IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70021

Zoë Elizabeth Berman

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Affecting with and being affected by person-centered interviewing and observation 以人为中心的访谈和观察影响和被影响

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70020

Douglas Hollan

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No one should die alone: “Just holding hands” among vigil volunteers in Denmark 没有人应该孤独地死去：丹麦的守夜志愿者“只是手牵着手”

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70019

Lone Grøn, Laura Skifter Andersen

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Is multiculturalism as American as apple pie? A survey of attitudes toward ethnic and religious diversity in the United States 多元文化主义就像苹果派一样美国化吗？对美国种族和宗教多样性态度的调查

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70018

Séamus A. Power, Crystal Shackleford, Friedolin Merhout, Richard A. Shweder

{"title":"Is multiculturalism as American as apple pie? A survey of attitudes toward ethnic and religious diversity in the United States","authors":"Séamus A. Power, Crystal Shackleford, Friedolin Merhout, Richard A. Shweder","doi":"10.1111/etho.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70018","url":null,"abstract":"What percentage of American citizens believe that the real America is a White Christian America? How many would prefer to live in a more homogeneous or singular country, one occupied primarily by members of their own ethnic, racial, or religious group? In the face of contemporary changes in the composition of the population, to what extent have the White Christian citizens of the United States become fearful of demographic replacement? Alternatively posed: To what extent is ethnic, racial, and religious diversity valued by American citizens? Is it or is it not a basic feature of their ideal of what America means? Those are the questions addressed in this study. A representative sample of American citizens (n = 986) was asked to estimate the actual and the desired distribution of ethnicities, races, and religions in the United States on the national level. We find that two-thirds of our respondents want a more ethnically/racially diverse United States than the current demographics and over half of respondents want a population that is more religiously diverse than the status quo in 2020. Only a tiny percent idealizes a country that is ethnically or religiously homogeneous. The survey results suggest that the ideal of a multicultural country composed of diverse ethnic, racial, and religious groups is widely accepted. The results also suggest that the supposed fear of a national “Great Replacement” of White Christian Americans by non-White or non-Christian minority groups may have been greatly exaggerated.","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exile, post-traumatic life desire, and therapeutic empowerment 流亡，创伤后生活欲望，以及治疗性赋权

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70017

Mayssa Rekhis

{"title":"Exile, post-traumatic life desire, and therapeutic empowerment","authors":"Mayssa Rekhis","doi":"10.1111/etho.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70017","url":null,"abstract":"Empowerment can be considered a traveling concept, present in several spheres from community psychology to international development, with different definitions, theories, and applications. It became salient in interventions targeting marginalized and vulnerabilized communities. Through an ethnographic study of a trauma-therapy center for exiles in Sweden, this paper explores how psychotherapy, in addition to focusing on trauma, took on a new role of “women empowerment.” It analyzes the forms of power and empowerment in the trajectories of women exiles and the therapeutic space and encounter. With a lens that is attentive to life-desire, a concept developed by Eva Tuck, contrasting with the damage-lens that marginalized and exiled populations are usually portrayed through, this paper attempts to unfold how the therapeutic space became a space where new subjectivities of “empowered women exiles” emerged, and how they were sustained despite the structural barriers and challenges to fulfilling the lives they tend to live. Through the psychotherapeutic process, the women and their therapists construct selves aware of their strength and desire, and oriented away from “traditional interdependence” and toward “modern autonomy,” raising questions of how much control over their lives they are allowed to have but also illustrating the opportunities and limitations of therapeutic tools and practices.","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Combining remote and collaborative research: A critical reflection on large-scale, comparative, and interdisciplinary research in times of a global crisis 结合远程和合作研究：在全球危机时期对大规模、比较和跨学科研究的批判性反思

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70016

Ferdiansyah Thajib, Thomas Stodulka, Patricia Kanngiesser, Daniel Haun, Jahnavi Sunderarajan, Magie Junker, Tongtong Meng, Wanting Sun, Zhen Zhang, Sandra Masaquiza, Monika Swastyastu, Desri Julita Taek, Arianna Abis, Disney Tjizao, Dennis Shishala, Ljubica Petrović, Blanca Striegler, Janina Weyrowitz, Bernardo Arroyo-Garcia, Katja Liebal

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Literacy and illiteracy, its relational other: A key topic for collaboration between psychology and anthropology 扫盲与文盲的关系：心理学与人类学合作的重要课题

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70015

Erdmute Alber, Carlos Kölbl

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What exactly is a family man? Performing and precluding respectable fatherhood in Dominica 到底什么是顾家男人？在多米尼加扮演并排除了一个受人尊敬的父亲

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70014

Adom Philogene Heron

{"title":"What exactly is a family man? Performing and precluding respectable fatherhood in Dominica","authors":"Adom Philogene Heron","doi":"10.1111/etho.70014","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.70014","url":null,"abstract":"How does a father come to be regarded as a “family man” in the Caribbean? By tracking the stories and strivings of various Dominican men who seek recognition as dedicated fathers, this essay unfolds complex answers to this seemingly simple question. Here, the lauded ascription of “family man” is revealed less as a signifier of fatherly commitment and care than as an idiom through which masculine “respectability” is performed or denied. The paper unknots the idea of the “family man” from several ethnographic vantage points: through the moral reorientation of a felon-turned-loving-father who strives for respectable recognition; observant participation with a men's group who advocate for “good fathering”; the biography of a retired police officer reflecting on parenting and being parented across shifting fatherhoods; and a youth advocate calling for more accessible masculine models. These ethnographic voices call for more expansive, historically grounded, and practice-oriented visions of the Caribbean father and “family man” while nuancing regional concepts of respectability and building on anthropological conversations about the making of moral personhood.","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Aid workers parenting in the field: Children-as-audience and the generational transmission of privilege in Senegal 援助工作者在外地养育子女：儿童作为听众和塞内加尔特权的代际传递

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70011

Dinah Hannaford

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Making beautiful babies: Performative parenting, parental determinism, and personhood in Côte d'Ivoire 制造漂亮的婴儿：行为父母，父母决定论，和人格在Côte科特迪瓦

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70012

Konstanze N'Guessan

{"title":"Making beautiful babies: Performative parenting, parental determinism, and personhood in Côte d'Ivoire","authors":"Konstanze N'Guessan","doi":"10.1111/etho.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.70012","url":null,"abstract":"According to the notion of “parental determinism,” parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills. However, the question of what “good parenting” actually consists of is highly contingent. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Ivorian parents and in a child welfare center, this paper examines competitive comparisons in baby shows, pregnancy consultations, and infant health reviews as performative parenting encounters in which parents, social welfare officers, and midwives interact as actors and audiences of “good parenting.” The paper analyzes contemporary parental determinism in Côte d'Ivoire as at once rooted in well-established local imaginaries of self and personhood and opening spaces for the development of aspirational parental selves. It looks at different ways in which parental determinism is enacted and talked about and how “doing good” as a parent and the well-being of children are grasped as entangled and mutually constitutive. The paper demonstrates that “beautiful babies” are a product of a shared understanding and co-practice. Making “beautiful babies” requires communal efforts to “be good” and “do good,” invoking the subjectivities of both parents and experts alongside their acts of parenting and counseling.","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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