scholarly journals The Theme of Friendship in Kambar’s Select Occasional Verses: A Critical Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Sheeba T ◽  
Praveen Sam D
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Analysis

In our everyday life, we come across many relationships. One of the most unique relationships is friendship which we encounter with different people in different situations of our lives. This paper discusses the friendship experienced by Kambar which he has expressed through his occasional verses. Friendship has been classified into five kinds based on the experiences of Kambar culled out from his occasional verses. The five kinds of friendship are (i) friendship based on gratitude, (ii) friendship based on caste to which he belongs, (iii) friendship based on his scholarliness, (iv)Friendship based on profit and (v) friendship based on love.

Women’s Bodies and the Evolution of Anti-rape Technologies: From the Hoop Skirt to the Smart Frock

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-54
Author(s):  
Caroline Wilson-Barnao ◽  
Alex Bevan ◽  
Robyn Lincoln
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Online Searches

In this article, we explore smart deterrents and their historical precedents marketed to women and girls for the purpose of preventing harassment, sexual abuse and violence. Rape deterrents, as we define them, encompass customs, architectures, fashions, surveillant infrastructures, apps and devices conceived to manage and protect the body. Online searches reveal an array of technologies, and we engage with their prevention narratives and cultural construction discourses of the gendered body. Our critical analysis places recent rape deterrents in conversation with earlier technologies to untangle the persistent logics. These are articulated with reference to the ways that proto-digital technologies have been imported into the realm of ubiquitous computing and networks. Our conceptual framework offers novel pathways for discussing feminine bodies and their messy navigation of everyday life that include both threats to corporeal safety and collective imaginings of empowerment.

The Public Perception of Science and Technology in a Periphery Society: A Critical Analysis from a Quantitative Perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Silvio Vaccarezza
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
The Public ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Level Of Understanding

In this article a series of variables referred to the general public's valuations of science and technology are analysed. These valuations refer to different dimensions of science and technology—as a utility of scientific knowledge, their legitimacy, their bond with the cultural matrix of everyday life. The analysis is based on information from a survey carried out in a great urban conglomerate of a little scientific developing country, Argentina. We see that valuation variables discriminate the public according to their positive or negative responses about science, but that there is no evident association between them. We consider one variable in particular dividing the public into those who are ‘trustful’ and those who are ‘cautious’ regarding the advances of science, and we see how it is related to other significations of valuation. The pre-eminence of positions of ambivalence or contradiction in the population's perception regarding this topic is discussed. A factor analysis is presented that comprises these variables and that presents a set of ‘valuation orientations’ towards science as a result. Finally, it is interesting to see how education and the level of understanding of scientific knowledge affect the public's valuation, which questions the basic supposition of the tradition of public understanding studies.

Critical Utopian Action Research: Methodological Inspiration for Democratization?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Jonas Egmose ◽  
Janne Gleerup ◽  
Birger S. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Imaginative Thinking

This paper provides an introduction to Critical Utopian Action Research (CUAR) as a methodology with a strong emphasis on combining critical analysis, imaginative thinking, and everyday life-based actions toward societal democratization. First, we situate CUAR in the light of current societal frameworks asking: Why the need for CUAR? We then briefly mark theoretical sources of inspiration before focusing on the Future Creating Workshop as a way to elicit what CUAR is from a methodological point of view. We exemplify how the workshop functions before we finally discuss what kind of contributions CUAR might enable in the context of local communities, workplaces, organizations, and broader societal settings.

Concealing the urban dominant: The socio-spatial dialectic and urban protest in Gonzalo Torrente Ballester’s La saga/fuga de J.B.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Michael L. Martínez, Jr
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Critical Pathway ◽  
Urban Protest ◽  
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

In the post-Fordist world, cities emerged as increasingly contested terrains upon which capital and ordinary citizens struggled to control the urban process. Henri Lefebvre discerned this contestatory dynamic early on and in response developed the ‘urban’, a concept that cleaves a critical pathway towards a host of material, cultural and ideological processes that attach to capitalist modernity. Around the same time, the Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was working to sketch the contours of his magnus opus La saga/fuga de J.B. Torrente would eventually come to recognize the roles that the urban process and the socio-spatial dialectic play in mediating contemporary urban life. The present article thus carries out first a close reading of Torrente’s personal journals to detail the ascendency of the ‘urban dominant’ as a central structuring component of his fictional writings. Thereafter, the critical analysis of La saga/fuga de J.B. will reveal that the ‘urban dominant’ stands concealed at the heart of this notoriously complicated novel. This urban cultural studies reading of La saga/fuga de J.B. will argue that, like Lefebvre, Torrente denounces capital’s static conception of space at the same time that he draws upon historical movements of urban protest for textual inspiration. And what will eventually emerge is that, beyond a master of the metafictional novel, Torrente was also an astute observer of everyday life in the urban context.

scholarly journals Problematical Character of Sense. From M. Weber to A. Schutz. Part II. Experience and Daily Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Victor I. Molchanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Homogeneous Field ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Phenomenological Sociology

The second part of the article discusses the criticism at M. Weber’s methodology by A. Schutz and the philosophical premises of the phenomenological sociology of Schutz. A distinction between the meaningfulness of actions and the meaningfulness of experiences is considered as a distinction between the initial problems of Weber and Schutz. Along with the well-known influence on Schutz of Husserl’s phenomenology, the influence of Heidegger and W. James on him is revealed. The concept of everyday life in Schutz as a homogeneous field of highest reality and the primary experience of “fundamental anxiety” is subjected to critical analysis. The possibility of using the word “sense” (Sinn) or “meaning” as a philosophical and sociological term is called into question.

scholarly journals Recognizing Second-Hand Phenomenon

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Prijana Prijana
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Authority ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Learning From Others

The purpose of the study is to convey knowledge about the phenomenon of second-handdalam everyday life, at home, at work, at school, and in social environments residence. The method used is a critical analysis about human social activity. The results of the study showed that human knowledge is actually obtained through two (2) ways, namely, first, from his own experience; second, obtained from others. Both of these sources affect each other and compete with each other in the individual. The lack of stock in the individual ideas leads to learning from others to get to know the world. This phenomenon is called the phenomenon of second-hand, people recognize the world of others, rather than themselves. Conclusion: the knowledge of the world from what they see in their daily lives and from what they told others. Although one is never counted them, just that they think know what they are talking about, this is by Patrick Wilson named as cognitive authority.

scholarly journals Contextualização Histórico-Filosófica de Orbitais Atômicos e Moleculares

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Cássia Ferreira Coutinho Pereira ◽  
Alexandre Braga Da Rocha ◽  
Priscila Tamiasso-Martinhon ◽  
Angela Sanches Rocha ◽  
Célia Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Chemical Bonding ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Chemical Bonds ◽  
Atoms And Molecules ◽  
De Se ◽  
History Of ◽  
Practical Implications

ResumoA compreensão do conceito de orbitais em átomos e moléculas é de grande importância para o aprendizado de química, principalmente no que concerne ao entendimento de ligações químicas, tipos de estruturas e propriedades de substâncias. Além disso, pode-se dizer que, de forma geral, estes conceitos embasam discussões qualitativas da área, o que ratifica a importância de se dominá-los. Nesta perspectiva, o presente trabalho, além de avaliar as implicações práticas dessa temática no cotidiano discente, desenvolve uma análise crítica das teorias utilizadas para descrever e ensinar orbitais. Explicitando e discutindo não apenas as suas mais relevantes teorias, mas também os autores por trás delas, o contexto histórico em que foram criadas e como este contexto afetou seu desenvolvimento, este trabalho busca apresentar uma visão mais abrangente dos conceitos de orbitais atômicos e moleculares. Palavras-chave: Orbitais; Ligação Química; História da Ciência.AbstractThe comprehension of the concept of orbitals in atoms and molecules has great importance to the learning of chemistry, especially in what concerns the understanding of chemical bonds, structure types and properties of substances. Besides, it can be said that, in general, these concepts are grounds for qualitative discussions in the field, which ratify the importance of mastering them. Under this perspective, the present work, in addition to evaluating the practical implications of this thematic in everyday life, performs a critical analysis of theories used to describe and teach orbitals. By explaining and discussing not only their most relevant theories but also the authors behind them, the historical context in which they were proposed and how that context affected their development, this work seeks to present a more comprehensive view of the concepts of orbitals in atoms and molecules.Keywords: Orbitals; Chemical Bonding; History of Science.

scholarly journals Genetic Sources of the Worldview Determinants of Nonviolent Cultural Practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Valentyna Sudakova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Social Management

The article presents сonceptual analysis of genetic sources of the worldview determinants of non-violent cultural practices of the nonviolence by assessing the achievements of the ancient Chinese and Indian philosophical and religious systems having offered, developed and implemented the idea of nonviolence. The author draws attention to the importance of studying the nonviolence phenomena, its epistemological and ontological characteristics and to the difficulties of the correct theoretical interpretation of the ‘nonviolence’ concept in contemporary sociocultural knowledge. The article proves that only the culturological approach is the most effective cognitive instrument for identification in the historical perspective the achievements of traditional cultures in the forms of worldviews, ideas and recipes for the non-violent organization of everyday life and social management. It overviews the problematics of genetic sources, ideological conditions and traditional non-violent practices. The author proposed the critical analysis of the basic worldview communicative principles for non–violent human coexistence. The author researches shortcomings of the Eastern version of the non-violent worldview, the reasons of the dubious achievements of this worldview in European culture; yet proving that in the Western societies the tolerance phenomena as the principle of freedom of religious belief and of human behaviour is the modified manifestation of nonviolence.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

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