The Dynamics of Inuit Social Transformation

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kral
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
Sociocultural Change ◽  
Trading Company ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This chapter discusses the social–historical background against which Inuit youth have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. It takes a community, cultural, and historical perspective and considers the view that suicide is a symbol of social suffering. The chapter examines the dominant forms of sociocultural change among Inuit during the past several decades. Although White people arrived in the Arctic in the early 20th century as missionaries, police, and a large fur-trading company, the most significant force of change in Inuit history was the moving of Inuit from their land camps into crowded settlements in the 1950s and 1960s. Much of this imperialism/colonialism is discussed, as is hunting, sharing, and schooling.

Apologies, Redemption, and Repair

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica M. Emerich
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Social World ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Holistic Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Work

This chapter deals with the healed self, contextualized as united with the natural world, moving toward its reconciliation with the third arm of the holistic model of health—the social world. First, there are apologies and confessions to be made by industrialists and consumers who have recognized the “Consequences of Modernity”and their own roles in those results. LOHAS is a capitalist endeavor but also attempts to position itself as resistant to those processes, and as such it must articulate “LOHASians” as ultimately powerful in themselves to change the course of late capitalism and consumer culture. There are instructions on how to say you're sorry and move on to the real work of mopping up the mess. As part of this, LOHAS narratives tell us to remain positive, but also that older notions of desire and ideals of happiness afloat in the culture were off course. By situating individual consumers and producers as capable of bringing about sweeping social transformation, LOHAS not only sustains consumer culture, but also contextualizes it as the locus for the healing of the world.

Genurile romanului românesc (1901-1932). O analiză cantitativă

Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Terian ◽  
Daiana Gârdan ◽  
Emanuel Modoc ◽  
Cosmin Borza ◽  
Dragoș Varga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self

Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present article studies the ratio, characteristics, and tendencies underpinning the most important subgenres of the Romanian novel between 1901 and 1932. Among these subgenres, we lay special emphasis on those of popular fiction, on the social, historical, sentimental, psychological, and philosophical novel, as well as on the so-called “event novel”. The conclusions of our inquiry illustrate the ever-growing divide between artistic literature and popular fiction, the recasting of the Romanian novelistic subgenres during the early 20th century, and the gradual relocation of the novelists’ focus from the unmediated depiction of events towards the world and the individual self.

Social and Solidarity Economy in Uruguay

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anabel Rieiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Democratic Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Socioeconomic Crisis

The social and solidarity economy is a widely used concept to indicate economic logics based on solidarity and the centrality of sustainability in life, differentiating them from the hegemonic economy unilaterally based on rational individualism, the maximization of profits, and the free market. It involves dynamic and specific sociohistoric constructions. In Uruguay, cooperative organizations, which have been in existence for more than a century, are traditionally identified with these types of practices. Cooperativism developed in dialogue with the distinct stages of Uruguayan history and over the last fifteen years, these experiences have tripled, based on the strengthening of public policies for the promotion and support of the sector. Institutional consolidation and the long trajectory of distinct sectors of cooperativism, mutualism, and rural development societies tend to be identified with the social economy. On the other hand, around the dawn of the new century, there emerged a diversity of forms of organization and networks which emphasized the need for social transformation, appealing to practices based on solidarity and reciprocity, both between people and between them and the environment. In general, these are decentralized structures which, in a regional context marked by the socioeconomic crisis and the slogan of the World Social Forum of “another world is possible,” organize economic activities according to the principles of democratic management, cooperation, autonomy, and transformation.

Managing the dance of enchantment: An ethnography of social entrepreneurship events

Organization ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Mauksch
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Language Effects ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
Sensual Pleasure ◽  
Human Desire

This article sheds light on public performances as important yet neglected sites for social entrepreneurship’s discursive expansion as a fashionable model for social transformation. It approaches the strategic considerations behind presentations aimed at ‘enchanting’ social entrepreneurship through sophisticated investments in spiritual, aesthetic and bodily involvement, and the impressive staging of Muhammad Yunus as a global hero. On a first analytical layer, these ethnographic insights broaden the explanatory basis for social entrepreneurship’s rising popularity. In academic literature, its recent prominence is either accepted as a given fact or critically explored through the theoretical lens of language effects, while modes of conviction that invest in the ‘extra-textual’ are largely ignored. Addressing this gap, the article portrays how organisational actors charged presentations with aesthetic significance, emotional fervour, spiritual dynamism and sensual pleasure to produce holistic experiences that allow people to connect the concept of social entrepreneurship to a felt sense of being-in-the-world. On a second layer, the analysis problematises the enchantment debate’s tendency to construct a secular–spiritual binary, that is, to perceive enchantment as arising either from powerful acts of managerial manipulation or from a deeply human desire to fill a religious void. Complicating this distinction, the article frames enchantment work in the social entrepreneurship field as an ambiguous ‘dance’ between the secular and the sacred—a paradoxical activity of amalgamating neo-rational considerations with the spiritualised pursuit of a global vision.

A search for new urban narratives in the era of globalization: The case of urban sociology in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092110053
Author(s):  
Takashi Machimura
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Narratives ◽  
Uncertain Future

This article aims to describe the recent changes in urban sociology in Japan, especially by focusing on dominant urban narratives and their historical background. Japanese cities have rushed through a compressed modernity since the early 20th century. The sweeping crisis in the 21st century can be regarded partially as one of its consequences. New urban crises such as disparity and poverty, loss of habitat, internal populism, and various risks are emerging. At the same time, various challenges unique to cities are also rising. Incremental and contingent restructuring has been urged through a process of both merging and colliding of ‘the persistent’ and ‘the newly generated’ factors inside of cities. How do we imagine a sustainable form of cities through repositioning them in an uncertain future? More incisive urban research is now demanded to explain the relation between the social, political, cultural, and material factors in a city.

Value Cleavages, Issues, and Partisanship in East Asia

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aie-Rie Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Values ◽  
East Asian ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Party Choice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Value Priorities ◽  
Governmental Institutions

This article examines how the social transformation in many East Asian democracies is altering the value priorities of their publics, and how these values are affecting party choice. Our analyses are based on the newest wave of the World Values Survey. We find that the emergence of an authoritarian-libertarian value cleavage is clearly associated with level of development, but these values emerge well before what prior research indicated. In addition, we show that party loyalty among the East Asian citizenry is shaped by a mix of social values, economic issues, left-right ideology, distrust in governmental institutions, and proclivities to engage in protest activities.

scholarly journals INDUSTRI KERAMIK TRADISIONAL CINA DI SAKKOK, SINGKAWANG 1933-2000

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Any Rahmayani
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Ceramic Industry ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Ceramics Industry

AbstrakPenelitian ini menyajikan tentang dinamika industri keramik tradisional Cina di Sakkok, sebuah wilayah di Kota Singkawang, Provinsi Kalimantan Barat sepanjang abad ke-20. Latar belakang penelitian ini adalah keberadaan industri keramik tradisional Cina di Sakkok yang sedang digarap sebagai aset ekonomi dan pariwisata bagi Singkawang. Permasalahan pokok yang dibahas adalah dinamika industri keramik tradisional Cina di Sakkok, Singkawang dalam perspektif sejarah. Tujuan dari kajian ini yaitu menggambarkan tentang tradisi pembuatan keramik tradisional Cina di Sakkok, menguraikan perintisan industri keramik tradisional Cina pada awal abad ke-20 dan menjelaskan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi industri ini. Metode yang digunakan metode heuristik, kritik, interpretasi dan historiografi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ciri tradisional keramik Cina yang terlihat pada bahan bakunya, peralatan proses proses pembentukan, penglasiran,dan pembakaran, motif dan desain, serta alat pembakaran yang disebut tungku naga. Perubahan yang terkait dengan ketersediaan bahan baku, bahan penunjang dan teknik pembakaran serta kondisi sosial politik membawa dampak bagi keberlangsungan industri keramik tradisional Cina dari Singkawang ini.AbstractThis study presents the dynamics of traditional Chinese ceramics industry in Sakkok, Singkawang, in the Province of West Kalimantan during the 20th century. The background of this research is the existence of traditional Chinese ceramics industry in Sakkok which is being worked on as an economic and tourism asset for Singkawang. The main problem for this study is the historical perspective of the dynamics of traditional Chinese ceramics industry in Sakkok. The purpose of this study is describing the tradition of producing traditionalChinese ceramics in Sakkok, outlining pioneering in the industry in the early 20th century, and explaining the factors affecting it. The author used heuristic, criticism, interpretation and historiography. The results showed that the characteristics of traditional Chinese ceramics are depicted in the raw materials, equipment, processes of formation, glazing, and burning, motifs and designs, as well as burning tool called dragon furnace. Changes related to the availability of raw and auxiliary materials, burning techniques as well as the social and political conditions have impact on the sustainability of traditional Chinese ceramic industry in Singkawang.

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