Artification as Process

The term ‘artification’ springs from a simple idea: art is not a given and cannot be defined once and for all as the consecrated body of works of established institutions and disciplines. Rather, it is a construct and the result of social processes that are located in time and place. Although this last statement is so fundamental to the sociological outlook as to border on truism, it entails adopting a socio-historical perspective that is less common than one would expect. This introduction recalls some of the empirical findings on culture on which the concept is based, while placing the theory of artification within the framework of process sociology. The apparent simplicity of the idea of artification is deceptive; it leads to a materialistic and socio-genetic perspective the implications of which have yet to be fully discovered.

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The new National Atlas of Hungary – volume Society

Proceedings of the ICA ◽

10.5194/ica-proc-4-39-2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Gábor Gercsák ◽

Károly Kocsis ◽

Zsombor Nemerkényi ◽

László Zentai

Keyword(s):

Spatial Structure ◽

21St Century ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Spatial Diversity ◽

Social Processes ◽

Great Benefit ◽

Present Volume ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

Hungarian Society ◽

Extensive Body

Abstract. The current volume, National Atlas of Hungary – Society, is Part 3 of the series. It presents the special world of Hungarian society and, according to the availability of data, also that of the Carpatho–Pannonian Area. By combining the tools of statistics, geography and cartography, the maps present the spatial structure accompanied by numerous graphs, photos, texts and infographics.The present volume of the National Atlas, Society, contributes to a much deeper understanding of processes and a better understanding of the relationships between phenomena through the presentation of the spatial diversity of demographic and social processes in historical perspective. This is a significant record of the period also showing the challenges that Hungarian society faces at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. This addition to the National Atlas of Hungary – with its extensive body of knowledge presented in this work – is an important document of great benefit not only togeographers but also to historians, economists, politicians, and all other interested parties.

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Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russia’s Regions. Social processes in comparative historical perspective

Europe Asia Studies ◽

10.1080/09668136.2016.1265814 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 69 (1) ◽

pp. 171-172

Author(s):

Raymond Taras

Keyword(s):

Small Business ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Social Processes ◽

Civic Culture

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Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russia’s Regions: Social Processes in Comparative Historical Perspective. By Molly O'Neal. London: Routledge, 2016. xix, 237 pp. Notes. Glossary. Index. Figures. Tables. $110.00, hard bound.

Slavic Review ◽

10.5612/slavicreview.75.4.1064 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 75 (4) ◽

pp. 1064-1065

Author(s):

Paul T. Christensen

Keyword(s):

Small Business ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Social Processes ◽

Civic Culture

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The dialectics of new fascism in Greece

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) ◽

10.1590/0103-166x2015000300019 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 547-556

Author(s):

Athanassios MARVAKIS

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Social Processes ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Transitional Period ◽

New Right ◽

The Political ◽

New Class ◽

The Past

The success of historical fascism in the particular transitional period at the beginning of the 20th century was grounded in its contribution to the successive acceptance and application of the so-called Fordist model for the organization of labor (accompanied by the correspondent social conditions and relations). Historical fascism contributed thus, with its particular way, to establishing a new class compromise between the potentials related with the productive forces and the confinements emanating from the productive relations. This contribution constitutes the "creativity" of fascism. Such a historical perspective on social processes allows us not to fall into the trap of understanding fascism only as a (barbarian) "deception". Fascism cannot be a plain deception, because a "mere deceit" cannot mobilize people. Fascism takes over, adopts real and unfulfilled needs and hopes - which as such constitute resistance to the capitalist arrogance and logic of commodification of everything - and offers its own (fascist, barbarian) solution or fulfillment. Consequently, our responsibility cannot lie in rejecting these needs and hopes (which are basically needs and hopes for security) because of their distorted or "pervert" articulations. Our responsibility lies in the careful peeling of these hopes/demands from their (fascist) enwrapment. Nationalism (from the subalterns!) does not constitute a mere irrational leftover from the past, but contains potentially mystic and romantic pre- or anti-capitalist elements and references. Nationalism obtains its dynamics and persuasion (for the subalterns!) from and for the contemporary societal processes, thus constituting an active, political and actual demand/position within the restructuring of society - which is in itself a moment in the restructuring of capitalism. Herein also the "rational kernel" of the anti-capitalist antithesis by the New Right is founded as counter position to the "neutral" commodification of everything. This antithesis can of course not be the issue for us the opponents of fascism. The "problem" for us is the fascist perspective in which this antithesis is embedded; the political vision which has recruited the antithesis for confining solidarity only to "our people" and not broadening solidarity towards all people!

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