Moral Education about Sex in the YMCA and Military

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-122
Author(s):  
Kristy L. Slominski
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Young Men's Christian Association ◽  
Muscular Christianity ◽  
The Military

After ASHA’s incorporation in 1914, it turned its attention to programs to carry out its vision. Chapter 2 examines the emergence of the Young Men’s Christian Association and chaplains as ASHA’s partners in providing sex education to young men within colleges, YMCAs, and the military. This chapter demonstrates how Christian sex educators used the framework of moral education to justify national sex education programs and to bridge religious and scientific interests. Their positioning of sex education as an integral part of moral education was further influenced by two trends within Protestantism: the social gospel and muscular Christianity. Through these interactions, sex education became a liberal Protestant version of muscular Christianity that sought to reform society. For sex educators within the YMCA and chaplaincy, restoration of moral and social order required instruction that could channel uncontrolled male sexual energy into recreational activities, service to the country, and monogamous, heterosexual marriages.

Post-Heroic Warfare Revisited: Meaning and Legitimation of Military Losses

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 898-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Frisk
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Moral Worth ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Military Engagement ◽  
Military Campaign ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

The article challenges the thesis that western societies have moved towards a post-heroic mood in which military casualties are interpreted as nothing but a waste of life. Using content analysis and qualitative textual analysis of obituaries produced by the Royal Danish Army in memory of soldiers killed during the Second World War (1940–1945) and the military campaign in Afghanistan (2002–2014), the article shows that a ‘good’ military death is no longer conceived of as a patriotic sacrifice, but is instead legitimised by an appeal to the unique moral worth, humanitarian goals and high professionalism of the fallen. The article concludes that fatalities in international military engagement have invoked a sense of post-patriotic heroism instead of a post-heroic crisis, and argues that the social order of modern society has underpinned, rather than undermined, ideals of military self-sacrifice and heroism, contrary to the predominant assumption of the literature on post-heroic warfare.

The Radicalization of the Social Gospel: Harry F. Ward and the Search for a New Social Order, 1898–1936

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Rossinow
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Social Order

AbstractA vigorous Protestant left existed throughout the first half of the twentieth-century in the United States. That Protestant left was the left wing of the social gospel movement, which many historians restrict to the pre-1920 period and whose radical content is often underestimated. This article examines the career of one representative figure from this Protestant left, the Reverend Harry F. Ward, as a means of describing the evolving nature and limits of social gospel radicalism during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Ward, the main author of the 1908 Social Creed of the Churches, a longtime professor at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York, and a dogged activist on behalf of labor and political prisoners through his leadership of the Methodist Federation for Social Service, sought a new social order from the early years of the century through the Great Depression of the 1930s. This new order would be the Kingdom of God on earth, and, in Ward's view, it would transcend the competitive and exploitative capitalism that dominated American society in his time. Before World War I, Ward worked to bring together labor activists and church people, and, after the war, he shifted his work toward less expressly religious efforts, while continuing to mentor clerical protégés through his teaching. Ward's leftward trajectory and ever-stronger Communist associations would eventually bring about his political downfall, but, in the mid- 1930s, he remained a respected figure, if one more radical than most, among American Protestant clergy. Organic links tied him and his politics to the broader terrain of social gospel reform, despite the politically driven historical amnesia that later would all but erase Ward from historical memory.

Walter Rauschenbusch and Education for Reform

1967 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-469
Author(s):  
John R. Aiken
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch

While it is true that the social gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch is more than the religious strain of the progressive movement, there is no doubt that he sought a christianized social order, one in “harmony with the ethical convictions which we identify with Christ.” And he was much concerned with the Kingdom of God, the “growing perfection in the collective life of humanity, in our laws, in the customs of society, in the institutions for education, and of the administration of mercy.”

scholarly journals Znaczenie uroczystości kultowych w życiu społecznym armii rzymskiej okresu pryncypatu w świetle Feriale duranum

Vox Patrum ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 273-286
Author(s):  
Tomasz Dziurdzik
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Free Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Communities

The aim of the present paper is to thoroughly reconstruct the meaning of the official cult ceremonies for the social life of the Roman Imperial army. Crucial to the analysis is the evidence produced by the Feriale Duranum, a papyrus docu­ment dating to the reign of Severus Alexander, but supported also by other sources. The matter of loyalty to the state and ruler is characteristic of most military ceremonies. Hierarchy and social order are emphasised as well, all four being values important for the military ideology. Participation in the same rites influ­enced the morale and esprit de corps not only in a particular unit, but also within the whole army. Therefore one can view the rites as an expression of a military identity, serving also to distinguish the soldiers as a separate social group. The of­ficial holidays were also of importance for the private life of a soldier, being one of few occasions when exemption from work and free time were granted. This made such ceremonies a welcome break from camp routine. As such, the official military religious rites were vital for the social life of both individual soldiers and military communities, be it units or even the whole army.

scholarly journals Reworking the Social Order: Skam as an Instance of Public Moral Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Andreas Kvamme
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
The Public ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Pluralistic Societies ◽  
The Social

AbstractThe Norwegian high-school drama series Skam is produced and published by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, a publicly funded institution distinguished by an explicit obligation to the public interest, not only serving their audience as consumers but even as citizens. Generally, the normativity expressed in Skam may be summarized by treating all with respect, involving not only moral considerations of what is right, but also ethical conceptions of what is good, offered, opened up and obstructed by the living social order established there. In season three, given attention here, the plot revolves around issues concerning same-sex relationships, mental disorder and religion. Here Skam becomes interesting for the field of moral education, elaborating on how to encounter the challenges of pluralistic societies that undergo continuous changes and in which common values have become open questions. In this paper attention is drawn toward Skam’s ethical dimension, considering Skam as an instance of public moral education. Faced with tensions, hindrances and conflicts, the norm of treating all with respect, irrespective of how trivial it may appear outside of context, becomes loaded with meaning, while the actualization of the good life is at risk. Appalling is the way hegemonic religion is transformed in the living social order. Decisive is the active role taken by the youths in the series, recontextualizing the norm. The social order here is not a static, given condition, but a continuous, moving, cultivating project. In that respect, a certain democratic aspect of the public moral education of Skam also becomes visible. Together, the youths portrayed in the series seem to accommodate a variety of expressions of life emerging within their community.

scholarly journals Managerial competence as a characteristic of the future officer’s personality: experimental results and theoretical conclusions

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 00083
Author(s):  
S.N. Sorokoumova ◽  
V.N. Buryakov ◽  
D.D. Yarkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Experimental Testing ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Managerial Competence ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Military ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics ◽  
Special Meaning

Today, at a time of unstable social, political and economic conditions in Russia and around the world, the importance of opening new ways of development and improving the managerial competence of future officers takes on a special meaning. Today, the requirements for the military profession are changing, for a high level of development of managerial abilities, which are based on managerial competence. The effectiveness of the management activities of future officers in the military directly depends on the level of formation of their managerial competence. The success of the formation of managerial competence of future officers depends on the conditions of the educational environment, which takes into account the social order of society for a fully developed military specialist, optimally integrated into society, able to think outside the box and carry out productive social interactions in various spheres of social and military activities. The novelty of the research consists in the expansion of the conceptual apparatus of pedagogical science by modeling and determining the essence and structure of the managerial competence of the future officer; in the development and experimental testing of a diagnostic device that includes criteria, indicators, evaluation tools, measuring rulers, methods of data interpretation and qualitative characteristics of levels, which allows you to diagnose the levels and indicators of the formation of managerial competence of a future officer.

Conditional Freedom

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Andrea Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Police Harassment ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Prisons

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this article explores how a group of young men construct their sense of belonging to a public space, namely, a market in the capital city of Mozambique, Maputo. The young men’s occupancy of the market was a clever opportunistic move. While life in and around the market provided opportunities and resources that allowed them to “get by,” the way space was lived and experienced in everyday life by these young men made them particularly exposed to punitive systems of social control. Their experience of belonging to the street was ambiguous, as the freedom they searched for became conditional and they recurrently put themselves in a situation in which they became easy targets for police harassment and incarceration in state prisons. The article shows how these young men position themselves and negotiate their masculinities in an urban environment where they are identified as a threat to the social order.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Kristy L. Slominski
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Hygiene ◽  
Life Education ◽  
The Military ◽  
Abstinence Only

This chapter introduces the ways religion contributed to the major agendas that defined the five historical phases of sex education. The phases include (1) the formation of the early sex education movement out of purity and hygiene movements between 1876 and 1913; (2) the institutionalization of moral education as part of venereal disease prevention programs in schools, YMCAs (Young Men’s Christian Associations), and the military between 1913 and 1925; (3) the shift to family life education between 1925 and 1964; (4) the development of comprehensive sexuality education between 1964 and 1981; and (5) the growth of abstinence-only programs from 1981 to the present. These phases were dominated by organizations like the American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA) and the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). Religion was prominent in the motivations of the organizations’ founders, the participation of religious sex educators, cooperation with churches and synagogues, and discussions within publications and conferences.

scholarly journals Walter Ong's Paradigm and Chinese Literacy

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ze
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Literate Society

Abstract: Oral residues in Chinese written tradition were maintained by the ruling authorities for the facilitation of correct moral education of the masses, and propagated largely through the traditional learning methodology. When an overwhelming web of ideological control was tailored through the production and dissemination of standardized written texts, oral residues and restricted literacy acted as the agents for the maintenance of the established educational system and social order. This article applies and extends Ong's thesis of nine general features of oral mentality to the China example and explores the social impact of oral residues in a literate society. It concludes, through the study of China's case, that the social dynamics of communication technologies are determined not by the functions of the technologies, but by how the technologies are socially organized. Résumé: Les autorités dominantes maintinrent des vestiges oraux dans la tradition d'écriture chinoise pour faciliter l'éducation morale correcte des masses, et propagèrent ces vestiges en grande partie par la méthode d'apprentissage traditionnelle. Quand les autorités mirent en place un réseau de contrôle idéologique envahissant en produisant et en disséminant des textes écrits standardisés, les vestiges oraux et un alphabétisme restreint aidèrent à maintenir le système éducatif et l'ordre social établis. Cet article se rapporte à la thèse de Walter Ong sur les neuf caractéristiques générales d'une mentalité orale et l'applique à l'exemple chinois, tout en explorant l'impact social de vestiges oraux dans une société alphabète. L'article conclut, en faisant une étude du cas chinois, que les dynamiques sociales des technologies de communication sont déterminées non par les fonctions de ces technologies, mais par comment celles-ci sont organisées socialement.

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