‘Aging in Place’ in Bangladesh: Challenges and Possibilities

Author(s): Fawzia Farzana,Tanmoy Malaker / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Being a country turning from developing to middle income; Bangladesh is facing a tremendous change in its family bonding and age-old social customs. Social and physical development is increasing, on the other hand, the dependency rate is decreasing to a great extent. It has become a burning question that what would be the future or social status of old age people in contrast to the young blood who are determined to build their own society according to their own interest. The research will bring to light the existing situation of a residential area of middle-income groups to find out the problems are faced by the older adults living in there. It will draw a lucid picture to represent the current situation of the older adults are living in the so-called planned residential area of Bangladesh. ‘Aging in Place’ refers to, having people remain in their homes and communities for as long as possible and also avoids the costly option of institutional care and is therefore favored by policymakers, health providers, and by many older people themselves (WHO 2007). The older adult needs assistance or helps for leading their day to day life as they become unable to do all their works because of their health issues. As the hands for their assistance are decreasing, a question comes out often, is there any need for institutional care for them or the situation is still well enough for aging in place? The research will give an overview of the possibilities of ‘Aging in Place’ using proper statistics and case study analysis. While the overall situation says about the independence of the older adults, the assessment shows that there is a magnificent opportunity to ‘Aging in place’ in Bangladesh.

‘I just wanted to be safe’: Agency and decision-making among unaccompanied minor asylum seekers

Author(s): Işık Kulu-Glasgow,Monika Smit,Sanne Noyon / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The year 2015 was characterized by a peak in the number of asylum seekers arriving in the European Union, with over 1.2 million first time asylum seekers applying for protection. Among them were over 96,000 minors who arrived without parents or other adult relatives. Sweden received the highest number of these so-called unaccompanied minor asylum seekers (UMAs), followed by Germany, Hungary, and Austria. The Netherlands, ranked seventh among the destination countries with 3,859 UMAs, representing almost a fourfold increase compared to the year before. An overwhelming majority (85%) of the ‘Dutch’ UMAs came from Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan (IND, 2015).

‘The International of the Conquered’– The Promethean Movement and Polish Authorities during 1926 – 1939

Author(s): Paweł Libera / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2018

“Prometheanism” meant the political cooperation of interwar Poland with non-Russian peoples and nations in Russia directed against the tsarist, and later the Soviet empire. The Promethean movement included representatives of Ukraine (Ukrainian People’s Republic – UNR), Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Mountaineers of the Northern Caucasus), Crimean and Volga Tatars, Turkestan and nations inhabiting Finland (Ingria, Komi, Karelia), as well as a part of the Don, Kuban and Terek Cossacks. This article focuses on the relations between the Polish side and individual nations and structures of the Promethean front, on those turning moments in its development, as well as on the political and organisational evolution of the Promethean movement.

‘Whenever mom hands over the phone, then we talk’: Transnational ties to the country of descent among Canadian Somali youth

Author(s): Marja Tiilikainen / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This article focuses on the transnational experiences of second-generation Canadian Somalis, in particular their social ties to Somalia. It sheds light on the transnational family relations and practices of the second generation as well as the meanings, emotions and identifications that they attach to such relations and practices. The concepts of transnational ways of being and belonging are employed as analytical tools. In their everyday life, the youth engaged in family practices (communication, remittances, visits) related to Somalia, which was mostly nurtured by their parents’ transnationalism. The youth did not often identify with transnational kin beyond such practices. However, they did combine transnational ways of being and belonging in a dynamic and complex manner. The article is based on 19 interviews with second-generation youth, which were conducted as part of a larger study on transnational Somali families.

“As Kendini De Hepimiz Kurtulalim Artik!”: Sosyal Dişlanmadan İntihara LGBT Gençler

Author(s): Esra Köten,Barış Erdoğan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2015

While various sexual orientations may lead to social exclusion, social exclusion, in return, may indirectly lead to suicide. Both in Turkey and the world in general, this mentioned phenomenon and the proposed correlation is depicted rather clearly when one looks at the social exclusion and harassment to which the LGBT youth is subjected to and the subsequent high rates of suicide. As a consequence of the social and individual discrimination, repression and at times even the violence they are exposed to in either the family, educational institutions, work environment or public life in general, LGBT youth experiences considerable difficulty in social integration and acceptance in social strata in general, whereby they seek ultimate refuge and escape in suicide. In this paper, the relationship between sexual orientation and the fact of suicide will be discussed with a sociological perspective, utilizing Durkheim's theoretical approach, various research results in the literature and actual narratives left behind by LGBT youth who ultimately chose to commit suicide.

“Be a man”: Constructions of Childhood in Priscilla Galloway’s Truly Grim Tales

“Be a man”: Constructions of Childhood in Priscilla Galloway’s Truly Grim Tales

Author(s): Monika Koșa / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The publication of Priscilla Galloway’s Truly Grim Tales in 1995 played a significant role in the evolution of the Canadian literary fairy tale. The stories from the collection are innovative both on a linguistic and thematic level. By focusing on selected tales from this collection, the present paper aims at exploring the representation of children and childhood in Priscilla Galloway’s idiosyncratic stories. These revisionist tales reinterpret complex issues such as gender, sexuality and/or childhood in accordance with the socio-cultural-historical context. Thus, the construction of childhood and portrayal of children is connected to the cultural, social and historical frame of reference and can generate further research on an interdisciplinary level.

“Behold, Now Is the Acceptable Time for a Change of Heart”. A Christian Response to the Migration Problem

Author(s): Krzysztof T. Wieczorek / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The 50th anniversary of the announcement of the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, raises the questions of to what extent the global community of Catholics adopted the teachings included in Vaticanum II, and to what extent we, the Catholics of the day, are willing to follow the indications of this document in our lives. Currently, one of the most difficult challenges the international community faces, especially the people of Europe, is the problem of refugees from areas affected by war and terror caused by militants of the so-called Islamic State. Governments of different countries make political decisions dictated by both their raisons d’état and the desire to defend particular interests of their own citizens. In these decisions, the good of the most deprived persons, banished from their homes and deprived of their livelihood, remains a secondary issue. This state of affairs can be considered reasonably justified from the point of view of the absolute rules that govern the political game of the world, but it creates a clear discord with the Magisterium Ecclesiae, especially with the moral teaching from Gaudium et Spes. The present text is to analyze selected parts of the pastoral constitution regarding the application of its indications in light of the challenges raised by the issue of refugees.

“Bulutlari Beklerken’’ Ve “Güz Sancisi’’ Nda Kimlik Temsili

Author(s): Berken Döner / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 84/2015

The concepts of ethnicity and nation states, in political discourse to discuss, the issue of ethnic identity are addressed based on the political context. In recent years the issue of minorities is becoming more conversation, of belonging, social memory and ethnic identity has also spoken of becoming problematic.. in the field social and political identity discussions, the movie theater itself demonstrated on the movie also. In our country since the early years of the cinema screenings, several film includes ethnicity representation. When Yeşilçam films are examined, it is presented with the generalizations and represent prejudice can be seen. Today, get away from the abstract and general approach, a completely different perspective, trying to catch Director are also available. Waiting for the Clouds, taken in the 2000s and again in the 2000s, taken Pains of Autumn movies are once again on the issue of minority representation allows us to think about. Waiting for the Clouds, having cut off from her family and female character from the film mother tongue, Turkish and Muslim majority in the face of everyday life while focusing on how to set up; Fall within the historical process in our country the Greeks the movie life Pains of Autumn completely focuses on the political events that changed.

“Common Good of Marriage and the Family.” Canonical Reflections

Author(s): Andrzej Pastwa / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The initial thesis of the study is John Paul II’s proclamation in the Letter to Family (1994), which states that an individual can exist “for himself” through the sincere gift of self—and, at the same time, fulfill himself as “common good”: “the common good of the whole of the society” and “the common good of marriage and the family” (nn. 10, 11). These latter words give an impulse to undertake an attempt of transforming the profound theological thought of the papal document into conclusions on the canon law plane. The most fundamental ones seem to be: (1) a considerable meaning for the Church matrimonial discipline has its foundation on a realistic vision of a human being; (2) a basis of the contemporary theological and legal doctrine de matrimonio et familia is the structural (ethical) principle of love; (3) the acceptance of the appropriate premises of the juridical anthropology of marriage gives life to all attempts of setting the personalistic dimension of marriage against its legal value; (4) the indissoluble character of marriage is the basis of the common good of the family.

“Creating Links”: The Involvement of Service Users and Carers in the Provision of Social Work Education in England

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This chapter sets out the processes and outcomes of the involvement of a group of service users and carers in the provision of social work education at the School of Health and Social Work University of Hertfordshire, England. The School was one of the first adopters of service user input into the provision of learning and teaching in social work in England. User involvement in social work services is well established in the discourse about social work services in relation to some service user groups in the UK, although its reality and extent in reality is contested, and service users and carers’ meaningful involvement in social work education on a practical level is less frequently discussed. The chapter sets out the model of participation adopted and evolved over the period of existence of the group of service users and carers who chose the name, “Creating Links” for their steering committee.

“DEĞER” İLE “SORUN” ARASINDA TÜRKİYE’DE YAŞLILARLA İLGİLİ TOPLUMSAL DEĞER YARGILARI (DİN BİLİMLERİ PERSPEKTİFİNDEN BİR İNCELEME)

Author(s): Abdullah İnce / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 36/2017

Aging is a phenomenon which is associated with social, psychological and economic aspects. The Value judgments about senescence and oldster are related to how they are looked at. Perceptions about aging influence the social position of the elders. Statistical distribution of the elders, sociocultural environment, socioeconomic conditions are the factors affecting the formation of value judgments related to the elders. The value judgments related to the old age can sometimes stem from prejudices. In the studies related to the aging period, it is seen that the value judgments related to the elderly are handled with three dimensions; positive, negative and mixed. In Turkey, value judgments about elderly people are shaped in a religious-traditional frame, but it changes depending on sociocultural change. This study aims to reveal positive and negative value judgments about the elderly in Turkey from the perspective of religious sciences. In addition, this value judgments is analyzed in the context of theories of aging, social change and related literature.

“Don’t Underestimate the Girls... Some of them are More Genuine Ultras than You”

Author(s): Kremena Iordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

Sports and football in particular are always considered a typical male occupation,which stresses male values and where the presence of the opposite sex is regarded as unnatural. In the last decade, the European stadiums witness the unprecedented presence of women attending the football games. This leads to the conclusion that the idea of male hegemony on the stadium could be questioned. The study is conducted among women–football fans in Bulgaria. The main questions, which it aims to answer,are: What are the ways of becoming a football fan? How do the female football fans spend their time in the circles that were until recently considered male? To what extent is their behaviour on the stadium independent?

“Family Silver” or Artefacts (in) Memories of Forcibly Displaced Germans

Author(s): Sandra Kreisslová,Jana Nosková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The study deals with the transmission of family memory in three three-generation families of Germans forcibly displaced from Czechoslovakia, in which the oldest generation, the so-called generation of experience, actually experienced the migration movement after the end of World War II. In the study, the family is seen as a specific social framework in which the past is retrieved. Generations are characterized in a biological sequence, with only the oldest “generation of experience” defined by Karl Mannheim. The research of generational family memory focuses on the actor’s reception through an analysis and interpretation of narrative and oral-history interviews with representatives of generations while exploring the way family memory is mediated. Specifically, the authors inquire into the role the memory media play in their materialized form, i.e. artefacts that act as an impulse and source of remembrance narrative, in the process of generational transmission of memories in families. The focus here is on remembrance narratives related to the forced displacement, which thematise material artifacts, with the focus being not only on what artifacts there are in connection with the recollection of this historical process and what stories are related to them, but also the effort to uncover the meaning and the function of these artifacts during family remembrance.

“I am not alone”: Intergenerational Solidarity in Three - Generation Households from the Perspective of the Older Generation

Author(s): Adéla Souralová,Simona Hortová / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This article focuses on intergenerational solidarity in three-generation households. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with seven members of the oldest generation cohabiting in a three-generation household, the article investigates the aspects, perceptions, and meanings of intergenerational solidarity. The article is based mainly on the theory of intergenerational solidarity presented by Alice S. Rossi and Peter H. Rossi (1990) and Robert E. L. Bengtson and Vern L. Roberts (1991). We are inspired by the classification of solidarity into seven dimensions - associational solidarity, effectual solidarity, consensual solidarity, functional solidarity, normative solidarity, and intergenerational family structure - and observe these dimensions in the context of three-generation co-living. Using a qualitative approach allows us to capture the emic perspective of the interviewees and their perceptions of intergenerational relations and their position within a three-generation household.

“I’ll Tell You What You Need to Know.” How Respondents Negotiate the Sense of Meaning-Making—Methodological Reflections from the Field Based on Ethnographic Study of Lesbian Parenting in Poland

Author(s): Magdalena Wojciechowska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The aim of this paper is to shed light on how various interactional and interpretational contexts arising from specific researcher—research participants relationship established in the course of doing ethnographic study on sensitive, and thus often enough resistant to immediate cognition, phenomenon, namely, lesbian parenting in Poland, as well as different ways of embracing these, may factor into the research process. Drawing on specific dilemmas I encountered while doing the study at hand—from engaging a hard-to-reach population that, in a sense, wished to be reached, and the consequences thereof; through being pushed out of the comfort zone as the women under study, in the wake of becoming acquainted with the analysis I offered, “switched” from narrating their “in-order to motives” to reflecting on the “because motives” behind their actions; to contextualizing emotions arising as my response to experiencing the issues they face (on a daily basis), to name a few—my goal here is to discuss how different ways of collecting and analyzing data—in the context of developing rapport with the women under study—have had an impact on conceptualizing and (re)framing the data at hand.

“Investing in Children”: a dominant discourse on childhood and children in 21st century

Author(s): Wielisława Warzywoda-Kruszyńska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

Looking at the last 30 years, one can observes the radical change in the academic and political discourse concerning childhood and children. The concept of “investing in children” has become dominant in the academic discourse and political programme of at least the European Union. Investing in children is located at the core of the social investment strategy. In this article, the social investment paradigm is characterised, and two types of arguments for investing in disadvantaged children are presented. J. Heckman’s explanations concerning the stage of a child’s life cycle in which to invest, and how, are presented. Practical implementation of the Early Child Education and Care in the European countries is outlined.

“Invisible children” – about social situation of prisoners children

Author(s): Sonia Dzierzyńska-Breś / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Children of prisoners in Poland are ignored not only by researchers, but also by the practitioners connected with resocialization. There is still lack of research which would diagnosis social situation of prisoners children and institutions which would support and help them. All of this makes children of prisoners “invisible”. That’s why the main aim of my quality researches, which I had conducted in years 2013-2014 was diagnosed the social situation of prisoners families, including their children. I had realized interview both with prisoners wife’s and life partners (32 persons) and their children (12 persons), in the place of their residence. I divided tested families on such which have contact with convicted and such which hadn’t contact with him. Convicted husbands/ life partners and fathers were held in different kinds and types of prisons. The research sample were selected in differential way to capture the variability of the families social situation. Selected families were also in different social position. This allowed me to distinguish and characterize the three types of social situation in which are the families of prisoners, including children: (1) The social situation of the family focused on supporting the resocialization of the prisoners, (2) The social situation of the prisonized, which is in opposite to the process of resocialization, (3) social situation of the family focused on the reconstruction of their own social environment.

“It was the least painful to go into Greenhouse Production”: The Moral Appreciation of Social Security in Post-Socialist Serbia

Author(s): Andre Thiemann / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

This paper deals with the agricultural production of social security. By representing a rural case study from Central Serbia, it contributes to the economic history of post-socialist former Yugoslavia and explores the conditions of the possibility for social alternatives to neo-capitalism. In the case study, a male actor - embedded within family and wider social networks - successfully accommodates the adverse macroeconomic conditions through hard work, micromanagement of limited resources, and the production of social relations. He also combines new micro-spatial fixings - productive facilities - with revaluing morally depreciated older ones. In sum, this case study shows how networks of actors can invest their energy into reversing the moral depreciation of labor and capital under conditions of capitalist competition and growing inequality. These practices point to an emancipation from the in egalitarian moral economy of capitalism, a process I conceptualize as “moral appreciation”. As its goal emerges the production of a relatively egalitarian society within the lived space of the urban-village continuum.

ІСТОРИЧНІ АСПЕКТИ ФОРМУВАННЯ СІМ‘Ї ТА ШЛЮБНО-СІМЕЙНИХ ВІДНОСИН У СОЦІАЛЬНО-КУЛЬТУРНОМУ ПРОСТОРІ

Author(s): Inna Sushytska / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

The article deals with transformation processes and historical way of the family forming; it is found the main aspects of the formation and development of matrimonial relations; it is analyzed current trends in the development of Ukrainian family. Much attention is given to the consideration of family types, structure and matrimonial relations.The family is the most ancient social institution that passed through a difficult historical and socio-cultural ways of formation and development. From ancient times, philosophers, sociologists, culturologists and demographers studied analysis of various aspects of its functioning, social potential and ways of its implementation, depending on a system of social factors,.Scientific works on the history of marriage and family appeared recently in comparison. By the mid-19th century dominated religious and dogmatic views on marriage and family, which was seen as something immutable, founded an expression in identifying the patriarchal and bourgeois family. That fact that along with a monogamous family existed eastern polygamy (polygyny) or Indo-tibetan polyandry, historians studying family simply ignored.The beginning of a systematic, actually scientific study of the family put Engels' work "Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" (1884), which traced the changing of family and marriage in the past, it is shown that in the historical process three forms of marriage changed one another: in the age of savagery – group (tribal) marriage, during the period of barbarism – the pair marriage, at the time of civilization forming – monogamy. Above mentioned work of Engels has a scientific and historical value up till now.In science for a long time, in fact till the 60ies of the 19th century, the family was considered as the most original and the oldest form of ancient society, from which subsequently arose kin, tribe, nation. Engels proved that this formula does not reflect the true state of affairs, having studied the results of research and scientific work "Ancient Society" (1877) by L. Morhan, using the writings of a number of other scholars on the history of ancient society, he gave a new explanation of the historical forms of family and marriage. Engels paid a special attention to the evolution of family forms, its development from group forms to monogamy.Family is a socially sanctioned, a relatively stable group of people united by blood relationship, marriage or adoption of children, whose members live together and economically linked with each other. The family is both a small social group and a social institution .Family has always been and left a major element of society, that’s why, type, structure and its shape depend on the national peculiarities of the people. In any society, there are times when it breaks down, it is broken all ties, and only family remains a place where is preserved the "social genotype", which conveys the social memory to the future. The family came into being much earlier than the appearance of such social institutions as religion, government, education. Ukrainian people for centuries created a unique culture that reflects its manifold life, values that were produced by the nation: honoring of the family, worship of the memory of ancestors, careful treatment of the child and the people in years. All of this is impossible without a deep knowledge of the folk traditions, moral norms and customary law of its people.Studying scientific sources on the formation of matrimonial relations, we can assert that in prehistoric times dominated the relationship of so-called promiscuity (disordered sexual relations). Later there emerged endogamy, at this time sexual relations joined the representatives of the same genus. Gradually, endogamy develops into exogamy what constitutes systematic sexual relations between people of different kins. Initial form of exogamous marriage was group marriage. Over time, group family and marriage became transformed into the pair family that combines the two persons – a man and a woman. Pair marriage had three varieties: dislocal, matrilocal and patrylocal marriage. From the pair marriage, society moves towards monogamy and polygamy.In Ukraine a monogamous family exists from the time of settlement of its territory, evidenced by historical and archaeological materials . This is the most common form of family up till now. Type of monogamous family is defined by the number of married couples and blood related members in the family. On this basis the Ukrainian families can be divided into simple (complete, incomplete), complex and extended family.Among the socio-cultural characteristics of families, from which depends the effectiveness of its educational activity, scholars have identified: the presence of the family as the only whole collective of adherents which is distinguished by high emotionality, psychological unity, love, sincerity, trust, sensitivity; positively mild family atmosphere that helps to make a pedagogical influence of parents; a clear system of educational influence, culture and spirituality, purposeful and concrete application of specific methods of education. Family fulfils very important social and ethno-cultural functions connecting it with all spheres of human activity.Summing up the study of the historical aspects of family formation and matrimonial relations in the socio-cultural space, we can affirm that the family as the basis of society has gone through not easy way of its functioning and development, from promiscuity to a monogamous relationship. The current state of Ukrainian society demonstrates the changes of types, forms, conditions and ways of lifestyle of the family. The process of evolution of family forms are directly related to social processes and political system that impose their imprints on the formation, settling, development of family and matrimonial relations.

ЈЕДНОРОДИТЕЉСКЕ ПОРОДИЦЕ

Author(s): Marina D. Novakov / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2012

The general state of society as a whole brought about the change in family structure, and one of the newer, more frequent modality of families are one parent families. Although the one parent families have always existed, their social treatment has varied throughout history, as well as the terminology itself, and causes of single parenting have varied also. This paper points out the frequency and socio-demographic characteristics of one-parent families in Serbia and other countries, as well as the characteristics of single parents and the problems they faced in parental role. Also it points out the ways of occurrence of one parent families as well as the different criteria of division this kind of families.