scholarly journals A Beautiful, Sad Tale about Nonexistent Socialism in Hungary: The Story of Gyuri Cséplő

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
György Majtényi
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Multiple Modernities

In the 1970s, director Pál Schiffer and his colleagues filmed the life story of Cséplő Gyuri (1978), a documentary feature about the prospect of a Gypsy protagonist breaking free from a slum in socialist Hungary. The original footage from the production is held in the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives in Budapest. The footage brings to light how the Gypsy/Romani protagonist of the film was cast, how he was brought from a Gypsy settlement in Németfalu to Budapest, how the film was screened,  how audiences reacted, and what the filmmakers debated withlocal communities. The tragic early death of Gyuri Cséplő raised the question among the filmmakers how it would be possible to break free from poverty and from Gypsy settlements. In a socialcritique, the filmmakers presented a parallel world outside that of modern socialist Hungary. The theory of multiple modernities – and studies written as a result – suggest that modernization is not a singular phenomenon; that it affected various social and ethnic groups and actors in divergent ways. This microhistory investigates what differences can be revealed between the perspectives of minority and majority communities in socialist Hungary.

scholarly journals Explaining rule of rescue obligations in healthcare allocation: allowing the patient to tell the right kind of story about their life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Treatment Decision ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Great Cost ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fair Innings ◽  
Short Life Expectancy

AbstractI consider various principles which might explain our intuitive obligation to rescue people from imminent death at great cost, even when the same resources could produce more benefit elsewhere. Our obligation to rescue is commonly explained in terms of the identifiability of the rescuee, but I reject this account. Instead, I offer two considerations which may come into play. Firstly, I explain the seeming importance of identifiability in terms of an intuitive obligation to prioritise life-extending interventions for people who face a high risk of an early death, and I explain this in turn with a fair innings-style principle which prioritises life-extending interventions for people expected to die young. However, this account is incomplete. It does not explain why we would devote the same resources to rescuing miners stuck down a mine even if they are elderly. We are averse to letting people die suddenly, or separated from friends and family. And so, secondly, I give a new account that explains this in terms of narrative considerations. We value life stories that follow certain patterns, classic patterns which are reflected in many popular myths and stories. We are particularly averse to depriving people of the opportunity to follow some such pattern as they approach death. This means allowing them to sort out their affairs, say goodbyes to family and friends, review their life, or come to terms with death itself. Such activities carry a lot of meaning as ways of closing our life story in the right way. So, for someone who has not been given much notice of their death, an extra month is worth much more than for other patients. Finally, I review the UK National Health Service's end of life premium, which gives priority to patients with short life expectancy. I suggest it falls short in terms of such considerations. For example, the NHS defines its timings in terms of how long the patient can expect to live as at the time of the treatment decision, whereas the timings should be specified in terms of time from diagnosis.

Johanna Beyer

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Beal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Early Death ◽  
American Music ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Henry Cowell ◽  
Music Community ◽  
Charles Seeger ◽  
New Generation

Composer Johanna Beyer's fascinating body of music and enigmatic life story constitute an important chapter in American music history. As a hard-working German émigré piano teacher and accompanist living in and around New York City during the New Deal era, she composed plentiful music for piano, percussion ensemble, chamber groups, choir, band, and orchestra. A one-time student of Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Henry Cowell, Beyer was an ultramodernist, and an active member of a community that included now-better-known composers and musicians. Only one of her works was published and only one recorded during her lifetime. But contemporary musicians who play Beyer's compositions are intrigued by her originality. This book chronicles Beyer's life from her early participation in New York's contemporary music scene through her performances at the Federal Music Project's Composers' Forum-Laboratory concerts to her unfortunate early death in 1944. This book is a portrait of a passionate and creative woman underestimated by her music community even as she tirelessly applied her gifts with compositional rigor. The first book-length study of the composer's life and music, it reclaims a uniquely innovative artist and body of work for a new generation.

scholarly journals Religious Socialization in a High Modern Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Alexeeva
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Life Strategy ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Multiple Modernities

This article is devoted to the study of how religious identity and belonging to a religious community becomes a life strategy for socialization, and can help to overcome crises at different stages of life. The text presents an analysis of the autobiographies of those who made religiosity the basis of their way of life and a means of of self-determination. The methodological basis of the research is the combination of the theory of multiple modernities and the method of biographical interviews. Namely, we pay attention to the strategy of constructing religious identity. Sampling was carried out using a combination of reference sampling methods and ‘snowball’, since our previous experience has shown that this combination gives the best results in the study of hard-to-reach religious groups. In total, the sample included 30 respondents at the rate of three representatives of each denomination (Orthodox, Catholics, old believers, Buddhists, Jews) in each of the two cities. They were interviews (in person and on Skype), then the resulting transcripts were processed according to the methodology of the analysis of biographical narrative, described by T. Ingrata. The method of biographical interview removes the problem of psychological barrier in respondents when communicating on sensitive topics, as Hyde does not affect them directly. When planning the sample, we included major denominations represented in Russia — Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Buddhism and Judaism. This procedure allows identifying and describing strategies of behavior, as it is based on the comparison of biographical data of respondents with the ‘told life story’, that is, the consideration of subjective experience in comparison with the real socio-cultural context. Keywords: religious conversion, life crisis, biography, biography method

scholarly journals Construction of Modern Ethno-cultural Identity by Symbolic Art Forms as a Condition for Self-development of Culture: on the Example of Yakutia (Siberia, Russia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksei G. Pudov ◽  
◽  
Maria I. Koryakina ◽  
Evdokia P. Yakovleva ◽  
Liudmila S. Efimova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Cultural Complex ◽  
Self Development ◽  
National Theater ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
New Interpretation

The article reveals the heuristic possibilities of introducing a constructivist interpretation of the phenomena of ethnos and ethno-cultural identity, made on the basis of symbolic constructs of consciousness of a mythological and metaphysical sense. Considering these phenomena from this perspective makes it possible to give a qualitative new interpretation of the understanding of modernizing transformations on the basis of a certain ethno-cultural complex, which is able to effectively conquer the achievements of European modernity. The peculiarity of ethno-cultural identity, which becomes a condition for successful modernization, is modeled on the examples of the development of professional art in Yakutia in the ethno-modern paradigm in the national theater, cinema and choreography. The paper presents the first generalized analysis of the possibilities of ethno-cultural modernization in the “multiple modernities” paradigm, which is based on the ontology of symbolic consciousness of representatives of non-modernized ethnic groups.

193: The Relative Risk of Early Death from Comorbid Illnesses among Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Curative Treatment

2005 ◽  
Vol 173 (4S) ◽  
pp. 53-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patti A. Groome ◽  
Susan L. Rohland ◽  
Michael D. Brundage ◽  
Jeremy P.W. Heaton ◽  
William J. Mackillop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Relative Risk ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Curative Treatment

‘Fever Phobia’ Persists in Many Ethnic Groups

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
BETSY BATES
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Fever Phobia

Suicidal Behavior in Four Ethnic Groups in The Hague, 2002–2004

Crisis ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Burger ◽  
Albert M. van Hemert ◽  
Willem J. Schudel ◽  
Barend J.C. Middelkoop
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Emergency Service ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Specific Rate ◽  
Completed Suicide ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Psychiatric Department

Background: Suicidal behavior is a severe public health problem. Aims: To determine the rates of attempted and completed suicide among ethnic groups in The Hague, The Netherlands (2002–2004). Methods: By analyzing data on attempted and completed suicide (from the psychiatric department of general medical hospitals; the psychiatric emergency service and the municipal coroners). Results: Turkish and Surinamese females aged 15–24 years were at highest risk for attempted suicide (age-specific rate 545 / 100,000 and 421 / 100,000 person-years, respectively). Both rates were significantly higher than in the same age group of Dutch females (246 / 100,000 person-years). Turkish (2%) and Surinamese (7%) had lower repeat suicide-attempt rates than did Dutch (16%) females aged 15–24. Significantly lower suicide-attempt rates were found for Surinamese than for Dutch females aged 35–54 years. Differences were not explained by socioeconomic living conditions. The ratio fatal/nonfatal events was 4.5 times higher in males than in females and varied across age, gender, and ethnicity strata. Completed suicide was rare among migrant females. No completed suicides were observed in the Turkish and Surinamese females aged 15–24 years. Conclusions: The study demonstrates a high risk of attempted suicide and a low risk of completed suicide among young Turkish and Surinamese females.

A Life-Story Approach to Identity

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 788-789
Author(s):  
Judith C. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Life Story
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