Constructing “Empty” Places: Discourses and Place Materiality in the Wake of Disruption

2019 ◽  
pp. 120633121987762
Author(s):  
Anette Therkelsen ◽  
Ole B. Jensen ◽  
Ida Sofie Götzsche Lange
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Combined Analysis ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Authentic Place ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Multiple Actors

Places are often thought of as “scenes” upon which social life takes place. Such a static place-conception lends itself to a particular instrumental and simplistic way of thinking about places. Instead, this paper seeks to illustrate that places are complex and relationally defined by multiple actors, human as well as non-human. The burning down of the Danish seaside hotel Svinkløv Badehotel is used as a lens through which such place complexity is understood. The paper presents a theoretical scaffolding for understanding how Svinkløv Badehotel became articulated as an authentic place in the wake of the dramatic event. Through a combined analysis of place materiality and public media representation, an account is given of how a disruptive event can work as a productive lens for understanding places and thus illustrate the analytical point of the paper: that places are never “empty,” but are configured by multiple human as well as non-human actors.

Peranan Keluarga dalam Pendidikan Emosional Anak

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-440
Author(s):  
Yuni Setia Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Life ◽  
World View ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Family Condition ◽  
Emotional Education

Family is a tiny scope that will bring someone to social life. The fine social order influenced by condition of every family inside it, because society is an accumulation and reflection of lifestyle, world view, even way of thinking of every individual in a family. Good or worse community at social life is depending on family condition. Family is playing important role to direct children to become good moral generation on and beneficial for society. Therefore, to realize that goal, children emotional education from early age at family scope is requirement. 

scholarly journals MULTIPLE FACTORS OF POVERTY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
TETIANA PETRUSHYNA
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Priority Task ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Globalized World

The article is devoted to the sociological understanding of the poverty analysis methodological aspects as a topical social problem of today. Despite the defining poverty eradication as the number one goal in the Millennium Declaration and the priority task of sustainable world development by 2030, numerous scientific/political discussions and practical recommendations for overcoming poverty, it remains one of the most acute socio-economic and moral-ethical problems of humankind. The manifestation of multiple poverty factors — situational, socio-demographic, socio-economic, socio-political, socio-cultural, institutional — only increases the need for a clear understanding of the root causes of the existence and reproduction of this phenomenon. Within capitalism, they consist of abandoning the principles of Keynesianism and the welfare state and the transition to the principles of neoliberalism, which determine the socio-economic essence of the society in today’s globalized world. It is no coincidence that analysts of all the most influential international organizations directly or indirectly recognize that the ineffectiveness of the fight against poverty is a consequence of the existing rules of modern social life. Poverty is an integral part of capitalism, one of the most acute and widespread forms of inequality and injustice inherent in this social order. The multifaceted nature of poverty phenomenon and the variety of approaches to its assessment led to the emergence of a giant thesaurus on these issues (absolute, relative, social, multidimensional poverty etc.). Identifying and assessing poverty, adequately to the complex realities of life, are essential points not only from a cognitive-analytical point of view but also for the elaboration of effective measures to overcome it.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 212-224
Author(s):  
Phillip Brown
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Distributional Conflict ◽  
Way Of Thinking

This concluding chapter provides arguments based on mounting research evidence showing that, for many, learning is not earning. It also rests on the contention that historical possibilities exist to improve the quality of individual and social life through the transformation of economic means—in other words, by developing a new way of thinking about human capital. The chapter goes on to confront future prospects for the new human capital, even as these prospects depend on rebalancing the power relations between capital and labor. To conclude, the chapter calls for a different narrative that connects with the disconnections in people’s lives—their sense of disappointment, alienation, and unfairness. However, the distributional conflict revealed at the very heart of capitalism, which is central to the crisis of human capital, remains to be resolved.

Regenerating Bodies

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
Michael Fisch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Regenerative Medicine ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

This article is an expanded commentary on the essay “The Social Life of ‘Scaffolds’: Examining Human Rights in Regenerative Medicine.” In discussing the limits and possibilities of the essay, this commentary suggests that problematizing scaffolds in regenerative medicine as a kind of infrastructure rather than prosthetic opens the way for an understanding of the genesis of regenerative assemblages in ways that help to reframe inherent issues of human rights. Ultimately, it proposes the notion of experimental ecologies as a way of thinking about an ethically driven productive entanglement of bodies, environments, and technology.

Taking to the Waves: Vietnamese society around the radio in the 1930s

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERICH DeWALD
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Early History ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Waves

AbstractCompared with other public media, the colonial state showed a relative lack of interest in radio broadcasting, which developed in Vietnam in the 1930s under the aegis of two organizations based in Hanoi and Saigon, the Radio-Club de l'Indochine du Nord and Radio Saigon. These two groups were largely responsible for the new technology's expansion and for determining the content of broadcasting. The groups actively consulted the growing radio public, and that vocal audience played a role in determining not just what was heard but also in the social life of radio in late-colonial Vietnam. The content of radio was limited to a non-political domain and this fact, along with the particular position that many radios took in the social geography of towns and cities, lent itself to the easy entry of the radio into day-to-day life. Indeed, the early history of radio in Vietnam is remarkable for how rapidly it became commonplace, even banal.

Challenges to statistical education of the society

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Czesław Domański
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Statistical Education ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

The article discusses the latest challenges of research and teaching related to statistical education of the society. The technological revolution change the economic and social life radically. They require a transformation of the way of thinking and acting. Society need statistics that provides information about the country and its neighbors. Through statistics citizens can actively participate in democratic processes. These new conditions define the tasks set for the statisticians — to develop statistics skills and adapt statistical information to the needs of citizens.

scholarly journals Processes of Territorialization in Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Philipp Wolfesberger
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
Multiple Actors

Current violence and insecurity have transformed many aspects of social life in Mexico. In this article, I will analyze how the different configurations of indigenous autonomous government in Cherán and Tlahuitoltepec are viable forms of social organization for providing local security through their relationship with communal territory. In the initial theoretic discussion, I define territorialization as a dynamic process that includes multiple actors, involves a collaborative claim over land and is grounded in violence. In the empiric part, I focus on the processes of territorialization that encompass the relation of indigenous autonomous government, violence, and comunalidad. The (violent) conflicts over hegemonic projects are compound in this study by the autonomous indigenous government and their linkages with the state apparatus of representative democracy.

scholarly journals Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigino Bruni ◽  
Robert Sugden
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Market Exchange ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Market Interactions ◽  
Free Zone ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
Human Actors

Virtue ethics is an important strand of moral philosophy, and a significant body of philosophical work in virtue ethics is associated with a radical critique of the market economy and of economics. Expressed crudely, the charge sheet is this: The market depends on instrumental rationality and extrinsic motivation; market interactions therefore fail to respect the internal value of human practices and the intrinsic motivations of human actors; by using market exchange as its central model, economics normalizes extrinsic motivation, not only in markets but also in social life more generally; therefore economics is complicit in an assault on virtue and on human flourishing. We will argue that this critique is flawed, both as a description of how markets actually work and as a representation of how classical and neoclassical economists have understood the market. We show how the market and economics can be defended against the critique from virtue ethics, and crucially, this defense is constructed using the language and logic of virtue ethics. Using the methods of virtue ethics and with reference to the writings of some major economists, we propose an understanding of the purpose (telos) of markets as cooperation for mutual benefit, and identify traits that thereby count as virtues for market participants. We conclude that the market need not be seen as a virtue-free zone.

scholarly journals How the Female Subject was Tempered. An Instructive History of 8 March and Its Media Representation in Naša Žena (Our Woman)

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Paula Petričević
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Abstract The author explores the socialist emancipation of women in Montenegro during World War II and its aftermath, using the example of the 8 March celebrations. The social life of this ‘holiday of the struggle of all the women in the world’ speaks powerfully of the strength and fortitude involved in the mobilization of women during the war and during the postwar building of socialist Yugoslavia, as well as the sudden modernization and unprecedented political subjectivation of women. The emancipatory potential of these processes turned out to be limited in the later period of stabilization of Yugoslav state socialism and largely forgotten in the postsocialist period. The author argues that the political subjectivation of women needs to be thought anew, as a process that does not take place in a vacuum or outside of a certain ideological matrix, whether socialist or liberal.

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