The Family, Household, and Minor Lineage of the Konkomba

Africa ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tait
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Major Lineage ◽  
The Family ◽  
Group A ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Way

Opening ParagraphSince the household contains members drawn from the larger minor lineage group, we may expect to find that it functions within the framework of the latter. This is indeed the way in which Konkomba think of the household—as part of something larger, as something that is now isolated from and now merged in the larger group. The phrase ‘Ti je mfum mba’ (we are one) may refer to a household, a minor lineage group, a major lineage group, a clan, a tribe or the whole Konkomba people. When speaking of co-operation they speak in terms of the minor lineage group rather than in terms of the household. We shall try to differentiate the role of the household as a unit of reciprocal help, of social control, and of instruction, &c.

scholarly journals "I Know Where You Live!" – Aspects of Watching, Surveillance and Social Control in a Conflict Zone (Northern Ireland)

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Zurawski
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Conflict Zone ◽  
The Way

This article examines the special role of non-technological, everyday surveillance in Northern Ireland, and its meaning for life in the conflict laden province. It looks at the dimensions of people watching other people and how it is that the culture of conflict, which undoubtedly still exists in Northern Ireland, also produces a culture of surveillance. This culture then affects the way in which other forms of surveillance are viewed: with the introduction of CCTV into Northern Ireland, it becomes clear that many issues connected to this technology differ in comparison to other locations and cultural contexts, particularly with regard to issues of trust

Seeking Reconciliation

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-124
Author(s):  
Arzoo Osanloo
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Cycle Of Violence ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legitimate Violence ◽  
Sense Of Power ◽  
The Way

This chapter studies the operations of the Iranian criminal law and analyzes how the procedural administration of the law animates the shariʻa. Iranian criminal laws provide many avenues for victims to forgo retributive sanctioning. But preserving the right of retribution serves several purposes: maintaining the sovereign's monopoly on legitimate violence, giving victims a sense of power, and halting the cycle of violence. The way Iran achieves this comprises an interesting balancing act between maintaining the monopoly over legitimate violence and granting individual victims the right of retribution, which its leaders believe, through their interpretation of the shariʻa, cannot be appropriated by the sovereign. Since the law categorizes intentional murder as qisas and leaves judges with no discretion in sentencing, the judges may use their considerable influence to pressure the family to forgo retribution. The chapter then considers the role of judges and examines how the laws (substantive and procedural) shape their reasoning and discretion in both sentencing and encouraging forbearance.

Seduction and Surprise

2017 ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Dina Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Family ◽  
Situated Approach ◽  
The Way

The chapter explores the meaning of seduction from a situated approach to emotions by tracing the way surprise uncovers emotional traits that enable commitment. The adoption of a Situated Approach reveals how emotions are intrinsically tied to the situations from which they arise and the crucial role of surprise. The emotion of surprise is central for the value of experience because it amplifies other emotions as well as other traits, and details of the lived situations fixing the meaning of the lived experience. The examination of how various emotions belong to the family of surprise further explains the established differences between persuasion, manipulation and seduction. Ultimately the chapter shows that seduction asks for the recognition of various layers of emotional reality, and how they are made visible by the way in which seduction establishes commitments.

The Things that Help, the Things that Get in the Way: Working Together to Improve Outcome Following Acquired Brain Injury

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacinta M. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Acquired Brain Injury ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Major Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Working in neurological rehabilitation brings with it numerous opportunities to gain an understanding of the factors that contribute to shaping meaningful living and wellbeing for those tackling the major life changes encountered following acquired brain injury (ABI). These opportunities come in many forms: challenging and brave clients, wise and worrying families, questioning and inspiring colleagues, empowering and limiting work environments and rigid and advancing policy and legislative contexts.Our personal and collective understanding ofthe things that helpandthe things that get in the wayof effective rehabilitation continuously emerges from the convergence of the experience and knowledge afforded by these opportunities. The aim of this paper is to considerthe things that helpandthe things that get in the wayas they have been identified by people with ABI, their families and those who work with them and have been further evidenced through research targeted towards improving short, medium and long-term outcomes for those living with the consequences of ABI. Thesethingsas discussed in this paper capture the essential role of the self, the importance of rights and access to rehabilitation, the impact of the family and the contribution of social connection.

Crime and Social Control in Provincial Massachusetts

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Flaherty
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Homogeneous Population ◽  
The Family ◽  
Effective System

The first object of this article is to present some findings from an analysis of criminal activity in an early modern society, as measured primarily through various records of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize, and General Jail Delivery (the Assizes) from its creation in 1692 to the eve of the American Revolution. Since the amount of serious criminal behaviour revealed by this evidence seems small, the article will then seek to identify the most important components of the system of social control over criminality evidently at work in provincial Massachusetts. These include a conscious effort to maintain a homogeneous population, a pattern of collective settlement in townships, an effective system of prosecuting serious breaches of the criminal law, the commitment of elite groups in town, church, county, and province to law and order, and the role of the family in teaching and assuring appropriate behaviour.

Is Blood Thicker than Water? Farm Servants and the Family in Nineteenth-Century North Devon

2013 ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Caroline Verney ◽  
Janet Few
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Community Cohesion ◽  
Core Theme ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Way

This paper describes a small part of wider research into family and community in the nineteenth century undertaken by the late Caroline Verney. Her study of the north Devon parishes of Bittadon, Braunton, Georgeham, Marwood, Mortehoe and West Down centred on the way in which Victorian farming communities functioned, with investigations into kinship stemming from that core theme. At the same time, Janet Few was researching the role of kinship and its impact on community cohesion in three other areas of north Devon: Bulkworthy, Bucks Mills and Hatherleigh. Few's work on the farming parish of Bulkworthy is particularly relevant and has been used to complement Verney's findings for Mortehoe, which form the focus of this article. Together they have been used to investigate the employment of farm servants and the basis upon which they might have been chosen.

Starting a family business as a career option: The role of the family household in Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 100338
Author(s):  
Daniel Pittino ◽  
Francesco Chirico ◽  
Massimo Baù ◽  
Marcia Villasana ◽  
Elvira E. Naranjo-Priego ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Career Option ◽  
The Family

The Family, Household, and Minor Lineage of the Konkomba

Africa ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-249
Author(s):  
David Tait
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Total Group ◽  
Family Household ◽  
The People ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Family ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThis paper first seeks to show how far the actual forms of the Konkomba family and household coincide with their forms as conceived by the people themselves. The second part (which will appear in a later number of this journal) analyses some of the functions of these units of organization. By function, I mean the relation of the household to certain aspects of Konkomba life: namely, the household as a unit of production and consumption, as a unit of social control, as a ritual unit, and so on. The term ‘household’ refers to the total group of persons living together in one compound (letʃeni), which is a cluster of round houses distributed about a central space and linked by a low wall (see Fig. I). The head of a household (letʃendaa) is the senior man, the husband and the father of the family that is the nucleus of the household. This may be an elementary or a polygynous family; or it may be an expanded family consisting of a number of brothers and their wives, sons, and unmarried daughters; or it may be an extended family, consisting of a man, his wives, their sons, sons' wives and children, and their unmarried daughters. To this nucleus other kin are added and it will be shown that these additional members are always either members of the minor lineage group of the household head or wives or widows of members.

scholarly journals Peran Pendidikan Ekonomi pada Pengrajin Dupa Ratus

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 619
Author(s):  
Achmad Maulana Adyaksa ◽  
Hari Wahyono ◽  
Cipto Wardoyo
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Way

<p class="Abstract"><strong>Abstract:</strong> The hundred incense craftsmen in the village of Dalisodo initially had jobs as farmers and ranchers until finally they chose to become hundred craftsmen of incense. The existence of hundred incense craftsmen in the Dalisodo village is very influential on the development of the Dalisodo village especially in the Malang Regency because they are able to produce high quality products and the products are marketed all the way to Bali Island. The method of this research uses qualitative. With this type of approach to femenology. And in determining subjects using puposive sampling. In carrying out every activity, the hundred incense craftsmen possess the role of economic education, including from the family, craftsmen, laborers, and in the hundred incense production process.</p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Pengrajin dupa ratus di Desa Dalisodo pada awalnya memiliki pekerjaan sebagai petani dan peternak hingga akhirnya mereka memilih menjadi pengrajin dupa ratus. Keberadaan pengrajin dupa ratus di desa Dalisodo sangat berpengaruh terhadap perkembangan di desa Dalisodo, khusunya di wilayah Kabupaten Malang karena mereka mampu memproduksi dengan produk yang sangat berkualitas dan hasil produksi di pasarkan hingga ke Pulau Bali. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan kualitatif dengan jenis pendekatan fenomenologi dan dalam menentukan subyek menggunakan <em>puposive sampling</em>. Di dalam melakukan setiap kegiatannya, pengrajin dupa ratus memiliki peran pendidikan ekonomi, meliputi dari dalam keluarga, pengrajin, buruh kerja, dan di dalam proses produksi dupa ratus.

The social and administrative aspects of the sermons of the Prophet Mohammad historical study of the era of prophethood: الجوانب الاجتماعية والإدارية في خطب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: دراسة تاريخية لعصر النبوّة

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 18-1
Author(s):  
Abdul- Aziz Ibrahem Alaseeri Abdul- Aziz Ibrahem Alaseeri
Keyword(s):  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Household Resources ◽  
State Administration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Seasons ◽  
The Way

One of the greatest sermons that were delivered and whose effects remain to this day are the sermons of the Prophet, for the sermons of the Prophet were of great importance in depicting the life of the Prophet’s society and its way of life, hence we hope that this study will contribute to uncovering the social and administrative aspects of the Prophet’s society through the sermons that The Prophet delivered it in different seasons, as these signs can be monitored in the prophetic speeches to form the image of society in the Prophet’s era, through knowledge of social aspects such as customs, traditions, clothing, and adornment. As well as in the type of foods, the way they were eaten, and the tools used in preparing, eating and storing foods, and what this study means is to present another social picture of what the community of prophecy was, in terms of social solidarity, The way people live in homes, all of this by quoting from the sermons of the Prophet touched, and it is also of great importance to present the sermons of the Prophet which dealt with the role of women and the family in building civil society, and what the research will reveal is the subtle aspects of the prophetic society that permeated many of the prophetic speeches, such as Talking about the classes of society, and about fun, sports and tanning. On the other hand, this study provided an idea about the administrative and financial situation during the era of the prophethood, by extracting this information from the Prophet’s sermons, such as talking about the emirate over regions, organizing sergeants and captains, and also monitoring household resources and banks, as the sermons of the Prophet- ﷺ-  showed something of the organizational aspects in State administration such as bureaus, post office, and calculator.

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