scholarly journals Identity (Including Collective Identity)

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5 (68)) ◽  
pp. 3-34
Author(s):  
Paweł Ścigaj
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
New Era ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Late Modern

Identity has remained a popular concept for many decades, being widely used in scientific research. This reflects not only the importance of the phenomena standing behind this notion, but also wide and deep changes accompanying the transition of societies from industrial to post-industrial, late modern, post-modern, network or information society. Regardless of the disputes about the nature of the new era, researchers agree that identities, including collective identities, play a key role in it, and the fight for the recognition of individual and social actors is an extremely important element of contemporary social processes and relations. The article presents a brief description of the most important points in the debate on identity, concerning its meaning, the subjects of identity, the dimensions of identity and the forms of its manifestations in social reality.

scholarly journals Collective Identity Supporting Sustainability Transformations in Ecovillage Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8148
Author(s):  
Ciska Ulug ◽  
Lummina Horlings ◽  
Elen-Maarja Trell
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Sustainability Principles ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Ecovillages are collective projects that attempt to integrate sustainability principles into daily community life, while also striving to be demonstration projects for mainstream society. As spaces of experimentation, they can provide valuable insights into sustainability transformations. Through shared values and interpersonal connections, ecovillages possess collective identities, which provide a platform for enacting their ideals. However, many ecovillage residents question how to best enhance their role as models, resource centers, and pieces of a greater movement toward sustainability transformations, while simultaneously preserving their unique community and identity. In relation to the above, this paper addresses the questions: What can collective identity in ecovillage communities teach us about the objective and subjective dimensions of sustainability transformations? Furthermore, how can the perspective of collective identity highlight challenges for ecovillages for initiating sustainability transformations? Sustainability transformations encompass objective (behaviors) and subjective (values) dimensions; however, the interactions between these spheres deserve more scholarly attention. Using ethnographic data and in-depth interviews from three ecovillages in the United States, this paper reveals the value in collective identity for underscoring belonging and interpersonal relationships in sustainability transformations. Furthermore, the collective identity perspective exposes paradoxes and frictions between ecovillages and the societal structures and systems they are embedded within.

Who tells which story and why? Micro and macro contexts in narrative

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna de Fina
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Local Meaning ◽  
The Many

AbstractThis article focuses on the inter-relations between storytelling and micro and macro contexts. It explores how narrative activity is shaped by and shapes in unique ways the local context of interaction in a community of practice, an Italian American card-playing club, but also illustrates how the storytelling events that take place within this local community relate to wider social processes. The analysis centers on a number of topically linked narratives to argue that these texts have a variety of functions linked to the roles and relationships negotiated by individuals within the club and to the construction of a collective identity for the community. However, the narrative activities that occur within the club also articulate aspects of the wider social context. It is argued that, in the case analyzed here, local meaning-making activities connect with macro social processes through the negotiation, within the constraints of local practices, of the position and roles of the ethnic group in the wider social space. In this sense, narrative activity can be seen as one of the many symbolic practices (Bourdieu 2002 [1977]) in which social groups engage to carry out struggles for legitimation and recognition in order to accumulate symbolic capital and greater social power.

Mass culture in modern society: a functional approach. Scientific and methodological materials on social philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Anna Vladimirovna Kostina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Functional Nature ◽  
Natural Decay ◽  
Post Industrial

At present, social philosophy is dominated by the view that the importance of mass culture is constantly decreasing, which soon is supposed to lead to the natural decay of this cultural form. The author refutes the arguments of those who are skeptical about the position of mass culture in the post-industrial and digital information society and shows that the functional nature of this type of culture allows it to successfully fulfill its role in modern social systems. The materials of the article can be useful in preparing courses in the framework of social philosophy.

Self and Body

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Sassatelli
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Specific Configuration ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Late Modern

This article investigates the historical formation and specific configuration of a threefold relation crucial to contemporary society, that between the body, the self, and material culture, which, in contemporary, late modern (or post-industrial) societies, has become largely defined through consumer culture. Drawing on historiography, sociology, and anthropology, it explores how, from the early modern period, the consolidation of new consumption patterns and values has given way to particular visions of the human being as a consumer, and how, in turn, the consumer has become a cultural battlefield for the management of body and self. The article also discusses tastes, habitus, and individualization.

scholarly journals The Search for One’s Own Ideology as the Primary Task of Social Power

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 420-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Shvaiba
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
Human Power ◽  
Creative Force ◽  
Religious Ideal ◽  
The Ideal

Scientific knowledge of the historical future requires methodology. And methodology is the application of ideology in scientific research in General, and in research of social processes in particular. For example, religion is always an ideology. It is an illusory ideology. Illusory not because it cannot be as described by the religious ideal (that the ideal is unattainable). For Man, as for his creation — God — there is no unattainable and cannot be. Religion is illusory, not in the sense of an ideal, but in the sense that it cannot be and become in this way, through faith. Religion creates and strengthens (fixes) the ideal but proceeds from the fact that the ideal created by man is a creative force. But God is not power. It’s just a representation of human power. And what the person who created it expects from God is a human goal.

scholarly journals Institutional social engagement

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-435
Author(s):  
Snjezana Prijic-Samarzija
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
The Public ◽  
A Value ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
Institutional Engagement

I am referring to social engagement as a value-based choice to actively intervene in social reality in order to modify existing collective identities and social practices with the goal of realizing the public good. The very term ?engagement?, necessarily involves the starting awareness of a social deficit or flaw and presupposes a critical attitude towards social reality. In this article, I will attempt to provide arguments in favour of the thesis about the possibility (and, later, necessity) of institutional engagement, critical action and even institutional protest, basing this view on the thesis that institutions are fundamentally collective or social agents whose actions must be guided by ethical and epistemic virtues.

scholarly journals Archaization of the Russian Society in the Focus of Scientific Research Practices and Methodological Parameters of Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Aleksey P. Sitnikov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Scientific Potential ◽  
Development Trajectories ◽  
Sociocultural Transformation

The article analyzes the scientific potential of the study of such an important phenomenon for the modern world as archaization, on the basis of which the author's methodological and conceptual space for the socio-philosophical study of the archaization of Russian society is formed. The concept of the plurality of modernity, and therefore the alternatives to national modernization, is recognized as a conceptual position. In the framework of the proposed concept, archaization, traditionalization and modernization are considered as modes of tradition - a substance of the sociocultural system that ensures reproduction and preservation of the society’s culture. Under the influence of socio-cultural transformation, the tradition can take the form of these processes, depending on the degree of destruction of traditional foundations and bases of society's life and the adequacy of the implemented innovations, their organic socio-cultural roots. Archaization as a modus of tradition, in turn, under the influence of sociocultural transformation, can develop in the format (modus) of rearchaization and neoarchaization as a result of interaction with the processes of traditionalization and modernization. At the intersection of the development trajectories of modernization and traditionalization processes, a modus of development called neotraditionalization is formed. The modes of archaization (neoarchaization and rearchization) affect the development of social processes in different ways, and therefore archaization is not considered as a uniquely regressive process.

scholarly journals TYPOLOGY AND MOTIVATION-SETTING CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTIM BEHAVIOR IN SOCIETIES WITH DIFFERENT CULTURAL MENTALITY

2016 ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
O. O. Andronnikova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Materialism ◽  
World System ◽  
System Change ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Allocation Patterns ◽  
Post Industrial

The paper focuses on the analysis of the existing approaches to the typology of communities for study of victimization. The author presents the comparative analysis of the typologies commonly used in the Russian science to explain the specifics of the development of social victimization. The tradition of historical materialism, the civilizational paradigm, the concept of post-industrial society, etc. are critically reviewed to explain the reasons motivating victim behavior. The influence of social change processes is discussed within Wallerstein’s conception of world-system change and geopolitics. The synthesis of R. Collins’s world-system approach to geopolitical dynamics R. Collins, theory of social revolution and the provisions P. A. Sorokin’s value foundations of cultures is performed. This allows solving the problem in the study of the origin and allocation patterns of victimization functioning of existing communities. The author outlines the main provisions of P. A. Sorokin’s typology in the context of analyzing the types of victim behavior in communities. 12 types of motivation-setting characteristics of victim behavior in communities were allotted; their meaningful description is provided. The motivation-setting characteristics of victim behavior in communities with different cultural mentality is provided, which allows predicting the possible social processes and manifestations.

scholarly journals Right to access science and technology information in scientific research and innovation activities in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Tung Son Le ◽  
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Thi Hoang Yen Thach ◽  
Van Hong Tran ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Technological Information ◽  
The Right

Science and technology information has been an important driving force in the information society and knowledge economy. Access to scientific and technological information for scientific research becomes an essential need and a factor affecting the quality of scientific research and innovation, thereby posing a problem to establish a legal framework for recognising and enforcing the right to access scientific and technological information. Based on identifying and evaluating the current legal status on the right to access to science and technology information, this study proposes solutions to improve the legal framework to ensure the enforcement of the right to access science and technology information in Vietnam.

From Information Society to Community Service

2016 ◽  
pp. 101-123
Author(s):  
Benedito Medeiros Neto
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Wealth Concentration ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Operational Processes ◽  
Post Industrial

This chapter presents a perspective of a post-industrial society, through the development of the information society and its deployment, focusing on the possibilities of a service predominant society. The most important point of this exercise is that this approach did not happen as expected in form or time. In the past, the ICT tools were restricted to centers of competence or in organizations. Nowadays, their increasingly presence in individual lives, as well as in their human relationships, is changing social and commercial relations, the meaning of work and political participation of people in a compulsory way, unlike what had happened at the turn of agricultural to industrial Eras. New possibilities happen in a rapid manner in a society based on wealth concentration, when there is association of ICTs with the restlessness of social movements or collective protests demanding better living conditions of minority communities. The increasing information flows have led to the desire of knowledge. However, this search for the social welfare achievements has occurred in a superficial manner, leading to anxiety and depression of common and deprived citizens. A new Citizenship or, better defined, e-Citizenship emerges between their aspirations. Based on facts and observations of recent research on the impacts of ICTs in the last ten years, the approach of a community service changes the daily lives of individuals, despite its acceptance or perception, the presence of virtual media, the growing media innovation and agricultural, industrial and operational processes, as well as the claimed social movements.

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