Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Gopal Guru ◽  
Sundar Sarukkai
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Access ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Societal Experiences ◽  
Basic Approaches

There is no one universal ‘social’ but a multitude of socials that characterise our societal experiences. These multiple experiences of the ‘social’ influence the ideas we form of the social, as well as give cognitive access to the different socials. The introduction sets out the motivation for the study of the social and discusses the basic approaches to the idea of social ontology. How do we define the everyday social? Why is the study of the everyday so important to formulate the idea of the social? Are there different socials? It then goes on to discuss the major themes in the other chapters of the book.

The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the Heroic Deeds of One

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Schmeink
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Future ◽  
Present Possibility

Chapter 6 discusses the TV series Heroes as more optimistic in its depiction of the social consequences of posthuman evolution than the other texts analyzed. The show's premise of posthumanity as a result of evolutionary mutation reflects radical changes in subjectivity not onto an elite few, as in classic superhero narratives, but onto the everyday man. The series consequently emphasizes the potential of the posthuman condition as a catalyst for global social and political change – a solution to the 'big issues' that elude the current institutions of power. The posthuman becomes the site of struggle over the potential changes to the future, in effect over the concept of utopia. In contrasting dystopian futures with the present possibility of change through posthumanity, the show allows a utopian space to emerge, in which global issues such as the war on terror can be solved and attacks such as those on 9/11 could be prevented. In this, Heroes returns to humanist notions and concepts of history as events shaped by exceptional individuals, while at the same time complicating them with communal images of a cooperative and interconnected posthuman subjectivity.

Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopal Guru ◽  
Sundar Sarukkai
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Social Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This book develops a radically new way of understanding the social by focussing on different experiences we have of the everyday empirical reality. This book offers a new way of understanding the social processes of societies in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, all of which have complex experiences of the everyday social. The authors begin with the argument that the everyday social is the domain where the first experiences of the social are formed and these experiences influence to a great extent meaning-making of the structural social. Following a critique of some dominant trends in social ontology, they discuss in detail, and with many common examples, how the social is experienced through the perceptual capacities of sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell. They then discuss the relation between experience of belongingness and the social, and show how the social gets authority in a way similar to how natural gets authority in the natural sciences. Moreover, the social appears through the invocation of we-ness, suggestive of a social self. The everyday social also creates its sense of time, a social time which orders social experiences such as caste. Finally, the authors explain how the ethics of the social is formed through the relationship of Maitri (drawn from Ambedkar) between the different socials that constitute a society. This is not just a new theory of the social but is filled with illustrations from the everyday experiences of India, including the diverse experiences of caste.

EFFECT OF LEADER'S STRATEGY ON OPINION FORMATION IN NETWORKED SOCIETIES WITH LOCAL INTERACTIONS

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (06) ◽  
pp. 839-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAWEL SOBKOWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Local Interactions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
The Way

The work investigates the influence of leader on opinion formation in artificial networked societies. The strength of the social influence is assumed to be dictated by distance from one agent to another, as well as individual strengths of the agents. The leader is assumed to have much greater resources, which allows him to tune the way he influences the other agents. We study various strategies of using these resources to optimize the conditions needed to "convince" the whole society to leader's opinion. The flexibility of the model allows it to be used in studies of political, social and marketing activities and opinion formation.

scholarly journals El sentido común en el horizonte del humanismo / Common Sense and the Humanistic Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Ana Marcela Mungaray Lagarda ◽  
Herminio Núñez Villavicencio
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Classical Traditions ◽  
The One ◽  
Interdisciplinary Integration ◽  
Great Call

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the concept of common sense in the humanism. We´ll consider two proposals for the discussion on this concept: On the one hand, the classical conception of humanism considered in crisis associated with a lack of pluralism and inclusion from the ordinary to the contents and humanistic practice. On the other hand, the idea about that common sense in the context of the humanism is heterogeneous, so it recreates and includes in a new dialogue the everyday man by himself. The invitation from the United Nations about “Humanism, a new idea” (2011) is the context like a great call to refocus the discussion on practices derived from humanistic policy agreements in the world, integration projects between the classical traditions of the concept and dreams of interdisciplinary integration in the concert of nations. The path of analysis on the concept about the common sense in this proposal is a guide to review the rational framework as a concept in crisis. This is considering from several interpretations in a dialogic discussion, both the diversity debate about the nature of the concept as the depth of the social implications of the proposals.RESUMENSe presenta una discusión sobre el sentido común desde dos tesis, una es desde la concepción clásica del pensamiento humanista, al dar por hecho las implicaciones del sentido de lo común; por la otra parte bajo la idea de la necesidad de plantear un humanismo heterogéneo, incluyendo el reconocimiento del sentido propio de la comunidad del hombre cotidiano. La ruta de análisis se plantea desde la invitación de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Humanismo, una nueva idea (2011) como el contexto para replantear la tarea del humanismo actual, hacia las nuevas inclusiones necesarias en un mundo globalizado. Se discute una idea de crisis del concepto de lo humano, de las tareas del humanismo actual, desde las diversas interpretaciones elaboradas históricamente. Podemos decir que el humanismo actual es un recurso dialógico para entrar al debate acerca de la naturaleza del concept, la inclusión del hombre y del sentido común así como sus implicaciones y propuestas sociales.

How does Brain Matter? The Case of Dignified Mind and Law

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chetan Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Brain Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Legal Domain ◽  
The One ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Active Brain Area

<p>What does the brain mean in a legal domain and how the integration of neuroscience and law goes beyond the practical difficulties highlighted by the social scientists and legal theorists? On the one hand, the legal theorists took it as a conceptual error and on the other hand, advocates of neurosciences took it as a promising emerging field of integration. Some scholars took an alternative route considering it as a fascinating element of scientific discourse. The present article aims to show that the coming of “brain language” in comparison to the other forensic languages in the everyday legal discourse is not going to become a reality, as truth inferred through the everyday experiences and the interpretations of scientific knowledge by the judges. Scientific knowledge through the mapping of active brain area by the available brain visualising techniques shows the correlation between brain and behaviour and not the causation. So its use in the legal domain seems less institutionalised, showing the determinism of the brain as less authentic in itself when compared with the intuitive path embedded in the culture and history. </p> <p><b><i> </i></b></p>

scholarly journals Watching Marginal Bodies: Representation of the Transgender Identity on Turkish Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Sertac Timur Demir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Transgender Identity ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

The world in which we live is seen, on the one hand as a global village in some sense and, on the other, as a divided geography. In other words, it is localized and ghettoized simultaneously. The everyday life that transforms rapidly and in an amorphous notion bears testimony to the rise of new identities and belongings as well as new opposition and disengagement. This dilemma generates new and different notion of tension and conflict. Body and gender are considerably significant paradigms in terms of showing and representing this sense of physical, mental and ideological separation; so much so that they change continuously in the shade of freedom and security deadlock. As for media, they do not merely capture but formalized the social events and collective facts. They manipulate the viewer perception and attitudes. From institutional and traditional to individual, digitalized and social media, they redefine the meaning of distant and ambivalent identities and design some clichés about them. That is why this paper is an attempt to describe the representation of marginal identities in Turkish media mainly through television channels, newspapers, internet and films that may stimulate the controversial relationship between normals and deviant and between insider and outsider. For this purpose, in this study, it is focused on the question of how Turkish media display and represent the transvestites.

How does Brain Matter? The Case of Dignified Mind and Law

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chetan Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Brain Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Legal Domain ◽  
The One ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Active Brain Area

<p>What does the brain mean in a legal domain and how the integration of neuroscience and law goes beyond the practical difficulties highlighted by the social scientists and legal theorists? On the one hand, the legal theorists took it as a conceptual error and on the other hand, advocates of neurosciences took it as a promising emerging field of integration. Some scholars took an alternative route considering it as a fascinating element of scientific discourse. The present article aims to show that the coming of “brain language” in comparison to the other forensic languages in the everyday legal discourse is not going to become a reality, as truth inferred through the everyday experiences and the interpretations of scientific knowledge by the judges. Scientific knowledge through the mapping of active brain area by the available brain visualising techniques shows the correlation between brain and behaviour and not the causation. So its use in the legal domain seems less institutionalised, showing the determinism of the brain as less authentic in itself when compared with the intuitive path embedded in the culture and history. </p> <p><b><i> </i></b></p>

scholarly journals Ana Ma Manzanas and Jesús Benito, Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
John Laurence Dunn
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture seeks to furnish contemporary American with the conceptual spatial paradigms described by the great theorists of the social structures of the everyday, Henri Lefebvre and Michel De Certeau. It does this with an eye on Jacques Ranciere’s more recent conclusion that politics is “best understood” in spatial and relational parameters, because “everything in politics turns on the distribution of space. What are these places? How do they function?,” and crucially for this volume, “Who can occupy them?”[p.5] These continental cornerstones are augmented by the work of British theorist Doreen Massey, from whom Manzanas and Benito borrow a formal analysis of dynamic spatial relations for a social geography of “the other” that is thoroughly narratological.

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