Appraising the Role of the Individual in Political and Social Change Processes: Jung, Camus, and the Question of Personal Responsibility-Possibilities and Impossibilities of “Making a Difference”

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Andrew Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
The Individual

Counselling Psychology and Under-Represented Groups: A Vision for Advocacy as Mutual Transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 678-684
Author(s):  
Janelle L. Kwee
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Mutual Transformation ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Effective Advocacy ◽  
Counselling Psychology

The discipline of counselling psychology in Canada has aligned consistently with social justice principles. Consistent with this, a working group at the 2018 Canadian Counselling Psychology Conference was assigned to consider the role of Canadian counselling psychology in advocating for the needs of members of under-represented groups. This brief report captures insights from the working group and focuses on two primary themes: a critical reformulation of advocacy as mutual transformation for personal and social change and a need to engage with change processes at multiple levels. The group conceptualized effective advocacy as recentring historically marginalized perspectives while decentring “expert” roles and traditionally dominant perspectives.

Appreciating the Role of the “Individual Mind” in Diversity Science: Commonality, Harmony, and Social Change

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Dovidio ◽  
Tamar Saguy ◽  
Samuel L. Gaertner
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Individual

Social Expectations in the Criminal Law: The "Reasonable Person" in a Comparative Perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Höörnle
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Reasonable Person ◽  
The Individual

The "reasonable person" plays an important role in English and American criminal law, but not in German criminal law. The comparative view yields a number of differences (for example, with respect to negligent crimes, errors about justifying circumstances, and excuses like duress). Besides analyzing such differences, the article examines the legitimate role of social expectations in criminal law (which stand behind references to the "reasonable person") beyond the details of different legal systems. It concludes that one must distinguish judgments about wrongdoing from judgments about personal responsibility. The former are shaped by social expectations, while personal responsibility needs to be evaluated with a view to the individual offender.

Sustainability in Community

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Whitney Sanford
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Intentional Communities ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Nonviolent Communication ◽  
The Individual

This chapter explores the role of participatory democracy in sustainability-oriented intentional communities. These communities share goals of social equity and nonviolence and have created a variety of governance structures and practices to enfranchise all residents, ranging from consensus to sociocracy, incorporating nonviolent communication and restorative justice circles. Residents echo Gandhi’s assertion that inner change must precede social change, and communities such as the Possibility Alliance stress integral nonviolence, that nonviolence must permeate all aspects of life. Intentional communities demonstrate multiple patterns for interweaving lives, resolving tensions, and creating balance between their obligations to communities and maintaining integrity of the individual.

Presidential Address

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
German Unification ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The Individual

It is well known that human development is influenced by social change. In particular, as evidenced by research on German unification, the rapid change of social institutions can impact on various aspects of behaviour and development. Based on my own research experience in this field, I want to show the necessity for a better interdisciplinary collaboration, for more comparative research across divergent manifestations of social change, and for a strong orientation towards application. The address begins with a record of unwarranted assertions about the consequences of German unification. Following that, I discuss the role played by the change of social institutions in the timing of important psychosocial transitions during adolescence and young adulthood. Next, I present a conceptual model that informed our research on self-efficacy as a resource in mastering the new challenges. I conclude with suggestions concerning the development of interventions aimed at increasing people’s capabilities to capitalise on opportunities provided by profound change in social institutions. At each step, such research needs to be supported by comprehensive models of the interplay between context and the individual. I also underscore the role of ISSBD as a potential broker for new efforts in research and application in this regard.

scholarly journals TAREKAT QADIRIYAH WA NAQSABANDIYAH TERHADAP KESALEHAN SOSIAL MASYARAKAT DUSUN GEMUTRI SUKOHARJO SLEMAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Siswoyo Aris Munandar ◽  
Sigit Susanto ◽  
Wahyu Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Individual

This study was based on a case study on   the era challenges that began to erode  spiritual and social aspects of the society. Sufism through thariqah offers an increase in morality /ethics. Thariqah was  believed as one of  media for social change in boosting morality / ethics. The main reason that thariqah as one of media for social change was that thariqah taught the improvement and burdened of individual morals. The research questions were: (1)  what is the role of Qadiriyah and Naqsabandiyah thariqahs in people’s spiritual life? (2) what is the role of Qadiriyah and Naqsabandiyah thariqahs in maintaining the people’s social religiosity? The study used field research, namely by digging field data and observing directly. The purpose of this study was to describe the role of Qadiriyah and Naqsabandiyah Thariqah on the people’s social religiosity of Gemutri villagers. The findings revealed that the role of thariqah was to promote  spirituality, and to teach  noble morals. Increasing spirituality and moral teaching made Gemutri residents as individuals who love each other, do good deeds, be fair, maintain brotherhood, uphold the truth, and help each other. The individual character, according to Abdul Azhim, was the realm of social religiosity.

scholarly journals Artistic Perception of Leo Tolstoy’s Conception in V. P. Aksyonov’s Trilogy Generations of Winter: On the Question of the Individual in History

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-163
Author(s):  
Nina A. Efimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Historical View ◽  
Swarm Behavior ◽  
General Mass ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Masses

This article investigates V. P. Aksyonov’s argument with L. N. Tolstoy about the role of personality in history in his trilogy Generations of Winter. The saga protagonists’ spiritual awakening and self-identification are discussed in the context of Tolstoy’s view on the activity of the general mass of people who take part in a historical event and determine its outcome. This allows to elicit Aksyonov’s view on man’s personal responsibility under Stalinism. The main sources of this paper are Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Aksyonov’s Generations of Winter. Its purpose is to explain Aksyonov’s artistic conceptualization of the role of the masses and the individual under the Stalinist regime and in the Great Patriotic War. The major results of the research have been achieved by comparing the artistic devices employed by Tolstoy in fracturing the myth of Napoleon’s genius as leader of the general mass with Aksyonov’s approach in satirical portrayal of Stalin. The article explores Aksyonov’s contribution to the literary tradition of the grotesque, his utilization of the functions of the body “bottom” and of Russian popular demonic motifs in the depiction of Stalin. The paper’s author utilizes a comparative hermeneutical analysis and concludes that Aksyonov’s metaphor of “Stalinist hypnosis” is the writerly equivalent of Tolstoy’s conception of “swarm behavior”, and that Aksyonov’s argument with Tolstoy’s negation of the role of the individual in history is a postmodern playful ironic device, a means for his conceptualization and revision of Leo Tolstoy’s philosophic-historical view for the twentieth century.

scholarly journals ComDev in the Mediatized World

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (Special-Issue) ◽  
pp. 229-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Hemer ◽  
Thomas Tufte
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Communication For Development ◽  
The One ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Media And Communication

Abstract In late 2011 we are in the beginning of a revolution that may or may not turn out to be more far-reaching than the one unleashed in 1989. A common denominator in this resurging revolution is the mobilizing power of the so-called social media. Even if labels such as the Twitter or Facebook revolution are rightfully refuted, the on-going Arab Spring is a clear-cut example of an unprecedented communication power, largely out of the authorities’ control. While the crucial role of media and communication in processes of social change at last becomes evident, it is however not associated with the field of communication for development and social change. While that field historically has been about developing prescriptive recipes of communication for some development, it is time attention is refocused to the deliberative, non-institutional change processes that are emerging from a citizens’ profound and often desperate reaction to the global now.

scholarly journals The genesis of the “Homo responsibility”

2020 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 05018
Author(s):  
Tatyana Kruzhkova ◽  
Olga Rushitskaya ◽  
Ekaterina Kot ◽  
Elena Szczepaniak
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Social Creativity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Responsible Person

The article reveals the essence of the concept of “responsible person” and the problem of its пenesis. Different theoretical and methodological approaches to its definition are shown. The phenomenon of social responsibility is considered as the basis of productive social creativity. The author analyzes the main trends and the nature of the process of formation of social responsibility of the individual in modern conditions. Particular attention is paid to increasing the role of personal responsibility in times of social instability and uncertainty. The accumulated experience of scientific understanding of the concept of «social responsibility» is revealed. Specific features of social responsibility and its interpretation in the works of F.Bastia, I. A. Ilyin, P. A. Kropotkin, I. I. Lapshin, N. O. Lossky, V. S. Solovyov, N. F. Fedorov, and others.

The Role of the Individual in Promoting Social Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Francisca Farache ◽  
Georgiana Grigore ◽  
David McQueen ◽  
Alin Stancu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Individual
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