Nurzhan Kulumzhanov, A. Zholdubaeva, Soltanmurat Abzhalov, Sairash Sapargaliyeva, Serik Almukhanov
{"title":"[i]Aruaqtar[/i]: Specific Features of the Kazakh Cult of Ancestors","authors":"Nurzhan Kulumzhanov, A. Zholdubaeva, Soltanmurat Abzhalov, Sairash Sapargaliyeva, Serik Almukhanov","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.14","url":null,"abstract":"The cult of ancestors (aruaqtar) occupies a critical place in the pre-Islamic Tengrian worldview of the Kazakhs. Despite obtaining some Muslim features in the process of Islamization, the cult of ancestors and faith in the aruaqtar remained fundamentally Tengrian. A cult of ancestors is based on the idea of an otherworldly reality. The souls of the dead can transit into it, still keeping connections with the real world. Aruaqtar are guardian spirits and the patrons of the family and clan. Their veneration is one of the essential principles of Kazakh culture, including the organization of tribal relations and the system of values of the nomads. The veneration of the aruaqtar gave rise to a complex semiotic system of the funeral and memorial rituals, reflected in material objects such as burials, mazars, and the stone sculptures of the ancient Turkic era (balbaltas). Myths and language reflect the specific features of the Kazakh aruaqtar cult. Their analysis shows the connection of the concept of aruaqtar with honor, dignity, and other high moral and ethical concepts. This link to morality determined the concept’s vitality in the Kazakh spiritual mentality and the preservation of many semiotic elements of the cult of ancestors in modern society.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"626-640"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47973620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Orda, Zh.B. Sarsenbayeva, B. Sultanova, Nurmukhamed Abilkhaiyrov, K. Abdrakhmanova
{"title":"Artistic Transformation of the Female Image in Kazakh Literature","authors":"G. Orda, Zh.B. Sarsenbayeva, B. Sultanova, Nurmukhamed Abilkhaiyrov, K. Abdrakhmanova","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.16","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the artistic image of women in Kazakh literature. It analyzes individual art works of folklore and written literature, particularly in the genres of poetry, prose, and drama. The historical and comparative method was used. It reviews the embodiment of girls’ and mothers’ image in Kazakh literature of the 20th – 21st centuries including the lyrico-epic works of oral literature. The literature of the early twentieth century contains many thematic poems on women's equality, and a number of examples of the literature of that time are given. Reviewing the main literary works of different eras, special attention is paid to the writers’ descriptions of special features of Kazakh girls, their mentality, national character traits, and behavioral pattern. A comparative analysis of works was carried out. There have been major changes in Kazakh society, with transitions from a traditional culture that combined indigenous with Muslim elements to the Soviet era and the present post-Soviet society. The research shows how these transitions have transformed the image of women in Kazakh literature, as a reflection of changes in ruling ideologies and women’s roles in society.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"653-668"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41671280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brazilian Sex Differences on the Five Personality Dimensions and Socialization Difficulties","authors":"C. Flores-Mendoza, Karen Silva de Souza Saviotti","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"Sex differences are ubiquitous in several aspects of human behavior. Here we present the analysis results of three datasets regarding personality and socialization difficulties in the Brazilian context. The first dataset (N = 1321; 67.3% females) used the NEO-FFI, which is based on the Big Five model of personality. The second dataset (N = 468 schoolchildren, 48% girls) used the Big Five for Children (BFC). The third dataset (N = 1458; 46.5% females) used the Canto Blanco Socialization Scale (SOC). The results indicate that the most pronounced personality sex differences in adults, favoring females, were in Neuroticism (d = -0.51), independently of age and ethnicity. Sex differences in Neuroticism, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness were found in children, but effect sizes were small. Adult males outscored females in socialization difficulties (d = 0.55), independently of age and educational level. These results corroborate previous studies on personality differences conducted around the world. Considering practical consequences, psychological trait differences were more important than sex for explaining care attitudes during the present pandemic situation in Brazil.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"518-540"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41730511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex Differences in Verbal Abilities in the Wechsler Tests: A Review","authors":"R. Lynn","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.18","url":null,"abstract":"It has frequently been asserted that females have higher verbal abilities than males. A review of studies of sex differences in verbal abilities in the Wechsler tests shows there was no difference of Verbal IQ on the WPPSI for 4 to 6 year olds. On the WISC for 6 to 16 year olds, males obtained a higher median than females on the Verbal IQ of .16d, and in the WAIS tests for adults males obtained a higher median score than females of .28d. Males obtained higher average scores than females on the Information, Vocabulary, Arithmetic, Comprehension and Similarities subtests of WISC and WAIS.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"688-706"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49062754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Differences in Fears for an Egyptian Sample","authors":"A. Abdel-Khalek","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"Research on fears and phobias in the Arab countries is rare. The study aim was to estimate the gender differences in fears among a large sample of Egyptian school children and adolescents (N = 4,224) aged 11 to 18 years. The Fear Survey Schedule was used. Results indicated that females in all age groups obtained higher mean total scores than males on the FSS. Most of the d statistics for effect size were high. These rather large gender differences in fears among the present sample of children and adolescents in favor of females are congruent with many international findings. Biological and social-cultural factors, including sex role, may explain this difference.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"462-477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41681228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Differences in Social and Political Attitudes: It’s Protection versus Freedom, not Liberalism versus Conservatism","authors":"G. Meisenberg","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines sex differences in socio-political attitudes in the United States using the General Social Survey (GSS). It solves the seeming paradox that women have been described as both more religious and more liberal than men. The results indicate that women are indeed more religious than men and more socially conservative in many respects as indicated by earlier research in the United States and elsewhere. However, they are also more “economically liberal” in the US sense of favoring more social expenditures by the government. The observed differences do not fit the present political alignments of the United States. They rather indicate that women more than men are concerned about protecting people from economic hardship, from threats emerging from “non-standard” beliefs and worldviews, and from the darker side of their own nature. The sex differences can be described as lying on a protection versus freedom dimension, similar to what has been described for political alignments in many non-Western countries. At the level of specific issues, most sex differences have remained quite stable from the 1970s to the 2010s.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"555-577"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43474465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of Women in Family Conflict Resolution: A Perspective of Women Living in the Inner City of Durban, South Africa","authors":"Beatrice Umubyeyi, O. Mtapuri","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.17","url":null,"abstract":"This article assesses the role of women in family conflict resolution from the perspective of women living in the inner city of Durban. The paper is based on participatory action research. Data was collected using focus group discussions (FGD) with 16 women aged above 30 years. These women were selected randomly through snowball sampling. The findings from the study show that women felt that they were actively taking part in family conflict resolution. This is seen as a result of the shift in gender relations and women’s empowerment. The findings also show that while women felt that they were active participants in the process of family conflict resolution, their participation is restricted, to some extent, by persisting male dominance which leaves limited space for women to participate in it fully. Cultural beliefs and gender inequality were at the center of the impediments to full participation by women in family conflict resolution. Despite these challenges, the participants believed that women are making a positive impact in resolving family conflict. The article posits a number of hypotheses that may inform practice.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"669-687"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41816836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[b]Book Review[/b]: A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities","authors":"A. Hama","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"767-772"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43016731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Five Personality Inventory: Sex Differences in a Peruvian Sample","authors":"Denisse Manrique-Millones, R. Castillo-Blanco","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.9","url":null,"abstract":"Empirical research in the personality field, most of it done in developed countries, supports the notion of sex differences. Much less research has been done in developing countries. The purpose of the present research study was to examine sex differences in personality traits in a Peruvian general population sample. Additionally, we explore acquiescence response bias. The sample consisted of 557 Peruvian residents in Metropolitan Lima, with ages ranging from 16 to 79 years (Mage = 29.7, SD = 10.9). Most respondents were women (333, 60%). Participants filled out the adapted version of the Big Five Personality Inventory. Consistent with previous empirical research done worldwide, results showed higher female than male scores on the Neuroticism personality trait. Moreover, removing acquiescent responders increased the reliability in all dimensions of the BFI. These results contribute to the body of empirical research on sex differences in personality.","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"542-544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42008725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. AlMerab, E. Dutton, David Becker, S. Bakhiet, Y. Essa, G. Meisenberg
{"title":"Sex Differences in Personality in Saudi Arabia","authors":"M. AlMerab, E. Dutton, David Becker, S. Bakhiet, Y. Essa, G. Meisenberg","doi":"10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46469/MQ.2021.61.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"Research has consistently found that there are sex differences in self-reported personality traits. Studies have also found that there are intercultural variations in the magnitude of these sex-based personality differences, with these differences being the most pronounced in prosperous, gender-egalitarian Western societies. In this study, we contribute to this body of research by exploring sex-related personality differences on the HEXACO personality inventory in a large student sample in Saudi Arabia. Consistent with previous research, we find that sex differences in personality are of rather small magnitude, in line with the Socioecological Complexity Hypothesis whereby personality differentiation is found to be more pronounced the more complex a society is. We also report substantial sex differences in response styles, with acquiescent responding and evidence of “careless responding“ higher in males than in females","PeriodicalId":35516,"journal":{"name":"Mankind Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47005506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}