African Identity, Cultural Knowledge and the Imperative of Endogenous Development for Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Felix O. Olatunji
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
African Identity ◽  
The People ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
The Social ◽  
Do So

Abstract The search for knowledge is a fact of any human society in the quest for development, as it is in the nature of human species to do so. This is geared towards humanisation of the society in the attainment of positive social change, which cannot be realised without adequate and informed knowledge from the culture of the people. This form of knowledge is seen from the identity of the people, focusing on the social change of their society. The creation of a national consciousness is a crucial component of the society as it (consciousness) presupposes identity, seen as the heart of any culture that motivates the collective common goal of the people. This paper, using the analytic methodology in the philosophical discipline, therefore argues that the acceptance of cultural knowledge from the platform of its identity in the quest for development in Africa is a conditio sine qua non.

The Kind Master is Petting Puppies - Transmutation of the Simplified Populist Rhetoric into Instagram Photography

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
Teja Miholič
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Do So

The communication power of the social network Instagram is important to address due to its relaxed nature of presenting details from the ordinary lives of individuals. A comparison of the manners in which influencers and politicians represent themselves brings to front a changed dynamic of social power, as it is available online to anyone who can persuade followers to identify with them or to wish to do so in the future. Two ways of identification with an influencer are assumed, namely increasing and decreasing of distance between them and their followers. The text focuses on the latter, where politicians approach the people by showing the banality of their everyday lives. After reviewing the profiles of two Slovenian politicians, a noticeable pattern is that they most often do so with photographs of puppies and kittens. Keywords: populists’ rhetoric, master, Instagram, politics, pets, selfie

scholarly journals A Cloud-Based Crime Reporting System with Identity Protection

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzay-Farn Shih ◽  
Chin-Ling Chen ◽  
Bo-Yan Syu ◽  
Yong-Yuan Deng
Keyword(s):  
Reporting System ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Reporting Scheme ◽  
Event Reporting ◽  
The People ◽  
Digital Certificates ◽  
Identity Protection ◽  
Do So

Criminal activities have always been a part of human society, and even today, in a world of extremely advanced surveillance and policing capabilities, many different kinds of crimes are still committed in almost every social environment. However, since those who commit crimes are not representative of the majority of their community, members of these communities tend to wish to report crime when they see it; however, they are often reluctant to do so for fear of their own safety should the people they report identify them. Thus, a great deal of crime goes unreported, and investigations fail to gain key evidence from witnesses, which serves only to foster an environment in which criminal activity is more likely to occur. In order to address this problem, this paper proposes an online illegal event reporting scheme based on cloud technology, which combines digital certificates, symmetric keys, asymmetric keys, and digital signatures. The proposed scheme can process illegal activity reports from the reporting event to the issuing of a reward. The scheme not only ensures informers’ safety, anonymity and non-repudiation, but also prevents cases and reports being erased, and ensures data integrity. Furthermore, the proposed scheme is designed to be robust against abusive use, and is able to preclude false reports. Therefore, it provides a convenient and secure platform for reporting and fighting crime.

scholarly journals The People Demand Social Justice: The Social Protest in Israel as an Agoral Gathering

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Leehu Zysberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Crowd Psychology

Abstract The summer of 2011 has seen the first mass-scale social protest in Israel in its 70 years of existence. This social wave that shook the country, showed unique characteristics a-typical of most social and political uprisings, that go largely unexplained by social theories of social change and crowd psychology. In this article I am analyzing published reports of the social protest of 2011, and draw the analogy with the concept of ‘Agoral Gathering’ that may account for these events and support discussion of their aftermath.

scholarly journals A glimpse of African identity through the lens of Togolese literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Marie Line J. Charles-Galley
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Western World ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
African Identity ◽  
The People ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Modern Identity

Togo, this small West African nation, is still relatively unknown, even in today's jet set world. The western world is only now discovering the numerous advances Togo has made in its social and economic policies, but most of all in its political conjectures. After its Independence on April 27, 1960, Togo had barely begun its journey to democracy when the dictatorship of Gnassingbe Eyadema became the yoke of the people for over thirty-one years, on April 14th, 1967. The consequences of the stranglehold exercised by Gnassingbe was to shut the nation's cultural growth and cause the people to close in onto themselves and build a protective barrier between themselves and the rest of the world. Yet, Togo had great beginnings. It was one of the pioneers of Sub-Saharan literature, publishing in 1929 one of the first true African novels still read today. In 1929, native son Felix Couchoro, was among the first Sub-Saharan authors to write a novel which gave agency to an African protagonist in a story set in Africa, with an African-themed plot, and with a conclusion that aimed at rethinking African society. Couchoro was the first to look deeply into his culture and the social identity of his nation. He brought forth suggestions that would help in Togo's growth and insure its successful battle for Independence. In doing so, however, Couchoro also created great controversy around a subject which continues to plague not only Togolese people, but all Africans who feel pulled in two directions: preserving their authentic traditional customs while taking an active part in the modern world, through economic improvements as well as technological advances. In this dissertation, I will first study Couchoro's flagship novel which was the starting point of this quest for a modern identity, then analyze how subsequent Togolese writers have taken up Couchoro's legacy.

scholarly journals BIAS NILAI PENDIDIKAN DALAM KONSTRUKSI SOSIAL MASYARAKAT BIMA

ASKETIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imam Yuliadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Social Construction Theory ◽  
Secular Education ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Social Status

Education function to develop the ability and form the character and civilization of a dignified nation in order to educate the nation’s life. This is in line with the values and norms of Indonesian society is far from materialism, But along with the influx of globalization and modernization, the value and meaning of education is often biased. The occurrence of bias in the interpretation of the meaning of education is caused by social change. research of education bias in Bima community gives an idea how education values can not be interpreted well by a society. Peter L Berger is one of the sociologists who discussed the whole process of social construction. Using the social construction theory of Peter L Berger, it can be seen that the people of Bima undergo a process of social change consisting of; (a) Changes in education patterns in Bima from Islamic education to secular education, (b) Conversion of society’s high social status, related to education which is a social construction process in Bima society about one’s social status. So from the analysis can be seen that education for the community Bima has a very important role in determining the position of a person’s social status. Keywords: Value of Education, Social Construction, Society of Bima

scholarly journals DEMOKRASI DAN GERAKAN SOSIAL (BAGAIMANA GERAKAN MAHASISWA TERHADAP DINAMIKA PERUBAHAN SOSIAL)

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Idil Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Political Event ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
Descriptive Method

The inception of social groups nowadays believed as positive indication cultivation of democracy in some country, including Indonesia. The existence of social group aims to create a social change better and gratify the people interest. One of the social group is student movement that in any political event has become the pioneer for social change. This article aims to analyze how does democracy become important factor to a social movement, particularly student movement to an occurrence of social change in Indonesia. This research using a qualitative descriptive method to analyze how is social movement and democracy in Indonesia, especially related to student movement through to social change. As a result that student movement is the most important thing to realizing social change. As an agent of change, the idealism of student is valued indicator-weather social change has moved as well or perhaps full of political interest. The student movement also becomes indicator for sustainability of democracy. 

Reconceptualising Occupational Therapy

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 524-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Pollard ◽  
Auldeen Alsop ◽  
Frank Kronenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Conference ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Marginal Status ◽  
Do So

This opinion piece describes central issues arising from discussions at a recent conference exploring the implications of global poverty for the occupational therapy profession. The connection between poverty, disability and the marginalisation that these problems produce presents an opportunity for occupational therapists to realise their potential for facilitating social change. To do so, however, entails some reconceptualising of the profession. In some areas of intervention, the struggle to obtain a clear definition for occupational therapy has both arisen from and contributed to a marginal status, linked to difficulties in developing capacity for research. The social questions around occupation suggest both challenges and opportunities for the profession.

scholarly journals A ESTRATÉGIA DE (RE)CATEGORIZAÇÃO NA INTERFACE ENTRE POLIDEZ E IMPOLIDEZ LINGUÍSTICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (especial) ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Geórgia Maria Feitosa e Paiva ◽  
Francisca Poliane Lima de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Soft Drink ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
De Re ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Level

From the understanding that communication is established to maintain social relations and not just to inform something, many linguists have become concerned with studying the issues of politeness and impoliteness as sociated with these social manifestations of communication. In this sense, ou rresearch aimed to understand the recategorization process as na instrument of interface between polite and impolite language. From the analysis of the internal communication action promoted by the Coca-Cola company to celebrate the International LGBT Pride Day in 2017. To conduct this research, we sought to make a case study about the campaign “This Coca-Cola is Fanta. Sowhat?”. Based on the studies in the área of ”‹”‹politeness by Leech (1983), Brown and Levinson (1987), and the área of ”‹”‹gender with Butler (1990, 1993) and, in the area of ”‹”‹recategorization, with Apothéloz and Reichler-Béguelin(1995) and Jaguaribe (2007), we observed that the process of recategorization occurred in two situations: the first was in the material level from the discursive resumption of a typically offensive idiom against the LGBT group and the insertion of a new expression; The second was on the social level with the suggestion of a change in the people´s expression and attitude. Thus, we conclude that the recategorization process could not be seen, in this issue, as just a process of retaking the referent and its transformation, since, in the campaign of the soft drink brand under consideration, we realized that this process was still capable of generating a social change (beyond the pack aging of the can), thus demonstrating another level of recategorization, that is, the ability to transform a typically na impolite expression into a polite one.  

scholarly journals Strategi Perubahan Sosial dalam Perspektif Dakwah

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-191
Author(s):  
Masrudi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Population Composition ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Social Entities

Social change is a necessity that is not negotiable. This change is a variation onthe way of life that has been accepted together, both because of changes in geographicalconditions, culture, population composition, ideology and because of new discoveries insociety. This study uses the literature study method and the results of this study are socialchanges in the context of the propaganda of the Prophet Muhammad SAW is somethingreal and the results can be seen until now. The strategy he applied was by: 1) building a mosque as a base for the struggle and mobilization of the people; 2) bring together two major groups, namely Muhajirin and Ansar, to form the solidity of the people who standon the same flatform: faith; 3) establish communication with Jewish leaders as elders ofone of the social entities in Medina; and 4) made an agreement with the Jews in Medinawhich contained policies to build Muslim social stability. The importance of the currentda'wah movement for the creation of khoiru ummah is by carrying out social changessuch as those practiced by the Prophet Muhammad.

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