Social Class, Consumption and the Influence of Bourdieu: Some Critical Issues

1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 274-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Longhurst ◽  
Mike Savage
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

Bourdieu's work has been an important point of departure for recent analyses of the relationship between social class and consumption practices. This chapter takes stock of Bourdieu's influence and explores some problems which have become apparent—often in spite of Bourdieu's own hopes and general views. We point to the way that Bourdieu's influence has led to an approach to consumption which focuses on the consumption practices of specific occupational classes and on examining variations in consumption practice between such occupational groups. We argue that it this approach has a series of problems and suggest the need to broaden analyses of consumption to consider issues of ‘everyday life’, sociation, and social networks.

scholarly journals Fronteiras em construção: representações de migrantes brasileiros na Guiana Francesa

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosiane Ferreira Martins ◽  
Carmem Izabel Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Nesse artigo examinamos como as migrações contribuem para re-arranjos das relações familiares e sociais, além da construção de novas identidades. Trata-se de uma reflexão acerca do mundo contemporâneo em uma análise sobre os sentidos de ser classificado como migrante e/ou estrangeiro, em um processo de construção de estratégias que marcam a vivência cotidiana. As relações entre migrantes de diferentes países, e a construção de espaços de sociabilidade marcados pela diversidade revelam identidades e percepções acerca das relações de conflito, solidariedades, alteridades entre o eu (clandestino) e o outro na cidade. Palavras-chave: Migrantes. Guiana Francesa. Representações sociais. In this article, we examine the way in which migratory flows contribute to a re-negotiation of family and social networks and to the construction of new identities. We embark on a reflection on the contemporary world and an analysis of meanings surrounding the process of being classified as a stranger-Other and the related strategies that mark processes of everyday life for migrants. The relationship between migrants from different countries and the related construction of spaces of sociability marked by diversity reveal identities and perceptions negotiated around relations of conflict, solidarity, and alterity between the clandestine I and the other in the city. Keywords: Migrants. French Guiana. Social representations.

scholarly journals Die teoloog as akademiese saboteur

1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
J. G. Du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
World View ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
The University ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way ◽  
Christian Beliefs

The theologian as academical ‘agent provocateur’ Some thoughts on the relation between Biblical science and the role of traditional Christian beliefs in everyday life. What the Biblical scientist teaches in the university is - and should be seen to be - relevant to the way the Christian tradition is supposed to shape everyday life. The Biblical scientist should live in constant dialogue between classical Christianity and the modern secularist world view in which Biblical science shares to a lesser or larger extent. The essay argues that the Biblical scientist should take classical Christianity as his point of departure. This entails a "theology in exile" within the academic community.

scholarly journals Locating Identities in Time: An Examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self through Location-Based Social Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Papangelis ◽  
Ioanna Lykourentzou ◽  
Vassilis-Javed Khan ◽  
Alan Chamberlain ◽  
Ting Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Location Based Social Networks ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way ◽  
Dynamic Context

Studies of identity and location-based social networks (LBSN) have tended to focus on the performative aspects associated with marking one's location. Yet these studies often present this practice as being an a priori aspect of locative media. What is missing from this research is a more granular understanding of how this process develops over time. Accordingly, we focus on the first 6 weeks of 42 users beginning to use an LBSN we designed and named GeoMoments . Through our analysis of our users' activities, we contribute to understanding identity and LBSN in two distinct ways. First, we show how LBSN users develop and perform self-identity over time. Second, we highlight the extent these temporal processes reshape the behaviors of users. Overall, our results illustrate that although a performative use of GeoMoments does evolve, this development does not occur in a vacuum. Rather, it occurs within the dynamic context of everyday life, which is prompted, conditioned, and mediated by the way the affordances of GeoMoments digitally organize and archive past locational traces.

scholarly journals FRELST OG REDDET FRA AIDS?: Unge pigers håndtering af risikoen for hiv i det sydvestlige Uganda

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Wimberley
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
Hiv Aids

Kristina Wimberley: Saved from AIDS? The Manoeuvres of Adolescent Giris in Relation to the Risk of HIV in Southwestern Uganda This articles discusses the representation of adolescent giris in the literature on AIDS and in AIDS interventions. In these contexts an image is created of adolescent giris as passive victims of a static inequality in societies pervaded by patriarchy, and as driven by economic want. On the basis of fieldwork material from Ankole, southwestern Uganda, the articles discusses the meaning of “being saved” for adolescent giris in relation to the risk of HIV. For the giris concemed, “being saved” is characterized by conversion to a new lifestyle in which they are virtuous, honest, kind, and above all: avoid and reject men. However, at some point even saved giris enter into relationships with men. In this situation, the giris may find it advantageous to continue to be “really saved” in certain contexts. From the analysis put forward here it emerges that “being saved” as a form of discourse and action enables giris to create a room for manoeuvre that empowers them to tackle the dangers they face - including HIV/AIDS. This agency emerges in the interplay of, on the one hand the constraining and enabling effects of the various life worlds of giris in Ankole, and on the other hand the way in which gendered identities and relationships are negotiated in everyday life between giris and men, as well as among the giris themselves. It is concluded that the standard analysis of giris’ vulnerability in relation to the risk of HIV/AIDS could benefit from an actor-oriented approach that encompasses the interplay between structure and process. An analysis of this kind may reveal the agency of giris, and not exclusively in relation to economic want. This focus on agency could be a point of departure for more effective HIV/AIDS interventions.

Social-Class Differences on the Mc Carthy Scales for Black and White Children

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Kaufman ◽  
Nadeen L. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
White Children ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of social class to the cognitive and motor Indexes yielded by the McCarthy scales was explored for representative groups of black ( n = 154) and white ( n = 862) children aged 2½ to 8½ yr. For both racial groups, children categorized as middle class scored significantly higher than working-class youngsters on each of the six indexes. The pattern of mean Indexes for different occupational groups resembled the pattern of mean IQs found in previous studies.

scholarly journals The "Artifacts" of the ribeirinhos of Rio Mapuá, Marajó-PA, Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Eliane Miranda Costa
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Bibliographical Survey ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

it is proposed to discuss the relationship of the artifacts made by the riverside of the Mapuá river with the way of life of these peoples. Mapuá is one of the most extensive rivers in the municipality of Breves, archipelago of Marajó (PA). Along its length are its communities, formed by families, living in isolated houses and grouped in villages. Accompanying the dynamics of these communities, I mapped different artifacts produced by ribeirinhos with materials taken from the forest and used in various ways in everyday life. With a methodological combination involving the bibliographical survey and the field research, I show that the set of artifacts produced by the riverside mediate their relationship with the environment, with each other, with others and with materiality. They are artifacts that form their material and archaeological patrimony, a concept that contributes to demonstrate that the form of appropriation of this category can not do without the way of life of the traditional populations in the contemporary world. Os “Artefatos” dos ribeirinhos do Rio Mapuá, Marajó-PA, Brasil Propõe-se discutir a relação dos artefatos – objetos artesanais – confeccionados pelos ribeirinhos do rio Mapuá, com o modo de vida desses povos. O Mapuá é um dos rios mais extensos do município de Breves, arquipélago de Marajó, Estado do Pará. Ao longo de sua extensão encontram-se suas comunidades, formadas por famílias que moram em casas isoladas e agrupadas em vilas. Acompanhando a dinâmica dessas famílias, mapeei diferentes artefatos por elas construídos a partir de produtos retirados da floresta e utilizados de várias formas na vida cotidiana. São objetos que para elas formam seu patrimônio material e caracterizam-se como estratégias do saber-fazer e das relações estabelecidas com o meio ambiente amazônico. Neste texto trabalho com uma combinação metodológica que envolve a análise qualitativa do levantamento bibliográfico e da pesquisa de campo, com foco para a fotografia, observação e entrevistas com interlocutores envolvidos com a temática investigada.

scholarly journals Ting og typologier – en utforskning av landbruksutstillingen på Dalane Folkemuseum

1970 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Eva Reme ◽  
Olaug Norun Økland
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Southwest Coast ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

The Folk Museum at Dalane is a regional museum for the four southernmost municipalities in Rogaland on the southwest coast of Norway. Established in 1910, it is a museum typical of the period in which the Norwegian folk museums were set up. The point of departure for this article is the museum’s typological agricultural exhibition, which still is untouched, exactly as it was mounted in 1952. By emphasizing a micro-perspective the authors illuminate how ideas and practices both followed and departed from well-established museum paradigms. The applied actor-perspective emphasizes the importance of the individuals who were actually responsible for the organization and development of the museum. The article accentuates the museum actors’ attitudes and approaches towards the material objects, as well as their way of mounting and organizing the exhibition. Furthermore, by taking into consideration the way they built and participated in various social networks, the intention is also to shed light on how the museum actors negotiated between their own ambitions and established norms for collecting and forming exhibitions. In this way it is possible to follow how local museums can simultaneously confirm and challenge existing museum paradigms. 

scholarly journals Guides as Mediators of Memory: On the Holocaust and Antisemitism – 75 Years Later

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Ruth Dorot ◽  
Nitza Davidovich
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Educational Challenge ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article deals with the relationship between the Holocaust and antisemitism, focusing on the events of 2020-2021. The point of departure is the fifth World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, held under the slogan: “Remembering the Holocaust, fighting antisemitism”. The event took place at the invitation of Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, in advance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 23, 2020). Content analysis of the speeches given by presidents and prime ministers from around the world reinforce the insights of the Holocaust and the association with current-day antisemitism. In March 2020 the COVID-19 virus appeared, and a wave of antisemitism surfaced with it. Analysis of contents that appeared on websites and social networks reveals vitriolic antisemitism against Jews as generators of the virus, being the virus themselves.This study utilized the method of anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006), who established the interpretive approach to anthropology for analyzing culture contents. This, with regard to content analysis in general and to the contents of social networks and their contribution to antisemitism, in particular. Operation “Guardian of the Walls” in Gaza in 2021 further fanned antisemitism. Content analysis of websites and social networks portrays the Jewish soldier as a Nazi soldier and all Jews as murderers – with all the Holocaust symbols and Holocaust language.The study seeks to examine whether and to what degree the educational system in general and guides of youth trips to Poland as mediators of memory in particular, are prepared for the educational challenge of eradicating antisemitism in the post-Holocaust era. The research findings show that the challenge still awaits us. Education is an essential instrument in the battle against antisemitism but the educational system, both formal and informal, is not prepared.

scholarly journals Besete of siek? n Pastoraal - sielkundige perspektief op Satanisme

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Rossouw
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

Taking a pastoral perspective as point of departure, the results concerning the relationship between Satanism and Psychology are examined in this article. Furthermore, the biblical connotation of possession by demons and the way in which biblical information should be interpreted are studied by discussing three possible hermeneutic models. The relationship between psychiatric disorders and occult phenomena is pointed out and a strategic approach is suggested. Whereas the diagnosis of occult possession remains problematic, the diagnostic criteria for possession by demons are also considered. Finally, the dangers of diagnosing possession by demons are outlined and guidelines are given for a meaningful handling of possible possession.

Understanding and interpreting algorithms: toward a hermeneutics of algorithms

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1479-1494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Truth And Method ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

This article develops a hermeneutics of algorithms. By taking a point of departure in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, developed in Truth and Method, I am going to examine what it means to understand algorithms in our lives. A hermeneutics of algorithms is consistent with the fact that we do not have direct access to the meaning of algorithms in the same way as we do not have direct access to the meaning of other cultural artifacts. We are forced to interpret cultural artifacts in order to make meaning out of them. The act of interpretation is an action on behalf of the interpreter. However, interpreters are not free to interpret cultural artifacts in whatever way they like. Interpreters are bound by the cultural artifact and its embeddedness in tradition. Furthermore, the act of interpretation is not to recover the historicity of the cultural artifact. Rather, interpretation concerns the way we make sense of algorithms in everyday life and how they are part of a tradition. It is about living with algorithms. Understanding and interpreting algorithms are therefore a mode of existence and mode of living with and enacting algorithms.

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