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A dose of drugs, a touch of violence, a case of AIDS: Conceptualizing the Sava Syndemic
Get PDFGang violence, substance abuse and AIDS have been descr1bed as parallel epidemics in the U.S inner city. This paper draws upon findings from a set of ethnographic and survey research projects in the Puerto Rican community of Hartford ,CT to develop a conceptualization of the close Interconnections between these three health and social problems. Rather than separate conditions. Substance abuse, violence, and AIDS, referred to here as SAVA to stress the relationships among these three phenomena are best thought of forming a single syndetic (a closely interrelated complex of health and social crises) that continues to take a significant toll on the lives and well-being of the urban poor
Exceptions to rape shield laws
Get PDFAlmost all states and the federal government have statutes designed to protect sexual assault victims from harassing and intimidating questions regarding their past sexual experiences and reputations for chastity. During the Kobe Bryant's sexual assault preliminary hearing, Bryant's attorney was accused of violating Colorado's rape shield statute when she asked whether the alleged victim's reported injuries could have been caused by having sex with three men in a short period of time. Bryant's attorney was immediately -attacked for attempting to smear the victim and violating Colorado's rape shield statute. Unknown to many persons, all rape shield statutes have exceptions; and some exceptions are constitutionally required. A complete ban on questions regarding victims' past sexual experiences would violate defendants' Sixth Amendment right to confront the evidence against them and the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of Jaw of the U. S. Constitution. The authors discuss the right to confrontation, including a table that shows the exceptions for all states and the federal government
Cursillo in social movement literature*
Get PDF*Originally printed in Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 1997 25(2).Cursillo has its origins in Spain the late 1940s. Initially a Roman Catholicventure, it now occurs in several Christian denominations retaining the task ofpromoting religious renewal or revitalization for its members. Since there are no publications which appropriately place cursillo in social movement literature this article accomplishes the task using social strain, resource mobilization, and expectancy value theories
Comprehending competing spheres of social control
Get PDFMy purpose here is to examine the arrangement of both formal and informal norms and how they are utilized to channel children's behavior along certain trajectories. It is argued that three distinct contexts for social action exist within the consumer society. These contexts are described as "spheres of action" which possess moral agents who have vested interests in channeling individual behavior in certain directions. This paper examines this theory in light of the Christmas shopping season, by focusing on the conflictual spheres of social action that exist within the setting of a mall. First, there remain the capitalist entrepreneurs who have a need to sell products both to, and for children. On the other hand, parents often have to control their child's newly created impulsive need for a toy or other product that is directly marketed at them. Unobtrusive observations of children's behaviors were made over a four week period during the Christmas shopping season in order to provide data for an ethnographic analysis of competing methods of social control utilized by the Mall, the toy store, and the parent
Fathers with single parenting roles: Perspectives on strengths, concerns and recommendations
Get PDFThe phenomenon of single parent father families are increasing at a rapid rate in the United States along with the growth in fatherlessness in many families. This article disÂcusses the trends and societal attitudes toward single father parenthood. It reports on a study of the perceptions of single parent fathers about their strengths, concerns and recÂommendat1ons regarding their parenting roles. The study found that they feel stressed in their roles as parents but strongly recommends educating the public and professionals on their needs and strengths. Perceptions of cultural bias and insensitivity toward single parÂent fathers were found
What's Become of Our Bliss? The politics of recognition: Reconsidered transracialism and transfiguration in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth
Get PDFHow do we create a true politics of inclusion, what Nelson Mandela has called a "non-racial democracy"? This essay argues for the importance of artistic representations of a "multiracial imagined community" in helping us to imagine a more attractive alternative to the "diseased imagination" of racialism. Ralph Ellison was an Oklahoma writer who emphasized our cultural inter-relatedness as a means of helping achieve a more inclusive politics. His novel Juneteenth illustrates the role of the arts in articulating a moral philosophy which can help create the change in consciousness which is a necessary precondition of reconstructive social moveÂments. All reform requires coalitions, and coalitions require new vision: new paraÂdigms to facilitate social and cultural awakening. Juneteenth critiques the root paradigm of racialism, and challenges the pieties of identity politics regarding how to create a new pattern. This essay concludes by applying the novel's complex dramatization of "the true inter-relatedness of blackness and whiteness" to conÂtemporary identity politics, such as racialized commentary about controversial Caucasian rap artist Eminem