The Role of Law in the Civilizing Process and the Reform of Popular Culture

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Two Bodies

AbstractThis paper builds on the notion that cultural revolution has always been implicated in processes of state formation and is manifest in moral regulation, which produces the normalizing, taken-for-granted reality of deep processes of social change. Two bodies of work are examined—namely, Norbert Elias' historical sociology of the civilizing process, and Peter Burke and the English social historians' concept of the “reform of popular culture”—for the insights they can provide into the part played by law in the formation of the modern state, the modern self, and the practice of everyday life.

“So that Every Subject Knows How to Behave”: Social Disciplining in Early Modern Bohemia

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheilagh Ogilvie
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Political Economic

“Social disciplining” is the name that has been given to attempts by the authorities throughout early modern Europe to regulate people's private lives.1 In explicit contrast to “social control,” the informal mechanisms by which people have always sought to put pressure on one another in traditional societies, “social disciplining” was a set of formal, legislative strategies through which the emerging early modern state sought to “civilize” and “rationalize” its subjects' behavior in order to facilitate well-ordered government and a capitalist modernization of the economy.2 Whether viewed favorably as an essential stage in a beneficent “civilizing process” or more critically as an arbitrary coercion of popular culture in the interests of elites, social disciplining is increasingly regarded as central to most aspects of political, economic, religious, social, and cultural change in Europe between the medieval and the modern periods.3

Eccentric modernity? An Islamic perspective on the civilizing process and the public sphere

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article engages with Johann Arnason’s approach to the entanglements of culture and power in comparative civilizational analysis by simultaneously reframing the themes of the civilizing process and the public sphere. It comments and expands upon some key insights of Arnason concerning the work of Norbert Elias and Jürgen Habermas by adopting an ‘Islamic perspective’ on the processes of singularization of power from its cultural bases and of reconstruction of a modern collective identity merging the steering capacities and the participative ambitions of an emerging urban intelligentsia. The Islamic perspective provides insights into the interplay between civilizing processes and the modes through which cultural traditions innervate a modern public sphere. By revisiting key remarks of Arnason on Elias and Habermas, the Islamic perspective gains original contours, reflecting the search for a type of modernity that is eccentric to the mono-civilizational axis of the Western-led, global civilizing process. While this eccentric positioning entails a severe imbalance of power, it also relativizes the centrality of the modern state in the civilizing process and evidences some original traits of the public sphere in a non-Western context.

scholarly journals The Lower Clergy and Popular Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dániel Bárth
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Written Form

The aim of this paper is to examine the role of the Christian lower priesthood in local communities in eighteenth–twentieth century Hungary and Transylvania in cultural transmission. The author intends to map out the complex and changing conditions of the social function, everyday life, and mentality of the priests on the bottom rung of the clerical hierarchy. Particular emphasis is placed on the activity of priests active at the focus points of interaction between elite and popular culture who, starting from the second half of the eighteenth century, often reflected both directly and in a written form on the cultural practices of the population of villages and market towns. The theoretical questions and possible approaches are centered around the complex relations of the priest and the community, their harmonious or conflict-ridden co-existence, questions of sacral economy, stereotypes of the “good priest” and the “bad priest” as shaped from above and from below, the subtleties of “priest-keeping”, the intentions related to preserving traditions and creating new customs, and the different temperaments of priests in relation to these issues.

scholarly journals Carnivalism of parody religions in the context of popular culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Sergey Sokovikov
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Religious Images ◽  
Actual Meaning

Parody religions are symptomatic phenomena of the cultural space. They signal some of the crisis features of the modern state of the religious sphere. At the same time, parodic religions, travesty of religious images, continue their projection in a transformed, carnivalized form. The most important circumstance is the environment for the emergence of these phenomena - popular culture as a sphere of spontaneous cultural creation. In the analytics devoted to this problem, the specificity of such a socio-cultural context of parody religions is practically not touched upon. Hence, there are many discrepancies and imprecise interpretations of the phenomenon. At the same time, it is his analysis at the intersection of the "new religiosity", carnivalism and the contextual role of popular culture that makes it possible to more accurately determine the origins, actual meaning and prospects of parodic religions, this bizarre fractal of modern culture.

Parallel Discourses and “Appropriate” Bodies: Media Constructions of Anorexia and Obesity in the Cases of Tracey Gold and Carnie Wilson

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie E. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Media Constructions ◽  
Cultural Body ◽  
Two Bodies

Mass media images of gender, beauty, and women have been at the heart of many feminist arguments about the need for change in our understanding of gender and the role it plays in our day-to-day existence. The role of a body, much like the role of a woman, is also negotiated between the pages and airwaves of a popular culture that precariously favors particular excessive behaviors and norms. A textual analysis of the popular press discourse surrounding two bodies, prominently defined in popular culture, demonstrates specific rhetorical strategies at work in the construction of the “appropriate” cultural body. This article explores how these two bodies are positioned at the border of cultural intelligibility and how these bodies, acting as discourse themselves, speak to culture and reify their positions on the margins.

Leon Trotsky, the Cultural Debates, and the Political Struggle in 1923

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-169
Author(s):  
Alexander Reznik
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Leon Trotsky

Abstract This article examines interconnections between politics and culture in the early Soviet era, using Leon Trotsky’s activities in the campaign for a new everyday life (novyi byt) in 1923 as a case-study. Traditionally, scholars pay attention primarily to Trotsky’s writings on literature and art. In contrast, this article shows the important role of Trotsky’s brochure ‘Problems of Everyday Life’ in the development of a new field of political communication that became the space for criticism of different political and cultural aspects of Soviet power and Bolshevik rule. Using archival and press sources, it shows how the campaign was spread both from below and above, and what were the reasons for its failure to become an alternative cultural revolution.

scholarly journals O papel civilizatório dos direitos humanos: diálogo com Bobbio e Elias / The civilizatory role of human rights: a dialogue with Bobbio and Elias

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaíssa Rocha Proni ◽  
Marcelo Weishaupt Proni
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Peaceful Settlement ◽  
Individual Self

Resumo: O objetivo é discutir o papel dos direitos humanos na civilização contemporânea a partir das abordagens teóricas de Norberto Bobbio e Norbert Elias. Na argumentação de Bobbio, a universalização dos direitos humanos é uma condição para a consolidação da democracia, a solução pacífica de conflitos e o progresso moral da humanidade. Para Elias, o desenvolvimento do processo civilizador requer mecanismos de autocontrole individual que reforcem padrões de sociabilidade pautados no respeito aos direitos humanos. O artigo sugere que essas duas visões convergem para o entendimento de que a expansão dos direitos humanos pressupõe e, ao mesmo tempo, induz um estágio civilizatório mais avançado. Mas, as constantes violações dos direitos humanos na atualidade demonstram que há ainda um longo caminho a percorrer. Abstract: The purpose is to discuss the role of the human rights in the contemporary civilization based on the theoretical approaches of Norberto Bobbio and Norbert Elias. Bobbio argues that the universalization of human rights is a condition for the consolidation of democracy, the peaceful settlement of conflicts and the moral progress of humanity. According to Elias, the development of the civilizing process requires individual self-control mechanisms that reinforce patterns of sociability based on respect for human rights. The article suggests that these two views converge to the understanding that the expansion of human rights presupposes and – at the same time – induces a more advanced stage of civilization. But the constant violations of human rights today show that there is still a long way to go.

The role of gossip in everyday life

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Hom ◽  
Jonathan Haidt
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life

The role of gossip in everyday life

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Hom ◽  
Jonathan Haidt
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life

Sa’Unine String Orchestra, Orkes Geseknya Indonesia

Panggung ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranti - Rachmawanti
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
String Orchestra ◽  
Characteristic Func ◽  
Orchestra Music ◽  
Research Show ◽  
Func Tion

ABSTRACT This article explains the result of Sa’Unine String Orchestra as one of Indonesian orchestras in popular culture. Main idea of this research is to uncover and describe the characteristic, func- tion, and role of Sa’Unine String Orchestra within the popular culture in Indonesia. This research used qualitative method with ethnographical approaches to identify all facts that discovered during research. The conclusions of this research show that Sa’Unine String Orchestra moves in two ways, there are; the idealism which had a vision to create a real Indonesian string orchestra and a part of music industry. At the end, these two ways are connected to each other because of the earnings of those. Music industry becomes a support factor which create the idealism of Sa’Unine String Or- chestra to be an Indonesian String Orchestra. Keywords: String Orchestra, Music, Popular Culture. 

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