Diluting the Cesspool

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd L. Goodsell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Home Improvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Do It Yourself

In recent years, the process of social change through improvement of residences in decaying neighborhoods—gentrification—has itself changed. Traditional families (married with children) and a broader spectrum of the social class spectrum are more likely to be involved. The present research takes an ethnographic perspective and considers the experiences and understandings of a set of families in one urban community as they attempt a variety of home improvement (do-it-yourself or DIY) projects. Although cultural and institutional representations of home improvement are found to be helpful, they frequently fail to capture the complexities of actual home improvement projects. The practical logic of home repair in this community involves leadership, responsiveness, continuing struggle, and compromise. To accomplish the work under circumstances in which ideals do not match reality, these families use humor, exchange, and trial and error. Their lives show that family, home, and community are inseparable in the everyday experience of home improvement.

Bourdieu and Affect

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Threadgold
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Structures Of Feeling

A Bourdieusian contribution to studies of affect provides a more comprehensive understanding of the everyday moments that make, transform and remake the social contours of inequality, and how those relations are contested and resisted. By teasing out the affective elements already implicit in concepts like habitus, illusio, cultural capital, field and symbolic violence, this book develops a theory of affective affinities to consider how emotions and feelings are central to how class is affectively delineated along with material and symbolic relations. This includes theorising habitus as one’s history rolled up into an affective ball of immanent dispositions, an assemblage of embodied affective charges. Sketching fields as having their own affective atmospheres and structures of feeling, while considering everyday settings that the concept of field cannot capture. Drawing upon illusio, social gravity and social magic to unpack how the embodied nature of the forms of capital mean they operate in affective economies mediating transmissions of affective violence. The book concludes by critically engaging with aspects of social change due to the rise of reflexivity, irony and cynicism and proposing the figure of the accumulated being to challenge the dominance of homo economicus.

‘Pulling down’ Books vs. ‘Pulling Up’ Files: Textual Databanks and the Changing Culture of Classical Scholarship

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 181-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Ruhleder
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Search Algorithms ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Domain Expertise ◽  
Source Materials

The culture of classical scholarship is changing as traditional paper-based materials are being repackaged in electronic form. This paper investigates the changes effected by a Greek textual databank, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG). The TLG changes the textual landscape, making available to scholars texts previously accessible with difficulty—or not at all. At the same time, it changes the traditional relationship between scholar and text. ‘Knowing’ a text is replaced by knowing how to construct search algorithms. Critical notes, repositories of centuries of expertise, are decoupled from the source materials. And new forms of technical expertise are becoming necessary in order to exploit domain expertise. The questions raised by classicists' use of textual databanks concern all communities which move from ‘pulling down’ books to ‘pulling up’ files. A technology gives threefold shape to work; it gives form to the everyday experience of work; it defines the concepts with which we think about experience; and it imposes control upon the social relations of work. (Lyman, 1984).

Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Dean Walker ◽  
Laura Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
View Class

The ways we think about systemic inequalities can open up new forms of resistance and reform. This chapter explores and extends understandings of social class oppression with an aim to re-imagine psychologists’ role in contesting economic inequalities. It argues that social class injustice is produced through and constituted by forms of social exclusion. In emphasizing the ways that poor people are excluded from everyday sources of power, security, and democratic rights, the chapter highlights the relational dimension of social class, demonstrating that class is something that happens in human relationships. From a relational view, class is embodied through the everyday processes in which we all participate, and patterns of systemic injustice are enacted among individuals occupying different social class locations. A relational approach opens up new possibilities for counteracting the social exclusion of poor people, both for psychologists and for citizens committed to social change.

scholarly journals The authentic leader in the neoliberal times-Development, identity dominance and the politics of “doing” in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chetan Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
New Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Diverse Groups

<p>What is the future of right-wing politics in India? Is India as a nation laden in the cultural foundation of conservatism and purity or it is a diversity moulded through the power of right-wing into a singular cultural system? The recent crises of right-wing politics in India founded in the new politics of social change where the historical oppression of diverse groups based on social class, religion, gender and caste has been politicized with new meaning under the garb of ‘doing’ development, cultural revivalism and the discourses of neoliberalism. Present research attempt to understand how the social identity of an authentic leader is shaped by the global neoliberal values and in what way the preference of authentic leaders by the group is moderated by the social class mobility and change. Also, some of the systematic attacks on the freedom of universities gave rise to students’ politics and movements with new vocabularies of resistance and leadership. It is need of the time to understand the leaders conscious ‘doing’ and conscious ‘not doing’, constructing the meaning of a nation in a different way or limiting it. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

“Almost Equal”: Confronting Norms and Normality in Experiencing Visual Disability

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052094536
Author(s):  
Hana Porkertová
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Visual Disability ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Czech Society

This article examines the everyday experience of visually disabled people with norms and normality and confronts it with three approaches discussed in disability studies: (i) the medical model, (ii) the social model, and (iii) critical disability studies. The most available model to the people in the study, as well as the most widespread approach in Czech society, is the medical model. However, the text shows that although other approaches are rather marginal, their logic is present in the everyday experience of the communication partners in the research. They can espouse the rigid, medical model, while, at the same time, confronting the construction of norms that both the social model and critical disability studies defy. This finding reveals both the normative and subversive character of disability, manifested in visually impaired experience.

Rural Wealth and Prosperity Across Social Class in India

Social Change ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-677
Author(s):  
Surajit Deb
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
State Level ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The Social

The sixth part of the Social Change Indicators series presents state-level data on rural wealth and prosperity, that is, the percentage of rural households with semi-medium and medium operational land holding, owning more dwelling rooms with pucca walls and roof, with registered non-agricultural enterprises, have access to short-term credit (Kisan Credit Card) and households with salaried jobs or paying income tax, all disaggregated across social classes.

The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Inter-personal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood, c.1760–1840

2013 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Violent Assault ◽  
Personal Violence

Inter-personal violence between men has often been accepted as a ubiquitous feature of male relationships in the past, and the contexts in which that violence was perpetrated is seen to reveal something about the mentalities and social roles of men in past societies. This article considers the social practices of masculinity and the acting out of codes of manhood in the context of Highland Scotland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries – a period of significant economic and social change. Based primarily on the scrutiny of legal records relating to cases of violent assault involving men of the middling and lower classes from across the Highland counties, this article suggests that the everyday practice of Highland manhood was subject to taming, as the expressions of manhood appropriate for a society at war were gradually rejected as inappropriate for a society of commerce and civility. While customary forms of violence in pursuit of the restitution of honour continued to have some legitimacy until the early nineteenth century, especially in the rural Highlands, in Inverness a new model of disciplined masculinity was applied to male behaviour, offering a glimpse at new sensibilities around inter-personal violence that were to enter Highland society more generally in the following decades.

Valutazione delle occupazioni e gruppi socio-occupazionali

2009 ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Fiorenzo Parziale ◽  
Ivano Scotti
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
The Social

- Groups In this paper the social evaluation of occupations is analyzed, examining the social class and occupational group of valuers. The hypothesis is that the evaluation of occupations is the consequence of a mediation between the sociocultural system and the lived working experience.Key words: Social stratification, Social class, Social evaluation, Job situation, Social perception, Social change

scholarly journals The authentic leader in the neoliberal times-Development, identity dominance and the politics of “doing” in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chetan Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
New Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Diverse Groups

<p>What is the future of right-wing politics in India? Is India as a nation laden in the cultural foundation of conservatism and purity or it is a diversity moulded through the power of right-wing into a singular cultural system? The recent crises of right-wing politics in India founded in the new politics of social change where the historical oppression of diverse groups based on social class, religion, gender and caste has been politicized with new meaning under the garb of ‘doing’ development, cultural revivalism and the discourses of neoliberalism. Present research attempt to understand how the social identity of an authentic leader is shaped by the global neoliberal values and in what way the preference of authentic leaders by the group is moderated by the social class mobility and change. Also, some of the systematic attacks on the freedom of universities gave rise to students’ politics and movements with new vocabularies of resistance and leadership. It is need of the time to understand the leaders conscious ‘doing’ and conscious ‘not doing’, constructing the meaning of a nation in a different way or limiting it. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

scholarly journals Islam, Ruang Publik dan Kerukunan Antar Umat Beragama (Studi Tradisi Ngebag Kolaboratif di Karangjati Wetan)

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Roma Ulinnuha
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Social ◽  
Diverse Setting ◽  
Islamic Values

This article explores how the intersection of religion,religiosity and public segment is more likely manifest in oureveryday life. The background of terror and conflicts occurredin the grass roots enacted the social agents to create a moredemocratic space that is accessible to people, as JurgenHabermas stated, with diverse setting of religion, ethnicity,social class, education, tribes and other socio-cultural markers.In a sociology-anthropological view, queries include the aspectsof religious tolerance in Islam for diverse faiths, the significanceof public sphere related to socio-religious entity and thecontribution of Ngebag tradition for the model of harmony forinter-religious encounter in Indonesia. The study shows thatthe creativity of Ngebag tradition served as the arena amongthe members of sub-urban community in Karangjati Wetan interms of the actualization of Islamic values. At the same time,the participation of Karangjati people within the traditionaccentuated the open access for everyone in a social relation.The tradition contributes to abridge the religious pole and thesocial one in that people acquire a mode of learning andinspiration such as the hospitality to guests, charity andsocialization. Those instances of inspiration can be carried outin the proportional form of everyday social practices in theirown situations and contexts.Keywords: Islam, Ngebag, Tradition, Public-Sphere, Conflicts,Harmony

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