Search results for "ethnic"

The Țigani Community Adaptability to Changes in Rural Romania and the COVID-19 Impact

2021

Romanian rural villages are struggling to survive present times when youngsters leave for a better life in the city while elders work the land like a hundred years ago. Our paper integrates human environments research with public health preparedness, presenting the Țigani (Gypsy/Roma) ethnic group from rural Romania as an example to the world. The future security of mankind will require a new understanding of the human place in its environment. That will lead to a new society, not the most powerful or intelligent, but the one that is more adaptable to changes, with sensitive and interconnected community members. Therefore, the Țigani ethnic group that fought for its rights and flourished de…

Children’s understanding of ethnic belonging and the development of ethnic attitudes

2005

The chapter is a state-of-the-art review of the research focused on children’s understanding of ethnic belonging and the development of ethnic attitudes, in which classic theories as well as recent changes and trends in this field of research are summarised. This review is explained in terms of a progression from the Piagetian stages model of development to the current emphasis on affective processes, socio-cultural context and children's own naiive theories about ethnic belonging and ethnic groups. In this perspective, the chapter deals with some key topics of developmental social psychology, such as the theoretical explanations of children’s ethnic identity and ethnic attitudes, the opera…

Mniejszości narodowe i etniczne w Polsce a bezpieczeństwo państwa

2015

Dyskurs nad pojęciem "pogranicze" w polskiej socjologii. Wybrane zagadnienia

2017

The article presents the selected dimensions of the discourse with respect to the notion category "pogranicze” ("borderland”), which has been ongoing in the Polish sociology sińce the thirties of the last century, The consideration opens with Józef Chałasińskis understanding of the term "pogranicze”, with the impact laid upon the "antagonism” as the basie intergroup relationship at the contemporary Polish-German borderland. Subseąuently, basing on selected examples, the author presents the discourse over the borderland in Polish sociology during the transformation period after 1989. The observations derived from the sociological discourse depict the changes of this notion category in its un…

Exploring the experiences of being an ethnic minority student within undergraduate nurse education: a qualitative study

2019

Abstract Background Students studying in a country where another language is spoken face multiple challenges including their ability to fully integrate with peers and academic pressures in trying to obtain an undergraduate nursing degree. The aim of the study was to explore the lived experiences of students, from varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds, undertaking an undergraduate nursing degree. Methods The study adopted a qualitative design and eight individual semi-structured interviews were conducted. The interviews were analysed using manifest content analysis according to Graneheim and Lundman. Results Students reported feelings of isolation and the lack of opportunities to integrate…

Cognitive skills among Nepalese child labourers

2001

The cognitive skills of 61 Nepalese 10-14-year-old working children with at least 2 years working experience (WE) were compared to two groups of children, beginners (N = 29) with less than 1 year of WE and a school group (N = 104) matched for age and ethnic background. All the children (N = 194) were tested by the Bender test, WISC-R for Arithmetic, Digit Span, and the Word Fluency test. The main results showed that the school group was better in all the cognitive tests, except for Digit Span Backwards, where the working group had the highest average score. The second main finding shows no major differences in cognitive skills between the beginner and working groups. However, the work exper…

Anthropological investigation of a Kurdish village population from south-eastern Turkey. II. Internal differentiation of morphological features

1988

A small scale village society from southern Turkey has been investigated by demographic, social and anthropological criteria. An internal differentiation of the population on the basis of demographic and social data could be verified for morphological features, too. This is shown clearly by a differentiation of the population into two family complexes. The consequences for the interpretation of metrical random sample surveys in typological investigations are discussed.

Intra-urban residential differentiation in the post-Soviet city: the case of Riga, Latvia

2014

Cities in many Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have transformed rapidly since the political and socio-economic restructuring started in the early 1990s. Economi reforms, growing income inequalities, changes in housing system and selective residential mobility are resulting in increasing socio-spatial differentiation among urban neighbourhoods also in Riga. In addition, litt le is known about the ethnic dimension of intra-urban residential differentiation, despite the existence of sizeable minority populations. The focus on ethnicity is important, since Riga is the only capital city in the Baltic States where the ethnic majority is outnumbered by the non-Latvian minority. This p…

Subalternidad y prácticas feministas en América Latina: 47ª Sesión de la Comisión sobre Población y Desarrollo

2016

En esta investigación, el uso de los conceptos y reflexiones derivados de los estudios subalternos y decoloniales son aplicados al feminismo latinoamericano actual con el objetivo de estudiar la relación intrínseca que se produce entre clase, género y etnia. Este artículo se propone reflexionar a través de la genealogía del concepto de subalternidad propuesto por Antonio Gramsci y trabajado más tarde por Gayatri Spivak desde una perspectiva postcolonial y feminista. De esta manera, se realiza un seguimiento del papel de las mujeres en la teorización sobre las culturas populares llegando a los grupos de estudios subalternos de Latinoamérica y los planteamientos de Mary Nash. Para este anális…

Current understanding of genetic polymorphisms as biomarkers for risk of biological complications in implantology

2018

Background In the last decade, multiple studies have been published that analyze the relationship between the risk of experiencing biological complications with implants and the presence of certain types of genetic polymorphisms. In the present report, we analyze the controversies that have arisen from this important area of investigation and synthesize the most prominent aspects of knowledge related to this possible etiopathogenic relationship. Material and methods For this review, the biomedical databases PubMed-Medline, SciELO, and DOAJ were used. Different search strategies were employed, from which 298 articles initially emerged. After refinement of the search, 55 articles published be…