Modern Changes in Korean Residential Culture and Women's Everyday Life: A Micro-historical Perspective

This essay examines the consumption of technology in everyday life by considering three major technologies - car, telephone, and television. The argument attempts to go beyond technological determinism, which is typically not grounded in the study of everyday life, as well as beyond social shaping/social constructivist views that are tied to particular times and places, and thus unable to recognize broader and more long-term patterns of change. To make this argument, Sweden and America, two countries for which detailed evidence is available for different periods of time, including several studies of ‘typical’ small towns, are compared in historical perspective. In addition to synthesizing this evidence, the essay draws on neo-functionalist and Weberian ideas about technology and culture to argue that there is an overall pattern whereby the consumption of technology in everyday life simultaneously homogenizes leisure and sociable activities and at the same time makes them more diverse.

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The Vös’as’, the Udmurt sacrificial priest: an old task for young men

Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion ◽

10.33356/temenos.55613 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 9-39

Author(s):

Eva Toulouze ◽

Liivo Niglas

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Young Men ◽

Traditional Religion ◽

Village Level ◽

The Village

In the Udmurt diaspora of Northern Bashkortostan, the Udmurt traditional religion is very much alive; it is part of the villagers’ everyday life. Rituals are regularly held both at the village level and at a wider community, composed of several villages, and they involve the whole population. This article focuses on the key character of Udmurt ritual: the sacrificial priest, called vös’as’, and attempts to sketch a pattern of function performing and transmission, taking into account the lightly different practice in two local groups of villages. Further on it reflects on its historical perspective, in a Finno-Ugric context in which often practice of ethnic religions is seen and/or used as a marker for ethnicity.

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Culture of the “new normal” - terminological meaning(s) and use(s)

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta ◽

10.2298/gei2103519t ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 69 (3) ◽

pp. 519-530

Author(s):

Vesna Trifunovic ◽

Ivan Djordjevic

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Special Issue ◽

New Normal ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities

This paper discusses the different meanings and uses of the term ?new normal? by taking into account the historical perspective and contemporary use of the term which has reemerged as a consequence of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus on the processes that through this term define everyday life in pandemic circumstances, determined by the need for adjusting and for (re)negotiating and (re)positioning of diverse actors in positions of power. The unpredictable outcome of the still-ongoing pandemic additionally gives importance to the study of these new circumstances within social sciences and humanities, to which this special issue is dedicated to.

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On the Impact of Information Technologies on Society: an Historical Perspective through the Game of Chess

10.29007/gs6m ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Frederic Prost

Keyword(s):

Computer Science ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Social Impacts ◽

Iconic Representation ◽

The World ◽

Chess Players ◽

The Impact

The game of chess as always been viewed as an iconic representationof intellectual prowess. Since the very beginning of computerscience, the challenge of being able to program a computer capableof playing chess and beating humans has been alive and used both asa mark to measure hardware/software progresses and as an ongoingprogramming challenge leading to numerous discoveries. In the earlydays of computer science it was a topic for specialists. But ascomputers were democratized, and the strength of chess enginesbegan to increase, chess players started to appropriate tothemselves these new tools. We show how these interactions betweenthe world of chess and information technologies have been herald ofbroader social impacts of information technologies. The game ofchess, and more broadly the world of chess (chess players,literature, computer softwares and websites dedicated to chess,etc.), turns out to be a surprisingly and particularly sharpindicator of the changes induced in our everyday life by theinformation technologies. Moreover, in the same way that chess is amodelization of war that captures the raw features of strategicthinking, chess world can be seen as small society making the studyof the information technologies impact easier to analyze and tograsp.

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Nicasius Ellebodius and the “otium litterarum” The Vicissitudes of a Flemish Humanist in Pozsony (1571–77)

East Central Europe ◽

10.30965/18763308-48010009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Áron Orbán

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

16Th Century ◽

Academic Elite ◽

Res Publica

Abstract This study reviews Nicasius Ellebodius’s Pozsony (today: Bratislava) period (1571–77) from a biographical and intellectual historical perspective. Ellebodius (1535–1577) was a Flemish philologist of vast erudition, one of the finest Graecists of his day. His biography and character are much less discussed in scholarship than his works, although his letters provide us with invaluable information about his life, as well as about the participation of the academic elite of 16th-century Hungary in the international res publica litteraria. The article will revisit the problem of how far he could realize the otium litterarum that he yearned for so much, and what challenges he had to face in his everyday life in Pozsony.

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Genetic Sources of the Worldview Determinants of Nonviolent Cultural Practices

The Culturology Ideas ◽

10.37627/2311-9489-16-2019-2.8-19 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 8-19

Author(s):

Valentyna Sudakova

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Religious Belief ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Theoretical Interpretation ◽

European Culture ◽

Religious Systems ◽

The Ancient Chinese ◽

Social Management

The article presents сonceptual analysis of genetic sources of the worldview determinants of non-violent cultural practices of the nonviolence by assessing the achievements of the ancient Chinese and Indian philosophical and religious systems having offered, developed and implemented the idea of nonviolence. The author draws attention to the importance of studying the nonviolence phenomena, its epistemological and ontological characteristics and to the difficulties of the correct theoretical interpretation of the ‘nonviolence’ concept in contemporary sociocultural knowledge. The article proves that only the culturological approach is the most effective cognitive instrument for identification in the historical perspective the achievements of traditional cultures in the forms of worldviews, ideas and recipes for the non-violent organization of everyday life and social management. It overviews the problematics of genetic sources, ideological conditions and traditional non-violent practices. The author proposed the critical analysis of the basic worldview communicative principles for non–violent human coexistence. The author researches shortcomings of the Eastern version of the non-violent worldview, the reasons of the dubious achievements of this worldview in European culture; yet proving that in the Western societies the tolerance phenomena as the principle of freedom of religious belief and of human behaviour is the modified manifestation of nonviolence.

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Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

Perspectives on Issues in Higher Education ◽

10.1044/ihe15.2.77 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 77-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ketevan Mamiseishvili

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Education Research ◽

Community Engagement ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Work Setting ◽

Higher Education Research ◽

Faculty Work ◽

College And University ◽

Teaching Research ◽

University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

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