Wrongdoers, Wrongdoing and Righting Wrongs in Micah 21

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehud Ben Zvi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Techniques ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractMicah 2 explains the "loss of the land" in terms of the wrongdoing of powerful groups in the monarchic period, but also conveys sure hope for a new beginning. Defamiliarization, polysemy and other literary techniques are at the service of these communicative goals in this text. Micah 2 is fashioned in such a way that it both allows the intended (re)readers to identify the wrongdoers with multiple referents and facilitates rereading. Neither Micah 2 nor its literary subunits is constructed with a mimetic, literary pattern in mind, nor does the text attempt to imitate the "natural" language of an actual, oral interchange. Micah 2 is not a reliable source for the reconstruction of the social conditions in the eighth century BCE. However, it does shed light on the world of a group of (post-monarchic) literati who considered their text to be .

“A Wild Sort of Note”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Revell Carr
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Song

This chapter addresses Hawaiians' roles in the multicultural environment aboard European and American sailing ships during the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the expressive culture of American whalers. Whaling ships began regularly calling at Hawaiian ports in 1820, and over the next six decades thousands of Hawaiian men shipped out as whalemen, joining one of the most cosmopolitan workforces in the world. The chapter begins by describing the social conditions aboard American ships that enabled a variety of performing arts to flourish and encouraged intercultural bonding. It then explicates the different styles and contexts of shipboard music starting with the work song tradition known as the sea chantey (or shanty). It describes the recreational music-making activities of sailors, distinct from the work song tradition, providing accounts of Hawaiian singing and dancing aboard ships at sea and in various global ports, and the responses of Euro-American sailors to that music and dance.

Local Ecosystems and Social Conditions of Innovative Enterprise

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-97
Author(s):  
Antonio Andreoni ◽  
William Lazonick
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
World War ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Innovative Enterprise

This chapter integrates the theory and history of localized economic development by summarizing the experiences of three iconic industrial districts: a) the Lancashire cotton textile district which in the last half of the nineteenth century enabled Britain to become the ‘workshop of the world’; b) the globally competitive towns and cities specializing in a variety of light industries, especially in the Emilia Romagna regional district, that, as the ‘Third Italy’, brought economic modernity to that nation in the decades after World War II; and 3) the area in California south of San Francisco, centred on Stanford University, that, as ‘Silicon Valley’, made the United States the world leader in the microelectronics and Internet revolutions of the last decades of the twentieth century. Using the ‘social conditions of innovative enterprise’ as a common conceptual approach, the chapter highlights key lessons from history of the nexus between firms and their local ecosystems.

Coming to terms: Race, class and intimacy in Australian public culture

Sexualities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1182-1196
Author(s):  
Jessica Kean
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual Cultures ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Central Tool

In queer theory ‘heteronormativity’ has become a central tool for understanding the social conditions of our sexual and intimate lives. The term is most often used to shed light on how those lives are patterned in a way that shapes and privileges binary genders and heterosexual identities, lifestyles and practices. Frequently, however, ‘heteronormativity’ is stretched beyond its capacity when called upon to explain other normative patterns of intimacy. Drawing on Cathy Cohen’s (1997) ground breaking essay ‘Punks, bulldaggers and welfare queens: The radical potential of queer?’, this article argues that analysing the political landscape of our intimate lives in terms of heteronormativity alone fails to adequately account for the way some familial and sexual cultures are stigmatised along class and race lines. This article gestures towards examples of those whose intimacies are unquestionably marginalised and yet non-queer, or at least not-necessarily-queer, placing Cohen’s ‘welfare queens’ alongside examples from contemporary Australia public culture to argue for the critical efficacy of the concept ‘mononormativity’ for intersectional analysis.

An Agent for Change

2011 ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Jiafei Yin
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Internet User ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Media ◽  
The World

China became the largest Internet user in the world with 420 million of its citizens connected to the new media by June 2010. This chapter investigates the social conditions and ways in which new communication technologies are transforming the politics, culture, and the society in China through analyses of uses of the Internet, differing roles played by the traditional and the new media, Internet regulations in the country, and cases catapulted to the national media spotlight by the online community, and through contrasts with the roles new communication technologies play in Western and African societies. The chapter also attempts to explore the implications of these transformations.

What Economics Can Learn From Ontology

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-238
Author(s):  
Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Social Object ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Economic Activity ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter will present the argument that the tools of ontology offer a means for teaching the philosophical foundations of economic value and for engaging interdisciplinarily the examinations of economics. Ontology is the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the description of existing domains in the world, the objects in such domains, and their relations. It does not attempt to explain or interpret, only to describe, and it is in this sense that ontology is reconcilable with the scientific methods of economics. Additionally, it is capable of describing the complex structures, relations, and emergence of economic objects in human economic activity. This chapter will address three insights from ontology that shed light on the implications of the notion of subjectivity in the theory of subjective economic value, the differences between economic value and other kinds of value, and the role that subjectivity and economic value have in the emergence of the social object we know as money.

Bukhara Center

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-97
Author(s):  
James Pickett
Keyword(s):  
Human Impact ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Social World ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Terra Incognita ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Currency ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter assesses the human impact of Bukhara's efflorescence. To what extent did Bukhara's cosmological centrality manifest in actual networks of human exchange? How far did Bukhara's allure extend, and from what points of origin were people willing to travel there for education in its colossal madrasa establishment? The story of centering the cosmopolis for a regional constituency and of deploying the corresponding social currency within that context is one that could equally be told about any number of other Persianate nodes: Lahore, Isfahan, Istanbul, and beyond. Bukhara was not unique in this regard. However, this pivot between cosmopolitan high culture and social power dynamics at the subregional level remains terra incognita. Texts were resonant across vast swathes of territory, but the mechanics of the world undergirding them are left to the imagination in much of the extant scholarship. Yet these ideas were not merely floating in the ether, and the paths taken by the ulama of Bukhara can perhaps shed light on the social world producing, and produced by, cosmopolitan transculturation. Ultimately, the chapter traces the geographical trajectories of the Islamic scholars at the heart of this study, revealing a regional cultural–religious network that revolved around Bukhara the Noble, the Abode of Knowledge.

scholarly journals Social Survival Skill Masyarakat Rentan Bencana (Pasca Gempa Bumi Sulawesi Tengah Tahun 2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Rahmat Muhammad ◽  
Muhammad Taufiq Arif
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Survival Skill ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Survival Skills ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
Post Disaster

AbstractIndonesian territory is vulnerable to disasters, especially earthquakes. This is due to its position in the meeting of the three main plates of the world. This disaster hazard should be directly proportional to disaster preparedness. Disaster alertness is not only limited to post-disaster logistical capabilities. But also the Social Survival Skill of the community. The ability to maintain social survival in the aftermath of a disaster tends to be neglected in disaster preparedness. The vulnerability of chaotic conditions after disasters is often forgotten. So it is deemed necessary to prepare the ability to maintain the social survival of disaster prone people. The concept of Social Survival Skills. Inclusive society needs to be equipped with this capability. Post-disaster social conditions, people experience conditions of social crisis. Feelings of grief, guilt, difficulty in meeting needs, and so on. This condition makes the criminal potential increase. Joining the paralysis of law enforcement agencies is one of the factors in the aftermath of chaos.   Wilayah Indonesia memiliki kerawanan akan bencana, khususnya gempa bumi. Hal ini dikarenakan posisinya yang berada di pertemuan tiga lempeng utama dunia. Kerawanan bencana ini sudah seharusnya berbanding lurus dengan kesiagapan bencana. Kesigapan bencana bukan hanya sebatas kemampuan logistik pasca bencana. Tapi juga Social Survival Skill masyarakat. Kemampuan mempertahankan kelangsungan hidup sosial pasca bencana cenderung diabaikan dalam kesigapan bencana. Kerentanan terjadinya kondisi chaos pasca bencana sering terlupakan. Sehingga dianggap perlu mempersiapkan kemampuan mempertahankan kelangsungan hidup sosial masyarakat rentan bencana. Konsep Social Survival Skill. Masyarakat secara inklusifperlu dibekali kemampuan ini. Kondisi sosial pasca bencana, masyarakat mengalami kondisi krisis sosial. Perasaan duka, rasa bersalah, sulitnya memenuhi kebutuhan, dan sebagainya. Kondisi ini membuat potensi kriminal meningkat. Ikut lumpuhnya lembaga penegak hukum menjadi salah satu faktor terjadinya chaos pasca bencana.

On the Computational Character of Semantic Structures

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Prakash Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Logical Form ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
World Semantic ◽  
The World ◽  
Representational Models ◽  
Shed Light

Logical form in logic and logical form (LF) in the Minimalist architecture of language are two different forms of representational models of semantic facts. They are distinct in their form and in how they represent some natural language phenomena. This paper aims to argue that the differences between logical form and LF have profound implications for the question about the nature of semantic interpretation. First, this can tell us whether semantic interpretation is computational and if so, in what sense. Second, this can also shed light on the ontology of semantic interpretation in the sense that the forms (that is, logical form and LF) in which semantic facts are expressed may also uncover where in the world semantic interpretation as such can be located. This can have surprising repercussions for reasoning in natural language as ell.

A LOOK AT THE HEROES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S "HAMLET" TRAGEDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Leyla Musa Rzayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Great Poet

William Shakespeare is the most famous writer in England. He was a great poet and playwright. In his works, he wrote about the eternal problems that afflict people: life and death, love, loyalty and betrayal. Therefore, Shakespeare's works, especially tragedies, are popular today. In the tragedy Hamlet, William Shakespeare reworked the plot of a medieval legend and an old English legend about Prince Hamlet, describing in depth the tragedy of humanism in the modern world. Prince Hamlet of Denmark is a humanist figure facing a world hostile to humanism. The spread of evil in society has a negative effect on Hamlet, causing him to become frustrated with his lack of strength. Man and the world are not accepted as they used to be. Thus, Hamlet faces a random crime, not a single enemy, but an entire hostile society, and it is his far-sighted philosophical thinking that makes him feel powerless in the fight against evil. The content of the "Hamlet" tragedy was inspired by the social conditions of England at that time, but its significance went far beyond the borders of one country and one historical period. The picture of oppression and lies, especially oppression, has long been true. This is the interest of Hamlet, who has been fighting alone against evil and injustice for centuries. Key words: Shakespeare, Hamlet, tragedy, murder, love, romance, cruelty, nobility, life, death

Some comparative psychiatric studies in the 19th century

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-440
Author(s):  
Birk Engmann ◽  
Holger Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Psychiatric Diseases ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Russian Medical ◽  
Different Parts

This article analyses 19th-century publications which dealt with the social and cultural aspects of psychiatric disorders in different parts of the world. Systematic reviews were conducted of three German medical journals, one Russian medical journal, and a relevant monograph. All these archives were published in the 19th century. Our work highlights the fact that long before Kraepelin, several, mostly forgotten, publications had already discussed cultural aspects, social conditions, the influence of religion, the influence of climate, and also “race” as a trigger or amplifier of psychiatric diseases. These publications also reflect racist notions of the colonial period.

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