‘The Hope of Pessimism’

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-110
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kohlmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
State Action ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Settlement Movement ◽  
New Institutions

This chapter reads George Gissing’s Thyrza (1887) and Mary (Mrs Humphry) Ward’s Robert Elsmere (1888) in relation to the settlement movement of the 1880s. The chapter turns to the idealist philosophy of Green, which provided one of the most philosophically advanced articulations of welfarist thinking in this period. Echoing Green, Ward suggests that the success of her protagonist’s reformist plans depends on the workers’ ability to see them as integral to their personal flourishing: instead of appearing as an alien imposition on workers’ lives, these new institutions are shown to depend on entgegenkommende Lebensformen, i.e. forms of social life which lend substance to but also retain a degree of independence from the institutional structures that support them. Thyrza, by contrast, critically interrogates the belief that institutions can create social harmony from above—a scepticism which continues to haunt later engagements with state action in works by Carpenter, Wells, and Forster.

scholarly journals Religious moderation discourse in plurality of social harmony in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-170
Author(s):  
Yudhi Kawangung
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Tolerance Model ◽  
Generation Technology

The study of religious tolerance this century has been entering the culmination point of saturation, in which it is no longer viewed relevantly with technology 4.0 or it is generally called millennium generation. Technology development is directly proportional to social life because humans enter the digital era in which the actualization and self-existence are prioritized. Therefore, in social interaction, it often makes friction and horizontal conflict and even social media felt more concerned about. Tolerance is gradually degraded in its implementation because it is assumed that tolerance givers have a higher level (majority) than the recipient of tolerance (minority). In this case, the tolerance model needs contextual modification, namely religious moderation as a fundamental of more acceptable social interaction among citizens and netizens.

scholarly journals Keterlibatan Masyarakat dalam Membangun Harmoni Sosial Muslim-Kristen Pra dan Pasca Konflik Etnik di Maluku

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-91
Author(s):  
Nathalia Debby Makaruku ◽  
Izak Y. M. Lattu ◽  
Tony Robert C. Tampake
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
History Of

The aim of the article is to give a sociological description and analysis toward the civic engagement of Taniwel Timur in building social harmony between Muslims and Christians, pre and post-conflict in Maluku. There are two main important points which are, the history of Muslims-Christians’ engagement in building a relationship and social interaction, and Muslims-Christians’ engagement becomes the basic in building harmonious social relationships. This research employed a qualitative research method through a structured interview technique with key informants, observation, and library study. The result of the research found that; first, the Muslims-Christians engagement divided into two which are the association form of civic engagement such as religious institutions, custom and government and everyday form of civic engagement consist of such simple, routine interactions of life as Christians and Muslims family visiting each other, eating together often enough, jointly participating in festivals and allowing their children to play together. Second, the Muslims-Christians’ engagement was based on strong brotherhood, cooperation with many parties, strong traditions and mutual trust. Association form and everyday form of civic engagement had the same position to build a strong social system. It also created a sphere of solidarity, justice, and fraternity. In conclusion, Taniwel Timur's society can construct a harmonious social life. 

Literature as Speculative Thought

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-71
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kohlmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
State Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Social Arrangements ◽  
British State ◽  
Speculative Thought

This chapter spells out the conceptual stakes of the reformist literary mode by turning to British state theory’s ‘Hegelian moment’. Hegel’s state theory converges on an understanding of the state as an aspect of social life (Sittlichkeit), making it possible to think about the state’s institutional structures as a moment in the actualization of social life rather than as a Foucauldian assemblage of administrative means external to social life. Britain’s Hegelian moment makes visible a reformist idiom in which the state appears as an aspirational figure that makes it possible to imagine the transition from capitalist society (Hegel’s bürgerliche Gesellschaft) towards a more egalitarian socio-political order. This transformation is imagined through close engagement with existing social forms rather than through a complete revolutionary overhaul of existing social arrangements. The chapter ends by asking why Britain’s Hegelian moment ended around 1914 and what were its more immediate afterlives.

From power politics to social change: an alternative focus for international studies

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Aart Scholte
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
World Order ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
New Politics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Institutions

Our social circumstance is fundamentally changing, so we are told on this historical morning after the Cold War. What was formerly called the ‘Second World' has suddenly disappeared; apartheid appears to be in final retreat; class structures and gender relations are said to be undergoing substantial shifts; there are increased hopes for disarmament and a wider demilitarization of international life; existing state boundaries and to some extent also the nature of the state itself are deeply in question. At the same time, we of the late twentieth century are allegedly experiencing a world-wide upsurge in religious revivalism, an unprecedented global ecological awareness, a shift from states to markets and from globalism towards regionalism in the organization of the world economy, cascading democratization across the continents and so on. There is widespread talk of ‘a new world order’, of the emergence of what is variously called ‘post-industrial’, ‘post-capitalist’ or ‘post-modern’ society, and of ‘the end of history’. Symptomatic, too, of the pervasively felt sense of transition are insistent calls for new theories, new language, new politics, new institutions and new norms that will be equal to the challenges posed by this purportedly revolutionary world situation. True, sceptics might well argue that dynamism and upheaval of the kind that we are witnessing today constitute defining features of modern social life, and that our generation is but the latest in a long string t o succumb to a secular millenarian delusion that it has been granted the historical privilege of living through the dawn of a new epoch. However, whether they adopt a prophetic or an agnostic stance on the matter, most commentators would agree that the question of social change sits high on the agenda of current world affairs.

scholarly journals Re-conceptualising Labour Market Regulationin Australia and New Zealand

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Barry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Union Density ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
Regulatory Functions

This paper seeks to broaden traditional assumptions that the study of industrial relations makes about regulation. Industrial relations researchers have been interested in institutional regulation since the Webbs and Commons examined the development of unions, minimum standards and collective bargaining in the United Kingdom and the United States. This tradition provides a narrow conception of institutions as structures rather than processes, norms, rituals or habits. A contemporary manifestation of this narrow conception is the preoccupation of industrial relations researchers with changing institutional structures, such as declining levels of trade union density and the decentralization of bargaining structures. Often overlooked in such analyses are important questions about the functions institutions perform, and how these functions endure in times of institutional change. This paper outlines changes to the Australian and New Zealand systems of industrial relations from the 1990s, and examines how the systems' traditional regulatory functions continue 10 be performed following the introduction of new institutions and bargaining structures.

scholarly journals Interfaces entre Estado e economia solidária em um bairro de periferia urbana

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo Marques Tafuri
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
State Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Periphery ◽  
Continuous Relation

Este artigo pretende contribuir com a compreensão do fenômeno contemporâneo das periferias urbanas brasileiras, problematizando as dinâmicas sociais que integram a produção cotidiana da vida nestas localidades. Para tanto, a partir de uma perspectiva etnográfica, desenvolvida metodologicamente por meio de uma pesquisa participante, investigamos a interface entre a ação estatal e as práticas de Economia Solidária existentes no bairro do Gonzaga, situado na periferia do município de São Carlos/SP. As ambiguidades e contradições inerentes às ações estatais ali efetuadas e negligenciadas no período permitiram identificar o imbricamento existente entre as esferas pública e privada, revelando que o bairro do Gonzaga, assim como diversos territórios periféricos dos municípios brasileiros, não se encontram dicotomicamente apartados dos espaços socialmente mais valorizados de produção de bens materiais e simbólicos, mas se relaciona continuamente com o “centro” da vida social urbana a partir de mediações específicas, condicionadas pela existência de mecanismos sociais transversais que atuam de modo a reproduzir desigualdades e hierarquias sociais.Palavras-Chave: Periferia urbana. Estado. Economia solidária.Interface between state and solidarity economy in a neighborhood of urban peripheryAbstractThis paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of Brazilian urban periphery, questioning the social dynamics which are part of everyday life production in these locations. To do so, from an ethnographic perspective, methodologically developed through a participatory research, we investigated the interface between State action and solidarity economy practices existing in the Gonzaga neighborhood, located on the outskirts of São Carlos/SP. The ambiguities and contradictions related to the State actions performed and overlooked during this period allowed to identify the relation between the public and private spheres, revealing that the neighborhood of Gonzaga, as well as various peripheral territories of municipalities, were not dichotomously separated form the socially most valued locations in terms of production of material and symbolic goods, but they have a continuous relation to the "center" of urban social life from specific mediations, conditioned by the existence of cross-cutting social mechanisms, which act to reproduce social inequalities and hierarchies.Keywords: Urban periphery. State. Solidarity economy.

scholarly journals Sakralitas Tua dalam Ritus Sae Toi Sanu Se’at etnik Amanuban Tengah, Nusa Tenggara Timur

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Tyrsa Noviana Matau
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
The Common

This study aims determine the benefits of the Haul tradition to counter intolerance and religious nuances that are rife in Indonesia through the Haul tradition in Ujung-ujung village. Ujung-Ujung Village is a Javanese community that has a tradition called haul, The increasing number of visitors encouraged the committee to introduce culture and culinary specialties from Ujung-Ujung Village, through a cultural parade and bazaar in the middle of the haul event. This development requires the awareness of all villagers to work together to succeed in the success of the haul that has become the common property. This is where the interaction and social harmony of citizens are created which is inseparable from the influence of the Javanese cultural character that the Ujung-Ujung people live on. Haul Eyang Muhyidin, who has become an annual compulsory ritual, has also transformed society into a symbol full of meaning. This tradition has become a symbol of harmonious social life.

scholarly journals Implementation of communication ethics in building social harmony

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Luh Aryani
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Group Communication ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Communication Ethics ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
The People

This research is intended to study the implementation of communication ethics in building social harmony at Banjar (Balinese community) Dharma Santhi, Labuapi Subdistrict, West Lombok Regency. This research is designed in the form of descriptive qualitative research by using case study model on social phenomenon of religion in that location. With regard to it in order to realize a harmonious religious social life one of the supporting factors is the ethics that needs to be applied in communicating, both interpersonal communication and group communication in activities related to the implementation of Hinduism. The implementation of communication ethics used as the basis of religious social life in Banjar Dharma Santhi relates to the application of the teaching of tri kaya parisudha (three things to be sanctified), especially the aspect of wacika parisudha (talking good and true). Application of communication ethics based on the teachings of Hinduism can realize a good communication, especially related to the implementation of religious life conducted by the people who are in Banjar Dharma Santhi. Communication in accordance with the teachings of wicika parisudha implemented by Hindus in the location can realize social relationships with fellow Hindus in religious ritual activities. The application of wacika parisudha teachings can also be a basis for communicating with the general public to realize harmony in religious social life.

scholarly journals University Settlements in Great Britain

1911 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Percy Ashley
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Settlement Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

A quarter of a century has now elapsed since the foundation of Toynbee Hall in the east of London inaugurated the “University Settlement” movement in the vast and then almost inchoate capital of the British Empire; and the present time seems therefore appropriate for an attempt to form some estimate of the past results and future possibilities of the movement, which soon spread to other towns of England and Scotland. Yet such an undertaking is beset with serious difficulties. Throughout the whole history of the settlements there is indeed apparent an essential identity of purpose, an underlying uniformity of motive; but the individual institutions have been the outcome of the action of various bodies of persons whose aims, as formally expressed, seem often very diverse; different groups have laid the main emphasis on different objects and methods, and what has been counted as triumphant success by one group has been deemed of relatively small importance by another. Further, the wide range of the activities of the settlements, the multifarious nature of their interests and work, render it practically impossible for any one observer to comprehend the whole in his single survey; and the selection which he must needs make tends almost inevitably to be determined, and it may be even unfairly biassed, by his own personal predilections. Within this narrower range, moreover, there is no certain standard by which to measure success or failure; the value of the work accomplished by a settlement is not to be judged solely, or even chiefly, by the statistics of its classes and clubs. If it has realized its objects, however imperfectly, it has exercised upon the surrounding community, in conjunction with all other institutions that in any way and by any means make for good, a subtle and permeating influence which has resulted in a progressive amelioration of social life; but, for the very reason that this achievement is the result of a number of co-operating forces, the share of the settlement therein cannot be isolated or defined with any exactitude.

Social Harmony, Family and Women in Chinese Novels, 1948–58

1989 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 71-96
Author(s):  
Irene Eber
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Family ◽  
Ways Of Life

In the 1920s and 1930s intellectuals and writers led the attacks on the tyranny of the Chinese family and the power of patrilineal authority. Their essays and fictional works, particularly such novels as Ba Jin’s Family (Jia), were avidly read by a younger, radicalized and iconoclastic generation. By the late 1940s and after Liberation in 1949, however, mainland leftist and communist writers had retreated from attacks on the family, emphasizing instead its centrality in social life. Two major reasons may account for this. The Chinese Communist Party, needing the peasantry’s support in its climb to and final assumption of power, chose the road of reforming obvious abuses rather than assaulting family and patriarchal institutions. The second reason served to reinforce the Party’s concern. After decades of turmoil, conquest and war, writers envisaged peace as order and as a return to familiar ways of life. In their short stories and novels, socialist transformation, therefore, consisted not of the disruption of family life and patrilineal authority, but of the reconstitution of the family, now stripped of its abusive features.

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