social and cultural anthropology [ cultural anthropology | ethnology | social anthropology | sociocultural anthropology | socio-cultural anthropology | Anthropology(STW) ]

Social and Cultural Working Committee | Working Committee on Social and Cultural Questions

Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute

Brussels Treaty | Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence

rehabilitation of sites of social or cultural value

Definition: States of subjective distress and emotional disturbance, usually interfering with social functioning and performance, arising in the period of adaptation to a significant life change or a stressful life event. The stressor may have affected the integrity of an individual's social network (bereavement, separation experiences) or the wider system of social supports and values (migration, refugee status), or represented a major developmental transition or crisis (going to school, becoming a parent, failure to attain a cherished personal goal, retirement). Individual predisposition or vulnerability plays an important role in the ...[+++]risk of occurrence and the shaping of the manifestations of adjustment disorders, but it is nevertheless assumed that the condition would not have arisen without the stressor. The manifestations vary and include depressed mood, anxiety or worry (or mixture of these), a feeling of inability to cope, plan ahead, or continue in the present situation, as well as some degree of disability in 9the performance of daily routine. Conduct disorders may be an associated feature, particularly in adolescents. The predominant feature may be a brief or prolonged depressive reaction, or a disturbance of other emotions and conduct. | Culture shock Grief reaction Hospitalism in children

collective memory [ common memory | cultural memory | historical memory | national memory | public memory | social memory ]

3. Condemns the severe restrictions on the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, including at traditional commemorative events such as the anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by Stalin’s totalitarian Soviet Union regime and cultural gatherings of the Crimean Tatars; stresses that, in line with international law, the Tatars, as an indigenous people of Crimea, have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions; calls for respect fo ...[+++]r the Mejlis as the legitimate representation of the Crimean Tatar community, and for avoidance of any harassment and systematic persecution of its members; expresses concern at the infringement of their property rights and liberties, their intimidation and incarceration, and disrespect of their civic, political and cultural rights; notes with equal concern the restrictive re-registration requirements for media outlets, as well as for civil society organisations;

Dr. Suzanne Rozell Scorsone (Former Commissioner of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies; Director of Communications and of Catholic Family Life, Archdiocese of Toronto): I came to the royal commission because my doctorate is in social anthropology, so I was able to bring social science and the analysis of the impact on human groups to what we were doing, as well as an understanding of the physical aspect, because of course anthropologists also have to understand medical things and the operation of the human body.

We would like your suggestions because you are a social anthropologist and have different solutions to this problem.

This morning we have a first panel of witnesses, which will consist of Chief Matthew Torigian from the Waterloo Regional Police Service, and by video conference from Halifax, Professor Christopher Murphy from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University.