Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.3.144
J. Hos, A. Upe, M. Arsyad, Halu Hasniah
The primary purpose of this study is to explore the time allocation and economic contribution of women in fulfilling their families’ basic needs. This research used a qualitative approach and applied observations and interviews as the data collection technique. The research sample consisted of 25 people, including 23 stone-breaking women, who have a family, and 2 village heads, whose village areas contain stone-mining enterprises. The obtained data was analysed qualitatively, implying that the processes of data collection, data reduction, data display, and data verification were carried out simultaneously. The results of this study show that the respondents allocate more time to household chores than to stone-breaking work. However, through the activities as a stone breaker, homemakers do make a significant economic contribution to the family’s income. Indeed, the sole reliance on the husband’s income as the head of the family cannot be sufficient for fulfilling the basic needs. The husband’s income only serves to maintain the survival of the family.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.3.142
I. Kyshtymova, Lidia V. Matveeva, Anastasia A. Deineko
This article presents a psychological study of the mother image projected in cartoons and its perception by elementary school students. The research provides evidence for the importance of an integral approach to the analysis of media texts addressed to children, as well as for the necessity of considering their narrative, verbal, and descriptive components. A psychological analysis was conducted on the material of three cartoons: “Chunya” (USSR), “Barboskiny” [The Barkers] (Russia), and “Peppa Pig” (UK). Hypotheses were formulated about the potential influence of the cartoons on the younger audience. 70 elementary school students (ꭓ̅ = 9.5 years old) took part in the study. The research was conducted using the method of semantic differential; the data obtained were processed using factor analysis. The results show that the categorization of images follows the factors of “education”, “love”, “patience”, and “respect”. Differences in the semantic assessment of the cartoons under study are presented. Children perceive the events taking place in a cartoon directly, without reflection. Artistic mediation—polysemy, metaphors, and the category of the comic—does not evoke an aesthetic reaction in children, as assumed by the authors. It was found that the semantic assessment of the word “mother” by elementary school students did not agree with the traditional cultural status of a mother. Thus, the respondents ranked such indicators as “understanding” and “prestige” at a low level. A developmental experiment was conducted to correct the mother image as perceived by elementary school students. During the experimental program (8 lessons in total), the schoolchildren watched and discussed the cartoons together with a psychologist. At the end of the experiment, the semantic assessment of the verbal stimulus “mom” by the respondents showed a statistically significantly increase (р≤0.05) in the indicators of “understanding” and “prestige”.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.3.145
O. Kruzhkova, I. Simonova, A. Ljovkina, M. Krivoshchekova
Vandalism can be seen as a form of individual self-realization and expression of the individual and collective responses to change. In this paper, we intend to look at the meaning and motivations behind acts of vandalism. We also aim to classify cases of vandalism that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, we analyzed 80 cases of vandalism related to the COVID-19. The information was obtained from open online sources: publications in online communities and media found through the use of hashtags #COVID-19 and #vandalism. As a result, five categories of vandalism were identified: (a) vandalism as a mechanism of adaptation to change; (b) vandalism as a coping strategy; (c) vandalism as an unconscious defensive reaction to a threatening situation; (d) vandalism as resistance to change; and (e) vandalism as a reflection of the sense of social injustice. We found that vandalism during the pandemic was used mostly as a way of adaptation to change and as a coping strategy. Moreover, our findings have also demonstrated that social instability and transitivity in the crisis period stimulate people to rethink the current social order and search for new social forms, structures, and principles.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-09DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.2.128
Olga Potap, M. Cohen, Grigori Nekritch
The essay's primary purpose is to bring to the attention of readers interested in the history of the Jewish people that the dramatic 20th century is not only the victims of the Holocaust–and not only the heroism of the military on the battlefields. It is active resistance to barbarism–the rescue of defenseless people through daily civilian activities, nevertheless associated with a constant risk to life. This paper examines non-political and non-religious secular Jewish welfare society within Jewish political and national movements. This essay considers five historical periods of the activity of OSE. These periods are: 1912–1922; 1922–1933; 1933–1945; 1945–1950; 1950–present time. This chronological classification is somewhat imperfect; however, each period reflects the dynamic of functional changes in the initial tasks of the society to review the goals of the organization to satisfy the urgent needs of the European Jewish community in a debatable circumstance of the 20th–21st centuries.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-09DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.2.134
Elena G. Trubina
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.1.119
Elena A. Stepanova
The mission of the Changing Societies & Personalities journal is quite ambitious: the journal “examines how rapid societal-level changes are reshaping individuallevel beliefs, motivations and values – and how these individual-level changes in turn are reshaping societies”. Fulfilling such a mission involves examining different cases happening to individuals in various countries, societies and communities. On the one hand, it is unlikely that we will ever face a lack of such cases; on the other, they demonstrate a vast diversity, thus requiring adequate and appropriate research methodologies. We hope that the current issue of CS&P is a good example of such adequacy and diversity through providing a tribune for authors from nine countries. The authors’ team representing three countries – Mohmmed Salah Hassan, Ali Najem, Asbah Razali (Malaysia), Hussam Al Halbusi, Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah (Oman) and Kent A. Williams (Canada) – presents the results of a research study entitled Risk Perception, Self-Efficacy, Trust in Government, and the Moderating Role of Perceived Social Media Content During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The authors stress that, in the turbulent times of the pandemic, the critical duty of the research is “to explore and understand behavioural responses to the risk of infection..., especially how people assert their risk perception and how these perceptions shape self-efficacy beliefs”. Additional important fields of the research include the exploration of the risk perception as an interpretation and subjective judgment about a current risk; the evaluation of the social media’ exposure of the appropriate information; the trust in the government, which is vital to the policy’s success during a crisis; and the study of the construct of self-efficacy. The researchers gathered data from 512 individuals (students and academics) based in Malaysia. In investigating the impact of risk perception on trust in government and self-efficacy during the COVID 19 pandemic, the authors have made conclusions concerning, in particular, how social media helped shape behavioural patterns and attitudes.
《变化的社会与个性》杂志的使命是相当雄心勃勃的:该杂志“研究社会层面的变化如何快速地重塑个人层面的信仰、动机和价值观，以及这些个人层面的变化如何反过来重塑社会”。履行这一使命需要审查发生在不同国家、社会和社区的个人身上的不同案例。一方面，我们不太可能永远不会缺少这样的案例;另一方面，它们表现出巨大的多样性，因此需要充分和适当的研究方法。我们希望本期《CS&P》通过为来自九个国家的作者提供论坛，成为这种充分性和多样性的一个很好的例子。代表三个国家——mohammed Salah Hassan、Ali Najem、Asbah Razali(马来西亚)、Hussam Al Halbusi、Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah(阿曼)和Kent a . Williams(加拿大)——的作者团队介绍了一项题为“风险认知、自我效能感、对政府的信任以及感知社交媒体内容在COVID-19大流行期间的调节作用”的研究结果。这组作者强调，在大流行的动荡时期，这项研究的关键职责是“探索和理解对感染风险的行为反应……尤其是人们如何坚持自己的风险认知，以及这些认知如何塑造自我效能感信念。”其他重要的研究领域包括探索作为对当前风险的解释和主观判断的风险感知;评估社交媒体对适当信息的曝光;对政府的信任，这在危机期间对政策的成功至关重要;以及自我效能感建构的研究。研究人员收集了马来西亚512名个人(学生和学者)的数据。在调查COVID - 19大流行期间风险认知对政府信任和自我效能的影响时，作者得出了一些结论，特别是关于社交媒体如何帮助塑造行为模式和态度。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.2.131
V. Shnirelman
A return of the Orthodox religion and a renaissance of the Russian Orthodox Church gave a way for politically active movements of Orthodox fundamentalists and monarchists. They were obsessed with the idea of the “end of time” and argued that the Antichrist was at the door. The article focuses on several national-patriotic newspapers and their interest to Orthodox prophecies about the end of time, which can be traced from the turn of the 1990s. It is examined who exactly, in what way and for what goals developed and discussed eschatological ideas. The major themes, rhetorical means and key words are scrutinized, which helped consumers to disclose the “enemies of Russia” and to reveal their “perfidious plans” and “harmful actions” aimed at the destruction of Russia and its people. A relationship between this ideology and theological teaching of the end of time is analyzed.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.2.133
O. Keune
75 years have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz, but racism, nationalism and xenophobia (including anti-Semitism) are still widespread; in fact, due to an increasingly solipsistic policy of international leaders, hostility against those who don’t match race, religion, culture or sexual orientation is even experiencing a renaissance. Fake news start to replace facts. In Germany, politicians of the (democratically elected) right-wing party AfD (Alternative for Germany] publicly question the significance of the holocaust. According to the polls, around 33% of European youths have little or no knowledge about the attempted annihilation of Jews during World War II. In order to prevent the return of barbarism it is essential to remember and understand the characteristics that actually led to barbarism in the first place. Peter Weiss’ play Die Ermittlung: Oratorium in 11 Gesängen [The Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Songs] written in 1965, takes a very thorough look at what Auschwitz was, how it had been made possible and how it survived in society even after the war. The following article examines the play and its context in literature and films on the Holocaust, paying particular attention to the possibility of explaining the, as Elie Wiesel has put it, “unexplainable” and converting it into a teaching experience for current generations.
奥斯威辛解放75年过去了，但种族主义、民族主义和仇外心理(包括反犹太主义)仍然普遍存在;事实上，由于国际领导人越来越唯我主义的政策，对那些不符合种族、宗教、文化或性取向的人的敌意甚至正在复兴。假新闻开始取代事实。在德国，(民主选举产生的)右翼政党德国新选择党(AfD)的政客们公开质疑大屠杀的重要性。根据民意调查，大约33%的欧洲年轻人对二战期间犹太人灭绝的企图知之甚少或一无所知。为了防止野蛮的回归，有必要记住并理解最初导致野蛮的特征。彼得·韦斯的戏剧《死亡:11年的剧场》Gesängen[调查]。创作于1965年的《11首歌中的清唱剧》(Oratorio in 11 Songs)，对奥斯维辛是什么、它是如何形成的，以及它在战后如何在社会中幸存下来，进行了非常全面的探讨。下面的文章考察了这部戏剧及其在大屠杀文学和电影中的背景，特别关注解释Elie Wiesel所说的“无法解释”的可能性，并将其转化为当代人的教学经验。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.2.129
E. Ostrovskaya
This article highlights the outcome of a long-term field research into the transnational identity of the post-Soviet Orthodox Jewry. It analyzes biographical interviews taken between 2015 and 2018 in St. Petersburg and Minsk to define the religious identity and day-to-day practices of post-Soviet Orthodox Jews. In this article, I argue that the modern post-Soviet Jewry is a new socio-cultural phenomenon with no historical prototypes. As to the research methodology, it was a combination of the transnational approach, random choice case-study targeting post-Soviet Orthodox communities of Orthodox Jewry in large cities, and the biographical method. The backbone of the post-Soviet Orthodox communities of different strains of Judaism was formed in 1990–2008. It is made up of three generations of men and women born in the late 1940s–1960s, mid-1960s–early 1970s, and the 1980s. Each of these generations is characterized by its own unique pattern of observance, the formation of which is directly conditioned by the circumstances of involvement in religious Jewry. The transnational pattern of observance of the Post-Soviet Orthodox Jews involves the model they confronted at the very beginning of their journey, the model they learned in overseas educational institutions or through incoming envoys and rabbis in the country of residence, and the model of balance between the required and possible in the modern post-Christian and post-atheist environment.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.2.135
Oleg S. Kyselov
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