Family composition and relationships may undergo significant changes upon immigration and settlement. This article approaches teen-parent relationships through the intergenerational solidarity framework, which addresses three areas of conflict and/or consensus related to (a) functional solidarity, (b) consensual solidarity, and (3) normative solidarity. Interviews took place in the Sri Lankan T...

Humor can serve numerous functions in discourse. This paper provides a tool for categorizing functions of humor, and uses this tool to highlight statistically some interesting patterns in the humor of New Zealand men and women. The humor occurring in 18 New Zealand friendship groups was analyzed according to function and these functions were organized into a taxonomy. Functions of humor occurri...

Abstract This forum critically reflects on discrimination faced by early-career women international relations (IR) scholars in the Asia-Pacific region their workplaces and beyond. By taking a self-ethnographic perspective, six contributors from five countries provide an engaging overview of difficulties they face everyday lives. Against backdrop this diverse globalizing region, are all academic...

This article considers organizational solidarity in practice—modes of organizing rooted solidarity, relationality, coalition-building, and difference. It does so by studying two Latin American illustrative cases: Bolivia’s campesino-indígena movements coalescing traditional practices urban-neighborhood experiences order to self- organize socio-political spaces; Argentina’s worker-led empresas r...

This article traces the way autonomy has become a recognised value in health care in France. In a country that based its social fundamentals on the very idea of solidarity for many years, autonomy has long been considered a foreign 'Anglo-American principle'. Taking the example of the end-of-life debate, the article shows, however, how the use of the French term 'accompagnement' allowed autonom...

Solidarity websites, such as The Hunger Site, where people can donate food at no financial cost and minimal effort, have become immensely popular and effective since 1999. These new forms of philanthropy are characterized by wide participation and direct assistance and feedback. The present longitudinal, quasi-experimental study aimed to examine whether online solidarity can be predicted by off...

In this paper, we explore the politics of trust in alternative organizations, understood as counter-hegemonic collectives characterized by an equal commitment to individual autonomy and collective solidarity. Although is rarely theorized studies it frequently claimed be glue that holds such together. The main purpose paper substantiate claim theoretically. Drawing eclectically on Niklas Luhmann...

The effectiveness of measures introduced to minimise the spread Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) depends on compliance from all members society. Irish response COVID-19 has been framed as a collective effort, fostering national solidarity. However, dominant representations community often unreflexively reaffirm prototypicality majority group members, impl...

The COVID-19 pandemic made the experience of being a first-year freshman college student unique. This study aims to analyze hopes and fears these students concerning their current life future goals. Participating completed Hopes & Fears questionnaire. Results showed that students’ were mainly connected with domains education global/collective dimension, followed by personal family members’ ...