The Appearance of Nothingness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmelo Lombardo ◽  
Lorenzo Sabetta
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
Transmitted Information ◽  
Default Options ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Proof Strategy

Unexceptional by definition, the natural appearance of everyday life is not a matter of conscious awareness, let alone deliberate calculation, but an uneventful background against which, ordinarily, nothing special seems to happen. This feeling that nothing is going on, however, may be intentionally elicited (i.e., preserved) and used for instrumental purposes, through strategic actions that dissemble themselves to better affect their target. In this view, this chapter elaborates the concept of concealed strategic actions (CSA), actions that are not experienced as such by the observer and are designed to be so. Somewhat oversuspicious, this idea can be traced back to the work of Goffman on fabrications, normal appearances, and the difference between expressed versus transmitted information. CSA’s current relevance, more practically speaking, is shown by the extensive use in policy making of default options, which are interpreted here as a consequential form of interventions that do not feel as interventions at all. Though CSAs can backfire and are, indeed, inherently obsolescent, their ambition to deploy a reactance-proof strategy seems intriguing from an interactionist perspective, highlighting the nexus among intentions, actions, and reactions—something to eagerly inspect for an expansive symbolic interactionism.

Racial Socialization and Racism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Hagerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Racial Socialization ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Theoretical Principle ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Interpretive Process

This chapter illustrates key connections between the traditional field of symbolic interactionism and the study of racial socialization and racism. When researching and writing about racial socialization and racism from a micro-level perspective, it is important to not lose sight of the mutually sustaining relationship between the shared meaning making processes that unfold in everyday life and the big, broad structures that shape and reinforce those meanings. This is particularly true when thinking about theories of how the newest members of a society, through an interpretive process, come to understand the concept of race. Understanding how children learn about race requires taking into account how this learning process is shaped by both micro-level meaning making and macro-level structures. And this is a key theoretical principle of symbolic interactionism. The chapter then explores how race as a concept develops for young people through processes of social interaction within particular contexts.

scholarly journals Vsevolod Meyerhold’s Biomechanics and Boris Zakhava's Educational Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-74
Author(s):  
Herman Marchenko
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Independent Practice ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Drama ◽  
Fantastic Realism ◽  
Moscow Art Theatre ◽  
Konstantin Stanislavski

The article deals with two different approaches to training actors. One of them is Stanislavski’s system, and the other is Meyerhold’s biomechanics. Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko are reformers of the Russian theater. As the Art Theater founders, they understood that the emergence of a new drama would require a completely different approach to working with actors and a different design of the stage space. With regard to new performances, it became possible to pose critical social questions related to everyday life before the viewer. Therefore, it was logical that the director's profession became very important. Working on his system, Stanislavski paid great attention to the need for an actor’s comprehensive development. Many wonderful actors who attended his acting school were among the students of this great theater director. Vsevolod Meyerhold was one of them. However, the latter chose his direction and began to engage in staging performances actively and search for new means of expression, having come to an absolute convention on the stage. Meyerhold created his method of working with an actor, known as biomechanics, in the theatrical environment. The principle of this approach is the opposite of Stanislavski's system. With all the difference in views on the theater, in the early stages of Meyerhold's independent practice, Konstantin Stanislavski offered him the opportunity to cooperate, which led Vsevolod Meyerhold to the Studio on Povarskaya Street in Moscow. Evgeny Vakhtangov was another student of Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko. At the request of Stanislavski, Vakhtangov was engaged in educational work in the studio of Moscow Art Theatre. Unlike Meyerhold, he thoroughly mastered the system and then created his theatrical direction called fantastic realism. Vakhtangov's legacy was preserved thanks to the activities of his students, among whom was Boris Zakhava. He turned to Meyerhold for help and spent several seasons with the master, gaining invaluable experience, including revealing the features of biomechanics in practice. Boris Zakhava remained faithful to Vakhtangov’s principles and continued his teacher’s work at the Shchukin Theater Institute.

Powerful encounters as seen from an interactionist perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanna Mik-Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Welfare Workers ◽  
Interactionist Approach

This chapter present the tradition of symbolic interactionism, that is, the interactionist approach to studying the in-between in human encounters and the study of how interacting individuals interpret the particular situation in which they are part and how this structures their interactions (as put forth by Goffman especially). The chapter furthermore discuss selected empirical studies of the encounter between welfare workers and citizens with particular attention to their respective roles and their relationship with one another. In addition, the chapter emphasises the soft power at play between citizens and welfare workers and exemplify how the structural elements and agency of the two parties frame the encounter. Thus, both welfare workers and citizens co-produce dominant norms in welfare work and this (re)production is an expression of soft power.

scholarly journals Dare to care

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Anita Calvert
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Care Home ◽  
The Self ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Kent County ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Times ◽  
Threatening Situation

Paper is divided into two parts. The first contains two philosophical discussions about comprehension of courage and the second focuses on the findings in an empirical study with care home managers about the virtue of courage. First discussion revolves around the question whether the virtue of courage is expressed a) only in life–threatening situations or is it a virtue trained and exemplified in b) everyday life settings, while the second emphasises the difference between i) courage of efficiency as a skill and ii) courage of excellence as a virtue. Arguments here support a vision of courage as the virtue of excellence expressed in everyday life settings. The second part of the paper highlights a new perspective of courage with regards to the notion of care towards the aim of the courageous endeavour. The ‘courage of care’ supports the idea that the courage practised as the virtue of excellence aims to develop the moral character of the actor fundamentally outside of the life–threatening situation. Care for the self, other people, animals and intangible moral principles inspire us to do brave deeds. Thus, by accepting Alasdair MacIntyre’s statements that a) in the times of the peace managers represent moral idols and b) idea that the notion of courage should be closely related to the practice of care and compassion, the research continued with the interviews with the care home managers in Kent county in England. Conversations with care home managers released further insights into how care and compassion influence the understanding of the virtue of courage.

scholarly journals Deliberative Research for Deliberative Policy Making: Creating and Recreating Evidence in Transport Policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Murray
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Research Utilisation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Interpretative Research

Despite promotion of evidence-based policy responses, there remains a knowledge gap between policy-makers and academia particularly in transport policy making, which is steeped in positivist traditions. A number of social policy academics have conceptualised research utilisation in relation to particular elements of social policy, but less attention has been paid to the integration of deliberative and interpretative research into transport policy. This article explores this through a study of the journey to school that used mobile and visual methods in an in-depth exploration of this element of everyday life.

scholarly journals KONSEP PENDIDIKAN AKHLAK MENURUT IBN MISKAWAIH DAN ARISTOTELES (STUDI KOMPARATIF)

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Bunyamin Bunyamin
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Main Aspect ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Difference

This research focuses to explore the concept of moral education according to ibn Miskawih and Aristoteles. What are the similarities and differences in their opinions about morals education?. The main aspect of human self development is morality, namely the source of human behaviour that applied in everyday life. This research uses qualitative methods while the type of research is library research. Research is carried out based on the literature review. The results of the study is that the concept of ahlak education according to Ibn Miskawih an Aristoteles is related to character, soul and virtue, goodness and happiness, virtue and midpoint, early age education and akhlak purpose. The equality of the two concepts is that akhlak education is based on the soul of each individual. The difference is in describing the character, a tool to measure the middle attitude and middle position. Keywords; concept of Education, Morality, Ibn Miskawaih, Aristoteles

scholarly journals ASHABU AL-SABT DALAM AL-QUR'AN (Studi Komparasi Penafsiran Ibn Kathir dan Wahbah Zuhaili)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 135-174
Author(s):  
Jaelani Dan Ihwan Amali
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Ancient People ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Interesting Story ◽  
The Difference

As a guide to human life, the Qur'an has served many wise stories about the ancients so that we can make i'tibar in everyday life. One interesting story to study is the story of Ashab al-Sabt. The mufassir, both classical and contemporary mufassir, have their own interpretation in interpreting the story of Ashab al-Sabt contained in the Qur'an, even in interpreting the form of adzab in the story cendrung give rise to a polemic of prolonged interpretation. This research will describe the interpretation of Ibn Kathir and Wahbah al-Zuhaili on the story of Ashab al-Sabt and the similarities and differences between the interpretation of Ibn Kathir and Wahbah al-Zuhaili about Ashab al-Sabt. The approach used is qualitative approach with the type of literature research (library research). As for the results of this study, Ibn Kathir and Wahbah al-Zuhaili interpreted the story of Ashab al-Sabt as the story of the ancient people who lived on the outsized sea of Qazlum (red sea) of Ailah city who violated God's command not to catch fish on Saturday. Second, there is an equal interpretation between the two is that the form of God's curse on Ashab al-Sabt who committed violations in the form of physical curses that is the change of physical form into apes and the two mufassir agreed that in response to the agreement made, Ashab al-Sabt divided into three groups, namely: groups that commit violations, groups that prohibit violations and groups that are silent. The difference in interpretation between the two is that the interpretation of Wahbah al-Zuhaili is ahkam interpretation, this is seen when he interprets the story from the perspective of Fiqh al-Hayah wa al-Ahkam, that the story of Ashab al-Sabt part of the assertion of sadd dzara'i and the obligations of charity ma'ruf and nahi munkar.

scholarly journals Change, concepts and the conceptualising method

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Lars Bo Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Concept Formation ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Pragmatic Constructivism ◽  
The Difference

When looking for theories and methods in social science able to describe and understand changes, pragmaticconstructivism offers some possibilities in doing exactly that. Research on pragmatic constructivism requires dialogueswith actors in the field and an emphasis on language and language development. Concepts and concept developmenttherefore plays a very central role in any researchers effort to describe and understand changes in language games andlife worlds. In this essay I will take a closer look the concept of concepts and at concept formation. Through an analysisof Nørreklit’s (1973) ideas of concepts as properties and Gadamer’s (1962) ideas of concept formation, it is concludedthat concept development are present in everyday life as well as a research method. The difference between the two isthe accidental processes of everyday life, while research methods require a conscious application of conceptdevelopment.

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