Enhancing Frame Analysis: Five Laminating Functions of Language in the 1987 NFL Strike

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond L. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Live Television

The introduction of “replacement teams” into the social world of NFL football during the 1987 strike stimulated a laminated language, a language that transformed traditional meanings by linking varying social definitions to one another. Emergent content analysis of extensive newspaper, sport magazine and newsmagazine, and live television and radio accounts was used to inductively study this language. Power, media, and social structure impacted on the various language terms that were created. Laminated language protected, rejected, accepted, satirically extended, and integrated definitions. Various ways in which the recognition of laminated language may be used to enhance the use of Goffman’s framing concepts and leads in the sociological study of everyday life are offered.

Class before State: the Soviet treatment of African feudalism

1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Gellner
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Social

Soviet anthropology differs from its Western counterpart, for better or for worse, by a certain kind of density. It is the social world which is generated by the scholarly activities of the Soviet učenyj, and which he also inhabits, which has this dense quality. Any social structure or institution which he investigates is held firmly in its place by a wider framework, within which it can be shifted and budged only with difficulty. This framework is of course constituted by a set of ideas and questions and concepts which, in a loose way, one can lump together as ‘Marxism’.

Direct Action, Dramatic Action: Theatre and Situationist Theory

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (36) ◽  
pp. 329-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham White
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Social World ◽  
King's College ◽  
The Social ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
Dramatic Action ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
The Relationship

In exploring the relationship between situationist theory and theatre in the period of the ‘counter-culture’ in Britain, the following article seeks to provide an account of the ‘spectacularization’ of political action through the language and forms of drama. The relatively neglected work of Raoul Vaneigem is examined for its treatment of theatricality as one of the organizing discourses of the spectacle, and the suggestion that ‘drama’ is a constant choreographic presence in the social world is explored alongside related ideas concerning the dramatization of everyday life in the work of Raymond Williams and Aida Hozic. Attempts to ‘disrupt the spectacle’ through political action during the period of the counter-culture are discussed in relation to this material. Graham White is Lecturer in English at King's College, University of London, and has been Literary Manager of the Finborough Theatre since 1990.

Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Readings of Ari Z. Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt: Where Law, Violence, and Culture Collide: A Sociolegal Reading of Violence in Everyday Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (03) ◽  
pp. 802-806
Author(s):  
Jill D. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Review Symposium ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
The Social ◽  
Roman Egypt

This comment considers Ari Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt (2013) from sociological and sociolegal perspectives. Although Bryen is a historian, and his site of inquiry is second‐century Roman Egypt, he turns to contemporary sociologists and law and society scholars to highlight the interplay between law and the social world in the construction of violence. In doing so, he finds a new way to analyze the role of law as a cultural resource for nonelites to make sense of their social world but also to change it (albeit with limits) through law.

The People’s History and the Politics of Everyday Life since 1945

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Social World ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Informal Politics

This chapter revisits interview transcripts from postwar social science projects to explore vernacular understandings of the social world, especially the informal politics of everyday life. Understanding shifting conceptions of historical time provides the key to understanding the crisis of social democracy in the 1970s and 1980s which was rooted less in the machinations of high politics than in popular responses to economic uncertainty and social change. What sealed the fate of the mobilizing myths of postwar social democracy was the collapse of popular belief in the idea of ‘the people’s’ forward march. By the 1980s expectations of intergenerational ‘progress’ had begun to loosen and conceptions of a shared future had broken down. But if popular conceptions of time and politics represent vernacular attempts to make sense of everyday experience, resetting the terms of economic life and public policy may re-establish shared conceptions of progress.

Specifics of Social Stratification in Digital Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
S. Grishaeva
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Information Distortion ◽  
The Social

Digital revolution led to severe society modifications, including social structure transformation, primarily due to virtual reality existing simultaneously with reality. Despite that, one of the reasons of this transformation is post-modernism, that includes pluralism as well. As a result, individualized consciousness appears and formation of an increasingly heterogeneous society, the “minority society” begins. On the basis of these minority groups, relatively closed and self-sufficient communities can be created, i.e. neotribalism (according to L. Ionin). The variability of the social environment forms a new character of social inequality, which becomes “fluid”, uncertain, difficult to identify. The article considers new directions for studying social stratification, social inequality and social mobility, as well as issues of identity transformation in a changing society: digitalization makes the social structure dynamic, identity boundaries become fragile and unstable. The results of a sociological study of the social activity of young people on the Internet are described and analyzed. The primary sociological data features certain rationality of young people in evaluating the objectivity of information Internet resources, their ability to determine “discourse, that is, argumentation” in favor of certain forms of using the Internet’s capabilities. It is interesting to note that a significant part of the respondents admits the possibility of information distortion in social networks, but at the same time remains their regular participants. Thus, there is a need for a more serious social diagnosis of the problems of modern digital (network) society.

Knowledge Structures in Sport and Physical Education

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E.C. Sparks
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social World ◽  
Knowledge Structures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Standpoint

The structure of knowledge and its relation to social structure remain acute issues in the study of sport and physical education. This paper argues against common conceptions of knowledge that have resulted from positivist and rationalist tendencies in these fields. The position is set forth that knowledge is a constitutive human practice that tends to produce and reproduce the meanings, values, and structural realities of the social world in which it occurs. This theoretical standpoint sets the framework for the three papers that follow.

Why Regular Gamblers Don't Quit

1986 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rosecrance
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social World ◽  
Implicit Knowledge ◽  
Financial Loss ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Excessive Gambling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Rewards

This article examines the phenomenon of persistence at gambling by relating regular participation to the social structure in which that behavior occurs. Using qualitative data developed during a study of three naturally occurring gambling groups and implicit knowledge drawn from 28 years of personal experience, I apply sociological perspectives to a subject that traditionally has been examined from either an economic or a psychological viewpoint. An analysis of the data revealed that a significant sustaining mechanism of gambling persistence could be located in the binding social arrangements that have developed among the players. A delineation of these arrangements provides a basis for comprehending regular gamblers' commitment to maintain participation in the social world of gambling, despite financial loss. An awareness of the social rewards derived from sustained gambling is essential in developing an understanding of the root causes of excessive gambling.

scholarly journals Acting Career and its Determinants in the Social World of Professional Theater in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-69
Author(s):  
Emilia Zimnica-Kuzioła
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Social World ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relevant Role

The article is an attempt to answer the question about factors affecting the trajectory of an acting career. The author confronts the objective dimensions of a career with a subjective concept of success, clarified by the participants of the social world of theater themselves. The empirical basis of the work are free interviews conducted by the author with actors of Polish public drama theaters (in 2015–2017) and journalistic interviews with theater artists published in books and popular monthly magazines in the last two decades of the 21st century. All sources were subjected to qualitative content analysis. It shows that in addition to talent, which is the basis of an acting career, hard work is also important. The actors pay attention to personality aspects – charismatic people with a natural ability to attract attention have a greater chance of success. The cultural capital of the stage artist and social capital (the relevant role of linking artistic careers) are not without significance for the course of the acting career. Actors also say a lot about coincidence of events, but it is worth remembering that “you have to be good to be lucky”, you have to be more motivated and determined. The author also tries to answer questions whether awards actuate the course of acting career and whether migrations are an opportunity for creative progression.

The Freedman's Story: an Accusation of Witchcraft in the Social World of Early Imperial Roman Italy (CIL11.4639 =ILS3001)

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Duncan E. Macrae
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Roman Italy ◽  
Ambiguous Position

AbstractThis article proposes a new reading of a late first-centuryc.e.inscribed dedication from Todi (Umbria) as an accusation of witchcraft, a rhetorical text aimed at propagating a particular story among the local community. Historical and anthropological studies of witchcraft accusations in other societies have emphasised how they can reveal tensions and anxieties that are normally not visible to the observer. By drawing on these studies and close examination of the language and content of the inscription, this article analyses an historical agent's experience of the social structure of early imperial Italy. The accusation is read as a freedman's response to his ambiguous position in a slave society, the ambivalent power of writing in Roman culture and the religious claims of Flavian imperial discourse.

Folk Psychology and the Biological Basis of Intersubjectivity

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 18-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Folk Psychology ◽  
Social World ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
Intentional States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpersonal Understanding

Recent philosophical discussions of intersubjectivity generally start by stating or assuming that our ability to understand and interact with others is enabled by a ‘folk psychology’ or ‘theory of mind’. Folk psychology is characterized as the ability to attribute intentional states, such as beliefs and desires, to others, in order to predict and explain their behaviour. Many authors claim that this ability is not merely one amongst many constituents of interpersonal understanding but an underlying core that enables social life. For example, Churchland states that folk psychology ‘embodies our baseline understanding’ of others (1996, p. 3). Currie and Sterelny similarly assert that ‘our basic grip on the social world depends on our being able to see our fellows as motivated by beliefs and desires we sometimes share and sometimes do not’ (2000, p. 143). And, as Frith and Happé put it, ‘this ability appears to be a prerequisite for normal social interaction: in everyday life we make sense of each other’s behaviour by appeal to a belief-desire psychology’ (1999, p. 2).

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