Dominance and Defiance: A Study of Marital Instability in an Islamic African Society

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Marital Instability ◽  
African Society

Marital Stability Among Jewish and Mixed Couples Following Immigration to Israel From the Former Soviet Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoav Lavee ◽  
Ludmila Krivosh
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Marital Stability ◽  
Marital Instability ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Marital Outcomes ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

This research aims to identify factors associated with marital instability among Jewish and mixed (Jewish and non-Jewish) couples following immigration from the former Soviet Union. Based on the Strangeness Theory and the Model of Acculturation, we predicted that non-Jewish immigrants would be less well adjusted personally and socially to Israeli society than Jewish immigrants and that endogamous Jewish couples would have better interpersonal congruence than mixed couples in terms of personal and social adjustment. The sample included 92 Jewish couples and 92 ethnically-mixed couples, of which 82 couples (40 Jewish, 42 mixed) divorced or separated after immigration and 102 couples (52 Jewish, 50 ethnically mixed) remained married. Significant differences were found between Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants in personal adjustment, and between endogamous and ethnically-mixed couples in the congruence between spouses in their personal and social adjustment. Marital instability was best explained by interpersonal disparity in cultural identity and in adjustment to life in Israel. The findings expand the knowledge on marital outcomes of immigration, in general, and immigration of mixed marriages, in particular.

African Leadership in Children's Literature: Illustrations from the Shona Ngano (Folktale) Genre

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-332
Author(s):  
Godwin Makaudze
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
African Society ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Positive Images ◽  
African Leadership ◽  
Gender Specific

Feminist scholarship sees African society as traditionally patriarchal, while the colonists saw traditional African leadership as lacking in values such as democracy, tolerance, and accountability, until these were imposed by Europeans. Using Afrocentricity as a theoretical basis, this article examines African leadership as portrayed in the Shona ngano [folktale] genre and concludes that, in fact, leadership was neither age- nor gender-specific and was democratic, tolerant, and accountable. It recommends further research into African oral traditions as a way of arriving at more positive images of traditional Africa and her diverse heritage.

First Conference of the Southern African Society of Rheology (SASOR)

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-42
Author(s):  
Raj Chhabra ◽  
Paul Slatter
Keyword(s):  
African Society

Schism and Continuity in an African Society

1958 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
H. S. Morris ◽  
V. W. Turner
Keyword(s):  
African Society
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