Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Marin
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Oppression ◽  
Structural Character ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Normative Implications

The introduction argues that actions aimed at transforming oppressive social structures encounter a problem it calls “the circle of powerlessness and denial,” a problem that follows from the structural character of social oppression. To address it, a conception of our obligations to transform social oppression has to adopt a methodological approach that links the normative question of our obligations to dismantle oppressive structures to the descriptive question of what makes these structures enduring. The notion of commitment is superior to its alternatives for its ability to link these two questions. “Commitment” offers terms that can describe and thus make visible the connections we have in virtue of the fact that we inhabit shared social structures, as well as the normative implications of these connections. Making these connections visible is key to addressing the circle of powerlessness and denial.

scholarly journals Parental vulnerability

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mianna Lotz
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Parental Authority ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Specific Vulnerability ◽  
Parent Child ◽  
Normative Implications

Increasing philosophical attention has recently focused on questions of the nature of vulnerability, and of the implications of recognizing and responding to vulnerability in human agents and subjects. Within that field of interest, explorations and analyses of the specific vulnerability of children have raised many interesting questions regarding the nature of childhood and the vulnerability-responsive obligations of parents. By contrast, there has been no philosophical recognition or discussion of parental vulnerability within the parent-child relationship. In this paper I seek to address that theoretical gap, exploring the distinct ways in which parents are vulnerable qua parents, as well as some of the normative implications that follow from a recognition of that vulnerability. These implications include claims of a vulnerability-based foundation for extensive parental authority over children, and the significant role of expanded social structures and mechanisms to more adequately support the parenting of our children.

scholarly journals WORKING WITH PEOPLE MODEL AS A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ENHANCE SOCIAL CAPITAL IN SPANISH RURAL AREAS

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ ◽  
Raquel PASTOR CARRETERO ◽  
Gilberto Segundo BRITO ASTUDILLO
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Spanish Province ◽  
Young Entrepreneurs

Social capital (SC) has been understood as a set of relationships among structures inherent in the society. These social structures seek a common goal for the greatest number of people. The main purpose of this research is to study how social capital can be generated through the three components of the Working With People model: technical-entrepreneurial; ethical-social and political-contextual. This research is based on a Program developed in seventeen municipalities of Avila, a Spanish province in the northern Spanish plateau. The Program is called "Young Entrepreneurs for Sustainability in Rural Areas", promoted by Tatiana Perez de Guzman el Bueno Foundation and carried out by Gesplan Group from the Technical University of Madrid. This Program consists on launching innovative projects in the territory focused on promoting partnerships among the population and to develop the territory through economic initiatives. The aim of these actions is to strengthen relationships between institutions and the population. This is possible by the creation of synergies among the entrepreneurial projects in order to get endogenous development.

Conversational Disgust and Social Oppression

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
George Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Oppression ◽  
Conversational Context ◽  
Presupposition Accommodation

Abstract In recent years, philosophers have begun to uncover the role played by verbal conduct in generating oppressive social structures. I examine the oppressive illocutionary uses, and perlocutionary effects, of expressives: speech acts that are not truth-apt, merely expressing attitudes, such as desires, preferences, and emotions. Focusing on expressions of disgust in conversation, I argue for two claims: (1) that expressions of disgust can activate in the local, conversational context the oppressive power of the underlying structures of oppression; (2) that conversational expressions of disgust can, via the pragmatic process of presupposition accommodation, contribute to morally problematic cases of disgust contagion.

Modeling Commitment for Structural Relations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Marin
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
Structural Relationships ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
Structural Relations ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 2 extends the concept of commitment from personal to social structural relations and begins the argument that our implication in social structures puts us in relations analogous to those of personal commitments. This analogy has a descriptive and a normative element. Descriptively, this book’s notion of commitment captures the idea that social structures are the accumulated effects of our actions. Normatively, it captures the claim that we owe obligations to each other in virtue of our structural relationships to each other, that is, because our actions, accumulated over time, are responsible for reproducing the structure. It illustrates these claims with the example of a woman who attempts to change the gendered nature of parenting. This view of social structures as commitments is an antidote to the powerlessness we otherwise experience in our relation to unjust structures.

Of Frames and Cultures - A Cross-Cultural Comparison of TV Newscasts

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Senokozlieva ◽  
Oliver Fischer ◽  
Gary Bente ◽  
Nicole Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. TV news are essentially cultural phenomena. Previous research suggests that the often-overlooked formal and implicit characteristics of newscasts may be systematically related to culture-specific characteristics. Investigating these characteristics by means of a frame-by-frame content analysis is identified as a particularly promising methodological approach. To examine the relationship between culture and selected formal characteristics of newscasts, we present an explorative study that compares material from the USA, the Arab world, and Germany. Results indicate that there are many significant differences, some of which are in line with expectations derived from cultural specifics. Specifically, we argue that the number of persons presented as well as the context in which they are presented can be interpreted as indicators of Individualism/Collectivism. The conclusions underline the validity of the chosen methodological approach, but also demonstrate the need for more comprehensive and theory-driven category schemes.

Experiences of Social Oppression Scale

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael M. Díaz ◽  
George Ayala ◽  
Edward Bein
Keyword(s):  
Social Oppression

A novel methodological approach to systematically analyse pandemic influenza response programs within health systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 72 (08/09) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Ahmad ◽  
R Krumkamp ◽  
S Mounier-Jack ◽  
R Reintjes ◽  
R Coker
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Pandemic Influenza ◽  
Methodological Approach
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