Understanding the social geographies of urban regions through the socio-economic and cultural dimension of class

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. e2130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem R. Boterman ◽  
Dorien Manting ◽  
Sako Musterd
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Urban Regions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Geographies

Tourism Attraction, Facilities, Flow and Assessment of Tourism Product of Manaslu Conservation Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Chandra Kanta Baral ◽  
Basanta Kumar Neupane
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Scenic Beauty ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Landscape Biodiversity ◽  
Tourist Flow

This study aimed to understand the tourist attractions, major tourism products and their assessment in Manaslu Conservation Area of Nepal MCA). MCA is a place well known both, nationally and internationally, for its scenic beauty, unique ecology, and rich cultural heritage, given by its geographic position and unique topography. The number of tourists visiting this area has been increasing every year. In 2001 the tourist flow was only 798 whereas in 2019 it was 7655. Such tourism growth has several socio-economic and cultural consequences. Along with the increased number of tourists, tourism focused facilities and infrastructures like hotels and tea shops are also increasing in the area. There are 127 hotels with 1328 rooms and 2827 beds (as of 2019) providing food and accommodation services for the visitors. However, even though there are many potential areas for tourism development in the Manaslu Conservation Area, because of less promotional practices, there is very little tourism activity in the region. With the area's diverse physiography, unique landscape, biodiversity and the social-cultural dimension of the villages, the area could provide plenty of attractions for tourism.

scholarly journals Relasi Antara Penggunaan Android dan Perubahan Sosial Perdesaan: Studi Perubahan Sosial di Kabupaten Bogor Jawa Barat

Society ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Iskandar Zulkarnain ◽  
Husaini Husaini ◽  
Khamid Baekhaki ◽  
F. Yoppie Christian
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Impact

Social changes is all changes on social institutions within community which impacting on its system including values, norms and patern of behaviour between groups in community, technology is one of the cause. Technology of media cq Android pressumed will give impact on traditional rural so-cial system, thus these mixed-method research intended to study how far the impact of the usage of Android on rural social changes. The present of internet followed by the more personalized Android in the rural community has made a transformation on interaction dimension between member of community both in Babakan village as urban-rural, and Petir as rural-village. The ownership and usage of Android between member of community today has various of meanings, whether to build peer-relation, tighten the family cohesion or to support the economic activities. The social change as impact of the usage of Android apparrently only occurs on interaction dimension without changing the structural or the cultural dimension. Research found, the prolonged social norms which has been rooted and maintaned by the community still able to work as social control mechanism, however the research shows the indication that the rationlisation on individual is ongoing, this may more or less loosen the social cohesion of rural community.

scholarly journals Tinjauan Dampak Pariwisata di Kawasan Pesisir Pada Dimensi Sosial Budaya Masyarakat

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Komang Gde Sukarsa ◽  
Trisna Darmayanti ◽  
Eka N. Kencana
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Creative Products

Tourism is a leading sector in developing process of many countries. For Bali, tourism contributes more than 30 percent on the formation of Bali’s Regional Domestic Product. To assure tourism at this island will run in sustainable manner, three aspects have to be considered. This research is aimed to classify the positive as well as the negative effects of socio-cultural dimension arose from tourists activities at coastal area of Badung regency of Bali. A hundred of local community leaders at North Kuta district were selected and their perception regarding effect of tourism on socio-cultural aspect were collected on June – September 2017 and  analysed by using factor analysis. Three groups were identified as the positive effects i.e. (a) women empowerment as the economic agents for the family; (b) the increasing of Balinese values; and (c) the raising of community capacity building in developing culture-creative products. Viewed from the burden of cost, we found the potency of increasing the social as well as family conflicts because of different perspectives in viewing tourism.

“When I came to the US”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping-Hsuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Before And After

Abstract From a social constructionist perspective, this study examines three gay Indian immigrants’ coming-out narratives as the locus of the discursive construction of both one’s physical and social location within the changing context. It advocates reconceptualizing “coming out” as dynamic and situated in interaction. Also, it investigates the intersection and construction of identities by analyzing coming-out narratives in sociolinguistic interviews conducted in Washington, DC. Drawing on Bamberg’s three levels of positioning (1997), the analysis highlights how narrators bring about their identities as they contrast the social constructs in India, i.e., the absence of such concept, and in the US, e.g., the acceptance of homosexuality, by reenacting dialogue before and after migration. This study adds to positioning theory and contributes to the cross-cultural dimension of research on coming-out narratives. The qualitative analysis also provides a linguistic perspective that views narrating coming out as an interactive process for constructing intersected identities.

Seeing Invisible Religion: Religion as a Societal Conversation about Transcendent Meaning

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Besecke
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Empirical Ground ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
Religious Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Contemporary sociology conceptualizes religion along two dimensions: the institutional and the individual. Lost in this dichotomy is religion's noninstitutional, but collective and public, cultural dimension. As a result, theories of religious modernity, including both sides of the secularization debate, are unable to recognize or evaluate the social power of noninstitutionalized religious communication. This article offers a reconceptualization of religion that highlights its cultural, communicative dimension. Original research on religious talk provides an empirical ground for a theoretical discussion that highlights: (1) the “invisible” nature of religion in modern societies, as theorized by Thomas Luckmann and (2) the social power attributed to communication by contemporary cultural sociologists and cultural theorists. I argue that conceptualizing religion as an evolving societal conversation about transcendent meaning broadens the empirical and theoretical grasp of the religion concept.

scholarly journals A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Privacy Calculus

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511668803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Trepte ◽  
Leonard Reinecke ◽  
Nicole B. Ellison ◽  
Oliver Quiring ◽  
Mike Z. Yao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Privacy Calculus ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
Privacy Risks

The “privacy calculus” approach to studying online privacy implies that willingness to engage in disclosures on social network sites (SNSs) depends on evaluation of the resulting risks and benefits. In this article, we propose that cultural factors influence the perception of privacy risks and social gratifications. Based on survey data collected from participants from five countries (Germany [ n = 740], the Netherlands [ n = 89], the United Kingdom [ n = 67], the United States [ n = 489], and China [ n = 165]), we successfully replicated the privacy calculus. Furthermore, we found that culture plays an important role: As expected, people from cultures ranking high in individualism found it less important to generate social gratifications on SNSs as compared to people from collectivist-oriented countries. However, the latter placed greater emphasis on privacy risks—presumably to safeguard the collective. Furthermore, we identified uncertainty avoidance to be a cultural dimension crucially influencing the perception of SNS risks and benefits. As expected, people from cultures ranking high in uncertainty avoidance found privacy risks to be more important when making privacy-related disclosure decisions. At the same time, these participants ascribed lower importance to social gratifications—possibly because social encounters are perceived to be less controllable in the social media environment.

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