Lippmann and Dewey

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-124
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Friedman

During the 1920s, Walter Lippmann expressed his growing doubts about the epistemic capacities of the journalistically informed mass public, and John Dewey published three responses to these doubts—none of which grappled with the interpretive problems that Lippmann saw as the barrier to an adequate understanding of modern society. Rather than lamenting the mass public’s lack of knowledge, as Dewey did, Lippmann was mainly worried about the inevitably biased stereotypes by means of which journalists and their readers winnow down overabundant knowledge into coherent interpretations. Dewey’s hopes for a new form of journalism, his faith in ordinary people’s knowledge of the problems afflicting them, and his ideas for a new social science failed to confront this problem of interpretation. However, Lippmann’s own solution, early in the debate, was an epistocracy of statisticians, which also failed to confront the interpretive problem he had identified. The debate ended, then, with neither engagement nor resolution.

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-288
Author(s):  
John Jefferson Davis ◽  

This article argues that within the framework of historic Chalcedonian Christology, Jesus should be recognized not only as a fully divine Person, as the incarnation of the Logos, but also as a fully human person, and that this recognition of the full human personhood of Jesus does not constitute a new form of Nestorianism. It is further argued that the concept of the human hypostasis of Jesus nested within the divine hypostasis of the Logos provides a plausible explanation of how Jesus’s human lack of knowledge of the time of the second coming can be consistent with the omniscience of the divine Logos.


Sociologija ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalibor Petrovic

The aim of the paper is to understand the role of Internet in creating new forms of sociability in the modern society. In the first part the history of social studies of Internet is reviewed, and the conclusion put forward that the anti-social role of the Internet cannot be proved. In the theoretical part of the paper the author presents his idea of two basic roles of Internet as interpersonal interaction tool: transmissional and procreative. These two Internet functions are very important means for reproducing a new form of sociability known as networked individualism.


2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Bohn ◽  
Alois Hahn

AbstractAdopting a comparative approach, the article discusses patterns of inclusion and exclusion such as property, nation and religion from a historical viewpoint. According to Luhmann the concept of inclusion and exclusion is about taking into account persons in social systems; according to Foucault it is related to deviance and abnormality. The transition from stratified to functionally differentiated societies is analysed, emphasising the transformation of ›Inklusionsindividualität‹ to ›Exklusionsindwidualität‹. Property and nation are both treated as transient semantics: for a short time after its emergence, private property guarantees inclusion and brings about new forms of identity and exclusion. Without the nation state the autonomy of subsystems would not be tolerable. The idea of a nation temporarily compensates for exclusion rates resulting from this new form of differentiation. While religion grants access to anyone and everyone even in stratified societies, thus anticipating the new pattern of inclusion, it also turns into a reservoir for unplanned, non-functionary exclusion in modern society.


2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jean Emigh

Quantification is often taken to be a hallmark of modern society and science. This is perhaps no where more obvious than in social science disciplines, marked by often heated debates about whether quantitative methods illuminate or obscure social reality. Quantification itself depends upon numeracy, that is, the ability to count, keep records of these counts, and make rational calculations. Thus, numeracy, like its more frequently studied counterpart, literacy, is central to modern life, both inside and outside of academia.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 561-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOM ARNOLD-FORSTER

Historians often interpret American political thought in the early twentieth century through an opposition between the technocratic power of expertise and the deliberative promise of democracy, respectively represented by Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. This article explores Lippmann's concurrent controversy with Lewis Terman about intelligence testing, in which Dewey also intervened. It argues that the Lippmann–Terman controversy dramatized and developed a range of ideas about the politics of expertise in a democracy, which centered on explaining how democratic citizens might engage with and control the authority of experts. It concludes by examining the controversy's influence on democratic theory.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-65
Author(s):  
N.V. Zhukova ◽  
B.B. Aismontas

The article analyses the results of scientific information retrieval, aimed at identifying the relationship between certain parameters of archetypes and social behaviors of modern adolescents: on the one hand — development of personality, identity, socialization, on the other hand — the use of social networks as a communication space. The search was conducted within the complex of modern neurosciences at the systematic level and interdisciplinary research.


Author(s):  
Putri Wulansari, Nurul Khotimah

Abstract Not only does modernization offer technological sophistication and convenience for all human activities, but this phenomenon also presents a phase called the post-truth era. This phenomenon occurs when the loss of the existence of scientists or intelligentsia by the anti-intellectualism movement which is called the death of expertise. The term death of expertise which was popularized by Tom Nichols eventually became so popular globally including in Indonesia. At least the post-truth era, the death of expertise and the industrial revolution 4.0 became a very popular issue in Indonesia, so that it indirectly showed stuttering and acute inferiority in the scientific tradition in Indonesia. Because in the 90s the Indonesian Muslim scholar Kuntowijoyo had dismissed the phenomena and problems of modern society through his collection of essays such as Muslims without Mosques and Political Identity of Muslims. Therefore this paper uses a descriptive qualitative approach aimed at describing the urgency of the re-actualization and revitalization of prophetic social science in the perspective of Kuntowijoyo's thoughts. In addition, the Prophetic Social Sciences (ISP) is also placed in the Indonesian context so that Indonesia is able to have an authentic scientific tradition, and be able to deliver the Indonesian people to face all the challenges of changing times without losing the humanity and rationality. Furthermore, this paper also presents the problem of the development of science in Indonesia to highlight the urgency of the reactualization of prophetic Social Sciences in the scientific tradition in Indonesia. Keywords: Reactualization, Prophetic Social Sciences and Kuntowijyo. Abstrak Modernisasi tidak hanya menawarkan kecanggihan teknologi serta kemudahan bagi segala aktivitas manusia, tetapi fenomena ini turut menghadirkan sebuah fase yang disebut sebagai era pasca kebenaran. Fenomena ini terjadi ketika hilangnya eksistensi ilmuwan atau kaum intelegensia oleh gerakan anti intelektualisme yang disebut sebagai matinya kepakaran. Istilah matinya kepakaran yang dipopulerkan oleh Tom Nichols tersebut akhirnya menjadi begitu populer secara global termasuk di Indonesia. Setidaknya era pasca kebenaran, matinya kepakaran dan revolusi industri 4.0 menjadi isu yang sangat digemari di Indonesia, sehingga secara tidak langsung memperlihatkan kegagapan dan inferioritas akut dalam tradisi keilmuwan di Indonesia. Sebab di era 90-an cendikiawan Muslim Indonesia Kuntowijoyo telah menganggas fenomena dan problematika masyarakat modern melalui kumpulan esai-esainya seperti Muslim tanpa Masjid dan Indentitas Politik Umat Islam. Oleh karenanya tulisan ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif bertujuan memaparkan mengenai urgensi dari reaktualisasi dan revitalisasi ilmu sosial profetik dalam persfektif pemikiran Kuntowijoyo. Selain itu, Ilmu Sosial Profetik (ISP) ini turut diletakkan dalam konteks keindonesia sehingga Indonesia mampu memiliki tradisi keilmuwan yang autentik, serta mampu mengantarkan bangsa Indonesia menghadapi segala tantangan perubahan zaman tanpa kehilangan sisi humanitas dan rasionalitas. Selanjutnya, dalam tulisan ini turut dihadirkan problematika pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan di Indonesia untuk menegaskan urgensi dari reaktualisasi Ilmu Sosial profetik dalam tradisi keilmuwan di Indonesia. Kata kunci: Reaktualisasi, Ilmu Sosial Profetik dan Kuntowijyo.


Author(s):  
Mlungisi Mahlangu

It has always been with a bit of introspection and guilt that I have considered this statement by the great statesman. However to what extent is this statement still relevant, given the backdrop against which Kenyatta made these infamous words? Surely, Kenyatta spoke of some sort of intense political battle, waging between coloniser and the rebellious or guerilla political movements of the colonised. Surely this analogy that Kenyatta spoke of decades ago ceases to exist in modern times, as the concretisation of rights has occurred, and no such battle can even exist in modern society. The above conceptions, although ideologically ideal are practically flawed. A new form of battle is waging war. A new form of battle is waging war. As a consequence of the worldwide acceptance of the political philosophies of democracy and democratic governance, ancillary philosophies like the economic philosophy of capitalism have become intrinsic in society. What we have experienced is rather a shift from this fight for democracy between the colonisers and indigenous African people, to a fight for supremacy between those who advocate individual and those who articulate communal interests.


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