Two Steps Forward in the Study of WomenImmaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality. Clarissa W. Atkinson , Constance H. Buchanan , Margaret R. MilesWomen, Religion, and Social Change. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad , Ellison Banks Findly

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-332
Author(s):  
Judith A. Berling
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zainuddin

This article discusses the efforts to revitalize social values on the basis of faith in monotheism that is alienated from social reality. So far, Islamic movement is too normative and tends to neglect differentiation, segmentation and social stratification in society. Consequently, the normative sentiments regarding the unity of the people became much more prominent than the actual commitment to defend the weak, displaced and oppressed groups in society. To understand Islam needs to look at the historical determinism, in order to avoid a partial understanding. Pure and social ritual can be performed equally an ideal personification of a true Muslim. The egalitarian character of Islam as a religion of liberation manifestation should be used to understand human conception and reality. Thus, someone will not be separated from his nature as human being who must worship the Lord and carry out social functions, as well as to avoid the trap of ritual extremism or social extremism. The revitalization of social values of monotheism by integrating relational networks of Islam in social change gave birth to anti ethnocentrism, universalism and liberation.


Young ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Paula Guerra

This article examines a set of Portuguese songs that ‘sing’ the economic, financial and social crises in Portugal in the post-2008 period. This work underlies a heuristic principle: to demonstrate how artistic manifestations—in this case, the songs in several (sub-)genres of popular music—are themselves a means and an object of social intervention, demarcating a specific, defined space in the acknowledgment and revelation of social problems, and in the contestation, deconstruction and accusation of problems that deal with social reality. We demonstrate that these songs seek to denounce and sometimes incite social change with the aim of creating transformation. They are therefore signs of a specific space—identity producers—and not just an echo of social reality. Insurgent songs instigate readings, narratives and deconstructions of reality, and they are simultaneously significant elements of a collective identity.


1970 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 541
Author(s):  
Burkart Holzner ◽  
Kalman H. Silvert

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Miftahul Ulum

Ralf Dahrendorf's conflict theory states that the structural changes can be classified on the basis of their extremities and based on their abrupt or unexpected levels. In this case Ralf Dahrendorf admits that his theory of emphasis on conflict and social change is a one-sided perspective of social reality. This is because although the theory of structural functionalism and conflict theory is perceived by Ralf Dahrendorf as a valid perspective in approaching social reality, it includes only a part of the social reality that should be. Both theories are incomplete when used separately, and therefore should be used together, in order to obtain a complete picture of social reality. As an example of case studies, the intra-religious authoritative conflict occurring in Sampang between the Sunni and Shiite schools is a flow rush that has reduced social harmonization among the Sampang and Madurese communities in general, causing intense social tensions. Sociologically, the existence of ulema among the Madurese is not only regarded as a religious elite, but also as a non-formal leader by the Madurese people who are considered to have social authority to determine life and community life.


1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Klausner

The division between the spheres of production and of social reproduction and consumption is common in social geography. In this paper it is argued that a more complete view of social reality and of social change may be gained by looking at links between these spheres in a given locality. This contention is supported by a case study of some of the housing policies of the London Docklands Development Corporation. This government-sponsored agency, it is argued, set out to affect a simultaneous transformation of both spheres in its area of operation. The implications of this policy are discussed.


Schulz/Forum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Cwalina

The goal of the paper’s author is to identify the references to contemporary social reality that can be found in Schulz’s fiction. One of the reasons for which such an effort seems to make sense is the writer’s decision to join the Literary Collective “Przedmieście.” The author compares Schulz’s poetics and some motifs of his fiction with the program of that particular group of writers. She also analyzes the representations of social change in such stories as “Spring,” “The Street of Crocodiles,” and the cycle “Treatise on Tailor’s Dummies.” The most important to her are the cultural, political, and economic aspects of those representations. Besides, she points to some analogies between Schulz’s diagnoses and those presented by Oswald Spengler in The Decline of the West.


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