scholarly journals Prose miniatures as an experience of self-identification (author's mini-texts in the Vepsian language)

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 16005
Author(s):  
Galina Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Social

Prose miniatures of Alexander Ulyanov are analyzed not only as a way of self-expression of the author's ego, but also as an experience of self-identification, awareness of their place in the social world order and historical time. The format of the miniature cycle appears as a convenient form of reproducing key moments of a person's life, which corresponds to the mechanism of memories as processing pop-up engrams of episodic memory into a complete self-reflection. At the same time, focusing on a particular idea unfolds in a specific situation in life. The creative principle of the author of miniatures serves the pragmatics of social adaptation in the surrounding stressful world. It is creativity that turns out to be a tool for assembling the personality in its multiple forms and serves as a way of integration into a heterogeneous external environment. The mechanisms of constructing miniatures in the perspective of achieving self-reliance and integration into the surrounding world are considered. Namely, the thematic diversity, the author's initial data representing a «fluid identity» typical for a person of the twentieth century with the help of a cumulative attitude to «collecting stones» are successfully overcome in the choice of a reflective style of description and the absence of hasty subjective conclusions. The core of self-identification of the series of miniatures by A. S. Ulyanov translates to the reader dignity, self-confidence and readiness for any tests.

scholarly journals In the midst of theory and practice: a foreword

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Hannes Peltonen ◽  
Knut Traisbach
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
World Society ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

Abstract This foreword frames the Symposium in two ways. It summarises the core themes running through the nine ‘meditations’ in The Status of Law in World Society. Moreover, it places these themes in the wider context of Kratochwil's critical engagement with how we pursue knowledge of and in the social world and translate this knowledge into action. Ultimately, also his pragmatic approach cannot escape the tensions between theory and practice. Instead, we are in the midst of both.

scholarly journals Platonic metaphysics and the ontology of international relations: a sketch

2021 ◽  
pp. 004711782110214
Author(s):  
King-Ho Leung
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
World Order ◽  
Social World ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Individual

This article offers a reading of Plato in light of the recent debates concerning the unique ‘ontology’ of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline. In particular, this article suggests that Plato’s metaphysical account of the integral connection between human individual, the domestic state and world order can offer IR an alternative outlook to the ‘political scientific’ schema of ‘levels of analysis’. This article argues that Plato’s metaphysical conception of world order can not only provide IR theory with a way to re-imagine the relation between the human, the state and world order. Moreover, Plato’s outlook can highlight or even call into question the post-metaphysical presuppositions of contemporary IR theory in its ‘borrowed ontology’ from modern social science, which can in turn facilitate IR’s re-interpretation of its own ‘ontology’ as well as its distinct contributions to the understanding of the various aspects of the social world and human life.

Interactional means of teaming up: enacting the features of contemporary working life in a theater performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riikka Nissi ◽  
Melisa Stevanovic
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Workplace Organization ◽  
The One

Abstract The article examines how the aspects of the social world are enacted in a theater play. The data come from a videotaped performance of a professional theater, portraying a story about a workplace organization going through a personnel training program. The aim of the study is to show how the core theme of the play – the teaming up of the personnel – is constructed in the live performance through a range of interactional means. By focusing on four core episodes of the play, the study on the one hand points out to the multiple changes taking place both within and between the different episodes of the play. On the other hand, the episodes of collective action involving the semiotic resources of singing and dancing are shown to represent the ideals of teamwork in distinct ways. The study contributes to the understanding of socially and politically oriented theater as a distinct, pre-rehearsed social setting and the means and practices that it deploys when enacting the aspects of the contemporary societal issues.

scholarly journals A Dialogue on Social Inquiry: Expanding Our Understanding of Sociological Thinking

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Rebat Kumar Dhakal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Philosophy Of Social Science ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Core ◽  
Social Inquiry ◽  
The Social

Highlights Social inquiry is much more than the study of society. It further excavates historical facts, critically reflects on everyday happenings, and envisions the future we wish to create. The intent of initiating this dialogue on social inquiry is two-fold: a) to offer a sociological perspective (i.e. ‘thinking sociologically’), and b) to expand our understanding of sociological thinking. Sociological thinking can be developed by examining the periphery of the core. Context matters in understanding any phenomenon under the sociological microscope. Sociological thinking allows many different viewpoints to coexist within a larger structure and that it respects pluralism. Sociological thinking is about developing or providing a perspective to examine social nuances. Sociological thinking should act as a means for social transformation.  Social inquiry serves as a methodology for the social sciences and humanities. It deals with the philosophy of social science and the workings of the social world – giving a way for understanding both the biosphere and the sociosphere.

The People’s History and the Politics of Everyday Life since 1945

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Social World ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Informal Politics

This chapter revisits interview transcripts from postwar social science projects to explore vernacular understandings of the social world, especially the informal politics of everyday life. Understanding shifting conceptions of historical time provides the key to understanding the crisis of social democracy in the 1970s and 1980s which was rooted less in the machinations of high politics than in popular responses to economic uncertainty and social change. What sealed the fate of the mobilizing myths of postwar social democracy was the collapse of popular belief in the idea of ‘the people’s’ forward march. By the 1980s expectations of intergenerational ‘progress’ had begun to loosen and conceptions of a shared future had broken down. But if popular conceptions of time and politics represent vernacular attempts to make sense of everyday experience, resetting the terms of economic life and public policy may re-establish shared conceptions of progress.

scholarly journals Alienation and Emotion: Hegel Versus Sentimentalism and Romanticism

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Warren D. TenHouten
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Domination

The structuralist and social-psychological perspectives on alienation are described, with attention to Seeman’s contention that the experience of alienation is based more on sentiment than on reason. The passions in early modernity are described, and the eighteenth-century moral sentimentalists Hume, Smith, and Kant are discussed. Romanticism is described as the first self-critique of modernity, as it opposed Enlightenment science, rationalism, and uniformitarianism; it is linked to interiorized emotionality and to diversitarianism. Romantic concepts of alienation include inhibition of natural sexuality, oppressive condition of work, and the loss of an imagined Golden Age before human alienation. Hegel’s Phenomenology outlines a four-stage mode of the undoing of social domination which has a narrative structure consistent with romantic story-telling, but was grounded not in romanticism but in Gnosticism and Lutheran dialectics. Hegel’s critique of sentimentalism and romantism is explored, with Hegel emerging as a dedicated anti-romantic who condemned the sophistry of Schlegel and Novalis’s ‘beautiful soul’, arguing that the self, to be viable, cannot remain encapsulated in inner subjectivity but must rather engage in emotion-laden confrontation with self-willed others in the social world; this requires a positive kind of alienation of the self from itself. Romantic effort to keep the self in itself as protection from the corrupted and corrupting social world was misguided. Hegel was right in asserting that the self is necessarily both subjective and objective, both inner and outer, but wrong in his contention that the self can progress by resolving inner contradictions, for the self, as the core of our personality, rather progresses through incorporating and elaborating contradictions, ambiguities, and polysemantic meanings.

scholarly journals Αναπαραστάσεις της ψυχικής ασθένειας στον αγροτικό χώρο

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Σταυρούλα Παρασκευοπούλου
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
General Population ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social

This research study is a part of research field of social psychology. This research aims in theinvestigation of social representations of the general population for mental illness.Accordance with the theoretical framework, any social representation is created anddetermined through two complementary processes: objectification and anchoring. Theobjectification is a descriptive process that gives material substance to the ideas. Theanchoring is an interpretive process, in which social subjects incorporate an unknown objectin a familiar network of meanings for understanding and explanation. Regarding thestructure of social representations, some elements form the central core and determine,organize and stabilize the social representation. The core contains a small number ofelements around which peripheral elements are organized and fully dependent on the core.Their role is very important because it lies between the core and the specific situation inwhich is formed and operates the social representation and may contain many individualdifferences always compatible with the central core. The core ensures stability andconsistency of social representation, while the peripheral system tolerates heterogeneity.Regarding the research design followed a combined methodological approach involvingsemistructured research interview, survey questionnaire and method of free associations.Research conducted in the general population of rural areas of Messinia. The first phase ofresearch involves conducting interviews and the second phase of the survey questionnaires.Also presented in detail in the questionnaire and manufacturing process. For purelypractical reasons, the method of free association incorporated in a questionnaire.Regarding the findings of investigation, the social representation of mental illness objectifiedin a form of a continuum, one edge of which are the milder forms of mental illness in earlystages and usually take the form of depression. At the other end of this continuum areserious cases of mental illness, who have no contact with reality, such as schizophrenia,which coincides with the concept of madness. To these more serious cases, people withmental illness behave completely irrationally and can be dangerous without case, becausetheir mind doesn’t function properly. If cases of mental illness are in the early stages are notmade on time and left untreated, can damage a brain to deteriorate so much that evenreach the stage of schizophrenia. Also anchoring the mental illness as an illness of the mind,symptoms of which are the various dysfunctional behaviors, depending on the stage and theparticularities of each case. Mental illness also anchoring as a difficult and mentallyexhausting illness for the patient and his family, because it creates extremely difficult situation. Mental illness is very difficult to treat, even at an early stage. The most seriouscases as schizophrenia are not considered curable. In most cases of schizophrenia psychiatrichospitalization is required, either because the mental patient is extremely dangerous tohimself or others, either because the situation is so serious that it cannot be treated in thecommunity.

10. Poststructuralism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Hansen
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Social World ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
World State ◽  
The Core ◽  
Good Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
Power Play

This chapter examines the core assumptions of poststructuralism, one of the International Relations (IR) perspectives furthest away from the realist and liberal mainstream. It explores whether language matters for international relations, whether all states have the same identity, and whether the state is the most important actor in world politics today. The chapter also considers poststructuralist views about the social world, state sovereignty, and identity and foreign policy. Finally, it discusses poststructuralism as a political philosophy. Two case studies are presented, one dealing with discourses on the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and the other relating to Russian discourse on Crimea. There is also an Opposing Opinions box that asks whether poststructuralism provides a good account of the role that materiality and power play in world politics.

Slavery in Achaemenid-Period Babylonia: The Social World of Rībat, Son of Bēl-erība

2022 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhyne King ◽  
Reinhard Pirngruber
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social World ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

Abstract This paper argues for a historically grounded view of slavery in Achaemenid-period Babylonia by examining the life of one particular individual, Rībat son of Bēl-erība, an ardu of the Murašû family (whose archive spans c. 454–404 BCE). In contrast to other studies which focus on the terminology or legal aspects of slavery, we examine the lived experience of Rībat. We do this in two ways. First, we study all of Rībat’s attested business ventures and demonstrate that, although Rībat occasionally acted under the direct orders of his masters, he more often pursued activities ancillary to those of the core Murašû business. Secondly, we use social network analysis of over 700 Murašû texts to demonstrate that, although Rībat was crucial in linking distinct individuals to the Murašû business, he lay outside his masters’ group of core associates. We then compare Rībat’s social position to that of other known Murašû subordinates to argue that Rībat’s experience was representative of that of other Murašû subordinates. We conclude by arguing for more social-historical studies of Babylonian servitude in the future.

scholarly journals Theory of Mind

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Sabbagh ◽  
Lindsay Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Atypical Development

Everyday understanding of the social world relies, at least in part, on having a theory of mind—an understanding of how mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions cause human behavior. After introducing the core conceptual distinctions to frame discussion of the issues, we review a wide range of literature pertaining to the development of a range of theory of mind understandings; the cognitive, neurobiological, and experiential factors that contribute to those developments; and how the development of theory of mind affects a variety of social competencies, in typical and atypical development. Finally, we discuss various theories of theory of mind development and broader importance of theory of mind research for the field.

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