Getting Away with Sleep--Social and Cultural Aspects of Dozing in Parliament

Steger, Brigitte

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“…In a very different context, Paul Riesman () demonstrated how differential access to foodstuffs based on a history of inequities between the FulBe and RiimaayBe in West Africa led to differing values associated with the sensations of the digestive process and defecation, which in turn reinforced ideas about diet, health, and community. In contemporary Japan, daily experiences of exhaustion have normalized sleeping in public for students, workers, and politicians, simultaneously reinforcing expectations of work and school demands and the physiological experiences they produce, like exhaustion (Steger ).…”

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“Human Nature” and the Biology of Everyday Life

Wolf-Meyer

2019

American Anthropologist

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Anthropologists are well poised to contribute to an immanent theory of human physiological experiences that accounts for the broad social and environmental influences that shape individual and community experiences of health and disease. This article forwards a theory of "the biology of everyday life" as a means to conceptualize the interactions between institutional expectations of behavior, cultural norms, and biological plasticity.Drawing on a wide variety of research on human sleep, this article shows how the expression of sleep needs vary within and between societies and are shaped primarily not by innate biological drives but cultural norms embedded in the institutions that comprise the infrastructure of everyday life. Embracing perspectives from laboratory scientists, social theorists, and ethnographers, the biology of everyday life offers a way to conceptualize human nature not as a set of drives but a supple interaction of physiological plasticity, cultural expectations, and social organization.[plasticity, social determinants of disease, epigenetics, sleep] RESUMEN Los antropólogos están bien posicionados para contribuir a una inmanente teoría de la fisiología humana que tiene en cuenta las amplias influencias sociales y ambientales que modelan las experiencias individuales y comunitarias de salud y enfermedad. Este artículo avanza una teoría de la biología de la vida cotidiana como un medio de conceptualizar las interacciones entre expectativas institucionales de comportamiento, normas culturales, y plasticidad biológica. Basado en una amplia variedad de investigaciones sobre el sueño humano, este artículo muestra cómo la expresión del sueño necesita variar dentro y entre sociedades y está modelado primariamente no por impulsos biológicos innatos sino por normas culturales embebidas en las instituciones que comprenden la infraestructura de la vida cotidiana. Acogiendo perspectivas de científicos de laboratorio, teóricos sociales, y etnógrafos, la biología de la cotidianeidad ofrece una manera de conceptualizar la naturaleza humana no como un juego de impulsos sino como una interacción flexible de plasticidad fisiológica, expectativas culturales, y organización social. [plasticidad, sueño, biología local, capitalismo industrial, biología como ideología] FROM BODY TECHNIQUES TO BIOLOGY AS IDEOLOGYI n 1935, Marcel Mauss proposed a rubric for anthropology, "The Notion of Body Techniques" (1979), in which he suggested that anthropologists focus on basic biological processes and how they differ in their expression between societies and over time as a means to understand how "culture" shapes human physiology. For Mauss, how people go about conducting themselves in the world, whether it be

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Section: From Body Techniques To Biology As Ideologymentioning

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“Human Nature” and the Biology of Everyday Life

Wolf-Meyer

2019

American Anthropologist

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“…Japanese graduate students may follow a similar lifestyle and sleep pattern as well 4 . In addition, sleeping in situations not usually meant for sleep (work, lectures, social events) is socially accepted in Japan ( inemuri ) 5 . As a result, sleepy graduate students sleep wherever and whenever they can (laboratory, library and lectures) as they know it is largely tolerated.…”

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“…4 In addition, sleeping in situations not usually meant for sleep (work, lectures, social events) is socially accepted in Japan (inemuri). 5 As a result, sleepy graduate students sleep wherever and whenever they can (laboratory, library and lectures) as they know it is largely tolerated. Japanese graduate students also ignore their own sleep problems (only one out of every 10 students with sleep difficulties looked for any kind of professional help) although they did report the negative health consequences of their sleep problems (fatigue, health problems, university absenteeism and accidents at university).…”

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The quality of sleep and factors associated with poor sleep in Japanese graduate students

Pallos¹,

Gergely

Yamada

et al. 2007

Sleep Biol Rhythms

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We conducted a cross-sectional mail questionnaire survey at 31 graduate schools on 12 university campuses in Kyoto, Japan to assess the sleep quality of the graduate students and to describe the factors associated with their poor sleep quality. A total of 241 responses were returned (44%) and we analyzed the data of 219 graduate students (158 men and 61 women, aged 22-39 years). The participants completed the self-reported Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) questionnaire, together with socio-demographic, psychological and lifestyle related questions. Using the conservative cut-off score of 6 for the PSQI global score, 25.6% of students (27.7% of the men and 20% of the women, without significant difference) were described as poor sleepers. A multiple logistic regression model revealed that poor sleep had a significant association with self-perceived bad health (OR = 3.72, 95% CI = 1.85-7.49, P = 0.0002) and with smoking (OR = 3.56, 95% CI = 1.62-7.84, P = 0.0016). As students often ignore their own sleep problems, sleep hygiene counseling with a holistic approach should be available at universities to raise students' awareness about the possible associations between their unhealthy lifestyles and their sleep problems.

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“…Yet, as one may experience on an everyday basis, almost one-third of human activity resides in sleep. Recent social phenomena have presented various aspects to reconsider the act of sleeping: ideas of sleep management in contemporary society (Williams et al 2012: 1), promotion of workplace naps in Western countries (Williams et al 2012: 3-4), continued tolerance to public sleep, called inemuri in Japan (Steger 2003), and co-sleeping businesses that have of late emerged in the Tokyo area (Asahi Shinbun 2013). Moreover, recent medical developments pose an urgent necessity to reconsider modes of communication with absent existence (absence of awakened consciousness) in sleeping, coma, or in the case of brain death.…”

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Co-sleeping: engaging with the commodified dozing body in Kawabata, Yoshimoto, and Yamazaki

Innami

2015

Contemporary Japan

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Getting Away with Sleep--Social and Cultural Aspects of Dozing in Parliament

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

“Human Nature” and the Biology of Everyday Life

“Human Nature” and the Biology of Everyday Life

The quality of sleep and factors associated with poor sleep in Japanese graduate students

Co-sleeping: engaging with the commodified dozing body in Kawabata, Yoshimoto, and Yamazaki

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