Materiality as a Basis for Valuation Entrepreneurship: Re-modeling Impressionism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stoyan V. Sgourev
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Organizational Outcome ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Objective Basis ◽  
Supply Side Factors

This paper addresses the recognized need for connecting scholarship on materiality and evaluation by conceptualizing how materiality provides grounds for “valuation entrepreneurship.” It extends the scope of materiality scholarship by considering an ignored organizational outcome while offering stronger evidence for the role of supply-side factors in social evaluation. The theoretical model posits that materiality affords opportunities for identity construction and social organization that can lead to the emergence of a new theory of value contesting the evaluative regime. This framework is applied to the reanalysis of a famous case: Impressionism. The analysis shows that new materials and methods of painting served as a “focus” for the social organization of artists with a shared identity of craftsmen. These artists espoused a new theory of value that advocated the “unfinishedness” of artworks and used natural perception as an objective basis for contestation of the “subjective” evaluative regime at the salons. The contestation had political overtones, drawing on cultural resources and scientific tenets to justify the valorization of individuality and decentralization of art appraisal. An endogenous account of culture in action presents materiality as a natural counterpoint to the emphasis on conceptualization.

scholarly journals Languages and Context Issues of ICTs for a New Role of Museums in the COVID-19 Era

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 3065-3080
Author(s):  
Antonella Lerario
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Real ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily

The rapid spread of the COVID pandemic is deeply changing people’s lives and upsetting consolidated models and lifestyles. The social distancing measures for the reduction of contagion have been heavily affecting people’s daily experiences, such as for example the public’s relationship with cultural resources. Museums, in particular, are paying the highest price for that, forced to find new forms for heritage fruition, thus representing an emblematic case. Taking its steps from the analysis of the pandemic’s effects on global museum heritage and of museums’ response, the article focuses then on ICTs’ role as communication languages between heritage and its audiences in the solutions adopted, and on their suitability to the changed context. Finally, reflections on structural and contextual aspects of the dialogue between cultural resources and their public, beyond strictly technological matters, are proposed, to highlight the real extent of the challenges facing the museum sector.

Illness as Work: Human Market Transition

Life Exposed ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Petryna
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Market Transition ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Exclusion Zone ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Family Work ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines the “epidemic” of disability in post-Soviet Ukraine, and more specifically how state laws on the social protection of Chernobyl sufferers have turned suffering and disability into a resource affecting family, work, and social identity. It shows how the line between sickness and health becomes a highly politicized one as traditional forms of Soviet social organization, particularly the labor collective, are being replaced by a new architecture of welfare claims, privileges, laws, and identities. It also discusses the role of the Exclusion Zone in an informal Soviet economy and capitalist transition, as well as the ways in which workers micromanage inflation with a sick role sociality in their everyday lives. Finally, it considers the establishment of medical-labor committees to handle the growing number of disability claims related to the Chernobyl explosion and highlights a city of sufferers where so many individuals have gained their illnesses for life.

scholarly journals Evolution in Visual Communication of the Javanese Printed Wedding Invitations

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Diah Kristina ◽  
Nur Saptaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
The Social ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Social Document ◽  
Host Evolution

Printed wedding invitations have been one of the most crucial aspects in the social organization among many countries like Brunei Darussalam, Iran, Egypt, and Persia. Javanese people also pay special attention to this social document as it represents social class, social status, prestige, and fnancial support allocated by the host. Evolution of printed Javanese wedding invitations represent social and economic pressures. The diasporic communities who were absent to earn a living brought a noticeable change by setting up the bride’s parents’ photographs in the invitations. 15 invitation texts were selected ranging from 1980 – 2017 used in Tawangmangu, Wonogiri and Sukoharjo, the eastern part of Central Java, Indonesia. There was a consistent regularity in terms of rhetorical structure. Functionally, the invitations have the same role of inviting prospective guests to share happiness in a more family-bound relationship. Inclusion of parents’ photographs, map of the location, pre-wedding photos, wise words, calendar, the profle of the couple were indicators of transformation taking place. Later, the printing decision of the invitations is pretty much customer-driven informed by the customers’ needs, values, and beliefs. Rhetorically the materialistically-driven social phenomenon was shown by an explicit gifts desired.

The Role of Standards in the Development of New Informational Infrastructure

2014 ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Vladislav V. Fomin ◽  
Marja Matinmikko
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Regulatory Domains ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
New Generation

In this chapter, the authors inch towards better understanding of the notion of informational infrastructure and the role of standards in the development of infrastructures in the new information age. Specifically, the authors consider the standardization process as pertaining to informational infrastructure development. They focus on two particular aspects of standardization: temporal dynamics and the social organization. Using Bauman's concept of liquid modernity, the authors argue that standards often become hybrids of solid and liquid modernities linking together different scales of time, space, and social organization. To better illustrate theoretical concepts, they draw on practical examples from the development of informational standards, infrastructures, and services, particularly from the domain of Cognitive Radio Systems (CRS), a new generation of “paradigm changing” communication technologies and services. The aim of this chapter is to offer the scholars of standards and innovation a fresh, non-mainstream perspective on the social and temporal dynamics of standardization and infrastructure development processes, to bring forth new understandings of the complexity of relationships between business, technology, and regulatory domains in the formation of informational infrastructure.

The Role of Territoriality in the Social Organization of Harris' Hawks

The Auk ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. William Mannan
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Κοινωνικές ιεραρχίες στα κείμενα του Πλήθωνα και τα πρότυπά τους

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Γιάννης ΣΜΑΡΝΑΚΗΣ
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Stable Form ◽  
Similar Model ◽  
New Model ◽  
Medieval France ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Military

  <p>Yannis Smarnakis</p><p>Social Hierarchy in Pletho and its Models </p><p>The subject of this paper are the models of social organization proposed by G. Gemistos-Plethon to the despot of Peloponnese Theodore II Palaeologus and to the emperor Manuel II Palaeologus. The main sources for the investigation are two texts, written by Plethon, the first one between  1407-1415 and the second in 1418. The older text that was sent to the despot Theodore, depends on the platonic dialogues and proposes a similar model of three classes for the peloponnesian society. An interesting ideological shift was detected in the second text of 1418. Here the author proposes the division of the peloponnesian people into three parts, the soldiers, the priests and the peasants. The new model is identical to the ideological system of the three classes or functions in medieval France. I think that the main source of inspiration for Plethon was the specific ternary model that was grounded, in medieval France, on the neoplatonic tradition. Plethon transfers this ideological system to the social reality of his contemporary Peloponnese that was marked by the struggle of the powerful local aristocracy against the institution of monarchy. The ternary model gives a stable form to the peloponnesian society, justifies the role of the military aristocracy as the state against the Turks and legitimatizes the place of the monarch as the sovereign of the soldiers at the top of the social pyramid.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals How does social evaluation influence Hot and Cool inhibitory control in adolescence?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0257753
Author(s):  
Lison Bouhours ◽  
Anaëlle Camarda ◽  
Monique Ernst ◽  
Anaïs Osmont ◽  
Grégoire Borst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Influence ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Favorable Influence

The aim of the present study is to examine whether in Hot, i.e., affectively charged contexts, or cool, i.e., affectively neutral contexts, inhibitory control capacity increases or decreases under social evaluation in adolescents and adults. In two experiments, adolescents and young adults completed two Stroop-like tasks under either a social evaluation condition or an alone condition. The social evaluation condition comprised the presence of a peer (Experiment 1) or an expert (Experiment 2) playing the role of an evaluator, while under the alone condition, the task was performed alone. In the Cool Stroop task, participants had to refrain from reading color names to identify the ink color in which the words were printed. In the Hot Stroop task, participants had to determine the emotional expression conveyed by faces from the NimStim database while ignoring the emotion word displayed beneath. The results were similar in both experiments. In adolescents, social evaluation by a peer (Experiment 1) or by an expert (Experience 2) facilitated Hot but not cool inhibitory control. In adults, social evaluation had no effect on Hot or cool inhibitory control. The present findings expand our understanding of the favorable influence of socioemotional context on Hot inhibitory control during adolescence in healthy individuals.

The Social Organization of Secrecy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Secret Societies ◽  
Ancient Judaism ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Roman Antiquity

In this chapter we study the mysteries and secrecy in Greco–Roman antiquity. The cults of Mithras and Isis as mysteries and revelations to their initiates, as well as the “Mithras Liturgy” and magical elements of the ascent, are examined. Secret groups have tripartite social structures. There is evidence for secret societies in Ancient Judaism other than Essenes and Therapeutae. The identification of the Qumran covenanters and of the Essenes is explored. We look at cryptic writing and secrecy within groups. The role of women in some groups is discussed. Past discoveries of Dead Sea manuscripts and documents are outlined.

Looking at Whales: Narration and the Organization of Visual Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 782-806
Author(s):  
Peter R. Grahame
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Visual Sociology ◽  
Whale Watching ◽  
The Social

While interest in visual representations of animals is well established in visual sociology, this article explores another set of possibilities connected with practices of looking at animals. In particular, I examine the social organization of visual experience in whale watching, with a focus on the role of narration. Using detailed transcriptions of whale watch narration as data, I argue that naturalists produce publicly witnessed trip sightings by coordinating what can be seen in the water with understandings of whales as objects of scientific research and environmental concern.

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