Chapter 1 – China’s Social Development in a New Era: Analysis and Forecast of China’s Social Conditions in 2017–2018. The Research Group for Social Conditions Analysis and Forecast, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
New Era

Marcel Mauss and the Turn to the Gift

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Colesworthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Experimental Writing ◽  
Market Society ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
New Material ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Leonard Woolf

Chapter 1 takes a cue from recent anthropologists who have stressed the influence of Mauss’s socialism on his sociological work. Returning to Mauss’s The Gift, the chapter argues that what links his essay to the experimental writing of his literary contemporaries is not their shared fascination with the primitive, as other critics have suggested, but rather their shared investment in reimagining social possibilities within market society. Mauss was, as his biographer notes, an “Anglophile.” Shedding light on his admiration of British socialism and especially the work of Beatrice and Sidney Webb—friends of Virginia and Leonard Woolf—as well as competing usages of the language of “gifts” in the social sciences and the arts, the chapter ultimately provides a new material and conceptual framework for understanding the intersection of largely French gift theory and Anglo-American modernist writing.

A collective ethnographer: fieldwork experience in the Brazilian Northeast

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lygia Sigaud
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Seasonal Variations ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Brazilian Northeast ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines a 30-year experience of collective ethnography in the sugarcane plantations of Brazil's Northeast. Over this period, the research group has worked in different temporal and spatial contexts, continually exchanging its findings. The author draws on her experience as part of the research group in order to focus on the conditions of entering the field, the seasonal variations and geographic displacements, the research group's morphology and the overall implications for anthropological knowledge. Debates over ethnography have neglected the relationship between the social conditions in which anthropologists carry out their work and what they are able to write about the social world. This article sets out to fill this gap.

The Impact of COVID-19: Democracy in the Time of a Pandemic

Social Change ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-482
Author(s):  
Zoya Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Impact

The recent spread of the delta variant of the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries, though uneven, has once again set alarm bells ringing throughout the world. Nearly two years have passed since the onset of this pandemic: vaccines have been developed and vaccination is underway, but the end of the campaign against the pandemic is nowhere in sight. This drive has merely attempted to adjust and readjust, with or without success, to the various fresh challenges that have kept emerging from time to time. The pandemic’s persistence and its handling by the governments both have had implications for citizens’/peoples’ rights as well as for the systems which were in place before the pandemic. In this symposium domain experts investigate, with a sharp focus on India, the interface between the COVID-19 pandemic and democracy, health, education and social sciences. These contributions are notable for their nuanced and insightful examination of the impact of the pandemic on crucial social development issues with special attention to the exacerbated plight of society’s marginalised sections. In India, as in several other countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected democracy. The health crisis came at a moment when India was already experiencing democratic backsliding. The pandemic came in handy in imposing greater restrictions on democratic rights, public discussion and political opposition. This note provides an analysis and commentary on how the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic impacted governance, at times undermining human rights and democratic processes, and posing a range of new challenges to democracy.

O USO DA POLIDEZ COMO FORMA DE DISSIMULAÇÃO EM CARTAS DO PADRE ANTÔNIO VIEIRA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Cristine Thiél ◽  
Sandra Batista da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Potential Impact

The Pragmatics Collection, organized by the Language, Communication and Cognition Research Group CNPq, aims to present scientific research carried out in this area in its multiple dialogues with other sciences, such as neuroscience, biology, psychology, social sciences, literary studies, law , translation, social communication, among many others, as well as disseminating research applied to the most diverse contexts of human activity . This inaugural volume includes research by national and foreign doctoral professors, signed jointly with colleagues and students, with the purpose of both strengthening the exchange of ideas at ABRAP - Brazilian Association of Pragmatics, as well as maximizing the reach, originality, potential impact and interdisciplinarity of this science in Brazil

FORMAS DE ATENUAÇÃO EM SALA DE AULA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Paula Muñoz Arruda
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Potential Impact

The Pragmatics Collection, organized by the Language, Communication and Cognition Research Group CNPq, aims to present scientific research carried out in this area in its multiple dialogues with other sciences, such as neuroscience, biology, psychology, social sciences, literary studies, law , translation, social communication, among many others, as well as disseminating research applied to the most diverse contexts of human activity . This inaugural volume includes research by national and foreign doctoral professors, signed jointly with colleagues and students, with the purpose of both strengthening the exchange of ideas at ABRAP - Brazilian Association of Pragmatics, as well as maximizing the reach, originality, potential impact and interdisciplinarity of this science in Brazil.

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