scholarly journals Living One’s Theories: Moral Consistency in the Life of Émile Durkheim

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Abbott
Keyword(s):  
General Problem ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Space Analysis ◽  
Stable Pattern ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Moral Consistency ◽  
Social Space Analysis

This article investigates the relation between a theorist’s theories and his daily life practices, using Émile Durkheim as an example. That theory and practice should be consistent seems not only scientifically proper but also morally right. Yet the concept of consistency conceals several different standards: consistency with one’s own theoretical arguments, consistency with outsiders’ judgments of oneself, and consistency within one’s arguments (and actions) across time and social space. Analysis of 750 pages of Durkheim’s letters shows that Durkheim lived a life consistent with and informed by his theories for most of his career. In his professional relations, his personal relations, and his political positions, Durkheim’s moral activity usually proceeds from his theoretical commitments. However, the death of his son in combat could not be theorized within the Durkheimian system, and it broke up this long stable pattern. The analysis concludes that under modern conditions, the issue of moral consistency relates closely to the general problem of solidarity and invites more complex theorization.

scholarly journals Time-Space Analysis of Facebook News Feeds

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Felix Lo
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constant Acceleration ◽  
Space Analysis ◽  
Time Compression ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Temporal Object

In the 20th century, several scholars across different disciplines have explored the relations between sociality and the associated perceptions of time and space. This paper draws on their theories to study how the Facebook News Feed feature inscribes users with a certain kind of temporality and spatiality. Building on Manual Castells' characterization of online activities as a "temporal collage" it argues that, through the interactions with News Feeds, users encounter the desequencing of the temporality of their social space. It further analyzes a News Feed page as a temporal object as defined by Bernard Stiegler, and adopts his critique of cinematic time to reveal how this feature inscribes an "always on" behavior for users even when they are offline. It concludes by discussing the political significance of this temporality and spatiality in two different senses: the constant acceleration in the pace of life and online surveillance. It draws on David Harvey's concept of space-time compression to discuss the relations between the temporality of Facebook and capitalism, and on Anthony Gidden's time-space distantiation to discuss the power relations of online surveillance.

scholarly journals A Return to Mechanical Solidarity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Toilet Paper ◽  
Hoarding Behavior ◽  
Organic Solidarity ◽  
Mechanical Solidarity ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic brought many changes to daily life in Canada. One such behavior that surfaced was what could be defined as ‘panic hoarding,’ namely, the purchasing of items such as toilet paper, sanitizer and disinfectant in far greater quantities per person than other times, which risked the creation of shortages across communities. In order to understand such behavior, this article will use ideas from Émile Durkheim to analyze the relationship of social media and its impact on the behavior of panic hoarding. In particular, Durkheim’s concepts of collective consciousness show how social media provides enough impetus to make the case that this pandemic is better defined by mechanical than organic solidarity. We can see social media as the vehicle through which collective consciousness can be experienced, and more immediately so at this time, insofar as we see how it influences panic hoarding behavior. We can also see that social media’s use of memes can be likened to totems, and that they give clues to the values we hold at this time.  

scholarly journals Innovative linguistic ideas and concepts of Larysa Shevchenko

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Styshov ◽  
Dmytro Syzonov
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
National Language ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Political Linguistics ◽  
New Research

The article establishes innovative views on modern linguistics in systematic analysis of numerous works by prof. L.I. Shevchenko – a prominent Ukrainian linguist, head of the department of stylistics and language communication, a vice-chairman of the Ukrainian committee of Slavists, a member of two commissions of the International committee of Slavists (media linguistic and stylistic), chief editor of the international edition «Actual issues of Ukrainian linguistics: theory and practice». The pre-anniversary article focuses on the scholar’s concept of intellectualization of the Ukrainian literary language, integration of the researcher’s works with European academic discourse, particularly, in the context of innovative linguistic directions – legal linguistics, media linguistics, business linguistics, political linguistics etc., the analysis of which is determined by exploratory vector of a modern linguist. The authors also mention the works of prof. L.I. Shevchenko’s mentees. More than 10 PhD and doctoral theses have been defended under the scholar’s supervision. Prof. L.I. Shevchenko holds a special place at Kyiv stylistic school, which is confirmed by the researcher’s numerous works that have qualitatively changed and deepened views on some issues of theoretical and functional stylistics. These are primarily theoretical problems of modern linguistics and the search for new research paradigms, the problems of stylistic differentiation of the Ukrainian literary language, the analysis of concepts of the theory of language intellectualization, modern view on idiostylistics, the issue of the national language status in contemporary social space, a profound analysis of Ukrainian linguistics in ideas, concepts and personalities. Productivity and polyphony of the researcher’s interests, her wide scientific outlook, encyclopedic knowledge, desire to be modern in the context of innovative views and ideas in world linguistics, fundamental role in formation of new research directions define a significant place of prof. L.I. Shevchenko in the XXI century linguistics.

scholarly journals EKSPLORASI RUANG KOMUNAL DAN INFORMAL DI KEHIDUPAN KAMPUNG KOTA JAKARTA DALAM PROYEK BALAI BUDAYA KOLEKTIF DAN ANAK PASEBAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1383
Author(s):  
Olivia Nadya ◽  
Suryono Herlambang
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Urban Villages

As a combination of Kota (formal city) and Kampung (traditional village), the ‘taste’ of Jakarta can be found in urban villages where many residents formed strong communities. The community produces a new typology that will continue to change and develop according to the adaptability of its citizens. By viewing shared space or commons as an important element of living in cities, urban village development should focus on this commons, in which has a meaning on the use of space, civil society culture, and infrastructure as a process of aligning various urban daily life paths. Urban villages are an example where the practice of shared space is found in daily life. With a narrative architectural exploration method approach based on the scenarios of people's daily lives, the spaces that are formed will become a 'second home' for local residents and also a Third Place’ for its users. The 'Paseban Collective Culture and Children Hall’ Project provides a designated public space, for residents of Kampung Kramat Sawah and Kramat Lontar in Paseban Village, Senen District, based on community participation in socio-cultural-recreational aspects which can also provide non-formal education and productive economic livelihood for its citizens through community empowerment. So that urban villages are  not only as a social production space for habitats, but are also economically productive, according to its local character.  Keywords: Community Empowerment; Community Hall; Informal Social Space; Third Space; Urban Village AbstrakSebagai perpaduan antara Kota (kota formal) dan Kampung (desa tradisional), ‘rasa’ kota Jakarta dapat ditemukan di kampung-kampung kota dimana banyak penduduk membentuk komunitas yang kuat. Komunitas tersebut menghasilkan sebuah tipologi baru yang akan terus berubah dan berkembang sesuai adaptivitas warganya. Dengan memandang ruang komunitas bersama sebagai elemen penting berkehidupan di kota, perkembangan kampung kota seharusnya berfokus pada ruang bersama ini, yang memiliki makna pada: penggunaan ruang, budaya masyarakat sipil, dan prasarana sebagai proses menyelaraskan berbagai jalan hidup sehari-hari perkotaan. Kampung kota menjadi contoh dimana praktik ruang bersama ini banyak ditemukan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.  Dengan pendekatan metode eksplorasi arsitektur naratif yang berdasarkan skenario kehidupan sehari-hari para warga, ruang-ruang yang terbentuk akan menjadi ‘rumah kedua’ bagi warga lokal dan juga menjadi Ruang Ketiga bagi para penggunanya. Proyek 'Balai Budaya Kolektif dan Anak Paseban' memberikan ruang bersama publik terancang, bagi warga Kampung Kramat Sawah dan Kramat Lontar di Kelurahan Paseban, Kecamatan Senen, berdasarkan partisipasi komunitas dalam aspek sosial-budaya-rekreasional yang juga dapat memberikan edukasi non-formal dan penghidupan ekonomi produktif bagi warganya melalui pemberdayaan komunitas. Sehingga dapat diraihnya kampung yang selain sebagai ruang produksi sosial habitat, tetapi juga produktif secara ekonomi, sesuai dengan karakter kelokalannya.

Social Space and Field: Constructs for Rethinking Organization Theory and Practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 15004
Author(s):  
Mary Brydon-Miller ◽  
David Coghlan ◽  
Raanan Lipshitz
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Theory And Practice

Openness and Closure in the Later Medieval Village*

2017 ◽  
Vol 234 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mileson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Wood Pasture ◽  
The Social

Abstract There is a growing scholarly interest in the daily life and perceptions of ordinary medieval people, yet there has been little attempt to conceptualise the social space of the rural settlements in which the great majority of the population lived. This article examines how a village or hamlet in England might have been used and perceived in the later Middle Ages (c.1200 to 1500), especially in terms of access and permeability—in other words how open or closed (or, more crudely, ‘public’ or ‘private’) the components of a settlement were, and how the spatial relationships between these components affected their use and social significance. The data are drawn mainly from lowland England, with a special focus on Ewelme hundred in Oxfordshire, an area of mixed countryside including open-field villages and dispersed wood-pasture settlements. It will be argued that differences in openness and closure across space and time supply a guide to rural social interaction as a whole.

scholarly journals Upper Limb Performance in Daily Life Approaches Plateau Around Three to Six Weeks Post-stroke

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 903-914
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Lang ◽  
Kimberly J. Waddell ◽  
Jessica Barth ◽  
Carey L. Holleran ◽  
Michael J Strube ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Limb ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Similar Time ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Stable Pattern ◽  
Modifying Factors ◽  
Paretic Limb ◽  
And Performance

Background. Wearable sensors allow for direct measurement of upper limb (UL) performance in daily life. Objective. To map the trajectory of UL performance and its relationships to other factors post-stroke. Methods. Participants (n = 67) with first stroke and UL paresis were assessed at 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24 weeks after stroke. Assessments captured UL impairment (Fugl-Meyer), capacity for activity (Action Research Arm Test), and performance of activity in daily life (accelerometer variables of use ratio and hours of paretic limb activity), along with other potential modifying factors. We modeled individual trajectories of change for each measurement level and the moderating effects on UL performance trajectories. Results. Individual trajectories were best fit with a 3-parameter logistic model, capturing the rapid growth early after stroke within the longer data collection period. Plateaus (90% of asymptote) in impairment (bootstrap mean ± SE: 32 ± 4 days post-stroke) preceded those in capacity (41 ± 4 days). Plateau in performance, as measured by the use ratio (24 ± 5 days), tended to precede plateaus in impairment and capacity. Plateau in performance, as measured by hours of paretic activity (41 ± 6 days), occurred at a similar time to that of capacity and slightly lagged impairment. Modifiers of performance trajectories were capacity, concordance, UL rehabilitation, depressive symptomatology, and cognition. Conclusions. Upper limb performance in daily life approached plateau 3 to 6 weeks post-stroke. Individuals with stroke started to achieve a stable pattern of UL use in daily life early, often before neurological impairments and functional capacity started to stabilize.

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