scholarly journals Imigranci w Hiszpanii w dobie kryzysu. Reakcje hiszpańskiej opinii publicznej i prasy w okresie 2008-2011

2014 ◽  
pp. 46-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Golemo
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spanish Press

Immigration in Spain in times of crisis. Spanish public opinion and press reactions in the period from 2008 to 2011In recent decades immigrants considerably influence the social and cultural landscape of Spain. The immigration brings a new dimension of multiculturalism phenomenon and enriches the hybrid (ethnic, regional, linguistic) Spanish identity. All immigrant communities are factors of cultural change in different levels of social life. Their impact on the receiving society can be both measured through the “hard” statistical data and described from the subjective perspective focusing on the social representations, expectations, fears, lifestyle  and mentality changes, cultural closeness and remoteness, etc. Over the last years the global crisis has been a idée fixe of the socio-economic (but also cultural) discourse in many parts of the world. Spain was placed among countries most affected by the recession. Its economic downturn and social impasse led to internal political crisis (the accelerated general elections in 2011) and to appearance of the protest movement Indignados fighting for better conditions for life.  Immigrants have become one  the most relevant participant of the social changes in times of recession and conflicts. The intent of this article is to present the situation of  the immigrant community in Spain in the period from 2008 to 2011, in reference to statistical reports, public opinion surveys and selected comments of Spanish press. Imigranci w Hiszpanii w dobie kryzysu. Reakcje hiszpańskiej opinii publicznej i prasy w okresie 2008-2011Imigranci są od kilku dekad bardzo istotnym elementem hiszpańskiego społeczeństwa. Ich obecność w Hiszpanii to stosunkowo nowe oblicze wielokulturowości, współistniejące (nie zawsze zgodnie) z innymi składnikami złożonej hiszpańskiej tożsamości: etnicznej czy regionalnej. Społeczności imigranckie są często nośnikiem zmiany kulturowej na różnych poziomach życia społecznego. Bywają motorem przemian zarówno w sensie obiektywnym, co pokazuję „twarde” dane (wpływ na rynek prac i strukturę zatrudnienia,  system edukacji, czy kierunek polityki społecznej), jak i w wymiarze bardziej subiektywnym, dotyczącym społecznych wyobrażeń, oczekiwań, niepokojów (przemiany stylu życia, mentalności, dynamika tolerancji vs. zamknięcia kulturowego, poczucie nowych zagrożeń w społeczeństwie przyjmującym etc.).W ostatnich latach tematem przewodnim debaty społeczno-ekonomicznej, ale także kulturowej,  stał się postępujący kryzys dotykający zachodnie społeczeństwa. Hiszpania to jeden z tych krajów, w których ten impas przyjął szczególnie wyrazistą formę. Świadczyły o tym m.in. zawirowania na wewnętrznej scenie politycznej (przyspieszone wybory parlamentarne w 2011 r.), czy powstające ruchy społeczne walczące o poprawę warunków życia: Indignados. Imigranci stali się ważnymi uczestnikami wydarzeń i przemian społecznych zachodzących w dobie recesji i konfliktów. Celem artykułu będzie próba przedstawienia sytuacji społeczności imigranckich w Hiszpanii w latach 2008-2011, w odwołaniu do raportów statystycznych i sondaży opinii publicznej w Hiszpanii  oraz wybranych komentarzy hiszpańskiej prasy.

Making Moving Happen

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
A Value ◽  
Credit Associations ◽  
The Social

This chapter explores moving as a value, an animating idea that gives social life on the Copperbelt its shape. It shows how people in Nsofu structure their relationships around the possibility of moving through two types of social ties. Most important here are relationships of patronage, or “dependence,” which connect poorer people to those with greater economic and social resources. People also move through relationships that produce alternating indebtedness, including rotating credit associations and the “committees” that finance expensive events like weddings. In both cases moving requires asymmetry, which makes these ties particularly vulnerable to the leveling forces of economic downturn, and the chapter concludes by describing how events like the 2008–2009 financial crisis have impacted the social world of Nsofu. It is these economic factors, coupled with a cultural emphasis on novelty, that make Pentecostalism especially compelling.

scholarly journals Three Lives of a Cemetery: the History of a Military Cemetery in the Village of Marcinowa Wola in Masuria

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Magdalena Bernat
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Village ◽  
Total Exchange

Marcinowa Wola is a typical locality in Masuria (northern Poland), where a nearly total exchange of citizens took place after WW2. Polish and Ukrainian people coming here after the war had to deal with the sense of strangeness connected with the German presence in the near past. One of the ways of overcoming that impression was appropriation of their surroundings – an act of adapting the cultural landscape to their needs. A very vivid example of this process is the cemetery from the Great War located in Marcinowa Wola. The perception of this place among the local inhabitants changed dramatically over the years. Although it is located in the centre of the village, the cemetery was out of the social life during the first years after the war. As it was not treated as a sacred place any more, it was eroding and overgrowing for years. Everything changed in the 1970s, when the next generation became adolescent. Young people started to use the cemetery as their meeting place and in this way they adapted it to a new, completely different role. However, when the youth grew up, the place was once again forgotten for some time, and only recently did the inhabitants see its value as a cemetery, however, not in sacred but historical terms. It can be assumed that it was assimilated as an element of their own heritage, which means that the process of appropriation has been completed.

scholarly journals Nicaragua bajo el terror de la pareja Ortega-Murillo: antecedentes y construcción progresiva de una dictadura

Revista Trace ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Delphine Lacombe
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
Delayed Reaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
Pension Benefits ◽  
Social Security Institute

El 18 de abril 2018, Nicaragua se sumergió en una de las crisis políticas y sociales más trágicas de su historia contemporánea. La firma de un decreto presidencial que reformaba el Instituto de Seguridad Social, reducía los beneficios de la jubilación y elevaba las contribuciones provocó una ola de protestas que se expandió por todo el país. El descontento devino rápidamente en una insurrección cívica bajo el reclamo de la renuncia presidencial y elecciones anticipadas, esta fue reprimida con enorme violencia. En este artículo se analizan las causas y factores que anuncian esta crisis política. Finalmente, se cuestiona la reacción tardía de la opinión pública internacional a la construcción gradual de un poder dictatorial en Nicaragua iniciada en 2007.Abstract: On April 18th 2018, Nicaragua plunged into one of the most tragic political and social crises of its contemporary history. Following a presidential decree reforming the Social Security Institute that reduced pension benefits while raising contributions, a wave of protest spread across the country. This wave became a civic insurrection demanding the president’s resignation and early elections and it was repressed with the utmost violence. This article summarizes the predictors and reasons for this political crisis. It finally questions the delayed reaction of international public opinion toward the progressive building of dictatorial power in Nicaragua, begun as early as 2007.Keywords: Nicaragua, Sandinism, Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo, Repression, dictatorship.Résumé : Le 18 avril 2018, le Nicaragua a basculé dans l’une des crises politiques et sociales les plus tragiques de son histoire contemporaine. À la suite d’un décret présidentiel réformant l’Institut de sécurité sociale pour diminuer les allocations des retraités tout en élevant les cotisations, une vague de contestation a gagné l’ensemble du pays. Celle-ci, devenue une insurrection civique demandant la démission présidentielle et des élections anticipées, fut réprimée avec la plus grande violence. L’article revient en synthèse sur les facteurs annonciateurs et les raisons de cette crise politique. Il interroge finalement la réaction tardive de l’opinion publique internationale face à l’édification progressive d’un pouvoir dictatorial au Nicaragua, lancée dès 2007.Mots-clés : Nicaragua, sandinisme, Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo, répression, dictature.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF DAILY LIFE TRACES DUE TO CULTURAL CHANGE ON FIKRET MUALLA'S ART

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (86) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Time

Culture is the values that constitute the unity of life, thought and belief that a society creates in the historical and social development process. These values, which determine the lifestyle of a nation, people and society, have been passed down from generation to generation. The unique life models, art, morality, laws and order of the society determine the culture of that society and shape the daily lives of the people who make up the society. When the social structure and life of different nations are examined, it is noteworthy that the cultures differ significantly and diverge from each other. While human beings adapt to all kinds of changes with the instinct of survival, they consciously or unconsciously keep pace with their social life in order to continue their social life within the changing cultural structure. Fikret Mualla, a Turkish painter, was born in 1903, until his mid-thirties naturally lived and produced works by being influenced by Turkish culture and society. Although he went abroad for a short time many times during this period, he went to Paris in 1939 and lived there for twenty-six years. During this long period, his art, like himself, was influenced by the culture he lived in, and he reflected the daily life in Paris and artistic expression forms on his works. Cafes, circuses and streets in Paris have become the main subject of the artist's works. To analyze the effects of contemporary life in the context of cultural change through artists and works of art; It is aimed to contribute to the relevant literature by examining the changes brought by the French culture and life in Fikret Mualla's works. In addition, it is aimed to examine how the cultural difference affects the works of the artist in question in terms of subject and technique. Qualitative research methods and techniques were used in the study in which general scanning model was used. Keywords: Culture, Turkish Art, Fikret Mualla

scholarly journals The Elephant in the Room: Youth, Cognition, and Student Groups in Mass Social Movements

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Hank Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Age Cohort

Student and youth groups are often vanguard actors in turbulent times. This article proposes that when they are part of broader social movements, they can introduce strong age-cohort influences in a movement’s development. These influences derive from the balance between youths and adults in a movement and their interrelationships, especially over the long term when demands remain unanswered by the state. Other influences include resource availability, which tends to cluster with older generations, tactical specialization according to age cohorts, and the tendency of groups with younger members to be willing to take greater risks, be more passionate in their demands, and more militant in their tactics. In this report, we identified several empirically recognized cognitive dimensions relevant to youthful participation: (1) identity search, (2) risk taking, (3) emotionality, and (4) cognitive triggering. These cognitive factors of late adolescence and early adulthood can energize a movement when young cohorts participate but also run the risk of alienating older members and public opinion. We discussed how mass movements for political and/or cultural change are frequently intergenerational and how intergenerational relations can mitigate the inward-turning and militant tendencies of young adults. In broad movements for social change, these relations can create a division of labor in which students are the vanguard actors and the older members mobilize the social and material resources available to them. Under other conditions, youth and student groups wield a two-edged sword with the capability of energizing a movement or alienating older cohorts of militants and public opinion.

scholarly journals Analyzing social representation of gender-based violence throughout media discourse. The case of the Italian press

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Rosalba Belmonte ◽  
Michele Negri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Symbolic Domination ◽  
Women Trafficking ◽  
Gender Based

This work aims to provide a tool to analyze social representations of gender-based violence, an issue that is receiving increasing media attention in recent years. Focusing on the Italian case, the re- search questions we try to answer are: 1) How is gender-based violence represented in the Italian press? 2) How does Italian press represent the women victims of gender-based violence and the men authors of such violence? Particularly, we try to understand how press contributes to the social discourse on gender-based violence and what role it plays in the perpetuation of a social structure based on unequal power relations between genders.The starting hypothesis is that the press can contributes to create and reinforce stereotypes and prejudices about the role of women in society, thus favoring the persistence of those relations of material and symbolic domination, that still too often lead to gender-based violence.Our work is based on the data collected within the research project STEP – Stereotypes and prejudice. Toward a cultural change in gender representation in judicial, law enforcement and media narrative. It relies on the analysis of a corpus containing more than 16,000 articles published in Italian newspapers in the period between the 1st of January 2017 and the 31st December 2019, dealing with the issue of gender-based violence and with the crimes connected to it: domestic violence, rape, femicide, stalking, women trafficking.

scholarly journals Crisis in South Korea: From Social Theory to Practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-155
Author(s):  
Cahyo Pamungkas
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social

This article aims at describing the way the dimension of the social crisis is within the social sciences and humanities discourses, and the extent such a dimension is noticeable within the crisis reality in South Korea. Literature study of crisis for this study indicates that social crisis is, in theory, a general failure occurring in social life within a historical period, such a crisis produces collective distress generated by the incongruity between the ideas structure and the material structure. The crisis dimension consists of socio-political and socio-economic crises and natural disasters. Available data on the socio-political crisis reality in South Korea displays a fact that those theoretical dimensions are discernible within the Korean society's life since their colonial era until today.

scholarly journals Differrences in The Meaning Dolalak Dance in PurworejoDistrick, Central Java Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Adeliana Galih Nurbaidhah ◽  
Nurhadi Nurhadi ◽  
Sigit Pranawa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Ideal

Dolalak dance is a folk dance whose movements and costumes adopted the Dutch soldiers war training and dancing movements and costumes. The exsistention of the traditional art become degradation in a year. Dolalak dance is also influenced by the cultural change from modernity, and then the meaning of Dolalak will be gone.This enable people interprete the ideal value of Dolalak dance in daily life that different from Dolalak dance in the past that was full of life regulation values.This qualitative research uses a case study method to answer the different interprete the meaning of Dolalak dance.It uses interview, observation and documentation techniques to collect data. Theory in thisresearch using interpretative culture from Clifford Geertz.This research reveals that Dolalak experienced a cultural creativity by combining with other arts, i.e dangdut and Campursari.It also experienced changes in players, movements, makeup, costumes, and time performanes. As a folk dance play a role in unity and guide the social life. Dolalak dance is interpreted as a religious symbols, varlour, faith and social conditions. Nowdays, it has a new interpretation as a equality, effectivity, efficiency and specialization lead to individualization in the group.

scholarly journals De-sacredizing of the Barong Dance Social Life in the Community Culture Bali

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-313
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Market ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Village

This article is the result of a research work in the village of Batubulan in 1998. In Batubulan there are two kinds of sacred barong which are given the title of Queen Gde Sakti and non-sacred Barong Tetamon for tourists’ performance. The two barong have the same shapes but have different functions. The sacred Barong (Ratu Gde Sakti) serves to drive out or neutralize all the diseases that are unseen, while the barong tetamon’s goal is to earn money. The sacred barong is housed at a place considered holy and sacred, being sacred on a particular day. While barong tetamon performs every day in the local stage without considering the good day, whether sacred or not. Tourists can watch the barong tetamon dance every day by paying the appropriate admission price that has been fixed by the owner of the stage. As a result of staging the many symbols and others, the sacred barong dance functions have changed their meaning when performed in the form of Barong Tetamon. De-sacralization processes have happened on various forms, e.g. the making, ceremonies, plays, the staging, staging time, and others. These changes are related to degrading the sacredness where there have been changes to the social meaning of barong dance. Due to changes in the meaning of it, it will slowly bring the cultural change of the society into a cultural market, particularly that of religion.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Claire Whitlinger
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Racial Reconciliation ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

For decades, Philadelphia, Mississippi epitomized Southern racism as the site of the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Yet in a striking turn of events, the community’s efforts to confront its history of racial violence is now commended by academics and racial reconciliation practitioners as a model for other cities hoping to do the same. This introductory chapter situates this local transformation within a global political and cultural landscape, highlighting the “memory boom” ignited by WWII, which constructed acknowledgment and atonement with moral righteousness and legitimate democracy. Then, after reviewing scholarly debates on the social utility of commemorating violent pasts, the chapter argues that such commemorations are neither entirely beneficial nor detrimental to social life, as popular and scholarly texts often suggest. Rather, scholars should identify the conditions that enable commemorations of violent pasts to transform the often tragic conditions out of which they emerge. In this way, commemorations must be understood as both the cause and consequence of related memory movements. Studying commemorative outcomes therefore requires a detailed historical and counterfactual analysis, a methodological approach discussed in the chapter’s final section.

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