The national Church as a historical form of Church-type. Elements of a configurative theorization

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul-André Turcotte
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Religious Body

The national Church is characterized by a concentric synthesis of religion, nation, culture and society, in alliance with other social authorities. The socio-religious body it constitutes presents features similar to those of a system’s organic whole. Its composition may be described as plural and animated by an esprit de corps. The regulatory social codes structuring its varied social relations contribute to establishing the bond of reciprocity in the distinction. The various mediations implemented in this sense are aimed at periodically revitalizing a tradition in order to maintain an ecclesial body that is at the same time social; all the more so as the national Church is at odds with the conditions of organized religion in contemporary society, its historical characteristics notwithstanding.

When Caring and Surveillance Technology Meet

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brown ◽  
Marek Korczynski
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Discretionary Effort ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Gap

There is an important research gap regarding how the service triangle in care work is affected by the use of surveillance technology. This article addresses this gap by reporting quantitative and qualitative research undertaken in three U.K. local government home care organizations. Through regression analysis, it is found that discretionary effort is positively related, and organizational commitment negatively related, to information technology as a controlling force and management hindering the delivery of client services. The qualitative research triangulates these findings and offers complementarity by showing that workers continued to give discretionary effort in order to maintain the delivery of meaningful care to clients, even as they lowered their commitment to the organization. The conclusion draws out the implications of these findings for understanding of the social relations of the service triangle in contemporary society.

SOCIABILITY, POLITENESS, AND ARISTOCRATIC SELF-FORMATION IN THE LIFE AND CAREER OF THE SECOND EARL OF SHELBURNE

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE E. KLEIN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Reform Initiatives ◽  
Noteworthy Feature ◽  
Self Formation

ABSTRACTThe second earl of Shelburne is well known for his association with reform initiatives in the second half of the eighteenth century. However, he also put conspicuous effort into strengthening his aristocratic credentials and status. One noteworthy feature of this was his politeness: he aimed at personal cultivation, a goal in itself and a foundation for leadership in society; he also had a reputation for politeness in everyday social situations. One context for Shelburne's conspicuous politeness was his personal need to overcome a number of impediments to asserting aristocratic status. However, another context was his effort to articulate a vocation for the modern aristocrat. For Shelburne, polite sociability was a way for the aristocrat to gather, organize, and deploy creative energies in society for the sake of improvement and reform. Though a particular example, Shelburne illustrates the energy that asserting aristocratic status could demand and the sort of modernity that could be claimed on behalf of aristocracy. Finally, Shelburne demonstrates the role of politeness in aristocratic formation: in particular, he shows how aristocratic engagement in contemporary society entailed a range of social relations which polite competence helped to manage.

Science, Family, and the Monstrous Progeny

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Schmeink
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Loss Of Stability ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Interpersonal Consequences

Chapter 4 reflects on the creation of the posthuman, concentrating on the genetic manufacture of life in Vincenzo Natali's film Splice (2009). In shifting the medium of the discussion, the more private perspectives of posthuman creation and especially the creature itself are foregrounded by foregoing the larger, social discussion of the consequences provided in chapter 3. Instead, the chapter analyzes liquid modern realities and the loss of stability in its personal dimension, such as love, sex, and procreation. The film, as a biopunk adaptation of the classic Frankenstein-story, makes elaborate use of the metaphor of the monstrous to characterize contemporary society and its desire to liquefy personal bonds and relations. The posthuman becomes monstrous allegory for the liquid modern wish to forego social commitment, especially and most frighteningly reflected in concepts of love and motherhood, where the film warns about the interpersonal consequences of relegating procreation to science and extracting it from stable, secure social relations.

scholarly journals Some features of cancel culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Filippovich ◽  
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Gleb Strekalov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

Social control is a useful tool to regulate the social relations. The so-called “soft” tools may take a form of derision or humiliation in front of many eyes. Although the Ancient Greece had such a way to control the mass, now it takes more severe character. The Greek could cancel person from the public by sending them to another city or country but in the contemporary society we live in two worlds simultaneously: world of those Greek people and social media. Double cancel may lead to devastated consequences.

scholarly journals MASCULINITY IN A POSTMODERN TEXT: CONCEPT, IDENTITY, CHARACTER

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Alla Marchyshyna
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Male Stereotypes ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Social Intercourse

The paper considers masculinity representation in a postmodern text. The author reveals the theoretical background of the origin and development of masculinity studies as a branch of gender research. The key parameters of masculinity include sexual, social, cultural, national, and age components. Specific traits of masculine personages are explicated in postmodern texts of different styles. Masculinity is treated as an objectivated realization of androcentrism which loses its dominant positions in the bipolar world of gender dichotomy due to the postmodern transformations of the outlook. It acquires the features which form a new image of a man in consciousness, community, and a text. The paper proves that contemporary society does not possess gender polarity, it witnesses weakening of “hegemonic masculinity” and diffusion of boundaries between men and women as subjects of social intercourse. There appear new aspects of masculinity which destroy male stereotypes; masculinity splits into plurality of identities often being polarized inside this sex-gender group. The paper reveals the characters framed linguistically in a text. Resulting from restructured social relations and reestimation of values, they turn up not as a traditional character of a father in a literary text but a “divorced father” who performs his father’s duties remotely as a spouse, a “domestic partner”, “ex-husband”, and/or “lover (boyfriend)”. All the newly formed gender identities and the corresponding text constructs obtain relevant lingual nominations. Analysis of dictionary definitions enables to fix the correlation between the systemic meaning of masculine gender identities and their contextual semantics. The article concludes that postmodern masculinity is no longer interpreted as a biologically determined entity but rather as a performative option of a personal choice.

The SRM Approach to Family Assessment

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Analysis Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Direction Of Effects

Abstract. In family systems, it is possible for one to put oneself at risk by eliciting aversive, high-risk behaviors from others ( Cook, Kenny, & Goldstein, 1991 ). Consequently, it is desirable that family assessments should clarify the direction of effects when evaluating family dynamics. In this paper a new method of family assessment will be presented that identifies bidirectional influence processes in family relationships. Based on the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984 ), the SRM Family Assessment provides information about the give and take of family dynamics at three levels of analysis: group, individual, and dyad. The method will be briefly illustrated by the assessment of a family from the PIER Program, a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to prevent the onset of psychosis in high-risk young people.

Meta-Accuracy and Perceived Reciprocity From the Perception-Meta-Perception Social Relations Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Ben Porter ◽  
Camilla S. Øverup ◽  
Julie A. Brunson ◽  
Paras D. Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Social Relations Model ◽  
Flexible Framework ◽  
Multilevel Structural Equation

Abstract. Meta-accuracy and perceptions of reciprocity can be measured by covariances between latent variables in two social relations models examining perception and meta-perception. We propose a single unified model called the Perception-Meta-Perception Social Relations Model (PM-SRM). This model simultaneously estimates all possible parameters to provide a more complete understanding of the relationships between perception and meta-perception. We describe the components of the PM-SRM and present two pedagogical examples with code, openly available on https://osf.io/4ag5m . Using a new package in R (xxM), we estimated the model using multilevel structural equation modeling which provides an approachable and flexible framework for evaluating the PM-SRM. Further, we discuss possible expansions to the PM-SRM which can explore novel and exciting hypotheses.

Review of Power/Gender: Social Relations in Theory and Practice.

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-171
Author(s):  
Lucia Albino Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Theory And Practice

Infants and Ancestors in Social Relations

1956 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 219-219
Author(s):  
LEON FESTINGER
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations
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