The Power of a Line

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-555
Author(s):  
Jessamyn R. Abel
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Bullet Train

Japan’s first bullet train played a central role in the reshaping of both the urban geographies and metropolitan identities of Tokyo, Osaka, and the region as a whole. This article considers the 1964 opening of the “New Tōkaidō Line” in terms of the social construction of space in order to highlight the interaction between ideas and physical infrastructure, and to consider the dynamics of power over space. The discourse surrounding the bullet train’s debut—including planning materials, passengers’ impressions, and representations in popular culture—shows the mutual influence among transportation infrastructure, the physical contours of cities, and how people not only lived in them but also envisioned and understood them.

Religion, Race, and Popular Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lerone A. Martin ◽  
J. Kameron Carter
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Religious History ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
The Social

This chapter discusses the intersection of race, religion, and popular culture. Race is posited here not as synonymous with people of color, but rather as an analytic category that examines the social construction and very real reality of racialization: the process of becoming and identifying whiteness, blackness, and so on. Two broad approaches to the study of race, religion, and popular culture are examined: Popular Culture in Religion, and Religion as or in Popular Culture. The chapter then offers a brief overview of how these two approaches have both broadened standard narratives of American religious history as well as illuminated scholarly understandings of how religio-racial identities are constructed, perpetuated, challenged, and queered through the use of popular culture forms such as print, phonograph, radio, televangelism, celebrity, and hip-hop.

scholarly journals Culture of giving birth: Research on the issue of violence against women during delivery

Sociologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 259-286
Author(s):  
Nada Sekulic
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Social Resource ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
The Social

The paper deals with the issue of the fragile connection between social sciences, humanistic sciences and feminism, arguing in favor of their closer mutual influence. In the framework of this approach, paper presents the results of the part of the research ?Politics of Parenthood?, based on the feminist approach. The paper analyzes the delivery (giving birth) as an important ritual in the life cycle of the largest number of women, through which power relations in society manifest, and women are subdued. Research on the issue of violence against women during delivery is part of the broader research dealing with the social construction of women?s bodily experience and female body as a social resource, in the processes that reflect and at the same create gender inequality.

T-Shirts, style and the social construction of modern masculinities in urban Fiji

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geir Henning Presterudstuen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
The Social

In this article I consider fashion as a key modality through which young Fiji citizens experience modernity and construct contemporary self-identities in dialogue with global popular culture. A multi-dimensional tool, fashion is effectively used as self-performance; a way of carrying the body in public spaces, including dress and style as well as mannerisms, demeanour, body shape and comportment. It follows that fashion also intersects with other social categories such as gender, sexual identity and race in order to inform local social scripts in which people judge their own and others’ appearance and define the nature of a desirable, modern body.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social

The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne

2010 ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
M.-F. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Per Se

The article examines social conditions and mechanisms of the emergence in 1982 of a «Dutch» strawberry auction in Fontaines-en-Sologne, France. Empirical study of this case shows that perfect market does not arise per se due to an «invisible hand». It is a social construction, which could only be put into effect by a hard struggle between stakeholders and large investments of different forms of capital. Ordinary practices of the market dont differ from the predictions of economic theory, which is explained by the fact that economic theory served as a frame of reference for the designers of the auction. Technological and spatial organization as well as principal rules of trade was elaborated in line with economic views of perfect market resulting in the correspondence between theory and reality.

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