{"id":45310,"date":"2010-09-10T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/10\/having-a-personal-opinion-not-accepted-in-armenia-sociology-expert\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T05:21:00","slug":"having-a-personal-opinion-not-accepted-in-armenia-sociology-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/10\/having-a-personal-opinion-not-accepted-in-armenia-sociology-expert.html","title":{"rendered":"Having a Personal Opinion Not Accepted in Armenia: Sociology Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Two main fears are manifested by the Armenian public: one, the fear of tomorrow, in which not only is one not convinced whether he&#8217;ll live to see tomorrow or not, but also he&#8217;s afraid to even think about it and to plan anything; second, the fear of activity, when one avoids manifesting himself (his abilities and so on) in any way. This statement was made by lecturer with Yerevan State University&#8217;s Faculty of Sociology Anna Voskanyan, while speaking to journalists today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;Today, we&#8217;re afraid of the most important, to have dignity and to establish our right,&#8221; she said, noting that this is known as &#8220;acquired inhibition.&#8221; Voskanyan considers such phenomena destructive for society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The sociology expert considered the public&#8217;s not actively participating in demonstrations or not resolving sonorous problems to be apathy. &#8220;When human values change, people don&#8217;t know what to go after,&#8221; she said, adding that it&#8217;s not necessary for one to participate in a rally, it&#8217;s sufficient to have a personal opinion at least.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">According to Voskanyan, those who&#8217;ve gone to Europe begin to freely express their opinions, but those who have been living in Armenia for a long time, their opinions are &#8220;extinguishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;Perhaps it&#8217;s not even accepted here [in Armenia] to have a personal opinion,&#8221; concluded Voskanyan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">More so, she said, in Armenia, it&#8217;s easier to assist women than men because the latter are more closed off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;For example, if [in a given Armenian family] the father has a phobia that extends to causing psychological problems, the entire family suffers. The whole family comes to receive assistance [treatment], except for that person who is the main cause of the issue,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two main fears are manifested by the Armenian public: one, the fear of tomorrow, in which not only is one not convinced whether he&#8217;ll live to see tomorrow or not, but also he&#8217;s afraid to even think about it and to plan anything; second, the fear of activity, when one avoids manifesting himself (his abilities &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[15362,15360,15370,15361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}