scholarly journals Authenticity of the Sign: Travels of a Lahu Song1

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2-3) ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Judith Pine
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Material Feature ◽  
Modern Nation State ◽  
Positive Quality

This is a paper about a song which requires rather complex semiotic operations to be Lahu. The Wedding Oath song indexes, in different contexts, a desirable modern quality in a pre-modern society, a connection between an ethnic minority group and the modern state which implies obligations toward that ethnic group, and the positive quality of cosmopolitanism as a characteristic of a modern nation state. The nature of authenticity as a feature of these indexical relationships creates the possibility that one might extend Mendoza-Denton’s (2011) concept of “semiotic hitchhiker” to incorporate a non-material feature of a discursive performance.

scholarly journals Comparing the Psychological Well-Being of the Manjo Ethnic Minority with the Non-Manjo Ethnic Group in Kaffa Zone, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Bizuayehu Dengechi Dachachi ◽  
Nigatuwa Worku Woyessa ◽  
Fisseha Mikre Weldmeskel
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
Ethnic Minority Group ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Measurement Units ◽  
High Level

This study examined the level of psychological well-being between the Ethnic Minority group, commonly called “Manjo,” and the majority group called “Gomero.” Psychological well-being questionnaires were administered to a sample of 298 (independent sample from both groups). The findings demonstrated that the non-Manjo (Gomero) Ethnic group possessed a considerably high level of psychological well-being. Statistical differences were found in participants’ psychological well-being across Ethnic groups. According to the results, participants from the Manjo Ethnic Minority group had a lower level of psychological well-being (M = 211.27, SD = 17.51) compared to the majority (Gomero). A statistically significant variation in psychological well-being (theoretically embodied across a broad spectrum of measurement units) among the two independent study groups was reflected. 

scholarly journals Ecological culture of students in the trends of the Concept of sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 07003
Author(s):  
Yulia Grishaeva ◽  
Alexander Gagarin ◽  
Iosif Spirin ◽  
Zinaida Tkacheva ◽  
Natalia Evstafieva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Development Of Students

The concept of sustainable development (SD) is used by the international community to address the complex interconnected social, environmental and economic challenges of modern society. Solving SD tasks depends on the quality of training of professionals who are currently receiving vocational education. One of the areas of SD is the participation of specialists from various fields of activity in solving environmental problems. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to consider the ecological culture of students in the trends of the concept of sustainable development. The trends of the concept of SD and professional education, models of pedagogical interaction, aspects of the formation of the environmental culture of students, features of the modern state and trends of eco-cultural development of students, connection of this level with the achievement of SD goals are shown. The article provides experimental results of the study of attitude of Russian students to various aspects of environmental conservation. These results demonstrate the possibility and need to improve the environmental culture of students. The use of the article materials by educators will allow them to more effectively and purposefully shape the students’ environmental competences.

JONATHAN N. LIPMAN, Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China, Studies on Ethnic Groups in China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997). Pp. 302. $22.50 paper.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Barfield
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Muslims ◽  
China Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

Chinese Muslims, known today as the Hui and during the 19th century as Dungans, present a particular problem for a historian. Why should Chinese-speaking believers in Islam constitute a separate ethnic group when believers in other religions of foreign origin (Buddhism and Christianity, for example) do not? Did Chinese Muslims have a common history across China, or has one been created for them because they are now labeled an ethnic minority group (minzou) in the People's Republic of China? Jonathan Lipman begins his history by challenging the whole notion of the “Hui” as an ethnic group, which he argues in his Introduction has been taken as an unproblematic category by both Chinese and Western scholars. Lipman prefers the term “Sino-Muslim” to “Hui” to emphasize the reality that these Muslims are and have been Chinese in culture for centuries and to distinguish them from non–Chinese-speaking Muslim groups in China.

scholarly journals Interaction between Law and Morality: The Philosophical Construct

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-321
Author(s):  
Muhammad Mumtaz Ali Khan ◽  
Muhammad Danyal Khan ◽  
Imran Alam
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Law And Morality ◽  
Law And Legislation ◽  
Religious Morality ◽  
Modern Nation State

This paper discusses the jurisprudential analysis of law and legislation in a modern state. The main objective of this analysis is to ascertain the role and status of morality in the modern constitutional setup. Various views of legal positivism will be probed in light of the role of morality in codification. The study will comprise upon doctrinal analysis of various positivist writers of the 20th century. Contemporary elements of law in the modern nation-state system are more pro-positivist in approach rather than moral. In the light of these elements, the reader will understand the scope of morality especially religious morality in the contemporary legal framework. A comparative analysis will explain the standards of both theories of legal positivism and naturalist interpretation of laws.

To Recognize or Not?

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Elisabeth King
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
Better Than

This introductory chapter presents the book’s driving questions, introduces the term “ethnic recognition,” explains the book’s focus on institutions in post-conflict contexts, and lays out the plan of the rest of the book. The book asks: Under what conditions do governments manage internal violent conflicts by formally recognizing different ethnic identities? Moreover, what are the implications for peace? This introduction reviews the book’s theoretical arguments in brief, motivating a focus on ethnic power configurations and especially leaders’ status as minority or non-minority group members as a key condition for both the adoption and effects of recognition. It introduces our mixed-methods approach, then reviews the key findings. Recognition is adopted about 40 percent of the time; it is much more likely when the leader is from the largest ethnic group, as opposed to an ethnic minority; and it generally promotes peace better than non-recognition under plurality leadership.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Writing System ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
English Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Difference ◽  
Modern Nation State

The introduction begins by reflecting on how we look at the English writing system and how we think about language, culture, and community. It then explains why the idea of the modern state as an artefact of writing is central to the book. Taking issue with Goody, Watt, McLuhan, and Anderson, all of whom associated the Europeanized modern ‘nation-state’ with the ‘Western’ writing system and/or its traditions of print, it shifts the focus of attention to constitution-making and to the questions Tagore raised about the state’s capacity to grasp human difference. The last sections explain why the book is an exercise in intellectual as well as institutional history, why it is wary about the traditions of literary criticism that have dominated the academy in Europe and America for the past forty years, and why it has a capacious historical and geographical range.

Minority Perceptions of Whites’ Motives for Responding Without Prejudice

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Major ◽  
Pamela J. Sawyer ◽  
Jonathan W. Kunstman
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Interracial Interactions ◽  
Internal Motivation ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Motivation Scale ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Whites’ nonprejudiced behavior toward racial/ethnic minorities can be attributionally ambiguous for perceivers, who may wonder whether the behavior was motivated by a genuine internal commitment to egalitarianism or was externally motivated by desires to avoid appearing prejudiced to others. This article reports the development of a scale that measures perceptions of Whites’ internal and external motives for avoiding prejudice (Perceived Internal Motivation Scale/Perceived External Motivation Scale [PIMS/PEMS]) and tests of its internal, test–retest, discriminant, convergent, and predictive validity among ethnic minority perceivers. Minorities perceived Whites as having internal and external motives for nonprejudiced behavior that were theoretically consistent with but distinct from established measures of minority-group members’ concerns in interracial interactions. Tests of the predictive validity of PIMS/PEMS showed that when a White evaluator praised the mediocre essay of a minority target, minorities who were high PEMS and low PIMS were most likely to regard the feedback as inauthentic and derogate the quality of the essay.

Empowerment of Hmong women in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 586 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szolc
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Hmong Women

Social forces dormant in people can be used in the method of empowerment. This method allows to release social forces and change the functioning of a person and social groups. This article, based on a case study, will present the strength of women from the Hmong ethnic group living in northern Vietnam. The author describes how social forces dormant in one woman can rouse to action other women from the local community and become a drive wheel to financial liberation, thereby improving the quality of ethnic minority life.

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