Images of a Social Order Precedence and Social Practice

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Liliana Sanjurjo

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Social Practice ◽

Political Action ◽

State Violence ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Shared Meanings ◽

The Face

Abstract Grounded in ethnographic research with activist organisations-families of the victims of state violence in Argentina and Brazil-this article seeks to critically reflect on the relationships between gender, kinship, and the politics and social practice of memory, together with devices for the management of life and social order in specific ethnographic situations. Using a comparative approach, the article argues that relationships established between these groups enable the construction of shared strategies of political action and the production of shared meanings in the face of overlapping confrontations with inequalities and violence. The central problematic questions how the these activists’ displacements (often transnational) disseminate practices, skills, experiences, and repertoires of political mobilisation that compose a field of action directed towards the construction of memories, the rendering visible of victims, and the denunciation of previous regimes of selectively perpetrated violence.

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My Dinner with Derrida, or Spatial Analysis and Poststructuralism Do Lunch

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a300247 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 247-260 ◽

Cited By ~ 64

Author(s):

D P Dixon ◽

J P Jones

Keyword(s):

Spatial Analysis ◽

Social Order ◽

Social Practice ◽

Spatial Analyst ◽

Research Questions

Menu. This paper extends our previous efforts to (de)lineate contemporary divisions between poststructuralist and spatial analytic, or scientific, approaches in geography. We adopt the format of a dialogue between a hypothetical spatial analyst (SA) and a poststructuralist (PS). Their exchange covers, among other items, the differing stances of these approaches to epistemology, ontology, research questions and methods, and the concept of ‘context’. We also further develop the concept of the ‘epistemology of the grid’, which we define as the spatialization of categorical thought. We link this epistemology to two others, Cartesian perspectivalism and ocularcentrism, arguing that their realization in social practice is generative of social order.

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Research Paradigm as a Value Guideline for Professional Training of Future Social Workers

Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala ◽

10.18662/rrem/13.3/465 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Oksana POVIDAICHYK ◽

Valentyna PEDORENKO ◽

Anastasiia POPOVA ◽

Anastasiia TURGENIEVA ◽

Yuliia RYBINSKA ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Workers ◽

Research Methods ◽

Social Order ◽

Social Practice ◽

Professional Training ◽

Social Protection ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Problem Definition ◽

The Social

The need for R&D of social workers was due to the development of theoretical and methodological approaches and concepts of social work, the application of which involved the use of specific research tools. It is substantiated that the research subsystem of social work can be represented in the form of a model of the research environment, which reflects the relationship of three components: the social problem, methods of its research and tools for solving. The dialectical nature of social work, as well as the dynamic conditions in which it is carried out, determine a set of socio-economic, managerial and pedagogical factors that actualize the need for research in the social field. It is substantiated that R&D today is an integral element of professional social practice and is implemented both in the process of working with different categories of clients and in administrative and managerial activities. R&D provides adequate social order development of targeted comprehensive programs, projects and technologies of social protection, design and implementation of models of social institutions and services. As a result of a comprehensive study of the problem, the essential characteristics of R&D were clarified, which means the activity of obtaining new scientifically based knowledge aimed at purposeful change of social reality, which is realized in a logical sequence through the use of appropriate forms and methods of scientific knowledge. It is proved that R&D in the system of social work is realized at three levels (reflexive-theoretical, experimental-theoretical and research), each of which involves step-by-step actions (problem definition; hypothesis formulation, choice of research methods and tools; implementation of research plan; evaluation of results) and the use of appropriate research methods.

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Reforming Social Customs through Law: Dynamics and Discrepancies in the Nationalist Reform of the Adoptive Daughter-in-Law

NAN Nü ◽

10.1163/15685268-00211p03 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 76-106

Author(s):

Yue Du

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Social Practice ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Republican China ◽

Late Imperial ◽

Social Customs ◽

The Law ◽

Bride Price ◽

New Social Order ◽

Party State

Abstract Tongyang, rearing daughters-in-law from childhood, was widely practiced as a form of bride price marriage and transactional family building in late imperial and Republican China. Denounced as feudal and backward in twentieth-century public discourse, this time-honored and once legally-protected form of marriage went through significant law reforms in the Republican era. This article examines how the Nationalist Guomindang (GMD) party-state (1928-1949) re-conceptualized tongyang by introducing foreign-inspired notions of parenthood as duty-bound guardianship, and marriage as a union of free choice between spouses. The reformed law annulled the legal relationship between “parents-in-law” and their adoptive daughters-in-law, which enabled adoptive daughters-in-law and their natal parents to dissolve previously established tongyang arrangements through litigation. But outside the courtroom, the Nationalist state adopted a non-interventionist approach toward the practice of tongyang, and took no actions to identify people who violated the law. This particular way of reforming social customs through reforming the law limited the effect of the GMD anti-tongyang legislation on a deeply-rooted social practice. The Nationalist reform of the adoptive daughter-in-law provides historians with a useful lens to discuss the dilemma Nationalist lawmakers faced as they treaded between the lines of offending popular customs and enforcing a rigid new social order through law, the balance of which was intimately connected with the regime’s legitimacy.

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How “care values” as discursive practices effect the ethics of a care-setting

Journal of Organizational Ethnography ◽

10.1108/joe-04-2018-0024 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 298-311

Author(s):

Jeannine Therese Moreau ◽

Trudy Rudge

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Older Adult ◽

Social Order ◽

Social Practice ◽

Care Setting ◽

Functional Decline ◽

Discursive Practices ◽

Content Type ◽

Hospitalized Older Adults ◽

Measurement Efficiency

Purpose This paper examines how certain care values permeate, legitimize and authorize hospitalized-older-adults’ care, technologies and practices. The purpose of this paper is to expose how values are not benign but operate discursively establishing “orders of worth” with significant effect on the ethics of the care-setting. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws from a discursive ethnography to see “up close” on a surgical unit how values influence nurse/older-adult-patient care occasions in the domain of older-adults and functional decline. Data are from participant observations, conversations, interviews, chart reviews and reviewed literature. Foucauldian discursive analytics rendered values recognizable and analyzable as discursive practices. Discourse is a social practice of knowledge production constituting and giving meaning to what it represents. Findings Analysis reveals how care values inhere discourses like measurement, efficiency, economics, risk and functional decline (loss of capacity for independent living) pervading care technologies and practices, subjugating older adults’ bodies to techniques, turning older persons into measurable objects of knowledge. These values determine social conditions of worth, objectifying, calculating, normalizing and homogenizing what it means to be old, ill and in hospital. Originality/value Seven older adult patients and attendant nurses were followed for their entire hospitalization. The ethnography renders visible how care values as discursive practices rationalize the social order and operations of everyday care. Analytic outcomes offer insights of how dominant care values enabled care technologies and practices to govern hospitalized-older-adults as a population to be ordered, managed and controlled, eliding possibilities of engaging humanistic patient-centered care.

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The labor market, employment and professions as an economic space for the formation of a new gender order

Woman in Russian society ◽

10.21064/winrs.2020.2.4 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 38-51

Author(s):

Galina Sillaste

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Labor Market ◽

Social Norms ◽

Social Order ◽

Social Practice ◽

Evolutionary Development ◽

Practical Implementation ◽

Economic Space ◽

Social Time ◽

And Gender

The article reveals the conceptual approaches of the methodological analysis of one of the poorly studied socio-political phenomena of globalization — a new gender order. The author offers the concept of its evolutionary development in modes of social time and integrative conceptual interaction with theories of structure and social order. The processes and forms of “substitution” of the norms of the old gender order with the new ones are analyzed on the example of the most mobile sphere of economic development: the labor market. It reveals its transformation into a three-segment economic space market: the labor market, the employment market and the market of professions as a structure with social norms, gender order and gender resources. The article analyzes dynamic gender processes and the introduction of new norms of gender order in the market of professions. The article continues a series of author’s publications that revealed the theory of the new gender order and its practical implementation in domestic social practice (see № 2 and № 3, 2019).

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Approaching Inclusion as Social Practice: Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion

Journal of Educational and Social Research ◽

10.2478/jesr-2018-0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 9-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Janne Hedegaard Hansen ◽

Charlotte Riis Jensen ◽

Mikkel Christian Lassen ◽

Mette Molbæk ◽

Maria Christina Secher Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Inclusive Education ◽

Social Order ◽

International Research ◽

Social Practice ◽

School Context ◽

School Practice ◽

Inclusive Learning ◽

Inclusive School ◽

Huge Impact

AbstractThe article presents the results of a review of international research investigating mechanisms and processes of inclusion and exclusion as an ongoing part of social practice in a school context. The review forms part of a research project investigating the social practices of inclusive education in primary and lower-secondary education (age 6–16) in public schools as constituted by processes of inclusion and exclusion. The project aims to shift the scientific focus of research in inclusive education from the development of pedagogical and didactic practice to the importance of community construction through inclusion and exclusion processes. The project arises in context of Danish education policy, while the review looked for international research findings on the limits between inclusion and exclusion: how they are drawn, by whom, for what reasons, and for whose benefit? On the background of the review, we conclude that there seems to be a pattern of inclusive school practice leading to a specific social order that limits inclusion. The review also shows that the construction of the ideal student through various kinds of markers has a huge impact on these limits. A twin-track approach that combines research in the development of inclusive learning environments with research in the constitution of social practice in a school context will produce knowledge of the relation between inclusive school practice and the reproduction of social structures and patterns of inequality.

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ENGAGED DHAMMA AND TRANSFORMATION OF DALITS- AN EGALITARIAN EQUATION IN INDIA TODAY

GAP iNTERDISCIPLINARITIES - A GLOBAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ◽

10.47968/gapin.230072 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 412-414

Author(s):

Preeti Oza

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Social Practice ◽

Political Influence ◽

Modern World ◽

Modern Democracy ◽

Basic Principles ◽

The Social ◽

Engaged Buddhism ◽

Religious Reasons ◽

The Buddha

Engaged Buddhism refers to Buddhists who are seeking ways to apply the insights from meditation practice and dharma teachings to situations of social, political, environmental, and economic suffering and injustice. The Non-duality of Personal and Social Practice is making such engagement possible even today. Buddhist teachings themselves as the restrictive social conditions within which Asian Buddhism has had to function. To survive in the often ruthless world of kings and emperors, Buddhism needed to emphasize its otherworldliness. This encouraged Buddhist institutions and Buddhist teachings (especially regarding karma and merit) to develop in ways that did not question the social order. In India today, Modern democracy and respect for human rights, however imperfectly realized, offer new opportunities for understanding the broader implications of Buddhist teachings. Furthermore, while it is true that the post/modern world is quite different from the Buddha‟s, Buddhism is thriving today because its basic principles remain just as true as when the Buddha taught them. A classic case of engaged Buddhism in India is discussed in this paper which deliberates on the Dalit- Buddhist equation in modern India. For Dalits, whose material circumstances were completely different from the higher castes, the motivation continually remained: to find out concerning suffering and to achieve its finish, in every person‟s life and in society. Several of them have turned to Dhamma in response to the Buddha‟s central message concerning suffering and therefore the finish of suffering. Previously lower-caste Hindus, the Indian Buddhists in Nagpur regenerate under the political influence of Babasaheb Ambedkar, the author of India‟s constitution, to denounce caste oppression. They became Buddhist for political and religious reasons, and today, the implications of their actions still unfold in some ways. Their belief in the four seals of Buddhism – • All physical things are impermanent, • All emotions are the reasons for pain, • All things don't have any inherent existence and • Nirvana is the moderation in life, Have created them renounce the atrocities and injustice of Hindu savarnas that were carried on since last several centuries.

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