The Way that Things Are Done Around Here: An Investigation into the Organisational and Social Structures that Contribute to Structural Power Within the Australian Swim Coach Education Pathway

AbstractThis article examines self and identity in the “Inner Chapters” (neipian 內篇) of the Zhuangzi 莊子. Previous scholarship on this topic has tended to support its arguments by defining the “Way” (dao 道) as either a normative order or an objective reality. By contrast, this article argues that the Way is a neutral designation for the composite, ever-changing patterns of the cosmos that does not provide normative guidance.Within this cosmos, the human “self” (shen 身) is likewise defined as a composite, mutable entity that displays “tendencies” (qing 情) of behavior and thought. Two of these tendencies include the positing of unitary agents and the creation of “identities” (ming 名)—imaginative constructs used for self-definition. As a result of combining and reifying the two tendencies, most humans conflate their identities with their larger selves. The result is a simplified vision of an essential self that gives rise to normative judgements, blinds humans to the changing cosmos, and creates problematic social structures.The text advocates that one should retrain the tendency toward identity by cultivating an inviolate “sense of self” or “virtue” (de 德) that is empty of specific identity. Virtue acts as an emotionally safe space in which the mirror-like mind can temporarily take on the identities of other creatures. This practice increases practitioners’ empathetic understanding of the world, detaches them from destructive social structures, and has the potential to generate new versions of human society.

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Nauczyciel wobec współczesnej rzeczywistości społecznej

Nauczyciel we współczesnej rzeczywistości edukacyjnej ◽

10.15290/nwwre.2021.02 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 23-37

Author(s):

Elżbieta Gaweł-Luty ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Social Order ◽

Social Space ◽

Social Structures ◽

Professional Roles ◽

Professional Identities ◽

Proper Functioning ◽

The Social ◽

The Way

Social structures include specific entities marked by both institutionalized social norms and by their own individual reflections on their role in society. Social structures are not a permanent phenomenon, because society is constantly restructuring itself. The basis of a social order is the standardization of the actions of individuals, when these activities are subject to typification, institutionalism is created. Thus, institutions define requirements for the way people function in the social space. Individuals also undertake professional roles with existing social structures, the performance of which is likewise determined by social norms.For the proper functioning of society, therefore, social and professional identities of individuals and of groups are both needed.

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Marx and Me

Human Geography ◽

10.1177/19427786211036106 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 194277862110361

Author(s):

Sarah Glynn

Keyword(s):

Political Activism ◽

Social Structures ◽

Bottom Up ◽

Human Relationships ◽

The World ◽

Freedom Movement ◽

Cultural Turn ◽

As If ◽

The Way

This is the story of how I encountered Marxism and how I have used it to make sense of the world, and hence to inform my political activism. I describe how humanist materialism has helped me interrogate social structures so as to discover underlying interacting forces and the role played by human praxis and understandings. On the way, I examine debates about the researcher as outsider; criticisms of political multiculturalism; difficulties of being a Marxist after the cultural turn when many academics will no longer even engage with Marxist arguments; problems in writing about and working with Islamists; struggles to excavate housing studies from being buried in policy detail; uncomfortable truths about immigration and the reserve army of labour; and warnings from the failure of revolutionary stages theory. I end with lessons from the Kurdish freedom movement on human relationships and bottom-up democracy, and with its inspirational example of a society attempting to live as if in the early days of a better world.

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Architecture and memory in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

Architectural Research Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s1359135515000263 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 41-48

Author(s):

Naomi Stead

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Social Structures ◽

The Novel ◽

Emotional Life ◽

Literary Expression ◽

The Holocaust ◽

The World ◽

Personal Level ◽

Bear Witness ◽

The Way

Austerlitz was the German expatriate author W. G. Sebald’s last book before his untimely death in 2001. Greeted with great critical acclaim, the novel is a profound meditation on history, memory, and loss. Sebald’s larger attempt to represent and memorialise the lasting trauma of the Holocaust, in an oblique and understated rather than a literal way, led him to a new kind of literary expression described by Eric Homberger as ‘part hybrid novel, part memoir and part travelogue’. What is most interesting about Austerlitz, for the purposes of this article, is that it makes so much use of architecture. In this, it joins a tradition of literary works that treat architecture as a metaphor for human endeavour and artifice, social structures, and attempts to order and construct the world. But, there is more to the buildings in Austerlitz. The book offers insights into the larger meaning – often, but not always, melancholy – of architecture in culture and society, past and present. This is elucidated at a personal level, in the way that surroundings and spatial atmospheres can affect the emotional life of an individual, and also at a collective level, in the way that buildings bear witness to, and last beyond, the trials and duration of a single human life.

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An African Perspective on Global Governance

10.1093/oso/9780198793342.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas Kwasi Tieku ◽

Linnéa Gelot

Keyword(s):

Global Governance ◽

Political Institutions ◽

Religious Beliefs ◽

Social Structures ◽

African Union ◽

Global System ◽

Global Issues ◽

Daunting Task ◽

African Perspective ◽

The Way

This chapter examines the challenging idea of an African perspective on global governance. The extraordinary diversity of continental Africa in terms of religious beliefs, political institutions, social structures, and economic outlooks makes it a daunting task to discern a distinct African perspective. To avoid overgeneralization, homogenization, and essentialization of the different views that may exist, the chapter focuses on the African Union (AU) to represent a collective African position on global governance, arguing that global governance is thus viewed in relational terms. In this context, the steering capacity (i.e. governance) is the responsibility of the entire community and not the responsibility of a select few. This collectivist-driven conception of global governance is reflected in the way African states seek to exercise their agency on global issues and in the global system. The relational idea adds another dimension to the rationalistic ideas embedded in conventional narratives of global governance.

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Critiquing – and Rescuing – ‘Character’

Sociology ◽

10.1177/0038038519892532 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 54 (3) ◽

pp. 460-481 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Andrew Sayer

Keyword(s):

Character Education ◽

Social Mobility ◽

Social Life ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Social Structures ◽

Life Outcomes ◽

Education Movement ◽

Normative Significance ◽

The Way

The article looks at how sociology might regard the concept of ‘character’, both in terms of the way it is used in public discourse and in its own accounts of social life. In the former, the concept is likely to be regarded with suspicion, especially where it is used to explain individuals’ life outcomes in a way that ignores social structures and depoliticizes inequalities. Such usages are to be found in political discourse on welfare and in the character education movement as a solution to problems of ‘social mobility’. Yet if character refers to individuals’ settled dispositions to act in certain ways, then it has some affinities with the Bourdieusian concept of habitus. The article argues both for developing the critique of ideological uses of the concept and for considering how it might be used in ways that do not misrepresent its explanatory and normative significance.

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The Concept of Identity in the Technological Era

10.18662/wlc2021/58 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Ines Razec ◽

Keyword(s):

Human Behavior ◽

New Technologies ◽

Physical Reality ◽

The Body ◽

Social Structures ◽

Early Age ◽

Human Being ◽

The Social ◽

The Way ◽

Effective History

We are currently witnessing a process of redefinition of the social structures that we are part of, through the new technologies, which are gradually entering all sectors of our lives, influencing the way we think, live, and relate to others. Since man is essentially a “political animal”, designed to evolve within a community, what impact will the digitalization era have on his behavior, especially when the physical limits imposed by the body are progressively disappearing? The objective of this study is to explore some of the subtle, but sure transformations of human behavior in the technological era, with a particular emphasis on the process of communication, personal feelings, and identity. In a more connected world than ever, where absolutely everything can be quantified, physical reality is in danger of being replaced by the virtual one. In this dynamic, the body could gradually become the only real impediment on the way to progress. Engaged in this alert race, we risk being dehumanized, in an attempt to be as similar as possible to the machines, which, undisturbed by the feelings, experiences, and behavioral predispositions specific to the human being, operate more accurately and are more effective. History shows that man essentially remains the same, with each age illustrating another facet of him. This is why, a thorough education from an early age is needed both in terms of the consequences of digitization and the means to cope with it, thus preventing us from distorting our essence.

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La Barranquilla de Voces: ejercicios de una re-cartografía espacial. ¿Cómo circuló la revista Voces vista como una materialidad?

Catedral Tomada Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana ◽

10.5195/ct/2018.254 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (10) ◽

pp. 73-102

Author(s):

Luis Alfonso Barragán

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

20Th Century ◽

Research Work ◽

Social Structures ◽

Early 20Th Century ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

The Social ◽

Literary Materials ◽

Literary System ◽

The Way

To socialize the study made to the Voces Magazine - Barranquillera magazine of the early 20th century that promoted literary materials - from a space and material reading in which maps will be used - GPS type, Google maps - both for the reconstruction of Barranquilla Of that time as to unveil the way the magazine circulated in and out of space. What is sought in this research work is to make the geography visible - to bring geography back to the debate of the social sciences - seen as a definitive and conclusive element in literary invention re-locating the concept of map as much as a category of study And analysis as an instrument of observation and research for the development of a historical and literary corpus, and in this case, a literary "system" in Barranquilla. This new turn that I propose with the use of digital platforms aims to reveal the discursive relationship that exists between the way the characters are situated - the genesis of producers and acting institutions that operated in and from the urban as well as the practices involved in The elaboration, edition, manufacture and circulation of the magazine in Barranquilla space, as well as of the spatial correspondences between the social structures of the Barranquilla of that time-economic, cultural, political, and especially urban-fields with the structures and motivations "Internal to the Voices literary" system ".

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