The Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations among the Mombasa Swahili. Marc J. Swartz

The purpose of the article is to identify the essence of dance as a means of assimilating the sociocultural experience of the individual. The methodology of the research is based on interdisciplinary and systematicity characterizing the culturological knowledge. The scientific novelty of the results obtained is to formulate the problem of dance in the cultural dimension and in finding out the essence of dance as a means of assimilating socio-cultural experience due to the socio-cultural orientation laid down, which contribute to the full comprehension of the world of culture. Conclusions. Correlation with the eternal foundations of the world and with the most modern innovations makes dance a kind of model of cultural processes. Being a non-verbal system, the language of art performs an indirect function, however, dance - non-national, universal in its linguistic characteristics - does not need translation and therefore is capable of performing a unifying function. The educational and therapeutic possibilities of dance are important in the process of including the individual in the system of social relations; dance is an effective means of overcoming human disunity, acting as a standard of deep orientation towards the surrounding people, and develops the harmony of social understanding deeply rooted in a person.

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Consumer Credit in Comparative Perspective

Annual Review of Sociology ◽

10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053653 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 55-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Akos Rona-Tas ◽

Alya Guseva

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Relations ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Consumer Credit ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Credit System ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

The World ◽

Global Growth ◽

The Way

We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion. We describe the ways people interact with the strongly segmented consumer credit system around the world—more specifically, the way they access credit and the way they are held accountable for their debt. We then report on research on two areas in which consumer credit is consequential: its effects on social relations and on physical and mental health. Throughout the article, we point out national variations and discuss explanations for these differences. We conclude with a brief discussion of the future tasks and challenges of comparative research on consumer credit.

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Performing Pain, Performing Beauty: Dealing With Difficult Death in the Iron Age

Cambridge Archaeological Journal ◽

10.1017/s0959774314001036 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 539-550 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Melanie Giles

Keyword(s):

Iron Age ◽

Social Relations ◽

Performance Theory ◽

Traumatic Death ◽

The World ◽

Original Contribution ◽

Archaeological Analysis ◽

The Way

Traumatic death rends the fabric of personal and social relations in a manner that is qualitatively different to other kinds of mortality. Mourners must deal with the personal affects, familial consequences and political aftermath of such events. This paper examines the way in which performances around such difficult deaths were used to express and negotiate trauma, through the lens of Iron Age burials in Britain and Ireland. It draws on performance theory developed in relation to contexts of violence to argue that such funerals embodied a necessary tension: articulating pain whilst working towards a re-making of the world. The paper makes an original contribution to the archaeological analysis and interpretation of funerary performance, and moves recent debates on violence in the Iron Age into a new arena of study.

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Empathy as an expression of emotions and mood in English lingvoculture

International Journal of Linguistics Literature and Culture ◽

10.21744/ijllc.v7n6.1977 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

pp. 506-510

Author(s):

Gulnoza I. Narmurodova

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Speech Act ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Verbal Expression ◽

The World ◽

Expression Of Emotions ◽

Social And Cultural Factors ◽

English Culture ◽

The Way

This article provides information on the expression of feelings in expressing sympathy in English culture. There are a lot of emotions. The way they are expressed is special and unique for each culture and is influenced by various historical, social, and cultural factors. Therefore, as there are people in the world, there are as many ways to express sympathy. Each person chooses for himself how to express joy, sorrow, compassion, or simply remain silent and stay on the sidelines. The study of the verbal expression of sympathy allows us to assert that a sympathetic attitude can induce a person to the following speech actions - the expression of sympathy or condolences. Various factors influence the choice of a specific speech act. Emotions such as sympathy and condolence are aimed at establishing speech contact and maintaining speech and social relations with the interlocutor, at regulating them.

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