Highland Gatherings, Sport, and Social Class

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Jarvie
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Central Focus

This paper takes as its central focus the development of the Scottish Highland Gatherings. Questioned is the extent to which the transformation and reproduction of this Highland tradition has paralleled broader transformations within the Highland social formation. Such an analysis certainly encompasses some of the most basic questions that might be asked about Scottish cultural identity and social structure.

scholarly journals ‘A Sentimental Attachment to the Neighbourhood’: African Christians and Land Claims in South Africa

Itinerario ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 243-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah James ◽  
Geoffrey Nkadimeng
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
South African ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
African Society ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Local Construction

As part of its attempt to understand ‘an apartheid of souls’, this volume is concerned to show how mission activity, particularly that of European-based churches with close links to the expansion of Dutch/Calvinist influence, may have nurtured the local construction of race or ethnic difference in Indonesian and South African society. One well-known account of Christianity in South Africa shows how the interaction between mission and missionised produced a sharply dichotomised sense - experienced by the Tshidi Tswana as the contrast between setsivana and segoa - of difference between indigenous and imported culture. While this shows how processes devoted to undermining it may paradoxically strengthen a sense of cultural identity, what it does not yield is a sense of how Christianity, appropriated within Tswana and other African societies, furnished a means of marking internal distinctions of social class, dovetailing in unexpected ways with ethnic difference. It is such divisions - potently fusing class with ethnicity and having crucial implications for the ownership, reclaiming, and use of land - with which the present paper is concerned.

Book Reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1406-1408
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Relationship

Marie Connolly of the Université du Québec à Montréal reviews “Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present,” by Timothy D. Taylor. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Examines the historical relationship between music and Western capitalism, focusing on the differences between contemporary and previous versions of capitalism and the effects on the means of the production, distribution, and consumption of music, the branding of musicians and new forms of marketing musicians, and changes in social structure in terms of social class and habitus.”

The King’s Power Dominating Society—A Re-examination of Ancient Chinese Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Zehua
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Special Form ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Central Group

Abstract In terms of social formation, the most important characteristic of traditional Chinese society was how the king’s power dominated the society. Ever since the emergence of written records, we see that ancient China has had a most prominent interest group, that of the nobility and high officials, centered around the king (and later the emperor). Of all the kinds of power exerted on Chinese society, the king’s was the ultimate power. In the formation process of kingly power, a corresponding social structure was also formed. Not only did this central group include the king or emperor, the nobles, and the bureaucratic landlords, but the “feudal landlord ecosystem” which was formed within that group also shaped the whole society in a fundamental way. As a special form of economic redistribution, corruption among officials provided the soil for the growth of bureaucratic landlords. At the foundation of this entire bureaucratic web was always the king and his authority. In short, ancient Chinese society is a power-dependent structure centered on the king’s power. The major social conflict was therefore the conflict between the dictatorial king’s power and the rest of society.

scholarly journals Yos Sebagai Pengintegrasian Masyarakat Desa Pedawa

HUMANIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Arik Febriani ◽  
I Wayan Suwena ◽  
Aliffiati .
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Village Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Village Communities

Pedawa Village community, Banjar sub-district, Buleleng Regency has two kawitan namely kulit and kawitan lokal. Kawitan kulit that found in Pedawa Village is the general kawitan in Bali, meanwhile kawitan local of the Pedawa Village community refers to Yos which must be owned by all Pedawa Village communities. The Yos has a highly glorified God and the god closest to the community because the God is believed to be a protective deity, with the existence of the Yos the formation of social class in society. This reserach aimed to know the status and role of community members based on Yos, and to reveal the implications of Yos for the social structure of the Pedawa Village community. The results of the study revealed that there were 14 types of Yos. From several types of Yos, there are several members of community who have the status and role in a ceremony namely as Balian Desa, Premas, Headman, Janbangul, Pedewasan, and Sekaa Gong. Yos also has important implications and meanings toward the Pedawa Village community. The implications of Yos on aspects of the pedawa Village community belief system, besides the implications there are also meanings of Yos covering religious meaning, social meaning and cultural meaning.

scholarly journals Um percurso para operacionalização da categoria classe social numa pesquisa em Geografia

GeoTextos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Chame Dias
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The Social

<p>Com base na compreensão marxista do capitalismo e pressupondo a correlação entre a posição na estrutura social e as possibilidades de uso e de apropriação do espaço, desenvolvi uma tese de doutorado na qual, entre outros aspectos, propus critérios para operacionalizar a categoria classe social. Este texto resulta de uma reavaliação desse trabalho, objetivando, portanto, refletir sobre tais critérios, a partir de uma experiência de pesquisa em Geografia. Para isso, apresento uma síntese do percurso teórico que resultou nos procedimentos adotados, exponho tais procedimentos, e avalio a adoção de critérios relativos à ocupação e à trajetória dos sujeitos para compreender sua classe. Essa discussão é feita, sobretudo, a partir dos achados de campo e da vinculação entre teoria e prática. Assinalo ainda a possibilidade de considerar suas interpretações do mundo e de suas práticas como elemento indicativo de sua posição na estrutura social.</p><p>Abstract</p><p>A COURSE TO THE SOCIAL CLASS CATEGORY OPERATIONALIZATION IN A GEOGRAPHY RESSEARCH</p><p>Based on Marxist understanding regarding capitalism and supposing that one’s position on the social structure influences their possibilities of space usage and appropriation, I have developed a doctorate thesis in which, among other aspects, I have proposed some criteria to operationalize the social class category. This text is a result of this paper’s reevaluation, therefore intend to reflect on such criteria, based on a Geography research experience. To achieve that, I present a synthesis of the theoretical course which led to the adopted procedures, expose such procedures, and analyze adopting criteria related to one’s occupation as well as their trajectory in order to understand their class. This discussion is made mainly based on the field findings and the linking between theory and practice. I also mark the possibility of taking their world interpretations and their practices in consideration as an element that indicates their position on the social structure.</p>

The continuing significance of social structure in liquid modernity

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marylouise Caldwell ◽  
Paul Conrad Henry
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Distribution Of Resources

Bauman’s liquid modernity has been influential among consumer culture theorists in recent times. A key element of this thinking is that old social structures have broken down, consumers being less encumbered by their structural origins and freer to pursue more diverse lifestyles. The ensuing three commentaries critically examine the claim that old social structures have become less relevant. Caldwell and Henry detail some of the critiques of Bauman and point out that consumers’ management of liquidity versus solidity can be usefully understood using a Bourdieusian lens. Their arguments are informed by contemporary literature focusing on social class, family life cycle and mythical role preferences. Thompson and Kumar argue that inconspicuous consumption masks social class-based differences in the distribution of resources that act to maintain structural inequalities. Parsons and Cappellini explore how conditions of liquidity mean that some people can accrue value much more easily than others. These authors argue that the enabling capacities that prevail under conditions of liquidity (e.g. flexibility, idiosyncratic taste) are not new but rather have long been known to act as enablers of success among advantaged classes.

Social structure, social coalitions and party choice in Hungary

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oddbjørn Knutsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Party Choice ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Party Support ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the relationship between social structure and party choice in Hungary on the basis of a survey from 2009 (N = 2980). The following structural variables are examined: ascriptive variables (age and gender), territorial variables (region and urban-rural residence), social class variables (education, social class and household income), sector employment and religious variables (religious denomination, church attendance and self-declared religiosity). The analysis shows that age and territorial variables are the most important sociostructural variables for explaining party support in Hungary. The role of religious and class variables is considerably smaller in this respect. The two largest parties, Fidesz and the Socialist Party, are first and foremost anchored in different generations and in territorial variables although different degrees of religiosity also has significant effect on support for these parties. The impact of the religious variables is, however, low. The class variables have the opposite impact on the two largest parties from what we should expect according to traditional class voting. Fidesz gets strongest support from the working class and the lower educated strata while the Socialist Party gets strongest support from the service class. The two largest parties are foremost social coalitions of very different social groups. The explanatory power of social structure on party choice is low in Hungary. This is also confirmed from comparative studies.

Class and Social Structure in Hungarian Sociology

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 598-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ágnes Gagyi ◽  
Márk Áron Éber
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
World System ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Global History ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Double Structure ◽  
Capitalist World

The article follows changes in the paradigms and institutional context of Hungarian sociology of social structure, as formed by Hungary’s double dependence on Soviet and Western cores throughout the second part of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that as a result of those changes, the concept of class has been absent from the sociology of social structure from the early 1970s on. Thinking towards a possible reconstruction of twentieth-century Hungarian social formation in a class-sensitive perspective embedded in the dynamics of the capitalist world system, we point at a typical effect of global hierarchies on the description of local social structure: the tendency to identify a “double structure” in local society. This gesture places various characteristics of local society on two different ontological levels—for example, Western versus Eastern, future versus past. We argue that in order to conceive of local social formation as part of an integrated global history, this internalized effect of global hierarchies needs to be transcended.

scholarly journals Strukturalisme Genetik Lucien Goldmann dalam Novel Orang-Orang Proyek Karya Ahmad Tohari

Humaniora ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Dewi Nurhasanah
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Structure Function ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Global View ◽  
Novel Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Method Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Method

Article clarified structure, global view of social class, and social structure function as the background of Orang-orang Proyek, a novel by Ahmad Tohari. Research applied analytic and dialectic descriptive method. Analysis was done by applying Genetic Structuralism theory by Lucien Goldmann to see the meaning of the novel by relating the structure of the novel with the human facts (social structure) as a background of the novel. The research results indicate that the novel structure described some oppositions, those are cultural, natural, social, and human oppositions; the novel’s structure expresses a global views, those are ideal-humanist and social-religious; when the novel was written, there were some corruption cases in the social structure in Indonesia that was adopted in the novel. Therefore, there seems a correlation between the novel structure and the social structure. 

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