Officers or engineers? The integration and status of engineers in the Royal Navy, 1847–60*

2004 ◽  
Vol 77 (196) ◽  
pp. 178-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver C. Walton
Keyword(s):  
Social Dimension ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Controversial Literature

Abstract This article, using engineers' diaries and Admiralty papers, discusses the status and integration of engineers into the Navy from 1847–60. With the birth of the steam fleet, they were recruited in large numbers as officers, to operate and maintain the engines. Their position as officers and engineers, nascent executive and technical, proved controversial. Literature on the introduction of steam has neglected the social dimension and coverage of naval engineers has not emphasized their challenge to the established ethos of the officer corps. This article seeks to remedy this by examining engineers' work and relationships with both officers and the Admiralty.

Grotesque Possible Worlds

Tekstualia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Starnawski
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Grotesque

The author of the articles shows that the grotesque is one of the most interesting ways of diagnosing changes and crisis in the anthroposphere (as a continuation of thinking about the subject from the middle of the seventeenth century through to postmodernity). According to Thomas Mann, the grotesque is one the most active notions in contemporary art. Its productivity results from the subject’s tendency to self-fulfilment, self-cognition, and self-definition; it is an independent vision and position in the “me – the world”, “me – community” relations. The grotesque is a strongly philosophical proposition, which bases its discourse on a conscious protest against present values and on transgressing all limiting and oppressive conventions. Therefore, the grotesque enhances the status of the subject, but it neither defends nor affi rms the subject in a direct manner. Apart from the social dimension, the grotesque also has numerous metaphysical references, the expression of which can be found in Kierkegaardian understanding of the metaphysical crisis as despair. Facing piercing emptiness, the human being tries to find some support and resorts to anything only to make a leap into the future. Laughter is only a manifestation of horror vacui, a specific dialectic moment devoid of any prospect of purification or comfort. What dominates a grotesque work is its open structure. The motifs which shape the spatiotemporal order do not always form a cause-and-effect system. Deliberately incoherent themes (logical coherence is not an aim) seem to be rather “deconstructors”, not constructors of the plot; they are intermittent, provoke the impression of a secret, a gleam, the absurd.

scholarly journals Coordinated Development of Regional Complex System: A Niche-Based Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jianling Li ◽  
Xiang Fan ◽  
Yufei Bai ◽  
Jingjing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Niche ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
System A ◽  
International Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Perspective

Taking Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as an example, it analyzes the comprehensive competitiveness of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. It selects four dimensions: economic dimension, social dimension, environmental dimension, and technological dimension. From a new perspective, it explores the application of niche theory in regional synergy. Based on the analysis of the ecological niche, the coordination degree model of the composite system is further used to calculate the status quo of the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2013 to 2019. The results show that Beijing has the highest ecological niche, followed by Tianjin, and Hebei is the weakest. In 2019, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is at a good level of coordination, with the social subsystem having the highest order and the technological subsystem having the lowest order. Based on this, it is proposed that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regions should be scientifically positioned, the overall need to be aligned with international trends, and the internal planning should be integrated to further enhance the level of cooperation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

scholarly journals Health and Safety at Work in the Time of COVID-19: A Social Europe Reckoning?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 864-883
Author(s):  
Konstantinos ALEXANDRIS POLOMARKAKIS
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
European Health ◽  
Key Driver

The shortcomings in the handling of COVID-19 highlighted the salience of health and safety at work and fuelled discussions surrounding the desirability of a European Health Union. This article conceptualises occupational health and safety at the European Union (EU) level as a key driver for the creation of a European Health Union. Through recourse to the area’s roots and its relevance to the tackling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the benefits of putting occupational health and safety in the driving seat are set out. The implications of maintaining a healthy workforce are acute, from both a social and a public health perspective, especially in the time of a pandemic. Relying on a reflective approach that goes beyond the status quo, this article offers pragmatic yet imaginative proposals for strengthening the occupational health and safety acquis. The proposals act as the blueprint for health and safety in the workplace to lay the foundation for a European Health Union and advance the social dimension of the EU.

How to compare the social foundations of science culture: A trial with five cities in Korea

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinwoong Song ◽  
Minkyung Chung ◽  
Eunjeong Choi ◽  
Leekyoung Kim ◽  
Sook-Kyoung Cho
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Social Foundations ◽  
Science Culture ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

Though there have been several indicator systems to monitor the status quo of science and technology and of scientific literacy, few are especially designed for science culture, especially for its social dimension. Furthermore there is little agreement on how to measure it. In a previous study, an indicator system, SCI (Science Culture Indicators), had been developed to monitor the status quo of the science culture of a nation at both individual and social dimensions. The purpose of this study was to explore a practical way to measure and compare local cities’ social foundation of science culture by revising and standardizing the social dimension of SCI and by applying it to five metropolitan cities in Korea. Despite some limits, the results of this study appear not only to reflect the cities’ current situations but also to show the strength and weakness of their social foundation of science culture.

scholarly journals Becoming Family Farmers: The Contribution of the Existential Ontological Perspective to the Social Learning for Sustainability Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8186
Author(s):  
Marcia Juliana d’Angelo ◽  
Janette Brunstein ◽  
Jones Madson Telles
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sustainability Theory ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Ways Of Being

This research examines social learning for sustainability (SLfS), particularly in its social dimension. Few studies have discussed or advanced on the ontological issues of SLfS relating to who social actors are becoming. This study aims to describe and analyze how the process of SLfS facilitates Brazilian families who were at the base of the social pyramid (no income) to change the status from landless campers to family farmers with land moving up four levels in the social pyramid over a decade. The research is qualitative interpretative, based on narratives from semi-structured interviews with 16 social actors and document analysis. The results show the meaning of learning professional ways of being family farmers from an existential ontological perspective.

The Biosemiotics and Phylogenesis of Culture

2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Lestel
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Animal Societies

The question of animal cultures has once again become a subject of debate in ethology, and is now one of its most active and problematic areas. One surprising feature of this research, however, is the lack of attention paid to the communications that go on in these complex animal societies, with the exception of mechanisms of social learning. This neglect of communications is all the more troubling because many ethologists are unwilling to acknowledge that animals have cultures precisely because they do not possess language, a refusal therefore on semiotic grounds. In the present article, I show that the biosemiotic approach to animal cultures is, on the contrary, essential to their understanding, even if the complexity of animal communications is far from being well enough understood. I consider that some of the consequences of this approach are very important, in particular the question of whether we can talk about subjects in the case of animals. Alternatively, I suggest that the semiotic approach to animal cultures leads to a discussion of some of the most serious limitations of biosemiotics, particularly when it comes to investigating the status of the interlocutors in a social community, or to taking into account interspecific communications and the social dimension of any biosemiotic interaction - which biosemiotics has for the moment failed to do. Finally I call attention to the importance of animals living in human communities and suggest that this be studied so as to better apprehend the capacities for culture in non-human living organisms.

THE NEW PEERAGE: RECRUITMENT TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS, 1704–1847

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL MCCAHILL ◽  
ELLIS ARCHER WASSON
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Market ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Entrants ◽  
New Recruits

New entrants to the British peerage between 1700 and 1850 included both traditional landed magnates and men from humbler backgrounds. The rate of recruitment accelerated rapidly after 1782. This article identifies and analyses the social and economic backgrounds of new peers and the reasons for which titles were bestowed. While the inclusion of large numbers of Irish and Scottish grandees sustained the longitudinal sinews of the peerage, war and empire produced an increasing number of titles awarded on merit. Men of modest backgrounds had always been admitted to the elite, but ‘Old Corruption’ and the marriage market allowed most of their descendants to blend in with the old peerage after a few generations. The wave of new recruits, especially after 1782, included numerous relatively poor or landless men, and governments increasingly intervened with grants of multi-generational annuities in order to protect the status of the peerage while continuing to use titles to reward new men. Ministers boldly and astutely acted both to preserve the pre-eminence of the old order and encourage the prowess of state servants as Britain bestrode the globe. A new peerage emerged to help save the old.

scholarly journals STATUS KEBERLANJUTAN BUDIDAYA RUMPUT LAUT DI NEGERI SAWAI KECAMATAN SERAM UTARA KABUPATEN MALUKU TENGAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Semuel Frederik Tuhumury ◽  
Miarah Bachmid ◽  
Masudin Sangaji
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Seaweed Cultivation ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Institutional Dimension ◽  
System Maintenance

Seaweed cultivation activities in the Sawai Village, District of North Seram, Central Maluku Regency has been known since 1994, but has not seen a significant development until now. For it is necessary to study the sustainability status of seaweed cultivation as a whole through the five dimensions of the ecological, economic, technological, social and institutional in order to get a clear condition of seaweed cultivation. This study aims to determine the condition of seaweed cultivation in the Sawai Village, to analyze the status and sustainability indexes seaweed cultivation activities of the five dimensions of sustainability and to formulate the direction of the management of its seaweed cultivation. This research was conducted in December 2016-February 2017 in Sawai Village. The method were used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data were used a primary and a secondary data. The results showed that the condition of the aquatic environment, the emploiment, marketing, post-harvest handling, and which system maintenance seaweed in Sawai village supports the development of seaweed, so the opportunity to be developed as a central potential of seaweed farming. The level of sustainability of seaweed cultivation in the Sawai village, are in the category of less sustainable. ecological dimension (83.77%) are in continuous status, the economic dimension (47.81%) the technological dimension (34.26%), the social dimension (46.97%) and institutional dimension (32.84%) are in status less sustainable. There are eight directions of management that could be recommended for the development of seaweed cultivation in the Sawai Village. ABSTRAK Kegiatan budidaya rumput laut di Negeri Sawai, Kecamatan Seram Utara, Kabupaten Maluku Tengah telah dikenal sejak tahun 1994, namun belum terlihat perkembangan yang signifikan hingga sekarang. Untuk itu perlu dikaji status keberlanjutan budidaya rumput laut secara menyeluruh melalui lima dimensi yaitu dimensi ekologi, ekonomi, teknologi, sosial dan kelembagaan agar mendapatkan gambaran yang jelas mengenai kondisi budidaya rumput laut di Negeri Sawai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kondisi budidaya rumput laut di Negeri Sawai, menganalisis status dan indeks keberlanjutan kegiatan budidaya rumput laut dari lima dimensi keberlanjutan serta merumuskan arahan pengelolaan budidaya rumput laut di Negeri Sawai. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada bulan Desember 2016-Februari 2017 dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Menggunakan data primer maupun sekunder. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kondisi lingkungan perairan, serapan tenaga kerja, pemasaran, penanganan pasca panen, dan sistem pemeliharaan rumput laut di Negeri Sawai mendukung pengembangan rumput laut, sehingga berpeluang untuk dikembangkan sebagai sentral budidaya rumput laut potensial. Tingkat keberlanjutan budidaya rumput laut di Negeri Sawai, berada dalam kategori kurang berkelanjutan. Dimensi ekologi (83,77%) berada pada status berkelanjutan, dimensi ekonomi (47,81%) dimensi teknologi (34,26%), dimensi sosial (46,97%) dan dimensi kelembagaan (32,84%) berada pada status kurang berkelanjutan. Terdapat delapan arahan pengelolaan yang dapat direkomendasikan untuk pengembangan budidaya rumput laut di Negeri Sawai. Kata Kunci : Status keberlanjutan, budidaya, rumput laut, pengelolaan, Negeri Sawai

Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-74
Author(s):  
Sandra Nekesa Barasa ◽  
Maarten Mous
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Youth Language

Youth ‘languages’ are an important topic of research in the domain of linguistic change through language contact because the change is rapid and observable and also because the social dimension of change is inevitably present. Engsh, as a youth language in Kenya expresses not only modernity and Kenyan identity but also, the status of being educated, and it differs in this respect from Sheng, the dominant Kenyan youth language. The element of Engsh that expresses this aspect most directly is the use of a grammatical system from English whereas Sheng uses Swahili. In lexicon, Engsh draws upon Sheng and urban English slang. This is a first extensive description of Engsh. The social function of Engsh is interesting in that class is expressed in it, which is not often reported in African urban youth codes. Also the fact that Engsh is a non-exclusive register, which expands through its use in (social) media and most of all in computer mediated communication.

scholarly journals Politeness Speech on Solidarity Scale-Based Manado Malay Speakers

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Thelma I. M. Wengkang ◽  
Thomas M. Senduk
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Problem Formulations ◽  
Language Ethics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Polite Speech

This study aims to describe the form and meaning of politeness speech on solidarity scale-based Manado Malay speakers. This study conducted in Manado city and used qualitative as a method. Observation and interviews were used as a technique of the study. The observation was used to observe the speakers of Manado Malay in using polite speech in daily social activities, whereas an interview was used by the researcher to questioning the informant about the use of polite speech in social interaction. This technique is complemented with listening, proficient, and note-taking techniques. The researcher plays a role as a key instrument who collects and analyzes the data. The source of data is the native speakers of Manado Malay who do interact in various places. Three informants who master Manado Malay were chosen. Techniques of analyzing data consist of 1) data reduction, simplified data collection, 2) data presentation, simplified data presented, categorized based on form and meaning, 3) verification, the data that has been presented were checked once more to ensure the accuracy according to the expected data, 4) conclusions, answering the predetermined problem formulations. The results showed that the social dimension, especially the solidarity scale, is a consideration for Manado Malay speakers in realizing polite speech, as well as when to use informal variants and when to use formal ones. The relationship among speakers has made them create the appropriate language choices, but language ethics that embody politeness remain a consideration. In various social interactions, occupations, religious meetings, associations, and family interactions, it turns out that Manado Malay people realize the politeness of speaking by changing command sentences into declarative sentences and asking along with the use of a flat intonation when speaking. The consideration of solidarity is the reason they speak politely, in addition to the status and formality scale.

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