Minority Building in the German Diaspora: The Hungarian-Germans

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 148-166
Author(s):  
John C. Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Status ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Issues concerning the status and rights of ethnic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe have become significant in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A focus on co-nations in neighboring states, “others” in so-called nation-states, and questions of immigration dominate the media in many areas in Europe. Even though ethnic minorities and ethnic identity are part of modern conversation, the subject of ethnic minorities needs to receive serious scholarly attention to demonstrate its nuanced sense of meaning. Like nations, ethnic minorities are not static entities; they are not primordial. They are constructed or imagined in the same way nations are, even though there has been little scholarly attention devoted to minority building. In order to understand the complex meaning of an ethnic minority, one needs to view the creation of a minority—minority building—on different levels, and understand it as members of the minority understand it and as others perceive it.

scholarly journals On the issue of the transformation of the psychological portrait of the modern Russian youth in a socio-cultural context (the case of questioning target students’ groups in Don State Technical University)

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 15032
Author(s):  
Tamara Olenich ◽  
Andrei Mekushkin ◽  
Natalia Mamchits ◽  
Natia Ugrekhelidze
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
State Technical ◽  
Elite Education ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
To Receive

With the accordance to the formation of the psychological portrait of contemporary Russian youth in the sociocultural space, the author’s hypothesis is that in the modern conditions of sociocultural communicative competence, the sociocultural space becomes a necessary aspect in the development of the socialization of the Russian students. The object of the study is the Russian student youth, and the subject is an analysis of the nature of the influence of sociocultural communicative competence on the Russian youth socialization. Such social factors as: the influence of the place of residence on the level of student competence; the influence of place of residence on the level of claims; the influence of parental capital on the level of academic performance and level of professional claims; the effect of income on competence and the effect of income on professional claims, are necessary elements for students to achieve their goal, namely to receive an elite education, based on the base they have. The results showed that the higher education of the parents and the status of the university they graduated from creates a more favorable ground for the successful career of their children. Personal experience of parents determines the ability to choose the level of professional claims of students.

scholarly journals On the status of music and musical instruments in Arabic culture after the advent of Islam

Muzikologija ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Ada Sostaric
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Religious Music ◽  
Professional Musician ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Call To Prayer ◽  
Muslim Communities

This article bases its arguments mainly on data found in secondary literature about the propriety of music in Arabic culture after the advent of Islam. One of the oldest sources in Arabic on the subject is Damm al-mal?h? (The Condemnation of Instruments of Diversion). In it, the author, Ibn Ab? al-Duny? (823-894) condemned listening to music and musical instruments. Subsequently, many books addressed the question of whether music is illicit (ar. har?m). Western scholars defined this corpus of literature as a kind of polemic about the permissibility of music and musical instruments in Islamic culture. Since there is no verse (ar. ?ya) in the Qur??n which explicitly forbids or allows music, and since, at the same time, the had?t literature abounds with contradictory statements about the practice of the prophet Muhammad regarding listening to music and musical instruments, this question continues to resurface, either in the media or on web pages specifically devoted to the issue. This topic is also quite interesting in terms of the reflexions one can encounter in the Muslim areas of the ex-Yugoslav region. At the same time, the article touches upon the special place that the Qur??n recitation (ar. til?wat al-Qur??n) and Islamic call to prayer (ar. ad?n) have in Muslim communities. We often find both of them in chapters on religious music, and can, for instance, hear Gorans from Kosovo say (colloquially) that one sings the call to prayer. Nevertheless, although both the Recitation and the call to prayer employ the system of maq?ms found in secular forms of music, in religious Islamic circles they have never been defined as music, nor are they understood as such in Islamic public opinion. It has been said innumerable times that it is not the (listening to) music per se that is forbidden, but rather the circumstances surrounding music, sometimes associated with the consumption of alcohol or similar behaviour, which leads to transgression of Islamic ethical norms. And even though music - as suggested by Henry George Farmer-was to be found in the private, public, and religious life of the Arabs from pre-Islamic times to the present (Farmer 1967: 17), and even despite it not being forbidden in Islam, the status of the professional musician was never truly regarded as respectable.

scholarly journals Reconstructing the Past as a Means of Rationalizing the Present: A Study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of The Day (1989)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Mohamed Fathi Helaly Khalaf
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Past Life ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
To Come ◽  
Different Levels

The postwar world period was riddled with rapid changes at the different levels. Many people felt they were not able to come to terms with such ongoing changes and had to find a way to coexist with the status-quo. Postmodernism looks upon man as a social being that should learn how to adapt himself to whatever situation by whatever means available. Ishiguro’s novels are written in an expanded humanistic tradition. They are stories dealing with human relationship. They are narratives centering on the working of consciousness and the unconsciousness of the human mind. Ishiguro is concerned with reworking of the past from a late twentieth century perspective. The purpose of this study is to trace the postmodern aspects in The Remains of The Day through the life and character of Stevens and his relationships with the people that he has lived with. Stevens struggles to come to term with his present through telling stories and anecdotes of his past life. The novel depicts the role that memories can play in reconstructing the past events so that the present can be meaningful in some way from a postmodern standpoint. As a postwar British individual, the protagonist of the novel tries to practice suppression over his emotions at the personal level as well as the professional level to construct a new identity. Stevens appears torn between memories of the past and the representation of the present. He is suffering from an identity crisis and striving to create a meaningful present for himself. As a postmodern man, Stevens has to struggle at different levels. He is leading a life riddled with inconsistencies and contradictions. He can’t feel at home with the surrounding world as he is always busy trying to achieve some perfection that is not attainable in a world riddled with conflicts and struggle.

Kings in the Age of Nations: The Paradox of Lèse-Majesté as Political Crime in Thailand

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Streckfuss
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Crime ◽  
The Law ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The Thai monarchy, protected by the law of lèse-majesté, appears to be an anachronism in the age of nation-states. Over the past century, the spread of nationalism has leveled most monarchies, reducing kings (or queens) to the status of semiprivate individuals or preserving them as innocuous symbols. Usually considered mere remnants of feudal pasts, the laws protecting monarchies in the twentieth century have received little scholarly attention, even less perhaps in Thailand, where any critical analysis of the monarchy is discouraged by the threat of the lèse-majesté charge.

MEDIATIZATION OF PUBLIC INTELLIGENCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-105
Author(s):  
Alexey Timoschuk ◽  
Natalya Trofimova
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

Mediagnosis occupies a special place in the noosphere. It is a set of complex interrelated processes of informatization, digitalization, individuation and globalization of social knowledge. Mediacracy claims the status of the fifth power, continuing and strengthening the traditional influence of the press. Technology, societality and individuation generate a synergistic effect of media. Informatization and mediatization are two interrelated processes of introducing a telecommunication environment and mediating social interactions through information resources. These sociotechnical trends actualize both object-oriented issues of the media environment, media events, media policies, media consumption, and the subject of targeted practices of media education, media literacy, media competence, media criticism, media activity

Internet and Media in American Folklore and Folklife

2019 ◽  
pp. 597-624
Author(s):  
David J. Puglia
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Media ◽  
American Folklore ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The media of print, radio, film, television, and especially the Internet are subjects as well as sources of folklore and folklife. Following the rise of the Internet in the late twentieth century, and its proliferation in the early twenty-first century, bringing with it Web 2.0 and the performative folk web, folklorists increasingly turned to the Internet to research folk processes and compare them to the kinds of transmission in face-to-face communities. Digital folklore—with “memes” being most recognizable—flourishes online, and the Internet creates new traditional forms and practices. The Internet challenges long-standing assumptions, definitions, methods, and theories in what has been called the predigital or analog era. Folklore and folklife research of media and digital technology contributes to the broader field of communication and media studies by emphasizing the continued importance of informal culture and group aesthetics in technologically mediated environments.

Who Said That? Status Presentation in Media Accounts of the Animal Experimentation Debate

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corwin R. Kruse
Keyword(s):  
Animal Experimentation ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Media Presentation ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

AbstractIn recent years, the issue of experimentation upon nonhuman animals has become the subject of media attention. One aspect of the media presentation is the status attributed to claims-makers on either side of the issue. Research suggests that perceived expertise of the source of arguments can play a role in attitudes formed by audiences. This study examines mainstream print and broadcast media presentation of the status of individuals quoted regarding the issue of animal experimentation. Those supporting continued experimentation are significantly more likely to be presented as professionals or experts. Attitude formation is discussed in light of these findings.

scholarly journals Sense Structure of Modal Units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” (in Italian)

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Valery Okhrimenko
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Zone ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Modal Structure ◽  
Unique Possibility ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modal Sentence ◽  
Different Levels

The article focuses on appropriateness’s of quantifying ofinformation in microtext of functioning of modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” in the Italian language. Modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” determine quantifying of information in microtext being nucleus and forming modal structures together with joined components. The modal structure is formed by joined components in according to the regularity rules in the prenuclear zone(components combined with modal construction“non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” or modal construction “non potere far a meno di” and the near-peripheral zone (components used in the modal sentence with these modal constructions or in adjacent sentences). The modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” acquire the status of modal structures in the microtext oh their functioning. These modal units conserving the liaison with their inner form possess semantic implicatures of contrast and reactivity. The modal unit “non potere far a meno di” possesses one more semantic implicature: actionality. The typical microtexts of functioning of the Italian modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” are perceptional, emotional and epistemic.The modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” express the modal meaning of unique possibility and the unique possible reation of subject in certain circumstances. Usually such situation take place hic et nunc or is described through reflection of a subject (memories). Such reactions are characterized by absence of intention from the part of subject, spontaneity, impossibility of control that makes them impossible to be simulated or hidden. The modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” acquiring the status of modal structures in the microtext oh their functioning determine peculiarities of using of idiomatic means in the pre-nuclear zone, near-periphery zone and periphery zone. Idiomatic means typical for a microtext of functioning of the modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” characterize their sense structure. Such means are correlated with the modal meaning of unique possibility that expresses a contrast between factors of reality and imaginations or system of values of the subject of modal meaning that produce reaction of resistance. Being analyzed idiomatic means of different levels using in microtext of functioning of modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” it is determined that the modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” are markers of spontaneous non controlled sensorial, emotional or epistemic reaction of a subject that contradicts of his imaginations or system of values and usually causes emotional reaction of astonishment, admiration, embarrassment, fear. These modal units expressing the modal meaning ofunique possibility indicate the unique possible reaction by certain circumstances.In the pre-nuclear zone“nonpoterastenersi(trattenersi) da” and “nonpoterefaramenodi”are used lexical units thet express sensorial reaction (fremere, rabbrividire, sobbalzare, sussultare), emotional reaction (sorridere, ridere, interrompere qc con una risata), epistemic reaction or verba dicendi (richiedere, esclamare, gridare, notare, acido). In the near-peripheral zone are verbalized factors that caused a reaction of subject of modal evaluation such as lexical units of positive or negative evaluation, actional semantics. In the peripheral zone such information is completed end detailed. The microtect of functioning of the modal units “non potere trattenersi (astenersi) da” and “non potere far a meno di” is characterized by sense relations of contradictory between certain segments.

scholarly journals The School Counselor Leading (Social) Entrepreneurship within High Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 352
Author(s):  
Gemma Cuervo ◽  
Isabel Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
School Counselors ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Different Levels

<p>This article aims to determine the role that should exercise a School Counselor in social entrepreneurship education programs. To achieve this objective, first, we have analyzed the main approaches of these programs that are being carried out currently in Europe, which has allowed getting a concrete and contextualized idea about the status of the situation and studies done until the present day. Secondly, we have been held a qualitative research based on the realization of three semi-structured interviews to three specialists involved in entrepreneurship educational programs from different levels. After analyzing the data, it was concluded that the most viable option for achieving the target would be including a proposal about a program of entrepreneurship education in which the functions carried out by the professional would be in a detailed, contextualized and well defined situation. This program has been designed to develop in a secondary school and tries to compensate the difficulties and limitations of the environment for its implementation. The importance of this research lies in the fact that the number of studies on the subject is very little and there are very few focused on the value that can bring School Counselors and the role they should play in these entrepreneurship education programs.<strong> </strong></p>

Second Home Tourism During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-92
Author(s):  
Ali Inanir
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in Wuhan, China in 2019 and then spread rapidly around the world, has also become a factor affecting the tourism industry in many aspects. Second homes, which meet a significant part of the accommodation within the tourism sector, have also been affected in different levels by this pandemic. This research, which attempts to reveal the extent of the impact, has examined the news that appeared in the media during the COVID-19 process in Turkey. As a result of the research, it has been revealed that 23 news reports have been made on different news sites related to the subject. Based on this news, it has been concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the second home tourism in behavioral, environmental, and economic aspects. Some deductions have been made about the matter through these results.

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