisan (e.g., US politics; Democrat/Republican), person specific (e.g., Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump) content that incorporates emotive and hyperbolic language. However, in this study, we focus on an alternative form of fake news, across a variety of topics (e.g., Crime, Immigration, and Health), that avoids these characteristics, and which may therefore be more pervasive and difficult to detect. In a three-part study, we examined participants sharing intentions for fake news (including platform preference; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp), their ability to explicitly detect fake news, and whether individual differences on psychological measures of critical thinking ability, rational thinking, and emotional stability predict sharing behavior and detection ability. The results show that even our well-informed sample (political science students) were not immune to the effects of fake news, some issues (e.g., health and crime) were more likely to be shared than others (e.g., immigration), and on specific platforms (e.g., Twitter, Facebook). In addition, we show that individual differences in emotional stability appears to be a key factor in sharing behavior, while rational thinking aptitude was key to fake news detection. Taken together, this study provides novel data that can be used to support targeted fake news interventions, suggesting possible news topic, sharing behavior, and platform specific insights. Such interventions, and implications for government policy, education, and social media companies are discussed.

Assessing the social determinants of mental health in counseling practice

AbstractEvery counselor–client interaction is an opportunity for mutual learning through inquiry, listening, exploring, and understanding about a client's experiences with development and well‐being. Given the convergence of multiple sociopolitical events and systems that impact mental health and well‐being, we issue a call to increase promotion and uptake of preventative mental health strategies by assessing the social determinants of mental health (SDMH) in counseling practice. We contend that counselors are uniquely prepared to assess the SDMH at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental levels. Therefore, we review the parallels between counseling frameworks and the SDMH with the aim of explaining why and how counselors should assess the SDMH. Specifically, we describe ways that counselors can use their foundational skills and expertise in assessment procedures to identify client needs, as well as potential individual and community interventions. We outline a four‐phased approach for assessing the SDMH in counseling practice and provide implications for improving counseling outcomes.

Rhetoric among Prominent Politicians Excerpts from Yar’adua and Rimi’s Speeches

This article attempts to investigate how politicians used their rhetoric to influence their audiences by examining the specific types of speech rhetoric. Though they employ various of rhetorical speeches when delivering their manifestos. It thus seeks to assess the effectiveness of Speech Act Theory as a framework for analysing the speeches of Alhaji Umar Musa Yar Adua and Alhaji Abubakar Rimi in order to gain a better understanding of their political purposes. The significant events, conflicts, and challenges that the Nigerian people face while their politicians are in office are thought to have a significant impact on the types of speech acts produced in their speeches to make their points clear. This article employs a linguistic taxonomy of rhetorical speech acts based on Aristotle's theory of rhetoric. It provides a method for categorizing speech acts in order to reveal the linguistic and political premise of two well-known politicians' speeches, which stand in for significant events in Nigerians' lives. The findings of the analysis show that socio-political events in the country have a significant impact on the types of speech acts delivered by these two politicians. This is also resulting in their speeches with varying goals of encouraging voters to cast their votes on them for them to win elections.

Contextual Factors in Ethnic-Racial Socialization in White Families in the United States

Recent demographic shifts and sociopolitical events in the United States have led to a racial reckoning in which white people are engaging with issues of race and racism in new ways. This study addressed the need for research to better understand contextual factors in ethnic-racial socialization (ERS)—strategies in white families to teach children about their own and other people’s ethnicity or race. It examined the relation of neighborhood, school, and social network ethnic-racial composition and U.S. region of residence to participants’ perceptions of ethnic-racial socialization by parents. It employed a large, national survey sample of white young adults reporting on their ERS while growing up and a comprehensive set of ERS strategies. We found that the ethnic-racial composition of the family’s social network, but not the neighborhood or school, was related to exposure to ERS: the whiter the network, the less frequent the socialization, particularly antiracism socialization and exposure to diversity. We also found that Southern residents were more likely than residents in the West and Midwest to be exposed to the strategies of preparation for bias, mainstream socialization, and silent racial socialization. The findings show that these two contextual factors relate to both the frequency and content of the ERS a white child receives.

Connection between male and female characters in the works of Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry

Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry are renowned Indian-born authors who have made significant contributions to contemporary literature through their novels. Their works explore a wide range of themes, including colonialism, migration, identity, and politics. One prominent aspect of their writing is the depiction of political identity, which is influenced by various factors such as personal experiences, social status, and historical context. This research paper aims to conduct a comparative study of the portrayal of political identity in the novels of Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry. The paper will examine selected works from both authors, with a focus on Ghosh's "The Shadow Lines" and Mistry's "A Fine Balance". Through a close analysis of the characters, settings, and plotlines in these novels, the paper will explore how the authors depict political identity in the context of colonialism, post-colonialism, and socio-political events in India. The paper will utilize a combination of literary analysis and socio-political theories to examine how Ghosh and Mistry construct the political identities of their characters. It will investigate how the characters' political identities are shaped by their personal experiences, social backgrounds, and historical circumstances, and how these identities interact with other aspects of their lives, such as their cultural, regional, and gender identities. The paper will also explore how the authors highlight the complexities and nuances of political identity, including the tensions between individual agency and structural constraints, as well as the intersections of various forms of oppression and discrimination. The findings of this research will contribute to the understanding of how political identity is portrayed in contemporary Indian literature and shed light on the works of Ghosh and Mistry as important literary voices in this context. The paper will highlight the similarities and differences in the depiction of political identity in the novels of these two authors, providing insights into their unique perspectives on issues such as colonialism, migration, identity, and politics in India. Overall, this research aims to enrich the discourse on political identity in literature and provide a deeper understanding of the works of Ghosh and Mistry in the socio-political context of India.

Traditional Natural Dyeing Materials Used in Greece from the 19th Century Onwards

Textiles and clothing were and still are an important source of culture as well as an indicator of a robust economy and social status. Textile household goods and clothing are important heirlooms, providing valuable information about the standard of living, socio-political events, and cultural influences of the regions from which they originate. This paper presents the preliminary results of a research project dealing with the traditional natural dyes used in Greece for the decoration of garments from the 19th century onwards (from the 19th until the mid-20th century). The research aims to identify and record all the different plants and dyeing techniques used in Greece during this period and also to propose a non-destructive methodology for the study of dyed textiles in order to facilitate their preservation. In this paper, the focus is on the presentation of the classification and identification data of the plants used as the dyeing sources, according to recipes collected in various areas in Greece, as well as the description of their botanical characteristics. The research was based on the study of more than 2000 manuscripts and many interviews with older people who have used these materials. Thus, more than 140 plants have been documented, together with their recipes. The data produced include the phytological characteristics of the plants, as well as the parts of the plant used, the period collected and the areas they were used, together with images of the plants and various details regarding the recipes used in many places around Greece, along with the related documentation. The study also refers to ethics and traditions related to the dyes, the color, or the dyeing procedures used. Woolen samples were prepared based on the data collected in order to investigate how the differences recorded from place to place are reflected in the final result. Through this research, it was possible to identify and replicate some of the non-common recipes which use the Mediterranean strawflower, Helichrysum stoechas (L.) Moench, red algae, Rytiphloea tinctoria (Clemente) C.Agardh, and the common poppy Papaver rhoeas L as dyestuffs.

КАТЕГОРИЯ СОБЫТИЯ В ПРОЗЕ РОКОКО (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ РОМАНА КРЕБИЙОНА-СЫНА «ЗАБЛУЖДЕНИЯ СЕРДЦА И УМА, ИЛИ МЕМУАРЫ Г-НА ДЕ МЕЛЬКУРА»)

The category of an event is one of the most problematic areas in the contemporary theoretical literary studies. Both foreign and Russian scholars pay attention to singling out a set of markers of an event. It is no wonder that the so-called realistic prose is usually chosen as the concrete historical material for the illustration of the theoretical concepts due to its claims to the most authentic and realistic reproduction of the objective reality. The later involves the highly dynamic web of the socio-political, cultural, historical and family-private events that set a context of the human existence. Hence there persists a tendency to transpose the criteria of an event and eventfulness, developed on the basis of the realistic prose, on the texts built on different artistic, philosophical and aesthetic premises. Although Crebillon’s novel “Les Égarements du cœur et de l’esprit ou Mémoires de M. de Meilcour” belongs to the stage of the literary process outlying far from realism as an ideologic and artistic movement, it is still closely associated with the literature focused on the referentiality of the depiction. In this paper with the help of the criteria of the eventfulness set out in Schmid’s monograph “Narratology” we explore how the eventfulness of “Les Égarements du cœur et de l&amp;#x27;esprit”, seemingly corresponding to the notions of the poetry of reflexive traditionalism, eludes its description in the categories of “unpredictability”, “consecutiveness”, and “nonrepeatability”. Realistic features of an event are becoming more blurred against the background of the narrator’s concentration on motivation of the protagonist&amp;#x27;s behavior which once in the high society passes the way from the struggle for the autonomy of Self to acquiring verbal and nonverbal behavior strategies.