Chapter 6. Scotland’s contribution to English vocabulary in Late Modern times

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Marina Dossena
Keyword(s):  
Modern Times ◽  
Late Modern

The Best and Most Trying of Times

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Hefner
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Public Ethics ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Late Modern

In recent years, scholars and policy analysts have grappled with the question of the relation of Islamic education to politics, public ethics, and modern social change. This chapter examines the origins, social role, and varieties of Islamic education, and their transformation in modern times. The chapter shows that, although Muslim educators in a few parts of the late-modern world have been resistant to efforts at educational reform, the great majority have responded positively and energetically. They have done so in response to both the hopes and aspirations of Muslim parents and youth, and the recognition that moral and intellectual progress in Muslim-majority societies requires a dialogue with and integration of the sciences of the world with the sciences of revelation.

Populism and Late Liberalism

2011 ◽  
Vol 637 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Comroff
Keyword(s):  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The People ◽  
Late Modern

“Populism,” a key trope of our times, is sometimes a term of analysis and critique, but more often a label of disparagement and blame. While many activists claim to be “ of the people” or “ for the people,” most would think twice about dubbing themselves “populist” as such. Yet it is precisely the slipperiness of the term that makes it so productive in political rhetoric. Why the increasing appeal of the trope? Given its widespread, contentious deployment, can it retain any usefulness as a tool of analysis—even critical engagement? Drawing on a range of current examples, the author argues (1) that populism in some form is a necessary condition of all antiestablishment movements, progressive or conservative; (2) that it is in itself never enough to fuel sustained, politically constructive mobilization; and (3) that in all these respects, populism seems to be taking on particular, disquieting features in late modern times.

Liquid Ritualizing

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Arfman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Late Modern

This article concerns itself with the challenges faced when “deliberately cultivating or inventing rites” (Grimes) in late modernity, a period which philosophers and sociologists describe as fluid, reflexive, risky, and post-traditional. Through analysis of the ritual field of collective commemoration, which in the last decades has emerged in the Netherlands, it is argued that such challenges are in fact overcome by an attitude of embracing the very aspects that characterize late modern times. This attitude is dubbed ‘liquid ritualizing,’ and it is contrasted to earlier forms of ‘rooted’ ritualizing in order to challenge certain fundamental claims regarding contemporary religiosity.

Michel Maffesoli's Sociology of Modernity and Postmodernity: An Introduction and Critical Assessment

1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Evans
Keyword(s):  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Performative Contradiction

This article introduces and criticises Michel Maffesoli's attempt to formulate a post-modern sociology for post-modern times. While arguing that Maffesoli's sociology is suggestive and insightful about many aspects and features of late-modern life this article, nonetheless, questions whether Maffesoli's approach should be accepted as a fruitful sociological paradigm which others should take up uncritically. Moreover, it will be argued that Maffesoli's approach is an ultimately incoherent and one-sided approach to studying the ‘postmodern condition’ in that it does not escape the problem of ‘performative contradiction’ identified by the likes of Habermas, Giddens and Touraine. That is to say, Maffesoli has produced a one-sided and flattened out image of modernity that cannot account for the possibility of social and political critique.

The ubiquitous baseball cap: Identity, style, and comfort in late modern times

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-278
Author(s):  
William W. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Identity Style ◽  
The Common ◽  
Blue Jeans ◽  
Late Modern

The baseball cap completes the T-shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers as the common kit of late modern life, the recent decades when consumption, as acquisition, display, and deployment, has become preeminent in asserting self-identity and negotiating social placement. This essay traces the codification and commercialization of the baseball cap within that sport and its adoption by other sports and spectators. It argues that for fans the cap within the stadium is more than passive allegiance but rather a material performative. The essay then follows the cap into everyday life, where it has become the dominant headwear because its material qualities can enable affiliation, fashion, and comfort. Although the baseball cap is ubiquitous at the present moment, its frequency is variable, as evidenced by timed counts in public spaces in the three baseball nations of United States, Japan, and Cuba. The article concludes by suggesting some factors that may explain the cap’s transgressive motility across sport, work and everyday life, across fashion codes, and across gender and class divides.

scholarly journals Interpreting the YouTube Zoo: Ethical Potential of Captive Encounters

2021 ◽  
pp. 323-340
Author(s):  
Yulia Kisora ◽  
Clemens Driessen
Keyword(s):  
Wild Animals ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Common Practices ◽  
Zoo Animals ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Online Entertainment ◽  
Late Modern

AbstractYouTube hosts a vast number of videos featuring zoo animals and humans actively reacting to each other. These videos can be seen as a popular genre of online entertainment, but also as a significant visual artefact of our relations with animals in the age of humans. In this chapter we focus on two viral videos featuring captive orangutans interacting with zoo visitors. The interpretations of ape-human interactions arising from the extensive number of comments posted to the videos are ambivalent in how they see the animals and their assumed capabilities. We argue that the YouTube Zoo could figure as a snapshot of human-animal relations in late modern times: mediating artificial conditions of animals suspended between the wild and the domestic, while offering a screened account of a deeply surprising interaction. The chapter shows the potential of close interactions between humans and animals to destabilise or reinforce the neat divisions between the human and the animal. It also shows the ethical potential of these interactions to either reinforce or question common practices of dealing with wild animals.

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