Belonging, Bridges, and Bodies

Community belonging and health.

OBJECTIVES This article explores the relationship between sense of community belonging and self-perceived health. DATA SOURCE The data are from the first half of cycle 1.1 of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), collected from September 2000 through February 2001. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES Descriptive information relating socio-demographic variables to sense of community belonging is pr...

Autonomy, belonging and interdependency

Introduction: The most remarkable development the disability sector went through over the last 10–15 years is the shift in paradigm. The shift from a medical model, a defect model, towards a social model of disability is made. The approach, today, is based on human rights. Full inclusion in society is the overarching objective.

Music and Belonging

The need to belong is a fundamental human motivation and the absence of attachment can cause problems. Ostracism has been found to evoke psychological distress and is widely used in social animals and human interpersonal relationships as a form of punishment. Many anecdotes suggest that music might help alleviate the negative effects of ostracism. The current study examined this possibility in ...

Bridges and Profunctors

The main aim of the dissertation is to present a way for de ning bicategories, double categories, lax and colax functors between them, where the coherence pentagon and the lax comparison cells are implicitly encoded in the system. Besides this, we also study related structures such as Morita contexts. For bicategories we follow Tom Leinster's unbiased approach, and we use profunctors regarded a...

Lava Crowns and Bridges