Reconsidering Arnold Van Gennep’s Les rites de passage from the perspective of ‘Performance Studies’

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruthie Abeliovich
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Three Phases

This article probes into the performative dimensions embedded in Arnold Van Gennep’s book Les rites de passage. Focusing on the tripartite structure of Van Gennep’s ritual scheme, I argue that its current reigning interpretations underestimate what “Performance Studies” heightens: not the ritual and its consequences, but the dynamic passage—the durational procession—delineates the affiliation of the individual to society and outlines the transformative actions a community must undergo in order to secure its survival through time. Thus, rather than focusing on liminality as the pivot of rites of passage, this article addresses the agency of the passage between the three phases of Van Gennep’s ritual model. I offer three central dimensions essential to Performance Studies, through which performativity in Les rites de passage is re-examined: the incursion of the fictional into the social sphere, compulsive repetition, and embodied dynamics are inextricably interrelated dimensions of the processual formation of a tightly knit community through rituals.

Value-driven issues throughout the development of sociological theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Gulbarshyn Chepurko ◽  
Valerii Pylypenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social System ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels

The paper examines and compares how the major sociological theories treat axiological issues. Value-driven topics are analysed in view of their relevance to society in times of crisis, when both societal life and the very structure of society undergo dramatic change. Nowadays, social scientists around the world are also witnessing such a change due to the emergence of alternative schools of sociological thought (non-classical, interpretive, postmodern, etc.) and, subsequently, the necessity to revise the paradigms that have been existed in sociology so far. Since the above-mentioned approaches are often used to address value-related issues, building a solid theoretical framework for these studies takes on considerable significance. Furthermore, the paradigm revision has been prompted by technological advances changing all areas of people’s lives, especially social interactions. The global human community, integral in nature, is being formed, and production of human values now matters more than production of things; hence the “expansion” of value-focused perspectives in contemporary sociology. The authors give special attention to collectivities which are higher-order units of the social system. These units are described as well-organised action systems where each individual performs his/her specific role. Just as the role of an individual is distinct from that of the collectivity (because the individual and the collectivity are different as units), so too a distinction is drawn between the value and the norm — because they represent different levels of social relationships. Values are the main connecting element between the society’s cultural system and the social sphere while norms, for the most part, belong to the social system. Values serve primarily to maintain the pattern according to which the society is functioning at a given time; norms are essential to social integration. Apart from being the means of regulating social processes and relationships, norms embody the “principles” that can be applied beyond a particular social system. The authors underline that it is important for Ukrainian sociology to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of axiology and make good use of those ideas because this is a prerequisite for its successful integration into the global sociological community.

Developing algorithms to optimize the Russian regions' social overheads advancement

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-299
Author(s):  
Valerii P. CHICHKANOV ◽  
Aleksandra V. VASIL'EVA
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Subject. This article analyzes the effectiveness of public administration in the social sphere. Objectives. The article aims to standardize the decision-making process for managing the region's social development through statistical analysis techniques. Methods. For the study, we used correlation and cluster analyses. Results. The article highlights weaknesses in the development of the social sphere and assesses the relationship between the individual areas of its development, and the effectiveness of its financing. It offers algorithms that take into account the patterns of social development and the specifics of certain types of economic activity. Conclusions. The results obtained were used to develop algorithms to optimize the development of the social sphere at the regional level. The socio-economic differentiation of the Russian Federation subjects in a number of regions requires an analysis of the specifics of the development of the social sphere of the region under consideration and adjustments to the proposed algorithms.

The Origin of Cumulative Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 128-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Noël Haidle
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Cumulative Culture ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Human Characteristic

Cumulative culture is widely seen as a uniquely human characteristic involving distinct cognitive and behavioral performances. In searching for its origin, different factors have been suggested as crucial, based on comparative studies, and dates proposed as to when cumulative culture may have emerged in human evolution. This chapter reviews possible factors, suggesting that several are necessary, not only in the social sphere but also in the individual and environmental spheres. These interdependent factors have developed in three developmental dimensions (evolutionary-biological, ontogenetic-individual, and historical-social) in interaction with the specific environment. The interplay of basic factors and developmental dimensions shows a slow and gradual development of cumulative culture from its basis to simple and advanced donated culture. The onset of cumulative culture is concluded not to have been a single-trait event that occurred in a relatively short time but rather, the result of multifactorial and gradual processes that unfolded over millions of years.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL SPHERE SPECIALISTS TRAINING IN INTERPROFESSIONAL INTERACTION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yana Raievska
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Regulatory Functions

The article considers aspects of professional development of social sphere specialists; professional roles, functions and content of professional activity are described; the leading principles of organizational and methodological assistance of the social specialists training process are determined. The development of interprofessional interaction ideas is connected with the interprofessional group characteristics, professional and external image, competency areas, activity range and different status in the social work system. The concept of dialogic-competence approach forms the basic principles of interprofessional interaction: system, comprehensiveness, relevance, consistency, mutual enrichment, prospects, and self-efficacy. Interprofessional interaction involves mutual acceptance, dialogic orientation of specialists, psychological equality between all participants, the availability and sufficiency of space to build a workflow, compliance with the rules, ensuring a friendly atmosphere in joint activities. Development of readiness for interprofessional interaction includes communicative (efficiency of interpersonal and intrapersonal communications), cooperative (productive partnership in joint activity), personal-reflexive (analysis of own mental states, own actions; ability to allocate, analyze and compare own actions with the subject situation), social, team, system, mediation competences. Mechanisms for interprofessional interaction are cooperation, communication, coordination, specialists’ consistency actions, emotional, cognitive-analytical, regulatory functions of the individual. The development of psychological readiness components for interprofessional interaction among respondents is expressed at the average level with a general tendency among Master students with motivational and emotional component and among specialists with activity-practical component to a high-level indicators and a general tendency among Bachelor students with cognitive-semantic, actively practical and regulatory components to a low-level indicators.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AS A PEDAGOGICAL CONDITION FOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SPECIALISTS OF THE SOCIAL SPHERE

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Zozulyak-Sluchyk R.V.
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Nervous Activity ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The Individual

The purpose of the article is to consider innovative technologies as a pedagogical condition for professional training of future professionals of the social sphere.Methods. Analysis of innovative technologies has significant achievements in the modern scientific field, which leads to a logical analysis of research in the field of pedagogy, psychology and methods of vocational training; logical-structural analysis – to determine the essence of the concept of “pedagogical condition”, substantiation of theoretical and methodological principles of the problem. The methodology of the research is a system of methodological principles (objectivity, complexity, disclosure of contradictions of the subject being studied, etc.).Results. The pedagogical conditions of professional training of future specialists in the social sphere are a set of actions that provide the most favorable environment for the effective functioning of a particular pedagogical system in the educational process. This means that the formation of a professional in the social sphere is influenced by various individual psychological and socio-psychological reasons due to higher nervous activity, needs, interests, motivation, abilities, individual psychological characteristics of a person, as well as living conditions in the social environment and social individual experience.Undoubtedly, innovation as an activity process and as its result is one of the highest values of the individual, because innovation itself is a kind of value system.Innovative technologies include: project studying; professional self-futuring; technology of immersion in professional activity; game techniques, etc.Conclusions. Thus, the personality of the specialist in the field of education, formed as a result of innovative education, is characterized by such features as: openness to innovation, readiness for pluralism of opinion; awareness of the need for innovation; focus on the present and the future; the ability to recognize another opinion without fear of changing one's own; readiness to overcome professional failures; positive perception of their past experience; planning future actions to achieve the intended goals and their impact on professional independence.Key words: innovative technology, pedagogical condition, a specialist of thesocial sphere, professional training, coaching, facilitation.У статті розкрито сутність педагогічних умов професійної підготовки майбутніх фахівців соціальної сфери, проаналізовано вплив інноваційних технологій на формування фахівців.Метою статтіє розгляд інноваційних технологій як педагогічної умови професійної підготовки май-бутніх фахівців соціальної сфери.Методи. Аналіз інноваційних технологій має значні напрацювання у сучасній науковій сфері, що зумовлює логічний аналіз наукових досліджень у галузі педагогіки, психології та методики професій-ного навчання; логіко-структурний аналіз – для визначення суті поняття «педагогічна умова», обґрун-тування теоретичних і методичних засад означеної проблеми. Методологію проведеного дослідження становить система методологічних принципів (об’єктивності, комплексності, розкриття суперечностей предмета, що вивчається, та ін.).Результати. Педагогічними умовами професійної підготовки майбутніх фахівців соціальної сфе-ри виступає сукупність заходів, які забезпечують найбільш сприятливе середовище для ефективного функціонування певної педагогічної системи в освітньому процесі. А це означає, що на формування професіонала соціальної сфери впливають різні індивідуально-психологічні та соціально-психологічні причини, зумовлені вищою нервовою діяльністю, потребами, інтересами, мотивацією, здібностями, індивідуально-психологічними характеристиками особистості, а також умовами життя в соціальному середовищі та соціальним досвідом індивіда.Безперечно, інновація як діяльнісний процес і як його результат постає однією з вищих цінностей особистості, оскільки й сама інноваційна діяльність є своєрідною системою цінностей.До інноваційних технологій відносимо: проектне навчання; професійне самофутурування; техноло-гію занурення у професійну діяльність; ігрові методики тощо.Висновки. Отже, особистість фахівця соціальної сфери, сформована внаслідок інноваційної осві-ти, характеризується такими рисами, як: відкритість до інновацій, готовність до плюралізму думок; усвідомлення необхідності інноваційної діяльності; орієнтація на сьогодення і майбутнє; вміння визна-вати іншу думку, не боячись змінити власну; готовність до подолання професійних невдач; позитивне сприйняття свого минулого досвіду; планування майбутніх дій для досягнення передбачуваних цілей та їх впливу на фахову самостійність.Ключові слова:інноваційна технологія, педагогічна умова, фахівець соціальної сфери, професійна підготовка, коучинг, фасилітаторство.

scholarly journals RESEARCH-BASED TRAINING FOR PREPARATION OF PROFESSIONALS OF THE SOCIAL SPHERE IN GERMANY

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Pavliuk Roman
Keyword(s):  
Training System ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Task ◽  
Humboldt University ◽  
The Individual

The article deals with the educational systems of research-based training for preparation of specialists of social sphere in Germany. On the basis of the research of foreign scientists and previous researches of the author it was set that the system of research-based training is defined as a complex of pedagogical purposes, which are combined with the main tasks in the development of research competence of students (development of skills for setting the research task and finding ways to solve it). The system of research-based training for preparation of specialists of social sphere in two leading universities of Germany (University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany) and Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)) has been analysed. It is established that not every Master’s program involves studying with the use of research techniques. However, it was found that the research-based training system of study in its proper application encompasses not just the student’s research activity partly detached from the educational process, but is reflected in each student’s discipline. Each discipline reveals one of the aspects / tasks / areas of student research and in parallel serves as a practical basis for the development of professionally meaningful competences. Prospects for further research we see the study of the individual research and educational trajectory of the student through the entire period of training in the research-based training system for specialists of the social sphere and the development of methodological recommendations for the use of such a trajectory and system in the Ukrainian system of higher education.

scholarly journals Gerhard Lohfink’s Interpretative Key to the Sermon on the Mount

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1335-1355
Author(s):  
Marian Szczepan Machinek
Keyword(s):  
Moral Norms ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Sermon On The Mount ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Israel

The purpose of this article is to elicit and analyze the main interpretative key used by the German exegete Gerhard Lohfink in his reading of the Sermon on the Mount. It does not attempt, however, tracing in detail the scholar's interpretation of the individual passages within that biblical text. In Lohfink’s understanding, the Sermon on the Mount is not addressed directly to all people but only to those who become disciples of Jesus, and who allow themselves to be gathered as the new Israel. By living according to the message of the Sermon on the Mount, communities of disciples become a light to the world, creating a “contrast society” and thereby demonstrating to the world that human relationships can be shaped in new ways. It is only through this mediation of Christian communities that the world at large can discover the message of the Sermon on the Mount which, in the end, is not a set of abstract moral norms, but rather an indication of the way of life appropriate for the social sphere in which God reigns.

From biopolitics to the Polis genetica?

2010 ◽  
pp. 25-51
Author(s):  
Carlo Antonio Gobbato
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Selection ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Living Matter ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Cell Therapies ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Gene ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
The Individual

The recent accomplishments in the field of biological research are not only exercising an important impact on medicine, but also have the potential to transform the political and legal forms of society, modifying the very destiny of human nature. The scientific revolution in the sphere of the life sciences is resulting in a shift from biopolitics (in the meaning reconstructed by Foucault) to a new, original dimension, where the human species start to dominate living matter, as anticipated by Jürgen Habermas. The developments in biosciences and biotechnologies raise new problems regarding the manipulation of living matter, genetic selection, genetic information and the social legitimisation (in a democratic way) of such possibilities. We are facing a new dimension, both real and conceptual, which can be defined as polis genetica. It is a perspective that includes the influences of gene research on human behaviour and physical performance, new gene and cell therapies, embryo manipulation and the effects of these procedures in the social sphere and on the individual.

scholarly journals Genre and stylistic modifications of realistic essay of Anton Krushelnytsky

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Oksana Novitska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Given

The article deals with genre-style modifications of the realistic essay of the 19th-20th centuries. In the article the author studies Anton Krushelnytsky’s artistic legacy (1878–1937) in the context of the dominant trends of Ukrainian literature at the end of XIX – the beginning of XX century and through the receptive dimensions of modern theory of literature. The paper defines the ideological and axiological background of the writer’s artistic understanding the reality and aesthetic nature of his creativity. The unity of the form and contest of prose texts is determined. The prose of the given period has a great variety of intra-genre modifications: essay, feuilleton, short story, story, novel. The works demonstrate exceptional multidimensionality of their inner structure, style diffusion, eclecticism of belles lettres methods and ways to achieve reality; the motives of «true morals» appear, which form counterbalance and alternative to moral chaos. Syncretic interaction of aesthetic paradigms of neorealism with impressionism, expressionism, symbolism is observed in prose. The characteristic features of the literature of the transitional stage in the moral-ethical, psychological and emotional aspects are revealed. Ukrainian literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was accompanied by the synthesis of sociological, psychological, aesthetic systems. The genre and style features and modifications of A. Krushelnytsky’s small form of prose are considered. The narrative models of the writer’s novels are analysed. Consequently, the essay as a genre of small prose is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that contains philosophical and aesthetic representations, artistic, socio-political, and moral-ethical quest for the breakthrough of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The artistic practice of writers contributed to enriching of Ukrainian writing with new themes, images and genre forms, expanding the limits of traditional realism, so, updating the artistic and stylistic palette. The given motives of writers’ works reflected to the inside feelings and experiences of heroes are present as intertextual inclusions in prose of M. Kotsubinskiy, V. Stefanik, P. Mirniy, L. Ukrainka, O. Kobilianska and other writers at the turn of XIX-XX centuries. Being an organic component of Ukrainian literature, the narrative represents a tendency to expand the social sphere of personality images, to deepen the personal psychological characteristics of the individual. The place and role of prose creative works in Ukrainian literary process at the turn of the century are grounded.

Ideology, sense, and meaning: A theoretical-methodological approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-171
Author(s):  
Fellipe Coelho-Lima ◽  
Victor Varela ◽  
Pedro F Bendassolli
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

This article discusses a theoretical-methodological approach aimed at overcoming some limitations of Marxism and cultural-historical psychology. The concepts of “ideology” proposed by Lukács and the “meaning-sense” by Vygotsky have been crisscrossed. The concept of ideology refers to ideas that have a social function of intervening in social conflicts by determining the praxes of individuals in their daily lives. Hence, ideology adopts language as a tool for its operationalization in the discourse. For Vygotsky, the smallest subdivision of a language is the word and, more specifically, its meaning. It transforms human thoughts into speech for communication and guidance of praxis. The appropriate meanings, present in the discourses, generate a process of re-elaboration in the sense by individuals through their experience ( perezhivanie). It is possible to approach both theoretical concepts by considering that meanings are elements that transmit ideologies from the social sphere to the individuals’ consciousness and influence their praxis. This understanding has methodological consequences and allows the use of meaning-senses as empirical elements for the analysis of ideology both in consciousness and daily life of individuals. This contributes to a discourse analysis that recognizes the dialectical feature of the individual–ideology relation.

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