Inclusive Design as Promoter of Social Transformations: Understanding Androgyny in Contemporary Society

2022 ◽  
pp. 499-511
Author(s):  
Ana Catarina Carvalho Ferreira ◽  
João Carlos Monteiro Martins ◽  
Maria Antonieta Vaz de Morais
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Design ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Transformations

scholarly journals Debt and sad affects in the society of control

Conatus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Iwona Młoźniak
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Society Of Control ◽  
Sociological Interpretation

The article presents an analysis of the notion of debt in the context of Deleuzean philosophy of affect. The interpretation presented on the following pages is “indebted” to Lazzarato’s conception of the notion of debt as a figure of subjectivity typical for capitalism. Debt is understood as an assemblage of sad passions and considered in relation to social transformations, that have led to contemporary societies of control.  The article shows the connection between the concept of debt and the process of individualization characteristic for contemporary society. Firstly, the concepts of control, debt and affect in the philosophy of Deleuze are put into consideration. Secondly, their relation to the forces and assemblages typical for contemporary societies is discussed. In order to grasp the social significance of the philosophical analysis, the article involves a sociological excursion that demonstrates sociological interpretation of the processes that were described in terms of philosophical analysis in the main body of the text.

scholarly journals Imagining the future: Social struggles, the post-national domain and major contemporary social transformations

2020 ◽  
pp. 144078332096986
Author(s):  
Gerard Delanty
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Normative Conception ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Uncertainty ◽  
National Domain

The question this article seeks to answer is what are the major social transformations going on in contemporary society that will shape the future? The argument is that the analysis of the future requires a clearer perspective on social struggles and major social transformations in societal structures including structures of consciousness. The future is thus both actuality and possibility; it is of the present but also beckons beyond the present. Or, in the terms of Koselleck (2004 [1976/1979]), it opens up the space of expectations beyond the horizons of the present. The radical uncertainty of the future has opened it up to imaginary significations of all kinds. Yet many such projections of the future lack a normative orientation and also do not provide a satisfactory connection with actuality, namely the world as it exists. This is to the detriment of a perspective on possibility. The future is created in moments of transformation when radically new interpretations of the present take root. The article discusses the fate of the post-national domain in the context of societal struggles in which new visions of the future are created and which play out in three major social transformations of the present. The argument in this article places more emphasis on a normative conception of a cosmopolitan future that identifies links between the social and the ecological as well as widening the notion of justice to include a broader sphere of issues than those that have traditionally been the concern of the left.

Sense of community and multicultural diversity in contemporary society

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne E. Brodsky ◽  
David Chavis ◽  
Kien S. Lee ◽  
Greg Townley
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Multicultural Diversity

Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Dunmore
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
School Based ◽  
Immersion Education ◽  
Medium Education ◽  
Language Revitalisation ◽  
First Time

Situated within the interrelated disciplines of applied sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, this book explores the language use and attitudinal perceptions of a sample of 130 adults who received Gaelic-medium education (GME) at primary school, during the first years of that system’s availability in Scotland. The school is viewed by policymakers as a crucial site for language revitalisation in such diverse contexts as Hawai’i, New Zealand and the Basque Country – as well as throughout the Celtic-speaking world. In Scotland, GME is seen as a key area of language development, regarded by policymakers as a strategic priority for revitalising Gaelic, and maintaining its use by future generations of speakers. Yet theorists have stressed that school-based policy interventions are inadequate for realising this objective in isolation, and that without sufficient support in the home and community, children are unlikely to develop strong identities or supportive ideologies in the language of their classroom instruction. For the first time, this book provides an in-depth assessment of language use, ideologies and attitudes among adults who received an immersion education in a minority language, and considers subsequent prospects for language revitalisation in contemporary society. Based on detailed analyses using mixed methods, the book offers empirically grounded suggestions for individuals and policymakers seeking to revitalise languages internationally. 

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