Book Reviews: Racism after ‘Race Relations’, Racialised Barriers: The Black Experience in the United States and England in the 1980s, Locating Gender: Occupational Segregation, Wages and Domestic Responsibilities, Mothers and Their Children — A Feminist Sociology of Childrearing, Timewatch. The Social Analysis of Time, Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order, the Russian Revolutions, Associative Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance, Debating the Future of the Public Sphere: Transforming the Public and Private Domains in Free Market Societies, the Flâneur, … And There was Television, Reporting Crime: The Media Politics of Criminal Justice, ‘Game without Frontiers: Football, Identity and Modernity’, Consumer Involvement: Concepts and Research, Postmodern Cities and Spaces, Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes, Researching the People's Health, Qualitative Studies in Health and Medicine, Resistance and Power in Organisations

Following the translation of Jürgen Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere into English in 1989, we have come to see “the public” and “the private” as historically contingent categories bearing upon nests of social practices. The public and private are not just distinctions of geography—so that beyond our front doors we are necessarily and unavoidably in the public—for they bear on authority, authorized voice, citizenship, and credibility in democratic societies. Whereas the Hellenic Greek social order recognized freedom only in the public realm, and only embodied by household masters, the nineteenth-century model of separate spheres cast the public realm as the place where individuals defended the family (equated to the private) from state domination while debating the proper roles for the sexes. Unacknowledged in both models is that agents of the state and the private individuals who have access to the public realm are normalized as exclusively male and of the hegemonic class. The Greek and Victorian models—explicitly relegating women to the home (private) and men to the marketplace (public)—are equally open to critique for being as class-blind as they are hyperbolically universalizing of all cultures and sub-cultures, as if they obeyed a natural law instead of ideological preferences. If we write theatre history with either model in mind and assume that “the public” does not carry with it connotations of power, then we are distorting the evidence and misfiring on our interpretations.

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The public and the private: reconfiguring the interrelationship during a civil act

Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing ◽

10.15407/sociology2019.02.053 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 53-69

Author(s):

Natalia Kostenko

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Public Space ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Online Communication ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Physical Interaction ◽

Bare Life ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Public Sphere

The subject matter of research interest here is the movement of sociological reflection concerning the interplay of public and private realms in social, political and individual life. The focus is on the boundary constructs embodying publicity, which are, first of all, classical models of the space of appearance for free citizens of the polis (H. Arendt) and the public sphere organised by communicative rationality (Ju. Habermas). Alternative patterns are present in modern ideas pertaining to the significance of biological component in public space in the context of biopolitics (M. Foucault), “inclusive exclusion of bare life” (G. Agamben), as well as performativity of corporeal and linguistic experience related to the right to participate in civil acts such as popular assembly (J. Butler), where the established distinctions between the public and the private are levelled, and the interrelationship of these two realms becomes reconfigured. Once the new media have come into play, both the structure and nature of the public sphere becomes modified. What assumes a decisive role is people’s physical interaction with online communication gadgets, which instantly connect information networks along various trajectories. However, the rapid development of information technology produces particular risks related to the control of communications industry, leaving both public and private realms unprotected and deforming them. This also urges us to rethink the issue of congruence of the two ideas such as transparency of societies and security.

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The Entrepreneur in “Transformation Cinema”: Representing the Economic Changes of the 1990s in Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia

East European Politics and Societies and Cultures ◽

10.1177/0888325420980155 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 088832542098015

Author(s):

Veronika Pehe

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Social Order ◽

Role Models ◽

Free Market ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Cultural Representations ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Working People ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Economic Expectations

This article analyses how economic change after 1989 was perceived and rooted in society through cultural representations, specifically in the film production of Poland and Czechoslovakia (and later the Czech Republic and Slovakia). The starting premise of this investigation is that popular commercial films, alongside the media and discourse of politicians and other key actors of the systemic transformation, also informed ideas about the free market circulating in the public sphere. Filmmakers, faced with the new realities brought about initially by the gradual liberalization of the economy in the late 1980s and later the systemic change of the economic transformation in both countries, immediately turned to capturing and fictionalizing the changes surrounding them. They presented audiences with role models of what it means to be a capitalist, but also tales of warning. This article investigates the “transformation cinema” of the 1990s, focusing on the figure of the entrepreneur and private enterprise. It examines how filmmakers searched for a visual language to critique or affirm the new social order, but also continued to work with inherited modes from the late socialist era. The article asserts that while the economic expectations conveyed through cinema focused largely on structuring the imagination of a new middle class in Poland, Czech(oslovak) cinema adopted a more sceptical outlook, suggesting that the promises of the free market were not available to “ordinary” working people.

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23. Heroism and Heartache: Representations of Horatio Nelson in 19th Century Popular British Music

Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings ◽

10.24908/iqurcp.10143 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sam Zimmerman

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

British Society ◽

Napoleonic Wars ◽

Popular Song ◽

Public And Private ◽

Early 19Th Century ◽

The Public ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

British Music ◽

The Public Sphere

This research project seeks to establish a print culture context for popular British music during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More specifically, this project investigates representations of Horatio Nelson, the Battle of the Nile (1798), and the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) to understand representations of heroism and the nature of public and private spheres during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. By studying these representations in popular song, this research better understands the jingoistic tropes of British early 19th century Britain as well as attitudes towards heroism and the Napoleonic Wars. Songs used in this project are: “Nelson’s Tomb,” “The Battle of the Nile,” “The Death of Nelson,” “The Disbanded Soldier” “The Mouth of the Nile,” and “The Orphan Boy’s Tale.” The conflicting perspectives found in these songs provide a greater understanding of British culture during the Napoleonic Wars. Songs which exclusively represent Nelson as the quintessential heroic sailor in the public sphere and Britain’s military acts as divinely sanctioned, choose to ignore Nelson’s relationship in the private sphere, and contrast songs which reject unqualified celebration in the wake of war, and focus on mourning as a result of the war. This disparity reflects the complexity and internal tension of 19th century British society, specifically oppositional attitudes of jingoism and mourning, as well as the celebration of renowned heroes versus the disregard of unknown soldiers and the dead. By considering such historical perspectives on war, we might better understand the voices that speak of war in our own time.

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RELIGIÃO, POLÍTICA E EDUCAÇÃO: OU DAS INTERROGAÇÕES SUSCITADAS EM UMA SOCIEDADE "Religion, politics and education: or the questions raised in a society"

PARALELLUS Revista de Estudos de Religião - UNICAP ◽

10.25247/paralellus.2014.v5n9.p51-64 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 5 (9) ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

Verioni Ribeiro Bastos

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Religious Education ◽

Educational Needs ◽

Acute Angle ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Education Politics ◽

Politics And Education ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

The Relationship

Diante da estrutura do sistema de ensino brasileiro no qual encontramos a disciplina, Ensino Religioso, constitucionalmente obrigatória no ensino fundamental das escolas públicas até as Ciências das Religiões nas Universidades Federais brasileiras, busco realizar um diálogo com outras trabalhos usando estes como interrogações para questionar o comum tido como natural, ou seja, a presença do religioso na esfera pública. Somado a isto o debate com autores que discutem a realidade francesa e a narração de dois casos extraídos da observação participante completam a intenção de apresentar um ângulo mais agudo de refletir sobre a realidade brasileira no que concerne a religião, política e educação, como também, como o público e o privado caminham juntos na mentalidade da população do país. A secularização à brasileira anda a passos lentos e o quadro político-social e educacional do Brasil precisa de menos análises do que está posto e questionar por que o que está posto parece normal e se perpetua por gerações e gerações.Palavras-chave: Laicidade: ensino religioso. Política. Brasil. França.AbstractTaking the ideias of some authors we will try to understand the interconnections between religions and public sphere in Brazil and France. In Brazil we get two exemples of the relationship between public sphere and the religion: the presence of Religious Education and the Science Religions in the brazilian federal universities. In other hand we try to understand how in France we can see the relation between the religions and the public sphere thourgh the eyes of some authors who speak about it using two exemples we will show in this text. Completing the intention to present a more acute angle to reflect on the Brazilian reality with regard to religion, politics and education, as well as public and private walk together in the mindset of the country's population. Secularization Brazilian's slow steps and the socio-political framework and Brazil's educational needs less analysis than is post and question why what's post looks normal and perpetuates for generations and generations.Keywords: Secularism: religious education. Politics. Brazil. France.

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Attitudes and the Stalled Gender Revolution: Egalitarianism, Traditionalism, and Ambivalence from 1977 through 2016

Gender & Society ◽

10.1177/0891243218809604 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 173-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

William J. Scarborough ◽

Ray Sin ◽

Barbara Risman

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Social Life ◽

Latent Class ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Gender Attitudes ◽

Birth Cohorts ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Public Sphere

Empirical studies show that though there is more room for improvement, much progress has been made toward gender equality since the second wave of feminism. Evidence also suggests that women’s advancements have been more dramatic in the public sphere of work and politics than in the private sphere of family life. We argue that this lopsided gender progress may be traced to uneven changes in gender attitudes. Using data from more than 27,000 respondents who participated in the General Social Survey from 1977 through 2016, we show that gender attitudes have more than one underlying dimension and that these dimensions have changed at different rates over time. Using latent class analysis, we find that the distribution of respondents’ attitudes toward gender equality has changed over the past 40 years. There has been an increase in the number of egalitarians who support equality in public and private spheres, while the traditionals who historically opposed equality in both domains have been replaced by ambivalents who feel differently about gender equality in the public and private spheres. Meanwhile, successive birth cohorts are becoming more egalitarian, with Generation-Xers and Millennials being the most likely to hold strong egalitarian views. The feminist revolution has succeeded in promoting egalitarian views and decreasing the influence of gender traditionalism, but has yet to convince a substantial minority that gender equality should extend to both public and private spheres of social life

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Sense of Community and its Sustenance in Africa

Human Affairs ◽

10.2478/v10023-007-0020-y ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Olatunji Oyeshile

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Public Good ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Social Order ◽

Democratic Republic ◽

Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽

Republic Of Congo ◽

The Public ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Political Marginalization

Sense of Community and its Sustenance in AfricaThere is no gainsaying the fact that Africa is inundated with many problems which have made the development and the attainment of social order, conceived in normative terms, daunting tasks. It is also a fact that there are many causes of this scenario such as political marginalization, ethnic chauvinism, economic mismanagement, religious bigotry and corruption in its various facets. However, in this disquisition we identify the lack of the development, internalization and application of the sense of community, loosely tagged community consciousness, as a major factor that has aggravated the African crisis and which if addressed can reverse the order of things positively. It is the contention of this paper that fundamentally in the case of Africa, as shown in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria, there has been a blind pursuit of private or individual interests to the detriment of the public sphere or public good. Ironically too, when leaders put up repressive laws in the pretense to pursue the public good, the underlying motive has always been the pursuit of selfish private whims and caprices. We noted that in contemporary Africa a major way towards a desired level of social order and development consists in engendering the required sense of community (a situation in which there is mutual co-operation, interdependence and fellow-feeling) on which other developments can be predicated. Although, the quest and realization of the sense of community is not a grand solution to our myriad of problems in Africa, at least it forms the basis on which we can start to address our problems in Africa in a meaningful way.

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Understanding Children’s Participation through an Eliasian Lens: Habitus as a Barrier to Children’s Everyday Participation Rights

The International Journal of Children s Rights ◽

10.1163/15718182-02603002 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 446-467 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sally Hester ◽

Allison Moore

Keyword(s):

Children's Rights ◽

Children’S Rights ◽

Moral Competence ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

Participation Rights ◽

Children’S Participation ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Children's Participation

In spite of the rhetoric of children’s participation in the public sphere, in their everyday life interactions young children’s rights continue to be denied or given entitlement on the basis of assumptions about the social category to which they belong, and opportunities continue to be missed to make links between the everyday and the societal, political and legal contexts by those wishing to further children’s participation rights. Drawing on the sociology of Norbert Elias, particularly his concept of “habitus” and “drag effect” we will explore the dissonance between the public and private status of young children’s rights and suggest ways that this might be remedied. The paper will conclude by arguing that it is important to work towards young children’s increased participation rights in their everyday lives because adults must acknowledge young children’s moral competence to participate in decisions about their everyday lives in order to develop children’s agency to do so.

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The Social Oikos

Persona Studies ◽

10.21153/psj2021vol7no1art1458 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 20-32

Author(s):

Michael Lee Humphrey

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

The Self ◽

Ancient World ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Core ◽

The Social ◽

Nuanced Understanding ◽

Core Points

In one of the foundational articles of persona studies, Marshall and Barbour (2015) look to Hannah Arendt for development of a key concept within the larger persona framework: “Arendt saw the need to construct clear and separate public and private identities. What can be discerned from this understanding of the public and the private is a nuanced sense of the significance of persona: the presentation of the self for public comportment and expression” (2015, p. 3). But as far back as the ancient world from which Arendt draws her insights, the affordance of persona was not evenly distributed. As Gines (2014) argues, the realm of the household, oikos, was a space of subjugation of those who were forced to be “private,” tending to the necessities of life, while others were privileged with life in the public at their expense. To demonstrate the core points of this essay, I use textual analysis of a YouTube family vlog, featuring a Black mother in the United States, whose persona rapidly changed after she and her White husband divorced. By critically examining Arendt’s concepts around public, private, and social, a more nuanced understanding of how personas are formed in unjust cultures can help us theorize persona studies in more egalitarian and robust ways.

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