scholarly journals Judgments of marital rape as a function of honor culture, masculine reputation threat, and observer gender: A cross‐cultural comparison between Turkey, Germany, and the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-353
Author(s):  
Pelin Gul ◽  
Isabell Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Marital Rape ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Honor Culture ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals What do we expect from an ombudsman? Narratives of everyday engagement with the informal justice system in Germany and the UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Creutzfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Justice System ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Informal Justice ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis paper looks at expectations people have of informal justice mechanisms through a rich empirical dataset of 2,775 recent ombudsman users in Germany and the UK. In a cross-cultural comparison, the ombudsman as a model of justice is explored. Not much is known about people's expectations of the ombudsman model; this paper starts to fill the gap. Four roles became apparent in cross-cultural narratives in the dataset: people who interact with ombudsmen expect them to be interpreters, advocates, allies and instruments. The identified roles are largely common to both countries, but in some aspects they show national specificities. These national specificities are seen mainly in the use of language; in Germany, it is more legalistic in comparison to the UK. I argue that this might be related to what has been described as the general legal culture of each country and the institutional set-up.

scholarly journals Transsexualism in Spain: A Cultural and Legal Perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Soley-Beltran
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Sex Reassignment ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Uk

In this paper I will present an overview of the current legal, social and political situation of transsexual and transgendered people in Spain. The study is based on qualitative data gathered from in-depth interviews with transsexual people, transgendered activists and legal experts in Spain, including some aspects of a cross-cultural comparison between Spain and the UK. The empirical study accounts for the development of social policies related to sex-reassignment and their evolution in the last decade in Spain, as well as for transsexual associations and activism, issues of social exclusion and prostitution. The study on transsexuals consists of qualitative interviews with selected individuals of the transsexual community in Scotland and Catalonia about their life experiences. The analysis of the qualitative data explores the cultural assumptions underlying the legal aspects of sex-reassignment. Amongst other issues, the paper will deal with Spanish juridical procedures for documental reorientation and its potential role as incentive for undergoing sex-reassignment operation, and the performative character of transsexualism as a scientific category and folk gender myths in the shaping of gender. The cross-cultural comparison concerns scientific terminology and funding, as well as cultural and legal aspects of sex-reassignment. The study reveals the performative character of scientific categories, the mobilisation of conflicting discourses in the negotiation of meaning, the circularity and self-referentiality of the terms used both in expert and folk discourse. Moreover, the cross-cultural comparison demonstrates the conventionality of transsexualism as a scientific category and some of the ways in which social institutions act to perpetuate the erasure of gender fluidity.

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Autistic Traits in the UK, India and Malaysia

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 2569-2583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Freeth ◽  
Elizabeth Sheppard ◽  
Rajani Ramachandran ◽  
Elizabeth Milne
Keyword(s):  
Autistic Traits ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Book Review: Understanding Families over Time: Research and Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-95
Author(s):  
Richard Zimmer
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Economics And Politics ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Research And Policy

This book comprises a series of essays reviewing family relationships in the UK.  The focus is on how parents, grandparents, and children connect.  The essays address the ways in which external factors, such as economics and politics, affect these relationships. The essays specifically feature the ways in which women and men are particularly affected by being parents or grandparents.  The editors and key authors suggest that family ties do not suggest a generational divide.  Rather, they suggest that people do as much as possible to help each other through  challenges. The essays are geared towards larger social understandings and towards the formulation of social policy.  Lastly, they are useful for cross-cultural comparison.

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