Breaking the Culture Barrier

1967 ◽  
Vol os-14 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
John B. Quick
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Human Case ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
The West ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
The Individual

Whether we like it or not, the world is moving more and more in the direction of a standard, universal culture, at least in some parts of life. The changes which take place in this direction usually come about through adopting behavior patterns learned from the West, or material goods from Western technology. Such changes are often known in the different languages of the world by such words as “development” “progress” “improvement.” Because of the unevenness of rates of change it is a common experience in Asia and Africa to see young people who are in many respects highly westernized, side by side with their parents or other contemporaries who have not been so highly affected by this change. And even though some change is wanted, by and large, all over the world, not all aspects of westernization are equally wanted. Attitudes, furthermore, may be ambivalent, and the individual who moves faster than his contemporaries may be subjected to severe pressures. The following article is a brief human case study of the difficulties which one young man faced for a few hours in just such an ambivalent situation.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF SOCIALIZATION OF YOUTH IN CRISES TRANSITION

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
E. L. Antonova ◽  
V. G. Turkina
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The West ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
The Individual

The article deals with the problem of self-realization of young people in a permanent crisis. We are talking about youth subcultures, which consist of those who "dropped out" from society or are in an uncertain (liminal) state of transition from one social group (youth) to another (adults), which creates a serious problem for the socialization of young people. In these circumstances, young people are faced with the urgent need to build their own "counterculture", while playing specific roles that do not coincide with the interests of the majority. And although the liminal state of youth self-determination has become a real disaster for the West itself, it continues to be presented to the world community as an achievement of modern Western culture, the main postulate of which is the free choice of the individual.

Drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness: Linguistic insights into Sylvia Plath’s experience of depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsófia Demjén
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Linguistic Methods ◽  
Linguistic Approach

This paper demonstrates how a range of linguistic methods can be harnessed in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the ‘lived experience’ of psychological disorders. It argues that such methods should be applied more in medical contexts, especially in medical humanities. Key extracts from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath are examined, as a case study of the experience of depression. Combinations of qualitative and quantitative linguistic methods, and inter- and intra-textual comparisons are used to consider distinctive patterns in the use of metaphor, personal pronouns and (the semantics of) verbs, as well as other relevant aspects of language. Qualitative techniques provide in-depth insights, while quantitative corpus methods make the analyses more robust and ensure the breadth necessary to gain insights into the individual experience. Depression emerges as a highly complex and sometimes potentially contradictory experience for Plath, involving both a sense of apathy and inner turmoil. It involves a sense of a split self, trapped in a state that one cannot overcome, and intense self-focus, a turning in on oneself and a view of the world that is both more negative and more polarized than the norm. It is argued that a linguistic approach is useful beyond this specific case.

Siloism, the Self, and Total Revolution

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Barr-Melej
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The Self ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Public Morality ◽  
The World ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Libertarian Socialism

This chapter shifts the book’s line of sight away from hippismo and toward the esoteric counterculture of Siloism and the group of Chilean Siloists called Poder Joven (Young Power). The chapter unpacks Siloism’s call for young people to focus their youthful energy inward, peer deeply into their own psyches, experience fully the connection between mind and body, and realize socialismo libertario, or libertarian socialism. Such undertakings would effectively transform the individual, his or her immediate surroundings, and the world. These and other aspects of Siloist thought and practice raised quite a ruckus among those pledged to protect culture and public morality, thus motivating authorities to repress what many identified as Poder Joven’s depravity.

The Out-Migration Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Kristen Ghodsee ◽  
Mitchell A. Orenstein
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Young People ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Population Declines ◽  
The West ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
East European ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Crisis

Chapter 8 discusses the significant negative social and economic impacts of the mass out-migration that many postsocialist countries have experienced since the lifting of the “Iron Curtain,” balanced with the positive impacts of remittances and circulation of talent and capital. It also explores the negative side of out-migration, suggesting that the mass exodus of young people has had significant deleterious impacts on a number of sending countries and that many migrants faced hostile, exploitative, and sometimes dangerous conditions in the West. The chapter points to the collapse of rural villages and brain drain as having catastrophic prospects for the postsocialist world. This chapter highlights the role of European Union accession in 2004 as a possible contributor to Central and East European countries experiencing the sharpest population declines in the world and the largest peacetime migration in modern history measured as a percentage of sending country population.

Theatreland, 1880–1914

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-198
Author(s):  
Rohan McWilliam
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
The Masses ◽  
End Stage

This chapter examines the period from 1880–1914 when the West End was established as theatreland. This was characterized by a huge wave of theatre building with new stages servicing the masses who were flooding into the district. Theatre was dominated by the titanic figures of Henry Irving and Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Shows would also tour, benefiting from the information that they had first been seen in the West End, thus enhancing the glamorous reputation of the district. The chapter argues that the West End stage was often conservative and reflected the values of Lord Salisbury’s Britain. It considers the West End theatre business in its different forms (including the world of the West End audience and the theatre critic) and builds to a case study of the rebuilt Her Majesty’s Theatre which exemplified many of the trends in the late-Victorian theatre world.

A Comparative Analysis of Dam Safety Assurance Laws

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dean Pisaniello
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Dam Safety ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Safety Assurance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Privately Owned

A number of horrific failures of both public and privately owned dams in recent decades has triggered serious concern over the safety of dams throughout the world. However, in Australia, although much Government attention is being devoted to the medium- to large-scale dams, minimal attention is being paid to the serious potential cumulative, catchment-wide problems associated with smaller private dams. The paper determines how to consider addressing hazardous private dam safety issues generally through a comparative analysis of international dam safety policy/law systems. The analysis has identified elements of best and minimum practice that can and do exist successfully to provide deserved assurance to the community of the proper safety management of hazardous private dams at both the individual and cumulative, catchment-wide levels. These elements provide benchmarks that enable ‘appropriate’ legislative arrangements to be determined for different jurisdictional circumstances as illustrated with an Australian policy-deficient case study.

UNDERSTANDING THE DESERTION OF SOUTH CAROLINIAN SOLDIERS DURING THE FINAL YEARS OF THE CONFEDERACY

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK J. DOYLE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Simple Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
Return Home ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

ABSTRACTAlthough the American Civil War is perhaps the most written about event in American history, the issue of desertion has often retained a neglected position in the conflict's dense historiography. Those historians who have studied military absenteeism during the war have tended to emphasize socio-economic factors as motivating men to leave the army and return home. The Register of Confederate Deserters, a list of southern soldiers who crossed into Union lines and took an oath of loyalty in order to try and return home, can provide a different look at these men. By studying the South Carolinian men on the Register, as a case-study, we can see that ideological, as well as socio-economic, motivations occupied the thought process of Civil War deserters. Moreover, the act of desertion was rarely a simple representation of the thoughts of the individual but of the opinions and feelings of his family and community as well. As such, studying Confederate desertion not only helps us understand the issues of loyalty and nationalism during the Civil War, but also the way in which nineteenth-century southerners conceptualized the world around them.

scholarly journals Relevansi Maqasid Syariah Sebagai Pendekatan Baru Diplomasi Islam Dalam Penyelesaian Konflik Minoritas: Teori Dan Praktik

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (01) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Mochamad Fathoni
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Muslim Country ◽  
The West ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
The World ◽  
Soft Power Diplomacy

AbstractAfter 9/11, muslim in the west became minority even in his/her own country. There are presumption that Islam related to terrorism and this is the main reason why muslim in the world become minority, especially for muslim who live in the non-muslim country. Aim of the study is to find a new approach within muslim in diplomacy to protect the muslim minority or other minority in the plurality of today nation-state. We use literature studies through descriptive analysis in explained the relevance of maqoshid sharia in solving the minority issue and compare several case study of its implementation in several countries. The novelty of the study is that political scientists have not touched the topic from the basic teaching of Islam, which is maqashid sharia, as an approach in solving the problem related minority, especially muslim minority. The finding in the study is that maqashid sharia as an approach can be developed as soft-power diplomacy strategy which can be distinguished as Islamic diplomacy model in solving minority issue.Keywords: maqosid sharia, Islamic diplomacy, minorityAbstrakPasca peristiwa 9/11, warga muslim di negara-negara barat seakan menjadi minoritas di negaranya sendiri. Munculnya pra-anggapan yang mengkaitkan Islam dan terorisme merupakan sebab utama warga muslim dunia menjadi betul-betul minoritas. Hal ini terutama dialami oleh umat Islam yang berada di negara-negara non-muslim. Tujuan studi ini adalah diperlukan pendekatan baru dari umat Islam sendiri, terutama dari negara-negara Islam atau mayoritas muslim dalam berdiplomasi untuk melindungi minoritas muslim maupun minoritas etnis dan agama lain di tengah dinamika negara-bangsa yang semakin majemuk. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian studi pustaka dan menggunakan analisis deskiptif dalam menjelaskan relevansi maqasid syariah dalam menyelesaikan masalah minoritas disertai perbandingan sejumlah contoh studi kasus penerapannya di sejumlah negara. Kebaruan dari studi ini adalah belum ada ilmuwan politik yang menggunakan maqosid syariah sebagai pendekatan model diplomasi Islam di dalam menangani berbagai persoalan menyangkut isyu minoritas, khususnya minoritas muslim. Temuan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan maqasid syariah dapat menjadi strategi diplomasi soft power yang menjadi ciri khas model diplomasi Islam dalam mencapai kepentingan tidak saja menyelesaikan isyu minoritas.Kata-kata kunci: maqosid syariah, diplomasi islam, minoritas

scholarly journals Obywatelstwo i narodowość w językowym obrazie świata młodzieży

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Anna Hau ◽  
Katarzyna Wądołowska-Lesner
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Linguistic Reality

In the undertaken study, the understanding of the concepts of citizenship and nationality by the Polish young people, I assume that these categories are essential in terms of shaping the national identity of the individual. The system of concepts that define the personality of a human, the ability to reflect on their content, correctness, common connection, allows individuals to unite into a certain community. Thus, the analysis of linguistic ways of describing non-linguistic reality is also associated with the description of the mental representations of the individual, and therefore the ways – in cognitive processes – to relate to the world, to make an image of the world, to create knowledge about the world.

scholarly journals A INEVITABILIDADE DA MUDANÇA: GERADORA DE CONFLITO OU DE COMPLEMENTARIEDADE NOS AMBIENTES ORGANIZACIONAIS?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-156
Author(s):  
Noemi Bonina ◽  
Jofrina Zinaenda Patrício
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Markets ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Competence Training ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Individual

Através de um estudo de caso realizado na área da saúde desenvolvemos um trabalho que busca explanar sobre a inevitabilidade da mudança nos contextos de “ser e estar” no mundo, onde a globalização, a competição, os avanços tecnológicos, as mudanças dos consumidores, as novas pressões sociais, reflectem o cenário actual. Através de um olhar sobre as atitudes individuais perante a mudança e suas perspectivas, a aceitação e a resistência ao “novo”, traz-se a reflexão sobre a formação e o seu papel para o desenvolvimento das competências, onde um de seus objectivos é desenvolver e aperfeiçoar o indivíduo no melhor desempenho de produtividade e eficiência que as empresas necessitam para actuar nos seus mercados globais e competitivos. Assim, buscamos lançar esse olhar sobre a interligação entre quatro factores importantes: competência, formação, mudança e competição, que podem ser entendidos como factores de conflito ou como complementares aos ambientes organizacionais.Palavras-Chave: Transformação. Formação. Competências. INEVITABILITY OF CHANGE: GENERATOR OF CONFLICT OR COMPLEMENTARITY IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS?Abstract: Through a case study in health developed a work that seeks to explain about the inevitability of change in the contexts of "being and be" in the world, where globalization, competition, technological advances, changes of consumers, new social pressures, reflect the current scenario. Through a look at the individual attitudes towards change and its prospects, acceptance and resistance to the "new" brings to reflection on education and its role in the development of skills, where one of his objectives is to develop and improve the individual in the best performance of productivity and efficiency that businesses need to act in their global and competitive markets. Thus, we seek to launch this look on linking four major factors: competence, training, change and competition, which can be understood as factors of conflict or as complementary to organizational environments.Keywords: Transformation. Formation. Skills.

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