scholarly journals Of Modernity, House Prices and Suspending Singularity of Time

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Yugank Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Discount Rates ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Class Community

Why do we buy houses as opposed to renting one? This question, in its simplistic formulation captures, inter alia, some of the most fundamental emotions of temporal values that we impose on ourselves. Yet, the question has attracted little scholarly scrutiny. The article, using this question as a case, attempts to excavate the silences of our imagination of time in the cacophony of modernity. Time has had varying versions of existence in the modern world. When time is singular, it has the same meaning attributed to by everyone in the same community. A pluralistic conception of time is the exact opposite. I use discount rates as a unique entry point to understand how people view their future (time), and thereby a conceptual aperture to see if time is losing its singularity or not. More importantly, how so. I collected data on house prices in India in five major metropolitan cities in India and compared those prices with rental values. The crude estimation is a useful proxy to observe discount rates, and consequently, varying conceptions of time. I show that time has become a homogenized entity for people falling in similar economic class while it has lost its singularity for those within the same social class (community). This gets folded into questions of ethical implications of modernity’s impact on one’s aspirations.

scholarly journals Re-Imagining Social Mobility: The Role of Relationality, Social Class and Place in Qualitative Constructions of Mobility

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042098512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Folkes
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Occupational Position ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Key Techniques ◽  
Class Community

Discussions around social mobility have increasingly gained traction in both political and academic circles in the last two decades. The current, established conceptualisation of social mobility reduces ‘success’ down to individual level of educational achievement, occupational position and income, focusing on the successful few who rise up and move out. For many in working-class communities, this discourse is undesirable or antithetical to everyday life. Drawing upon 13 interviews with 9 families collected as part of an ethnographic study, this article asks, ‘how were social (im)mobility narratives and notions of value constructed by residents of one working-class community?’ Its findings highlight how alternative narratives of social (im)mobility were constructed; emphasising the value of fixity, anchorage, and relationality. Three key techniques were used by participants when constructing social (im)mobility narratives: the born and bred narrative; distancing from education as a route to mobility; and the construction of a distinct working-class discourse of fulfilment. Participants highlighted the value of anchorage to place and kinship, where fulfilment results from finding ontological security. The findings demonstrate that residents of a working-class community constructed alternative social mobility narratives using a relational selfhood model that held local value. This article makes important contributions to the theorisation of social mobility in which it might be understood as a collective rather than individual endeavour, improving entire communities that seek ontological security instead of social class movement and dislocation.

scholarly journals The Effect of Social Class on Political Party Affiliations in the African American Community

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sindiso Mafico
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Class ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Political Party ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Combining Data ◽  
Political Party Affiliation

Does social class affect political party affiliation in the African-American community? Drawing on two contrasting theories: the theory of group interests and class-based theories of stratification put forth by Wilson and Shelton (2006), I propose that African -Americans who report being of a high socio-economic class are more likely to be Republican than African Americans of a lower socio-economic class. Through secondary analysis of data provided by the General Social Survey (GSS), I investigate the relationship between political party affiliation and social class in the African-American community. By combining data across 20 years between 1996 and 2016, the sample size is 1557 African-Americans. Measures of socio-economic status are limited to a single variable that asks respondents about their subjective social class, while the dependent variable was operationalized by a variable that inquires the respondent's political party affiliation. Multiple regression analysis reveals that there is no statistically significant relationship between social class and political party affiliation. There is however, a relationship between political party affiliation and another measure of social class, specifically the respondents' level of education. The strongest predictor of political party affiliation is the age of the respondents which gives insight on future voting patterns in the African-American community. While the hypothesis is not supported, the results shed light on the potential reasons for increased support for the Republican Party among African-Americans and could be used to predict voting outcomes among African-Americans for future elections.

Edwards the Mentor

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhys S. Bezzant
Keyword(s):  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
Mentoring Relationship ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
The One

Among his many accolades, Jonathan Edwards was an effective mentor who trained many leaders for the church. Though his pastoral work is often overlooked, this book investigates the background, method, theological rationale, and legacy of his mentoring ministry. He does what mentors normally do—meeting with individuals to discuss ideas and grow in skills—but undertakes these activities in a distinctly modern or affective key. His correspondence is composed in an informal style, his understanding of friendship and conversation takes up the conventions of the great metropolitan cities of Europe of his day, his pedagogical commitments are surprisingly progressive, and his aspirations for those he mentors are bold and subversive. The practice of mentoring is presented in this book as the exchange between authority and agency, in which the more experienced person in the mentoring relationship empowers the one in the position of a learner, whose own character and competencies are nurtured. When Edwards explains his mentoring practice theologically, he expounds the theme of seeing God face to face, which recognizes that human beings learn through the example of friends as well as the exposition of propositions. The book is a case study in cultural engagement, for Edwards deliberately takes up certain features of the modern world in his mentoring and yet resists other pressures that the Enlightenment generated. If his world witnessed the philosophical evacuation of God from the created order, Edwards’s mentoring is designed to draw God back into an intimate connection with human experience.

ECONOMIC CLASS, SOCIAL CLASS AND POLITICAL FORCES

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allin Cottrell ◽  
Robin Roslender
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Political Forces

scholarly journals KESETARAAN DAN KELAS SOSIAL DALAM PERSPEKTIF AL-QUR'AN

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Muhammad Barir
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Double Movement

This study is an effort to find general moral-social in the Qur’an, which focused on the issue of social inequality in social class (patronage, economic class, and race). This research will inspect interweaving between text and context because of comprehensive interpretation not only accepted from text but also must accepted from the context, which appear surrounding the text. From this reason, the double movement will used to analyze every verse of the Qur’an which talking about social class issue with socio-historical approach. More extent, there are three questions will be answered in this research: 1. How did the problem of social class after Qur’anic era? 2. How did the problem of social class in the revelation era? And 3. How does the Qur’anic concept about social class?

scholarly journals KESETARAAN DAN KELAS SOSIAL DALAM PERSPEKTIF AL-QUR'AN

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Muhammad Barir
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Double Movement

This study is an effort to find general moral-social in the Qur’an, which focused on the issue of social inequality in social class (patronage, economic class, and race). This research will inspect interweaving between text and context because of comprehensive interpretation not only accepted from text but also must accepted from the context, which appear surrounding the text. From this reason, the double movement will used to analyze every verse of the Qur’an which talking about social class issue with socio-historical approach. More extent, there are three questions will be answered in this research: 1. How did the problem of social class after Qur’anic era? 2. How did the problem of social class in the revelation era? And 3. How does the Qur’anic concept about social class?

A Lesson in Class: the working-class experience of Anthropology

Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Chloe Dominique
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Diversity In Education

This paper focusses on socio-economic class structures, as they relate to the study and practice of anthropology. More specifically, it discusses the ways that working-class or financially precarious anthropologists (students, researchers and teachers) negotiate tensions found within the British university. It is concerned with the current climate of ‘diversity’ in education, and the role that socio-economic inequity plays in these discussions. This paper seeks to make room for class; it asks what we can learn from giving voice to the insidious silence that plagues it, in a context of neoliberal identity politics (Wrenn, 2014), ensuing ethnicist diversity practices (Brah, 1991), and what I would call ‘cursory diversity’ - what Sara Ahmed refers to as a ‘hopeful performative’ (2010, p.200). It is argued that anthropology as a discipline must start attending to the ways that financial precarity and social class impact the subjects that study, not just the subjects of study, by reflecting on the venacularity of the academy and the discipline itself. It achieves this through exploring the vernacularity of the working-class anthropologists’ experiences in relation to the prism of ‘diversity’; how class refracts to produce multiple forms of experience, of assimilation, and of exclusion - as well as resistance to such enclosure.

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