Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110378
Author(s):  
Enzo Colombo ◽  
Paola Rebughini ◽  
Lorenzo Domaneschi

The aim of this article is to show how young people in Italy deal with the structural injunction to become individuals. While there is a substantial number of works on how institutions converge in promoting individualization and an ‘entrepreneurial self’, in this article we investigate how young people give shape and meaning to social relations in the framework of the injunction to become autonomous entrepreneurs of themselves. The research presented here was conducted in Milan, from 2017 to 2019. We carried out 40 in-depth interviews with young people in order to explore (1) how individualization as a structural historical process becomes an ongoing accomplishment, a part of the ‘common sense’ that people use to interpret their everyday experience; and (2) the extent to which individualization and individualism intertwine and conflict with each other.

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Marcio Magera Conceição ◽  
Ricardo Shitsuka ◽  
Maria Fani Scheibel ◽  
Max Leandro de Araújo Brito

A ESPERANÇA INDÍGENA ATRAVÉS DE POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS BRASILEIRAS INDIGENOUS HOPE THROUGH BRAZILIAN PUBLIC POLICIES LA ESPERANZA INDÍGENA POR MEDIO DE POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS BRASILEÑAS RESUMO Estima-se que os povos indígenas no Brasil contavam com uma população em torno de 2 a 5 milhões de habitantes na época do descobrimento. Atualmente há cerca de um milhão. Há o desânimo e a falta de perspectivas nesses povos muitos dos quais vivem em regiões afastadas nas matas O objetivo do artigo é desvelar as representações sociais associadas às perspectivas desses povos e a sua possibilidade de melhoria. Realiza-se uma pesquisa na qual se verifica as representações sociais por meio de entrevista, no ano de 2017, em graduandos de um curso de Licenciatura Indígena. Verificou-se nos entrevistados, a presença do senso comum que aponta para a necessidade da educação dos povos indígenas. Observou-se a esperança para melhoria das condições desses povos que vem através dos cursos de Licenciatura Indígena que têm ajudado a preservar aspectos histórico-sociais, culturais e possibilidades futuras uma vez que os licenciados voltam para suas aldeias para trabalhar a educação básica nos jovens. Palavras-chave: Educação; Ensino; Licenciatura intercultural; Formação Indígena; Confiança. ABSTRACT It is estimated that indigenous peoples in Brazil had a population of about 2 to 5 million inhabitants at the time of discovery. There are now about one million. There is discouragement and lack of perspective on these peoples, many of whom live in remote regions of the forest. The purpose of this article is to unveil the social representations associated with the perspectives of these peoples and their possibility of improvement. A research is carried out in which the social representations are verified by means of interviews, in the year of 2017, in undergraduates of an Indigenous Licentiate course. It is verified among the interviewees, the common sense that points to the need of education of indigenous peoples. It was observed the hope for the improvement of the conditions of these peoples that come through the courses of Indigenous teachers formation that have helped to preserve historical-social aspects, cultural and future possibilities once graduates return to their villages to work on basic education of young people. Keywords: Education; Teaching; Intercultural bachelor; Indigenous formation; Confidence. RESUMEN Se estima que los pueblos indígenas en Brasil contaban con una población de alrededor de 2 a 5 millones de habitantes en la época del descubrimiento. Actualmente hay cerca de un millón. Hay el desánimo y la falta de perspectivas en esos pueblos muchos de los cuales viven en regiones alejadas en los bosques. El objetivo del presente artículo es desvelar las representaciones sociales asociadas a las perspectivas de esos pueblos y su posibilidad de mejora. Se realiza una investigación en la que se verifican las representaciones sociales por medio de entrevista, en el año de 2017, en graduandos de un curso de Licenciatura Indígena. Se observó en los entrevistados el sentido común que apunta a la necesidad de la educación de los pueblos indígenas. Se trató de una esperanza para mejorar las condiciones de esos pueblos que vienen a través de los cursos de Licenciatura Indígena que han ayudado a preservar aspectos histórico-sociales, culturales y posibilidades futuras una vez que los licenciados regresan a sus aldeas para trabajar la educación básica en los jóvenes. Palabras clave: Educación; Enseñanza; Licenciatura intercultural; Formación indígena; Confianza.


2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Abad Badruzaman

This article has been pushed by the fact that the reading of classical texts does not involve the conciousness that the texts present not in a hollow space, but in a chamber having its own language, culture, values, social institutions and other patterns of social relations. This is a pure library study; all data sources are in the form of written materials related to the topic that has been set. Then these concepts, with the help of modern literature, are developed in line with the present context. Three things formulated in this study are: the concept of ‘illah, maqasid, and the development of maqasid concepts in order to make Islamic law remain dynamic. The content and the range of meaning of each of the five maqasid formulated by al-Syatibi can bedeveloped due to the demands of the present context. Therefore, the development of content and range of meaning is carried out by this paper. The author put a great effort to put a number of Qur’anic verses as the guide and giver of moral messages. Themes such as religious freedom, the maintenance of natural resources from exploitation and extermination, gender equality, nourishing the generations from neglect, oppression and poverty, and must enable the common sense in all things, in the opinion of the author are able to fill all of the content as well as expand the range of concepts of maqasid in the contemporary era.


Chowanna ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Henry A. Giroux

At its best education is dangerous because it offers young people and other actors the promise of racial and economic justice, a future in which democracy becomes inclusive and a dream in which all lives matter. In a healthy society universities should be subversive; they should go against the grain, and give voice to the voiceless, the unmentionable and the whispers of truth that haunt the apostles of unchecked power and wealth. Pedagogy should be disruptive and unsettling and push hard against the common sense vocabularies of neoliberalism and its regime of affective management.


Author(s):  
Vincenzo Cicchelli ◽  
◽  
Sylvie Octobre ◽  

This article explores the passion of young French people for the Hallyu, within the framework of an analysis of the contribution of the “consumption of difference” (Schroeder 2015) to the formation of the self through the figure of the 'cosmopolitan amateur' (Cicchelli and Octobre 2018a). We will first look at the reasons for the success of Hallyu in France then discuss the different forms of empowerment stemmed from the consumption of Korean products, among young people (74 in depth-interviews with young fans aged 18-31) with no previous link with Korea, which nurture their biographical trajectories.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Mark Boespflug
Keyword(s):  

The common sense that heavily informs the epistemology of Thomas Reid has been recently hailed as instructive with regard to some of the most fundamental issues in epistemology by a burgeoning segment of analytic epistemologists. These admirers of Reid may be called dogmatists. I highlight three ways in which Reid's approach has been a model to be imitated in the estimation of dogmatists. First, common sense propositions are taken to be the benchmarks of epistemology inasmuch as they constitute paradigm cases of knowledge. Second, dogmatists follow Reid in taking common sense propositions to provide boundaries for philosophical theorizing. Inasmuch as philosophical theorizing leads one to deny a common sense proposition, such theorizing is stepping outside of the bounds of what it can or should do. Third, dogmatists follow Reid in focusing heavily on the problem of skepticism and by responding to it by refusing to answer the demand for a meta-justification that the skeptic wants.


2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Barrantes ◽  
Juan M. Durán

We argue that there is no tension between Reid's description of science and his claim that science is based on the principles of common sense. For Reid, science is rooted in common sense since it is based on the (common sense) idea that fixed laws govern nature. This, however, does not contradict his view that the scientific notions of causation and explanation are fundamentally different from their common sense counterparts. After discussing these points, we dispute with Cobb's ( Cobb 2010 ) and Benbaji's ( Benbaji 2003 ) interpretations of Reid's views on causation and explanation. Finally, we present Reid's views from the perspective of the contemporary debate on scientific explanation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Michalak

Motives of espionage against ones own country in the light of idiographic studies The money is perceived as the common denominator among people who have spied against their own country. This assumption is common sense and appears to be self-evident truth. But do we have any hard evidences to prove the validity of such a statement? What method could be applied to determine it? This article is a review of the motives behind one's resorting to spying activity which is a complex and multifarious process. I decided to present only the phenomenon of spying for another country. The studies on the motives behind taking up spying activity are idiographic in character. One of the basic methodological problems to be faced by the researchers of this problem is an inaccessibility of a control group.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Benzon

Sydney Lamb’s model focuses our attention on the physicality of language, of the signs themselves as objects in the external world and the neural systems the support them. By means of the metaphor of a cognitive dome, he demonstrates that there is no firm line between linguistic and cognitive structure. In this context, I offer physically grounded accounts of Jakobson’s metalingual and emotive functions. Drawing on Vygotsky’s account of language development, I point out that inner speech, corresponding to the common sense notion of thought, originates in a circuit that goes through the external world and is then internalized.


1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Karen Harding

Ate appearances deceiving? Do objects behave the way they do becauseGod wills it? Ate objects impetmanent and do they only exist becausethey ate continuously created by God? According to a1 Ghazlli, theanswers to all of these questions ate yes. Objects that appear to bepermanent are not. Those relationships commonly tefemed to as causalare a result of God’s habits rather than because one event inevitably leadsto another. God creates everything in the universe continuously; if Heceased to create it, it would no longer exist.These ideas seem oddly naive and unscientific to people living in thetwentieth century. They seem at odds with the common conception of thephysical world. Common sense says that the universe is made of tealobjects that persist in time. Furthermore, the behavior of these objects isreasonable, logical, and predictable. The belief that the univetse is understandablevia logic and reason harkens back to Newton’s mechanical viewof the universe and has provided one of the basic underpinnings ofscience for centuries. Although most people believe that the world is accutatelydescribed by this sort of mechanical model, the appropriatenessof such a model has been called into question by recent scientificadvances, and in particular, by quantum theory. This theory implies thatthe physical world is actually very different from what a mechanicalmodel would predit.Quantum theory seeks to explain the nature of physical entities andthe way that they interact. It atose in the early part of the twentieth centuryin response to new scientific data that could not be incorporated successfullyinto the ptevailing mechanical view of the universe. Due largely ...


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