Sociology and Anthropology
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2024-03-29T07:42:23ZHOW FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN KAZAKHSTAN EXPRESS THEIR FEMINIST IDENTITY IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL CONTEXTS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY BASED ON STUDENTS AT NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY
http://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/7335
HOW FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN KAZAKHSTAN EXPRESS THEIR FEMINIST IDENTITY IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL CONTEXTS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY BASED ON STUDENTS AT NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY
Armsan, Rebekka
This research project examines the experiences which young women who study at Nazarbayev University (NU) and identify themselves as feminists encountered in different social contexts in Kazakhstan (unfamiliar/familial/university contexts), what they link their experiences to and what specific situations they have been in because of their feminist identity expression. Comparison of the experiences of female university students in familiar and new and unfamiliar social contexts provides insights into the ways in which feminist identity is negotiated and adapted in different settings, how and under which circumstances feminist identity of Kazakhstani women is revealed and concealed. To understand more about feminist identities in various social contexts the Identity Salience Theory will be applied to explain some of the processes related to revealing/concealing feminist identity.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZBARRIERS IN WOMEN'S CAREER PROGRESSION IN KAZAKHSTAN: THE EXPERIENCE OF WOMEN IN UPPER MANAGEMENT.
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BARRIERS IN WOMEN'S CAREER PROGRESSION IN KAZAKHSTAN: THE EXPERIENCE OF WOMEN IN UPPER MANAGEMENT.
Omirkhanova, Akbota
This study investigates the barriers that prevent women from progressing to upper management echelons in the workplaces in Kazakhstan. Using the qualitative method, namely semi-structured interviews, with six female top and upper managers in middle to large-sized companies, the paper examines the types of obstacles that they have faced in their career paths and ways they used to overcome them. The respondents were recruited through purposive and snowball sampling methods, while interviews longed for 30-60 minutes. The research found that they have experienced prevention from continuing education, subtle forms of discrimination in workplaces, and biased behaviour of colleagues. The study also identified that family-friendly practices such as remote work and flexible schedule conditions were effective in assisting women balance their job responsibilities and parenting. Moreover, the study found that women have to adopt social norms of behaviour for men such as assertiveness in order to see a progress in their careers. In general, the study points to the necessity to put greater attention to the obstacles in the career paths of women, and creates a vector for studying this issue further for other scholars.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZWOMEN IN MALE-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES IN NUR-SULTAN: POLICEWOMEN AND FEMALE MANUAL WORKERS AUTONOMY, DIFFICULTIES, AND WORK CULTURE
http://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/6385
WOMEN IN MALE-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES IN NUR-SULTAN: POLICEWOMEN AND FEMALE MANUAL WORKERS AUTONOMY, DIFFICULTIES, AND WORK CULTURE
Kalikhbayev, Nurislam; Bissenova, Alima; Medeuov, Darkhan
People spend a considerable part of their life devoted to work. It is the gender, one of the
dimensions, that shapes the access to a specific profession and determines how others may
perceive you. For centuries society’s prescription on what work to go or what women should do
are constrained by discrimination. This notion of what is accessible to women must be differing
in various cultural settings. Kazakhstan is considered a post-Soviet country, such dominant
cultural ideology left a trace of structure on work dynamics: in the families, gender roles division
suggests the man’s role be a breadwinner, while women’s activity, though usually working,
prescribed to spend considerable time on house choruses. Still, this stereotypical gender division
has a heavy impact on the choice of work. Because when we look up at the gender composition
of a group who does this work, we may label it as feminine or masculine work – depending on
the prevalence of men or women. This labeling accompanies giving symbolic associations such
as power and prestige associated with a particular activity. Following that, normalizing it to be
men's or women’s work sets the norm for who can enter the job industry, which after that we
may think “this job is done only by men/women” (Gherardi 1994 cited in Johansson, Asztalos
Morell, and Lindell 2020: 4).
2022-05-07T00:00:00ZAPPRAISING DISCREPANCIES AND SIMILARITIES IN SEMANTIC NETWORKS USING CONCEPT-CENTERED SUBNETWORKS
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APPRAISING DISCREPANCIES AND SIMILARITIES IN SEMANTIC NETWORKS USING CONCEPT-CENTERED SUBNETWORKS
Medeuov, Darkhan; Roth, Camille; Puzyreva, Kseniia; Basov, Nikita
This article proposes an approach to compare semantic networks using conceptcentered sub-networks. A concept-centered sub-network is defned as an induced
network whose vertex set consists of the given concept (ego) and all its adjacent
concepts (alters) and whose link set consists of all the links between the ego and
alters (including alter-alter links). By looking at the vertex and link overlap indices of
concept-centered networks we infer semantic similarity of the underlying concepts.
We cross-evaluate the semantic similarity by close-reading textual contexts from which
networks are derived. We illustrate the approach on written and interview texts from an
ethnographic study of food management practice in England.
2021-09-03T00:00:00ZHIGH MITOCHONDRIAL DIVERSITY OF DOMESTICATED GOATS PERSISTED AMONG BRONZE AND IRON AGE PASTORALISTS IN THE INNER ASIAN MOUNTAIN CORRIDOR
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HIGH MITOCHONDRIAL DIVERSITY OF DOMESTICATED GOATS PERSISTED AMONG BRONZE AND IRON AGE PASTORALISTS IN THE INNER ASIAN MOUNTAIN CORRIDOR
Hermes, Taylor R.; Frachetti, Michael D.; Voyakin, Dmitriy; Yerlomaeva, Antonina S.; Beisenov, Arman Z.; Doumani Dupuy, Paula N.; Papin, Dmitry V.; Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite; Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav; Houle, Jean-Luc; Tishkin, Alexey A.; Nebel, Almut; Krause-Kyora, Ben; Makarewicz, Cheryl A.
Goats were initially managed in the Near East approximately 10,000 years ago and spread across Eurasia as economically productive and environmentally resilient herd animals. While the geographic origins of domesticated goats (Capra hircus) in the Near East have been long-established in the zooarchaeological record and, more recently, further revealed in ancient genomes, the precise pathways by which goats spread across Asia during the early Bronze Age (ca. 3000 to 2500 cal BC) and later remain unclear. We analyzed sequences of hypervariable region 1 and cytochrome b gene in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of goats from archaeological sites along two proposed transmission pathways as well as geographically intermediary sites. Unexpectedly high genetic diversity was present in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC), indicated by mtDNA haplotypes representing common A lineages and rarer C and D lineages. High mtDNA diversity was also present in central Kazakhstan, while only mtDNA haplotypes of lineage A were observed from sites in the Northern Eurasian Steppe (NES). These findings suggest that herding communities living in montane ecosystems were drawing from genetically diverse goat populations, likely sourced from communities in the Iranian Plateau, that were sustained by repeated interaction and exchange. Notably, the mitochondrial genetic diversity associated with goats of the IAMC also extended into the semi-arid region of central Kazakhstan, while NES communities had goats reflecting an isolated founder population, possibly sourced via eastern Europe or the Caucasus region.
2020-05-21T00:00:00ZSHIFTING SEAS, SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: DYNAMIC MARINE PROTECTED AREA DESIGNS FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE
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SHIFTING SEAS, SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: DYNAMIC MARINE PROTECTED AREA DESIGNS FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE
Cashion, Tim; Nguyen, Tu; Brink, Talya ten; ten Brink, Talya; Mook, Anne; Palacios-Abrantes, Juliano; Roberts, Sarah M.
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are valuable tools for marine conservation that aim to limit human impacts on marine systems and protect valuable species or habitats. However, as species distributions shift due to ocean warming, acidification, and oxygen depletion from climate change, the areas originally designated under MPAs may bear little resemblance to their past state. Different approaches have been suggested for coping with species on the move in conservation. Here, we test the effectiveness of different MPA designs, including dynamic, network, and different directional orientations on protecting shifting species under climate change through ecosystem modeling in a theoretical ecosystem. Our findings suggest that dynamic MPAs may benefit some species (e.g., whiting and anchovy) and fishing fleets, and these benefits can inform the design or adaptation of MPAs worldwide. In addition, we find that it is important to design MPAs with specific goals and to account for the effects of released fishing pressure and species interactions in MPA design.
2020-11-10T00:00:00Z