The Social Dimensions of Ritual Violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Saul M. Olyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ritual Violence ◽  
The World

This chapter discusses the various ways in which violent rites might have an impact on the shaping of social relationships in the world of the biblical text. The author’s primary interest in this chapter is to illuminate how ritual violence might function to terminate, perpetuate, and even create connections between individuals, groups, or polities. Texts examined include 1 Sam 22:12–19, the story of Saul’s mercenary Doeg the Edomite’s execution of the priests of Nob; 2 Sam 10:1–5, the Ammonites’ public humiliation of David’s embassy of comforters; 2 Sam 16:5–13, the cursing, stoning, and dirt casting of Shimi the Benjaminite as David flees Jerusalem before Absalom’s army; 2 Sam 20:1–22, the execution of the rebel Sheba ben Bikri by the inhabitants of Abel Bet Maacah; and Neh 13:25, the account of Nehemiah’s violent, coercive rites targeting his intermarried opponents.

scholarly journals Study of Gender Conceptual Sphere: Historiography of the Question

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Myroslava Chornodon ◽  
Nadiia Gryshkova ◽  
Natalia Myronova ◽  
Bozhena Ivanytska ◽  
Nataliia Semen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Gender Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Multidimensional Complex ◽  
Gender Groups

The article attempts to analyze the concept of gender, study philosophical preconditions of its emergence and trace the main postmodern aspects of the gender category. It proves that gender research in the postmodern era is not identical to the theories of feminism. It deals with social life of both sexes, their behavior, roles, characteristics, common and different between them, the social relationships of the sexes, considering the world from the standpoint of both socio-gender groups. The article shows that an urgent need for more purposeful development of independent women's research in the developing countries. Such research should holistically reflect and study the lives of women on the basis of the so-called women's rather than universalized man experience. The main idea of this scientific research was to emphasize that the world can be explored not only from a man perspective, but also from the standpoint of woman experience. The level of scientific study of the gender conceptual sphere is clarified, in particular, the gender concept is a multidimensional complex represented in the language, which has a certain ethnocultural specificity. The concept has an unstable structure, which is reflected in the model of the concept developed by us, in which we highlight the root and applications of the concept, the possible movement of features in the relevant semantic directions from and to the root. The unstable (mobile) structure of the concept is also characteristic of its root: during historical development, the root may change, but the semantic meaning is not lost, but only replaced by synonyms or verbal innovations relevant to today.

Resilient Sustainable Education for the Future of Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-43
Author(s):  
Ebba S. I. Ossiannilsson
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dimensions Of Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Of Education ◽  
Global Initiatives

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic affected all economic sectors and disrupted many areas of our lives, especially education. More than 1.7 billion learners in over 200 countries around the world were affected, and these numbers will continue to increase in 2021 and beyond. Therefore, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic must be understood in order to be better prepared for future disruptions. There is a need to recognize that education is an investment in rebuilding. The key lessons learned are that the future of education needs to be rethought without forgetting the past. Certainly, there is room for improvement in the technical area, but most importantly, it is critical to recognize the social dimensions of learning and education. This conceptual chapter provides a review of the literature on several global initiatives to shape the futures of education by focusing on resilient open education for all in the context of social justice, human rights, and democracy.

Business and Social Relationships in Nineteenth-Century Bombay

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asiya Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Business Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Order ◽  
Cultural World

This chapter consists of narratives of three people who became insolvents. Each is about the circumstances of particular merchants and brokers. Jamshedji Tata was an emerging entrepreneur. His proximity to representatives in the colonial order enabled him to overcome the crisis in his business. Premchund Roychund, a prominent broker who became insolvent, also had close ties with the colonial bankers whose support helped him to survive. Kahandas Narandas belonged to the traditional business elite who did not have the advantage of colonial support. He was totally ruined. The stories of these three merchants reveal the activities and relationships that governed their lives. They illustrate the networks through which money, credit, and loans circulated in the world of business. These stories connect the economic trajectories to the social and cultural world of people and their lives.

scholarly journals Die Herausforderung der Moderne. Überleben angesichts der monetären Formalisierung der Beziehungen

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 259-288
Author(s):  
Davide Gallo Lassere
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Monetary Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper expands on Simmel’s answer to the increasing depletion of social relationships due to the by then more than an increasingly pervasive monetary economy. Definitively abandoned all hope for a change in the arrangements that structure the social order and dismissed any prospect for a strong opposition, the simmelian’s individual can only aspire to a decent adaptation to the world as it is, trying to protect her intimate personality and to cultivate spaces and moments in which more specifically human features and qualities can flourish.

Physics as a Mode of Production

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 569-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristides Baltas
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Louis Althusser ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Mode Of Production

The ArgumentStarting from the thesis that a science constructs the knowledge of the part of the world allotted to it, the present paper aims at bringing together all the various aspects of physics (structural, epistemic, historical, social) under a unified conceptual framework — that provided by the Marxian concept “mode of production.” After an introduction providing the initial plausibility grounds for the undertaking, the concept is analyzed into its conceptual elements in Part I of the paper. The analysis presents the reconstruction initiated by Louis Althusser and developed by his followers. Part II starts from a characterization of physical problems. This offers a basis for “reading” physics in the terms introduced in Part I. The rest of Part II is devoted to the identification of all the aspects of physics with the conceptual elements in question. The paper aims at three things: to uncover the connections holding among seemingly disparate aspects of physics, usually discussed in almost total independence from each other; to take full account of the social dimensions of physics without vindicating social constructivism; to show that the boundaries separating the disciplines of philosophy, history and sociology of science are more arbitrary than usually considered.

“Words with Friends”: Socially Networked Reading on Goodreads

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Planned Obsolescence ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Reading isn't what it was. As we enter the “late age of print,” E-Books are still less common than “P-Books” (printed books), but the balance is quickly changing, especially in the world of academic publishing (Striphas xii). While many lament the loss of the p-book's materiality, texts have become more lively as a result of digitization: textual-production platforms like blogging let writers and readers interact with each other and create intimate social relationships. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick found while writing her book Planned Obsolescence using CommentPress, an online platform that enables readers' commenting, writing can become a more social and creative process when done in dialogue with readers. This turn to the social in writing parallels a turn to the social in media generally. Thus, it makes sense to evaluate not how far our devices are taking us from paper—the answer is already pretty far—but rather how digital media are creating new social valences of reading.

scholarly journals Individuality and liminarity: some considerations concerning rites of passage and modernity

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto DaMatta
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Link

Abstract This article explores a critical link between two concepts which are central to the social sciences: the idea of liminarity, engendered by the anthropological tradition of self-centred and self-referred monographic studies; and the idea of individuality, a key concept within the classical tradition of the socio-historical studies of great civilizations (as well as being the crucial and familiar category of our civil and political universe). The author seeks to show how a bridge can be established between these two concepts, which may at first appear distant, by focusing on certain under-discussed aspects of rites of passage. He argues that the ‘liminal’ phase of rites of passage is tied to the ambiguity brought about through the isolation and individualization of the initiate. It is thus the experience of being ‘outside-the-world’ that brings forth and characterises liminal states, not the other way around - in short, it is individuality that engenders liminarity. Rites of passage transform this experience into complementarity, into an immersion within a network of social relationships, which the ordeals, in contrast, establish as a model for the plenitude of social life.

scholarly journals The Study of Peace Awareness among Undergraduate Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Anjum Ahmed ◽  
Siam Iftekhar
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Basic Point ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

The word peace can be defined well through three basic point <strong>inner peace</strong> (peace with self), <strong>social peace</strong> (means the social understanding, social adjustments and social relationships between the individuals who live in the society) and <strong>peace with nature</strong> (means to stay in harmony with nature, to obey the natural phenomena and not to disturb the natural dignity through environment and economic exploitation and stratification). Peace education is an umbrella term and can be difficult to define. In a very simple word, peace education give the learners the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values which are necessary to end violence and injustice in the society and promote a culture, inner, social peace within the individual. Peace education is an essential component of quality basic education. It is concerned with helping learners to develop an awareness of the process and skills that are necessary for achieving understanding, tolerance and goodwill in the world today. The present study aims to find out the awareness of peace education among the undergraduate students of the AMU, Aligarh. A sample of 300 undergraduate students was selected by using stratified random sampling. The results and implications of the findings are discussed in the paper.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document