Pragmatics and the Third Wave: The Social Meaning of Definites

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Eric K. Acton
Keyword(s):  
Social Meaning ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Genealogy of a Mission

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hebert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Heritage

The Optometric HIstorical Society (OHS) was one of many similar public history organizations created during the third wave of the preservation movement in the United States. This article traces the genealogy of the OHS mission through American heritage resource law and delineates the social and political context that lead to its passage.

scholarly journals A bonus ec diligens pater familias 20. századi alakulása a német családjogban

DÍKÉ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Dejan Dujic
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Second Wave

The process of women’s emancipation in European legal culture can be divided into three major periods according to their defining issues and objectives. The findings of the following study refer to the period from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, which is usually identified in the literature as the second wave, and then as the third wave from the 1990s onwards. The turning point between these two stages is the thirty years after 1950, when the social, personal and family legal status of women changed significantly in Europe. The demands of the third wave, the ’modern emancipation movement’, which are still ongoing today, are of a different nature and are primarily sociological rather than legal nature. Although the topic of feminism is popular and has been dealt with in many ways in the Hungarian social science literature too, this study is nevertheless suppletory as I present the German marriage and family law reforms by means of the historical legal analysis, which will be supplemented in later studies by a comparison of Austrian and Hungarian law for the same period.

The Sarawak Dabogong Festival and Its Social Significance in the Chinese Community in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Hsu Yu-Tsuen ◽  
Chang Wei-An ◽  
Chang Han-Pi
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
The Third ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
The Social

Abstract Dabogong is a Chinese deity with a widespread following in Sarawak; however, the connections between Dabogong temples are underdeveloped compared with that between Chinese subethnic associations. 1 Therefore, Sibu Dabogong Temple proposed to establish an association to plan and oversee the Sarawak Dabogong Festival in 2009. Since then, the scope of the organization’s membership and activities has become national as well as international. To learn how the social meaning of the festival is understood by the participants, we reviewed the local historical literature, conducted field research, and administered a questionnaire survey during the third Sarawak Dabogong Festival at Kuching 10 Miles in Sarawak in 2011. First, we explored the defining characteristic of Dabogong temples in Sarawak, the prominence of Dabogong in the Sarawak Chinese community, reasons for building temples, the accompanying gods in a Dabogong temple, and the timing of temple construction. Next, we examined the formation of the Dabogong Festival and the characteristics of the participants. Finally, we determined that the social significance of the festival can be attributed to its role in the transmission of Chinese tradition and the promotion of Dabogong belief.

scholarly journals Essential and Embattled Expertise: Knowledge/Expert/Policy Nexus around the Sarin Gas attack in Syria

Politik ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Leander
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
The Third ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Matters Of Concern

This article argues that expertise has continued to hold an absolutely essential and profoundly embattled position in the knowledge/expertise/policy nexus. More than this, it suggests that this duality of the and – (rather than the clarity of the either or) is to be welcomed. is argument is made with reference to the controversies surrounding the sarin gas attack on Ghouta Damascus 21 August 2013. e article rst argues that expertise continues to be essential in the sense that it is integral to contemporary policy-controversies. As the discussion around the sarin gas attack shows expertise is both constituted through controversies and at the same time constituting them. e article proceeds to suggest that precisely because this is the case, it is important that expertise also remains embattled. As shown with reference to the sarin gas attack controversies, it is only through contestation that the role of expertise in the controversy can possibly be checked. As this shows, the argument put forward in this article has much in common with Bruno Latour’s recent insistence on the importance of not allowing experts to turn matters of concern into matters of fact. e argu- ment hence distances itself from those who strive to reestablish the authority of expertise by in various ways re ning our understanding of science and its relation to practice; that is from what Collins and Evans term the „third wave“ in the social studies of science. However, this article diverges from Latour in suggesting that for expertise to remain contested requires more than attention to hybrid agency and actants. It suggests that it also requires enrolling arguments from the „critical“ approaches that Latour rejects. e article insists on the integration of three such „critical“ arguments: the critique of markets for ideas, of technological politics, and of regulatory processes. 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia J. Dewane
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
The Third ◽  
Commitment Therapy ◽  
Acceptance And Commitment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge And Practice

Clinical social work is a derivative profession, drawing its knowledge and practice base from several theoretical schools. The four primary theoretical schools contributing to social-work philosophy are psychodynamic, humanist, cognitive–behavioral, and postmodern. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), although considered one of the third-wave behavioral approaches, draws from all four theoretical schools of clinical intervention. This entry gives an overview of ACT development, its essential features, empirical base, tenets and techniques, and relevance to the social-work profession.

Adoption Policy in Great Britain and North America

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. David Kirk ◽  
Susan A. Mcdaniel
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function

AbstractThis paper has two purposes. First, to explore what existing adoption legislation may indicate about the meaning and function of adoption practices in North America and Great Britain. Second, to consider some possible policy implications revealed by clearer understanding of the social meaning of existing adoption laws. The first part of the paper summarizes briefly the history of legal adoption. The second examines what is explicitly and implicitly revealed by adoption law and policies about the social purposes of adoption and about prevailing social values concerning the family. The third part examines possible avenues of policy change in North America.

Ecological habitus intergenerationally reproduced: The children of Czech ‘voluntary simplifiers’ and their lifestyle

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vojtěch Pelikán ◽  
Lucie Galčanová ◽  
Lukáš Kala
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
The Third ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews

The intergenerational reproduction of values and lifestyles has been at the centre of attention for the social sciences for several decades. However, only rarely has this topic been examined from the perspective of environmentally friendly lifestyles. In this article, we build on unique longitudinal research that includes generations of parents and children from Czech ‘voluntarily simple’ families. Drawing on sociological theories of consumption and the Bourdieusian concept of habitus, we deal with the question of whether and how the intergenerational transmission of eco-habitus emerges. The original research with the parents – called ‘the Colourful’ – was conducted by the Czech sociologist Hana Librová in 1992, 2002 and 2015. We participated in the third wave, conducting 12 in-depth interviews with the Colourful and supplementing it with 21 interviews with their adult children, focusing on how they look back on their childhood and in what respect their lifestyles and attitudes differ from those of their parents. We describe the reproduction of the Colourful’s habitus and identify the main lines of influence that may play a role in this process: positive reflections on a non-affluent childhood, awareness of the values behind simplicity, a liberal model of upbringing, the higher cultural capital of the families, the family atmosphere, religiosity and diverse experiences among siblings related to their birth order. We show that while for the Colourful it was typical to revolt against parents, their own habitus has been reproduced relatively successfully.

‘Ey, wait, wait, gully!’ Style, stance and the social meaning of attention signals in East London adolescent speech

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN ILBURY
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Youth Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociolinguistic Ethnography ◽  
Ingroup Outgroup

Recent accounts of discourse-pragmatic (DP) variation have demonstrated that these features can acquire social indexical meaning. However, in comparison to other linguistic variables, DP features remain underexplored and third-wave perspectives on the topic are limited. In this article, I analyse the distribution, function and social meaning of the ‘attention signals’ – those features which fulfil the explicit function of eliciting the attention of an individual – in just over 35 hours of self-recordings of 25 adolescents collected during a year-long sociolinguistic ethnography of an East London youth group. This leads me to identify an innovative attention signal – ey. Distributional analyses of this feature show that ey is associated with a particular Community of Practice, the self-defined and exclusively male ‘gully’. By examining the discourse junctures at which ey occurs, I argue that this attention signal is most frequently used by speakers to deploy a ‘dominant’ stance. For gully members, this feature is particularly useful as an interpersonal device, where it is used to manage ingroup/outgroup boundaries. Concluding, I link the use of ey and the gully identity to language, ethnicity and masculinity in East London.

Gender and the Third Wave of variation study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Third Wave Feminism ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Sociolinguistic Variation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape

In the past thirty years, the study of sociolinguistic variation has moved its focus ‘inside’ the speaker – from macrosocial categories to local categories, to the personae that inhabit categories and to the stylistic practice in which personae entangle themselves in the social landscape. This latter stage has commonly been called the Third Wave and is indeed inspired by third wave feminism, as the focus has turned from the gender binary to the range of gendered personae. This article traces my participation in these developments, beginning with the Berkeley Women and Language Group conferences and unfolding in a student-run seminar at Stanford.

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