NOMOS, IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS: CIRO POGGIALI'S DIARIO AOI 1936–1937 AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE ITALIAN COLONIAL WORLD

2011 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 329-349
Author(s):  
Charles Burdett
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Consciousness ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Belonging

The article begins by looking at the body of written and visual material that was produced on the colonial world in the interwar years. It considers various reading strategies that can be applied to this body of work and how it can be addressed through post-colonial criticism. The article argues that the work of the sociologist Peter Berger offers a series of insights into the way in which this material represents the social world, and the notions of collective identity and alterity that are central to that world. In the light of Berger's thinking on the socially constructed nomos, the essay examines some of the definitions of the relation between metropolitan and subject communities that recur in writings on the reality of colonialism. The essay explores the relationship of an individual author to the nomos of his or her time by looking in detail at one text: the journalist Ciro Poggiali's diary of the time he spent in Ethiopia in the immediate aftermath of the Italian conquest of the country. It examines how Poggiali's diary can be interpreted as a complex account of how the coerciveness of the social world is experienced by individual consciousness and how its definitions of racial and cultural belonging can be appropriated or challenged. The essay concludes by arguing that the analysis of strategies for defining identity and otherness within the Italian colonial context can be taken further by working within a comparative framework.

scholarly journals The role of family communication in shaping the quality of adult sibling interpersonal relationships and the opinions about the social world

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-117
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kamila Walęcka-Matyja
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social World ◽  
Adult Siblings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the study was to determine the relationships between the dimensions of the quality of the interpersonal relationship of siblings in early adulthood and opinions about the social world, and to check whether there are relational predictors of these opinions. The participants of the study were 180 people (including 48.9% women) who were in early adulthood (M = 24.73; SD = 4.54), who came from complete families with adult siblings. The following research tools were used: the Adult Relationship Questionnaire (Walęcka-Matyja, 2014), the STQ-Now Questionnaire (Szymańska, 2016), the Social Opinion Questionnaire (Różycka, Wojciszke 2010) and a questionnaire. The obtained results indicate the existence of numerous, although mostly weak and moderate, relationships in the expected directions between all dimensions of the interpersonal relationship of siblings (except for Competition) and opinions about the social world. Relational predictors of beliefs about the social world were also determined. It was found that sibling relationships in which there is high conflict, intense competition and indifference negatively affect the experience of satisfaction with social exchange, the level of self-esteem and trust in interpersonal contacts. Additionally, the negative aspects of the relationship of adult siblings (Conflict, Indifference) foster the belief that the world is a game in which you have to be ready to constantly fight with others. In turn, friendly relations between siblings (Warmth, Mutuality) and those with an element of struggle for power in the relationship (Domination) contributed to an increase in the level of self-esteem.

scholarly journals Zheng He’s Soft Power Discourse in Indonesia: Identity in Power Relation

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p64
Author(s):  
Siti Aliyuna Pratisti ◽  
Deasy Silvya Sari ◽  
Taufik Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
State Level ◽  
Peaceful Rise ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article proposes an identity turn in the ongoing discourse of China’s peaceful rise. While economic diplomacy remains as China’s leading trade, a robust social relation has been deliberately promoted in maintaining the relationship between states. To symbolize the peaceful relation, China does not need to look further as Zheng He, an ancient sea admiral of the Ming dynasty, posed as a powerful figure for peaceful diplomacy. The social constructivist approach to soft power will be used in analyzing the concept of collective identity and power relations. To illustrate this approach, a specific case study on China-Indonesia Muslim’s connection that exists since Zheng He’s era, will be highlighted as a landscape where the shared identity meet. The qualitative method will be applied to interpret shared values between the two societies. Despite the fact that the state level of analysis is generally used in depicting soft power discourse, this article tries to step beyond the boundaries of states by emphasizing the relationship of soft power in society level.

The Influence of the Big Two

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Radkiewicz ◽  
Krystyna Skarżyńska ◽  
Katarzyna Hamer
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
Social World ◽  
Negative Beliefs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
High Competence ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present article concerns the relationship of the Big Two with generalized negative worldviews (i.e., negative beliefs about human nature and pessimistic expectations of interpersonal relationships). Morality/communion and competence/agency – in the form of generalized judgments concerning other people’s attributes – may be a substantial basis for formulating negativistic beliefs about the social world. Because people automatically adopt the recipient’s perspective rather than that of the active agent while processing information, the communal/moral qualities of other people are profitable for them, while their competence/agency qualities are profitable for the actor. On the basis of these considerations we formulated the following hypotheses: (1) High morality/communion judgments of people in general are inversely related to negativistic worldviews, and high competence/agency judgments are directly related to negativistic worldviews. (2) Low morality/communion judgments together with high competence/agency judgments correlate with the most negativistic worldviews. (3) The relationships stated in Hypothesis (1) holds for the perception of people in general, but not for members of one’s own family. These hypotheses were tested and partly supported in a representative sample of adult Poles (n = 853).

Intimacy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tulloch ◽  
Belinda Middleweek
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
Social World ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 1 discusses the film Intimacy as constructed discursively from two entirely different perspectives: a film reviewer’s intertextual references and professional organization of knowledge in constructing for his readers a negative view of the film and the authors’ no less intertextual, no less constructed, interdisciplinary “overlapping” of frames, interpreting Intimacy by way of a “mutual understanding” between and a “galvanizing extension” of disciplinary assumptions. In this analysis the narrative is explored via the relationship of three milieus: the sex scenes of Jay and Claire; the social world of south London beyond Jay’s flat, where this sex takes place; and Jay’s own personal memory space. The tension and balance between language and silence explored between and within these scenes reveal the film’s exploration of modern intimacy at a time when sex for reproduction, marriage, and romantic love are under constant renegotiation.

Relationship of Body Image to Social Desirability

1961 ◽  
Vol 107 (451) ◽  
pp. 1060-1061
Author(s):  
Alexander Tolor ◽  
John Colbert
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
The Body ◽  
Check List ◽  
The Social ◽  
Figure Drawings ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Ego Strengths ◽  
The Relationship

Recent research has suggested that the social desirability factor may be considered both as a response set, which exerts a contaminating influence on personality tests (Edwards, 1957), and as a measure of pathology. With respect to the latter, Tolor and Boitano (1960) found that increased severity of psycho-pathology tends to be associated with a decreased ability to make socially acceptable choices on a check list consisting of an equal number of socially approved and socially disapproved items. Moreover, Fordyce (1956) pointed out that the “psychotic factor” resembles a definition of social undesirability. The present study represented an attempt to focus attention on the possible meaning of differences in social desirability in terms of differences in degree of ego-strengths of subjects. The purpose, therefore, was to determine the relationship between one aspect of ego strength, namely, the body image as reflected in the figure drawings, and the social desirability variable, as measured by a check list.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN DUKUNGAN SOSIAL SUAMI DENGAN TINGKAT KECEMASAN IBU PRE MENOPAUSE DI DUSUN WONOKERTO DESA WONOKERTO KECAMATAN KEDUNGGALAR NGAWI

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tunjung Sri Yulianti ◽  
Endang Dwi Ningsih ◽  
Ahmad Nur Kholik
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Menopausal Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The background of this research is that women will enter menopause usually will experience physical and psychological changes that will cause anxiety. With the social support from her husband will make her feelings become calm, and feel cared for so as to reduce the anxiety. The results of a preliminary survey data obtained 2 of 4 pre-menopausal women say feel anxious, feel a lot of diseases that can attack the body after their menopause, feeling old, wrinkled and no longer pretty scared of her husband so they could later turn to other women. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of husband’s social support to pre menopausal women’s anxiety levels at Hamlet Village Wonokerto Wonokerto Kedunggalar Ngawi subdistrict. The subject of this study are all pre-menopausal women in Hamlet Village Wonokerto Wonokerto District of Kedunggalar Ngawi totaling 20 people by using total sampling techniques. Methods of data collection in this study conducted by interview and observation then analyzed with Chi Square with a significant level of p: 0.05. The results of this study are the husband's social support included in optimal category and pre menopausal women’s anxiety levels included in the category of no anxiety. Analysis with Chi Square test with p = 0.05, obtained 0,031 results (probability <0.05). The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant relationship between husband’s social support with pre menopausal women’s anxiety levels at Hamlet Village Wonokerto Wonokerto Kedunggalar Ngawi subdistrict. Keywords: Menopause, Anxiety, Social Support

scholarly journals Popular Political Agency in Byzantium's villages and towns

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Dimitris KRALLIS
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
Social Units ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

While cotemporary work on the Byzantine polity presents Constantinople as a hub of a vividly polyphonic politics, much less has been said about the social and political identity of the empire’s smaller settlements. Following our field’s renewed interest in urban sociability, popular political agency, and collective identity I turn here to this larger world of villages and towns in order to examine the relationship of such social units with the Roman world around them during the middle Byzantine period. In doing so I trace village and town attitudes towards authority and follow evidence of collective action, which by all accounts should qualify as politics.

STAGES IN SOCIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-272
Author(s):  
Venelin Terziev ◽  
Preslava Dimitrova
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
National Society ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The social policy of a country is a set of specific activities aimed at regulating the social relations between different in their social status subjects. This approach to clarifying social policy is also called functional and essentially addresses social policy as an activity to regulate the relationship of equality or inequality in society. It provides an opportunity to look for inequalities in the economic positions of individuals in relation to ownership, labor and working conditions, distribution of income and consumption, social security and health, to look for the sources of these inequalities and their social justification or undue application.The modern state takes on social functions that seek to regulate imbalances, to protect weak social positions and prevent the disintegration of the social system. It regulates the processes in society by harmonizing interests and opposing marginalization. Every modern country develops social activities that reflect the specifics of a particular society, correspond to its economic, political and cultural status. They are the result of political decisions aimed at directing and regulating the process of adaptation of the national society to the transformations of the market environment. Social policy is at the heart of the development and governance of each country. Despite the fact that too many factors and problems affect it, it largely determines the physical and mental state of the population as well as the relationships and interrelationships between people. On the other hand, social policy allows for a more global study and solving of vital social problems of civil society. On the basis of the programs and actions of political parties and state bodies, the guidelines for the development of society are outlined. Social policy should be seen as an activity to regulate the relationship of equality or inequality between different individuals and social groups in society. Its importance is determined by the possibility of establishing on the basis of the complex approach: the economic positions of the different social groups and individuals, by determining the differences between them in terms of income, consumption, working conditions, health, etc .; to explain the causes of inequality; to look for concrete and specific measures to overcome the emerging social disparities.

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