The construct of resilience has been of interest to social scientists for several decades, with a range of definitions describing traits, contexts, and processes of growth. Research with ...trauma-exposed populations suggests that resilience is a common trajectory, but the mechanisms that facilitate resilience are not entirely clear. This is especially the case with cross-cultural populations, and scholars in this area have pointed to the individualistic nature of the concept and the absence of cultural factors in resilience research. These scholars call for a social-ecological view of resilience that incorporates multiple factors, including indigenous ideologies and systems of meaning-making. This article aims to add to the conversation surrounding the relationship between culture and resilience to psychological trauma. The authors conducted a systematic review of the literature in an effort to identify empirical articles that examined the relationship between culture, resilience, and psychological trauma. Across 3 academic databases and Google Scholar, the authors identified a total of 30 articles that empirically evaluated these variables between 2008 and 2018. Overall, research points to culturally specific values and community and social support to be facilitative of resilience in a range of trauma-exposed populations. The small number of articles is consistent with critiques regarding the absence of culture in empirical assessments of resilience, and discussion offers suggestions for future research. Overall, the review synthesizes the findings of these articles and offers implications for research and treatment of diverse trauma-exposed populations.
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The Sámi people stand out as the only Indigenous minority in an egalitarian European context, namely the Nordic Countries. Therefore, inequalities that they may face are worth closer inspection. ...Drawing on the distinction between inequalities among individuals (vertical) and between groups (horizontal), we investigate how different types of inequalities affect the Sámi today. We formulate a series of hypotheses on how social, economic, cultural, and political inequalities are linked with discrimination experience, and test these with original data from a population survey conducted in northern Norway and northern Sweden simultaneously in 2021. The findings show that Sámi ethnic background increases the probability of experiencing discrimination. While individual-level economic inequality is also pertinent, this does not directly materialise as between-group inequality. Instead, minority language use is a strong predictor of discrimination experience, revealing the socio-cultural nature of ethnic inequalities. Cross-country differences are only reflected in the effect of minority language use.
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With the problems of climate warming and ecological destruction becoming more and more serious, natural risks have attracted more and more attention, and corporate natural resource disclosure has ...gradually become a focal topic in academia. Therefore, based on the institutional theory and the upper echelon theory, this study selects 348 Chinese natural resource-based listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2014 to 2021 as samples to investigate the influence of clan culture on corporate natural resource disclosure and the moderating effect of natural resource endowment on the relationship between the two, and analyzes the heterogeneity from the two aspects of the workplace and growth experience of corporate executives. The results indicate that clan culture has a significant positive effect on corporate natural resource disclosure. Natural resource endowment can negatively moderate the effect of clan culture on corporate natural resource disclosure. The positive effect of clan culture on the quality of corporate natural resource disclosure is significant when executives work in their birthplace or are born before the Cultural Revolution, but it is not significant when executives do not work in their birthplace or are born after the Cultural Revolution. These findings help to extend the analysis of the influence of informal institutions on information disclosure, providing a reference for future research on natural resource disclosure and informal institutions in developing countries.
To this point, the anthropology of Christianity has largely failed to develop. When anthropologists study Christians, they do not see themselves as contributing to a broad comparative enterprise in ...the way those studying other world religions do. A close reading of the Comaroffs’Of Revelation and Revolutionillustrates the ways in which anthropologists sideline Christianity and leads to a discussion of reasons the anthropology of Christianity has languished. While it is possible to locate the cause in part in the culture of anthropology, with its emphasis on difference, problems also exist at the theoretical level. Most anthropological theories emphasize cultural continuity as opposed to discontinuity and change. This emphasis becomes problematic where Christianity is concerned, because many kinds of Christianity stress radical change and expect it to occur. Confronted by people claiming that radical Christian change has occurred in their lives, anthropologists become suspicious and often explain away the Christian elements of their cultures. Christian assertions about change are hard for anthropologists to credit because anthropological and Christian models of change are based on different models of time and belief. Unless anthropologists reconsider their nearly exclusive commitment to continuity thinking and the models of time and belief that ground it, the anthropology of Christianity will continue to face handicaps to its development.
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According to the Indigenist ecological systems model (Fish et al., 2022; Fish & Syed, 2018), Indigenous Peoples' histories and cultures are critical to their development. However, the inclusion of ...Indigenous Peoples' histories and cultures in their environments is complicated by settler colonialism-a societal structure that seeks to eliminate such important contexts. The exclusion of Indigenous Peoples' histories and cultures in their environments can have adverse effects on psychological functioning (Fryberg & Townsend, 2008; Wexler, 2009). Despite this, Indigenous Peoples continue to access their histories and cultures throughout their development to survive and thrive (Vizenor, 2008). Though the Indigenist ecological systems model offers theoretical insight into the histories and cultures that contour Indigenous Peoples' environments, there are no empirical studies that examine its most basic claims. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by exploring how historical and cultural contexts intersect with the environments that affect Indigenous Peoples' development. Through a QUANT-qual embedded mixed-methods design, our analyses of Indigenous Peoples' digital story narratives (n = 73) suggest that immediate (e.g., parents, peers, school) and distant (e.g., media, government, policies) environments are the most salient to Indigenous Peoples' development. Culture figured into Indigenous Peoples' immediate environments to a moderate extent and distant environments to a prominent extent. History did too, but to a lesser extent. We discuss the implications of these findings for Indigenous well-being and recommendations for creating a more equitable developmental landscape via partnerships with Indigenous Peoples.
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Indigenous histories and cultures play an integral role in Indigenous Peoples' developmental outcomes. Despite barriers (i.e., colonialism, racism) to accessing meaningful histories and cultures in some of their environments, Indigenous Peoples are able to create, maintain, and sustain historical and cultural connections across various settings, enabling them to flourish across the life span.
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Consistent evidence documents the negative impacts of family separation on refugee mental health and concerns for the welfare of distant family members and desire to reunite with family members as ...priorities for refugees postmigration. Less is known about refugees' emic perspectives on their experiences of family separation. Using mixed methods data from a community-based mental health intervention study, we found that family separation was a major source of distress for refugees and that it was experienced in a range of ways: as fear for family still in harm's way, as a feeling of helplessness, as cultural disruption, as the greatest source of distress since resettlement, and contributing to mixed emotions around resettlement. In addition to these qualitative findings, we used quantitative data to test the relative contribution of family separation to refugees' depression/anxiety symptoms, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and psychological quality of life. Separation from a family member was significantly related to all 3 measures of mental health, and it explained significant additional variance in all 3 measures even after accounting for participants' overall level of trauma exposure. Relative to 26 other types of trauma exposure, family separation was 1 of only 2 traumatic experiences that explained additional variance in all 3 measures of mental health. Given the current global refugee crisis and the need for policies to address this large and growing issue, this research highlights the importance of considering the ways in which family separation impacts refugee mental health and policies and practices that could help ameliorate this ongoing stressor.
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Although family reunification has been a consistent consideration within U.S. immigration and refugee policy in the past, recent government actions and policies suggest that this has changed, and that, in fact, current U.S. policies and practices have actually increased refugees' and immigrants' risks for being separated from their families. This study finds that family separation has dire mental health consequences for individuals and may impede newcomer integration in U.S. society. Thus, our findings highlight the importance of local, state, federal, and international immigration and refugee policies returning to a prioritization of family reunification.
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This meta-analytic review examines the relationship between various dispositional characteristics and expatriate adjustment, including the Big Five constructs and other characteristics that have ...garnered more recent empirical attention (i.e., cultural empathy/flexibility, cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence). Using 62 primary studies (n = 13,060), we found that the Big Five traits play an important role in expatriate adjustment; however, when assessing the relative influence of these predictors, characteristics such as cultural empathy, cultural intelligence (e.g., motivational CQ), and emotional intelligence appear to exert a stronger influence on adjustment outcomes. Various cultural variables (cultural distance, cultural tightness, gender inequality in the host country) and year of publication were found to moderate some relationships, indicating that sociocultural factors may temper some of these effects.
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•Tweets can be consumed by users who do not necessarily belong to the minority group that posted them.•The linguistic expressions used about refugees depend on the meaning that users give to the ...information consumed on Twitter or other social networks.•Around the ACNUR /UNHCR Office, there are users with different nationalities, but this difference in the characteristics does not imply that social factors are different from each other.•Socio-cultural factors are distinctive elements of subcultures and minority groups.
The purpose of the study is to describe how society expresses itself in regard to people who, due to war, politics or religion, migrate from their country of origin to foreign countries. Refugees are considered minority groups. Thus, examining their behavior reveals significant data on sociocultural factors (Tsai, 2011). Under a qualitative approach and the netnography method, we used Twitter as an instrument for data collection. The model proposed by Perez-Cepeda and Arias-Bolzmann (2020), which describes cultural factors, is used to analyze the Twitter conversation flow that evidences the sociocultural factors of minority subcultures. Studies have shown that the data structure, classification, categorization, and purpose are based on the information production and consumption of the users who participate in Twitter conversations with @Refugees—the official account of the ACNUR/UNHCR Américas. The findings showed recurrent subjects and sets of ideas related to sociocultural factors, human rights, economic news, critical reflection, and religious topics. Tweets about refugees describe the sociocultural issues around this minority group. This paper focuses on refugees, the consumption of refugee information, text writing, sociocultural factors, and the environment on Twitter. This research contributes to the social sciences, especially to sociocultural interaction studies. The originality of the work is the identification of sociocultural factors related to the social sciences that emerge from minority groups' tweets through images, texts, and objects.
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Every region experiences layers of historical sequential events and demonstrates subsequent development. This then transforms into the heritage and earmark as identity. Goa, presently a State of the ...Indian Union, was ruled by the Portuguese for more than 450 years and this has left an impeccable socio-cultural imprint on the landscape and the local populace. Today, after 60 years of Goa's liberation it is prudent to assess the people's perception and review the Lusophone Identity. For this study, Margao, a prominent urban town has been chosen. The Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) method has been applied in this research, wherein reliance has been shown mainly on transect walk, time scaling, mapping, and semistructured questionnaire-based survey. The study reveals that Lusophones' essence can be traced through tangible identities like the baroque style churches, heritage houses, and a few public and commercial institutions. The festivals and feasts still carry the tradition that commenced during the colonial regime. The study shows that the people staying in the old town have more concern towards the heritage than those staying in the suburbs. The locals agree that heritage helps in the creation of jobs, promotes the local products, and adds value to the image of the place. There have been voices and concerns to conserve the heritage and retain its cultural and historical identity.
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