Making Sense of Modernity: Changing Attitudes toward the Immigrant and the Gaucho in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina

1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeane Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Changing Attitudes

The experience of modernity is one that cuts across national boundaries. Regardless of where it occurs, modernization—defined here as the nexus of changes that includes technological innovation, economic rationalization, demographic change, the bureaucratization of the state, and the triumph of science—has certain inevitable consequences. To live in a modern society means to live in a constantly changing world, in which the forces of modernity have dissolved old forms of community, altered traditional notions of work, undermined social hierarchies, produced new social spaces, and transformed the sights, sounds, and even smells of everyday life. Modernization also engenders its own response. Societies in the throes of rapid modernization inevitably have their critics: individuals who for a variety of reasons object to the myriad of changes that accompany this process. Recoiling from the present, these antimodernists take refuge in an often idealized past, longing for what they believe to be a simpler, purer way of life.

CRITICAL STUDY ON DATABASE AND PROMINENT PROGRAMMES

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Dr. Vinod Kumar ◽  
Gagandeep Raheja ◽  
Sukhpreet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
Simple Device ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The People

The people who work with computers, the programmers, analysts, and operators who seem to live by rules of their own and seldom leave their own environment, tend to be very cynical towards the stories of electronic brains. This attitude will appear hardly surprising when one eventually learns that the computer is a very simple device and is as far removed from an electronic brain as a bicycle from a spaceship. Programmers in particular are the people most aware that computers are no substitute for the human brain; in fact, the preparation of work to be run on a computer can be one of the most mind-bending exercises encountered in everyday life. Databases and database systems have become an essential component of everyday life in modern society. In the course of a day, most of us encounter several activities that involve some interaction with a database. So in this paper we will talk about how to manage the different type of data involved in any form in the database.

scholarly journals SURVIVING SEXUAL ABUSE IN EVERYDAY LIFE: FORMS OF RESISTANCE USED BY CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Olinda de Souza Carvalho e Lira ◽  
Rosane Gonçalves Nitschke ◽  
Adriana Diniz Rodrigues ◽  
Vanda Palmarella Rodrigues ◽  
Telmara Menezes Couto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
Children And Adolescent ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Family Routine ◽  
Semi Arid Region

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the forms of resistance used by children and adolescent victims of sexual abuse in the everyday family routine. Method: qualitative research developed at an Assistance Center to Women in Situations of Violence in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco, with data collected between June and November of 2014 through interviews with nine women. The analysis process was based on notions of Comprehensive Sociology and Everyday Life, with data organized by affinity, interpreted and categorized. Results: the emerged categories: ritualization of sexual abuse of children and adolescents in the family routine: acceptance of destiny through passivity; Camouflage to survive the experience of sexual abuse: silence, astuteness and acting/pretending in order to escape abuse, Between hidden sexual abuse and The revelation of sexual abuse. It can be seen that episodes of abuse occurred in secret and under the threat of abusers through intimidating gestures or words. Victims did not confront them or call attention or ask for help, they used tricks like metaphors, laughs and ironic words, as well as ridiculing them with excuses, hiding, pretending to be asleep or fleeing to the street. Conclusion: the underground centrality present in sexual abuse triggered forms of resistance in opposition to the oppression generated by the abuser in which, in accepting that way of life, the participants developed different survival mechanisms, as well as participating in voluntary work, music and sports, these vents alleviate the burden of concealing the abuse.

scholarly journals Organization of the Village of Cossack self-government as the basis of everyday life

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-118
Author(s):  
Sergey Valentinovich Lyubichankovskiy ◽  
Elena Victorovna Godovova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Village Government ◽  
The Village

The paper presents the evolution of the formation of the system of local government in the Cossack armies in Russia. Cossacks living in villages with towns belonging to it were Cossack society. Local Cossacks authority It was Village chieftain, Village descent, Village court, Cossack community. Organization of the Village government in the Cossack army was virtually identical to that due to the fact that the reform of the Cossack troops went on the model of the Don and Kuban troops. This system has been transformed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Fall elective responsibility, a manifestation of laziness and indifference of the Cossacks it was due to property, education and psychological disunity. Contemporaries noted that many members of the village office turn of the century were literate, prone to drunkenness and extortion. An increasing number of the Cossacks did not attend gatherings and did not pay the dues. But, despite this, the Cossack communities continued to live, to regulate agrarian relations, contributed to the development of health and education.

scholarly journals The New Normal and Covid-19 in Serbia from February to May 2020.

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Žikić ◽  
Mladen Stajić ◽  
Marko Pišev
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Critical Event ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
The Given

The situation caused by the appearance of Covid-19 can be viewed as a critical event: typologically, it is an unprecedented event, which requires and shapes new forms of historical action hitherto unknown in the given context. Critical events serve as strong value and emotional landmarks in the cultural cognition of each social environment, and form the basis for a meaningful determination towards other events. Using material collected primarily from the online versions of electronic and printed media, we consider how the reality they presented is shaped through the news through the statements of politicians and medical doctors in Serbia. We trace how the narrative transformation of socio-cultural reality took place from the time before the of Covid-19 outbreak in our country to the time immediately after the lifting of the state of emergency declared due to that infection. The premise of all that is being done to tackle the infection is not a purpose in itself, but aims to enable a return to the life we were accustomed to before the outbreak of the epidemic. Covid-19 destabilizes our everyday life – a life that consists of work or study, use of free time, socializing etc. Such everyday life is a reference point of "normalcy". Socio-cultural normalcy refers to all that is understood as a normal and undisturbed course of everyday life. The appearance of Covid-19 gave rise to the notion of the "new normal", that is, a course of everyday life that is similar to normal, ordinary life, but with adherence to measures aimed at preventing the spread of infection by the authorities. In the paper we deal with the period that begins just before the outbreak of Covid-19 in our country, and ends with the period after the lifting of the state of emergency, to show the discursively produced picture of social reality in which the concept of the "new normal" serves as a cultural cognitive tool for understanding a situation in which one has to live with Covid-19 in order to one day be able to return to the way of life that existed before it.

Making Sense of the Self: Developing an Understanding of the Role of Objects within the Reading Experience

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Pecoskie
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Recherche Qualitative ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Pleasure Reading ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Vie Quotidienne

In understanding pleasure reading in everyday life we often focus on the text as a primary tool of reading and other tools, such as books, which are instrumental objects, are overlooked. This report of qualitative research focuses on the book as a tool within reading experiences and how it furthers understandings of the self for the reader.En tentant de comprendre la lecture de loisir dans la vie quotidienne, nous considérons souvent le texte comme l’outil principal de lecture, alors que d’autres dispositifs, tels que les livres, qui sont des objets instrumentaux, sont souvent négligés. Ce rapport de recherche qualitative est axé sur le livre comme outil à l’intérieur des expériences de lecture et sur la manière avec laquelle celui-ci favorise la compréhension de la personnalité du lecteur. 

How Can We Get There From Here? Thoughts on the Integration of American and Comparative Politics

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 558-560
Author(s):  
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph ◽  
Lloyd I. Rudolph
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Institutional Determinants ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Third World

The bifurcation of political science into American and comparative politics impoverishes both. The division parochializes them by encapsulating the study of politics within national boundaries. The result is to deprive each of the theoretical contributions generated by the other and to cut them off from the institutional and policy alternatives each has devised. The loss to the study of American politics is probably the more severe because its practitioners have not been prepared to recognize the limitations of their “area specialty.”Historical and institutional determinants help to explain the bifurcation. Because academic political science, that is, political science as a discipline and a profession is, as Bernard Crick has shown, American in its origins and early development, it has been less attentive to non-American contexts. More than other academic social science disciplines, political science's intellectual provenance is located in the new world. Unlike the other social sciences, political science lacks eighteenth and nineteenth century European masters. In the belief that America was showing the world its future, post-war behavioral political science like other aspects of the American way of life became an American export to Europe and the third world.

Economic change and the supply of interest representation in the American States

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lowery ◽  
Virginia Gray ◽  
John Cluverius
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Change ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Energy Stability ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
Interest Representation ◽  
American States ◽  
Stability Area

We examine how economic change influences the supply of organized interests. Indeed, the economies of states have changed markedly since the turn of the century. State economies have grown, and the relative contributions of different economic sectors have changed. We use the Energy-Stability-Area model of interest system density to assess how these changes – along with changes in the productivity of different economic sectors in terms of generating organized interests – have influenced the size and composition of state interest communities from 1997 to 2007. We find that all three sources of economic change have uniquely contributed, and to a significant degree, to demographic change in state communities of organized interests.

scholarly journals Making Sense of ‘Global’ Social Justice: Claims for Justice in a Global Labour Market

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Winchester ◽  
Nicholas Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
International Forum ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
High Level

Inequality and social justice are key issues in a context marked by endemic interconnectedness. However, traditional accounts of social justice deploy explanatory frameworks that are state bound. By contrast, it is argued that globalisation has led to the emergence and entrenchment of forms and structures of power and influence that operate beyond and across national boundaries and that are capable of perpetrating inequity and injustice. In response theorists have begun to argue for the need to recognise the demands of social justice in non-state territorial contexts. Whilst extant theories offer a high level of abstraction, we ground these theories by examining the global labour market for seafarers as an example of a multinational workforce operating in a global context. The paper offers a detailed examination of these workers raising a global social justice claim within an international forum. In so doing we argue that this case leads to a significant problematisation of global social justice as an empirical phenomenon and conceptual object; one that escapes extant theoretical resources. In conclusion we highlight conceptual and pragmatic issues associated with theorising and realising global social justice, and the role that sociology has to play in this endeavour.

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