In this paper, I describe an embodied form of emotional distress expressed by Nicaraguan grandmothers caring for children of migrant mothers, "pensando mucho" ("thinking too much"). I draw on ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured exploratory interviews about pensando mucho conducted with grandmother heads-of-household to show the cultural significance of this complaint within the context o...

This paper investigates opportunities and obstacles refugee women face in establishment rural areas. Drawing on ethnographic research three municipalities northern Sweden, including interviews with women, local employers educational staff, I analyse the women’s space for agency to use capitalise different resources relation labour market belonging. Applying Bourdieu’s conceptualisation of cultu...

Social capital and health research has emerged as a focus of contemporary behavioral epidemiology, while intervention research is seeking more effective measures to increase health protective behaviors and decrease health-risk behaviors. In this review we explored current literature on social capital and health outcomes at the micro-, mesa-, and macro-levels with a particular emphasis on resear...

globalization and social capital are two main concepts in modern sociology. the study of effects of women's social capital on their social participation is one of the critical areas in women's studies. in order to study women's social capital in globalization process, the writers selected 2200 women in the cities of tehran, shiraz and estahban in a random sense. the results show that cultural c...

The acceleration has contributed to the development of capitalism, but it also exacerbated series problems modernity, such as destruction and alienation people by capital. People are increasingly becoming appendage accelerated capital, forced follow one-way run accelerationism, losing domination speed well human subjectivity, embodied in loss control over time life. Capital's modern era is refl...

This paper shows how cultural models relating to the display, perception, and experience of emotion are reflected in social robot design through a comparative analysis of social robotics in Japan and the US. A more implicit approach to emotional expression in Japanese robotics is related to community-oriented social practices and existing cultural forms such as Noh theatre, which encourages sit...