scholarly journals Strategies of public intellectual engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 982-998
Author(s):  
Mohamed Amine Brahimi ◽  
Marcos Gonzalez Hernando ◽  
Marcus Morgan ◽  
Amín Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Group Membership ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Theoretical Yield ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
French Sociology ◽  
Sociology Of Intellectuals

This introduction to the Special Section on public intellectual engagement has three objectives. First, to explore the different meanings that the polysemic term ‘strategy’ can hold in relation to intellectuals. In the process, we showcase both this concept’s potential theoretical yield and its capacity to bridge the ‘performative’ and event-oriented study of intellectuals more common in English-speaking sociology with longue durée career-oriented analyses more associated with French sociology. The second objective is to reassess some of the main contributions to the sociology of intellectuals by reference to this notion of ‘strategy’, especially concerning issues of political allegiance and group membership. The final objective is to illustrate the potential of this approach in empirical work on intellectual engagement and introduce the articles that comprise the Special Section.

scholarly journals Speech Genre: A Study of Gossip in Australian English Speaking Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-271
Author(s):  
Nurhadi Hamka
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Australian English ◽  
Diverse Context

A gossip as a casual conversation usually occurs in diverse context or a wide range of social situations; has distinct and various topics; and involve an irregular set of participants. The scholars scrutinize that conversation has highly structured activity of which people tacitly realize that there are some basic conventions to follow – such as when to speak or to stay silent and to listen. In this study, I specifically discuss one of the speech genre – a gossip, in Australia English speaking context. The gossip data of the study is taken from the research conducted by Thornburry, Scott, and Slade, Diana (2006). In a discussion, I focus the analysis of the generic structure of the gossip and how it establishes the social function (within) the speech members. Several findings conveyed that: 1) there is a leeway of shifting from one genre to another – e.g. narrative to gossip, within the same participants; 2) conversation can be successful if all the participants aware of and follow the basic conventions – when to talk or to listen, support to judgement or reluctant to the focus of conversation; 3) the genre, e.g. narrative or gossip, could motivate people to leave or to join the conversation which then could establish and reinforce the group membership and maintain the values of the social group.

scholarly journals Introduction: Travelling from West to East: Think Tank Model Adaptation to Central and Eastern Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 088832542094683
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jezierska ◽  
Serena Giusti
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

This article is part of the special section “Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe” guest-edited by Katarzyna Jezierska and Serena Giusti. This is an introduction to the Special Section on Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe. Apart from this introduction, the Section includes four articles, which explore the nature and conditions of think tanks operating in Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland. Think tanks are usually understood as institutions claiming autonomy whose main aim is to influence policy making based on the social analysis they produce. The most apparent blind spot in extant think tank research is its predominant focus on the English-speaking world. We argue that by focusing on think tanks in non-Western contexts, we can better understand think tanks. When studying the diffusion of the organizational form of think tanks to new contexts, it is not enough to maintain the “sender” perspective (the formulation of the institutional characteristics of think tanks in the contexts in which they first emerged). We need to complement or even modify that perspective by also taking into account the “receiver” perspective. In other words, internationally circulated ideas and institutional patterns are always interpreted and translated in local “receiving” contexts, which coproduce, reformulate, and readjust the blueprint. Our focus in this Section is therefore on the translation and local adaptation of the think tank institution in the context of Central and Eastern Europe, a region that has undergone deep changes in a relatively short period.

scholarly journals Intercultural Public Intellectual Engagement

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Modood
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Contact Interaction ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Abstract Reasoning ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Micro Level

AbstractThe article firstly examines the different conceptions of dialogue and reason within political theory, especially in the work of Rawls. Secondly we explore multicultural political theorists who have been motivated less by abstract reasoning by a sole reasoner or identical identity-less individuals and more by dialogue. For such multiculturalists, the principles of social justice are not known in advance or simply by reason, but are arrived at by conflict and learning, by dialogue and negotiation in circumstances of inequality and minority-claims making. In response to the multiculturalists, interculturalists allege that multiculturalism is too focused on the macro and the conflictual, and dialogue should be redirected to the micro and the cooperative. Although I welcome the interculturalists’ focus on micro-relations, this does not require abandoning the idea of dialogue at the level of political controversies and public discourses. It is not an either–or choice because groups and intergroup problems exist in society and cannot be simply handled at a micro level of contact, interaction and sociability. The kind of macro-level dialogue that I am speaking of can also be understood as a form of public intellectual engagement that can contribute to societal dialogues.

scholarly journals Reflections for a Sociological Representation of the Eater

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Jean Pierre Corbeau
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
French Sociology ◽  
Sociology Of Food

Professor Jean Pierre Corbeau is an important author of the French sociology of food. He played a decisive role in the emergence of the concept of the eater. This essay is a reflexive discussion by the author of one of his theoretical articles published in 1997. It is an opportunity for the English-speaking sociological community to become better acquainted with this current in the sociology of food.

scholarly journals Islamophobia and normative sociology

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 29-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Modood
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
The Political ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Normative Sociology

The concept of Islamophobia as anti-Muslim culturalism racism is establishing itself in social science and public discourse alike. Yet there is a tendency to focus on Muslims as an �Other�, an ascribed identity, at the expense of Muslim intersubjectivity and agency. �Othering� analysis also does not attend to how to distinguish between Islamophobia and reasonable criticism of Muslims and Islam. Moreover, the possibility of mutual criticism based on dialogue, as well as group intersubjectivity and agency are important for multicultural recognition and accommodation. The bringing out of the political significance of the latter is illustrative of a sociology which thinks of socio-political problems and solutions as existing within the same intellectual framework. Going further, such normative sociology makes explicit and justifies its normative presuppositions and prizes public intellectual engagement.

Is the French sociology of organisations specifically French?

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Frederic Livian
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Based ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
French Sociology ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Sociology Of Organisations

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the contribution of French sociology of organisations (mainly represented by M. Crozier, E. Friedberg and J.D. Reynaud) to the knowledge of organisations in the French context, specially through the “bureaucratic phenomenon”. Design/methodology/approach – The author shows that the work has provided a relevant picture of some of the main characteristics of a “French way of organising”, but shows in a second part that French specificities are only a part of the authors’ scientific project, and discusses some of the reasons why it did not get a large international recognition in the English-speaking literature. Findings – The article provides a summary of the analysis and a discussion of its relevance to the French context today. It opens a reflection about the question as to whether a sociological school based on field studies can be used outside of its original context of conception. Research limitations/implications – The author does not have the ambition of an exhaustive overview of the international impact of this school. Practical implications – The author aims at a reevaluation of the contribution, for English-speaking academics, and at a development of the thinking about the use of the “strategic analysis” model. Originality/value – An examination of the today relevance of the “bureaucratic” model in France, and a better knowledge of the interest of this school outside France.

The Legacy of Cognition-Arousal Theory: Introduction to a Special Section of Emotion Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Reisenzein
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Arousal Theory ◽  
Bodily Feelings ◽  
Made In

Schachter’s cognition-arousal theory has been highly influential in emotion psychology and beyond. The six contributions to this special section investigate the origins of Schachter’s theory in his previous work on affiliation; systematize the variety of existing versions of cognition-arousal theory; summarize recent cognition-feeling theories of emotion and associated empirical work influenced by Schachter’s theory; and critically reexamine two assumptions of cognition-arousal theory: the assumption, made in some interpretations of the theory, that cognitive appraisals are components of emotions, and the assumption that bodily feelings cannot alone constitute emotional experiences.

Internal-External Control among South African Students — A Cross-Cultural Study

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 145-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devi Moodley-Rajab ◽  
R.D. Ramkissoon
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
South African ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
External Control ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
African Students ◽  
South Africans ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Ethnic Group Membership ◽  
The Relationship

To investigate the relationship between internal versus external locus of control, sex, and ethnic group membership, three groups of university students (Indians, English-speaking White South Africans and Blacks) were compared on their responses to the Rotter I-E Control Scale. The hypothesis that a belief in internal versus external control is significantly related to ethnic group membership was rejected but it was confirmed for the variable of sex.

scholarly journals Archaeology in Czechoslovakia: trends and approaches

Antiquity ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (247) ◽  
pp. 306-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Venclová
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The West ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Current State ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Selection Of

Whatever the journalist’s definition of eastern Europe might be (cf. S. Milisauskas in ANTIQUITY 64: 283], let us state, as introduction to this Special Section, that Czechoslovakia (FIGURE 1) is a country in Central, not Eastern, Europe. It is somewhat controversial to speak about its ‘return to Europe’, as some politicians would have it, as it has been there all the time. After the period of limited contacts of Czechoslovak archaeologists with their colleagues ‘in the West’ it is felt that now, in the changed (post-November-1989) situation, information on the current state of research, and especially on the approaches applied recently to the study of Czech and Slovak archaeological material (and perhaps on Czechoslovakia's geographical position as well?) may be of use for an interested English-speaking reader. The following – rather random – selection of articles is the result.

scholarly journals THE MENTAL RESOURCE OF MODERN ENGLISH GASTRONOMIC ADVERTISING DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-34
Author(s):  
Tetiana Hafu ◽  
Iryna Osovska
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Food Preservation ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
Concept Systems ◽  
Special Time

The article presents the results of the study and comparison of the mental resource of two types of modern English gastronomic discourse – modern gastronomic advertising discourse and modern gastronomic advertising aesthetic discourse. The basic constituents of the conceptual systems of modern English gastronomic advertising and aesthetic discourses – discourse concepts-autochthons, as well as system connections between them, are statistically verified with the help of quantitative methods in linguistics. The reproduction of the established features of the concept systems in cognitive maps has allowed to reveal common and distinctive features in understanding gastronomic advertising discourse by various representatives of the English community – statistically average consumers and aesthete-gourmets. In particular, it was found that the frame of the conceptual systems is 49 autochthons for the MEGAD and 48 for the MEGAAD, which captures the main mental dominant for the cognitive-communicative activity of the modern English average consumer and aesthete-gourmet in the gastronomic segment of life. Thus, water and drinks, pastries, sweets and dairy products, fast food, preservation (freezing and preserving) of products, food for animals, healthy eating, taste and sensation, nutrition, brand and price of a product are significant for the average English-speaking consumer. Instead, MEGAAD has an actualized knowledge of the dish as an aesthetic creature with special ingredients, consumed in special time and temporal conditions, is prepared in a special way, creates special sensations, is useful, has a special nutritional value, dietary properties and is presented in the blog – a special section with a theme, describing the author's experiences, his feelings and emotions, first of all aesthetic pleasure.

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