Social pressure for religious conformity and anti-gay sentiment among Muslim and Christian youth

Abstract

Research on civic education, for the most part, investigates the alleged outcomes of deliberate civic education programs. Remarkably, few types of research have investigated how the outcomes of group process (e.g. based on religion) in schools, and more specifically, the pressure to conform to in-group norms, relate to civic educational goals (e.g. promoting tolerance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender people). Against that background, this paper has two objectives. First, we assess social variation in perceived social pressure for religious conformity among Christian and Muslim Youth enrolled in secondary education in Flanders (N?=?2765). Second, we investigate the relationship between perceived social pressure for religious conformity and anti-gay sentiment. Our analyses are guided by social identity theory and rely on multilevel analysis. We find that for both Christian and Muslim youth, anti-gay sentiment is higher among young people who experience higher social pressure through the perceived expectations from talking with significant others about religion.     

晚明男风存在境况考略

晚明男妓现象是由"南风"好尚引起,经由朝廷政策的推波助澜,在发达的商品经济刺激下,而逐渐形成的一种性交易服务。以小唱、小官与契儿为主体的男妓,靠出卖色相而获得官员大夫、富贾仕商、市民百姓等服务对象的相应报酬。由于历史文化、社会习俗、民间认同等原因,男妓的生存境况远比女娼更为艰难。     

网媒对体育界“同性恋”的报道研究——基于新浪网体育频道十年报道的内容分析

对新浪网体育频道十年间＂同性恋＂为关键词的报道量、报道内容倾向、报道的话语态度进行分析。通过对252篇有效样本的分析,试了解不同运动项目以及运动员产生＂同性恋＂现象的原因;以291篇有效样本对新浪网体育频道＂同性恋＂报道的内容进行分析,观察内容倾向和话语态度对边缘群体影响的变化趋势。旨在引导公众、媒体正确认识＂同性恋＂现象,以接纳、包容和尊重的态度对待社会边缘群体、共创多元和谐的体育社会环境。     

北朝性爱观念开放论析

性爱是人类社会生活的重要内容。北朝时期的性爱观念是开放的,多妻、再婚、婚外性爱、同性恋等现象的大量存在即是证明。北朝时期开放的性爱观念对人性的张扬解放、社会的发展演进均具有进步意义。     

Learning that ‘gay is okay’: educators and boys re/constituting heteronormativity through sexual health

In this paper, I draw on observations from sexual health workshops in an elementary school classroom in Vancouver, Canada and friendship pair interviews with four boys who attended the workshops. I examine how the educators organising the workshops constructed sexual health, highlighting their reliance on both a ‘gay is okay’ and a scientific discourse. I argue that by locating their discussion of homosexuality within a values framework and striving to depict gay relationships as acceptable, they simultaneously constituted homosexuality as requiring acceptance. Likewise, by subsuming references to heterosexuality within their lesson on (hetero)sexual reproduction, they framed heterosexuality as an always already accepted scientific fact. Having set the scene in this way, I then explore the ways the boys both took up and deviated from these discourses when constructing their own narratives.     

Bureaucratic constructions of sexual diversity: ‘sensitive’, ‘controversial’ and silencing

National research illustrates the high degree of discrimination that prevails against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students resulting in diminished educational outcomes, both academic and social. This phenomenon is influenced by the prevalence of whole-school silences around LGBTQ topics in many Australian schools. This paper presents an analysis of the New South Wales (NSW) homophobia in schools policy, as well as both NSW state and Australian federal curriculum and syllabus documents in the health and physical education key learning area. This analysis illustrates how contradictory framing and messages; silences and omission; and various discursive constructions of the LGBTQ subject together produce silencing technologies that have critical implications for the implementation of education, both in this key learning area and across the schooling sector.     

Queer breeding: historicising popular culture,homosexuality and informal sex education

Through an analysis of gay protest music (1975) and an educational kit for students (1978), both sponsored by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality in the UK, this paper brings into focus a history of gay rights activists' efforts to marshal popular culture in the development of informal sex education for young people in the second half of the 1970s. Through a reparative critique of prevailing therapeutic research methodologies, and through a theoretical deployment of notions of methodological reconciliation and queer breeding, it makes the case for the importance of historical methods in contemporary sex education research.     

人类同性恋现象的哲学思考

同性恋现象的产生有生理原因,有社会原因。同性恋是人类在性别问题上的＂异化＂,是人类生理病态或社会心理病态。同性恋现象不符合以保证人类繁衍方式为核心的伦理规则。所谓同性婚姻,不是＂婚姻＂,是与婚姻风马牛不相及的两个不同概念,它只是两个人之间的一种同居关系而已。因此,同性恋者有同居的权利,但是没有以婚姻的名义要求社会像对待异性结婚者一样为他们的同居公证财产和其他事务的权利。社会没有权力强行干涉同性恋,但是绝不能支持同性恋现象,必须采取措施降低同性恋现象的发生率,这才是正确的态度。     

“The Homosexual” as Problem Patron

Summary

Libraries host a range of human activity, some of which is overtly and unabashedly sexual. What's a librarian to do about public displays of affection? Cruising? Public sex? First, naturally, we read up on the issue. Unfortunately, problem patron library literature is spotted with vivid illustrations of irrational bias against gay men, male-to-female transgender women, and men-cruising-men. It also discounts the private nature of most consensual sex in public places. This article discusses sex and gender biases in library literature, arguing that gender equitable, privacy-respecting practices will better serve librarians administering public space.     

“她时代”的信号——从5W传播理论看网络耽美文化的传播

在我国,耽美文化的生存与发展是依附于网络平台的,属于一种网络亚文化。它是女性通过观看唯美的男同性恋题材作品,从而满足自己对理想两性关系的期待,其背后反映的是现代女性的诉求。以5W传播理论为框架,对耽美文化的生产者、消费者、传播渠道、传播内容以及传播影响作出详细分析,可以发现其背后隐藏的女性诉求以及青少年的性健康问题。