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A&Q Presents: February 20, 2019
No full textCalyn Clare Liss \u2722 - who goes by Calyn, Clare, CC, Caly, and any name that begins with C at this point - grew up in Georgia, went to boarding school in Pennsylvania, and now lives in Maine. She\u27s been writing since she was six, when her story about a girl visiting the zoo got published in her elementary school\u27s literary magazine. Whether or not her writing has increased in quality since then is up for interpretation. Madeline Justiniano \u2721 is an art major and creative writing and theatre double minor. She writes poetry in between bingeing TV shows with her boyfriend and dancing in odd places. Madeline likes flowers, cute animal videos, making art in multiple mediums and spending time with her friends. She\u27s a young woman who is well aware of who she is and how she behaves. She is intensely introspective and concerned about the well being of those she cares about. Madeline works hard on improving herself and her work. She\u27s very intelligent and witty, yet somehow couldn\u27t write this bio herself. - written by Paul Turner \u272
Split Between Two Identities: How Second-Generation Immigrants Use Food to Project Their Ethnic Identity
No full textWhile food is important to everyone’s identity, it is particularly important to second- generation immigrants who must juggle two or more cultures. Using in-depth interviews, I look
at the factors that affect how second-generation Chinese immigrants make food choices and how
these food choices reflect their ethnic identity. I also look at the degree to which second- generation immigrants use food to project their desired identity. The interviewees identified with
a hyphenated identity because they were not “Chinese” enough or “American” enough to adopt a purely Chinese or American identity. However, it is clear that their hyphenated identities exist on a spectrum. Some interviewees are more strongly connected to their American identity, while others are more strongly connected to their Chinese identity. Their identity is reflected in the way they eat. The factors that affect how second-generation immigrants identify are the same factors that affect their food choices. These factors include: path of assimilation, convenience, family’s support, degree of contact with the native-born, geography, embeddedness in co-ethnic community, and peers. My findings support much of the previous literature about food and immigrant identity, but because the sample is very specific, there were several conflicts with the literature
Hamilton’s Helpers: Understanding the Social Motivations behind Student Volunteering
No full textIn attempting to understand what motivates individuals to volunteer in order to help others, previous research typically focuses on one of five possible motivating factors: pragmatic goals, values, social networks and norms, religion, and institutional opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to examine how these motivators of prosocial behavior interact with one another and to shed light on the population of college students specifically in their volunteering habits. I employ both quantitative survey data and in-depth interview narratives from students at Hamilton College to understand why and how they engage in volunteering. I find that student volunteers are driven by altruistic values, but require normative pressure and socially-structured opportunities through their social networks and larger institution as a whole in order to participate more frequently in volunteering. Additionally, the data suggest that religion operates as a prosocial motivating mechanism more indirectly, but still prominently, even within a secular educational institution. Ultimately, I use the findings of this research to argue that institutions of higher education have a unique potential to promote prosocial behavior by leveraging students’ social networks and offering coordinated, social opportunities to connect with the surrounding community and volunteer
Identity Work Among the Homeless in Utica
No full textHomelessness impacts the experiences of the individual in unique and profound ways. To the individual, the experience of such an undesirable condition has dramatic social and emotional consequences. First, homeless people are continually confronted in each social interaction with the immense stigma imposed by their condition and as a result, struggle to uphold social prestige. In addition, homeless people experience a decreased sense of selfworth and social belonging because their individual identities and communities are considered to be stigmatized and disgraced by members of society. As such, homeless people engage in defensive communicative practices in order to combat these social and emotional implications. Specifically, this present study explores the practices that homeless people in Utica, NY use when speaking about their identities and relationships in order to bolster a sense of selfworth and social belonging. The findings suggest that “identity work” strategies are useful for homeless people to present acceptable individual identities and establish selfworth; however, this cohort of homeless people also highlight positive aspects of community to emphasize social belonging. Altogether, this work shows how important homeless people in Utica feel it is to be considered ‘normal’ and socially desirable
An Analysis of Urban Development, Urban Poverty, and Economic Development in Utica, New York
No full textUtica, New York is a Rust Belt city of 60,000 in the center of the state. This city has endured despite population loss, industry loss, arson, and city-wide poverty; the city government’s adaptive renewal strategies help in this endurance. This paper lays out the history of Utica’s urban renewal and examines its current implementation. Now, the city government has partnered with various companies and firms to construct large-scale development projects. Projects such as the Hospital Downtown and the Marcy Nanocenter are meant to create highly-skilled professions in the heart of the city. Economic development agencies complement this work by providing resources to smaller businesses. While these priorities will ultimately aid the city’s redevelopment, they neglect the most impoverished communities. City developers use most of the resources that the city gets from the county, state, and federal level to develop the urban core. Economic development agencies’ struggle in their outreach to low-income communities. Ultimately, urban renewal in Utica has had positive effects, but it is not an equitable process
Orwellian or Ordinary?: Situating India\u27s UID and China\u27s SCS Within Global Neoliberal Trends Through Comparative Analysis
No full textIndia and China have committed themselves to the largest projects of data-driven, social mapping in history. India, with its Aadhaar biometric identification program (also known as UID), aims to assign every Indian a unique identification number tied to a fingerprint or iris scan. China, with the Social Credit System (SCS), will integrate the financial, social, criminal, and online browsing information of every person and business agency in order to give a score representing their trustworthiness.This paper will comparatively examine both of these systems in order to answer the research question, Why are India and China pursuing expansive domestic datafication projects? It argues that India’s UID (Aadhaar) and China’s SCS, while different technological systems in different sociopolitical contexts, both evidence the same neoliberal trend towards data-driven development. The comparative results yield shared characteristics that align with a current global neoliberal pattern, including: media and state justification through economic development; datafication built on a “corporate-state nexus”; and, a quest for financial inclusion that has enabled commercial profiteering. These systems bring technological efficiency that consolidates power in the hands of the state with the grip of the market. The paper concludes by remarking that despite the Orwellian portrayal of these systems in the West, they demonstrate the same pattern of informational capitalism plaguing the West
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Get PDFFront cover illustration from J. F. Witherell, ed., The Anti-Millerite and Scriptural Expositor (Concord, N.H.: 1843)
“Blacksmith by Trade”: The Journey of African-American Shaker Justinian Cartwright
Get PDFJustinian Cartwright was one of ten individuals emancipated in 1819 by their slave-owning Shaker families who were part of the South Union Village in Auburn, Kentucky. This article traces Cartwright\u27s activities from 1813, when he began working in the community\u27s blacksmith shop until his death in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1862
Smoke and Mirrors: A Study of Social Learning and Identity Exploration Among Young Adult Recreational Vapers
No full textDespite the pervasiveness of vaping on college campuses in recent years, social research has largely overlooked recreational vape use among young people. Drawing upon quantitative survey data and qualitative interview data collected from students at an elite liberal arts college, this mixed-methods study reveals three major findings regarding the nature of vaping on college campuses: (1) how the complex social meaning of vaping is crafted among college students, (2) how students are socialized into the embodied habits of vaping, and (3) how vaping impacts users’ identity. While students view nicotine addiction as isolating and socially deviant, occasional vape use among friends is normative on campus. Thus, socialization into this deviant behavior usually occurs in the presence of other vapers through elaborate interaction rituals. Despite frequent use, many students used methods of subversion to diffuse their socially deviant identity and avoid the label of an “addict”. This research adds to the limited body of literature connecting social deviance and identity, as well as literature exploring socialization into socially deviant behaviors. This study also posits several policy implications for deterring recreational vape usage
