Socio-Religious Functions of Worship

2020 ◽  
pp. 458-472
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Ancient Israel

What were the socio-religious functions of worship and ritual within ancient Israel? How did worship affect and form Israelite society, and vice versa? To ask this question is not to reduce worship to a mere social phenomenon, lacking, for example, theological witness or spiritual efficacy. Rather, it is to recognize that Israelite worship had a social context and, among its several other roles, had significant social effects. It expressed and buttressed the shared values and convictions of the community of YHWH, or, better, of specific Yahwistic groups. It publicly embodied religious orientations and habits. It enacted the traditions and teachings of the societal authority or segment that authorized and choreographed it. Participants in Israelite worship publicly acknowledged the worldview and attendant lifestyle communicated as social meaning by the proceedings.

Speaker-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Levantine Arabic ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Social Acts

This chapter examines the social functions of speaker-oriented attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It analyzes these datives as perspectivizers used by a speaker to instruct her hearer to view her as a form of authority in relation to him, to the content of her utterance, and to the activity they are both involved in. The nature of this authority depends on the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context, including the speaker’s and hearer’s shared values and beliefs, their respective identities, and the social acts employed in interaction. The chapter analyzes specific instances of speaker-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts (e.g., commands, complaints) and in different types of settings (e.g., family talk, gossip). It also examines how these datives interact with facework, politeness, and rapport management.

The role of the media in the formation of shame in the national consciousness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaigul Karabaevna Bekboeva
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
A Value ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Media

This article considers the role of the media as a partner of the state and society, as well as spontaneity. Due to this, media serve as one of the factors in the formation of national self-consciousness and its elements, such as shame. The author analyzes such element of national identity as national shame. It is proved that national shame as a social phenomenon has a social meaning of the regulator of human relationships in social existence. It is noted that national shame is socially determined, has a permanent character, and its socially significant semantic principles are passed from generation to generation as a form of behavior through implantation and interspersing it as a daily norm of people's behavior, giving each act a value-significant meaning.

scholarly journals Functions of language in the social context

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 00064
Author(s):  
Alyona Korneeva ◽  
Tatyana Kosacheva ◽  
Oxana Parpura
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Sign System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Functions

The article considers the language in use, in the process of interaction and as a sign system used in the process of communication, describes the functions of the language. The language is a system of discrete signs that serve to communicate and express the totality of person's ideas of the surrounding reality, and it is a social phenomenon. The basic functions of a language are interdependent when using the language and are implemented in various degrees. Researchers identify different functions of the language; many classifications depend on its ways of use. Social stipulation of the language is manifested in the expansion of the scope of the functions, the diversity of its forms, functional styles.

scholarly journals Seeking Asylum, Speaking Silence

Barnboken ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen King
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Trauma Narratives ◽  
Trauma Narrative ◽  
National Centre ◽  
The Social ◽  
Socially Situated

“How could she ever put those terrible pictures into words?” (Naidoo, Truth 51). This question is at the heart of Beverley Naidoo’s The Other Side of Truth (2000), which narrates the trauma of Nigerian asylum seeker children Sade and Femi as they flee to Britain. Speech and silence are ambivalent within the text, fluctuating in meaning dependant on the social context in which they are enacted. Showing this text to be primarily a narrative of activism, I explore how Naidoo’s representations of trauma inform her critique of the British immigration system. This text invites a reading that draws on recent postcolonial theories of trauma. Using both textual and paratextual analysis of the novel and Naidoo’s archive, held by Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children’s Books in Britain, I draw on Forter’s model of psychosocial trauma to demonstrate that the trauma the protagonists face is a result of their encounter with a racist society and bureaucracy. Reflecting Kertzer’s claim that social justice should be central in trauma narratives for children, Naidoo shows healing from trauma to be the locus of political awakening for both characters and implied reader. The aim of this article is to integrate contemporary models of postcolonial trauma with an understanding of the activist nature of Naidoo’s work, showing that in this sort of children’s trauma narrative, the site of healing from trauma is simultaneously the site of social change. Since the trauma that the child protagonists face is a social phenomenon, the speech that allows the children to begin to heal is similarly socially situated, and their healing is synonymous with social justice.

scholarly journals Yang Terlupakan, Yang Berkarya

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-98
Author(s):  
Lukas Eko Budiono
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

The tradition of rewang in Javanese society denotes the preparation and production of meals, a custom performed primarily by women. As a cultural value, rewang reflects an ideal standard for the role of women. In this essay, an assessment of the role of women is deployed to explore the meaning of work and, at the same time, to surface an understanding of hospitality that is based on the tradition of rewang, in order to demonstrate social meaning and values from the rewang tradition. Within this tradition, the meaning of work begins necessarily with remembering just how important is each person’s role. For members of the Javanese community, participation according to the rewang tradition shows the importance of strengthening blood-relationship with others (termed silaturahmi in Bahasa Indonesia). It is this blood-relation that serves as core value within the rewang tradition, such that rewang becomes a model for being community within the social context of Indonesia. By employing a perspective of rewang, this essay thus attempts to demonstrate how hospitality can serve as a basis for the identity of presence concerning the Javanese community.

scholarly journals Passive Sociopathy

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Naum Ilievski ◽  
Angelina Ilievska
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Behavior Analysis ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Transactional Analysis ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Exogenous Factors

In the domain of complex relational phenomena and social behaviors, passive sociopathy (N. Ilievski) is described as a form of inadequate behavior with a negative impact not only in the immediate, but also in the wider social context as a global psycho-social phenomenon. This dysfunctional pattern is an indicator of psycho-social distortion with unproductive to extremely passive and risky behavior. Analysis and description of this phenomenon through the three psychological components: emotional, cognitive, and behavioral, in correlation with exogenous factors and influences, from the aspect of Christian psychotherapy and the model of Transactional analysis. The practice of Christian psychotherapy sets prayer as a central point of the FCP method in cultivating empathy as a dimension of emotional intelligence through which an emotionally healthy base is built in the person with adequate prosocial behaviors. Contemporary man, faced with the challenges of modern trends – in which the mass media of hyper information plays an important role – is flooded with negative information that changes the threshold of his perception and sensitivity to the level of discount, emotional dullness, to extreme insensitivity as the main characteristic of passive sociopathy.

scholarly journals Social context of educational failure of students

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-139
Author(s):  
G. E. Zborovsky ◽  
P. A. Ambarova
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
School Students ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Social Success ◽  
Educational Failure ◽  
College And University ◽  
Inequality In Education

Introduction.The article considers the educational failure of students as a social problem. Its relevance is due to the growth of educationally unsuccessful students and the need to overcome this phenomenon.The aimof the present article was to analyse the nature of the influence of the social context on the educational failure of students.Methodology and research methods.The research is based on the interdisciplinary methodology, which integrates the principles of sociological, psychological, socio-psychological, economic, and pedagogical approaches in the study of educational failure and ways to overcome it. The empirical basis of the article is the results of an interdisciplinary study using a qualitative mix strategy (2019–2020). The following methods were employed: semi-formal expert interviews, focus groups with school, college and university students, and the analysis of essays by high school students.Results and scientific novelty.The novelty of the research consists in the interpretation of educational failure, its social context, and in showing the limitations of the educational approach to the analysis of the phenomenon under consideration. The main results presented in the article involve the interpretation of educational failure as an educational and social phenomenon and its social context; the characteristics of the main contextual factors, which are analysed as social inequality in education, educational policy, the place of education in the system of social values and in the model of social success. The results of the empirical research reveal the understanding of educational failure as a social phenomenon, its social causes. It is concluded that the modern social context of Russian education limits the possibility of overcoming this phenomenon and needs to be changedPractical significanceof the article is the possibility to take into account the results of the research to improve social technologies for overcoming educational failure.

1. Introduction—Principles and Themes of Land Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Emma Lees
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Land Law ◽  
Law System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Effects

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the land law system. The operation of the land law rules can be split into three central questions: first, the content and nature of individual rights in land — both ownership-estates and interests in another's land; second, the method of creation and transfer of these individual rights; and third, the interaction between these rights and the rights of others. The law's answer to these questions is shaped by the social context within which the rules operate, and by the principles of land law. These principles are certainty; sensitivity to context; transactability; systemic and individual effects; and the importance of recognising social effects. The chapter then considers the logic of the land law system. Understanding this logic begins with understanding the terminology, and this terminology is nowhere more unhelpful but essential than in the distinction between legal and equitable rights, and in the concept of ownership.

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