Socio-cultural anthropology today

The phenomenon of “hikikomori” (social withdrawal) and the socio-cultural situation in Japan today

Objectives In Japan today it is believed that there are a million young adults who refuse to work and who avoid social contact. This phenomenon, known as “hikikomori” (social withdrawal), has become a serious socio-psychological problem throughout the country. However, there has been little psychopathological consideration of this phenomenon, and no detailed discussion of diagnosis. In this art...

2. Socio-cultural Factors

People’s control over their sexual lives and choices is in turn shaped by gender-related values and norms defining masculinity and femininity. These culturally-defined gender values and norms evolve through a process of socialization starting from an early stage of infancy. They determine and reinforce themselves through traditional practices such as wife sharing, widowhood related rituals, ear...

Socio-Cultural Cognitive Mapping

This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) N000141512797 Minerva award for Dynamic Statistical Network Informatics, and the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organization Systems (CASOS). The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or i...

Human subjects protection and cultural anthropology.

c) Professor C and his students are frustrated. They are eager to begin their classroom project of ethnographically interviewing exotic dancers at the local nightclub, who are also students, on gender roles and sexuality. The results of the project will be term papers used for the students’ grades. But the IRB chair has advised them against presenting the project for approval. The chair said th...

O-19: Socio-Cultural Beliefs Affecting InfertileCouples