The Desirable and Undesirable in the life of the Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins, 1905–1915

Itinerario ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-66
Author(s):  
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Social World ◽  
Personal Life

This article argues that while immigration exclusions of those considered undesirable were clearly set out by legislation, the subjectivity of the immigration officer was an important aspect of implementation. Drawing on the diaries and personal letters of the officer based at Cape Town, the article focuses on his emotions as he went about his daily life and moved between different intimate city spaces – home, church, docks and office. Bringing together his social world with his world of work, the article argues that what the immigration officer considered desirable in his personal life influenced how he conducted his work at the port.

El Quijote como ejemplo de la articulación de las realidades múltiples

1970 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mª Carmen López Sáenz
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Phenomenological Hermeneutics ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
The Common

ResumenLa autora introduce al lector en la sociofenomenología de la vida cotidiana de A. Schütz desde una lectura hermenéutica de “El Quijote”. Se detiene en el análisis schütziano de las estructuras de relevancias presentes en el universo quijotesco, ilustrando con citas de la obra de Cervantes y comentarios de las mismas las diversas construcciones sociales de los mundos de la vida habitados por los diferentes personajes, principalmente por Don Quijote y Sancho. Las articulaciones de estas realidades múltiples van aclarando el sentido del subuniverso quijotesco y el lugar del mismo en el seno del mundo de la vida compartido. Esas articulaciones se traducen en diferentes relaciones intersubjetivas que van reconfigurando el mundo social de don Quijote. A modo de conclusión, la autora reinterpreta la “locura” quijotesca de acuerdo con la estructura de relevancias.Palabras clavesociofenomenología, Schütz, mundo de la vida, D. QuijoteAbstractAutor initiates reader into A. Schütz´s Sociophenomenology of the daily life by means of the phenomenological hermeneutics of “The Quixot”. She focusses on the schützian analysis of the structures of relevances in the quixotic universe. The different social constructions of the lifeworlds are illustrated through Cervantes book´s quotations and comments, mainly by the D. Quixot and Sancho inhabited worlds. The articulations of these multiple realities go clarifying the sense of the quixotic subuniverse and its place in the common lifeworld´s bossom. Such articulations are translated into different intersubjetive relationships which reshape the Quixot´s social world. As a conclusion, author reinterpretes the quixotic “madness” in line with the structure of the relevances.KeywordsSociophenomenology, Schütz, Lifeworld, D. Quixot

The Power of Everyday Aesthetics in World-Making

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic

This chapter argues for the importance of cultivating aesthetic literacy and vigilance, as well as practicing aesthetic expressions of moral virtues. In light of the considerable power of the aesthetic to affect, sometimes determine, people’s choices, decisions, and actions in daily life, everyday aesthetics discourse has a social responsibility to guide its power toward enriching personal life, facilitating respectful and satisfying interpersonal relationships, creating a civil and humane society, and ensuring the sustainable future. As an aesthetics discourse, its distinct domain unencumbered by these life concerns needs to be protected. At the same time, denying or ignoring the connection with them decontextualizes and marginalizes aesthetics. Aesthetics is an indispensable instrument for assessing and improving the quality of life and the state of the world, and it behooves everyday aesthetics discourse to reclaim its rightful place and to actively engage with the world-making project.

scholarly journals Personal Life, Pragmatism and Bricolage

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social World ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Link Structure ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Social Legitimation

Individualisation theory misrepresents and romanticises the nature of agency as a primarily discursive and reflexive process where people freely create their personal lives in an open social world divorced from tradition. But empirically we find that people usually make decisions about their personal lives pragmatically, bounded by circumstances and in connection with other people, not only relationally but also institutionally. This pragmatism is often non-reflexive, habitual and routinised, even unconscious. Agents draw on existing traditions - styles of thinking, sanctioned social relationships, institutions, the presumptions of particular social groups and places, lived law and social norms - to ‘patch’ or ‘piece together' responses to changing situations. Often it is institutions that ‘do the thinking’. People try to both conserve social energy and seek social legitimation in this adaption process, a process which can lead to a ‘re-serving' of tradition even as institutional leakage transfers meanings from past to present, and vice versa. But this process of bricolage will always be socially contested and socially uneven. In this way bricolage describes how people actually link structure and agency through their actions, and can provide a framework for empirical research on doing family.

scholarly journals WUJUD RASA SYUKUR SEBAGAI KELUARGA PETANI DALAM VISUAL KARYA SENI GRAFIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-69
Author(s):  
Irfan Dwi Prastyo
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Aesthetic Result ◽  
Farm Family ◽  
Patient Work

Pembelajaran dari kehidupan sebagai keluarga petani menginspirasi kehidupan diri untuk bersikap sabar, kerja keras, sederhana, saling berbagi dan tolong-menolong dalam kehidupan sehari-hari serta berperan dalam pendewasaan diri. Tujuan penciptaan karya seni grafis ini adalah menciptakan karya seni grafis yang mengambil sumber inspirasi wujud rasa syukur sebagai keluarga petani, yang juga menjelaskan konsep dan proses penciptaannya serta estetika visual karya seni grafis yang diciptakan. Wujud rasa syukur sebagai keluarga petani dituangkan dalam visual karya seni grafis dengan teknik cetak tinggi menggunakan media hardboardcut pada kertas. Penciptaan karya seni grafis ini memberikan wawasan yang lebih dari pengalaman empiris dalam penciptaan karya seni grafis serta pendalaman terhadap konsep wujud rasa syukur sebagai keluarga petani. The lesson from life as farm family inspire personal life to patient, work hard, simple, sharing and help each other in daily life and also contribute to self-maturing. Purpose of create this printmaking artwork is creating printmaking artwork which take form thankfulness as farm family and also explain about concept, process creating and visual aesthetic result from printmaking artwork. Form of thankfulness as farm family is visualized in printmaking artwork with relief print technic use hardboardcut on paper. These creating printmaking artworks give more insight from empirical experience in creating printmaking artwork and also deepen about concept form thankfulness as farm family.

scholarly journals Health as Experience: Exploring Health in Daily Life Drawing From the Work of Aaron Antonovsky and John Dewey

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1004-1018
Author(s):  
Ninitha Maivorsdotter ◽  
Joacim Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Good Living ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Aaron Antonovsky

Research has pursued salutogenic and narrative approaches to deal with questions about how everyday settings are constitutive for different health practices. Healthy behavior is not a distinguishable action, but a chain of activities, often embedded in other social practices. In this article, we have endeavored to describe such a chain of activities guided by the salutogenic claim of exploring the good living argued by McCuaig and Quennerstedt. We use biographical material written by Karl Ove Knausgaard who has created a life story entitled My Struggle. The novel is selected upon an approach influenced by Brinkmann who stresses that literature can be seen as a qualitative social inquiry in which the novelist is an expert in transforming personal life experiences into common human expressions of life. The study illustrates how research with a broader notion of health can convey experiences of health, thereby complementing (and sometimes challenging) public health evidence.

Educational challenges and advances in times of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Lucena ◽  
Palitha Edirisingha
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
First Case ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Multiple Tasks ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Deadly Disease ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
At Home

When the first news about an unknown deadly disease in China reached the headlinesof the most accessed media on this side of the planet, none of us could imagine to be held hostage to a tiny little thing like a virus for such a long time. Yet, as we reach theanniversary of the first case reported in Wuhan, we are still learning how to managethe multiple tasks and challenges in daily life hoping for the first vaccines to be releasedin most countries.During this year many of us had to deal with uncertainty, personal losses, sadness,anxiety, a near to endless list of negative feelings that have and are impacting ourrelationships in personal life as well as at workplace. Work began to take place at home, which became our 24/7 office when we talk about educators.

Social world interactions: how company connects to paranoia

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 911-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Collip ◽  
M. Oorschot ◽  
V. Thewissen ◽  
J. Van Os ◽  
R. Bentall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Context Dependent

BackgroundExperimental studies have indicated that social contact, even when it is neutral, triggers paranoid thinking in people who score high on clinical or subclinical paranoia. We investigated whether contextual variables are predictive of momentary increases in the intensity of paranoid thinking in a sample of participants ranging across a psychometric paranoia continuum.MethodThe sample (n=154) consisted of 30 currently paranoid patients, 34 currently non-paranoid patients, 15 remitted psychotic patients, 38 high-schizotypy participants, and 37 control subjects. Based on their total score on Fenigstein's Paranoia Scale (PS), three groups with different degrees of paranoia were defined. The Experience Sampling Method (ESM), a structured diary technique, was used to assess momentary social context, perceived social threat and paranoia in daily life.ResultsThere were differences in the effect of social company on momentary levels of paranoia and perceived social threat across the range of trait paranoia. The low and medium paranoia groups reported higher levels of perceived social threat when they were with less-familiar compared to familiar individuals. The medium paranoia group reported more paranoia in less-familiar company. The high paranoia group reported no difference in the perception of social threat or momentary paranoia between familiar and unfamiliar contacts.ConclusionsParanoid thinking is context dependent in individuals with medium or at-risk levels of trait paranoia. Perceived social threat seems to be context dependent in the low paranoia group. However, at high levels of trait paranoia, momentary paranoia and momentary perceived social threat become autonomous and independent of social reality.

scholarly journals (Handicapped) Caregiver: the social representations of family members about the caregiving process

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 770-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisele Regina de Azevedo ◽  
Vera Lúcia Conceição de Gouveia Santos
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cord Injury

This study aimed to analyze what looking after physically disabled persons with spinal cord injury by trauma means to their caregivers and family members. The analysis of the testimony of eight caregivers, obtained in open interviews, which was methodologically based on the Social Representations Theory (SR), pointed out two main routes: coping with the suffering process in care practice and the troubled waters that permeate this suffering process. These two routes, characterized as SR Central Core and Peripheral System, respectively, consisted of themes like the way of looking at impairment, affectivity, religiosity, social-economical changes and (lack of) technical and institutional support. The results show a handicapped caregiver dedicated to look after someone who is physically disabled, considered incapacitated, and who leads his or her chores with distress and privations, based on guilt and religiosity, supported by ambiguous affection and affected by deteriorating social-economical changes and (lack of) technical and institutional support to practice an activity that implies so many peculiarities. The transformation alternatives of these caregivers' daily life principally lead to a symbiosis of disability with the patient - to live for the physically disabled - or yet, for a few, a sketch to restart personal life projects - to live with the physically disabled.

scholarly journals Świat społeczny ludzi żyjących w ubóstwie

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-238
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Tarkowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Poor Families

This is a chapter of a book containing the results of a study entitled ‘Old and New Forms of Poverty—The Lifestyles of Poor Families,’ which was conducted under the direction of Elżbieta Tarkowska in the second half of the 1990s. The author presents the social world of poor people in Poland, and two of its aspects in particular: the limitation of interhuman contacts to the family circle, and the role of institutions such as parishes, schools, and especially social support, in resolving the ongoing problems of daily life. Social policy, as reconstructed from the statements of people living in poverty, is oriented toward temporary activities and not toward shaping aspirations and behaviors, and yet the sole method of overcoming the apathy and helplessness accompanying long-term poverty is to arouse aspirations in the sphere of education.

scholarly journals Between Individual and Collective Actions: The Introduction of Innovations in the Social World of Climbing

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-131
Author(s):  
Anna Kacperczyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social World ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Primary Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Individual Participant ◽  
History Of

This article, which is based upon the findings of a seven-year research project concerning the social world of climbing, discusses climbing as an organized social practice that possesses a strong historical dimension and collective character. It examines the relation between individual participants and that social world as a whole, and it accepts that an individual’s personal life may be inscribed in the development and formation of that world in two ways. These are 1) a given social world imposes the behavioral patterns, normative rules, institutional schemes of actions, and careers upon participants that characterize their identities and actions; and 2) the actions of an individual participant trigger significant change in that world. I am particularly interested in those unique situations in which when a participant induces a change that affects a given social world (or a sub-world) as a whole, and discuss two examples of this relation, namely, the history of designing and creating climbing equipment, and setting new standards of climbing performance. Briefly stated, innovative solutions are born in conjunction with particular climbing actions that are either promoted or hindered depending on whether or not the vision of the primary activity associated with those solutions was accepted by the majority of participants. The dynamics and transformations of the social world in question thus rely upon the activities of exceptional individuals who, as pioneers, innovators, and visionaries, attain mastery in performing the primary activity of that world and set new standards of performance for others. A new mode of acting—in order to be collectively adopted—must be accepted as both valuable and morally justified by all participants.

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