A GENTRIFYING URBAN VILLAGE: THE ROLE OF CHURCH, MONEY, AND IDENTITY IN A PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBORHOOD

The great economic forces that built American industrial cities also quickly left them abandoned. Scholars have written extensively on the social consequences of deindustrialization. Today, however, a new period of economic growth has again changed cities. A process of redevelopment, commonly referred to as gentrification, has changed the character of former industrial cities, producing an array of new civic tensions. The new people entering cities come for job opportunities in growing economic sectors (e.g., tech, finance, and creative industries) that tend to require higher levels of education. While these sectors grow, traditional working-class jobs continue to dwindle in number and pay. This creates a polarizing force inside cities. While social polarization is often discussed as an abstract macro-level phenomenon, even abstract forces must manifest in specific places. The gentrifying neighborhood is one such place. Inside gentrifying neighborhoods, residents must contend with new people amidst profound change. My research addresses this change. It seeks to better understand what holds modern communities together (or fails to) especially as the fates of residents diverge. Gentrification provides the social context for this research, but the focus is on a specific neighborhood-level institution: the local church. I use a religious institution as the primary mode for accessing the research site for several reasons. Religious institutions are uniquely positioned to directly address issues of community, identity, and morality. That is, at church, residents engage the issues I am exploring. They discuss how to treat outsiders, how to be a good neighborhood, and how to deal collectively with community problems. Moreover, few scholars have considered the role that churches play in neighborhood gentrification, despite the prominent role of churches in communities, and despite the overall attention that gentrification has received. In order to access the perspectives of both sets of residents—the long-term residents, and the gentrifying newcomers—this research examines two churches, each populated by a different neighborhood demographic. The first church is composed of younger residents who are gentrifying the neighborhood. The second church is composed of older residents who have spent most of their lives in the neighborhood. While the two churches are divided by age, the real divide is economic. That is, the younger residents belong to an educated and prosperous class that benefit from redevelopment. The older residents, in contrast, are working-class and mostly relegated to watch as their neighborhood transforms, sometimes making them feel like outsiders. The neighborhood that constitutes the research site is Fishtown, an “urban village” in Philadelphia, long known as a white working-class enclave with a reputation for insularity. This research explores how two churches, composed of separate sets of residents, sustain community and deal with conflict in a context of increasing polarization. I use thirty-two interviews, ethnographic observation, and analysis of documents (i.e., historical land use maps and newspapers) to understand the history of Fishtown, and the role of the two churches in affecting and contending with gentrification. The research shows the enduring power of race in attenuating class divisions within the neighborhood. Gentrification is often fraught with racial tension as the gentrifying class is often whiter and wealthier than the long-term residents of a neighborhood. In Fishtown, however, this dynamic is different. The long-term residents share the same predominantly white racial identity as the newcomers. I argue that the shared identity diffuses social tensions but raises difficult questions regarding the true nature of the growing cosmopolitanism of the former urban village. Ultimately, the division within the neighborhood partitions residents into two parallel communities. This partition includes the two churches, who remain divided, even as they engage their respective residents, marshal resources for the underprivileged, and participate in a shared faith tradition. I show how the laudable activities of each church are shaped by the economic currents that rapidly change the neighborhood.Sociolog

育児期の母親を読者とするファッション誌における家事・育児の価値観 -ギャルママはなにが異なるのか-

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現代日本社会における母親規範とその画一性に関する研究 -ギャルママのファッションと育児を事例に-

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バス交通施策を中心とした地方都市の交通体系適正化方策に関する研究

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Cross-sectional analysis of age-related changes in the fluctuation of bite size

It has been reported that individual adults generally take consistently sized bites when eating the same food, while children do not. The present cross-sectional analysis was performed on 60 children and 20 adults to ascertain the age-related changes in the fluctuation in bite size and in the number of chews per bite. The subjects comprised four age groups (5-, 8-, and 11-year-old children and adults), with each group consisting of 10 males and 10 females. The subjects were instructed to take a bite of each of four test foods (bread, sausage, apple and rice), and they were allowed to chew and swallow as usual. After each bite, the remaining food was weighed to calculate the bite size. The fluctuations in bite size and in the number of chews were analyzed using coefficients of variation. The fluctuations in both bite size and the number of chews decreased with age, so that the 11-year-olds showed almost the same values as adults. The present results suggested that the physiological functions related to recognizing and consuming foods mature during early adolescence, when almost al1 permanent teeth have erupted. The present findings also indicated that the fluctuation in bite size might be an indicator of the maturation of masticatory function in children.journal articl

母親の服装に関する行動の動機と実践 -ギャル系ファッションのギャルママを事例に-

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ECHOTIP: A structured protocol for ultrasound-based tip navigation and tip location during placement of central venous access devices in adult patients

Central venous access devices are routinely used in clinical practice for administration of fluids and medications, for drawing blood samples and for hemodynamic monitoring. The adoption of ultrasound guided venipuncture has significantly reduced procedure-related complications, as documented by the recommendations of most recent guidelines. Ultrasound has also an important role also in other aspects of central venous catheterization, such as in the pre-procedural evaluation of the venous patrimony and in the detection of early and late non-infective complications. Recently, bedside ultrasound has been regarded as a promising tool also for ensuring an accurate and intraprocedural method of tip navigation and tip location. The aim of this paper is to review all the evidence about the accuracy of ultrasound methods for tip navigation and tip location in adult patients, and to suggest a structured standardized protocol for clinical practice

Categorical Perception and Reading Skill: A Survey of Japanese Second Graders

Background: The relationship between reading ability and categorical judgment of speech sounds in children whose native language is Japanese is unclear. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the impact of categorical perception on the development of reading ability in children whose native language is Japanese. Methods: First, forty second-graders (F18, M22; 7y4m−8y4m) attending a public elementary school were tested for reading time and reading errors using the monomoraic syllable reading test, the word and non-word reading tests, and the single sentence reading test. Reading time scores and reading error scores which lay more than 1.5 times the interquartile range (IQR) higher than the third quartile were considered outliers. Next, 30 out of these 40 children were tested using the categorical perception task. A thirteen-step stimulus continuum from /ka/ to /ga/, made by changing voice onset time, was presented to the subjects with the steps in random order, and the subjects made judgments as to whether each stimulus sounded more like /ka/ or /ga/. Results: Reading time as assessed through all 4 tasks and reading errors as assessed through the non-word reading test and the single sentence reading test correlated weakly with the Categorical Perception Index (CPI), which indicated the stability of categorical judgment. In addition, the number of scores which were outliers also showed a weak correlation with CPI. Conclusion: These results suggest that categorical perception ability affects the development of reading ability in children whose native language is Japanese.departmental bulletin pape

A case of strumal carcinoid of the ovary which constipation has improved dramatically by tumor extraction

卵巣原発カルチノイドはまれな疾患で、本邦では全カルチノイドの1.3%程度である。一般的なカルチノイド症候群のように下痢などを呈さず、便秘を引き起こす場合があるのが特徴である。今回我々は卵巣甲状腺腫性カルチノイドのためと推測される長年にわたる便秘を合併し、腫瘍摘出後に軽快した症例を経験したので報告する。症例は45歳女性、数年前より便秘がちで、緩下剤を内服し排便は3日に1回程であった。内科の直腸診で腫瘤を指摘され当科初診した。MRIでダグラス窩に5cm大のT2WIで低信号を示す腫瘤を認め、右卵巣腫瘍、なかでも莢膜細胞腫が疑われた。経過観察期間中13cm大にまで増大したため、右付属器摘出術を施行した。病理組織学的検査で卵巣甲状腺腫性カルチノイドと診断した。術後速やかに便秘は改善し、毎日排便を認めるようになった。journal articl

協調的授業改善を支援するための動画共有システムＶＩＳＣＯの実践と評価に関する研究

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