Darwinism as Religion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ruse
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Seminal Fluid ◽  
Julian Huxley ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Religion ◽  
Illicit Use ◽  
Secular Religion ◽  
Evolutionary Progression ◽  
The Way

This chapter prepares the way for the purpose of the book, to use war as a case study for the claim that in major respects, thinking based on Darwin’s ideas—“Darwinism”—has from the first functioned as a form of secular religion, a variety of humanism. Although natural selection makes it very implausible to claim that there is an inevitable evolutionary progression up to humankind, this has not stopped Darwinians, from Darwin himself through to people like Edward O. Wilson today, seeing such progress and using this belief as a peg on which to hang social and moral views, in major respects alternatives to the social and moral views of Christianity. Often, as in the case of Julian Huxley, the intent to produce an alternative religion is made explicit. Rival views on the illicit use of seminal fluid are used as an illustration. For Christians, through self-abuse, it leads to degeneration. For Darwinians, through the failures of the sexually profligate, it leads to advance.

scholarly journals The Role of Speech Stereotype in the Formation of Speech Behavior: a Case Study of the French Social Advertising

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
E. G. Zheludkova
Keyword(s):  
French Language ◽  
French Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Models ◽  
Social Advertising ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Cultural Linguistics ◽  
The Way

The research features the speech stereotype at the stage of its formation. The author observes the way stereotype of socially approved behavior are formed with the help of speech stereotypes united by the concept of "product waste". An analysis of "gaspillage alimentaire" social advertising revealed some speech stereotypes, stereotyping mechanisms, as well as the way they influence the recipient of the social advertising discourse. The author states the key role of the speech stereotype that address the recipient to the existing models of behavior and in the formation of new models that are in demand in the French society. The results of the research contribute to a better understanding of the speech behavior in different cultures and can be used in the courses of cultural linguistics, French language stylistics, and discourse analysis. 

Ethics and aesthetics: the social theory of barbershop harmony

Popular Music ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Garnett
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relative Paucity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Until recently, the world of the British barbershop singer was a self-enclosed community whose existence went largely unrecognised both by musicians involved in other genres and by the public at large. In the last few years this has started to change, chiefly due to the participation of barbershop choruses in the televised competition ‘Sainsbury's Choir of the Year’. Encouraged by the success of Shannon Express in 1994, many other choruses entered the 1996 competition, four of them reaching the televised semi-finals, and two the finals. During this increased exposure, it became apparent that television commentators had little idea of what to make of barbershoppers, indeed regarded them as a peculiar, and perhaps rather trivial, breed of performer. This bafflement is not surprising given the genre's relative paucity of exposure either in the mass media or in the musical and musicological press; the plentiful articles written by barbershoppers about their activity and its meanings are almost exclusively addressed to each other, to sustain the community rather than integrate it into wider musical life. The purpose of this paper, however, is not to follow the theme of these intra-community articles in arguing that barbershop harmony should actually be regarded as a serious and worthy art, or to explain to a bewildered world what this genre is actually about; rather, it aims to explore the way that barbershop singers theorise themselves and their activity to provide a case study in the relationship between social and musical values. That is, I am not writing as an apologist for a hitherto distinctly insular practice, but exploiting that very insularity as a means to pursue a potentially very broad question within a self-limited field of enquiry.

scholarly journals Whakarongo: Listening to the Kāpiti Coast Community Social Services Sector in Challenging Times

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Samantha Anne Harding Hutcheson
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Community Sector ◽  
The Way

<p>This research focuses on the Kāpiti Coast District community social services sector, exploring their experience of the 2008 economic and central government social policy changes. The recession and changing social policies increased pressure on the sector, at the same time as they were responding to increased stress and uncertainty in their communities. The research became an opportunity to give voice to the Kāpiti Coast community social services sector. The research was undertaken from a constructionist perspective, using critical inquiry and case study approaches. The research is presented in an approachable way, as it is hoped that the learning will be used by both the community sector and local government to help improve the way they work together. After setting the scene, the methodology used to listen to the Kāpiti Coast community social services sector is explained. The focus then moves onto the sector. Next, the themes that emerged from the data collected during the research are explored. To increase understanding of these themes, a number of theoretical perspectives are used, which have been selected across a range of disciplines, drawing most strongly on the social work discipline. The voice of the participants has been given primacy at all times; which is in line with the intention of the research, which is to empower the Kāpiti Coast community social services sector. It was helpful to delve into the triangle of relationships: the community social services sector, central and local government, and understand these relationships better. The way that the Kāpiti Coast community social services sector perceives itself, and how it works together and with others, proved a very interesting area of research. The research concludes that listening to the sector on their own terms is a way of addressing the power imbalance and an important step in improving the relationship between the sector and local government. Creating a bridge between the sectors can enable good place-based work to occur to improve social wellbeing in the Kāpiti Coast communities.</p>

Lyell Island (Athlii Gwaii) Case Study: Social Innovation by the Haida Nation

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne von der Porten
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Haida Gwaii ◽  
Aboriginal Rights ◽  
Environmental Advocacy ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

The logging blockade on Lyell Island in British Columbia, Canada in 1985, together with the events surrounding it, was an important indigenous-led social innovation by the Haida Nation. The social innovation itself was three-fold: (1) it changed the way indigenous nations in Canada reasserted themselves as self-determining; (2) for the Haida Nation to assert their Aboriginal rights and title to the land and resources of Haida Gwaii was an important step, the first of many; and (3) it changed the way environmental campaigns were conducted, both in Canada and internationally. In the 1980s relations between indigenous nations and the British Columbian and Canadian governments were embedded in an enduring, patriarchal-colonial sociopolitical and legal context. The Haida Nation's assertion of land rights and title was an initiative that changed the basic routines, authority flows and beliefs of the social system in British Columbia and Canada. The message that the Haida Nation's traditional territory was not to be exploited in a way that was incongruent with their visions of stewardship of their land had broad and lasting impact that clearly changed a larger institutional and sociopolitical context. The Haida not only created a precedent, but also a catalyst for action with regards to co-management, environmental advocacy, indigenous governance and Aboriginal rights.

scholarly journals Education as a Tool of Change Among Gujjars: A Case Study Pulwama

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Syed Damsaz Ali Andrabi
Keyword(s):  
Normal Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Social Evil ◽  
The Social ◽  
Standard Rate ◽  
Condition Of Women ◽  
The Way

Illiteracy is the social evil and can be removed through the appropriate system of education. Gujjars of district Pulwama are in social delima because they are lagging behind in the field of peace and prosperity. Their orthodoxy is the main hurdle in the way of progress. The community is lacking the trained working force. In the district they are among the backwards and same can be realized and marked because of their poor performance in the field of education. Because of lack advancements, their health conditions are very poor in comparison to national level. The standard rate of literary is below the normal level in both the sexes. The condition of women is very miserable. Proper change among them can be brought through proper intervention and mediation of religious preachers.

scholarly journals Valdovo raštininko Jono Bogdanaičio Sapiegos (†1546) galios telkimas XVI a. pradžioje

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019/1 ◽  
pp. 5-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Ryčkov
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Social Ranking ◽  
Supreme Council ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

The article raises the question about the way the officials of the Grand Duke’s Office accumulated power and used it to ascend the social and political ladder at the beginning of the 16th century. This question is answered based on the case study of the career of Jonas Bogdanaitis Sapiega (Иван Богданович Сапега), the Scribe of the Supreme Council of the Grand Duke. The analysis of the correspondence revealed that this position not only granted J. B. Sapiega the opportunity to be in the closest environment of the Grand Duke but also to influence his decisions related to the matters of the state or private affairs of the Lithuanian nobility. This enabled J. B. Sapiega to develop close and friendly (horizontal) relations with Lithuanian noblemen of the highest social ranking as well as to benefit from their protection and patronage.

scholarly journals Whakarongo: Listening to the Kāpiti Coast Community Social Services Sector in Challenging Times

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Samantha Anne Harding Hutcheson
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Community Sector ◽  
The Way

<p>This research focuses on the Kāpiti Coast District community social services sector, exploring their experience of the 2008 economic and central government social policy changes. The recession and changing social policies increased pressure on the sector, at the same time as they were responding to increased stress and uncertainty in their communities. The research became an opportunity to give voice to the Kāpiti Coast community social services sector. The research was undertaken from a constructionist perspective, using critical inquiry and case study approaches. The research is presented in an approachable way, as it is hoped that the learning will be used by both the community sector and local government to help improve the way they work together. After setting the scene, the methodology used to listen to the Kāpiti Coast community social services sector is explained. The focus then moves onto the sector. Next, the themes that emerged from the data collected during the research are explored. To increase understanding of these themes, a number of theoretical perspectives are used, which have been selected across a range of disciplines, drawing most strongly on the social work discipline. The voice of the participants has been given primacy at all times; which is in line with the intention of the research, which is to empower the Kāpiti Coast community social services sector. It was helpful to delve into the triangle of relationships: the community social services sector, central and local government, and understand these relationships better. The way that the Kāpiti Coast community social services sector perceives itself, and how it works together and with others, proved a very interesting area of research. The research concludes that listening to the sector on their own terms is a way of addressing the power imbalance and an important step in improving the relationship between the sector and local government. Creating a bridge between the sectors can enable good place-based work to occur to improve social wellbeing in the Kāpiti Coast communities.</p>

Symbolic Consumption in the Online World

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-146
Author(s):  
Maria-Teresa Gordillo-Rodriguez ◽  
Paloma Sanz-Marcos
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Symbolic consumption is defined as a process by which people use symbols—products and brands—to construct and communicate ideas about themselves; to transmit identity on the social stage. With this in mind, it is interesting to consider the phenomenon of fashion influencers for a deeper understanding of the concept of symbolic consumption; a phenomenon that has not received the attention it deserves. Fashion influencers share their outfits, purchases and ideas online and they inspire other people to imitate the way they dress and therefore drive the way their followers consume. Influencers participate in symbolic consumption because they select brands that coincide with the images they have of themselves or that they wish to convey to their followers. Fashion influencers offer themselves as sources of inspiration for followers who aspire to be like them by buying and consuming the same brands and products. To support our thesis, we rely on a case study of Chiara Ferragni, who won the number one place on the Forbes list of fashion influencers.

scholarly journals Children’s Rights as Living Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward van Daalen ◽  
Karl Hanson ◽  
Olga Nieuwenhuys
Keyword(s):  
Street Children ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Social World ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

In this article we propose the notion of living rights to highlight that children, whilst making use of notions of rights, shape what these rights are, and become, in the social world. Emphasising children’s agency in living with and through their rights facilitates empirical enquiry, and moves the vectors of the debate on what children’s rights are to the interplay between how children understand their rights and the way others translate and make use of rights claims on children’s behalf. The argument builds upon a case study in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where street children, claiming the right to safely live and work on the streets, were involved in a successful campaign against an anti-vagrancy draft law. However, the subsequent new legislation – although in line with international children’s rights standards – ignored their claims and offers little for those street children who do not want to be “rescued”.

Our Athenian Yesterdays

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The Way

Part One (“Losing Athens in Translation”) begins by introducing the case study, surveying “democratic Athens,” the consensus modern account of the “way of life” (politeia) which the Athenians called demokratia. This account is a conventional historicist construct, one that forces non-modern experiences to comply with a standard modern template of social being. It thus objectifies the polis as a disenchanted, functionally differentiated terrain inhabited by natural, pre-social individuals. Here, experience is neatly compartmentalized into discrete “orders,” “realms” or “fields,” such as the material and the ideational, the natural and the cultural, sacred and secular, public and private, the political, the social, the economic, and the religious. Athenian demokratia is duly historicized as “democracy,” as a specialist political system which bore a family resemblance to the liberal, egalitarian governments of our own time. And order in Athens is then assumed to radiate out from this male-dominated political system over all other societal fields and realms. As the following chapters will show, there are significant problems with this “democratic Athens” account.

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